My Bargain Master's Nerve Is Truly Enormous
But the sight of the All Heavens Star Dou Great Array standing against a Sage
was utterly shocking to the Federation.
A formation? Fighting a Sage?
All Soul Masters regarded gods as lofty beings far above them; threatening a god was as hard as climbing to heaven.
Even though the Federation had been working toward that goal and had developed three Rank 12 Godslayer Fixed Soul Cannon Shells,
which were said to be capable of slaying gods,
the more powerful a Soul Master was, the better they understood just how powerful that step into godhood was.
A mere burst of energy was not enough to slay a god.
After all, a Rank 12 Godslayer Fixed Soul Cannon Shell could only be used once and could not be controlled.
But that All Heavens Star Dou Great Array was different.
"Was this great array created by the Demon Clan?"
"Can we use it on the Douluo Continent?"
The All Heavens Star Dou Great Array was clearly full of profound mysteries, and most importantly, it conserved resources.
It drew upon the power of the stars.
Then all it needed was a group of powerful experts arranged in formation.
A Rank 12 Godslayer Fixed Soul Cannon Shell, on the other hand, consumed enough resources to exhaust countless mineral veins and metal reserves.
It had even caused the Federation's Soul Tool Technology to stagnate for thousands of years, forcing it to halt research into Fixed Soul Cannon Shells with Rank 12 Godslayer power.
But the Zhou Heaven Star Dou Great Formation displayed in the sky screen today had instantly left the people of the Federation coveting it.
"Set up a formation, and it can stand against a Sage. In other words, a formation can slay a god?"
In Mingdu, a chief academician of the Soul Tool Academy of Sciences murmured under his breath, the fervor in his eyes difficult to conceal.
At the same time, the entire academy was frantically recording the Zhou Heaven Star Dou Great Formation in the sky.
The other empires were doing the same, throwing themselves into researching the great formation.
After all, the thing looked powerful.
This Zhou Heaven Star Dou Great Formation was even more powerful than the Dragon Transformation Art.
The Spirit Pagoda went without saying. Its research capabilities were second only to Shrek Academy's, so it naturally had to develop it as well.
But Shrek Academy was in a very uncomfortable position. The foremost measure of its strength had always been its high-end combat power.
Whether in the number of Titled Douluo or the quality of its Quasi-Gods, it far surpassed the other powers and the Federation.
But now, with the Primordial World brought to mind, there were all kinds of things that could strengthen the Douluo Continent.
Every one of them was undermining Shrek Academy's image as a sacred land in the hearts of Soul Masters.
If everyone could learn from the sky screen, who would still come to Shrek Academy?
So Long Yeyue's expression was ugly.
"How on earth do we get rid of that damned sky screen?"
"Where's Yun Ming? As the Sea God Pavilion Master, why is he still doing nothing?"
Long Yeyue was practically bursting with rage.
If other people really learned the Zhou Heaven Star Dou Great Formation, wouldn't Yun Ming, the number one person under heaven, be greatly weakened by comparison?
Zhuo Shi sat silently to one side without speaking, secretly circulating the Dragon Transformation Art right there in front of her.
Mm, even though that old thing said not to cultivate the Dragon Transformation Art,
I'm a dignified elder of the Sea God Pavilion, a person of exalted status. What's wrong with me cultivating a technique?
What? Am I an Evil Soul Master too?
Meanwhile, Yun Ming's thoughts were completely different from what Long Yeyue imagined.
Long Yeyue wanted to preserve Shrek Academy's status.
But Yun Ming wanted to become a god. The Douluo Continent was now restricted, and the Divine Realm had yet to return.
If he wanted to become a god, there was only one path: create a Divine Realm.
Yun Ming looked at the All Heavens Star Dou Great Array as it revolved unceasingly in the sky screen.
"If I could operate a colossal Zhou Heaven Star Dou Great Formation on the Douluo Continent to draw in the power of the stars, could I make the Douluo Plane advance into a Divine Realm?"
Of course, he had no idea that the old woman elsewhere was already ready to curse him to death.
Take action?
What action could he possibly take?
Was he really supposed to block out all the images of the Primordial World displayed in the sky screen, right in front of the entire Douluo Continent?
Far away in the Douluo God Realm, Tang San's expression turned completely ugly after he saw this scene.
First came the Ancestral Dragon Scripture, then the Dragon Transformation Art, and now the All Heavens Star Dou Great Array.
"Slay a god? What a joke!"
The All Heavens Star Dou Great Array took painstaking effort to create and required the help of multiple powerful experts.
Could it slay a god?
Back when Tang San was only a Titled Douluo, he had been able to injure gods with the invincible Hidden Weapons in his hands, and had even been able to slay them.
Would he have needed to go to the trouble of creating some All Heavens Star Dou Great Array?
The Divine Realm was not his greatest concern now, for it was already under his control.
What worried him was the Douluo Continent. If the Douluo Continent gained control of something so dangerous, the consequences were unimaginable.
The reason he had passed down a crippled version of the Mysterious Heaven Skill and had not passed down his Hidden Weapons
was naturally to prevent innocent people on the Douluo Continent from being slaughtered indiscriminately.
And to prevent the weak from killing the strong with ease.
That did not fit Tang San's vision of the Douluo Continent.
Moreover, he did not want what he had passed down to turn against him one day, so he had long since made every possible contingency plan.
Even when the Divine Realm returned to the Douluo Continent, no matter how quickly the continent had developed, he would be able to bring it under his control immediately.
But now that the Heaven-Slaying Star Dou Great Array existed, things were different.
"Could it be that when I return, the Douluo Continent will turn around and oppose the Divine Realm?"
That was a possibility Tang San could never accept.
He was also worried about his father and mother. "I hope they can stop the Douluo Continent from developing the All Heavens Star Dou Great Array."
The Primordial World
The beings of the Primordial World still had no idea that the Witch Clan and Demon Clan in the heavens were nearly beating each other's brains out.
They only noticed that members of the Witch Clan seemed to be seen less often, and there seemed to be less news of the Demon Court recruiting troops.
All at once, the Primordial World had become peaceful and harmonious.
The Human Clan, too, developed rapidly during this time.
In particular, a member of the Innate Human Race had become a disciple of Taishang Laojun, one of the Three Pure Ones, and joined the Human Teaching.
He was known as Grand Master Xuandu. He cultivated the Great Dao of the Golden Elixir and created a cultivation technique for the Human Clan.
At the same time, other members of the Human Clan, such as Suiren, Youchao, and Ziyi, gradually laid the foundations of Human Clan civilization and enjoyed the blessing of the Human Clan's providence.
And Fuxi, Nuwa's foolish older brother,
was now looking at the Dragon Transformation Art in his hands, caught in a dilemma.
He cultivated the Human Dao, following its Merit to attain the status of Heavenly Sovereign.
But as someone who had mastered the Great Dao of Yin and Yang, he naturally knew how he would end up.
A Sage was not free.
A Heavenly Sovereign of Human Dao Merit was even less free.
He would need to serve as a vessel for the Human Clan's providence and Merit, holding down Fire Cloud Cave and unable to enter the Primordial World at will.
But the Dragon Transformation Art before him was another Great Dao.
I want to become a Sage, and I want freedom too?
Fuxi was tempted. Gifted and perceptive, he had known at first glance that the Dragon Transformation Art was a technique for a human to transform into a dragon.
But though it appeared to transform one into a dragon, in truth it transformed one into the Human Clan's providence and Merit.
That was to say, it gave providence a tangible form.
This term would appear in the dynasties of later ages, referring to what was known as a dynasty's providence: "dragon Qi."
"Was this technique created by that bargain master of mine?"
"It would turn me directly into the Human Clan's providence, instead of making me some kind of vessel?"
"Hiss... what... enormous nerve!"