System Awakening

Tang Wulin returned to his office. Within the reach of his powerful divine sense, Shrek City was peaceful and harmonious.

Over the past twenty-odd years, he had truly experienced a great deal.

From his martial soul awakening and admission to Shrek Academy, to the later invasion of Abyss creatures and even the possibly imminent beast tide, all of it had been a path Tang Wulin needed to walk in order to grow.

More often than not, growth came hand in hand with pain.

Now, Tang Wulin had finally reached the pinnacle. He was a towering figure of his generation, a True God Level deity, and he was not far from the Transcendent God rank.

Yet even as he sighed over it, he remained lost, because he could not see where the road ahead lay.

The other six monsters had already decided to hold their wedding and marry in seven days, but the issue between him and Gu Yuena remained unresolved.

Or rather, the issue between humans and soul beasts remained unresolved.

He did not know what everything he was doing now was truly for.

Just as Tang Wulin was lost in thought, a voice suddenly rang out in his mind. "Kid, why are you getting depressed?"

Hearing that voice, Tang Wulin froze before asking in delight, "System, you've awakened?"

As an essential cheat for any protagonist, Tang Wulin had possessed a system from the moment he arrived on the Douluo Continent.

But this system was truly awful! The moment it fused with him, it claimed that it lacked energy and fell dormant. It had slept for more than twenty years, and throughout those years, Tang Wulin had advanced in his cultivation step by step on his own.

When that lousy system went dormant back then, it had not even given him a beginner's gift pack!

What kind of nonsense was that? It did not have to reward him with invincible cultivation or anything, but it should have at least given him some means of self-preservation, right?

Instead, it had gone straight to sleep.

Tang Wulin truly had plenty to complain about.

Tang Wulin's system was called the Superintelligent Terminal System, or simply the Superintelligent Program.

It was a program created by the Creator God Pangu long ago.

Originally, Pangu had intended to create an intelligent program to help him handle certain tedious matters. However, the program he created in the end was merely a semi-finished product and possessed no intelligence.

So Pangu treated it as a storage space, tossing everything inside.

Later, Pangu fell after creating the world. At the moment of his death, a portion of his primordial spirit power scattered onto this program.

Nurtured by that trace of Pangu's primordial spirit and divine power, the system finally developed extraordinary intelligence after several eras.

Speaking of which, Tang Wulin was the first person to fuse with this system.

Even Pangu himself had not fused with it back then because it lacked intelligence.

The system called itself Guling, meaning a sentient program created by Pangu.

Guling said, "Don't worry about such details. As compensation, how about I give you a gift right now?"

Tang Wulin was not particularly interested. "What gift?"

He was already at the True God Level. Ordinary gifts truly had no use for him.

Guling said, "A Transcendent Divine Artifact. What do you think?"

"Transcendent Divine Artifact!" Tang Wulin blurted out.

One had to know that any Transcendent Divine Artifact was like a stabilizing pillar of the sea. In battles between opponents of the same level, a Transcendent Divine Artifact could completely turn the tide and determine the outcome.

Even in the Divine Realm, Transcendent Divine Artifacts were exceedingly rare.

Before Tang Wulin could recover, boundless baleful aura suddenly erupted, and crimson light flashed brilliantly.

Blood qi spread through the air as baleful aura soared to the heavens.

Tang Wulin felt even his Spirit Sea being affected, his powerful divine sense shaken.

"This is..."

"One thought turns one into a demon; one thought scatters all away."

"The one who wields it may become a king through righteousness, or a demon through evil."

"This item is known as the demon spear: Godslayer!"

"It's actually the Godslayer Spear!" A trace of shock appeared in Tang Wulin's eyes.

The Godslayer Spear had once belonged to Luohu, the Demon Ancestor. It was an innate, ferocious treasure!

It was said that the Godslayer Spear could injure a deity's divine sense!

After the founding Demon Ancestor of the Demon Realm fell, the Godslayer Spear landed in the hands of an expert from the Demon Realm.

This expert was only at the late Divine King stage, still far from the peak of the Divine King stage, yet he had forcibly slain a half-step Divine Venerable with the Godslayer Spear in his hand.

One had to know that there was a qualitative gap between a Divine Venerable and a Divine King!

"Godslayer..." Tang Wulin swallowed and reached out to touch the shaft of the Godslayer Spear. It was ice-cold. In an instant, mountains of corpses, seas of blood, and crimson gore flooded into his Spirit Sea!

Fortunately, the Sea God's Trident within his Spirit Sea released golden light, stopping the crimson from spreading.

Without question, in terms of sharpness, the Godslayer Spear was absolutely no weaker than the Asura Sword! This was a pinnacle Transcendent Divine Artifact!

Ding! Congratulations on obtaining the damaged Godslayer Spear!

Damaged? Tang Wulin was somewhat puzzled.

Guling explained, "Little host, look at the front end of the Godslayer Spear. A corner of its spearhead is broken."

"It was shattered during a battle between two deities long ago, and the missing fragment has since vanished without a trace."

"The current Godslayer Spear can display at most thirty percent of its power."

"Even so, it still stands at the pinnacle of Transcendent Divine Artifacts."

"If it can be repaired in the future, it will return to a realm above Transcendent Divine Artifacts."