Blue Silver Forest
"My Emperor, you've already survived the hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation, and the two-hundred-thousand-year tribulation is still far off. Why choose to take human form and begin cultivating anew now?" the Blue Silver King asked, baffled.
Ah Yin could hardly say that she suddenly wanted to experience the wonders of the human world, find a beautiful romance, and travel a thousand miles to deliver herself to Cao Pi. Wouldn't that mean she, as emperor, had abandoned her people? She put on a solemn expression. "I'm taking human form to explore a future path for the Blue Silver Emperor lineage. A voice deep within me says that if I cast aside my Soul Beast body and cultivate as a human, a god will arise from our lineage in a few decades."
"But the human world has many powerful people. What if you encounter a Titled Douluo who covets your Soul Ring and Soul Bone?" the Blue Silver King asked anxiously.
"It'll be fine. I only need to cultivate somewhere remote," Ah Yin said, laying out her plan.
After persuading her people, Ah Yin took human form and left the Blue Silver Forest, beginning her journey to deliver herself to Cao Pi.
Divine Realm, Eternal Temple
Huo Yuhao held out his hand and summoned his other Super Divine Artifact: the Eternal Chronicle.
The Eternal Eyes had once been the Eye of Destiny, just as the Eternal Chronicle had once been the Book of Destiny. The Shura God knew something of the workings of fate, but he was no match for Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao opened the book, and its blank pages revealed the fates of Ah Yin and the Haotian Twins. Through the Eternal Eyes, he saw that the paths of these three people, which had never been meant to cross, were drawing together under Asura's interference. Tang Hao's path lay a little closer to Ah Yin's.
The Assistant Director had already cast the actors for his next script. The Chief Director glanced at it and found it wanting. The plot was stale, riddled with clichés, and far too straightforward. It needed work.
So, without changing the story's overall direction, the Chief Director made a few revisions, turning its course into a far stranger, more turbulent affair. Under his hand, the threads of fate belonging to its three leads—Ah Yin, Tang Hao, and Tang Xiao—began to leap and twist.
At last, Huo Yuhao closed the Eternal Chronicle.
Angel God Palace
This was Qian Renxue's first time setting foot in the Angel God Palace of the Divine Realm. It was far grander than the Angel God Palace she knew in Spirit Hall.
After presenting the Eternal God's letter of introduction to a Divine Official, she met her Divine Ancestor, Qian Hanyu, inside the palace.
"Qian Renxue greets her Divine Ancestor," she said respectfully.
"You are my descendant. I can feel a faint stirring of our shared blood in you." Seated upon the Angel God Throne, Qian Hanyu looked at Qian Renxue and raised an eyebrow. "But I created the Angel God Position. I was the first Angel, and I have yet to pass on my position. So why do I sense the Angel God's Divine Power in you? Have you inherited the Angel God Position before?"
"And why have your Soul Power and Divine Power undergone an Extreme Reversal, falling from the Divine Light Attribute?"
Faced with so many questions, Qian Renxue said, "Divine Ancestor, please dismiss the others and allow me to explain."
Qian Hanyu ordered her subordinate Divine Officials and Low-level Gods to withdraw, then erected a barrier to keep nearby divine senses from prying.
"Now you may speak."
Qian Renxue then explained everything that had happened to her. She hid nothing from her Divine Ancestor.
Huo Yuhao was part of the reason. He had no intention of keeping the truth from the Angel God.
And so Qian Hanyu gradually learned everything that had happened in the Original Timeline.
First, she learned that the lecherous old Sea God had plotted her death and stolen part of her Authority. At first, she found it impossible to believe. That lecherous old wretch had only been at the peak of the Second-level Gods. How could he have brought her down? But after Qian Renxue explained, Qian Hanyu said through her anger that if he had reached the peak of the First-level Gods, it was no longer so surprising.
The Angel Clan's tragedy had begun after her death. Her inheritance had instinctively chosen a successor, but that lecherous old Sea God had seized control of it.
When she heard that the Sea God had manipulated her descendant into falling in love with his successor, Tang San, causing Qian Renxue to hold back time and again in battle until her defeat became a stepping stone to his glory, Qian Hanyu's fury was beyond words.
Then she heard how the Shura God had shamelessly interfered in the Continent War, resurrecting Tang San after he had clearly lost. He had even waived the trials and used Dual God Unity to let Tang San inherit both the Sea God and Shura God positions. Tang San had shattered her successor's Divine Core, and the Spirit Hall legacy she had left behind had been wiped away.
Qian Hanyu clenched her fists, veins bulging. "Those bastards! How dare the Sea God and Shura God humiliate me and my descendant like this?"
Once she had calmed her anger, Qian Hanyu looked at Qian Renxue with a gentle expression. "You've suffered. Please, go on."
Qian Renxue nodded and continued, recounting what she had seen and heard after her death, when her soul had lodged within her Divine Core and drifted along the River of Time.
By the end, Qian Hanyu gave a scornful laugh. "This is the successor the Sea God and Shura God chose so carefully? He sounds like a selfish little man to me."
How had Qian Hanyu become a god? Through the Path of Faith. And why had the people of the continent put their faith in her? Because she had lived in the Era of Evil Spirit Masters. Powerful Evil Spirit Masters had kept humans like livestock for cultivation. In their pursuit of power, they had slaughtered cities and destroyed nations, stopping at nothing. In that age, she had used her Angel Martial Soul to purge evil and suppress Evil Spirits. She founded Spirit Hall, won the people's faith, and condensed her Divine Throne.
Yet she had crushed the Evil Spirit Masters so thoroughly, and each generation's Angel Martial Soul held such power over them, that they could scarcely find a place on the continent. They flocked to the City of Slaughter. Meanwhile, Spirit Hall's free martial-soul awakenings and stipends for Soul Masters came to seem as ordinary as the water people drank and the air they breathed. People forgot what she and Spirit Hall had done. Instead, they remembered the evils of Spirit Hall and the Angel Clan proclaimed by the Continent Nobles, and followed those nobles in overthrowing Spirit Hall. In the end, her legacy fell amid a tide of angry cries for its destruction.
Tang San, who replaced her, had learned from her "mistake." He left some Evil Spirit Masters alive as a whip, releasing them when needed to lash the people of the continent and make them suffer pain and despair. Then, at the crucial moment, Shrek would step in to save them, leaving the survivors grateful to the Sea God. One lash of the whip, one carrot in reward. By repeating that cycle, he had kept the Sea God Faith alive for tens of thousands of years.
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