Want to Become the Dragon God? Go Take It from Shrek

Lin Yuan looked up at the sky—not at the sky above the Divine Realm, but at the highest reaches of the universe.

He thought he saw a pair of eyes. Then again, perhaps there was nothing there.

"Dragon God, you are a Supreme God, deathless and indestructible. Even though your body was cut down, your will remains in the universe. You've been here all along. All along.

I merely despise Tang San. You, I truly hate.

The Nine Dragon Kings didn't die at the hands of their enemies. Every one of them died at yours. The Soul Beasts are still bound by your restrictions, unable to become gods. You were the first to stab your own kind in the back. What gives you the right to hide away as if none of it concerns you?

Because you're a Supreme God?

Today, I'm not just going to blow up the Divine Realm. I'm going to kill you too."

With that, while Tang San, Kindness, and the Evil God King were forming the Sword of Judgment of the Three Realms, Lin Yuan drew a deep breath and made up his mind. He sacrificed all his Divine Power, his Divine Core, his life, his soul, his flesh, and his blood.

And just then, Tang San's son Tang Wulin happened to appear on this earth-shattering battlefield.

What a coincidence. Too bad Lin Yuan wasn't falling for it.

He had sacrificed himself to no one, yet the terrifying Sacrifice Domain still appeared.

The Absolute Stasis Domain, born of a soul and power beyond the God King level, restrained even God Kings. Tang San, Kindness, and the Evil God King stopped dead in their tracks, and the entire Divine Realm fell into a lifeless black-and-white silence.

Tang San was baffled. To whom had the Golden Dragon King sacrificed himself?

Unease welled up inside Tang San. He felt as though his grand plan, ten thousand years in the making, had been ruined.

Even held in absolute stasis by the Sacrifice Domain, his eyes were bloodshot and his breathing came in ragged gasps.

After all the trouble of using that fool, the Goddess of Life, to betray her husband and bring down the God King of Destruction, he had two young God Kings—Kindness and the Evil God King—willing to let him pull their strings. The entire Divine Realm was within his grasp.

All he had needed to do was reap the Golden Dragon King's power. How could he accept a disruption like this?

Of course Lin Yuan wasn't going to sacrifice himself to Tang Wulin. He hadn't sacrificed himself to anyone. He had offered himself to a supreme god seat.

That's right—the Dragon God's Supreme Dragon God Seat.

Lin Yuan dared to do this because he had a Golden Finger.

It wasn't a system, but a Panel.

And that Panel was pretty stupid.

If he hadn't transmigrated as the Golden Dragon King, the Golden Finger would have been utterly useless.

It was a Link Panel, something that could bind the fates of those connected to him.

Only people who had a connection to him could be linked.

If he had transmigrated as an ordinary person, everyone connected to him would have been ordinary too.

If not one of his ancestors in eighteen generations had been powerful, linking their fates would have been completely pointless.

Those related by blood could be forcibly linked: when one prospered, the other prospered; when one suffered, the other suffered.

Of course, he could control it. Whether prosperity was shared by all or harm dragged everyone down was entirely up to him.

And he could link not only people, but objects as well, so long as he had created them.

Objects, however, could not share in prosperity or harm through the link.

They weren't alive, after all.

This Golden Finger was bound firmly to the Golden Dragon King, so Lin Yuan could only link things connected to the Golden Dragon King.

He had been afraid of tipping his hand.

He had never used it before. Now he could.

Lin Yuan knew that although the Dragon God had been cut in two, becoming two separate halves, his will still existed. He was a Supreme God.

But that had only been a guess, with no proof behind it.

What truly gave Lin Yuan confidence was the available link glowing on the virtual Panel before him.

First came Lin Yuan himself.

Beneath his portrait was the Golden Dragon King, bearing a pair of golden wings. Several branches extended below.

The first was a portrait of a seven-colored dragon—Dragon God's Remnant Soul (Supreme God Will, containing the full power of a Supreme God; deathless and indestructible).

It had not been activated.

Lin Yuan had activated only one link: the Supreme Dragon God Seat.

The Dragon God's former seat was connected to the Golden Dragon King, so it could naturally be linked.

He had once hoped to obtain the seat directly through that link, but it hadn't worked.

The Dragon God wasn't dead. He was still here, still watching from above.

That was why Lin Yuan was so furious.

That damned Dragon God.

Still, although linking the seat did not let Lin Yuan inherit it, it gave him plenty of other options.

He could, for instance, sacrifice it now.

Lin Yuan did not hesitate. Things had reached a critical point, and he no longer cared whether the Dragon God's Supreme God Will noticed anything.

He selected the link.

Once he, the Golden Dragon King, and the Dragon God's supreme soul were linked, they shared one another's fortune and misfortune.

Whatever Lin Yuan did, they would suffer the same backlash.

Then let's overturn the whole table.

"I, the Golden Dragon King, one half of the Dragon God, sacrifice my soul, Divine Core, flesh, and blood to the Supreme Dragon God Seat. Through my ruin, I call the Supreme God Dragon God's soul back to his divine body to join this sacrifice. From this day on, the Douluo Universe shall have neither a Golden Dragon King nor a Dragon God."

Lin Yuan had made his sacrifice, and the Dragon God's Soul linked to him naturally had to join him.

The moment he dragged the Dragon God's Soul into it, the entire universe began to tremble.

An invisible force squeezed a colossal seven-colored dragon soul from its hiding place in the universe, forcibly bound it to Lin Yuan, and offered it up alongside him.

"It worked!"

Delight spread across Lin Yuan's face.

He had everything he needed now.

He had the Supreme Dragon God Seat and its Divine Power, God King-level power and a Divine Core, and he could even link the Divine Realm.

The sacrifice had begun. There was no turning back.

The Dragon God might have been a Supreme God, but he was already dead. His consciousness remained only as a mass of energy and awareness.

Besides, the Dragon God was a brute. How could he resist Lin Yuan?

He could only be dragged down with him!

The Supreme Dragon God Seat was already a power that defied the heavens. Now the Golden Dragon King had sacrificed his entire essence to it, along with the Dragon God's Soul and Divine Power.

The supreme seat had swelled to its limit.

Lin Yuan had sacrificed his entire being, so naturally he could not merge with it. But that had never been his aim.

If he was going to do this, he might as well go all out.

He immediately used Gu Yuena's soul as an anchor to locate Douluo Continent.

If Gu Yuena's extraordinary wisdom hadn't made her useful for this one thing, he would have linked her long ago and sacrificed her along with himself.

After locating Douluo Continent, Lin Yuan spent Divine Power to light a vast, temporary Heavenly Screen above it. Everyone on the continent could see it.

Then golden characters appeared across the Heavenly Screen, and a voice sounded in everyone's ears:

"I am the Dragon God, Supreme God of the universe. The Dragon Race has dwindled, and the divine seats of the Dragon God Domain stand vacant. I hereby open the Dragon God's Ten Trials.

The seats available are the Supreme Dragon God Seat and the Nine God King Seats.

Douluo Continent is the primary world of the Divine Examination. Shrek Academy, where the continent's geniuses gather, has been designated as its central testing ground."

"All Shrek students, teachers, and staff are eligible for the Divine Examination.

Those with Innate Soul Power at level six automatically receive the White-Level Five Trials.

Those with Innate Soul Power at level seven automatically receive the Yellow-Level Six Trials.

Those with Innate Soul Power at level eight automatically receive the Purple-Level Seven Trials.

Those with Innate Soul Power at level nine automatically receive the Black-Level Eight Trials.

Those with Innate Soul Power at level ten automatically receive the Red-Level Nine Trials.

Beyond the Red-Level Nine Trials lie the Gold-Level Divine Trial and, finally, the multicolored Supreme Divine Trial."

"The rules of the examination are as follows.

Whether undertaking the White-Level Five Trials or the Red-Level Nine Trials, participants will receive generous rewards for each trial they complete. These may include God-Given Spirit Rings and Spirit Bones, God-Given Soul Power, increases to their Spirit Rings' ages, or even a Second Martial Soul, a God-Given Martial Soul, or a God-Level Martial Soul. Anything is possible.

Aside from gods, everyone on Douluo Continent may participate. Kill another participant, and you will inherit everything they have gained, including their progress toward godhood.

Tens of thousands of Shrek students and staff will compete against hundreds of millions across the continent to determine the Nine Dragon Kings.

Of those Dragon Kings, only one can become the Supreme Dragon God and rule the entire Douluo Universe."

"The rules have now been explained. I hope someone on Douluo Continent can complete the Ultimate Divine Trial and become the Supreme Dragon God.

To make things easier, I have placed my own Divine Dragon Horn, Dragon Scales, Dragon Bones, Dragon Claws, Dragon Heart, Dragon Core, Supreme God Ring, and Spirit Bones in Shrek."

As Lin Yuan spoke, the Heavenly Screen showed the items he had deliberately saved turning into streaks of light. They tore through space and descended upon Shrek Academy on Douluo Continent.

Of course, he had kept the Spirit Bones for himself.

There was no Supreme God Ring, and he had sacrificed the Dragon Core long ago.

All that remained were the Dragon Horn, Dragon Scales, and Dragon Claws...

But he was the Golden Dragon King. Even those materials were extraordinarily precious. On Douluo Continent, they were treasures beyond comparison—more than enough to bring disaster down on Shrek.

"I've put the entire Divine Realm in Shrek. If you want it, go and take it."