After Tang San became God King, he sought to establish absolute dominion over the Divine Realm and the mortal world:
Poseidon, originally no more than a gifted Soul Master who had ascended from the seas of Douluo Star, was recast as a savior.
The image Tang San fashioned for Poseidon went like this: the vast oceans teemed with countless sea races, locked in endless strife. Amid those turbulent times, the supremely benevolent and compassionate Poseidon, insignificant though he was alone, quelled the violent unrest, united the ocean world, and became a deity.
Yet a man of such extraordinary gifts was captivated by a woman from the land, Qian Yuhan. She was an ordinary person of mediocre talent. After Poseidon fell in love with her, he saw that she possessed a heart devoted to pursuing the Way. He did not disdain her humble origins, took her as his disciple, and never put on the airs of a master before her.
Upon hearing that the Angel Holy Sword atop a sacred mountain could grant godhood, Qian Yuhan sought to draw it and obtain its power. But countless plagues and darkness were sealed beneath that sword. To keep his lover and disciple from staining her hands with monstrous sins, Poseidon went to stop her.
The selfish Qian Yuhan, however, believed Poseidon could not bear to see her prosper and did not want her to become a goddess and live forever. She told him that all affection and obligation between them ended there.
But after Qian Yuhan drew the Angel Holy Sword and the plagues and darkness sealed beneath it spread throughout the world, she did not become a goddess: the rumor that the Angel Holy Sword could grant godhood was disproved. Instead, Qian Yuhan had committed a grievous sin.
To atone for his lover and disciple, Poseidon secretly accompanied Qian Yuhan as she eradicated the plagues and dispelled the darkness. During this process, Qian Yuhan gained the people's faith.
Yet the hypocritical Qian Yuhan publicized only her own achievements, concealing the fact that she herself had unleashed the world's plagues and evil.
At last, this vicious woman, Qian Yuhan, became a deity after the morally exalted Poseidon, leaving the evil Spirit Hall in the mortal world to continue swindling more power of faith for her.
And the reason Qian Yuhan left Spirit Hall behind was, as Poseidon had said, "To keep a lie from being exposed, you can only tell a bigger lie."
This little essay moved the people of Douluo Star to tears whenever they read in the "History of Douluo" how the first Shrek Seven Devils destroyed the evil Angel God.
It was also what Huo Yuhao had seen in the "Douluo Continent Animation" through his [Audience] authority.
Likewise, after ascending to the Divine Realm and becoming a Supreme God when the former Supreme Gods of Good and Evil yielded their positions, Tang San recast the Asura God, originally a God Realm Enforcer, as the Divine Realm's savior.
The image Tang San fashioned for the Asura God went like this: in the ancient days of the Divine Realm, Dragonkind defied the God Realm Committee, launched a rebellion, and plunged the universe into chaos. The gods who tried to avert the catastrophe were helpless and suffered terrible casualties.
Just as evil was about to triumph over good, the peerless Asura God burst onto the scene and cleaved the Dragon God apart. He sealed his body in the Divine Forbidden Land and banished his soul to the Douluo Continent.
This little essay likewise sent those in the Divine Realm whose original memories had been erased and replaced with this account into endless fits of ecstasy whenever they recalled the Asura God's deeds.
Yet reality was reality, after all! Of the more than ten thousand human deities in the Douluo God Realm, nearly half had willingly opened their memories to the Tang Family to rewrite as they pleased, all to flatter them, creating an entirely new historical narrative of self-deception and mutual deception-but the other half, the deities of the God of Destruction's faction who had not accepted this narrative, remained the greatest hole in this little essay.
To keep a lie from being exposed, you could only tell a bigger lie.
Since the Douluo God Realm was merely a fragment of its predecessor, the Divine Dragon Realm-a quasi-God Star established by the Dragon God-Tang San only needed to deal with the Golden Dragon King, the one in the Divine Realm of the two kings born from the dragon god divinity, the Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King. Then the image he had fashioned for the Asura God could become the memory of everyone in the Divine Realm for a considerable stretch of time.
Only when all the gods accepted the memory of the Asura God as the Divine Realm's savior would they all side with his successor, Tang San, in the power struggle between Tang San and the God of Destruction.
"Well, king of humans, have you thought it through? Can you truly relinquish your throne as a Supreme God, along with the eternal life, authority, and splendor of myriad kingdoms it brings you?" The Golden Dragon King's voice rang out again.
Although Tang San had cooperated with the Golden Dragon King for many years, now that the Silver Dragon King had completed her transformation ahead of time and her divine nature was whole, the Golden Dragon King was destined to be devoured by her. Naturally, Tang San no longer thought much of him.
Amid a thousand swirling thoughts, Tang San soon devised a plan.
The victor becomes a god, the defeated a demon. Who cares how it happens! Tang San stared at the Golden Dragon King, thinking this without uttering a word: he feared the Golden Dragon King might record something to use as leverage against him.
As the Supreme God turned and took a step, a golden chariot drawn by a winged sea horse appeared before him out of thin air. He mounted it and prepared to leave.
Just then, because of the disturbance that had emerged from the Divine Forbidden Land earlier, a chief god arrived to investigate under the God of Destruction's orders.
This chief god exuded the imposing air of someone who resented heaven for having no handle and earth for having no ring to seize. He was a prodigy the God of Destruction had recently elevated from the mortal world. Tang San glanced at him and nodded.
The chief god nodded as well, but to the Golden Dragon King.
The Golden Dragon King understood his meaning and dispersed his form.
Before long, Tang San drove his chariot to a hall, where a dignified-looking, purple-haired middle-aged man was pacing back and forth.
The hall housed the gods' committee, and the man was the God of Destruction.
The light screen in the hall displayed, in exact detail, the joys and sorrows, partings and reunions of the many mortal planes.
"Your Majesty the Sea God, what happened in the Divine Forbidden Land?"
"Brother Destruction, something has gone wrong with the Divine Realm's seal on the Golden Dragon King. I have always been pure as ice and jade, open and upright, and know little of the world's evil thoughts. I fear you alone in the Divine Realm can resolve this matter."
Upon hearing Tang San's words, the God of Destruction left the God Realm Committee without looking back and headed to the Divine Forbidden Land.
Tang San was now alone in the empty God Realm Committee. He turned his gaze toward the Star Dou Great Forest!
Despite the hundreds of millions of miles between them, the instant the Supreme God looked her way, the Silver Dragon King hovering above the Star Dou Great Forest felt a drunken sensation well up throughout her body.
At that same moment, Di Tian, who stood guard beside the Lake of Life to protect Qiu'er's transformation, felt a warning rise in his heart.
"This is bad!"
Di Tian first pointed toward the heavens, then thrust out his palm.
A handprint in five colors-azure, red, yellow, white, and black-immediately formed in the void, then became a pitch-black curtain that covered the sky.
From the outset, Di Tian unleashed his most powerful ability, Dragon God Claw.
In this state, Di Tian's combat strength came infinitely close to that of the Dragon God at the same cultivation level. He seized the plane's laws directly in his hand and turned them into a shield, protecting the Silver Dragon from the pressure descending from above the heavens.
But soon, a sound like shattering jade, yet as deafening as thunder, rang out from the clouds.
"Begin the soul hunt!" As the void cracked and an overwhelming pressure descended from the sky, Mu En's voice, transmitted through his spiritual sense, instantly rang in the ears of Shrek's Elders.
"Warriors of the Sea God, for the glory of our lord, for the glory of the Douluo Continent, charge! The Sea God is supreme!"
As that fanatical cry rang out, hundreds upon thousands of Soul Masters surged toward the Lake of Life like a tide.
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