After becoming a God King, he had been unable to find any fragments of his mentor Electrolux's divine consciousness. With no other choice, he used the resources at his disposal to upgrade the [Undead Semi-Plane] his mentor had left him into the [Undead Plane], just to have something to remember him by.
What he hadn't expected was that, after the [Undead Plane] had been upgraded, the countless undead creatures within it would grant him a considerable amount of Power of Faith. Using that as his foundation, along with the legacy his mentor had left him, he created the god position [Necromancer Saint Mage] and the Super Divine Artifact [Staff of the Undead Scourge].
But the rules of the [Great God Circle] prevented him from attaching it to himself... because none of the gods, including Tang San, wanted to see another case of [Two Gods Coexisting].
There was no helping it. He could only keep the god position in reserve as his trump card.
Back then, after the [Great God Circle] found the Holy Demon Continent, where the [God of Heavenly Punishment] was located, it invited Light God Long Haochen and his wife, Death God Sheng Cai'er, to join. As a condition for joining the Great God Circle, his senior brother Long Haochen had asked them to help him fulfill the plan to have the [God of Heavenly Punishment return as the God of Heaven Guard], also known as [Haoyue Illuminating the Sky].
In truth, he had helped Long Haochen carry it out. You could say he was the second [Necromancer Saint Mage].
He had also gained the faith of the entire Undead Plane and a Super Divine Artifact. As a result, he shed the title of "Weakest God King," passing it on to the newly ascended Destruction God King Tang Wulin and Life God King Gu Yuena. In one leap, he became one of the top five powerhouses in the Great God Circle.
It made sense for Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena, who wielded the divine power of creation, to inherit the Goddess of Life's god position. But Tang Wulin, whose Martial Soul was the [wood-attribute] Blue Silver Emperor, inheriting the Destruction God Position was a bit of a hellish joke.
Tang San's excuse was certainly high-minded: that one should not avoid recommending a relative, that Tang Wulin had always resisted the Golden Dragon King's madness and could control the destructive will, and so on. In truth, he simply didn't want the first-generation God of Destruction to return to the Divine Realm.
On the surface, Tang Wulin had broken through to the God King realm by inheriting the Destruction God Position. In reality, though, the [Destruction God Position] was a terrible match for him! His [wood attribute] and the [destruction attribute] clashed constantly. Such fundamental opposition couldn't be resolved with a mere "mutually reinforcing and restraining" relationship.
That clash between their god positions also left Tang Wulin indisputably the weakest in the Great God Circle... Even gaining an abundance of Power of Faith from Douluo Planet was no help. He could only rely on that faith to barely hold on at the lowest threshold of the God King realm.
There was no need to explain how important Power of Faith was to the Divine Realm and its gods. If a god could gain a great deal of faith, cultivation and advancement would naturally come easier.
Take the first-generation God of Emotion, his own master Rong Nianbing. Aside from the strength of his Emotion God Position, seven quasi-Super Divine Artifacts, and one Super Divine Artifact, he also had an entire plane of people providing him with Power of Faith. That was one reason he could fight on par with Tang San despite being only a First-Level God.
The same went for Tang San. He hadn't hesitated to use a despicable scheme like the [Ten Thousand Year Plan] just to raise his standing in the hearts of the people of Douluo Continent. The immense Power of Faith and planar energy he had accumulated over tens of thousands of years on Douluo Continent had forcibly pushed him to the God King realm. The Sea God Trident, once merely a divine artifact, had also been fed until it became a Super Divine Artifact. Together, it made him nearly the equal of the God of Destruction, who had cultivated for millions of years.
The only problem was, the Tang San who had returned through rebirth was deeply displeased with this. He'd criticized him in private more than once, saying things like he didn't know how to work with others, and that the Tang Family being too powerful would make the other God Kings wary.
By then, he wasn't willing to back down either. He'd confronted Tang San head-on.
They were both thousand-year-old foxes; who didn't know the other's tricks? Why was it fine for his son and grandson to grow stronger, but not him, and so on...
That was the first time he'd ever clashed with Tang San face-to-face. For reasons he couldn't fathom, Tang San hadn't kept arguing. Instead, he'd simply turned and left.
Of course, there was no way Tang San would let him off. After that, his domestic troubles with Tang Wutong only grew worse, until the two of them could barely stand the sight of each other. His son and daughter were also forbidden from casually seeing him, while Tang San used his daughter's influence to isolate him further in the Divine Realm...
He had originally been the vice-chairman of the God Realm Committee, and should have wielded considerable influence and status. But after that argument, aside from the Seven Original Sin Gods—former subordinates of the God of Destruction, now under the Emotion God King—there wasn't a single god he could command, not even a God Official.
Tang San had stripped him of all power...
Eventually, he simply stopped going to work at the God Realm Committee. He stayed in the Emotion Temple instead, where he and Snow Empress and Liya got up to some enjoyable things.
Forget it, forget it. No use thinking about all that. It was in the past.
Putting those thoughts aside, Baili Du reached toward the void.
"Ha!"
A staff three meters long appeared in his hand. It was made of black, white, and gold, with a skull-shaped top.
It might have looked a little sanity-shattering, but there was no doubt about it: this was a genuine Super Divine Artifact!
He relaxed and sent out a call to the [Necromancer Saint Mage] god position he had finished creating and stored in the [Undead Plane].
A gray-gold Divine Wheel surged out from the deepest part of the Undead Plane and plunged into his chest. A sacred yet utterly desolate aura of death immediately swirled around him. His clothes turned into a gray mage's robe, while his long blue hair, already turning white, seemed to lose all vitality and became the gray-white hair of an old man.
The [Necromancer Saint Mage] Martial Soul had originally had only one enormous gray halo. But then, seven pale gray halos rose one after another behind it.
All eight halos appeared in full. Faintly, the transparent ninth halo had already begun to take shape.
The [Necromancer Saint Mage] was born. Half a step into the God King realm!
After the god position was attached, his cultivation reached the Half-Step God King realm. With his divine power strengthened, the pain in his lower abdomen indeed eased considerably.
Even if he wanted to stay longer on Douluo Continent, he couldn't. His Half-Step God King strength was far too conspicuous on the Douluo Plane. Tang San and Destruction weren't fools; they would definitely notice something was wrong.
Baili Du sighed helplessly. "Sorry, Xiao Huo. I have to leave first."
He took a blue-and-silver box that looked thoroughly futuristic from the storage artifact on his wrist.
Playing with the blue-and-silver box eased his mood a little.
If I leave this for him, I can rest easy about what comes next.
This was his proudest creation, an essential item in the era of his son Huo Zhanji.
[Douluo World].
Not some ordinary trinket you wore for show, but the terminal for the [Douluo World] system.
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