Were You Acting From The Start?

He had been played like a fiddle by this avatar! First, he was humiliated in public by mortal filth, losing his composure and acting like a madman, then this avatar exposed all his scandals regarding the interference in the lower realms in front of the entire God Realm hierarchy, and finally, it told him that he had been throwing a tantrum at a mere avatar from start to finish?

This was even more unbearable to him than being killed!

His dignity as a God King, built over tens of thousands of years, had been trampled into the dirt and ground repeatedly by this ant from the lower realm today, leaving him with not a shred of face.

He truly deserved to die!

"What else did you expect?"

Qian Chongguang laughed even more heartily, as if he didn't see the murderous look in Asura's eyes at all: "Did you really think I would be foolish enough to send my true body under the nose of a God King like you, letting you manipulate me at will?"

"From the moment I realized you were controlling everything on Douluo Continent, and from the moment I suspected you might forcibly trigger my Ascension power, this trap had already been laid."

His voice gradually turned cold, every word striking clearly against Asura's heart: "You thought that by forcibly dragging me up to the God Realm, you were cutting off my ability to continue sabotaging your plans in the lower realm and placing me under your control? On the contrary, you personally created the best opportunity for me."

"Although you snuffed out my ascension phenomenon, your furious loss of composure drew the four God Kings and all the high-ranking officials here, locking the entire God Realm's gaze firmly onto this Ascension Staircase, and even more so, pinning everyone's attention onto this avatar."

"As for my true body, the moment before you triggered the ascension power, it had already quietly headed to the Angel Temple to retrieve what should have belonged to the Angel clan, something that had been dormant for tens of thousands of years—the Angel God Position!"

He raised his hand, pointing toward the golden pillar of light in the east that remained brilliant, his smile full of certainty: "The light you see now is the proof that my true body has successfully inherited the Angel God Position and resonated with the Angel Temple of the God Realm."

The gods were completely stunned.

They finally understood that Qian Chongguang's goal from the very beginning was never to fight Asura to the death here.

Tearing open Asura's scandals in public was to stall the four God Kings so they couldn't interfere with the inheritance of the Angel God Position; provoking Asura with filthy objects was to make him lose his mind completely, leaving him no time to look elsewhere; even being knocked to the ground and beaten by Asura was all an act!

From start to finish, he had been using this avatar to perform a grand play, buying time for his true body to inherit the Angel God Position!

And all of them, including the five supreme God Kings, were nothing but background props in this play, being led around by the nose!

Asura was so angry that his vision went black, and he nearly spat out a mouthful of his God King origin blood.

He had lived for tens of thousands of years, presiding over the laws of the God Realm, and had seen countless schemes and plots, yet never once had he been calculated against so thoroughly and so miserably!

He suddenly raised his hand, his blood-colored divine power instantly condensing into a giant palm capable of shattering mountains, and he prepared to strike down hard at Qian Chongguang's avatar—even if it was just an avatar, he would crush it to vent his anger!

But at that moment, Qian Chongguang's avatar suddenly smiled, his body gradually becoming transparent, and like a reflection in water, he began to slowly dissipate.

"Don't be in such a rush, God King Asura."

His voice carried a final mockery, echoing for a long time on the Ascension Staircase.

"This play has only just begun; the climax hasn't even started yet."

"Next, it will be time for you to face a different kind of Angel God."

The moment the words fell, the avatar, along with the Light and Dark Twin Swords in his hands, completely turned into golden light spots across the sky and dissipated into the air.

All that remained was a scene of utter chaos, a group of gods looking at each other with varied expressions, and Asura, who stood in place, his divine power trembling violently, furious to the extreme, yet left with nothing to vent his rage upon.

The golden pillar of light in the east remained brilliant and dazzling, illuminating the entire firmament of the God Realm.

Before the golden light of the dissipated avatar had fully faded, the atmosphere on the Ascension Staircase had already frozen like ten-thousand-year-old ice.

The other four God Kings turned their heads in unison, their gazes falling squarely on Asura, whose face was livid and whose divine power was still surging uncontrollably.

Destruction God King spoke first, his heavy voice carrying undisguised frustration as he let out a heavy sigh: "Asura, oh Asura, what do you want me to say? Having lived for tens of thousands of years and presiding over the laws of the God Realm for so long, you were actually played like a fiddle by a kid who just came up from the lower realm, failing to even distinguish between his true body and an avatar?"

"Played like a fiddle is an understatement." Evil God King crossed his arms, unable to hide the smile at the corner of his mouth as he leaned in to add, "With just one avatar, he stripped away the dignity of the God Realm's greatest combatant and dragged all of us in as background props. Honestly, this newly ascended Angel God really has some substance; this depth of character and this level of calculation are far superior to those little fellows in the lower realm who only know how to kill."

Goodness Goddess frowned slightly, her gentle voice carrying a hint of helplessness: "It has come to this, and there is no use in saying more. Asura, I think you should just let it go and stop looking for trouble with him. You have to accept this defeat. He has now inherited the Angel God Position and is a legitimate First-Class God; if you retaliate privately, it will be against the rules of the God Realm in both reason and sentiment."

"Accept it?"

These two words were like sparks falling into a pan of oil. Asura turned his head abruptly, his blood-colored pupils surging with a rage capable of burning everything to ash, his voice trembling, "He ruined my plans of tens of thousands of years, exposed my secrets in public, humiliated me with mortal filth, and played me like a monkey for so long, and you want me to accept it?!"

His clenched fists creaked, his knuckles turning white, and the killing intent around him nearly condensed into a sea of blood: "If I don't grind this brat into dust and cast his soul into the Nine Nether Purgatory for eternal suffering, I am not fit to be this Asura God, nor fit to preside over the laws of the God Realm!"

Just as Asura's rage was about to erupt once more, a sudden change occurred!

In the direction of the Angel Temple in the east, the golden pillar of light that pierced through heaven and earth suddenly underwent a earth-shattering transformation.

Within the divine light, which had been purely holy and carried the scorching aura of light and justice, a diametrically opposite power suddenly surged—it was pure darkness, bone-chillingly cold, carrying the devouring aura of extinction and evil, yet it intertwined perfectly with the brilliant golden light, without the slightest repulsion, instead forming a strange and majestic balance.

One light and one dark, one holy and one evil; two forces that should have been mortal enemies were now, above the Angel Temple, twisted into a two-colored pillar of light that tore through the firmament!

"What is happening?!"

"How can there be such a dense aura of darkness within the divine power of light?! Is this still the power of an Angel God?"

"Could this be another backup plan of that newly ascended Angel God? What exactly is he trying to do?!"