Huo Yuhao never needed an angelic position at the level of a first-level god; it was just going with the flow.
Didn't Tang San always think he was a chess player?
Then let's use the opportunity of Qian Renxue's revival within Tang San's body to drag Lao San down, forcing him to descend to the mortal realm.
In the God Realm, Huo Yuhao couldn't interfere, but in Douluo Continent, the rules of the game were up to Huo Yuhao.
His Asura God position could serve as fuel for the birth of an erroneous god position.
Huo Yuhao had already prepared the prerequisites for Amon's birth; it all depended on his own performance.
A month had passed since Xia Die ascended the throne of the Lord of the Underworld, and the Sailor was still adrift at sea.
It shouldn't have been this slow; normally, it should have arrived at the New World half a month ago, but it suddenly encountered the Demon Emperor's riot, and that madwoman was frantically devouring marine life across the four seas.
Huo Yuhao himself wasn't afraid of the Demon Emperor.
She dared to come to deliver soul rings and soul bones; the nearly million-year-old Deep Sea Demon Whale King's soul bone was a high-quality material, ideal for alchemy or crafting soul tools.
To ensure the safety of everyone on the Sailor Ship, led by the mermaids and Bai Xiuxiu, the fleet temporarily rested at an archipelago, waiting for the storm to pass before continuing.
Alternatively, they could have taken a longer route, bypassing the storm in more distant waters and directly reaching the eastern part of the New World according to satellite maps.
However, this was very risky, requiring them to traverse many sea areas even Bai Xiuxiu hadn't been to, and no one knew what great treasures might be hidden there.
Huo Yuhao considered that there was no need to rush, and there was no life-or-death crisis chasing them, so they chose the safest route: waiting for the Demon Emperor to subside before resuming their journey.
This experience also solidified Huo Yuhao's determination to plant artifacts in the sea to ensure the safety of any newly opened routes.
The Sailor Ship was temporarily halted, while the Douling Empire was currently embroiled in a fierce battle.
When Xia Die ascended the throne, the Goddess of Life tacitly granted her the blessing of the divine position.
Both Kerudela and Chen Hanhai seized this opportunity to proclaim the legitimacy of their regimes.
Kerudela was recognized by all the nations of Douluo because of her status as the last princess of the Douling Empire, including the Sun Moon Empire, which was also an imperial state.
With the support of the entire continent, the allied forces finally had a target for their full assistance, and a large amount of supplies and soul tools were transported to Luo'an Province.
Under Li Guozhong's call, the remaining troops of the Douling Empire were all placed under the command of Kerudela, forming the Restoration Army.
Heather, as the leading general of the Restoration Army, cooperated with the external allied forces and the Sea God Clan in a protracted war.
The Sea God Clan was no longer what it used to be; being essentially the Amon Clan, their cooperation was extremely seamless, completely oblivious to death.
Despite their severely inferior soul tools, relying on the Douling Empire's coastal location and the Sea God Clan's abundance of powerful individuals, they forcefully blocked the offensive of the Restoration Army and the allied forces.
Then, Hailong and Haiming joined forces to relentlessly attack the reinforcements from the neighboring Star Luo Empire.
They utterly thrashed the Star Luo Empire's First Soul Master Legion, First Soul Master Corps, and several army groups.
These two completely lacked the demeanor of strongmen, resorting to guerrilla warfare—two level 98 Super Douluo fighting a guerrilla war!
Anyone would find it difficult to withstand such a situation.
Fortunately, the arrival of the Xuanming Sect Master with three Title Douluos significantly improved the situation.
Strictly speaking, the Xuanming Sect Master was a prince consort of the Douling Empire, though the former Douling royal family refused to acknowledge it.
Aside from Kerudela, only Xue Lingxun, the former Douling princess, possessed Douling royal blood on the entire continent. After much deliberation, the Xuanming Sect decided to strike.
Originally, their sect intended to rely on their traditional skills and remain inactive.
However, some unscrupulous person spread rumors on the Demon Network that the Xuanming Turtle was a sea turtle, and that the Xuanming Sect was actually a marine spy, a spy planted on the continent by the Sea God family thousands of years ago!
They claimed their sect master had deliberately encountered Princess Xue Lingxun decades ago to obtain royal blood and prepare for today's events, but luckily, Princess Kerudela survived, causing the plan to fail.
This propaganda only intensified, as if an invisible hand was silently pushing things along.
Some on the Demon Network even proclaimed that internal strife must precede external resistance, and that in this urgent situation, they should first destroy the Xuanming Sect.
This caused the powerful members of the Xuanming Sect to lower their guard.
The Xuanming Sect was known for its honesty and integrity; at most, they would only recruit beautiful women from across the continent due to the unique characteristics of their martial souls.
Even then, they would usually offer the women a sufficiently high reward, since unwilling participation would negatively impact the awakening effect.
While they couldn't be considered a particularly righteous sect, compared to other anthropomorphic sects, they considered themselves quite upright.
To claim that the Xuanming Turtle was a sea turtle was pure slander!
The Xuanming Turtle was a genuine freshwater turtle! It even possessed the Xuanwu bloodline within it.
This is a noble divine beast bloodline, yet it's being equated with those country bumpkins from the sea! This is utterly insulting!
Even if someone came to the Xuanming Sect and slapped the sect leader across the face in public, they wouldn't feel particularly humiliated.
The "sea turtle" analogy is a complete trampling of the Xuanming Sect's bottom line.
After the conflict erupted between the ocean and the continent, cities like Xuanfeng City, under the Xuanming Sect's jurisdiction, had all traces related to the ocean erased to demonstrate their stance.
Unfortunately, no matter what they said, they couldn't shake the entire Magic Network's traffic, and finding the person who initially flaunted their power was impossible; the Magic Network's information security was too high.
Contacting the administrator 'Yege' yielded no response.
In the end, the Xuanming Sect had no choice but to send powerful warriors to participate in the war, fully supporting the allied forces, and transporting all kinds of elixirs free of charge.
If they didn't contribute more, the Xuanming Sect would soon be on par with the Sea God family. If they were truly on the same table, it wouldn't be so bad, but they hadn't even made any contact!
This was something all the major powers on the mainland were happy to see.
Everyone knew the Xuanming Sect's true nature and naturally understood that the other side wasn't a maritime force.
Those who wronged you knew better than you how wronged you were.
Huo Yuhao hadn't even had a say in this public opinion campaign; it was all driven by the various forces themselves.
After all, so many forces had been bled dry in this war, why should the Xuanming Sect be spared?
They had to give something back; everyone being bled dry was the same as no one being bled dry.
The intensity of the war in the Douling Empire was increasing rapidly, with both sides iterating their tactics quickly. Even both sides noticed the emergence of evil soul masters in the Douling Empire.
These evil soul masters gathered and dispersed in a planned and organized manner, but what was puzzling was that they didn't side with either side; they fought both.
They also loved carrying out certain fatal actions, such as the assassination of Sea God Douluo Chen Hanhai in Lingdou City and the raid on Kerudela at the Allied Forces headquarters.
One might think these evil soul masters were tired of living and wanted a shortcut to success.
These evil spirit masters, before their deaths, had a particular fondness for shouting "Praise the Holy Spirit," as if afraid others wouldn't know their faith.
Both factions within the Douling Empire loathed evil spirit masters, their attitude being to kill them the moment they showed their faces.
This was also Ye Guyi's deliberate act; she accepted the worship and sacrifice of these evil spirit masters with tears in her eyes, causing her cultivation to rise rapidly.
She also discovered that these evil spirit masters were a group of psychopaths; kindness towards them would only lead to contempt.
The best way to deal with them was to kill when unhappy, and killing brought her joy.
During branch altar meetings, casually killing a few evil spirit masters had become a habit, as it made them even more fanatical.
Ye Guyi felt she might need a psychologist; she feared she might truly become a maniac.
Otto thoughtfully asked Adam to counsel her, guaranteeing a perfect cure for her psychological problems.
And finally, the Underworld wasn't just having Xia Die working alone anymore; the first batch of Underworld employees had arrived.
Putting aside other things, at least a makeshift team has been initially established.
The judges and ghost messengers are barely managing to maintain their authority, making the reincarnation mechanism less chaotic and significantly improving the efficiency of the underworld.
However, currently, the division of authority between the judges and ghost messengers is very superficial; they are basically used as all-rounders, like traditional soul masters.
Their power can only be gradually differentiated later, allowing multiple departments within a single department to coordinate and cooperate.
Electrox used the golden fruit to create two demi-planes and connected them with the underworld, which can serve as the prototype of Hell in the future.
At this moment, the underworld welcomed an unexpected guest.
Medmos suddenly opened his eyes, looking at his hands with a bewildered expression.
"What's going on?!"
"Wasn't I fighting a golden lion-mastiff?"
"Where is this?"
Medmos and Bai'e deciphered the map of the secret realm and went hand in hand to the deepest part of the Cataclysmic Mountain System, where they encountered a four-thousand-year-old golden lion-mastiff and a ten-thousand-year-old Thunderous Hell Vine.
A fierce battle erupted between the two sides.
For some reason, while Medemos and the golden-haired lion-dog were locked in a fierce fight, he suddenly felt a daze and opened his eyes to find himself here.
Of course, the four-thousand-year-old golden-haired lion-dog and the ten-thousand-year-old Thunderous Hell Vine were Huo Yuhao's imagined soul beasts, serving as guardians of the secret realm—after all, that's how it's written in fantasy novels.
And half a month ago, Huo Yuhao finally gave Medemos his last cheat code—the ability to avoid accidental death.
(End of Chapter)
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