Star Dou Great Forest

As for Electrolux, the Holy Necromancer, he was powerful enough, wasn't he? Even as nothing more than a wisp of divine consciousness, no one on the entire Douluo Continent could have destroyed him.

Yet merely because Huo Yuhao made a trip to the Clear Sky Sect, Electrolux inexplicably dispersed his divine consciousness and vanished into ashes while saving Huo Yuhao.

Lu Jingming found it hard to believe that no great figure had been secretly manipulating and plotting behind the scenes.

After all, when Electrolux died, he even left Huo Yuhao an Eternal Tower. Even so, that tower was still forcibly shattered by that God King within Qiankun Love Valley.

Every trace clearly indicated that Douluo Continent had always remained under that God King's close watch.

Making a name for oneself on Douluo Continent during this era was unimaginably difficult.

Had it been ten thousand years earlier, Lu Jingming naturally would have had nothing to fear. Back then, no forces from beyond Douluo Continent interfered with the development of the lower realm, nor did gods from the God Realm descend. At most, they passed down the divine consciousness of their inheritances, but even then, they could not interfere excessively.

Ten thousand years later, however, the God Realm encountered a spacetime storm, and the entire God Realm was swept into a black hole, leaving it in dire straits.

Although that God King had left behind certain contingencies and a carefully arranged ten-thousand-year plan in advance, the situation was still somewhat better than during the era of the Peerless Tang Sect.

After all, in the current era, that God King could freely violate the rules of the God Realm and directly interfere with the development of the lower realm by relying on his status as a Law Enforcer God.

He could establish rules forbidding other gods from meddling in the affairs of the lower realm, yet those rules imposed no restraint on himself, allowing him to break them at will.

If Lu Jingming had not possessed True Authority, then upon arriving in this era of Douluo Continent, he would probably have had no choice but to give up and coast through life.

Because in this age, no matter how exceptional one's talent was, one almost had no possibility of becoming a god.

On one hand, Douluo Continent no longer had any divine inheritances. On the other, even if someone relied on their own overwhelming strength to condense a divine position, the God Realm was already full, with no vacant places for newly ascended gods. The future was utterly bleak.

In this difficult era, the only ones with a chance to become gods were Tang Wutong, the God King's daughter, and Huo Yuhao, the Child of Destiny "tamed" by the God King.

Take Beibei, Xiaoxiao, and the others, for example. In the end, they could only spend their lives on Douluo Continent until they grew old and died.

Could it be that their talents were inferior to those of the First Generation Shrek Seven Devils? Clearly not.

At the root of it all, the divine positions in the God Realm were already full, leaving no place for them.

Moreover, that God King would never allow Huo Yuhao to have a faction of his own. Thus, Beibei and the others were destined to grow old and die on Douluo Continent.

Ever since learning that he had arrived in the era of the Peerless Tang Sect, Lu Jingming had never considered becoming a god through inheriting a divine position.

He knew very well that even if he successfully inherited a divine position and ascended to the God Realm, as a new god, he still could not escape the fate of living beneath the God King's shadow. Even inheriting the supreme position of a God King would be no exception.

What was more, in the current era, there was no such thing as a God King inheritance. Therefore, if he wanted to overtake others on a curve in this world, he had to find another path and open up an entirely new track for himself.

At that thought, Lu Jingming gently shook his head and temporarily stopped dwelling on such distant and complicated matters.

Those were problems he would have to face in the future. For now, more important matters awaited his attention.

At this moment, they slowly descended from the sky, passing through layer upon layer of clouds. Below them, an endless expanse of forest came into view. This forest was the continent's foremost gathering place for soul beasts—the Star Dou Great Forest.

It was difficult to imagine that ten thousand years ago, the Star Dou Great Forest had been far larger than it was now.

After the changes of countless years, the Star Dou Great Forest's territory had now been drastically reduced by human expansion.

Take Shrek City of Shrek Academy, for instance. It had originally been part of the Star Dou Great Forest, yet it had now become territory of the Heaven Dou Empire. Of course, that was merely its nominal affiliation; in reality, Shrek City retained a high degree of independence.

The Star Dou Great Forest, the largest soul beast habitat on Douluo Continent, was clearly divided into four distinct regions according to their danger levels and the distribution of soul beasts: the outer region, the inner region, the core region, and the forbidden land at the very center.

The outer region was, comparatively speaking, a gentler part of the Star Dou Great Forest. Large numbers of hundred-year soul beasts and some Thousand-year Soul Beasts primarily lived there.

These soul beasts were relatively weak within the Star Dou Great Forest and were common targets for low-level soul masters seeking low-level soul rings.

Further inward lay the inner region. The soul beasts living there possessed significantly stronger bloodlines and greater strength than those in the outer region.

Besides Thousand-year Soul Beasts with more powerful bloodlines, quite a few Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts also appeared there.

These Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts possessed formidable abilities and unique skills. If a soul master could find a suitable soul beast there and obtain its soul ring, their strength would increase enormously.

Further into the depths of the forest lay the core region. The core region contained numerous Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, and even more astonishingly, traces of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts could occasionally be found there.

Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were apex existences among soul beasts. Each one rivaled a human Titled Douluo, had shed its beastly nature, and possessed intelligence no less than that of a human. Every one of them was a legend among soul beasts.

The forbidden land at the very center of the Star Dou Great Forest was an absolute forbidden zone for humans.

Several of the top existences among the continent's Ten Great Fierce Beasts occupied this forbidden land of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Among them, Beast God Ditian, ranked first, was stationed there. Di Tian possessed terrifying strength, and any human who dared approach the forbidden land would suffer his merciless, fatal strike.

Lu Jingming also knew an even more secret truth. Within the alternate space of Lake of Life at the heart of that forbidden land slept a powerful existence known as the Lord of Soul Beasts—the half-body of the Dragon God, the Silver Dragon King, who had possessed God King level strength at her peak.

Although the Silver Dragon King had now fallen into a long slumber due to her severe injuries, that did not mean she would remain silent forever.

Once the Star Dou Great Forest encountered a major upheaval, a crisis sufficient to shake the very foundations of the soul beast race, it would surely awaken the slumbering Silver Dragon Princess.

Even in her severely injured state, the Silver Dragon King's strength was still not to be underestimated.

As the saying went, a lean camel was still bigger than a horse. The foundation and power of a severely injured God King level expert were far beyond anything mortals on Douluo Continent could hope to reach.