Still a Trump Card?

After all, his cultivation as a half-step God King was a forbidden power gained by burning his soul origin and forcibly converting the laws of light and darkness; it simply could not last long. Furthermore, he had consecutively unleashed the power of the Seven Deadly Sins, elemental forces, and emotional laws he had comprehended. Every activation was a frantic consumption of his remaining life origin.

He was like a meteor burning to its limit, blooming with his final radiance in the most brilliant way, destined to fade into silence at the moment of his greatest dazzle.

The five God Kings present had long since seen this clearly.

Destruction God King ceased his pursuit, watching Qian Chongguang, who was still beating people in the distance. A flicker of complex emotion crossed his eyes as he spoke in a deep voice, "He cannot hold on much longer. The backlash of the forbidden power is intense. If he continues to unleash it so madly, he will be completely devoured by this power within a hundred breaths at most, his soul and body annihilated."

The veins on the hand of the Asura God, who gripped the Asura Demon Sword, bulged, and killing intent intertwined with complexity in his blood-colored pupils. He hated Qian Chongguang to the bone, yet watching this man who would burn his life away just to overturn the order of their God Realm, a trace of dread he was unwilling to admit even to himself rose in his heart.

A hundred breaths.

This frantic battle sweeping across the entire God Realm had only a hundred breaths left.

The moment Destruction God King's voice fell, the green light of life surrounding the Life Goddess tightened abruptly, her face full of gravity: "He is already at the edge of exhaustion. The more it reaches this point, the easier it is for him to do something desperate. A half-step God King burning his soul to self-destruct is enough to turn half the God Realm into scorched earth. We must take precautions in advance."

Goodness Goddess did not hesitate upon hearing this. With a wave of her hand, a rhombic crystal flowing with nine-colored divine light and engraved with the patterns of the laws of the heavens slowly drifted from between her brows. The moment the crystal appeared, the turbulent space of the entire God Realm instantly stabilized, and the spatial rifts torn by the battle began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"It is the God Realm Hub Core!" the first-tier gods on the periphery exclaimed in shock.

This crystal was the most core treasure of the God Realm, controlling the spatial laws and energy circulation of the entire realm. It was the core authority of the God Realm Committee, usually held in turns by the God Kings on duty, and was currently held by the Goodness Goddess.

Goodness Goddess brushed her fingertips over the God Realm Hub, and soft yet firm divine power was instantly injected into it. Nine-colored divine light covered the entire airspace: "I have activated the Hub Core and locked the spatial barriers of this area. Even if he truly self-destructs, the Hub can offset more than ninety percent of the impact, minimizing the damage."

The five God Kings breathed a sigh of relief simultaneously. They had been so flustered by Qian Chongguang's series of maneuvers that they had almost forgotten this treasure that could stabilize the foundation of the God Realm. With the Hub Core, at least they did not have to worry about the God Realm being destroyed by his final self-destruction.

Yet, none of them expected that the moment the divine light of the God Realm Hub filled the world, Qian Chongguang, who had still been chasing and beating a group of first-tier gods, suddenly stopped his movements.

He turned around slowly, his twelve light and dark wings flapping gently. Divine blood continued to seep from the cracks in his divine body, and his aura grew weaker, yet his eyes remained shockingly bright, and the corner of his mouth still hung with that familiar smile that made the gods' scalps tingle.

"That is enough." Qian Chongguang's voice was hoarse from the burning of his soul, yet it clearly reached the ears of every god, "The chaos has been enough, and most of the accounts have been settled. Next, it is time to reveal my final trump card."

"There is another trump card?!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the five God Kings stiffened instantly. The ease on their faces vanished, replaced by nothing but astonishment and collapse; they were stunned on the spot.

From the initial public humiliation of the mortal filth, to his avatar deceiving everyone to inherit the Angel God Position, to his light-dark unity breaking through to a half-step God King, and then single-handedly resisting the five God Kings and shaking the two great boundary-guarding arrays—they thought this was the extent of this madman's cards. Yet now, he actually had a final trump card?!

"Qian Chongguang! What exactly are you trying to do?!" The destruction divine power around Destruction God King tightened instantly as he shouted sharply, "You have already burned away most of your origin; do you really intend to drag the entire God Realm down with you?!"

"Kid, let's talk this over!" Evil God King also put away all his cynical expressions and hurriedly tried to dissuade him, "We can really sit down and talk about the previous matters slowly! The God Realm Committee will definitely give you justice regarding Asura's interference in the lower realm. There is no need to escalate things further!"

Even the usually cold and rigid Asura God gripped his Asura Demon Sword tightly, no longer uttering threats. He was truly afraid; every trump card of this madman could turn the God Realm upside down, and he truly could not imagine what other outrageous thing this guy could pull out.

Watching the five God Kings change from their previous dominance to pleading, Qian Chongguang suddenly laughed aloud, his laughter carrying a sense of relief and a touch of mockery.

"Rest assured, I have no interest in dragging your pathetic God Realm down with me." He raised his eyes to scan the five God Kings, saying word by word, "I am indeed leaving, and I know clearly that once I am dead, you will turn around and continue to reach your hands into the lower realm, continuing to treat the Douluo Continent as your backyard and manipulating the fates of those mortals."

"But I will not give you that chance."

As Qian Chongguang spoke, his twelve light and dark wings spread wide, and all his remaining origin divine power erupted without reservation! Instead of attacking the five God Kings, he blasted all his power toward the plane channel connecting the God Realm and the Douluo Continent!

"With my final Angel God authority, combined with all the power of my burning soul, I will completely seal all connecting channels between the Douluo Continent and the God Realm!"

"At the same time, I will cast a hundred or so heaven-gifted geniuses onto that continent."

He stated his plan without a care, his tone as casual as if he were commenting on the weather, but to the ears of the five God Kings, it was like a thunderclap from the nine heavens, leaving their minds blank and stunned on the spot.

After a brief, dead silence, an extreme chill surged from the soles of the five God Kings' feet straight to their crowns!

The first thing they thought of was not some ordinary mortal geniuses, but the residual consciousness of fallen powerhouses who might come from higher dimensions!

They had lived for a million years and governed the God Realm for so long; they knew the rules of the universe of the heavens too well.

The Douluo Universe appeared to be an independent great world, but in reality, it was merely a small world tucked away in a corner of the myriad heavens. Often, after powerhouses of higher dimensions fell, a wisp of their residual consciousness or a trace of their origin would drift through the endless universe...