"Lord Asura God, something terrible has happened!"
A black-clad figure stumbled into the Asura God Temple, shrouded in an intense aura of panic. His knees slammed heavily onto the cold obsidian floor, his head bowed to his chest. He dared not raise his eyes to the deity on the Throne, and his entire body trembled uncontrollably.
The newcomer wore black armor embroidered with dark gold patterns, a faint aura of death lingering around him-he was the Asura God's most loyal subordinate, the Second-Level God known as the God of Slaughter.
He held the central authority over the passage of souls after death on the Douluo Continent, responsible for guiding the souls of deceased Soul Masters and Soul Beasts from the Mortal Realm into the Divine Realm's reincarnation system. He was one of the key deities who maintained the balance between the Mortal Realm and the Divine Realm.
The Asura God slowly opened his eyes. Unspent fury churned in his blood-red pupils, and his voice grated like metal scraping against metal, laden with suffocating pressure:
"What has you so frantic? If you disrupt my plans, can you bear the consequences?"
The God of Slaughter shuddered. Cold sweat instantly beaded at his temples and soaked the back of his black armor. Still, he steeled himself and answered in a voice that shook uncontrollably:
"My lord, it is... something has happened to the reincarnation of souls on the Douluo Continent! For six days-in Divine Realm time-the souls of deceased Soul Masters and Soul Beasts have not entered the reincarnation system through the Reincarnation Passage under the Divine Realm's jurisdiction!"
"Six days?"
The Asura God abruptly rose from his divine seat. Blood-red divine power surged around him, roiling like boiling magma.
The ornaments hanging inside the temple trembled, emitting shrill hums. Wisps of blood-colored