Three Realms Judgment Sword

"The Golden Dragon King was sealed in the Divine Realm, wasn't it? How could its source divine power descend upon the Douluo Continent? Could it have escaped from the Divine Realm?"

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

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

Di Tian also had another title: Overlord of Soul Beasts, the Silver Dragon King's spokesperson.

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

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

Di Tian had silently guarded her all along.

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

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

The Silver Dragon King's divine sense spoke 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. It had 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 our whereabouts, 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."

Di Tian nodded deeply in agreement. "Your concerns are justified, my lord. Then we should continue lying low. Your recovery comes first. If the Golden Dragon King truly escaped, even if we do nothing now, there will be another chance for us to reunite in the future."

With that, Di Tian and the Silver Dragon King both fell silent, and no more divine voices were exchanged.

As the saying went, one day in the Divine 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-ringed Combat Soul King.

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

This soul skill incorporated the effects of the Divine Slaughter's Domain inherent to the Asura Demon Sword Martial Soul.

Once activated, all attributes increased by one hundred percent.

It could convert the killing intent within the Divine Slaughter's Domain into any form of energy he needed for recovery.

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

In short, God of Slaughter's Descent not only boosted all attributes, but also turned the Divine Slaughter's Domain into a second source of Soul Power.

When he completed the Asura First Trial, he received the Divine Trial reward of greatly increasing the killing intent within the Divine Slaughter's 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 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 their Martial Soul Avatar.

However, he had not engaged in actual combat with anyone during these five days. 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, attempting to condense a Soul Core.

Earlier, when he had deliberately held himself at the level-thirty bottleneck and gambled on two God-Bestowed Spirit Rings, Su Qi had tried condensing a Soul Core to accelerate his Soul Power cultivation.

Unfortunately, his Soul Power Level had been too low at the time. Even though his spiritual power was sufficiently strong, he could not condense a Soul Core.

Now, with level-fifty-five Soul Power, he could barely form the rudiments of a Soul Core.

With his experience from his previous life, Su Qi spent only five days condensing 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, the activation speed of his soul skills, his Soul Power recovery speed, and the power of his soul skills would all undergo a qualitative leap!

At that thought, Su Qi smiled. After stabilizing the embryonic Soul Core, he began studying the contents of the Asura Second Trial.

"Kill a soul beast possessing a Deity bloodline and use it as a Soul Ring. The time limit is two years."

"In other words, I have to 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. Finding a soul beast with a Deity bloodline is the troublesome part. 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 assessed as overly outstanding. The difficulty of the Asura Second Trial has been increased. Within two years, you must kill a soul beast possessing the Evil God Bloodline and use it as a Soul Ring. That soul beast must have a cultivation of no less than fifty thousand years.]

[Completion reward upgraded: Soul Power increases by three levels. The Soul Ring produced by that soul beast evolves into a Shura God Ring. You will also obtain the Evil God Soul Bone produced by that soul beast. Affinity with the Shura God increases by 10%, and affinity with the Evil God increases by 5%.]

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

His affinity with the Evil God would increase by five percent?

What was going on?

Could it be that the Evil God had secretly altered the Asura Second Trial and intended to compete with the Shura God for him as an inheritor?

Su Qi was still a mortal, so naturally he had no idea what was happening in the Divine Realm.

In truth, the Evil God was not competing with the Shura God for an inheritor.

The reason the Asura Second Trial contained an assessment related to the Evil God was that the Shura God and the Evil God had discussed it before extracting the Golden Dragon King's divine power.

They intended not only to use the Golden Dragon King as part of the Asura God's Trial, but also to include the Three Realms Judgment Sword in the Divine Trial.

After the Dragon God's Rebellion, the Five Great God-Kings realized they collectively lacked a joint killing move. They thus worked together to deduce and create the Three Realms Judgment Sword, a Joint Strike Technique primarily meant to suppress any God King-level rebels that might appear in the future.

In theory, the Three Realms Judgment Sword was strongest when activated jointly by all Five Great God-Kings, but the backlash against their God King origins was also the greatest.

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 balance Kindness and Evil, as well as Destruction and Life.

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

Now, the Evil God and the Shura God had reached an agreement to place a portion of Evil Divine Power within Su Qi's Asura Demon Sword Martial Soul. The Goddess of Kindness would then infuse it with 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 through his own power alone.

The Evil God decided to do this because both he and the Goddess of Kindness intended to pass down their positions.

However, neither he nor the Goddess of Kindness wished to pass down their Transcendent Divine Artifacts as well. This meant the new Evil and Kindness God-Kings would inevitably be incomplete God-Kings, unable to shoulder such great responsibility.

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

That way, when 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 of God-Kings.

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

After all, the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life would still be there to restrain him.

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

After comprehending the information imprinted by the Shura God, Su Qi finally understood why the Asura Second Trial contained assessment content related to the Evil God.

Since the trial explicitly required him to find a soul beast with the Evil God Bloodline to serve as his Soul Ring, it seemed that only the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger fit the requirement.