Those Who Cultivated Until Death Believed They Had Simply Not Worked Hard Enough

[When all was said and done, soul beasts were still too simple-minded. They were no match for the scheming tactics of human soul masters.]

[When had sea soul beasts ever heard such rhetoric that spoke up for beasts and stirred their hearts? Wouldn't the power of faith come pouring in?]

[One spread it to ten, ten spread it to a hundred, and the power of faith grew exponentially. Poseidon completely monopolized the faith of the entire sea, making his path to godhood smooth as level ground. He happily claimed the Sea God divine position and made his grand exit!]

[All that could be said was that Poseidon had been born in ancient times and reaped every benefit of the era.]

[The isolated seas were the perfect information cocoon. Every sea soul beast was trapped within the cage of faith he had carefully woven, unlike in the information age, where even the slightest dirt could immediately be dug up.]

[The craze of creating gods swept through the masses, but one thing never changed: compared to blindly creating a god, people were often more enthusiastic about personally destroying one.]

[Even without any scandals, information could always become distorted as it was passed along.]

[Only truly capable great figures with a sense of responsibility, only such great people who could withstand the test of history, were worthy of the people's faith!]

[Yet Sea God Poseidon's conduct, whether before or after becoming a god, was entirely unworthy of his position.]

[At his core, Sea God Poseidon was simply Tang San born earlier, wearing a different skin.]

Soul Land One Xue Ke: "This is the Sea God? Why is he a tiny bit different from the records in the imperial palace?"

Soul Land One Qian Renxue: "This... actually seems to be true?"

Soul Land Three Gu Yuena: "The gods of the God Realm are still this despicable!"

[Setting aside the love-brained behavior of Bo Saixi, the Sea God's spokesperson, one of the world's three great Limit Douluo, and the Sea God Douluo renowned as invincible in the ocean...]

[Why had the Sea God not chosen her as the next deity? Perhaps the fundamental reason was that she was not hypocritical enough?]

[And perhaps the Sea God had seen in Tang San the shadow of his younger self—opportunistic, self-serving, and skilled in calculation—and thus decisively passed his divine position on to him?]

Soul Land One Bo Saixi: "..."

Inside the Sea God Temple, Bo Saixi stood frozen in place, her mind completely blank.

This was downright insane...

What did it mean, that she was not hypocritical enough, and that they first had to set aside her love-brained behavior...

But after thinking it over carefully, she had to admit that this claim made a certain amount of sense. Of course, Bo Saixi first rejected the label of being love-brained.

For a long time, Bo Saixi had believed that the reason Lord Sea God had not chosen her was because her talent was insufficient, or because the Sea God had never intended to pass on his divine position.

Poor cultivators like them believed until the day they died that they simply had not worked hard enough...

But today, she finally awoke to the truth: the god she had devoutly believed in was not noble at all, but instead extremely hypocritical.

Was her talent truly insufficient?

Bo Saixi could not help questioning herself...

Indeed, compared to Tang San, who carried destiny and was blessed by fortune, she fell slightly short.

But looking across her era, her talent had unquestionably been number one in the entire sea. She had truly been invincible in the oceans of her generation!

And in terms of loyalty, she had spent a hundred years guarding Sea God Island and protecting the entire sea for the Sea God.

Yet in the end, the Sea God had still chosen to pass the divine position to Tang San, a despicable hypocrite with double standards.

Although she had only learned of the chosen protagonist Tang San's despicability through the diary's contents, and these evaluations undoubtedly carried subjective bias.

Qin Moyu's diary did not maliciously slander him. Rather, it analyzed Tang San from every angle based on the experiences of Tang San that he knew of.

Even though Qin Moyu himself utterly detested Tang San's adherence to feudal ideals, he had not been stingy with his praise.

This was enough to show that the diary's analysis of Tang San's character alone had sufficiently revealed the so-called "pure and spotless" nature and hypocritical conduct of Tang San.

Yet it was precisely such a person whom Lord Sea God... 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 to cover her ample chest. Her heart, once as calm as still water, was now pounding wildly within her chest.

At that moment, Bo Saixi understood that she could not go back.

Nothing could go back to how it had been—not that devout High Priest who had believed in the Sea God...

[This also explained why that absurd incident involving Qian Renxue's golden liquid occurred during Tang San's Sea God's Nine Trials.]

Soul Land One 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 in her heart.

A woman's natural 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 had taken place at different times. But because some shameless deity secretly tampered with them and twisted the two trials together, the illusion became even more realistic.]

[In the final trial of desire in Tang San's Sea God's Nine Trials, the person who appeared before him was Qian Renxue.]

[In the final trial of the Angel God's Nine Trials, Qian Renxue's affection for Tang San was obvious. Knowing that it was an illusion, she had also intended to indulge herself a little...]

[The key was that this was a live-broadcast scene. In other words, Shrek's other six members all witnessed it in person. Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing blushed crimson, while Xiao Wu stared blankly...]

Soul Land One Xiao Wu: "???"

Soul Land One Ning Rongrong: "???"

Soul Land One Zhu Zhuqing: "???"

Soul Land One Qian Renxue: "Fuck **********!!!"

Soul Land Two Tang Ya: "Th-This is my Tang Sect ancestor?"

[The Angel God of the God Realm had long since fallen, and the divine position had not even been passed down. History did not explain this period in detail; it only said that the Angel God had left in great haste.]

[I guessed that the Angel God might have fallen during the Dragon God War. Only that calamity, which had shaken the entire God Realm, could have silently brought down a first-class deity.]

[After all, in the God Realm, because of divine punishment, no matter what disputes arose, gods were not permitted to kill one another arbitrarily.]

[Only after an open public trial by the God Realm Committee would one have the authority to punish a god. Even the five God Kings could never cross 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 slaughtered each other without being constrained by divine punishment at all.]

[And when that old Sea God saw that the Angel God's inheritance had been cut off, he figured that no one would look after your successor. It was the perfect chance to retaliate and disgust your descendant's inheritor.]

[Qian Renxue's ambiguous illusion appearing out of nowhere during Tang San's Sea God's Nine Trials trial of desire made it obvious enough who had been pulling the strings behind the scenes...]

Soul Land One Goddess of Life: "..."

This was the Sea God?

The god who was usually gentle toward others, warm in his smiles, calm and generous in his bearing?

A dignified first-class deity who governed the seas, yet his outlook was this petty and narrow!

Because he did not dare confront the Angel God due to the rules of the God Realm, he instead turned around and bullied an unprotected junior, venting his resentment through secret little tricks?

Even if it had only been an illusion, this alone had seriously overstepped the rules of the God Realm Committee!

How could a god interfere with another deity's inheritance process!

Even more outrageous, he had not even spared Tang San, the inheritor of his own divine position. He publicly broadcast this private trial of desire, wantonly trampling on another's dignity and toying with people's hearts.

How was this a god who treated others gently?

Even the most basic bottom line and moral integrity expected of a deity had vanished completely!