The Selfish, Ignorant, and Foolish Sin God!

The world suddenly went dark, the hum of Soul Power ceasing in an instant.

Was that the might of a god...

[Executing First Protocol...]

[Youlan] stuttered, a rare occurrence.

Amid the black clouds and raging thunder of Heaven and Earth's fury, Chen Fu saw the Divine Punishment descending from the nine heavens—a beam of azure lightning, carrying overwhelming celestial might and icy, boundless killing intent. In an instant, it pierced through the hastily conjured defense of the black-and-white twin dragons, shattered the Divine Trial barrier of the God of Bronze and Weapons, forcibly bound to him since the [Ark]'s inception, and finally blasted straight through him from head to toe!

"Lord Sea God, how dare you!"

The moment the Divine Trial shattered, another earth-shaking roar echoed across the world! An unimaginably vast divine power gathered beyond the world in an instant, its incomprehensibly high-quality energy causing the world's crystal membrane to ripple violently. This being, beyond mortal imagination, was attempting to forcibly breach the Douluo World's crystal membrane!

Buzz!

The world's crystal membrane suddenly erupted with an overwhelming suppressive force, kicking both intruders out. The ultra-high rank caused the World Will to instantly intensify its divine power resistance against the two gods, ensuring their divine power could not step foot into the Douluo World for a short time!

Within the vast azure sea of divine power, the god who ruled the oceans coldly regarded the special First-level God who dared to interfere with him—the God of Bronze and Weapons, known in the divine realm as the God of Craftsmanship.

Killing a god's inheritor was a grave crime, but that foreign ant had ruined His millennia-long plan, refused His goodwill, and left the Douluo World teetering on the edge of greater chaos—death was too light a penalty!

He had given him a chance to relive old dreams, but he refused it. He had spared him a Thought Seal out of respect for his status as a god's inheritor, but he spurned that kindness too. He insisted on repeatedly challenging His authority over the Douluo World—truly, he had a Way of Seeking Death!

The Sea God's merciless eyes swept past the God of Craftsmanship, whose divine power was swelling to its peak, and once again cast His cold, almighty gaze upon the Douluo World.

Truly, a stubborn ant!

In a cratered wasteland of energy-blasted ruins, the broken, withered remains of a massive blue-gold ancient tree lay silently on the ground, surrounded by faint Soul Power crystals left behind by the chain explosion of dozens of Arks.

Over a dozen Titled Douluo elders from Shrek Academy, who had rushed over after the cataclysmic Big Bang, stared at the devastation before them, their hearts too heavy to utter a single word.

Heavy not just for the failure, but for what the failure meant.

"Cough, cough..."

From beneath the rubble, a black-robed old man burst out of a nearby pile of debris, clutching an unconscious elder whose body was cracked all over but still showed signs of life rekindling.

"Pavilion Master!"

Xuan Zi and the others immediately rushed forward.

Tossing Mu En, whose divine body was half-formed, to Yan Shaozhe, Long Xiaoyao's expression was complicated. That bastard had shielded him at the last moment, using his half-finished divine body to let them both escape the residual might of the Divine Punishment—after all, they weren't the target.

"What About Chen Fu?!"

Her flame-like Soul Power spilling uncontrollably, Ma Xiaotao's eyes were bloodshot as she stared at Long Xiaoyao.

Long Xiaoyao answered with silence. He had tried to intervene, but clearly, it hadn't worked.

A light breeze swept past, and a golden figure darted through the crowd, heading for the ruins ahead to dig. With terrifying strength, she flipped over the metal wreckage left by the Soul Power explosions.

Joining her was Ning Tian, who had arrived just behind, adding her own brute force to the violent search, giving everyone a glimpse of this Nine Treasures Glazed Sect disciple's monstrous strength.

As the Imperial Auspicious Beast, the beast of fortune, Jin Lin simply refused to believe that Chen Fu, whose aura of luck was nearly tangible, could die so casually.

Ma Xiaotao wanted to run over, but Yan Shaozhe grabbed her arm, holding tight without letting go, saying nothing.

The atmosphere among the elders was suffocatingly grim.

As Jin Lin and Ning Tian dug, more and more people, including those from the Soul Tool Academy, followed the commotion and climbed onto the nearly shattered Sea God Island.

"..." Watching his beloved disciple's life's work end in such a result, Fan Yu's heart ached as if cut by a knife.

The words shouted by the enraged unknown god had made everyone understand the identity of the being who had delivered the Divine Punishment—the Lord Sea God, whom Shrek Academy had revered for generations.

Crack...

The shattered remains of the massive blue-gold tree were flipped over by Jin Lin's monstrous strength. Beneath it, buried in the dust, a battered human figure appeared before everyone's eyes.

Trembling, he slowly rose from the dust, his cracked wounds oozing streams of crimson blood as they tore open.

Stopping Jin Lin and Ning Tian from helping him, he looked up at Ma Xiaotao as she ran over, straining every muscle in his face to force a smile that said he was fine.

Dragging his broken body, Chen Fu slowly pushed himself up from the dirt, glanced around at everyone staring at him in silent bewilderment, and burst into laughter, his wild, disheveled hair making him look reckless and mad.

"Hahaha! Cough, cough!"

Crimson blood dripped into the dust, splattering grayish-red blossoms.

Chen Fu had never been so disheveled. His entire body was cracked, held together only by the Melting Ring body-tempering technique. All four transparent Soul Rings containing the Nuclear Arks had shattered! The [Youlan] Data Divine Ring had been blasted with a gap, and a massive amount of data was leaking.

Under the World Will's suppression, even divine-level beings couldn't casually unleash energy impacts beyond the limit. The God of Craftsmanship's Divine Trial protection had worn down most of the attack, and the remainder was met head-on by [Youlan] using the entire [Ascension] Soul Tool. The result was that this god-forging Soul Tool had exploded outright, the blue-gold ancient tree serving as its mainframe was blasted to rubble, and the [Youlan] system was severely damaged.

But still, he had survived.

Under the protection of multiple entities and the ultra-grade Soul Power counterforce from the super Soul Tool [Ascension] entering overclock mode under the First Protocol.

Cough, cough!

Wiping the shattered internal organs he coughed up from the corner of his mouth, Chen Fu struggled to calm his inner turmoil.

He had gotten one thing wrong. The god who had tried to test him with his past-life lover was none other than the very faith he had been striving to align himself with—Shrek Academy's Lord Sea God!

Why choose Shrek? Why choose Sea God Lake? Why choose Sea God Island?

Why choose to make Sea God Pavilion Master Mu En the first executor of the Ascension?

Those who set foot on the Path to Ascension on the grounds of the Sea God Faith were naturally blessed by the Sea God. Their faction's foundation was, by nature, the Sea God!

He had been entangled by the God of Craftsmanship ever since the [Ark] emerged from the world. Later, thinking Chen Fu lacked a suitable soul ring, He forcibly bestowed a God-given Soul Ring upon him and even descended divine power to give Chen Fu a foothold, allowing the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to reincarnate. Though he looked down on the God of Craftsmanship's divine throne and was forced to accept a Divine Trial, Chen Fu was still a student and teacher of Shrek Academy! The junior student of His Eminence the Sea God!

But why... wouldn't He accept him?

Why did He always wait until he was on the verge of success before making a move?

Was it because He initially thought him nothing but a mortal ant? Or was it the "defiant" technological research that made Him afraid? Or did He find him too wise to control?

"Chen Fu, you have defied the gods, inviting Divine Punishment. Your crime deserves death!"

An elder of the Sea God Pavilion, one who held faith in the Sea God, suddenly attacked him.

"Defied the gods?"

Chen Fu smiled without expression, then coldly stared at that elder.

"What do our developments in soul tool technology have to do with the gods?"

"Divine Punishment?"

Chen Fu let out a loud laugh as he looked at the nearly despairing teachers and students of the Soul Tool Academy. His cracked face was covered in scarlet bloodstains, and beneath his dry, whitish hair, bloodshot eyes flickered, bursting with a dazzling light and madness.

"That's not Divine Punishment! That's the gods' highest respect for us!"

"It means our path is right! He is stopping us from advancing, stopping us from moving forward! He is afraid!"

"Fellow teachers and students of Shrek Academy, tell me—what can faith in the gods bring you?"

"Perhaps in the past, He could give us safety, wisdom, and skill. But now, He has fallen!"

"He is stopping us from going further! He fears us going further! He wants us to forever huddle in a corner, never to develop!"

"Can He make you a god?!"

"No! He is nothing but a selfish, ignorant Sin God who interferes with our civilization's development for His own selfish desires!"

That young man, having suffered a great setback, was venting his fury to his heart's content. Xuan Zi felt his heart grow unsettled; the hand gripping the unconscious Old Mu's was squeezed painfully.

Golden sunlight pierced through the smoke shrouding the wreckage. Rays of light refracted through particles of High-Energy Soul Power Crystals, scattering a brilliant, iridescent glaze.

In the girl's eyes, that boy raised his hands high before a crowd crushed by authority, unable to breathe. The pale golden sunlight draped him in a dazzling suit of armor as he raised his arm and shouted:

"Abandon the Sin God! Be your own god!"

His earth-shattering, bold words shook everyone's hearts.

The world seemed to fall silent...

Chen Fu

smelled the scent of blood.

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