It was extremely rare for so many Godhood Inheritors to appear in the same lower realm within such a short time.
"What kind of feng shui treasure land is the Douluo Continent?"
The God of War rubbed his chin, looking baffled. "Three gods came from a single lower-realm plane in a little over a decade? Who would believe that if word got out?"
"Something really is wrong."
The God of Wisdom pushed up his glasses, his eyes flickering. "Godhood Inheritance depends on affinity and aptitude. For a lower realm to produce even one is already a sign of exceptionally abundant fortune, but three at once... I've managed information in the Divine Realm for so many years, and I've never seen anything like it."
"Poseidon, is that the inheritor you chose?"
The God of Destruction turned to look at the Sea God.
The Sea God Poseidon looked bewildered. "I don't know..."
Just a moment ago, he had been thinking about how to secretly find Wu Wei at this point in time and make him his inheritor!
Who would have thought that the next moment, he would see his real inheritor appear?
And that stats panel didn't look any weaker than Wu Wei's!
No... it would be more accurate to say it far surpassed his.
At that thought, the Sea God immediately brightened and abandoned the idea of finding Wu Wei.
"That woman called Bibi Dong is indeed the inheritor I chose. She's already undergoing my divine trials, so it's only natural that she'll inherit my godhood in the future!"
The Rakshasa God spoke up then, explaining Bibi Dong's situation.
"No one is undergoing my divine trials for the time being. That Qian Renxue must have come into contact with them in the following years!"
Seeing the Rakshasa God speak, the Angel God Qian Yuhan added a word of her own.
As soon as her voice fell, that cold, merciless voice rang out from the sky screen.
[Ding~ Divine Punishment of Equality for All Beings... descends!]
Hummm-
Invisible ripples spread from the sky screen. Even across the endless void, the gods of the Divine Realm Core could feel the oppressive might of the divine punishment from the future.
Then they saw the same scene as Tang San and the others in the lower realm.
They saw Wu Wei's cultivation plummet and the levels of the Shrek group fall sharply. Then they saw Tang San's level begin to drop as well.
["Cultivation: level 100 (Sea God)... level 99... level 98... level 97..."]
"The next Sea God's level is actually dropping!"
The God of War abruptly straightened, his face full of shock.
He wasn't the only one. The Five Great God Kings and all the gods of the Divine Realm were stunned.
Like Bibi Dong and the others, none of them had initially expected the divine punishment to strike gods just as ruthlessly.
On the sky screen, the three new gods' divine rings shattered at the same time, their divine armor peeled away, and their godhoods collapsed.
Bibi Dong plunged from level 100 all the way to level 0. Qian Renxue fell to her knees as her level dropped to zero. Tang San lay on the stone slabs as his divine ring burst apart, leaving him a mortal.
Three gods, reduced to zero by the same force at the same time.
The Divine Realm Core.
Dead silence.
The gods who had just been discussing how "three gods came from one lower realm" now looked as though someone had seized them by the throat. Their expressions froze, and for a long time, none of them moved.
"Even... even gods..."
The God of Speed's voice was terribly hoarse, like sandpaper scraping over an iron plate.
"They were... completely helpless against the divine punishment?"
The God of Fate's face was deathly pale. As a god of prophecy, she now felt a chill run down her back.
"Three gods, reduced to zero at the same time..."
The Goddess of Life murmured to herself, her voice trembling uncontrollably. "How could something like that be done?"
"Terrifying!" the God of Destruction said gravely, his gaze fixed on Tang San's shattered Sea God divine ring on the sky screen. "Forcibly stripping a god of his godhood and reducing his level to zero is tantamount to outright denying the existence of his divinity. Such authority..."
He didn't finish, but every god understood what he meant.
Such authority was already beyond the Divine Realm's understanding.
"Divine Punishment of Equality for All Beings..."
"Even the next Sea God, Angel God, and Rakshasa God couldn't escape the divine punishment..."
"Do you think we might be unable to escape it in the future too?"
The God of Wisdom pushed up his glasses, his voice trembling slightly.
"This..."
"That can't be possible..."
"We're the gods of the Divine Realm..."
"We're different from those gods from the lower realm on the sky screen who haven't ascended yet..."
"..."
At the God of Wisdom's words, the faces of the Divine Realm's gods instantly turned pale, one after another.
They didn't want to suffer what Bibi Dong and the others had suffered in the scene, their cultivation reduced to zero.
That was too terrifying.
Especially for gods like them, who had always stood high above everyone else, being reduced to mortals was worse than death.
But while they were all worrying and fearing, there was something they didn't know.
The gods of the Divine Realm in the future weren't merely worried and afraid. They were actually enduring the divine punishment!
Future spacetime.
The Divine Realm Core.
The sky screen still hung above the Douluo Continent, but the gods of the Divine Realm were no longer in the mood to watch the scene in the lower realm.
Because that force had arrived.
Hummm-
An invisible ripple spread from the depths of the void, pierced the Divine Realm's barrier, and enveloped the entire Divine Realm Core in an instant.
Every god present felt the sanction of the Divine Punishment of Equality for All Beings at the same moment.
"Damn it, that Divine Punishment of Equality for All Beings is real!" The God of Destruction jerked his head up, his expression changing abruptly.
"Who was it?"
"You interfered with the lower realm again and again. If you want to court death, don't drag us down with you..."
"Exactly! Did you treat the Divine Realm's iron laws like thin air?"
"Step forward!"
"I guarantee I won't beat him to death!"
Feeling the sanction of the Divine Punishment of Equality for All Beings, the other gods all roared in anger.
In the future, they, like the beings on the Douluo Continent, had clearly heard the voice that spoke when the divine punishment descended.
So they knew perfectly well why it had come.
"Damn it, where the hell did that bastard Asura God go?"
"Quick!"
"Everyone, join forces and hold it back!"
The God of Destruction shouted.
The gods instantly joined forces, trying to resist the divine punishment's sanction.
But the moment they tried to move their divine power, they found they couldn't use it at all.
It was as though they were trapped in a quagmire. Every last bit of divine power within them was locked down tight, and they couldn't move so much as a finger.
"My divine power... my divine power is draining away!" the God of Speed cried in terror. He looked down at his hands, where the divine light flowing over them was visibly dimming.
"No! No! No-!"
The God of Speed struggled wildly, his face so contorted it looked ready to drip blood.
But it was no use. His level was plummeting, and his divine rings were shattering.
He wasn't the only one.
Every god present was losing cultivation levels.
"Destruction..." The Goddess of Life slumped to the ground, her face as white as paper.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
The God of Destruction roared furiously. Dark red divine power poured wildly from his body as he tried to fight the suppression.
But that force was far stronger than him. His divine power was like a river flowing backward, rapidly draining from his body.
"No-!"
Of course, as the chief culprits who had brought about the divine punishment,
the Asura God and the previous Sea God likewise failed to escape its sanction.
The expressions on their faces at that moment were quite something.