Han Yu smiled calmly.
"Because in the Extreme North, I not only completed the God of Evil's subsequent trials, but also, by a fortunate coincidence, activated and completed the first five trials of the Ice God's Nine Trials."
"Ice God's Nine Trials?!"
Gu Rong's eyes widened round, and he abruptly rose to his feet, utterly shocked.
"You... you were already bearing the supreme God of Evil's God Trial from the God Realm, and now you've actually activated the inheritance of a First-Level Deity?!
Two Godhood trials existing within one body?!"
Han Yu nodded.
"That's right.
When I went to the Extreme Northern Wasteland, I had originally intended to seek out the Extreme Cold Origin to verify my cultivation method and hunt for opportunities along the way.
But after I entered the Core Zone of the Far North, the Evil Divine Power within me and the divinity of my Martial Soul triggered a resonance with the Ice God Temple there.
The Ice God's divine will awakened and directly bestowed a God Trial upon me."
Gu Rong asked anxiously.
"The Ice God's divine will didn't notice the Evil Divine Power on you?"
"Of course it noticed."
Han Yu let out a cold laugh.
"But the God Realm differs from the continent. When deities choose successors, they value talent, strength, and the opportunity to become gods.
The Ice God had waited hundreds of thousands of years without finding a suitable successor. My talent and foundation in Ultimate Ice completely won over that divine will. Not only did the God Trial proceed smoothly, it even granted me extremely high privileges during the trials."
God of Evil: You're full of shit!
Well, Han Yu had employed just a tiny bit of linguistic artistry.
But it was more or less true.
Ice Empress, standing behind him,