When Yu Xiaogang finished speaking, everyone else's expression changed at once.
Dai Mubai was the first to explode. "That's right! Those two women were already outrageously talented, and now they have godhoods backing them. Won't they recultivate even faster than us?"
"Then what's the point of us recultivating?" Ma Hongjun squatted down, clutching his head. "We finally got onto the same starting line as them, and it turns out they're wearing godhood running shoes?"
Oscar pushed up his glasses, his expression grim. "Grandmaster is right. If Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue recultivate back to Titled Douluo in just a few years and Spirit Hall makes a comeback, the continent will be at war again."
Yu Xiaogang turned sharply toward the Asura God, his voice tinged with urgency. "Your Excellency, Asura God..."
"Rest assured!" The Asura God glanced at him. His tone was mild, but Yu Xiaogang immediately fell silent. "Poseidon and I are now on the Douluo Continent as well. With us here, everything is taken care of. We won't let our inheritors fail!"
The great tent fell silent for a moment.
Yu Xiaogang's eyes lit up. "You mean..."
"Although Poseidon and I have passed on our godhoods, our foundations remain. We won't recultivate any slower than them," the Asura God said calmly.
Yu Xiaogang let out a long breath, visibly relaxing. He leaned back against a pillar and wiped the sweat from his forehead. "That's good, that's good..."
Dai Mubai and the others relaxed as well.
"Yes, that's wonderful!"
"We have real gods helping us. There's no need to be afraid of them at all!"
"Even the gods are helping us. That just shows how unpopular the Spirit Hall Empire is. If they don't lose, who will?"
"Haha, exactly..."
Ma Hongjun and the others were all relieved to have gods backing their side.
In the past, beneath the Heavenly Screen.
When the news that Tang San could be resurrected came from the screen, the imperial palaces of the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire breathed a sigh of relief almost simultaneously.
In the Heaven Dou Empire's imperial palace.
Xue Ye leaned back in his dragon throne, his tense shoulders finally relaxing as he let out a long breath. "It's good that Tang San can come back to life. In that future, Spirit Hall has two gods. Without Tang San holding the front, the Heaven Dou Empire wouldn't be able to withstand them."
In the Star Luo Empire.
Dai Mubai's father sat on the throne, looking even more at ease than Xue Ye. "I don't much care whether Tang San lives or dies. But if those two women from Spirit Hall recultivate back to their former strength, the Star Luo Empire will be the first to suffer. With Tang San and the Asura God holding them back, I can rest easy."
Spirit Hall, the Pope's Palace.
Bibi Dong sat on her throne, watching the Heavenly Screen before her play the moment when the Asura God said, "Poseidon and I are on the Douluo Continent as well."
Her expression had been grim ever since the Asura God revealed his identity. Hearing those words, she exploded.
"Bastard!" Bibi Dong slammed her hand against the armrest and sprang to her feet, killing intent practically spilling from her phoenix eyes. "He's been demoted by divine punishment, yet he's still here stirring up storms! My godhood was reset to zero, so wasn't his cultivation reset too? He's a level-zero piece of trash himself, yet he still dares to talk so big..."
Ghost Douluo stood below her and spoke cautiously. "Please calm your anger, Your Holiness..."
"Calm my anger?" Bibi Dong turned and snapped at him. "The Asura God interfered with the lower realm and brought down divine punishment, wiping out my level-one-hundred cultivation and destroying the Spirit Hall Empire's excellent position. Now he's run off to help Tang San! So the Spirit Hall Empire deserves to be destroyed? I deserve this rotten luck?"
Fuming, she paced back and forth across the Pope's Palace, the hem of her papal robes flapping sharply.
Everyone in Spirit Hall was just as furious as Bibi Dong.
"This Asura God is truly a complete bastard!"
"Exactly! It's bad enough that he interfered with the lower realm as a god, but even after being divinely punished, he's still thinking about helping Tang San deal with us..."
"Did our Spirit Hall break some heavenly law?"
"So we just have to die, is that it?"
"..."
The Divine Realm Core.
After the Asura God's words played on the Heavenly Screen, the gods' expressions were a sight to behold.
"The Asura God is really too..." The God of Speed smacked his lips, weighing his words. "Too underhanded, isn't he? He's already been demoted to the lower realm, but he's still set on helping Tang San deal with Bibi Dong?"
"He's not helping Tang San. He's helping himself." The God of Destruction folded his arms, his voice tinged with schadenfreude. "If Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue find out that fellow Asura is on the Douluo Continent too, how could they not go after him for revenge?"
"True..."
"But you can't blame them for that. Asura brought it on himself by doing evil."
"It's just a pity about the God of Food and the Nine-Colored Goddess."
"Yes, they were only lending a hand, and ended up being beaten to death in the lower realm."
The gods all discussed it among themselves.
Just then, the God of Wisdom suddenly spoke.
"Wait."
All eyes turned to him.
The God of Wisdom pushed up his glasses, his eyes flashing behind the lenses. "I've been thinking about a question. Is the Asura God really planning to help Tang San?"
"What do you mean?" The God of Destruction frowned.
"When we gods pass on our godhoods, we normally remain God Level experts. We simply lose our godhoods and have to leave this universe, or it will keep rejecting us!"
"When the Asura God said just now that his foundation remained after the divine punishment, I believed him!"
"But without a godhood, and with his cultivation reset to zero as well, it won't be so easy for him to break through to God Level again."
"Even the Asura God King, after losing his godhood, would have to walk the path to godhood again to return to God Level. He would either need a Godhood Inheritance or a Self-Created Godhood. There is no other way back to God Level."
"I believe the original Asura God King was willing to pass on his godhood, because even without it, he would still be a God King-level expert!"
"But that isn't true of the Asura God King on the Heavenly Screen. Does he really not want to take his godhood back?"
The God of Wisdom quickly laid out his analysis.
When he finished, the gods fell silent at once.
Because they all thought it really was possible!
In the past, if someone had said such things about the Asura God, everyone would certainly have rejected the idea.
But things were different now. It had long since been proven that the Asura God was the one who interfered with the lower realm most often in the future.
So who knew whether he had interfered before?
With the Asura God's character, it really was possible that he had no sincere intention of helping revive Tang San.
He might have wanted to take back his godhood as well.
"No, I don't believe the Asura God would be that kind of person!"
"If that were true, he wouldn't have needed to pass on his godhood in the first place!"
The Goddess of Life shook her head, firmly choosing to believe in the Asura God.
"Then we'll find out if we keep watching!"
The God of Destruction glanced at his wife and gave a quiet snort.