A Plan to Forge a Bound Divine Artifact, Continuing to Undermine Tang San's Faith

The optimized Innate Secret Art was spread throughout the world, while the Icefire Yin Yang Well was opened as a sacred site for body tempering.

This move was not only meant to cultivate Ye Xishui and Zhongli Wu, helping these two Evil Soul Masters break through to the God-level so they could serve as sacrifices beneath the Angel Holy Sword in the future. It was also intended to raise this world's future chances of producing Soul Masters capable of surpassing mortal limits and reaching the God-level.

Furthermore, the emergence of more native God-level powerhouses itself strengthened the Plane's foundation. A Plane that produced multiple God-level beings could not be compared, in either potential or stability, to one supported solely by its Plane Lord.

Secondly, granting Kong Deming the peak alchemy inheritance from the Divine Seal Plane also meant planting a seed with limitless potential.

The Sun Moon Empire's spirit of research in the field of soul tools could not be underestimated. Once it obtained this advanced off-world system, entirely different from yet more systematic than local soul tool technology, the collision and fusion of the two would surely trigger an earth-shattering technological explosion.

Given enough time, creating Divine Artifacts unique to the Douluo Plane would be far from a fantasy. The appearance of large numbers of Divine Artifact-grade creations would likewise greatly enhance the Plane's overall strength and foundation.

At the thought of Divine Artifacts, Lei Chen's mind naturally turned to himself.

As it happened, despite being a Plane Lord whose status was equivalent to that of a First-level God, he did not possess even one decent Divine Artifact.

When he had briefly acted to suppress Tang Hao and Ah Yin and annihilate several strands of Tang San's Divine Sense, he had relied entirely on the realm of a First-level God to meet them head-on. It had simply been a matter of overwhelming them with raw power.

If he were to clash with a First-level God of the same rank in a life-and-death battle someday, he would undoubtedly suffer greatly without a Divine Artifact in hand, and his methods would be especially limited.

Therefore, possessing a suitable Divine Artifact was also extremely important to Lei Chen.

With his current abilities and the resources now gathered within the Douluo Plane, forging seven or eight Divine Artifacts was not actually difficult.

Whether it was the Silver Mother of Deep Sea Sunken Silver, the essence of Earthheart Fire Jade, or all manner of rare objects containing fragments of laws, his Plane had everything he could possibly need.

But... ordinary Divine Artifacts were merely icing on the cake to him. Their usefulness was extremely limited.

The Divine Artifacts Lei Chen could forge at will might be treasures ordinary God-level powerhouses dreamed of obtaining, but they held little significance for a Plane Lord who governed an entire world.

Thus, in Lei Chen's view, rather than waste time forging these "ordinary Divine Artifacts," it would be better to leave them for Kong Deming and the others to study and create. For them, it would be excellent training.

As for Lei Chen himself, what he truly needed was an "exclusive Divine Artifact," one deeply bound to his status and authority, like the Sea God's Trident was to the Sea God and the Angel Holy Sword was to the God of Angels, capable of perfectly unleashing all his strength.

Such Divine Artifacts often contained unique laws and the capacity for growth. They prospered and declined alongside their masters and could never be created merely by piling up ordinary materials. Forging one would not be so easy.

"The forging of an exclusive Divine Artifact cannot be rushed. It requires long-term planning. Fortunately... I already have a few ideas."

Lei Chen's gaze was profound, as though it had pierced through endless void and glimpsed certain possibilities of the future.

Forging an exclusive Divine Artifact concerned his very foundation. He had to prepare thoroughly and choose a vessel and opportunity that best matched his identity as the Plane Lord.

Before he could formally begin preparing to forge his exclusive Divine Artifact, however, there was another urgent matter to settle—the continued removal of the "nails" Tang San had left behind in this Plane, completely cutting off his source of faith.

In the present-day Douluo Plane, faith in Tang San could roughly be divided into two parts: land and sea. Faith on land, meanwhile, was clearly split into open and hidden lines.

The open line, and also the largest one, was Shrek Academy. Ten thousand years of reverence and promotion had allowed Shrek to gather considerable Faith Power. Since its internal buildings and institutions were all named after the "Sea God," most of that Faith Power had been directed toward Tang San.

Now that Lei Chen had ordered Mu En to remove the statues and change the names, this greatest tributary of faith had effectively been severed at the waist.

As for the hidden line, it was the reclusive Sea God Clan. However, this clan's situation was somewhat special. Strictly speaking, the source of their faith was the First-generation Sea God. As for Tang San, they mostly acknowledged and partially revered him as the inheritor of the Sea God's Divine Seat.

Moreover, their numbers were small, and they had remained secluded from the world for years. They had no influence on the continent's situation, and the Faith Power they could provide was negligible. Even if he left them alone, it would have little effect on the larger picture.

"The Sea God Clan's bit of faith is like a stream before an ocean. Even if I ignore it, it cannot stir up any real waves." Lei Chen's thoughts raced. "Still, since I intend to clean things up completely, it would be best to leave no blind spots. Perhaps I can make a few arrangements and guide their faith to shift entirely..."

A thought flashed through his mind, and Lei Chen had already made his decision.

For this insignificant corner with its special symbolic meaning, he only needed to guide it slightly to ensure nothing could go wrong.

"That would basically purge the faith on land. Next comes the broader and more crucial... ocean."

Lei Chen's gaze seemed to pierce through space as it fell upon the azure world that occupied most of Douluo Star's surface. That was the true stronghold of faith in the Sea God.

The faith land-dwelling life held in the Sea God naturally could not be all that steadfast. In Lei Chen's eyes, it was merely a rootless tree, easy enough to remove. But in the ocean... things truly became troublesome.

Just as the Soul Beasts of the Far North Land still held deep-rooted faith in the Ice God hundreds of thousands of years after his fall, the hundreds of millions of Sea Soul Beasts in the ocean felt the same toward the Sea God. One could even say that this faith had long since seeped into their bloodlines and become part of what sustained their racial identity.

The accumulation and stability of this faith were far beyond the superficial reverence land-based Soul Masters had developed through Shrek Academy's promotion.

If Lei Chen forcibly used the authority of a Plane Lord to suppress and erase it, that would not be the best approach. It might even provoke a violent backlash from the ocean's faith. Blocking was worse than guiding; in Lei Chen's view, the key to dismantling the oceanic lifeforms' faith in Tang San lay in "replacement."

Lei Chen's gaze turned once more toward the Far North Land, and Snow Empress's figure appeared before him.

Supporting Snow Empress in inheriting the Ice God's position and regathering the Far North Land's faith in the Ice God was an excellent example. Perhaps the same method could be imitated for the ocean.

"The foundation of faith in the Sea God is that the ocean needs a ruler to maintain balance and order. Tang San has already fucked off, so I can treat him as dead, just like the Ancient Ice God. Naturally, just as we chose an 'inheritor' for the Ancient Ice God, we can choose one for this Sea God as well."