Chapter 42: The God Realm's Reaction.
God Realm.
The clouds and mist shifted ceaselessly, at times like surging waves, at others like a serene beauty. Each transformation lacked any fixed pattern, yet brought forth immense beauty and shock.
A rich heaven and earth energy lingered within the clouds and mist. If an ordinary person could come here, even a single breath would extend their life by ten years.
Of course, for an ordinary person's constitution, absorbing too much of this heaven and earth energy would be no good. It was a classic case of a body too weak to handle potent supplements.
The majestic palace shimmered with a faint golden radiance under the glow of the God Realm. This was the highest point of the entire God Realm, and also the place that controlled everything within it.
The God Realm Committee held the responsibility of judging all gods, and also the task of governing the God Realm and maintaining its rules.
The main hall of the palace was octagonal. None of the surrounding walls were decorated, yet they displayed countless shifting and flickering scenes. Each light screen represented a world, a scene from a different planet in the mortal realm.
This was also where the God Realm Committee monitored the planets in various small star systems within this great star system.
In the center of the main hall, a round table was surrounded by five individuals.
Or rather, not humans.
Seated here were the five God Kings who controlled the God Realm!
Above the God Kings, there was another realm called the Creator God. As the name suggests, the current God Realm was created when a Creator God split their own power.
After that Creator God completed the creation of the God Realm, much like Pangu transforming into all things, they transformed into five seeds of Goodness, Evil, Life, Destruction, and Shura, which then took root and sprouted in the God Realm.
After countless years of growth, these five seeds gradually gained their own wisdom. They were the five starting points of this world, and also the five supreme gods of this God Realm.
Among them.
Goodness and Evil constituted thought and emotion, while Life and Destruction created the entire God Realm. If Goodness and Evil were the heavens of the God Realm, then Destruction and Life were its earth.
The Asura God, positioned in the center, harmonized the order between the heavens and the earth. Only then did the God Realm come into being, leading to its present state.
At this moment, the five supreme gods of the God Realm all focused their gaze on one wall. That wall had many light screens, but the scene in one particular screen was blurry, as if it were pixelated.
And this light screen represented the Douluo Continent where Ye Cheng resided.
The God Realm managed one hundred and eight subordinate planes. To put it in terms modern people could understand, the God Realm primarily controlled a large star system similar to the Milky Way.
Within this large star system, there were 108 smaller star systems, similar to the Solar System. To put it bluntly, what the God Realm referred to as planes were actually planets. A "world" referred to the world represented by a planet, not the vast and boundless universe.
From a modern person's perspective, the entire God Realm's prestige instantly dropped by dozens of notches!
"Starting six days ago, this plane named Douluo Continent suddenly broke free from the God Realm's control," the Asura God, seated in the central seat, declared.
The God Realm was a special space formed from the power of belief of its various subordinate planes. Therefore, the rate at which time flowed was not the same. One day in the God Realm was equivalent to one year in a subordinate plane. That was why the Asura God spoke of six days ago.
"Could it be the doing of those Dragon God remnants?" the Destruction God scowled, his voice filled with killing intent.
The so-called Dragon God was a powerful deity who had ascended from the lower realm many years ago.
This Dragon God could be considered the ancestor of all dragon clans within the God Realm's great star system. Relying on his unique, heaven-sent talent, he cultivated to godhood and condensed the two great godheads of Destruction and Creation! Even without a god seat, he broke the rules and ascended to the God Realm.
Moreover, upon arriving in the God Realm, after absorbing its pure energy, coupled with his possession of the two supreme godheads of Destruction and Creation, the Dragon God directly bypassed the thresholds of Third-Rank, Second-Rank, and First-Rank God, immediately achieving the status of a God King. He was instantly on equal footing with the five God Kings.
What was even more abnormal was that this Dragon God actually held the status of a dual God King!
One can imagine that in a one-on-one fight, none of the five God Kings were a match for the Dragon God.
This suddenly arrived expert naturally made the five God Kings extremely wary. After all, an expert had appeared on their own turf, one they couldn't possibly defeat individually. How could they feel at ease?
Thus, the God Realm Committee, represented by the five God Kings, immediately moved to impose restraints upon him!
But how could the Dragon God willingly become a dog to these five God Kings?
After all, in the mortal world, the Dragon God had been a king and an ancestor, invincible throughout the world. After breaking the rules to ascend to the God Realm, he broke free from his shackles. With his own foundation, he directly obtained the status of a dual God King!
If any one of these five God Kings were to fight him alone, they would absolutely be no match. Even if two God Kings teamed up, it would likely be a tough fight.
Under such circumstances, how could the Dragon God possibly succumb to the tyrannical might of the five God Kings?
So, he directly allied with other Divine Beasts in the God Realm and initiated war, fighting against the gods!
At that time, various demonic beasts, soul beasts, and the like from the mortal realm under the God Realm's jurisdiction were still allowed to enter the God Realm after cultivating to the god-level, and there was even a divine system specifically for these Divine Beasts.
However, the Divine Beasts had always been subjugated by the gods, holding a status similar to that of cattle and horses. One could imagine how these Divine Beasts, whose intelligence was no different from that of humans, could ever be content.
It was simply that the gods' influence was overwhelming, which forced the Divine Beasts to reluctantly submit.
Now, with the arrival of a powerful leader, they finally found their backbone.
Under the leadership of the Dragon God, the Divine Beasts' wild, freedom-seeking nature erupted, and they sought to unify the God Realm!
This war quickly spread throughout the entire God Realm.
The five controllers of the God Realm Committee—the God of Good, the God of Evil, the Asura God, the Destruction God, and the Life Goddess—joined forces, commanding all the gods of the God Realm to wage a great war against the Divine Beasts.
However, these five God Kings lacked martial virtue and ganged up on the Dragon God. Even with the status of a dual God King, facing five opponents of the same level, the Dragon God was outnumbered and simply no match.
Ultimately, the Divine Beasts, led by the Dragon God, were defeated.
The Dragon God, their leader, had his divine sense and divine soul completely shattered. But at the last moment, relying on his formidable ability, he forcefully split himself while severely wounded, transforming into the Golden Dragon King and the Silver Dragon King.
His originally incomparably powerful and perfect abilities were also inherited separately by the Golden Dragon King and the Silver Dragon King.
The Golden Dragon King inherited the Dragon God's formidable physical abilities, possessing boundless strength, invulnerability, and unparalleled speed. And most importantly, the Godhead of Destruction!
The Silver Dragon King, on the other hand, inherited the Dragon God's ability to control elemental power, simultaneously commanding the seven great elemental powers of water, fire, earth, wind, light, and darkness. And most importantly, the Godhead of Creation!
When the Dragon God split, an extremely massive amount of energy was generated. To cut the weeds and pull out the roots, the God Realm Committee launched an all-out assault.
Ultimately, the Golden Dragon King was left behind in the God Realm, but the five God Kings were unable to kill him. At the last critical moment, the Golden Dragon King used his own origin power to form an indestructible Dragon Cocoon around his body!
This Dragon Cocoon, formed from a God King's origin power, was too tough. The five God Kings couldn't do anything to him for a while. So, they simply sealed it away, planning to deal with it slowly later. As a result, they still have no way to deal with it even now.
However, the Silver Dragon King took advantage of the chaos to escape the God Realm, vanishing into the space-time turbulence, leaving no trace to this day.
Now, seeing the anomaly on the Douluo Continent, the Destruction God's first reaction was that it was the work of the Silver Dragon King, that remnant of the Dragon God who had escaped and disappeared without a trace.
Author's Note: Regarding the lore of the Dragon God and the God Realm, the settings in Douluo 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are all different. Earlier books say the Dragon God ascended from the lower realm, while later ones claim the Dragon God is the Creator God, who created the God Realm. This is contradictory, so the author has chosen what they feel is a more reasonable setting. After all, if the Dragon God were truly the Creator God, then the entire theme of racial conflict between humans and soul beasts from Douluo II onwards, with all its sacrifices and struggles... wouldn't that just become a joke?
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