Korean Manhwa, Japanese Drama Plot?

Star Dou Great Forest.

After watching Tiga wipe out Golza and Melba with overwhelming ease, the Ferocious Beasts reacted in different ways.

Bi Ji murmured, "Golza and Melba were already comparable to Second-Class Gods, perhaps even First-Class Gods. Then how powerful must the giant who killed them in an instant be?"

The next moment, every Ferocious Beast looked at Gu Yuena.

Gu Yuena did not want to admit it, but she did not want to lie either.

"At least a God King. Perhaps as powerful as the Dragon God, or even stronger than him."

Zi JI's shoulders slumped at once.

"How can the world be so unfair? The monsters in that world were already so powerful, yet humanity somehow got an even stronger Giant of Light."

The other Ferocious Beasts lowered their heads too.

Their relationship with humans was bitterly hostile, so when they watched the Sky Curtain, they naturally saw things from the monsters' perspective.

Watching the monsters wreak havoc had given them an inexplicable thrill.

Now the monsters they had identified with had been effortlessly destroyed by a giant who appeared to be on humanity's side. Naturally, none of them felt good about it.

Just then, the image on the Sky Curtain froze. A line of gilded text slowly appeared, filling the entire screen:

[Heavenly Dao Instance activated: Ten individuals will be randomly selected from Douluo Star and transported to the time and space shown on the Sky Curtain. They will assist GUTS in protecting the Giant of Light statues in the Golden Pyramid and repel Golza and Melba. As this is the first instance, ten top experts will be selected from among Douluo Star's hundred strongest individuals. Heavenly Dao rewards and punishments will be issued according to their performance.]

[Note: Participants may not reveal anything about the Sky Curtain or the future within the instance. Death within the instance will not result in actual death.]

The message reached every corner of Douluo Star. The entire plane was thrown into an uproar, and countless people stared in disbelief.

The Ferocious Beasts of Star Dou Great Forest reacted most strongly. Gu Yuena had just told them that Golza possessed the strength of a Second-Class God, perhaps even a First-Class God. As Soul Beasts who had not even reached the threshold of level one hundred, they had no hope of fighting him.

And now the Sky Curtain wanted them to enter some instance and repel Golza and Melba? Wasn't that asking them to march to their deaths?

The next moment, a new line of text appeared on the Sky Curtain: [Selection complete. Experts chosen for this instance: Di Tian, Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, Evil Emperor, Snow Empress, Qian Daoliu, Bo Saixi, Tang Chen, Bibi Dong, Tang Hao, and Kong Yuanshan.]

The moment the list appeared, every Ferocious Beast in Star Dou Great Forest turned to look at Di Tian.

Gu Yuena drew her bare feet from the water and stood. Her silver-white hair stirred in the breeze as she walked to Di Tian's side and gently patted his shoulder.

"Do your best, Di Tian."

With that, Gu Yuena spread her spiritual power to its fullest extent and fixed it firmly on Di Tian.

She wanted to see exactly how the Sky Curtain would take Di Tian away by force.

Inside the Light God Kingdom, Su He watched Gu Yuena probe with all her might, a faint smile on his lips.

Gu Yuena was the Silver Dragon King, born when the Dragon God split apart. She was equivalent to a half-step God King, and even with her divine power damaged, her true body's combat strength was close to that of a First-Class God. If he could pull her into the instance too, then reveal her identity and have her fight a monster, his Faith Power would surely surge.

But his Faith Power was limited, and he had recovered only a little divine power.

Forcibly abducting a half-step God King could lead to trouble. He could only set the idea aside until he recovered more of his divine power.

In the next instant, under the sweep of Gu Yuena's all-encompassing divine perception, Di Tian vanished silently from the lakeshore.

Gu Yuena remained silent for a long while. Then she slowly drew back her scattered spiritual power and raised her eyes to the Sky Curtain overhead, her gaze heavy.

Inside the shattered Light God Kingdom, Su He looked over the people and Soul Beasts who had just been transported to the ground and privately assessed them.

They looked much as the original work had described. The Evil Emperor really was quite ugly, though.

An eyeball three hundred meters across could genuinely cost an ordinary person their sanity just to look at.

The Evil Emperor was surprisingly light, too. Despite his size, he did not even weigh ten thousand tons.

He was lighter than the two-hundred-meter-long Deep Sea Demonic Whale King beside him.

Su He then turned his gaze to the Snow Empress, Bo Saixi, and Bibi Dong.

All three were beautiful. The Snow Empress was cool and ethereal; Bo Saixi was poised and regal; Bibi Dong was coldly beautiful and commanding.

Transcendent beings truly were transcendent. Ordinary mortals from Blue Star could not compare.

Before he had merged with part of Light God Yu Xi's memories, seeing women so stunning would inevitably have stirred distracting thoughts in Su He, perhaps even desire.

And once he possessed great power, this might well have turned into the plot of a Korean manhwa or Japanese drama.

But now that he had absorbed some of the Light God's memories, his horizons had moved far beyond the ordinary. The three women were indeed exceptional in both looks and bearing.

Compared with the women of higher standing and dimensions in his memories, however—especially Light God Yu Xi—they were simply not on the same level.

It was not just a difference in beauty. More than anything, it was the difference in bearing that came from their levels of existence.

Even without looking that far, there was an obvious gap between the three women and Gu Yuena. If all four stood together, Gu Yuena would be the most breathtaking.

At that thought, Su He shook his head with a wry smile. When had he become so picky?

Back when he was an ordinary person, having even one beauty of this caliber by his side would have felt like a blessing earned over eight lifetimes.

He would never have left the house. He would have exercised every day to keep himself in shape.

Su He put those distracting thoughts aside. Drawing on what remained of his Light God divine power, he extracted the ten participants' souls and sealed them inside an Illusion Orb.

He did not have enough divine power to create a world on his own, let alone more than a trillion living beings. This was the only method available to him.

As for why he did not simply alter their memories?

How could memories planted by someone else compare to memories of something they had experienced themselves?

The next moment, the Sky Curtain covering Douluo Star changed.

The Golden Pyramid shown earlier reappeared on the screen.

This time, however, ten figures had appeared out of nowhere beneath the enormous stone pyramid.

Text appeared along the side of the Sky Curtain, identifying each participant, their affiliation, and their current cultivation. Every living being across the continent could see it clearly.

[Di Tian] Ruler of Star Dou Great Forest. Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King. Cultivation: 870,000 years. Beast God of the Soul Beasts, with the body of a demigod. He discovered the secret of the World Sphere while traveling the world. Aside from the Dragon God's other half, he possesses the purest true-dragon bloodline.

[Deep Sea Demonic Whale King] Overlord of the Demonic Whale Sea. Cultivation: 990,000 years. Supreme ruler of the ocean, unmatched at sea. He has inhabited the deep sea since ancient times. A past feud with Sea God Poseidon cost him one eye.

[Evil Emperor] Ruler of the Evil Demon Forest. Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler. Cultivation: 760,000 years. As the totem of the Sun Moon Continent and the strongest of the Evil Eye Tyrants, he commands the power of space and time and can unleash attacks of extreme spiritual force.

[Snow Empress] Ruler of the Far North. Heavenly Snow Woman. Cultivation: 680,000 years. Born in the bitter cold of the Far North, she feeds on Heaven and Earth Ice Marrow and commands ultimate ice and life force. She is the foremost of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North and once subdued every Ferocious Beast there single-handedly. Her Ice Domain can freeze space and time.