"No, this can't be, this..."
Jialing Pass!
Bibi Dong, clad in the Rakshasa God Armor, stared at Tang San in terror. The dread emanating from his divine seat made her purple face turn deathly pale, draining it of all color.
"This is... the Asura God!?"
Seeing the look of shock on Rakshasa God Bibi Dong's face, Angel God Qian Renxue raised an eyebrow and scoffed. "So what if he's that Asura God?"
"Are you scared?"
"We could kill the Sea God. Why shouldn't we be able to kill the Asura God?"
"Two gods against one. The advantage is ours!"
Angel God Qian Renxue wasn't like Bibi Dong, who had climbed step by step to her divine seat through her own efforts. She was more like a fledgling eagle, sheltered by Qian Daoliu.
Naturally, her experience was no match for Bibi Dong's, so she had no idea just how terrifying the Asura God was as one of the five great powers in the Divine Realm.
"How can you compare the two!?"
Hearing that, Rakshasa God Bibi Dong was so furious she nearly choked.
That was the Asura God!
Was the Asura God just any ordinary god?
How could they possibly be the same!?
"As the empress of the Spirit Hall Empire, how can you be so timid and hesitant?" Angel God Qian Renxue snorted. "Do you think showing your fear now will make him spare you?"
She was right!
Those words struck Bibi Dong like a sudden bolt of enlightenment, jolting her awake!
No matter what kind of god Tang San had become, given the Spirit Hall Empire's current situation, there was no way he would let her and her daughter go.
So...
They might as well take a gamble—turn their bicycle into a motorcycle!
With that thought, Rakshasa God Bibi Dong didn't hesitate any longer. She swept out a hand, and the Rakshasa Demon Scythe appeared in her grasp. Emerald-green flames blazed around her as she charged at Tang San alongside Qian Renxue.
"Still refusing to see reason?"
Facing the attacks of the Rakshasa God and Angel God, Asura God Tang San stood amid a blood-red radiance, having already completed the coexistence of his two divine powers. His gaze was as still as an ancient well, utterly unmoved. The Asura Demon Sword before him turned bloodred in an instant, and a brilliant beam of blood-red light erupted.
A thunderous boom rang out.
Both gods were defeated in an instant.
Angel God Qian Renxue was sent flying like a golden meteor, crashing heavily to the ground, her aura faint.
Having defeated the Spirit Hall Empire's two gods with a single strike, Tang San stood tall like a god descended from the heavens, his presence awe-inspiring.
Behind him, the Heaven Dou Army stood as solid as a mountain, their cheers shaking the heavens and earth!
"Xiao Xue!"
At the sight, Rakshasa God Bibi Dong cried out. Ignoring her own injuries, she hurried over to check on Qian Renxue, who had spat out a mouthful of golden blood.
But—
The moment she moved, a sharp shout rang out!
"Asura Judgment!"
In an instant, six blood-red beams flared toward Rakshasa God Bibi Dong.
In the blink of an eye, she was bound in place, unable to move a muscle.
"No!"
"Tang San, I'll fight you to the death!"
Seeing her birth mother about to be executed, Angel God Qian Renxue's expression changed dramatically. She gritted her teeth and burned her divine power, shattering her divine seat as the price to unleash the might of Solar True Fire. Then she charged at Tang San.
But it was no use.
Tang San swiftly switched to his Sea God form and expended a huge amount of Sea God Divine Power to withstand Qian Renxue's attack.
The next moment, he changed back into his Asura God form and hurled his sword straight at her. Its icy, blood-red light was about to pierce Qian Renxue's chest!
By now, Qian Renxue had shattered her divine seat and fallen to level ninety-nine.
But her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul had also downgraded into a Holy Angel, sealing its upper limit. Her Soul Power had fallen another ten levels, leaving her not even a Soul Douluo.
In that state, she couldn't even hope to block the attack. She didn't have time to react.
And yet!
Right then!
A deep-red door appeared without warning before Qian Renxue. With a clatter, it blocked the incoming Asura Demon Sword.
The deep-red door looked transparent, like a cube, yet it was as impenetrable as an iron fortress. The invincible Asura Demon Sword struck it, but couldn't leave so much as a crack.
The sudden turn of events stunned everyone. Countless people looked up at the deep-red door before them.
"What... is that thing?"
"My Blue Consumption King—Blue Haowang—defeated the Spirit Hall Empire's two gods with ease. How could anyone withstand one of his attacks?"
"Could it be..."
"Does the Spirit Hall Empire have another god?"
"How is that possible!? How could the Spirit Hall Empire have the virtue or ability to raise three gods?"
In the air, Asura God Tang San furrowed his brows.
He could clearly feel that something had restrained his Asura Demon Sword. He couldn't even call it back.
And what's more...
The door gave him a sense of deep unease, a fear of the unknown.
"Hmph!"
"No matter who you are, you won't change the Spirit Hall Empire's fate!"
Tang San snorted. Unfazed, he let the blood-red light around him surge again. His Asura God Armor glowed an eerie crimson as he sped toward Qian Renxue.
Even without the Asura Demon Sword, with the Asura Divine Power in his body, someone like Qian Renxue, who was only a Soul Douluo, couldn't withstand even one of his attacks!
"Xiao Xue, are you all right!?"
A moment earlier, seeing Qian Renxue on the verge of death had made Bibi Dong's heart ache. When she realized her restraints had vanished, she hurried over to check on her daughter.
But the moment she examined her, she froze.
"Wait, Xiao Xue, you..."
"I'm fine..."
"You're fine?"
Rakshasa God Bibi Dong's voice rose sharply. "Your divine seat is shattered, and your Martial Soul has been downgraded. You call that fine?"
A forced smile appeared on Qian Renxue's ashen face. "I'm still hanging on by a thread. I'm fine..."
Bibi Dong was about to say something when her body suddenly stiffened!
A strange blood-red radiance enveloped the mother and daughter in an instant!
"Look out!"
Qian Renxue tried to push Bibi Dong away, but she had only a thread of strength left. She couldn't even get up. How could she possibly shove a god aside?
"I'll risk it!"
Bibi Dong's face darkened like water.
She didn't know why Qian Renxue had been spared before, but whatever the reason, Qian Renxue had sacrificed her divine seat to save her. She couldn't let her daughter die now!
With that thought, she prepared to gather her strength for her strongest attack.
Suddenly!
Another deep-red door abruptly took shape in front of Bibi Dong.
"Clang!"
Asura God Tang San kicked it. It felt as though he'd kicked an unbreakable boulder. His whole body seized up, and a moment later he cried out in pain, his face twisting into a mask of agony!
What the hell!
"What... is going on?"
"Holy crap, that's the same door again!?"
"Wait, what's the deal with that door? Is there some trick to it? Why does it keep ruining everything!?"
The second appearance of the door made those on the Heaven Dou Empire's side furious. Their curses rang out without end.
But—
The Spirit Hall Empire's people felt the opposite. Many breathed a sigh of relief, especially the two survivors among the Worship Hall's seven enshrined: Sixth Enshrined Qianjun Douluo and Seventh Enshrined Jiangmo Douluo.
"Thank goodness... We still don't know where that door came from, but it can block Tang San. There's still hope for us..."
Though that hope was faint...
The two brothers exchanged a glance, sorrow in their eyes.
Of the Worship Hall's seven enshrined, Qian Daoliu had sacrificed himself, and the rest had fallen in battle. Only the two of them remained.
The Spirit Hall Empire had held such a good hand, yet they'd played every card away. This...
The twin brothers had lived for two whole centuries, but in this situation, they felt utterly powerless to turn things around.
After all, this was a battle between gods!
How could mere mortals dare to defy the gods?
Hadn't two ignorant Titled Douluo already tried to challenge a god as mortals and snatch something from a deity?
And what remained of them now?
Nothing but ashes!
"What is that?"
Qian Renxue had also noticed the deep-red door. Her gaze shifted uncertainly. "Could it be one of the safeguards Grandpa left behind?"
"But..."
Even the Angel God, whom her grandfather had relied on and worshiped most, had been no match for him. What safeguard could possibly stop Asura God Tang San?
"I don't know..."
At that, Rakshasa God Bibi Dong shook her head.
She could only sense that the deep-red door seemed to exist before her. But no matter how she scanned it with her divine sense, she found nothing at all, as though it were merely an illusion, a mirage.
How strange!
Utterly strange!
"What in the world is that thing?"
On the other side of the deep-red door, Asura God Tang San clutched his throbbing leg, nearly contorting his face into a mask of agony from the pain.
He felt as though he hadn't kicked a door, but an unyielding wall of bronze and iron. The kick had even rebounded with tremendous force, leaving his soul buzzing.
And this only made Tang San even angrier.
He was the supreme coexistence of two gods!
He was both the Sea God and the Asura God!
How could he have stumbled over a little door?
This was outrageous!
"No matter what you are, if you dare stand in my way, you're courting death!"
Asura God Tang San snorted. The blood-red light around him surged once more.
This time...
He held nothing back. He unleashed all of his Asura Divine Power!
In an instant!
The light of his Asura God Armor blazed to its utmost intensity. He became like a blood-red meteorite, hurtling straight into the door!
Rumble!
A boom shook heaven and earth.
A blood-red shock wave burst from the door and spread in every direction.
In an instant!
It was as though a colossal blood-red mushroom cloud had exploded. Even Spirit Masters some distance away felt their mental seas shake violently, their minds going blank!
Even Bibi Dong, a Rakshasa God, felt the shock.
"Could he be trying to smash the door down?"
With that thought, Rakshasa God Bibi Dong looked up ahead.
Before the blood-red light had even faded—
Two figures shot out at even greater speed. With a deafening crash, they slammed into the ground.
Bibi Dong took a closer look. Wasn't that Tang San and Xiao Wu?
But Tang San looked wretched.
His state of coexistence between the two gods had been forcibly knocked back into his current Sea God form. His face was pale, and blue-gold blood coated his lips. He looked just like a corpse after Rakshasa God Bibi Dong had instantly killed him three days ago.
Xiao Wu wasn't faring any better. Her face was blood-red, making her look especially eerie.
When countless people saw this scene,
the vast battlefield at Jialing Pass fell into shock. Whether they were from the Heaven Dou Empire or the Spirit Hall Empire, once they came to their senses, they instinctively looked toward the deafening crash.
Every last one of them stared wide-eyed at the scene before them, utterly dumbfounded. The people of the Heaven Dou Empire even stopped breathing, disbelief written all over their faces.
Asura God Tang San... had been knocked back to his original form!?
The state of two gods sharing one body had been shattered?
In an instant!
The entire battlefield fell silent!
Everyone stared wide-eyed, unable to believe what they were seeing.
This was Asura God Tang San, who had just defeated two gods with a single strike and stood there in all his glory!
How had he failed to break through that deep-red gate, only to be knocked out of his dual-god state himself?
What had happened?
"Th-this... how is this possible?"
Emperor Xue Beng of the Heaven Dou Empire spoke in a trembling voice.
The surviving members of the Spirit Hall Empire, including Qianjun Douluo and Jiangmo Douluo, were also dumbstruck.
But
amid their shock, a glimmer of hope ignited in their despairing hearts.
Perhaps... the Spirit Hall Empire was not destined to fall after all?
Just as the countless people stood there in shock,
the two deep-red gates suddenly began to burn with crimson flames.
Immediately afterward, a tremendous roar rang out from the sky.
A grand, imposing voice, utterly devoid of emotion, echoed across the Douluo Continent and sounded deep within the souls of every living being!
[This is the Gate of Otherworlds, connecting the Douluo Continent with other worlds.]
[As representatives of the Douluo Continent, each nation has one Teleportation Gate. Each nation may choose one person to enter another world and complete a mission, earning personal or national fortune rewards!]
[Mission types are divided into individual and group missions. Please take note!]
[The connection to another world will be established in one minute. All nations, please prepare your chosen participants!]
The voice sounded as if it had rung out in the minds of everyone across the continent, pushing the shock deep within their hearts to its absolute peak!
The Gate of Otherworlds!
It connected the Douluo Continent with other worlds?
They were representatives of the Douluo Continent?
National fortune?
"National fortune..."
Emperor Xue Beng's face brightened.
He raised his head, gazing greedily at the enormous gate of light formed by the two gates merging.
If he could obtain these so-called "national fortune rewards," the Heaven Dou Empire would rise above all the others!
Then!
He would surely go down in history as the most outstanding emperor the Heaven Dou Empire had ever known!
At the thought, Xue Beng grew excited.
As for the Spirit Hall Empire,
Rakshasa God Bibi Dong had recovered from seeing Tang San knocked back to his original form. She raised her head and stared at the Teleportation Gate before her, her expression uncertain.
Only then did she realize that the first of the two Teleportation Gates to appear had been located on the Heaven Dou Empire's side of the Jialing Pass battlefield, while the one before her stood on Spirit Hall Empire territory...
Did that mean the Star Luo Empire had a Teleportation Gate too?
"Your Majesty, this..."
Qianjun Douluo and Jiangmo Douluo flashed to Bibi Dong's side. Looking at the deep-red Teleportation Gate so close to them, they spoke with trembling voices. "Are we... saved?"
When Angel God Qian Renxue had shattered her divine position and Rakshasa God Bibi Dong had nearly been killed, the two remaining worshippers had been utterly consumed by despair.
But who could have expected such a sudden turn of events...
Just when all seemed lost, a new path had opened!
"Quick, bring back the Blue Consumption King!"
Just then, Marshal Ge Long spotted Sea God Tang San and Xiao Wu lying unconscious on the flat expanse of the Jialing Pass battlefield. He immediately ordered his men to hurry over.
In truth, he didn't even need to say a word. The other members of the Shrek Five Devils had already rushed forward and brought them back.
Unfortunately,
both of them remained unconscious.
Just then,
the voice that had sounded in everyone's souls earlier rang out once more!
[Connection to another world successful. The destination is the "Teyvat Continent"!]
[The first national fortune mission is about to begin. Rulers of all empires, please prepare yourselves.]
[Mission: Help the Traveler Twins escape Teyvat!]
[Mission type: Individual mission!]
[Entry requirement: Participating Spirit Masters must have a Soul Power Level of at least Level 91!]
[Note: If no one from any of the three empires enters a Teleportation Gate to accept the mission before it begins, a qualified Spirit Master will be chosen at random.]
The Teyvat Continent?
What kind of place was that?
And help the Traveler Twins escape Teyvat?
What did that mean?
Hearing the voice of the Heavenly Dao, everyone froze and exchanged glances, all of them looking like they had fallen into a daze beneath the same tree.
However,
Chen Fan, the newly appointed commander of the main army of the Spirit Hall Empire, was utterly dumbfounded!
Wait!
The Teyvat Continent?
Was this the Teyvat Continent he was thinking of?
"No, if they're bringing in the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles right off the bat, isn't that just asking to die?"
Twenty years ago,
Chen Fan had pulled Skirk at full constellation in a ten-pull, accidentally spending every last day of his lifespan in the process. He had then crossed over to the Douluo Continent and become the son of a Cardinal in Spirit Hall.
His Martial Soul Awakening had given him an ordinary chain, with Innate Soul Power of level seven.
However,
after all the ways Chen Fan had developed it, it underwent a qualitative transformation, becoming a soul-hooking chain like the black-and-white Wuchang.
In the end,
Chen Fan had named it the Impermanence Chain.
Unfortunately,
he had been reincarnated into this world with no system.
Moreover,
the timing of his arrival had been all wrong. Even with his foreknowledge as a transmigrator, no one believed what he said.
After all, what high-ranking official would listen to a little kid of a few years?
Cardinals were generally only Soul Sages, and they couldn't do anything about Dugu Bo in Sunset Forest.
After realizing the timing was wrong, Chen Fan had no choice but to focus on training his Martial Soul.
In the end,
he had spent twelve years reaching Level 91 at the age of eighteen—having awakened his Martial Soul at six—and become a Titled Douluo and an elder of Spirit Hall.
But when he had tried to warn Bibi Dong against establishing the Spirit Hall Empire, telling her not to rush things, he had overplayed his hand.
He had only angered Bibi Dong and been cast aside, becoming an elder in charge of logistics with no real authority.
And now,
of the seven members of the Worship Hall, only the wounded Qianjun Douluo and Jiangmo Douluo remained. The many Titled Douluo in the Elder Hall were dead, injured, or crippled.
Only he, the elder relegated to the sidelines, had continued to improve over the years instead of falling into decline. He had even unexpectedly broken through to Level 95.
In the end,
they had made him commander of the Spirit Master army.
But Chen Fan knew all too well that the Spirit Hall Empire was doomed to lose!
Unless the God of Goodness and God of Evil intervened!
And when he saw Tang San finally achieve a state in which two gods shared one body,
he felt fortunate that he had known all along that Bibi Dong, that fool, would never listen to his advice.
So,
he had secretly sent his parents and younger sister to a remote border town in the Star Luo Empire long ago, where they could live under assumed names.
But!
What Chen Fan had never expected...
was that a Teleportation Gate would suddenly appear?
When Chen Fan heard the voice that seemed to sound inside his very soul, he was completely dumbfounded!
"Wait!"
"Help the Traveler Twins escape Teyvat?"
Chen Fan's eyes widened. "No, are they really going to make things this crazy right from the start?"
"That's the Space Archon!"
"Wouldn't people from the Douluo Continent get beaten to a pulp if they went there?"
Ninety levels might seem like a lot.
But if they went to Teyvat, the most they could do would be beat up some Hilichurls, right?
Just then,
the voice of the Heavenly Dao boomed down once more.
[This national fortune mission will use a "first come, first served" system.]
[Each of the three empires has one Teleportation Gate.]
[Only one person may enter each Teleportation Gate.]
[The first person to pass through a gate into another world will receive the mission's sole spot.]
[One-minute countdown begins now!]
The imposing voice once again dragged everyone back to reality from their shock.
"A first come, first served system?"
Xue Beng of the Heaven Dou Empire immediately looked greedy. He hurriedly ordered, "Quick! Titled Douluo of the Heaven Dou Empire, get moving!"
This concerned the nation's fortune!
He had always been a spoiled imperial prince who did nothing but eat and wait for death. Though it had all been an act, he had played the role so consistently for over a decade that he had become immersed in it. He had never expected to get a chance to prove himself!
National fortune!
If the Heaven Dou Empire's national fortune soared under his leadership, then...
Gasp!
At the thought, Xue Beng's face flushed with excitement!
"Your Majesty, this..."
On the Spirit Hall Empire's side, Bibi Dong also snapped back to her senses. She turned to the anxious Qianjun Douluo and Jiangmo Douluo beside her. She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but couldn't bring herself to say it.
Qianjun Douluo and Jiangmo Douluo were both injured, and with only one person allowed to go, neither would likely fare well alone.
But the other Titled Douluo...
Bibi Dong racked her brains, then finally thought of a name and began, "Have Commander Chen Fan..."
However,
before she could finish,
a figure burst out from the Heaven Dou Empire's side of the flat Jialing Pass battlefield.
"What kind of other world is it? We just have to escort two people away, right?"
"With one swing of my hammer, I, Tang Hao, will keep them safe!"
The newcomer was none other than Tang Hao!
The moment his voice fell, he rushed straight into the deep-red Teleportation Gate.
As soon as he entered, the enormous gate's light instantly dimmed, leaving it looking utterly ordinary.
[Player Tang Hao of the Heaven Dou Empire has entered another world.]
[Countdown stopped.]
[The otherworld mission has officially begun!]
The imposing voice rang out once more!
Hearing this, Rakshasa God Bibi Dong's face darkened, her expression turning ugly.
But not far away, Chen Fan's expression grew peculiar. "This..."
"He's in such a hurry. Is he really rushing to get reincarnated?"
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