Oh, Douluo Star! I'm dozens of star domains away from you. Wait for me!
Space-Time Dragon God Star!
Yang Teng slowly opened his eyes. Before him stretched a starry sky so dazzling it seemed unreal.
He lowered his head and looked at his hands. They were no longer hands. Silver-white dragon scales covered his forearms, and when his fingertips curled slightly, space itself visibly wrinkled, like a sheet of paper.
"You're awake?"
The voice came from deep within the palace, carrying an innate majesty.
Yang Teng looked up and saw the half-dragon, half-human Space-Time Dragon God King.
That was his father.
The Space-Time Dragon God King did not appear in his full dragon form.
"You slept for a long time."
The Space-Time Dragon God King said.
Yang Teng's mind raced. Scenes from his former life on Earth surfaced in his mind. He had been a corporate grunt, worked himself to death at his post, and when he opened his eyes again, he had somehow transmigrated to the God Star in the Guandu Star Domain.
And he was dozens of star domains away from Douluo!
"My head's a little heavy. I slept in a bit!"
He was now the only son of the Space-Time Dragon God King.
"Father, sorry for the trouble," Yang Teng said.
The Space-Time Dragon God King gave a slight nod and turned toward the palace balcony.
This planet brimmed with immortal spiritual energy. Every breath cleansed the body, and Yang Teng had long since grown used to it.
"Look."
The Space-Time Dragon God King raised a hand and pointed toward the starry sky beyond the God Star.
Yang Teng followed his finger. In the distant star domains, he saw several blurry points of light.
Those lights were unlike ordinary stars. Their glow carried the laws of the universe.
"Those are the seven surrounding Divine Realms."
The Space-Time Dragon God King's voice was calm as he spoke to Yang Teng.
"The Third-Rate God Realm, Frost Snow God Realm, Clear Wood God Realm, Congo God Realm, Ghost Forest God Realm, Phoenix Treasure God Realm, and West Wind God Realm. These seven Divine Realms..."
He paused.
"They're too scattered."
Yang Teng understood what lay behind those words.
"I'll bring them all into the God Star's orbit."
The Space-Time Dragon God King spread his arms.
"Build space-time passages, link every Divine Realm, make them our God Star's vassals, and establish a dynasty of gods."
"A nation with the God Star at its center."
Yang Teng's heart pounded.
How could it be easy to build space-time passages like that? Although the God Star could resist the laws of the universe to a certain extent, this path would not be smooth.
Only those who ascended to godhood from a plane governed by a Divine Realm from childhood could gradually earn the universe's recognition. But this was still only a theory, and Yang Teng was willing to be the one to put it to the test.
If it worked, his father, the Space-Time Dragon God King, would certainly use this method to bring the other Divine Realms under his control and achieve his goal.
With that in mind, Yang Teng stepped forward to make his request.
"Father."
"I ask permission to go to a Divine Realm."
The Space-Time Dragon God King looked down at him.
"Which one?"
"The Douluo Divine Realm."
The thought had been on Yang Teng's mind for a long time.
He came from Earth, and in his understanding of the universe, there was another place he knew very well: the Douluo Divine Realm.
Or rather, the advanced plane it governed: Douluo Star.
The stories of Soul Masters, Soul Beasts, and divine positions were things he had read growing up. Sea God, Asura God, the Gods of Goodness and Evil—those names were etched deep in his memory.
The Space-Time Dragon God King watched Yang Teng in silence. His spiraling pupils seemed able to see through any disguise. The silence lasted for ten full breaths.
"You're very familiar with that place."
It wasn't a question.
Yang Teng didn't deny it. There was no point in lying to his father.
"Yes."
The Space-Time Dragon God King didn't ask why. He merely lifted his head slightly, his silver mane rippling in the starlight, then said something that sent a shock through Yang Teng.
"Deep in your divine soul, there's an aura from that world. Strange, isn't it?"
Yang Teng clenched his dragon-scaled fingers. He said nothing, because there was no need.
"Go. Carry out this path for your father."
The Space-Time Dragon God King patted his shoulder, his face full of satisfaction.
"I'll personally escort you across the star domains."
Yang Teng looked up.
The Space-Time Dragon God King had already turned and walked deeper into the palace, leaving only one last sentence drifting through the starlight.
What Yang Teng truly wanted had never been to make the Douluo Divine Realm a vassal of the Space-Time Dragon God Star.
He wanted the Douluo Divine Realm to undergo a complete transformation—to evolve from a Divine Realm into a God Star.
An independent, complete twin God Star, able to gaze across the void at the Space-Time Dragon God Star.
That was the real reason he had asked to go to Douluo.
Crossing the distance between countless star systems required the construction of a temporary space-time passage. Maintaining one consumed a terrifying amount of energy, and across the entire God Star, only the Space-Time Dragon God King himself could sustain it.
Yang Teng stood on the platform at the edge of the God Star, taking one last look back at this inconceivable world.
"Let's go."
The Space-Time Dragon God King's voice came from above. He had fully revealed his true form: a colossal dragon.
In the next instant, the starry sky shattered.
A vast, spiraling rift appeared before the Space-Time Dragon God King. Its edges collapsed and reformed again and again, revealing a radiant passage within.
This wasn't a simple spatial leap. It was a path forcibly torn open between the layers of time and space.
Then everything fell silent.
The space-time passage opened at its far end.
Yang Teng saw the Douluo Divine Realm.
It was a continent floating in the starry sky, faintly protected by divine power of many colors. That must have been energy supplied by the Divine Realm's center.
At that very moment, within the Douluo Divine Realm, Poseidon abruptly opened his eyes in the Central Temple of the God Realm Committee.
Asura God rose from his throne at almost the same instant, the Asura Sword drawing itself three inches from its sheath.
The God of Goodness and the God of Evil exchanged a glance, their pupils contracting in unison.
"Something is coming."
"To appear so rudely—does it think nothing of the Douluo Divine Realm?"
Before they could react, the skies above the Douluo Divine Realm split open, forming the shape of a gigantic eye.
Every deity looked up and witnessed a sight that would burn itself into their divine souls. It was as if a pair of hands had torn the sky open from the outside, and space-time turbulence from another world poured through the rift.
At the deepest point of that rift, an indescribable dragon coiled within.
Its body blocked most of the sky.
Its scales reflected starlight the Douluo Divine Realm had never seen before. As its wings spread, the ripples in time and space made the atmosphere of the entire Divine Realm tremble.
It wasn't an attack. Its very presence alone made the laws of the Douluo Divine Realm groan beneath an unbearable strain.
"Dragon God?"
Almost every ancient deity who had lived through that great battle thought of the same name, for the Dragon God was the only member of the dragon race they could recall.
But when they looked at one another, they shook their heads in tacit agreement. The aura and appearance were entirely different. Besides, the Golden Dragon King was still being suppressed.
On the dragon's back, a youth covered from head to toe in silver-white dragon scales slowly rose to his feet.
He looked down at the Douluo Divine Realm beneath him, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly.
"My familiar Douluo Star!"
"Even though I didn't transmigrate here, I still found my way back!"
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