Infeudation

Ditian, I am your future master anyway, you are making things very difficult for me acting like this.

Xu Feng lazily leaned against a tree trunk, watching the Beast God who wore a look of utter displeasure toward him. He found it especially amusing to look at that expression of wanting to do something yet being utterly incapable of it.

Ditian's face bore undisguised disgust. Ever since that Auspicious Beast's human form was revealed on the skyscreen, this fellow had been running off to the Star Dou Great Forest every other day. Anyone with a brain knew what he was trying to do!

Ditian knew very well that in order for soul beasts to achieve godhood, the lord was willing to sacrifice herself, thus trading for this hard-won situation today. But! He would never allow the Auspicious Beast he had raised with his own hands to get close to this lecherous ghost whose mind was full of improper thoughts.

"Say what you have to say. If you don't have business, I have business to attend to."

Ditian radiated an aura that practically screamed Get lost if you're going to keep spouting nonsense.

"Fine, fine. I genuinely do have business this time. Yutong needs a thousand-year-level mental-attribute soul beast. It's best if the age isn't too high, just around that mark will do. You know she just broke through not long ago, so a soul ring that is too strong will easily cause problems."

"What do you take this place for?! Your Sun Moon Empire's soul ring extraction library?!"

As his voice fell, several hundred-year-old soul beasts that had just been summoned behind him immediately revealed fierce expressions with their fangs bared, low growls echoing one after another as though they were ready to pounce at any second.

Huo Yutong pulled on Xu Feng's clothes in fright, and Xu Feng flipped his right hand, causing the List of Gods to directly appear in his palm. "One soul ring in exchange for a spot on the List of Gods!"

The next second, all the fierce beasts snapped their heads around in unison, shifting their gazes from Xu Feng to that scroll of the List of Gods. Their eyes held shock at first, which immediately morphed into frantic greed.

King of Hundred Beasts was the first to react, his massive body instantly squeezing up next to Xu Feng. "It's just a thousand-year-level fellow without even any sentience. Ditian, you really are too stingy! I can catch garbage like that for you in a split second!"

"Exactly, exactly! I am ashamed to be associated with you!" Crimson King did not fall behind either, rushing to Xu Feng's other side with his thick tail whipping about excitedly, acting just like a large dog. "Trading a thousand-year soul ring for a spot on the List of Gods—where else are you going to find a deal like this? Did your brain get flooded with water, Ditian?"

"You guys!" Ditian's face turned livid. He wanted to throw a fit, but he found that the fierce beasts who usually obeyed him with absolute submission were not looking at him at all right now, instead swarming around Xu Feng like starved wolves spotting meat.

One could only say that these big fellows were simply far too eager to achieve godhood. King of Hundred Beasts had even begun mobilizing the plant-attribute soul beasts across the entire Star Dou Great Forest to capture that target soul beast, countless vines and root systems spreading wildly beneath the earth to search every inch of land.

"Hurry, hurry, don't let that fellow run off! This is a spot to become a god, your daddy has been waiting for hundreds of thousands of years!"

"Crap! We absolutely cannot let this guy beat us to it!" Crimson King yelled, immediately dashing out to search as well. The other hundred-thousand-year soul beasts all bolted out immediately too, turning the depths of the entire Star Dou Great Forest into utter chaos for a moment.

Ditian stood in place, watching this group of fierce beasts that usually acted with such majestic dominance now sprinting away like wild dogs fighting for scraps. His mouth twitched a few times, and in the end, he could only let out a deep sigh.

"Your Highness, I wish to ask a question."

Yaoling had not gone with them to search for the soul beast, and for a reason—he himself possessed the mental attribute. If he chose to sacrifice himself under the condition of matching attributes, even though Huo Yutong was only a grade-20 great soul master, she could completely absorb his soul ring.

"Oh, I didn't expect you to think like this. You're quite clever, even managing to discover another method outside of having a physical body on the list."

When the List of Gods had originally fallen into his hands, it only stated that having one's name on the list would grant godhood. Everyone assumed they had to achieve godhood themselves first before they could bestow titles, yet Yaoling had directly discovered another path to godhood.

"You flatter me."

Yaoling had simply noticed that even a ten-year soul beast could achieve godhood. Unlike humans who could hide and become completely untraceable, a ten-year soul beast did not even have a name; even if it were fortunate enough to be given one, whether it could survive was a question.

Yet how could a divine artifact of the List of Gods' caliber have such a problem? Therefore, this method of achieving godhood was definitely divided into two: one for the physical body, and one for the soul.

"Then the deal is struck."

Xu Feng directly wrote Yaoling's name on the List of Gods, and Yaoling underwent a sacrifice right on the spot, his 250,000-year soul ring instantly manifesting.

"No way, I won't say anything about jumping from thirty-nine to forty, but you at twenty-five were able to boost it to thirty..."

Xu Feng watched as the third golden pattern gradually appeared on the soul ring before him. As expected of the biological daughter of the Douro plane, that 250,000-year soul ring was forcibly upgraded to 300,000 years. She really didn't want her daughter to suffer a single bit of loss.

Because it was due to a sacrifice, Huo Yutong experienced no adverse reactions whatsoever during the absorption. She very easily absorbed that 300,000-year soul ring directly, and her meridians, which had not yet fully healed, were all repaired in an instant, her soul power rising straight to rank 28.

"After absorbing the soul bone in a moment, she'll probably hit rank 30. Since the second soul ring is directly 300,000 years, it looks like this third soul ring can also be manipulated a bit."

Yaoling allowed Yutong to directly obtain a soul ring through the method of sacrifice, while his own soul could immediately ascend to the List of Gods and be enfeoffed as a god on the spot. Once the soul beasts found out, they would surely be desperate to offer themselves as sacrifices.

"Then, soul beast clan, the first soul beast to achieve godhood in a million years: Three-Eyed Yaoling Patriarch, Yaoling, I hereby bestow upon you the position of one of the Ten Yama Kings, in charge of overseeing soul trials!"

As Xu Feng finished reciting the official appointment, the already deceased Yaoling directly regained a physical body, and his strength soared straight to the divine tier.

Xu Feng's List of Gods was capable of bestowing more than just heavenly court divine positions. This place didn't even have a proper reincarnation system.

Therefore, the List of Gods also carried a complete Netherworld reincarnation system, and with the appearance of the first Netherworld official post, the entire reincarnation system manifested across Douro Continent.

The lonely ghosts and wandering spirits that originally lingered in the mortal realm were instantly guided by the Netherworld, and those Evil Soul Masters who cultivated through souls as well as the imprisoned souls all flew out uncontrollably.

This enfeeblement was also broadcasted by the skyscreen. Although everyone did not know what exactly had happened, there was one thing they all understood: a true god had appeared on Douro Continent.

Furthermore, this god originated from the soul beast clan, and was bestowed by Xu Feng's decree. For the Holy Ghost Church and Shrek Academy, this was hardly good news.