At the border of the Balak Kingdom.
The moment Ye Yu unleashed his power, countless towering Blue Silver Spirit Jade Trees—each with a trunk more than a hundred meters thick and rising over a thousand meters into the sky—erupted from the ground. In an instant, they ensnared the entirety of Balak Kingdom's elite army, tens of thousands strong.
In the blink of an eye, a boundless Blue Silver Forest rose from the earth.
This miraculous scene left the soldiers of the Heaven Dou Empire utterly dumbfounded.
Within the ranks, agents secretly planted by the Creation Temple began shouting at the top of their lungs:
"Lord of Creation!"
"Gods have descended!"
Spurred on by their cries, countless soldiers fell to their knees, lowering their heads in reverence as though in the presence of a deity.
A god among mortals!
It wasn't just the Heaven Dou soldiers. Even within Spirit Hall's Spirit Master Legions, many Spirit Masters froze in shock, their hearts swelling with awe and fear.
They knew Ye Yu was only a Spirit Master. Yet to summon such an endless crystalline forest with ease, and to subdue tens of thousands of elite troops in an instant—such strength was no different from that of a god.
Was the Douluo Continent, after the great Angel God, now about to witness the birth of another deity?
Having subdued the Balak Kingdom's army so effortlessly, Ye Yu pressed forward. The Heaven Dou Empire's forces and Spirit Hall's legions swept directly into Balak City, seizing control.
Balak Kingdom had fallen.
Yet Ye Yu did not kill the captured soldiers. To him, these men—who had witnessed his divine power, and who by all rights should have been slaughtered but were instead spared through his "mercy"—were the perfect vessels for spreading faith in the Lord of Creation.
Under the indoctrination of countless Creation Temple preachers, the soldiers, shaken to their core and trembling with fear of death, grasped desperately at the only salvation they could find: belief.
And once they returned to their homes, these men would carry that same faith back with them, spreading it further across the land.
With Balak Kingdom collapsing in the blink of an eye, word of Ye Yu's feat quickly reached Spirit City and landed on Bibi Dong's desk.
"What?!"
Her expression darkened in disbelief as she read the report.
Impossible. How could such a Spirit Master exist in this world? To summon a Martial Soul that became an endless forest—one that did not even fade away with time—this was beyond the realm of gods!
Her face shifted through stormy shades. She had never abandoned her plan of vengeance: to destroy Spirit Hall, to annihilate the Qian family, to raze the world itself once she ascended to godhood.
If Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire truly united the continent, she intended to bide her time until she became a god—then unleash chaos and burn it all to the ground.
But now, Ye Yu's overwhelming, monstrous strength completely disrupted her plans.
With such a man standing by Qian Renxue's side, how was she supposed to succeed?
"Damn it!"
Ye Yu had once been nothing more than a freakishly gifted genius. But how had he suddenly transformed into a being whose power surpassed even the divine? It made no sense!
Her thoughts turned darker.
If Ye Yu already possessed even a fraction of this strength in the past… then the truth of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's destruction suddenly became clear.
The entire continent believed Spirit Hall had wiped them out. But she knew she had not.
If not her, then who?
Now, she finally realized the most likely culprit—Ye Yu.
With but a tenth of his current power, he could have unleashed a calamity capable of erasing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan overnight. He also had a bitter grudge against Yu Xiaogang…
Bibi Dong's eyes burned with fury.
"Ye Yu… did you kill my Xiaogang too?!"
Although she had no proof, but in her heart the motive and the power were undeniable.
Her rage simmered, but she forced it down. She was not yet his match. If Yu Xiaogang truly had been killed by Ye Yu, then only by becoming a god herself would she ever have the strength to exact vengeance.
Meanwhile, Ye Yu led the armies of the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall with terrifying momentum. Having swiftly devoured the Balak Kingdom and secured the gateway to Heaven Dou's heartlands, their campaign surged onward.
Next targets: the Silves Kingdom and Häagen-Dazs Kingdom.
Then the Tianshuang Duchy and the Gulei Kingdom.
For Ye Yu, these were not merely military conquests. They were stages upon which to display "miracles" and spread faith in the Lord of Creation.
Time and again he unleashed his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree Martial Soul, activating his Eighth Spirit Ability –Advent of a World of Flowering Trees, raising endless crystal forests across the land.
With the Creation Temple's assistance, belief in the Lord of Creation spread through the Heaven Dou Empire like wildfire.
In less than half a year, reports arrived at the Star Luo Palace, piling up on Emperor Dai Tianfeng's desk.
First came news of Balak's fall.
Then Silves, Häagen-Dazs, Gulei…
Each letter bore the same staggering message:
A deity calling himself the Lord of Creation, Ye Yu, has descended into the mortal realm to aid Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire. With a single move, he summons an endless forest of towering blue crystal trees, each hundreds of meters thick and over a thousand meters tall. In an instant, he subdued tens of thousands of elite troops. Thus the joint armies conquered Balak Kingdom with ease.
At first, Dai Tianfeng scoffed at the reports. Surely it was exaggeration, rumor, or lies.
But when more and more messages arrived from entirely different sources, the emperor's doubts began to waver.
Finally, he sent out trusted Spirit Masters of the royal bloodline—men who could not and would not lie to him.
When they returned, their reports confirmed the truth: on what had once been Balak's boundless plains now stood an endless forest of colossal blue crystal trees.
Dai Tianfeng sat frozen, stunned into silence.
A god had appeared among mortals.