Three Realms Judgment Sword

"Wasn't the Golden Dragon King sealed in the God Realm? How could its source divine power descend upon the Douluo Continent? Could it have escaped from the God Realm?"

After hearing this account, a flash of astonishment passed through the black dragon's golden eyes.

It was the true ruler of the Star Dou Great Forest. With more than seven hundred thousand years of cultivation, it was revered by the soul beasts of the Core Area's forbidden ground as Beast God Di Tian.

Moreover, Di Tian had another title: Overlord of Soul Beasts, spokesperson for the Silver Dragon King.

The mysterious being whose divine sense had just emerged from the Lake of Life was the Silver Dragon King, another fragment formed when the Dragon God split apart.

Ever since she had plunged into the Temporal Turbulence and fled to the Douluo Continent, the Silver Dragon King had remained hidden within the Lake of Life, healing her wounds.

Di Tian had silently guarded her.

Now that the Golden Dragon King's aura had appeared in the Core Area, the two supreme soul beasts were naturally surprised.

"My Lord, shall I go and see what is happening?" Di Tian suggested.

The Silver Dragon King's divine sense came again. "No. I personally witnessed the Five Great God-Kings kill the Golden Dragon King back then. Its divine power and will were sealed away; there was no possibility of escape."

"Perhaps the Five Great God-Kings deliberately sent down a trace of the Golden Dragon King's divine power to lure us out. If we rashly expose ourselves, our tens of thousands of years of hiding will be ruined in an instant. Then not only will the Golden Dragon King and I be unable to recreate the Dragon God Body, we may even be erased forever."

Hearing this, Di Tian nodded in agreement. "Your concerns are justified, my Lord. Then we shall continue lying low. Your recovery takes priority. If the Golden Dragon King truly escaped, even if we do nothing now, there will be a chance to reunite in the future."

As his words fell, Di Tian and the Silver Dragon King both lapsed into silence, and no further divine messages passed between them.

As the saying went, one day in the God Realm was one year in the Mortal Realm.

Before the Five Great God-Kings decided to extract the Golden Dragon King's divine power, five days had already passed in the Mortal Realm.

Su Qi had long since absorbed the God-Bestowed Spirit Ring and advanced to level fifty-five, becoming a five-ring Combat Soul King.

His fifth spirit ring was fifty thousand years old, and his fifth soul skill was called God of Slaughter's Descent.

This soul skill incorporated the effect of the Killing God Domain inherent to the Asura Demon Sword Martial Soul.

Once activated, it increased all attributes by one hundred percent.

It could convert the killing intent within the Killing God Domain into any form of energy he needed to restore himself.

This included restoring vitality, soul power, and spiritual power, even accelerating his body's self-healing speed.

Overall, his fifth soul skill, God of Slaughter's Descent, could not only enhance all attributes but also turn the Killing God Domain into a second source of soul power.

When he completed the Asura First Trial, he had received the Divine Trial reward of greatly increasing the killing intent within the Killing God Domain.

The total amount of killing intent in the domain now was equivalent to the soul power of a level-seventy Soul Sage.

This soul power could serve as a reserve, or it could be combined with his own level-fifty-five soul power to unleash soul skills far beyond the limits of a Soul King.

Though he was only a Soul King, based on his combat experience from his previous life, Su Qi was confident he could kill a Seven-Ring Combat Soul Sage who had activated a Martial Soul Avatar despite the difference in rank.

However, during these five days, he had not engaged anyone in actual combat. He had remained in the Holy Son's Palace, stabilizing his soul power.

At the same time, he had been using the soul meditation method to attempt to condense a Soul Core.

Earlier, when he had deliberately held himself at the level-thirty bottleneck to gamble on two God-Bestowed Spirit Rings, Su Qi had tried condensing a Soul Core to speed up his soul power cultivation.

Unfortunately, his soul power level had been too low at the time. Even though his spiritual power was strong enough, he had been unable to condense a Soul Core.

Now, with level-fifty-five soul power, he could barely condense the rudiment of a Soul Core.

With his previous-life experience of condensing Soul Cores, Su Qi had used only five days to compress the liquid soul power within his body into a solid state. It was now gathering at his dantian, rotating clockwise.

Once his soul power cultivation reached the level-sixty bottleneck, his first Soul Core should truly take shape.

With a Soul Core driving his soul power then, his soul skill activation speed, soul power recovery speed, and soul skill strength would all undergo a qualitative leap!

At the thought, a smile curled across Su Qi's lips. After stabilizing the rudiment of his Soul Core, he began studying the contents of the Asura Second Trial.

"Kill a soul beast with a Deity bloodline and use it as a spirit ring. The time limit is two years."

"In other words, I must raise my soul power to the level-sixty bottleneck within two years, while also spending time searching for a soul beast with a Deity bloodline."

"With my current cultivation speed, breaking through to level sixty within two years will not be difficult. The troublesome part is finding a soul beast with a Deity bloodline. That is entirely dependent on luck."

Just as Su Qi finished sorting out what he needed to do next, a cold and imposing voice suddenly rang out in his spiritual world.

[The examinee has been judged excessively outstanding. The difficulty of the Asura Second Trial has been upgraded. Within two years, you must kill a soul beast possessing the Evil God Bloodline and use it as a spirit ring. The soul beast's cultivation must not be below fifty thousand years.]

[Completion reward upgraded: soul power increases by three levels. The spirit ring produced by this soul beast will evolve into a Shura God Ring. You will also obtain the Evil God Soul Bone produced by this soul beast, increase your affinity with the Shura God by 10%, and increase your affinity with the Evil God by 5%.]

After hearing the upgraded rewards for the Asura Second Trial, Su Qi was completely baffled.

An increase of five percent in affinity with the Evil God?

What was going on?

Could the Evil God have secretly altered the Asura Second Trial, intending to compete with the Shura God for him as a successor?

Su Qi was only a mortal at present, so naturally he had no idea what had happened in the God Realm.

In truth, the Evil God was not competing with the Shura God for a successor.

The reason content related to the Evil God appeared in the Asura Second Trial was that the Shura God and the Evil God had reached an agreement before extracting the Golden Dragon King's divine power.

Not only did they intend to make the Golden Dragon King part of the Asura God's Trial, they also intended to include the Three Realms Judgment Sword in the Divine Trial.

The Three Realms Judgment Sword was a Joint Strike Technique jointly devised and created by the Five Great God-Kings after the Dragon God's Rebellion, when they realized they lacked a collective killing move. It was primarily meant to suppress any God King-level rebels who might appear in the future.

In theory, the Three Realms Judgment Sword was most powerful when launched jointly by all Five Great God-Kings, but it also inflicted the greatest backlash upon their origins.

Thus, under normal circumstances, it only required three God-Kings to activate it.

The Shura God was an existence both righteous and evil among the God-Kings, perfectly suited to serve as the balance between kindness and evil, as well as destruction and life.

This gave the Shura God an exceptional and indispensable position within the Three Realms Judgment Sword.

Now, the Evil God and the Shura God had reached a consensus. A portion of Evil Divine Power would be entrusted to Su Qi's Asura Demon Sword Martial Soul, and the Goddess of Kindness would later inject a portion of her divine power as well.

Once Su Qi became the new Shura God, he would be able to unleash a simplified version of the Three Realms Judgment Sword with his own power alone.

The Evil God had made this decision because both he and the Goddess of Kindness intended to pass down their positions.

However, neither he nor the Goddess of Kindness wanted to pass down their Transcendent Divine Artifacts as well. This destined the new Evil and Benevolent God-Kings to be half-baked God-Kings, incapable of bearing such heavy responsibilities.

Therefore, Su Qi, the new Shura God, would control a portion of the divine power belonging to the Evil and Benevolent God-Kings.

In this way, if the new Evil and Benevolent God-Kings joined him in activating the Three Realms Judgment Sword, they could unleash power no weaker than the joint strike of the first-generation God-Kings.

The Evil God was not worried that Su Qi would become a dictator of the God Realm in the future by wielding the simplified Three Realms Judgment Sword.

After all, the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life would still keep him in check.

And all of this had already received unanimous approval from the God Realm Committee.

After comprehending the information contained in the imprint bestowed by the Shura God, Su Qi finally understood why the Asura Second Trial contained requirements related to the Evil God.

Since the trial explicitly required him to find a soul beast with the Evil God Bloodline as his spirit ring, then it seemed that only the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger met the requirement.