At the end of the day, soul beasts were simply too naive. They could not possibly outplay the schemes and political tactics of human Soul Masters.
When had sea soul beasts ever heard such rhetoric advocating for beasts and stirring up their hearts? Wouldn't their faith skyrocket?
Word spread from one to ten, then ten to a hundred. The power of faith grew exponentially. Poseidon completely monopolized the faith of the entire sea, and his path to godhood became smooth and steady. He comfortably claimed the Sea God's Divine Position and made a clean getaway!
All that could be said was that Poseidon had been born in ancient times and reaped every advantage his era had to offer.
The isolated seas were practically a Perfect World information cocoon. Every sea soul beast was trapped in the cage of faith he had meticulously woven, unlike in the information age, where even the slightest scandal could be dug up immediately.
The craze of creating gods among the masses was immense, but one thing never changed: compared to blindly creating a god, people were often more enthusiastic about personally destroying one.
Even without scandals, information was inevitably distorted as it spread.
Only truly capable figures with a sense of responsibility, great people who could withstand the test of history, were worthy of the people's faith!
Yet Poseidon's actions, whether before or after becoming a god, were utterly unworthy of his position.
At his core, Poseidon was simply Tang San born earlier, wearing a different skin.
Soul Land I Xue Ke: "This is the Sea God? Why is he so wildly different from the records in the imperial palace?"
Soul Land I Qian Renxue: "This... actually seems to be true?"
Soul Land III Gu Yuena: "The gods of the God Realm are still as despicable as ever!"
[As the Sea God's representative, one of the world's three Limit Douluos, and the Sea God Douluo hailed as invincible in the ocean, Bo Saixi—setting aside her lovesick behavior...]
[Why hadn't the Sea God chosen her as the next god? Perhaps the fundamental reason was that she was not hypocritical enough?]
[And perhaps the Sea God had clearly seen in Tang San the shadow of his younger self: opportunistic, self-serving, and skilled in calculation. Was that why he had decisively passed down his Divine Position?]
Soul Land I Bo Saixi: "..."
Inside the Sea God Temple, Bo Saixi stood frozen in place, her mind completely blank.
This entry was insane...
What did it mean, that she had not been chosen because she was not hypocritical enough? And why did it have to begin by setting aside her lovesick behavior...
But after thinking it over carefully, she had to admit that the claim made some sense. Of course, Bo Saixi first rejected the label of "lovesick."
For a long time, Bo Saixi had believed that the reason the Sea God had not chosen her was because her talent was insufficient, or because the Sea God had never intended to pass down the Divine Position.
Poor cultivators like them believed until their deaths that they simply had not worked hard enough...
But today, she suddenly woke up. The god she had faithfully worshipped was not noble at all. He was instead extraordinarily hypocritical.
Was her talent truly lacking?
Bo Saixi could not help asking herself...
Indeed, compared to Tang San, who bore destiny and was blessed by fortune, she fell slightly short.
But looking across her generation, her talent had undeniably been the greatest in the entire sea. She had truly been unmatched in the ocean in her era!
And in terms of loyalty, she had spent a hundred years guarding Sea God Island, protecting the entire sea for the Sea God.
Yet in the end, the Sea God had still chosen to pass his divine position to Tang San, a despicable hypocrite with double standards.
Although she had only learned of the Chosen One Tang San's despicability through the diary's contents, and those assessments undoubtedly carried subjective bias.
Yet Qin Moyu's diary did not maliciously slander Tang San. Based on the experiences of Tang San that he knew of, he analyzed Tang San from every angle.
Even though Qin Moyu deeply loathed Tang San's rigid feudal ideology, he had not been stingy with his praise.
That was enough to show that the diary's analysis of Tang San's personality had sufficiently exposed the so-called "pure and spotless" nature and hypocritical conduct of Tang San.
Yet it was precisely such a person whom the Sea God had... whom the Sea God had chosen as his successor.
For a moment, the image of her idol completely collapsed.
Bo Saixi slowly raised a hand and pressed it against her full chest. Her heart, once calm as still water, now pounded wildly within her chest.
At that moment, Bo Saixi understood that she could not go back.
Nothing could go back to the way it was—not that devout High Priestess who worshipped the Sea God...
[This also explained why that absurd incident involving Qian Renxue's golden liquid happened during Tang San's Sea God's Nine Trials.]
Soul Land I Qian Renxue: "???"
Golden liquid? What was that supposed to mean?
Qian Renxue's beautiful eyes suddenly narrowed as she stared fixedly at that line in the Diary Copy. An intense unease inexplicably rose within her heart.
A woman's innate sixth sense told her that what came next would overturn everything she knew...
[Tang San's Sea God's Nine Trials and Qian Renxue's Angel God's Nine Trials took place at different times. But because some shameless god secretly tampered with things and twisted the two trials together, the illusion became far more realistic.]
[During the final trial of Tang San's Sea God's Nine Trials, the test of lust, the person who appeared before him was Qian Renxue.]
[In the final trial of the Angel God's Nine Trials, Qian Renxue's feelings of love for Tang San were extremely obvious. Knowing it was an illusion, she had intended to indulge herself a little...]
[The key was that this was a live broadcast scenario. In other words, Shrek's other six members all witnessed the scene firsthand. Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing blushed crimson, while Xiao Wu stared blankly...]
Soul Land I Xiao Wu: "???"
Soul Land I Ning Rongrong: "???"
Soul Land I Zhu Zhuqing: "???"
Soul Land I Qian Renxue: "Fuck **********!!!"
Soul Land II Tang Ya: "This... this is an ancestor of my Tang Sect?"
[The Angel God of the God Realm had long since fallen, and the divine position had not even been passed down. This period of history was not explained in detail; all that was known was that the Angel God had left in great haste.]
[I suspect that the Angel God fell because of the Dragon God War. Only that catastrophe, which shook the entire God Realm, could have caused a First-Level God to perish silently.]
[After all, in the God Realm, due to divine punishment, no matter what disputes arose, gods were not permitted to kill other gods without cause.]
[Only after a public trial by the God Realm Committee could one gain the authority to punish a god. Even the five God Kings were absolutely forbidden from crossing this ironclad rule.]
[But this rule only bound those within the God Realm.]
[On Douluo Continent, the Rakshasa God, Angel God, Sea God, and Asura God fought and killed one another without any restraint from divine punishment.]
[And now, seeing that the Angel God's inheritance had been cut off, that old Sea God must have thought that Qian Renxue, the Angel God's successor, had no one to protect her. It was the perfect chance to take revenge and disgust the Angel God's descendant.]
[It was already obvious who had pulled the strings behind the scenes when Qian Renxue suddenly appeared in Tang San's lust trial during the Sea God's Nine Trials...]
Soul Land I Goddess of Life: "..."
This was the Sea God?
That god who was usually gentle toward others, warm in his smiles, calm and generous in his conduct?
A dignified First-Level God who ruled the seas, yet his outlook was actually this narrow-minded!
Bound by the God Realm's rules, he dared not confront the Angel God, so he turned around and bullied an unprotected junior instead, venting his resentment through petty tricks behind the scenes?
Even if it was only an illusion, this alone had severely violated the rules of the God Realm Committee!
How could a god interfere with another god's process of passing down a Divine Position!
Even more absurdly, he did not spare Tang San, his own inheritor. He publicly broadcast this private trial of lust, wantonly trampling on others' dignity and toying with their hearts.
How was this a god who treated others gently?
Even the most basic bottom line and moral integrity of a god had been utterly lost!
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