The overwhelming superiority of the gods' emergence and soul guidance technology left the situation across the continent with no suspense whatsoever.
Two days after that final decisive battle, the original three empires of the Douluo Continent successively chose to submit. The Sun Moon Empire began comprehensively taking over the Heavenly Soul, Dou Ling, and Star Luo Empires, purging all voices of opposition.
The policy of suppressing one group and then promoting another was almost universally applicable. Having the newly promoted vested interests suppress the previous batch of vested interests naturally allowed the original Douluo Continent to be divided from within.
Coupled with the impact brought by the Sun Moon Empire's advanced soul guidance technology, although it was impossible to eliminate the original Douluo Continent's psychological resistance toward the Sun Moon Empire in the short term, over time it would inevitably exert a subtle influence.
Xu Zihuang vigorously promoted bloodline fusion between the Sun Moon Empire and the three countries of the original Douluo Continent. Using himself and Zhang Lexuan as examples, he declared that marriages between people of the Sun Moon Empire and people of the original Douluo Continent would more easily produce exceptionally talented geniuses.
In fact, this was indeed the case. There were racial differences between people of the Sun Moon Empire and people of the original Douluo Continent, this was also the main reason why people of the original Douluo Continent had always regarded people of the Sun Moon Empire as foreigners. People of the Sun Moon Empire had greater advantages in early cultivation and could more easily absorb the effects of various medicines. People of the original Douluo Continent, on the other hand, held greater advantages in the comprehension of their own martial souls and the fusion of soul power and spiritual power.
Xu Zihuang and Zhang Lexuan had precisely inherited the advantages of both sides.
Although they were special cases, marriages between people of the Sun Moon Empire and people of the original Douluo Continent could indeed improve talent overall, much like a high-probability benign martial soul mutation.
However, Xu Zihuang's primary purpose was still to use this to eliminate ethnic contradictions. When all ethnic groups merged into a single ethnicity, prejudice and rejection would naturally cease to exist.
To promote fusion between the two ethnic groups, the Sun Moon Empire had also specially introduced policies that granted substantial rewards to those Sun Moon Empire citizens and original Douluo Continent citizens who intermarried.
At the same time, Xu Zihuang discussed with Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen, and others the construction of the Sun Moon Divine Hall and the Angel Divine Hall.
The Sun Moon Divine Hall would have full authority over the promotion of the soul spirit fusion method. At present, the Sun Moon Empire has begun extensively recruiting spirit-attribute soul masters or soul masters skilled in spiritual power from all over the country.
Having just unified the Douluo Continent, the Sun Moon Empire would only select from within the country at this stage, as loyalty was guaranteed. Only after the subsequent situation stabilized would promotion begin across the entire continent.
The Angel Divine Hall would recruit soul masters with strong combat power, especially those with restraining abilities against evil soul masters. It would primarily consist of soul masters with light, lightning, and fire attributes.
The Angel Divine Hall and the Sun Moon Divine Hall had clearly divided responsibilities, checked and balanced each other, yet were both under the unified control of the imperial family.
According to Xu Zihuang's plan, Ye Guyi and Wang Qiu'er would respectively become the Hall Masters of the Angel Divine Hall and the Sun Moon Divine Hall. With Wang Qiu'er stepping forward, the soul beasts inside the Star Dou Great Forest would also cooperate more willingly.
Furthermore, every generation of emperors of the Sun Moon Empire would concurrently hold the positions of Honorary Hall Masters of both the Angel Divine Hall and the Sun Moon Divine Hall. They could intervene at any time to prevent the two sides from colluding and hollowing out imperial authority.
Three months passed in the blink of an eye. The continent as a whole was developing in a positive direction, and the Sun Moon Empire's rule had at least gradually stabilized on the surface.
During this period, Xu Zihuang also publicly announced the news that he had taken Wei Na as his Imperial Consort.
This morning, Xu Zihuang brought Ye Guyi, Wang Qiu'er, Ning Tian, Juzi, and Wei Na, five women, to the Sea God Pavilion of Shrek Academy.
Ning Tian and Juzi were still holding Xu Ningqing and Xu Xiyan. After three months, the bulge in Wang Qiu'er's lower abdomen had become even more pronounced. The whole family gathered here.
In the open space in front of the Sea God Pavilion, the elders of the Sea God Pavilion and the inner court disciples were all present. They all knew that Xu Zihuang's arrival also meant it would decide the fate of Shrek Academy.
Originally, Elder Xuan should have stepped forward on the Sea God Pavilion elders' side, but unfortunately, he had already gone mad. At this moment, he was like an ordinary little old man, sitting cross-legged untidily on the open ground, taking a bite of chicken leg meat and a sip of wine, giggling.
The one who had to represent Shrek Academy was unavoidably Elder Song. After Elder Song were Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, and the others. Zhang Lexuan was accompanied at the very end.
Standing at the forefront of the inner court disciples were Ma Xiaotao, Bei Bei, Tang Ya, He Caitou, Xu Sanshi, and the others who were familiar with Xu Zihuang. Xu Sanshi had only returned to Shrek Academy not long ago.
The expressions on all these people's faces were extremely complicated.
Xu Zihuang withdrew his gaze from Elder Xuan, then swept his eyes one by one across everyone present, and finally raised his head to look toward the top of the Sea God Pavilion.
Specks of golden light condensed, forming a giant tree-shaped light projection. It was the Golden Tree.
A flash of golden light appeared on the Golden Tree, and Mu Lao's somewhat illusory figure quietly appeared before the people of Shrek Academy. Mu Lao looked straight into Xu Zihuang's eyes, his expression bitter as he let out a light sigh.
"What is meant to come will always come."
"Elder Mu." Xu Zihuang nodded slightly toward Mu Lao. Although their positions differed, Elder Mu had never owed him anything over the years; instead, he had taught him with all his heart.
He did not say anything more. Instead, through his divine sense, he clearly presented the scene of Tang San plotting against him in this space. It was not a mental power materialized projection, but a reversal of the long river of time, replaying the scenes from that time.
The most recent one was at the Haotian Sect, where Tang San tried to subdue him by having Tang Wutong fuse with Wang Qiu'er's soul. After the plot failed, he angrily made a move in rage. The scene shifted, followed by Tang San forcibly teleporting him to the sea near the Star Sea Continent through the Qiankun Forgetting Love Valley. There was another instance where Tang San gathered the demonic soul great white shark clan in an attempt to erase him in the sea, but it was intercepted in advance by the God of Space.
At this moment, Xu Zihuang's gaze slightly condensed. His eyes crossed the long river of time and saw himself when he had just escaped from that isolated island.
A black-haired, purple-eyed youth was inside the cabin of a warship, staring at the mirror beside the bed. His expression suddenly froze. The two people in different times and spaces seemed to have their gazes intersect in an instant.
The difference was that his younger self did not possess his current abilities. What he could see was only the pair of eyes he now possessed.
The scene flickered again. Unlike the previous pure reversal of the long river of time, what he saw this time was a parallel timeline at the same time period. Moreover, it was from Wang Xiao's perspective.
Just like before, Wang Xiao had also led the remnants of Yao Yang and the original Imperial Dragon Soul Mentor Group to rescue him, but they suddenly encountered an attack from the demonic soul great white shark clan midway, resulting in nearly the entire army being wiped out. Only the heavily wounded Wang Xiao luckily escaped back to the continent.
However, Wang Xiao was almost obsessively unwilling to give up on rescuing Xu Zihuang. Later, by a fortunate coincidence, he broke through to the Title Douluo realm, but this once again damaged his already severely poisoned origin. Even after becoming a Title Douluo, he did not have much time left.
In the last few years of his life, he created the Fengshen Platform, hoping to capture an extremely rare special soul beast from the extreme north, using its blood to suppress the deadly poison in his body and thereby extend his life. By a curious coincidence, he encountered the Snow Empress who had regained human form.
This led to the plot of the Snow Empress embryo in Xu Zihuang's memories from his previous life.
Wang Xiao knew he could not absorb the Snow Empress's soul ring and soul bone, so he chose to make a deal with the Star Luo Empire, hoping the Star Luo Empire would send powerhouses to rescue Xu Zihuang. The Xu family of the Star Luo Empire's imperial family possessed the Star Crown martial soul, which had a special ability to judge a person's fortune or misfortune through astrology. The Star Crown Sect had inherited this for over ten thousand years, and every time this ability was used, it had never been wrong.
Ten thousand years ago, the Star Crown Sect used this ability to predict Bibi Dong's fortune and misfortune, learned the fate of the Spirit Empire, and chose to withdraw from the world, thus avoiding being implicated. Four thousand years ago, the Star Crown Sect emerged to lead the Star Luo Empire in repelling the Sun Moon Empire's invasion, also relying on this ability to seize the most opportune moment.
Wang Xiao had learned this information from Xu Zihuang's parents. Before taking action, he asked Xu Jiawei to use the martial soul ability to check Xu Zihuang's situation.
To obtain the supreme treasure that was the Snow Empress embryo, Xu Jiawei naturally would not refuse Wang Xiao's request.
However, the final result obtained was that Xu Zihuang had already perished.
Xu Zihuang did not continue watching. He also withdrew his divine sense, gaining some understanding in his heart.
From the very beginning, Tang San had actually noticed him and developed the intention to eliminate him in advance. The cause and effect between them had already been established long ago. Those demonic soul great white shark clans were summoned by Tang San. Tang San could not allow him, someone carrying the Sun Moon Empire's imperial bloodline and possessing exceptional talent, to escape, because this would inevitably affect Tang San's plan to turn the entire Douluo Continent into the Tang Family Continent and collect the faith of the continent.
The reason why that parallel timeline situation did not appear now was that Xu Zihuang, who had become the God King of Space and Time, had interfered with the past from the future.
He was destined to become the God King of Space and Time, this was an unchangeable fact. Tang San's attack on him was the cause; his interference with the past from the future was the effect. Cause and effect, reincarnation, everything in the world must follow the changes of rules.
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