"Those who search far and wide may find nothing, yet stumble upon what they seek without effort. I never expected the Abyssal Sage King to be this helpful."
Gu Sheng shook his head and laughed. "I originally thought that ambushing Asura God and forcing him back would be the best outcome. We could also use the Abyss Plane to draw the God Realm's attention and buy ourselves time to develop. But I never expected the Abyssal Sage King to be so fierce. I ended up getting a bargain."
Gu Sheng held the Heavenly Saint Abyss Splitter Halberd in one hand and waved with the other. Countless scattered strands of abyssal origin energy converged toward the Heavenly Saint Abyss Splitter Halberd. The entire Abyss Plane gradually collapsed and contracted, eventually gathering in Gu Sheng's palm as a mass of pure planar origin energy.
While Gu Sheng was busy working by himself, earth-shaking changes had already taken place outside. The moment the Asura God King died, his divine position was passed on in succession. The God Realm received the news and gained a new Asura God King.
This news caused the entire God Realm to erupt in uproar. Those most deeply affected, however, were the enforcers currently in the lower realm.
On the Five Elements Continent, after Slaughter God Hypnos was destroyed, the mission he had been preparing to carry out did not end. An enforcer at the level of a second-grade god from the God Realm still went looking for the Flame Empress.
The Flame Empress naturally refused to compromise with the God Realm. A battle between two second-grade gods erupted beneath the Five Elements Continent, at the planet's core. The slightest misstep would have brought calamity upon every living thing in the entire plane.
Although a second-grade god could