"What's wrong with looking down? Whatever she's come up with..."
As he spoke, the Asura God lowered his head indifferently and looked in the direction the God of Destruction was pointing.
The instant his gaze touched the dark expanse of stars below.
The Asura God's words stopped abruptly.
The sneer on his face froze.
The Asura Blood Sword in his hand actually let out a piercing wail beyond his control.
And he was not the only one.
Beside him were the Evil God King, the God King of Goodness, and the Goddess of Life.
These four lofty Supreme Gods.
At that moment, all of them widened their eyes, their pupils shrinking to pinpoints.
Their breathing, along with time in the surrounding space, seemed to stop completely at that instant.
Directly beneath them.
There was no spiritual domain, nor any illusion of the Dragon God's Heart.
There was only Douluo Star, tiny as dust, wedged in a gap between Dark Gold scales.
And that boundless Dark Gold dragon body, which had completely filled every galaxy within their field of vision.
In this stretch of space, the five God Kings who had once stood so high above others, controlling the fates of countless lives, now resembled five frozen statues.
The Asura God's eyes almost bulged out of their sockets.
He stared at the endless expanse of Dark Gold scales beneath his feet, with no end in sight.
Every single scale was more than a hundred times larger than their Divine Realm!
And Douluo Star, which they regarded as the foundation of the lower realm, was now wedged between two scales, not even amounting to a speck of dust.
Clang.
The Asura Blood Sword, which the Asura God had held for countless eras and which was said to have slain the previous Dragon God, actually slipped uncontrollably from his trembling hand.
It floated in space, letting out one mournful cry after another.
"This... this is impossible..."
The Asura God's lips trembled wildly, his voice as hoarse as though it had been scoured with sandpaper.
"An illusion... this is definitely an illusion created by Gu Yuena!"
"How could a creature that defies the laws of the universe possibly exist?!"
Hearing the Asura God's muttering, which verged on a breakdown.
The God of Destruction, standing behind him, immediately unleashed a torrent of curses.
"Illusion, my ass!"
"Use your own fucking divine sense to check! See whether that's an illusion or something real!"
At that, the Goddess of Life beside them swallowed with difficulty.
She raised her hands shakily and released a faint strand of Life Divine Power, cautiously probing toward the Dark Gold body below.
Yet the instant her divine power touched that Dark Gold scale.
"Pfft!"
The Goddess of Life reacted as though struck by lightning, violently spraying a mouthful of golden divine blood as she flew backward and slammed heavily into the void.
"Life!" The God King of Goodness paled in shock and hurried forward to support her.
"Don't... don't probe it..."
The Goddess of Life clutched the God King of Goodness's arm, her exquisite face filled with unprecedented terror.
"Heavens... its body contains terrifying blood vitality that even the laws of heaven and earth must bow before!"
The Goddess of Life gasped for breath, her voice trembling to the utmost.
"Even a single drop of its blood contains countless times more energy than our entire Divine Realm combined!"
Everyone was stunned by her words.
The Evil God King and the God King of Goodness sucked in cold breaths, their scalps tingling, feeling as though all the blood in their bodies was about to freeze.
A purely physical body!
Not an illusion, not a formation!
An unparalleled monster that used the entire starry expanse as its bed actually existed in this universe!
"Run..."
The Evil God King gritted his teeth, the first to beat the drum of retreat.
"Return to the Divine Realm immediately and destroy every passage completely! This isn't something we can deal with!"
"Stop!"
Just then, the Asura God suddenly roared.
His eyes were bloodshot as he snatched back the Asura Blood Sword floating in midair.
As the Divine Realm's enforcer, as a Supreme God who had once slain the Dragon God, his pride would not let him accept being scared witless by a sleeping monster!
"So what if it's huge?!"
The Asura God stared fixedly at the deathly still Dark Gold dragon body below, gritting his teeth.
"Look, it isn't moving at all!"
"There's no breathing, no sign of a heartbeat, not even a trace of soul fluctuations!"
The other God Kings paused at those words.
Indeed.
Although this colossal beast stretched across the stars and lay across the universe, it was as quiet as a floating meteorite.
"Asura, you mean..." The God of Destruction frowned.
"This might only be a corpse from ancient times!"
A glint of madness flashed through the Asura God's eyes.
"The universe is vast. Perhaps a void beast of this size really was born in an extremely distant ancient age."
"But it must have died long ago!"
"Gu Yuena used some unknown method to move Douluo Star into a gap in this corpse, hoping to scare us off with the pressure of this empty shell!"
At those words, the gazes of the Evil God King, the Goddess of Life, and the others flickered slightly.
Bold as the Asura God's conjecture was, it was the "truth" everyone present most wanted to hear.
If this was only a corpse, everything made sense!
"We'll know whether it's a corpse once we test it!"
The Asura God took a deep breath, and red divine power capable of destroying heaven and earth erupted from his body.
"Asura, have you gone mad?!" The God of Destruction paled in shock.
But the Asura God refused to listen.
He had to shatter this "myth" with his own hands to steady his tottering heart of the Dao!
"Asura Judgment!"
With a furious roar, the Asura God directly burned the God King essence within his body.
He gripped the Asura Blood Sword with both hands and raised it high.
A blood-red sword radiance tens of thousands of zhang long tore straight through the dark space, carrying terrifying killing intent powerful enough to cleave a planet in two as it slashed viciously down at one of the Dark Gold scales below!
He held nothing back in this strike.
It was the pinnacle blow of the Divine Realm's strongest single-target attack!
Boom!
The blood-red sword radiance cut through the universe and struck the Dark Gold scale with perfect accuracy.
Yet the next second, a teeth-grating metallic collision rang out through space.
Then, before the utterly horrified gazes of the Five Great God Kings.
The Asura sword radiance, powerful enough to shatter a planet, failed to leave even a white mark the instant it touched the Dark Gold scale!
And that was not all.
The scale's surface seemed to have received a tiny amount of physical stimulation, instinctively producing a trace of natural recoil.
It was just like the instinctive reaction of an ordinary person's skin tightening slightly after a mosquito bite.
But for the Asura God, this was utter catastrophe!
Bang!
That recoil surged back along the Asura Blood Sword in an instant.
Crack!
Before the Asura God even had time to react, both hands holding the sword exploded into a cloud of bloody mist!
And not just his hands.
The bones of his entire right arm shattered inch by inch under that recoil!
"Aah!"
The Asura God let out a piercing scream, flying backward for tens of thousands of meters as though struck by a meteor, blood spraying wildly from his mouth.
And the Asura Blood Sword, hailed as the Divine Realm's deadliest weapon, let out cracking sounds as it buckled under the strain.
A notch the size of a fingernail actually broke off its blade!
The Evil God King, the God King of Goodness, the God of Destruction, and the Goddess of Life.
These four Supreme Gods stared blankly at the Asura God, his hands destroyed and his grievous injuries leaving him near death, then looked at the Dark Gold scale below, which bore not even a scratch.
They fell into utter despair.
There was no need to test it anymore.
What ancient corpse? What scheme of Gu Yuena's?
It was all fucking bullshit!
It had not even woken up, yet a mere trace of recoil from its scale's passive defense had crippled an arm of the Divine Realm's strongest fighter!
If this monster actually opened its eyes and let out a breath.
What would the Divine Realm amount to?!
"Flee..."
The God of Destruction trembled violently all over, his voice thick with a sobbing tone.
"Flee now! Weld the passage shut!"
"This is no mighty ancestor we can afford to provoke!"
Without the slightest hesitation, the God of Destruction grabbed the grievously wounded Asura God as he flew backward and charged desperately toward the spatial passage, carrying him like a torn sack.
The Evil God King and the God King of Goodness used every last ounce of strength they had, terrified that a moment's delay would leave them swallowed by this dark expanse of stars.
The Goddess of Life kept the Asura God alive as she plunged into the passage without looking back.
The five Supreme Gods had arrived with insufferable arrogance, but they left in an even sorrier state than dogs that had lost their homes.
Once they had all tumbled into the passage, the God of Destruction hurled a blast of Destruction Divine Thunder behind him, completely blasting apart the passage's outer entrance.
The great hall of the God Realm Committee.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The five of them fell onto the white jade floor, rolling and scrambling.
The hall was so quiet that only their heavy panting could be heard.
The Asura God lay sprawled on the floor, his arms hanging limply, his gaze completely unfocused.
"Ruined... all ruined..."
He kept repeating those words.
It was not only his hands, but also his heart of the Dao. He had always thought himself one of the universe's mightiest beings, yet he could not even withstand the instinctive recoil of a single scale.
And the other party had not even woken up!
The Sea God stood to one side, dumbfounded.
He stepped forward, swallowed, and asked, "Asura, Destruction, what exactly did you encounter? Is Gu Yuena's formation that powerful?"
Hearing that, the Evil God King jumped straight up and pointed at the Sea God's nose as he cursed.
"Formation, my ass!"
"We almost fucking didn't make it back!"
As he spoke, both of the Evil God King's hands trembled, and he recounted exactly what they had seen in space and what had happened after the Asura God's strike.
After hearing this, the Sea God went completely rigid, his whole body turning cold.
"Bigger than a planet, and the recoil crippled Asura..."
The Sea God glanced at the notch in the Asura God's Asura Blood Sword and fell utterly silent.
Gritting his teeth, the God of Destruction forced himself to his feet.
He walked up to the core formation in the center of the hall, which was used to connect to the lower planes.
Without the slightest hesitation, he raised the Destruction Scepter high and smashed it viciously down onto the formation's core!
Boom!
The formation's core shattered on the spot, turning into a heap of scrap metal.
"Destruction, what are you doing?!" The Sea God paled in shock. "If you destroy the central formation, we'll completely lose control over Douluo Star! What about the legacy of our faith there?"
"Legacy?"
The God of Destruction turned and glared at the Sea God with bloodshot eyes.
"If you want your legacy, open a passage yourself and go down to ask that mighty ancestor for it!"
"If we keep this formation, what happens if that monster rolls over one day and follows the spatial coordinates to the Divine Realm?"
"Do you want the entire Divine Realm buried alongside your Sea God Island?!"
Faced with the God of Destruction's roar, the Sea God instantly shut his mouth.
Yes, however important that legacy was, could it matter more than their lives?
The Asura God lay on the ground, his face deathly pale, and let out a powerless sigh as well.
"Destruction was right."
"Sever all contact."
"From this day forward, no deity in the Divine Realm, no one at all, is to mention the name Douluo Star again."
"Act as though this plane never existed in the universe."
At that moment, the five Supreme God Kings reached an agreement.
They abandoned Douluo Star completely.
To prevent word from leaking and causing panic in the Divine Realm, they did not even intend to notify the other Second-Level Gods and Third-Class Deities, instead unilaterally cutting off every passage for ascension and descent to the lower realms.
Meanwhile.
Douluo Continent, the core region of Star Dou Great Forest.
Gu Yuena had been kneeling on one knee at the edge of the Lake of Life, staring intently at the fissure in the ground.
Suddenly, her brow lifted, and she looked up at the sky.
"My lord, what's wrong?" Di Tian noticed something unusual about her and hurriedly asked.
A mocking smile curled at the corners of Gu Yuena's lips.
"Just now, in outer space beyond Douluo Star, a few little insects seemed to have tried to take a bite out of the Dragon Ancestor's scales."
Di Tian froze for a moment at her words.
"Insects? Where would insects come from in outer space?"
But Di Tian quickly caught on, his eyes widening in an instant.
"You mean... those fellows from the Divine Realm?"
Gu Yuena stood up and brushed the dust off her skirt.
"Who else could it be but those self-important false gods?"
"They probably noticed the disturbance here and came down to investigate, only to attack without knowing their own limits."
Hearing this, Di Tian sucked in a breath of cold air.
"Then... they didn't wake the Dragon Ancestor, did they?"
"Wake him?" Gu Yuena laughed outright, her eyes filled with disdain.
"Di Tian, do you think a mountain of iron would feel anything if a mosquito crashed into it?"
"Their divine power was so feeble it could practically be ignored. Landing on the Dragon Ancestor's scales, which are even larger than the continent, it wouldn't even qualify to scratch an itch for him."
"I'm afraid even the recoil force naturally emanating from the Dragon Ancestor's body would be more than they could stomach."
After hearing this, Di Tian swallowed as well.
Before the Dragon Ancestor, the Gods of the Divine Realm did not even amount to mosquitoes.
The gulf between that and his understanding filled him with immense awe, as well as a trace of relief.
Fortunately, their Soul Beast Clan had been kneeling on the ground. If they had failed to know what was good for them and provoked him like the Divine Realm had, there probably would not even be scraps of them left now.
"My lord, will the Divine Realm send an army down next?" Di Tian asked, still somewhat worried.
After all, the Divine Realm had ruled over the lower realms for so many years and possessed deep reserves.
Gu Yuena shook her head, her tone utterly certain.
"No."
"After what just happened, as long as those God Kings don't have water in their brains, what they want most right now is to seal off every spatial passage completely."
"They're more afraid than anyone that the Dragon Ancestor will follow those connections and attack them."
"From this moment on, Douluo Star has been completely abandoned by the Divine Realm."
Elsewhere.
Spirit City, the Pope's Palace.
Bibi Dong sat in the great hall, listening to her subordinate's report.
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