Only after teaching Bibi Dong a lesson did the Angel God's divine sense turn back to Qian Daoliu, her tone as indifferent as if she were discussing an ant.
"That ancient stone tablet was most likely just a totem some ancient race used to exaggerate its claims."
"As for the disturbances underground..."
The Angel God's divine sense snorted, looking as though she had seen through everything.
"It is merely a million-year soul beast that has awakened a little earth attribute talent, or one skilled in mental illusions."
"A million-year soul beast may seem invincible to you mortals. You might even consider it a world-destroying behemoth."
"But before a god, it is nothing more than a slightly larger loach."
Hearing the Angel God's certainty, much of the terror in Qian Daoliu's eyes dissipated.
That's right!
Mortals' horizons were too narrow, after all.
However strong that thing was, could it surpass a god who created laws?
Perhaps it really was some million-year soul beast that created illusions and deceived their senses!
"Very well."
The Angel God's divine sense slowly raised one hand, her expression composed.
"Since I have already sent down a wisp of divine sense, today I shall broaden your horizons and show you true divine might."
"Qian Daoliu, watch closely."
"I shall now probe deep underground with my divine consciousness."
"I shall strip the tendons and skin from this soul beast playing at being a god, drag it straight out of the planetary core, and imprison it above Spirit City!"
As her words fell, the Angel God's divine sense pointed.
In an instant, a beam of golden divine light pierced straight through the floor of the Pope's Palace.
Then, at a speed mortals could not possibly comprehend, it swept toward the depths beneath the Star Dou Great Forest, its advance as unstoppable as splitting bamboo.
Inside the hall.
Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong exchanged a glance, both feeling considerably more at ease.
The god was investigating personally!
This time, that soul beast playing at being a god would definitely have its true form exposed!
Inside the Pope's Palace, Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong held their breath, not daring to breathe heavily.
The Angel God's divine sense stood in midair with her hands behind her back, looking exceptionally relaxed.
"My divine sense has already reached ten thousand meters underground."
The Angel God's voice echoed through the hall, carrying a trace of mockery.
"The rock strata here are indeed somewhat strange. They are far harder than ordinary crust."
"But what of it?"
"Under the penetrating power of divine consciousness, no disguise can hide."
Hearing the god speak with such confidence, Qian Daoliu finally felt half the weight lift from his heart.
As expected, before a god, that thing playing tricks underground was not worth mentioning.
"Found it."
Suddenly, the Angel God's divine sense chuckled.
"My divine consciousness has touched that Dark Gold wall you spoke of."
Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong exchanged a glance, their hearts rising into their throats.
The Angel God's divine sense shook her head slightly, her tone filled with disdain.
"Just as I expected."
"This is no creature's body at all, but a thick earth attribute keratin layer."
"This vile beast is rather clever. It knew to flatten its body and merge with the leylines, creating the illusion of an enormous size."
"It is certainly enough to frighten mortals like you."
The Angel God believed she had seen through everything.
Within her divine perception, there was indeed a flat Dark Gold surface below.
To display her divine might before her believers, the Angel God's divine sense decided to envelop the soul beast directly with her divine consciousness, then uproot it!
"Rise!"
The Angel God's divine sense gave a low shout, and the divine light reaching deep underground instantly spread.
Ten li.
A hundred li.
A thousand li!
Her divine consciousness spread at tremendous speed, covering the entire underground region of the Star Dou Great Forest in the blink of an eye.
Yet the relaxed expression on the face of the Angel God's divine sense in midair suddenly froze.
It wasn't enclosed?
Within her divine perception, that Dark Gold surface was still extending outward!
"Hmph, interesting."
"It seems this vile beast has indeed lived long enough to spread its keratin layer this far."
The Angel God's divine sense snorted and increased her output of divine power again.
Her divine consciousness continued expanding wildly outward!
Ten thousand li!
A hundred thousand li!
A million li!
Her divine consciousness surged straight beyond the Star Dou Great Forest, spreading beneath the Star Luo Empire and the Heaven Dou Empire.
It even extended all the way beneath the seabed of the boundless ocean!
At that moment, the silence inside the Pope's Palace became somewhat terrifying.
And Qian Daoliu noticed that the once supremely majestic Angel God's divine sense in midair had stopped speaking.
Not only had she stopped speaking.
Her illusory body, formed from divine light, was actually trembling slightly.
"Great God?"
Qian Daoliu called tentatively.
The Angel God's divine sense ignored him.
At that very moment, towering waves were surging through the heart of this lofty god!
Her divine consciousness had already covered half of Douluo Star.
Yet there was still no end in sight to that Dark Gold surface!
No head, no tail, no edge!
This is impossible!
The Angel God's divine sense roared furiously in her heart.
This is definitely an illusion!
How could a creature this size exist in a mere lower realm? Even if the Dragon God came back to life, he could not possibly be this absurdly enormous!
"Shatter!"
The Angel God was enraged. She felt that her divine might had been challenged.
If I cannot enclose it, I will pierce straight through it!
Deep underground.
The divine consciousness covering a million li instantly contracted, becoming a Divine Soul Needle invisible to the naked eye.
Bearing the inviolable will of a god, it stabbed viciously toward those Dark Gold scales!
At the same time.
On the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Tang San walked out of the forest like a walking corpse, his entire body covered in blood.
His eyes were hollow, and Xiao Wu's resolute gaze as she drove him away kept replaying in his mind.
"Little San!"
Nearby, Flender and Liu Erlong, who were tending to Yu Xiaogang, spotted Tang San and hurried over.
"Where did you run off to? How did you get hurt so badly?"
"Where's Xiao Wu?"
Hearing Xiao Wu's name, Tang San shuddered violently.
He slowly raised his head, his gaze passing over Flender and settling on Yu Xiaogang, who lay inside the tent, still unconscious.
Looking at Yu Xiaogang's deathly pale face.
Tang San not only lacked his usual concern, but felt an uncontrollable disgust well up from the bottom of his heart.
If this useless fool hadn't insisted on coming to hunt for treasure.
If he hadn't thought himself so clever and tried some martial soul fusion skill.
How would Xiao Wu have been captured by a hundred-thousand-year soul beast? How would she have suddenly had a change of heart?
Tang San silently said to himself.
Teacher, your theories are nothing but a joke of fighting battles on paper after all.
In this world, without strength, you can only let others slaughter you as they please.
Tang San clenched his fists, his nails piercing his palms as blood dripped into the dirt.
He would no longer count on anyone.
He would grow stronger!
Even if he had to use any means necessary, even if he had to cultivate the most sinister techniques, he would obtain the power to take Xiao Wu back!
Just as Tang San was silently swearing his oath.
Boom!
Without any warning.
The entire Douluo Continent suddenly jolted!
It was not the continuous shaking of an earthquake.
It was a jolt as though someone had suddenly bounced the entire world!
Tang San's legs buckled, and he fell flat on the ground.
Flender's and Liu Erlong's expressions also changed drastically, and they hurriedly released their martial souls to steady themselves.
"What happened?!"
It was not just the Star Dou Great Forest.
At that moment, whether in the Heaven Dou Empire, the Star Luo Empire, or even Sea God Island far overseas.
Every living creature felt that strange tremor.
And the source of that tremor.
Was none other than the Pope's Palace in Spirit City!
Inside the hall.
Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong had been thrown to the ground by the tremor.
Ignoring their disheveled state, they hurriedly raised their heads and looked into the air.
That one look nearly frightened their souls out of their bodies.
The majestic Angel God's divine sense in midair was now clutching her head with both hands, letting out inhuman screams!
"Aaah!"
There was no lofty divinity left in that voice, only wailing.
Just now, the Angel God had stabbed the sharp needle formed from her divine consciousness into Gu Xian's scales.
The result was obvious: it had not even struck a spark.
Yet this mosquito-bite-like action had inadvertently touched a trace of the aura of the golden blood flowing beneath the scales.
Just a single trace of that aura surged back along her divine consciousness.
The Angel God saw an image.
Within her mind.
She saw a golden ocean.
Every drop of blood in that ocean contained terrifying energy sufficient to crush the entire Divine Realm.
And above that ocean was an enormous body that words could not possibly describe.
"No, this isn't an illusion..."
"Is this a dragon?"
"How could such a monster exist in the universe..."
The Angel God's divine sense struggled frantically. She wanted to sever her divine consciousness, to hurry and withdraw this wisp of divine sense back to the Divine Realm.
She did not even dare take another look!
Merely looking directly at the existence of a life-form on that level was enough to drive a god mad!
Yet it was too late.
Although that trace of true dragon pressure surging back along her divine consciousness was faint to the extreme.
To a wisp of the Angel God's divine sense, it was no different from a meteor smashing into an egg.
Crack!
Under Qian Daoliu's despairing gaze.
That Six-Winged Angel statue, which represented the Angel God's legacy and had weathered countless millennia of storms without falling.
A huge crack suddenly split open from between its brows!
With a series of cracking sounds, fractures quickly spread across the entire Six-Winged Angel statue, the symbol of Spirit Hall's highest faith.
In midair, that strand of the Angel God's Divine Sense, which had stood high above all others and regarded every living thing on the Douluo Continent as ants.
Burst into a cloud of golden mist on the spot, like a punctured balloon!
That strand of Divine Sense had utterly perished!
"No!"
Qian Daoliu let out a wail.
With the Divine Sense forcibly crushed, he, as its summoner, suffered an immediate backlash.
"Pfft!"
Qian Daoliu spat out a great mouthful of blood, his entire body falling stiffly backward.
The layer of angelic golden light around him, once sacred and inviolable, dimmed to its faintest at that moment.
Even the Level 99 Limit Douluo cultivation he took such pride in showed signs of slipping!
"Rumble!"
The cracked Angel Statue could no longer hold together and collapsed with a crash into a heap of rubble.
Choking dust filled the entire Pope's Palace.
Bibi Dong sat slumped on the floor, without even the strength to dodge the falling rubble.
She stared blankly at the pile of rubble, her mind grinding to a complete halt.
The God... was gone?
Just like that?!
The Angel God, who had been so overbearing just moments ago, threatening to tear the tendons out of that underground monster and flay it alive.
Had merely touched it with her divine consciousness.
Yet before she had even glimpsed so much as its fur, the Divine Sense she had sent down had been blasted into dust and ashes on the spot!
At the thought, Bibi Dong began trembling uncontrollably.
Even a God high above them was as helpless as a clay chicken or a straw dog before that monster.
Was there any hope left for the Douluo Continent?
Meanwhile.
In the boundless starry expanse, an unknown number of light-years from Douluo Star.
Clouds and mist swirled here, with an ethereal aura drifting through the air.
This was the supreme land that ruled countless lower planes-the Divine Realm!
At the center of the Divine Realm, inside a magnificent temple radiating brilliant golden light.
At that moment, the true Angel God sat upright upon her Divine Throne, resting with her eyes closed.
Suddenly, she opened her eyes, her face filled with fear.
For just a moment ago, the strand of Divine Sense she had left on the Douluo Continent had been instantly crushed by a force utterly beyond comprehension.
Normally, the destruction of her Divine Sense would, at most, cause her true body to suffer a backlash; she would cough up some blood and recover after resting for a while.
But this time was different.
The force that had crushed her Divine Sense had actually crossed over along the unseen connection of faith and descended upon her true body.
What kind of power was that?
The Angel God did not even have time to think.
All that had time to flash through her mind was a boundless Dark Gold scale and a drop of golden blood as heavy as a star.
"No..."
The Angel God let out a murmur.
The next second.
"Bang!"
This First-Level God, who had stood high above others in the Divine Realm and enjoyed offerings for countless millennia.
Had not even the slightest chance to resist as her entire divine body burst into a cloud of golden blood mist upon her Divine Throne!
It was not just her flesh.
The Angel God Godhood within her, along with the God Position that represented her divine origin, shattered at that same instant, dissolving completely into nothingness.
A mighty First-Level God had perished on the spot, just like that, without even knowing why!
With the Angel God's fall, the entire Divine Realm immediately underwent an earth-shaking transformation.
The skies of the Divine Realm, once filled with ethereal splendor, auspicious clouds, and radiant colors, instantly turned blood-red.
This was the phenomenon of a God's fall!
And it was the phenomenon of a chief God Rank god's fall!
The Divine Realm Central Hub.
Asura God and Sea God, who had been sitting together discussing matters, abruptly rose from their seats.
The two exchanged a glance, each seeing horror in the other's eyes.
"What's going on?!"
Even Sea God's hand holding the Golden Trident trembled.
"A First-Level God has fallen? How is that possible!"
The Divine Realm had been peaceful for countless years. Ever since the Dragon God War, not a single chief god had fallen.
Besides, they were all staying in the Divine Realm. Who had the ability to kill a First-Level God in an instant?
Asura God's expression also changed drastically.
Without wasting words, he turned into a streak of blood-red light and shot toward the source of the aura of a God's fall.
Seeing this, Sea God hurried after him.
A moment later, the two Supreme Gods arrived at the entrance to the Angel Temple.
When they pushed open the temple doors and saw the scene within, both drew in a sharp breath.
Dead.
The Angel God had truly died inside her own temple!
Asura God stared at the empty Divine Throne and the golden blood mist that had yet to fully dissipate within the hall, his expression so dark it could have dripped water.
"Who did this?"
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