The Second Generation Necromancer Saint Mage (Seeking Collection, Seeking Follow-up Reads)

After becoming a God King, because he could never find the divine consciousness fragments of his mentor Electrolux, he had no choice but to use the resources at his disposal to upgrade the [Undead Semi-Plane] left to him by his teacher into an [Undead Plane], just to have something to remember him by.

To his surprise, after the [Undead Plane] finished upgrading, the massive number of undead creatures within actually provided him with a considerable amount of faith power. Using this as a foundation, combined with the inheritance his teacher left him, he created the [Necromancer Saint Mage] god position and the super-artifact [Staff of the Undead Scourge].

However, hindered by the rules of the [Great God Circle], he could not attach it to himself... because all gods, including Tang San, did not wish to see another instance of [Dual God Coexistence].

With no other choice, he kept this god position as his trump card.

At the time, after the [Great God Circle] located the Holy Demon Continent where the [God of Heavenly Punishment] resided, they extended an invitation to the Light God Long Haochen and his wife, the Death God Sheng Cai'er. As a condition for joining the Great God Circle, his senior brother Long Haochen requested that the Great God Circle help him complete the [God of Heavenly Punishment's return to the God of Heaven Guard], the so-called [Haoyue Illuminating the Sky] plan.

In reality, he was the one who assisted Long Haochen in executing it; one could say he was the second-generation [Necromancer Saint Mage].

He himself also managed to shed the title of "weakest God King" after obtaining the faith power of the entire Undead Plane and the super-artifact, passing that label onto the newly promoted Destruction God King Tang Wulin and Life God King Gu Yuena, leaping into the top five powerhouses of the Great God Circle.

It was normal for the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena, who mastered the divine power of creation, to inherit the Life Goddess position, but for Tang Wulin, whose martial soul was the [Wood-attribute] Blue Silver Emperor, to inherit the Destruction position was something of a dark joke.

Tang San's reasoning was high-sounding, something about not avoiding nepotism when promoting from within... and that Tang Wulin had been resisting the Golden Dragon King's mad will and could control the intent of destruction. In truth, it was simply that he didn't want the original God of Destruction to return to the God Realm.

On the surface, Tang Wulin broke through to the God King realm by inheriting the Destruction position, but in reality, the [Destruction God Position] and Tang Wulin had terrible compatibility! The [Wood-attribute] and [Destruction-attribute] were in constant conflict; this fundamental opposition could not be solved by a simple phrase like [mutual generation and restraint].

The conflict of the god positions also resulted in Tang Wulin's strength being the undisputed weakest in the Great God Circle... even obtaining massive amounts of faith power from the Douluo Planet was of no use; he could only rely on that faith power to barely maintain the lowest threshold of the God King realm.

The importance of faith power to the God Realm and the gods themselves went without saying; if a god could obtain a large amount of faith power, their cultivation and advancement would naturally be easier.

Take the original Emotion God King, his own teacher Rong Nianbing, for example. Aside from the power of his own Emotion God Position and his seven quasi-super-artifacts and one super-artifact, he had an entire plane of people providing him with faith power. This was one of the reasons why, despite only being a first-level god, he possessed combat power not inferior to Tang San.

The same applied to Tang San. He spared no effort to use the unscrupulous [Ten Thousand Year Plan] to elevate his status in the hearts of the people on the Douluo Continent. The massive amount of faith power and plane energy harvested over tens of thousands of years on the Douluo Continent pushed him forcibly to the God King level, and he even fed the Sea God Trident until it became a super-artifact, making him almost on par with the God of Destruction who had cultivated for millions of years.

However, this matter left the reborn Tang San quite dissatisfied. He criticized him privately more than once, saying things about how he didn't value unity, and that if the Tang family became too strong, it would invite the wariness of other God Kings.

He was unwilling to back down at that time and confronted Tang San head-on.

They were both thousand-year-old foxes; who didn't know who? He retorted that if Tang San was allowed to let his son and grandson grow stronger, why couldn't he do the same?

That was also the first time he had clashed directly with Tang San. For reasons unknown, Tang San did not continue to argue with him afterward and instead turned and left.

Of course, given Tang San's personality, how could he let him off? Afterward, the conflicts in his life with Tang Wutong became increasingly prominent, almost reaching the point of mutual loathing. His son and daughter were ordered not to contact him at will, and Tang San used his daughter's influence to further isolate him in the God Realm...

Originally, as the Vice Chairman of the God Realm Committee, his voice and status should have been very high, but after that argument, aside from the Seven Original Sin Gods under the Emotion God King who were originally subordinates of the God of Destruction, he could not command a single god, not even a minor deity.

Tang San had hollowed him out...

Later, he simply stopped going to work at the God Realm Committee and stayed in the Emotion Temple, doing happy things with the Snow Empress Liya.

Forget it, forget it, don't think about these things; it's all in the past.

After pulling his thoughts back, Baili Du reached out and beckoned toward the void.

"Hah!"

A staff, a full three meters long, appeared in his hand. The entire body was a mixture of black, white, and gold, with a skull design at the top.

Although it looked a bit sanity-draining, there was no doubt that this was a genuine super-artifact!

He relaxed his body and mind, sending a summons to the [Necromancer Saint Mage] god position he had already created and stored within the [Undead Plane].

A ring of gray-gold divine light emerged from the deepest part of the Undead Plane and crashed into his chest. Instantly, a sacred yet nihilistic aura of death swirled around him. The clothes on his body transformed into gray mage robes, and his white-blue hair turned the gray-white color of an old man, as if it had lost all vitality.

The [Necromancer Saint Mage] martial soul originally had only one huge gray light wheel, but then seven gray-white light wheels rose one after another behind it.

Eight light wheels appeared in full, and faintly, the transparent ninth light wheel had already taken shape.

[Necromancer Saint Mage] born, Half-Step God King!

After the god position was attached, his cultivation reached the realm of a Half-Step God King. Once his divine power increased, the pain in his lower abdomen was indeed much less.

Even if he wanted to stay on the Douluo Continent longer, he couldn't. The strength of a Half-Step God King was simply too conspicuous on the Douluo plane; Tang San and the God of Destruction were not fools and would definitely discover the problem.

Baili Du sighed helplessly: "Sorry, Little Huo, I have to take a step ahead."

He pulled a blue-silver box that looked full of high-tech design from the storage artifact on his wrist.

Fiddling with this blue-silver box, Baili Du's mood relaxed a bit.

Leaving this for him, I can rest easy about what comes next.

This was his proudest work, a must-have item for his son Huo Zhanji's era.

[Douluo World].

It wasn't some ordinary trinket worn casually, but the terminal for the system known as [Douluo World].