The God Realm Wasn't Culling Them-it Was "Harvesting" Them. The Anti-Fate God King Group Shattered "Destiny" with Their Fighting Spirit

That thought was even colder than their previous guess. They weren't being eliminated—they were being periodically "harvested."

The Divine Realm.

The God Kings of the Bright God Realm—Longgong Wei, Lei Xiang, and Hai Long—still wore grim expressions. This "revelation" had done nothing to ease their tension.

"It's explaining the Rules." Longgong Wei's voice was low. "It's telling us that this cycle is inevitable, the ultimate Law of the world."

"An intellect seeking the truth..." Hai Long gave a cold laugh. "How arrogant. It seems to be saying that we understand all this not because we're especially capable, but because it let us prosper and made us smart enough to understand our own fate."

"It's trying to break our will." Tian Hen, the sage who commanded space and time, cut straight to the heart of it. "It's telling us that everything is predetermined, that resistance is meaningless, so we'll accept this arrangement deep down."

The atmosphere in the God Realm Committee had grown stifling.

Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Eye flickered as his immense mental power raced through countless deductions. This "revelation" seemed to explain everything, yet it dodged the most crucial question—the one Tang San had asked earlier.

Who was driving it?

Lie Yan stood quietly beside Ji Dong. She could feel the volcano about to erupt in her lover's heart. From mortals to God Kings, they had fought against fate and defied Heaven at every turn. Had it all been for a final notice telling them, "Everything must end"?

Rong Nianbing, once the Cooking God and now the God of Emotion, could sense the Negative Emotions welling up in everyone's hearts better than anyone. They had grown so intense that they were almost tangible.

Tang Wulin and Gu Yuena stood side by side. The Dragon God's lament still echoed in their blood. "The end of the cycle..." Tang Wulin repeated. His eyes held no confusion, only a cold, dead stillness. "So Father's resistance happened just before one of these 'endpoints'?"

Gu Yuena tightened her grip on his hand. She understood that despair even more deeply. The Dragon Clan hadn't been destroyed by war or internal strife. It was because this world was performing a "reformat."

Just as their helplessness was about to reach its peak, every word on the Light Screen began to blur.

At last, countless rays of light gathered together, leaving only one final line.

It was no longer a lofty proclamation or a cold philosophical pronouncement. Its tone was calm, yet carried an indescribable resolve.

[We hear you, but we have our own ideas.]

Silence.

After a deathly silence, a tempest erupted!

"'We'?"

"Who's speaking? Is it the being showing us this Light Screen?"

"It... It's declaring its position?"

In an instant, everyone felt as if a heavy hammer had struck their thoughts.

In the God Realm Committee, Tang San's body jolted.

Not the thoughts of the "Heavenly Principles," nor the Rules of the world, but the thoughts of "we"!

Those words were like lightning streaking across an endless night, instantly illuminating the fog in everyone's hearts. They were a Core Flame tossed into a pile of dry kindling built from despair and rage.

Boom!

"Our own ideas..." Xu Sanshi froze. The self-mockery and bitterness on his face vanished, replaced by utter disbelief.

He Caitou stopped polishing his Soul Tool and raised his head. Light had returned to his eyes.

Niu Tian and Tai Tan, the two Divine Beasts, exchanged a glance. In each other's eyes, they saw the flame that had gone out beginning to blaze anew, spreading like wildfire!

Had their king, the Dragon God, once said the same thing to those so-called "Heavenly Principles"?

—We hear your plans, but we have our own ideas!

This was no longer a wretched struggle. It was defiance that would never yield!

The Bright God Realm.

"Ha... Hahaha... Hahahahaha!" Hai Long suddenly burst into loud laughter, his voice brimming with delight and abandon. "What a perfect line—'we have our own ideas'! Well said! Beautifully said!"

At that moment, Longgong Wei straightened his back once more. The grimness in his eyes turned to a keen edge. "I see. This rundown isn't a verdict. It's a declaration of war!"

Dragon blood boiled in Zi's veins. The lament of her ancestor, Apep, became the highest battle song! It was a resonance across time and space, an emphatic endorsement of those words: "We have our own ideas!"

The God Realm Committee.

"It's guiding us..." A brilliant light blazed in Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Eye. "It's telling us the 'Heavenly Principles' can be defied!"

Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King Bloodline roared. He seemed to see his father, the Dragon God from ten thousand years ago, still holding his head high as he faced death, declaring his will to the whole world.

In that moment, his grief and guilt transformed entirely into burning fighting spirit.

"Our own ideas..." Gu Yuena murmured. The tears faded from her silver eyes, leaving only endless coldness and resolve.

"That's right."

A voice rang out. It wasn't loud, yet it silenced every other voice.

Tang San slowly straightened. The Sea God's radiance swirled behind him. His gaze swept over every God King present, from Ji Dong and Lie Yan to Zhou Weiqing and Rong Nianbing, then Longgong Wei and A'Dai...

The same answer was written on every face.

They had all defied Heaven, step by step, in their respective worlds, and only then had they become the powerful beings standing here. The words "I will not accept my fate" were engraved in their very bones.

They had despaired earlier only because they thought their opponent was the entire "world."

Now, these words told them that their opponent was merely some being who had set the Rules.

And Rules were made to be broken!

"A cycle needs a driving core." Tang San's voice was calm and forceful, as if stating a truth. "A Closed Loop also needs a lock to keep it closed."

He paused, his gaze piercing through the Divine Realm as if looking toward a higher, more unknown dimension.

"If it has its own ideas..."

"Then it's time we let it hear ours."

Zhou Weiqing grinned, showing a row of white teeth. His wicked smile returned. "My Six Absolute Divine Light hasn't been unleashed at full strength in a long time."

Ji Dong took Lie Yan's hand. Extreme Twin Fires rose quietly around them, as if ready to burn the heavens and all that lay beyond.

An unprecedented aura began to gather throughout the God Realm Committee.

It was the purest will to resist, formed from the united wills of countless chosen ones from different planes and protagonists of their eras!

The fighting spirit that had just ignited in the God Realm Committee suddenly faltered, as if a block of Myriad Years Mysterious Ice had been thrown into it.