Contents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Background / History
- 3.1Origin and the Dragon Tribe
- 3.2Reform and Betrayal
- 3.3Dragon God War and Death
- 3.4Conflicting Historical Accounts
- 4Personality
- 5Abilities & Skills
- 5.1Twelve Elemental Laws
- 5.2Creation and Destruction
- 5.3Time and Space Manipulation
- 5.4Resurrection from Soul Imprints
- 5.5Divine Realm Core
- 6Equipment / Weapons / Items
- 7Relationships
- 8Legacy and Succession
Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Dragon God (龙神) |
| Alias(es) | First Dragon God; previous Dragon God; ancestor of the Dragon Tribe 19 281 313 |
| Species/Race | Dragon; progenitor of the Dragon Tribe 19 |
| Gender | Referred to as female in later accounts; earlier accounts use male pronouns 19 284 |
| Affiliation | Dragon Tribe; divine beasts; original Six Supreme Gods 19 314 |
| Occupation/Role | Former sovereign of the Divine Realm; lord of all beasts; first master of the Divine Realm Core 19 260 314 |
| Divine Rank | Special-Level God; described as the Divine Realm’s first Supreme God 4 284 |
| Status | Deceased; body and Soul Imprint divided into the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings. The original individual cannot be restored by merging them 291 |
| Successor | Su Chen, who inherits the Dragon God’s divine position 262 |
| First Appearance | Divine trials introduced during Su Chen’s awakening; identified as the Dragon God’s Nine Trials in the following chapter 3 4 |
Power Progression
The original Dragon God’s development is recounted retrospectively rather than shown as a present-day cultivation arc.
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Self-created divine seat | 19 254 | Cultivated to godhood through exceptional innate talent and formed a divine seat without inheriting another deity’s position. |
| Mastery of twelve elemental laws | 260 | Mastered earth, wind, fire, metal, water, lightning, darkness, light, space, wood, destruction, and creation. This was the highest explicitly documented mastery before the Dragon God’s fall. |
Background / History
Origin and the Dragon Tribe
According to Gu Yue, the Dragon God was born in the age of chaos, before the other five Supreme Gods. After cultivating a divine seat, the Dragon God and five beings born from divine objects established the identities of the six original gods 19.
Using creation and destruction, the Dragon God created the Nine Great Dragon Kings, then modeled the wider Dragon Tribe after them. Interbreeding and mutations among their lineages produced many kinds of divine beasts with dragon bloodlines 19.
The Dragon God permitted sufficiently cultivated humans from the lower realms to enter the Divine Realm. Human gods grew rapidly in number and strength, although the Dragon Tribe initially remained its strongest race. After warnings from loyal subordinates, the Dragon God reduced the number of humans permitted to ascend 19 254.
Reform and Betrayal
Gu Yue’s later account describes human deities bringing seven negative emotions into the Divine Realm: lust, pride, gluttony, sloth, wrath, envy, and greed. Their influence gradually corrupted gods, including the Gods of Evil and Destruction and the Asura God, encouraging abuses of authority and interference in the lower realms 284.
The Dragon God warned these gods and proposed changing the ascension system. The reforms sought to reduce divine interference through Divine Trials and, in Gu Yue’s account, restrict ascension to those who had severed the seven emotions and six desires 255 284.
Human deities appeared to support reform but persuaded the Dragon God to expand the Divine Realm first. They rebelled while that expansion had depleted the Dragon God’s power 254 284.
Dragon God War and Death
The Five Supreme Gods ultimately fought together against the weakened Dragon God. The Goddesses of Life and Kindness joined the opposing side despite their friendship with the Dragon God 284.
The fatal attack was not the Asura God’s unaided sword strike. The other four Supreme Gods channeled their power into the Asura Blood Sword through an embryonic five-god fusion skill, allowing it to cleave the Dragon God’s otherwise indestructible body 313.
At the final moment, the Dragon God used creation to divide into the Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King. The dying deity also sent Su Chen from the future through time and space, intending him to pursue justice and revenge for beings harmed by the human gods 259 260.
The defeat brought devastation to the divine beasts. Their ascension passage was sealed, beast divine positions were abolished, and survivors faced slaughter or permanent restrictions on their cultivation. Only forty-nine of the original 10,800 divine beast races survived, according to the pangolin clan chief 20 255 267.
Conflicting Historical Accounts
| Account | Explanation of the war |
|---|---|
| Dragon God rebellion | Portrays the Dragon God as defiant toward the God Realm Committee and leading divine beasts in an attempt to seize the Divine Realm 255. |
| Loss of emotional control | Attributes the disaster to conflicting life and destruction powers, exhaustion from stabilizing the realm, and increasingly uncontrollable violence 255. |
| Gu Yue’s account | Presents the Dragon God as a reformer betrayed while weakened. Her earlier telling emphasizes absorbing negative emotional energy; her later explanation emphasizes expansion of the Divine Realm 19 255 284. |
Su Chen considers Gu Yue’s account more credible than the other versions. Gu Yue maintains that the victorious human deities rewrote history to blame the Dragon God 255 284.
Personality
Gu Yue portrays the Dragon God as protective of the Divine Realm and concerned with balance between humans, beasts, and nature. The Dragon God taught beasts to cultivate and later sought reforms when existing rules failed to contain divine corruption 284.
The Dragon God could also be defiant and politically cautious, rejecting the Committee’s authority over proposed reforms while previously limiting human ascension after warnings about their growing influence 19 255.
The clearest example of restraint was the refusal to use the Divine Realm Core even while facing death. The Dragon God regarded the realm, created jointly by the six original gods, as their child and would not risk destroying it for personal survival 314.
Abilities & Skills
Twelve Elemental Laws
- Mastered all twelve fundamental elements: earth, wind, fire, metal, water, lightning, darkness, light, space, wood, destruction, and creation 260.
- Sought an unprecedented realm capable of qualitatively transforming a deity, but fell before reaching it. Gu Yue could not explain that realm’s nature 260.
Creation and Destruction
- Created the Nine Great Dragon Kings and the wider Dragon Tribe 19.
- Used creation at the moment of death to produce the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings from the divided body 260 284.
Time and Space Manipulation
- Sent Su Chen from the future to Douluo Star with the last remaining power before death 260.
- The logic of this time travel remains unexplained; Gu Yue admits she cannot resolve Su Chen’s questions about it 260.
Resurrection from Soul Imprints
- Possessed the ability to resurrect beings from a Soul Imprint even after their bodies were gone—an ability the God of Evil associates specifically with the Dragon God 281.
- This does not permit restoration of the original Dragon God: the divided Soul Imprints became independent individuals, and their changes cannot be reversed 291.
Divine Realm Core
- Was the Core’s first master and understood its destructive potential 314.
- Refused to wield it in the final battle because doing so could destabilize or destroy the Divine Realm 314.
Equipment / Weapons / Items
- Dragon-Slaying Sword — A Super Divine Artifact described as wielded exclusively by the Dragon God. Dragon Tribe members are exceptionally vulnerable to it unless their combat strength greatly exceeds its wielder’s 159 200.
- Dragon God’s Heart — The divine heart associated with the inheritance, appearing on Su Chen as a coiled-dragon mark. Its Dragon Might suppresses nearby beings, with stronger effects against beast martial souls and dragon soul beasts; the domain does not distinguish allies from enemies 4 244 245.
- Divine seat — Survived the original deity’s death. Gu Yue escaped the Divine Realm carrying it, and it later selected Su Chen during his martial-soul awakening 18 20.
Relationships
- Silver Dragon King / Gu Yue — Created from one half of the dying Dragon God and inherited elemental power and wisdom. Preserved the divine seat and guided Su Chen’s succession 20 254 260 314.
- Golden Dragon King / Gu Ri — Created from the other half and inherited immense physical strength, durability, and speed. Became an independent being rather than a recoverable fragment of the original individual 255 291.
- Su Chen — Chosen successor and the person brought through time by the original Dragon God to seek justice for persecuted beings 18 259 260.
- Nine Great Dragon Kings — Creations and foundational ancestors of the Dragon Tribe; died in the catastrophe surrounding the Dragon God’s fall 19 287.
- Goddess of Kindness — The Dragon God’s closest friend. Later lent Su Chen the Heart of Goodness as an act of atonement toward the previous Dragon God 283.
- Goddess of Life — A friend who initially opposed suppressing divine beasts but eventually joined the human side in the war 19 284.
- Asura God — Delivered the fatal sword strike using the combined power of the Five Supreme Gods 284 313.
- God of Evil and God of Destruction — Former fellow gods whose corruption and opposition to reform contributed to the rebellion 284 316.
- Snow God — A former subordinate whose loyalty endured after the Dragon God’s death; asked Su Chen to seek justice for fallen divine beasts 281.
Legacy and Succession
| Event | Significance |
|---|---|
| Su Chen receives the Nine Trials | The surviving divine seat selects him at awakening, offering a route to the Dragon God’s position 3 4 18. |
| Tenth trial: inheritance | Gu Yue sacrifices her body and dragon essence blood to initiate the inheritance, using heaven and earth as its formation 260 261. |
| A new Dragon God emerges | Su Chen completes the inheritance, gains ten million-year soul rings, and transforms his soul bones into the Dragon God Set 262. |
| Beast ascension restored | Su Chen’s group clears the sealed passages, allowing qualified lower-realm beasts to ascend again 294 296 301. |
| Original reform motive reaffirmed | Xiao Xingyue’s purification exposes the negative influence within the Gods of Evil and Destruction; Gu Yue connects that corruption to the First Dragon God’s reform efforts 316. |