The Divine Realm Was Swept Away by Space-Time Turbulence Yet Again. The Unsettled Tang Hao. [Revised]

The Divine Realm.

In the Asura God Temple, the utterly bored Asura God was about to check on the otherworldly soul he had discovered earlier.

After all, that soul was a candidate to inherit his position.

For that purpose, he had gone so far as to bring him over from a small world in the remotest reaches under the Divine Realm's jurisdiction.

For that purpose, he had even altered Tang San's memories, forcibly inserting records of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Immortal Herbs, and the Three Great Treasure Basins into the "Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record."

He had disguised Soul Tool technology as Tang Sect Hidden Weapons.

He had also replaced Tang San's original Mysterious Heaven Skill with an upright, balanced God King-level cultivation method he had found after years of searching.

He had placed him in the body of a descendant who had completed Asura's Eight Trials, so that when the divine trials began in the future, he could skip the first eight and proceed straight to the ninth.

He could then inherit his divine position quickly.

"He's only just awakened his Martial Soul."

The Asura God knitted his brows, feeling as though something had happened.

"And why is there such a terrifying power in the lower realm?"

Just as he was about to investigate, the Divine Realm suddenly went on alert.

He immediately extended his divine power to investigate, and his expression changed drastically.

He hurried to the Divine Realm Center, where the four great God Kings-Evil, Goodness, Life, and Destruction-had all gathered.

Many First-Level Gods and Second-Level Gods were also waiting outside for orders.

"What happened?!"

The Asura God looked at the other God Kings solemnly.

"Space-time turbulence is approaching. Although it isn't too terrifying, there's a very strong chance we'll be displaced from our original position for seven days."

"Seven days?!"

The Asura God's expression darkened. For some inexplicable reason, he kept feeling as though events were slipping out of his control.

He had only just discovered something unusual on the Douluo Continent when the space-time turbulence arrived.

One day in the Divine Realm was one year in the lower realm.

Seven years!

The unease in his heart grew stronger, and he kept feeling that this was aimed squarely at him.

He glanced down toward the Douluo Continent again, but the space-time turbulence had already arrived, blocking his view.

Left with no choice, he sent a strand of divine power down toward the Douluo Continent.

Then he joined the other gods in resisting the space-time turbulence to prevent the Divine Realm from collapsing.

In another space at the Lake of Life, in the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest in the lower realm, an enormous silver-white dragon abruptly opened her purple, slit-pupiled eyes.

"I can't sense the Divine Realm anymore?! My other half!!"

"What happened? What are those fellows in the Divine Realm up to now?"

After considerable thought, the Silver Dragon King suddenly realized that having those fellows in the upper realm no longer watching her was a good thing.

"The divine power of the Three Realms Judgment and the Asura Divine Power inside me have both weakened considerably after losing contact with those fellows. This is a good opportunity!"

The Silver Dragon King immediately began wearing down the divine power inside her with all her strength, absorbing the power within the Lake of Life at full force to heal her injuries.

In Holy Soul Village, Tang Hao returned to his residence in an extremely sorry state, his expression utterly gloomy.

His failure to catch a mere brat who had only just awakened and possessed no Soul Rings had dealt him quite a blow.

"Dad."

Seeing Tang Hao return, Tang San hurried forward happily to greet him, but Tang Hao ignored him completely.

That boy had aggravated his injuries. He had to take some time to recover.

Faced with Tang Hao's indifference once again, Tang San felt somewhat at a loss.

At night, above the mountains outside Holy Soul Village, a dark figure slowly circled at an altitude of nearly two thousand meters.

"It should be somewhere around here."

Ye Guixu activated the Full-Spectrum Sensing Array, taking in every sign of life and fluctuation of energy within a two-kilometer radius.

After returning to the Douluo Continent, he had caught and roasted a few wild rabbits in the mountains to fill his stomach, then come outside Holy Soul Village under cover of night to search for that cave.

He had only one objective tonight.

Dig up and take away the Blue Silver Emperor, the remains of Tang Hao's wife.

To his surprise, after night fell, his Void Star God Martial Soul had gained an additional 100% boost.

He now had a 700% boost to all attributes. With even greater confidence, he naturally had no fear of that "sick rat" huddled in the village nursing his injuries.

He was not that iron-headed fool Qian Daoliu, who had stupidly used his head to take a direct hit from the Clear Sky Hammer.

He, Ye Guixu, fought by kiting. If he could not win, he would run, then turn back for another bite once he was far enough away. That was his style.

"Found it."

After a period of careful investigation, Ye Guixu finally pinpointed a secluded valley.

There was a pool in the valley. On one side, a waterfall roughly twenty meters wide poured down a cliff nearly two hundred meters high, crashing into the pool and flinging spray into the air, its roar echoing through the valley.

"This is the place."

Ye Guixu did not rush down. Instead, he hovered in midair, carefully sensing the signs of life around him.

Only after confirming there was no trace of that "sick rat" did he slowly descend before the waterfall.

"Space-Time Vortex."

Golden light spread from the armor around his body, instantly enveloping the entire waterfall.

Time froze at that moment. The splashing droplets hung suspended in midair, like a motionless painting.

Ye Guixu passed through the frozen curtain of water and found the stone wall behind the waterfall.

He felt around for a moment, then pressed a perfectly fitted rock. The stone wall slowly sank inward, revealing a doorway.

With a flash of movement, he slipped into the darkness.

The cave was damp and chilly, three meters high and about two meters wide, stretching inward into depths whose end could not be seen.

But Ye Guixu needed no light at all. The vision granted by Sauron's armor allowed him to see everything inside with perfect clarity.

After he walked several dozen paces along the passage, the space ahead suddenly opened up.

A small mound of earth appeared before him. Atop it, a slender stalk of Blue Silver Grass swayed in the breeze, its blades adorned with faint, fine golden markings. Though surrounded by sunless darkness, it still radiated a faint yet tenacious vitality.

"Blue Silver Emperor, oh, Blue Silver Emperor, you entrusted yourself to the wrong man. Trapped in this sunless cave for so many years-you really have suffered."

The Blue Silver Emperor's blades swayed gently, as though responding to his words.

Ye Guixu hesitated no longer. He raised his hand, green light shining on his iron claws of interwoven black and gold, and roughly dug up the Blue Silver Emperor together with the soil around her roots.

Then he walked over to the nearby stone wall and slapped it.

With a "ding," a black lead box fell from a hidden compartment in the stone chamber's ceiling.

Ye Guixu caught it and held both the Blue Silver Emperor and the black lead box before his chest.

The purple gem on the chest of the Void Star Armor suddenly lit up. With a flash, both were stored in the armor's internal space.

Limited by his current strength, this internal space was only one hundred cubic meters, but that was enough.

With the items secured, Ye Guixu lingered no longer. He turned and swiftly left the cave.

He passed through the waterfall and rose into the night sky again, casting a cold glance toward Holy Soul Village.

"Old dog, keep that head of yours sitting on your neck for now. One day, I'll pluck it off with my own hands and kick it like a ball."

Boom!

The thrusters blasted emerald-green flames, and Ye Guixu's figure instantly tore through the night, vanishing into the distant sky.

Meanwhile, as Tang Hao tended to his injuries in Holy Soul Village, an inexplicable wave of agitation rose in his heart, as though something important were quietly slipping away.

What unsettled him even more was the sneer of that brat constantly echoing in his mind.

"Trash who couldn't even protect his own wife!"

Those words were like a sharp blade, carving again and again into his deepest wound.

Suddenly, the Soul Power inside him went berserk without warning. A metallic sweetness rose in Tang Hao's throat, and he violently spat out a mouthful of blood, his aura instantly withering.

"What's going on?!"

"Damn it... could that brat's attacks have carried some special ability too?!"

Tang Hao's eyes were bloodshot, and he panted like an ox.

His old injuries had plagued him for years.

Even if that boy's attacks had aggravated them, they should not have grown worse and worse while he was trying to heal.

He did not know that the Void Star God Sauron did indeed possess the ability to influence other people's minds.

"Brainwave Connection" could not only read others' memories and implant nightmares, but also leave an imprint in their Spiritual Sea to serve as an anchor for resurrection.

However, Ye Guixu had not used this ability at all.

The gap between their mental powers was too vast. Using it rashly would only invite a backlash.

But after his Martial Soul transformed to possess the Ultimate Evil attribute, this ability had merged into that evil power, becoming an invisible, barely perceptible passive trait.

Ye Guixu had not activated it deliberately, but Ultimate Evil itself carried an aura that corroded the mind.

Just as darkness silently seeped into cracks, Tang Hao's mind had long since become riddled with fissures from years of guilt and regret.

This sinister aura slipped through those vulnerabilities, gradually magnifying the negative emotions deep in his heart and making the words "trash who couldn't even protect his own wife" particularly grating,

coupled with how, today, a boy who had only just awakened his Martial Soul had insulted him, toyed with him, aggravated his old injuries, and left him returning empty-handed.

It made his agitation especially unbearable and his anger especially uncontrollable.

As his Soul Power rampaged, his old injuries burst like a breached dike, and the backlash became a catastrophe.

After suffering repeated blows, Tang Hao truly could not calm himself enough to heal. Besides, it had been years since he last visited that gloomy cave.

He hurried out of his room and saw Tang San, who looked similarly uneasy, inside the house.

"Dad."

Yet Tang Hao ignored him completely, hurriedly opened the door, and disappeared into the night.

Tang San grew even more uneasy.