After a long while, the Silver Dragon King finally recovered and stopped dwelling on the matter.
No matter what the truth was, she could not possibly find the Dragon God's soul now.
Her gaze swept past the God King Qilin's remnant soul before finally settling on Xia Ming, who had remained silent and watched from the sidelines.
"Qilin inheritor," her voice returned to calm, yet it carried an unquestionable gravity,
"let us set aside our past grievances for now. I invited you here in the first place because of an urgent reality.
The future of you and the inheritance within your body."
"The God Realm." When she uttered those words, the surrounding air seemed to freeze several degrees colder,
"will never allow you to peacefully bear this God Position, much less permit you to truly become a god."
The Silver Dragon King turned her gaze toward the God King Qilin, her eyes holding an indescribably complicated meaning.
"God King Qilin, perhaps you do not know.
After the Dragon God era ended and the new order of the God Realm was established, the God Realm Hub set down an inviolable iron law.
Any beast of the lower realm, no matter how noble its bloodline or how powerful it was, could not ascend to the God Realm through cultivation and attain a God Position."
"This is the root of the Heavenly Tribulation that arrives unfailingly every hundred thousand years.
It is not a natural law, but shackles deliberately imposed by the God Realm.
Countless astonishingly gifted soul beasts have perished beneath it, reduced to ash."
"Though you were once a God King, and your inheritor possesses a human body...," her tone suddenly grew heavier,
"the essence of the God Position you represent—the Qilin—is the sovereign of all beasts, one of the pinnacles