Poseidon's Double Loss—The Sea God's Trident Is Gone?!

The Goddess of Life frowned slightly.

"I'm more worried about the living beings on Douluo Star. Will this isolation affect them?"

As the Five God Kings discussed the matter, they all realized that the situation was far more serious than they had imagined.

This was no longer a simple interruption of inheritances. It was an open provocation against the order of the God Realm!

Just as the atmosphere in the Council Hall grew unbearably grave—

Bang!!

The doors of the Council Hall, forged from Divine Power, were violently smashed open!

The Five God Kings frowned and turned toward the entrance in unison.

In the God Realm, it was practically unheard of for anyone to barge into a God King Conference so rudely!

Sea God Poseidon staggered inside.

The divine crown on his head was crooked, and his magnificent divine robes were in complete disarray.

There was no longer any of a deity's majesty or composure on his handsome face. Only endless panic and horror remained!

"Sea God? Have you lost your mind?!"

the God of Destruction roared.

But Poseidon seemed not to hear him. Stumbling into the center of the hall, he spoke in a shrill, trembling voice, gripped by extreme terror.

"God Kings! Something terrible has happened!"

The Asura God looked at him coldly.

"We are discussing Douluo Star's loss of contact. You—"

"It hasn't lost contact!"

Poseidon cut him off with a miserable cry. Clutching his head with both hands, he looked on the verge of collapse.

"It's my faith! My faith!!"

He raised his head, his eyes bloodshot and his face ashen with deathly despair.

"Just moments ago, the Power of Faith I received from Douluo Continent... suddenly... collapsed off a cliff!"

"Now... now it is... almost completely gone!!"

The air in the Council Hall seemed to freeze.

The Five God Kings looked at the crazed Poseidon, each wearing a different expression.

The Goddess of Goodness asked softly,

"Poseidon, you have held your God Position for Twenty Thousand Years. Your Divine Body is immortal, and your Divine Soul eternal.

"To you, the Power of Faith from mortals has long ceased to be the foundation of your strength. Why have you lost control over this?"

That was true.

For high-ranking deities whose God Positions had already stabilized, mortal faith was more a symbol of status and a link to the lower realms.

It was no longer the source of their power as it had been when they had first become gods.

Though the sudden plunge in faith was strange, it should not have been enough to make a Peak First-level God collapse like this.

"No! You don't understand!"

Poseidon shook his head violently, his eyes bloodshot. Pointing toward the lower realm, he explained in a hoarse voice.

"The faith itself has little effect on my Divine Power now, but this phenomenon... is far too abnormal!

"Something terrifying must have happened on Douluo Star—something enough to overturn everything deities know!"

Panting heavily, he finally voiced the deepest fear in his heart.

"More importantly... my Sea God's Trident! My Super Divine Weapon is still on Douluo Continent!"

At those words, even the Goddess of Life, who had been resting with her eyes closed, abruptly opened her emerald eyes.

A Super Divine Weapon!

Even in the God Realm, such treasures were exceedingly rare.

Only the Asura Sword could compare with one.

They were the greatest treasures in the God Realm, worth even more than some ordinary Second-tier Gods themselves!

The God of Destruction knitted his brows and snorted coldly.

"You actually left your Natal Super Divine Weapon in the lower realm? How foolish!"

"This wasn't foolishness! It was an investment!"

Poseidon retorted in anguish, his face full of regret and unwillingness.

"The reason I kept the Sea God's Trident in the Place of Inheritance on Sea God Island was to use that endless, purest Power of Faith from the ocean to nurture and temper it day and night!

"I hoped that, through ten thousand years of accumulation, I could raise its quality another step and touch the threshold of the legendary Creation Divine Weapon!"

That was his true scheme!

A grand plan that could elevate his standing in the God Realm even further in the future!

If the plan succeeded, he could also rely on the faith Divine Power accumulated by the Sea God's Trident to break through and become a Divine King!

But now, everything had become an illusion.

The Asura God's icy gaze fell upon him, and he immediately pinpointed the key issue.

"So Douluo Star has lost contact, and the God Realm cannot reach it.

"And at the same time, your faith has collapsed.

"These are not two separate matters. They are two consequences of the same thing."

Poseidon's body began to tremble violently as he finally understood the terrifying connection.

The Sky Screen!

It had to be that damned Sky Screen!

It had not only exposed his disgrace from Twenty Thousand Years ago.

It had destroyed the foundation of his faith.

It had also worked in tandem with some immense power to seal off the entirety of Douluo Star!

This was a chain of traps!

A fatal scheme against him, Poseidon, spanning Twenty Thousand Years!

The collapse of his faith meant that the "furnace" nurturing the Sea God's Trident had been extinguished.

Douluo Star's loss of contact meant that even the path back to reclaim his Super Divine Weapon had been completely cut off!

His Sea God's Trident—the Super Divine Weapon into which he had poured his life's work, one forged even with the blood of his closest friend—

had now become a peerless treasure left in the mortal world, ownerless and impossible to retrieve!

"Pfft—"

Having understood it all, Poseidon could no longer suppress the surging blood in his chest. He sprayed a mouthful of golden Divine Blood across the polished floor of the Council Hall.

Poseidon's face was as pale as gold paper, his eyes unfocused. Only one thought echoed madly through his mind.

It's over... it's all over...

His reputation was ruined. His faith was gone.

Even his most treasured Super Divine Weapon had been lost!

This was truly... losing everything twice over!

Within the Council Hall, Poseidon's golden Divine Blood stood out strikingly against the polished floor.

It was as if every last bit of strength had been drained from him. He slumped limply to the ground, his eyes filled with despair.

Reputation, faith, Super Divine Weapon...

Everything he had built over "Twenty Thousand Years" had crumbled away on this very day!

Of course, those Twenty Thousand Years had been on Douluo Continent.

In the God Realm, only a few decades had passed.

The God of Destruction looked at him without the slightest sympathy, only contempt.

"For your own selfish desires, you betrayed your closest friend and stole his glory.

"Poseidon, your fate today is nothing more than Karma's retribution.

"You have cast away even a deity's dignity!"

Back on Douluo Star, three geniuses attempting to Create Their Own Godhood had appeared in succession.

Naturally, this had caught the attention of the Divine Realm Committee.

They had also witnessed Poseidon's actions.

The Evil God King did not even bother concealing his schadenfreude. He chuckled lightly.

"Interesting. Truly interesting.

"A scheme laid in the mortal world has reduced a Peak First-level God to such a miserable state.

"I find myself growing more and more interested in that old acquaintance called Wei Yuan."

There was even a hint of regret in his words.

Back then, the Evil God King had also thought highly of Wei Yuan.

He had bestowed the Nine Trials of Evil upon Wei Yuan, intending for him to inherit the Evil Godhood.

But Wei Yuan had refused.

If Wei Yuan had accepted back then, would things be as they were today?

Listening to the ridicule of the God Kings, Poseidon was humiliated and enraged beyond measure, yet powerless to refute them.