After gasping for breath, the powerful cultivation of a half-step Supreme God King allowed his body to passively absorb energy from outer space; the entire star even began to grow dim.
After a long while, he finally calmed his breathing and stood up with the support of the Snow Emperor and Li Ya.
After a moment of hesitation, the Emotion God King's eyes flickered; he wanted to see the current state of the Great God Circle. A God King possesses basic control over the concept of time, even capable of briefly freezing a planet's time—much like when Tang San used Xu Yunhan to threaten him and Ju Zi years ago, freezing the flow of time for the entire Douluo Continent. His Divine Consciousness could naturally backtrack the scenes that had occurred, and a full-projection vision immediately brought the tragic state of the Great God Circle into view...
There were no survivors. Whether it was the two Supreme God Kings, Tang San and Tang Xuanyu, or the low-level Divine Officers, all were gone. Even their Divine Souls had been utterly and completely destroyed.
An indescribable, piercing pain welled up from the depths of his heart, and the Emotion God King clutched his chest.
"Zhanji, Yingying..."
Regardless of the conflicts he had with Tang Wutong, Huo Zhanji and Dai Ying were his own children!
Intense self-reproach nearly swallowed him whole. As a father, he had abandoned them and fled on his own. I am truly...
Now was not the time for sorrow. That black-and-red Giant God stood right in the center of the Douluo God Star, motionless, like a machine.
What was going on? Why didn't he continue the destruction or hunt him down?
Could it be...
Thinking this, the Emotion God King tentatively attempted to traverse space toward the original location of the Douluo Planet system.
The pale-faced Snow Emperor grabbed the Emotion God King's arm. "Are you crazy?"
The Emotion God King shook his head, his expression grave: "Didn't you see? This Giant God didn't make a move against me."
Skydream Ice Silkworm hesitated but couldn't help asking: "Could it be... because you ran away, Yuhao?"
Running away was useful, but it was somewhat shameful, especially since the Emotion God King had ditched everyone to save himself...
The Emotion God King gave a bitter smile. "Brother Skydream, do you think the attack range of a being that can kill a Supreme God King would be limited by the small distance I covered?"
"Uh... that makes sense."
"I have a guess, but I don't know if it's right. I need to verify it."
Then, the Emotion God King spent a full month slowly moving toward the location of the Douluo God Star.
The Giant God of Finality, Tezcatlipoca, still made no move, remaining as motionless as a machine. It seemed its duty was merely to eliminate all the gods of the Douluo God Star.
Finally, two months later, when the Emotion God King's feet actually stepped onto the soil of the Douluo God Star, the Giant God of Finality remained silent and still.
The seven Soul Spirits and the Emotion God King moved their feet cautiously, inching forward.
The Emotion God King swallowed hard and whispered: "I think my hypothesis is correct. The purpose of this Giant God of Finality shouldn't be to destroy the God Star, but to eliminate... the Tang Family!"
"The Tang Family!"
This was a completely unexpected answer.
"In principle, the laws of the universe do not allow a God Star to be born, but principles are meant to be broken. The original calculations of Tang San and Tang Xuanyu weren't actually wrong. With the Universe Enforcer and the God of Heavenly Protection, the Great God Circle did have the foundation and capability to become a God Star."
The Emotion God King paused. "For a while now, I've been dreaming, seeing the tragic state of the Great God Circle. In the dreams, I had a faint feeling that perhaps the universe could no longer tolerate the actions of the Tang Family."
The Soul Spirits found this explanation quite convincing. If one were to talk about disrupting order, the Tang Family was undoubtedly the number one clan in the God Realm.
Just look at what they had done; later, Tang San even called himself the "King of the Universe." He truly was someone who didn't know how many eyes Lord Ma had (didn't know his place).
"As for why I am alive..." The Emotion God King smiled bitterly, "It might be because the current me is no longer standing in the same camp as the Tang Family."
"As for this big guy..." The Emotion God King looked at the thousand-meter-tall Giant God, "It's likely a scalpel or some kind of mechanical switch used by the universe to clear out the 'cancer cell' that is the Tang Family."
Sure enough, having seemingly completed its mission, the Giant God of Finality remained motionless, like a stone pillar.
The Emotion God King's mind relaxed slightly as his Divine Consciousness swept across the entire ruined Douluo God Star.
Severed limbs of God Kings and fragments of Ultra-Divine Artifacts were everywhere; palaces had collapsed, and Immortal Qi was thin and leaking out.
Well, as the one who fled, he had actually lived to the end...
Eh, what's this...? After his Divine Consciousness swept through, he saw something extraordinary, and the Emotion God King hurried over.
Upon arriving, Li Ya pointed at a cluster of nine-colored Divine Soul fragments. "Yuhao, could this be..."
A hint of wariness appeared in his eyes: "Mhm, he truly is a Supreme God King; he didn't even die completely like this... It seems Tang Xuanyu is indeed a bit stronger than his grandfather..."
A thought suddenly popped into his mind. The deep blue crystal on his Ultra-Divine Artifact, the Necromantic Heavenly Calamity Magic Staff, lit up with a massive expanse of gray light, collecting the remaining wisp of Tang Xuanyu's Divine Soul.
A pity that nothing was left of Tang San's Divine Soul; otherwise, he would have surely "shown his respect" to his dear father-in-law.
The Emotion God King sighed. So, what should he do now?
Reconstruct the God Star?
Forget it. The two core bases, the Douluo Star System and the Dragon-Horse Star System, didn't have a single planet left. The other star systems attached to the Great God Circle and the Dragon God Realm had also been mostly destroyed.
Recall the Seven Deadly Sins Gods, have them rely on the God Star's energy with him to first restrain the energy, then slowly shrink back into the God Star, staying low-key...
Just then, the entire Douluo God Star shook violently. The Emotion God King stumbled, then realized the Douluo God Star was beginning to collapse inward.
Without a moment's hesitation, he rushed out of the God Star according to his previously planned escape route and entered outer space.
And the Giant God of Finality also made a move. Tezcatlipoca stretched his hands toward the sky as if he had been satisfied. Countless cracks erupted across his body, with dense white light seeping out.
The white light was exceptionally piercing against his black-and-red body, and the faint sound of wind seemed to emanate from within. Skydream cried out in alarm: "What's happening?"
The Emotion God King watched blankly as the Douluo God Star collapsed and disintegrated inward. Bizarre forces of time and space turned into tornadoes and plasma, tearing through the God Star's sky and land; even he, positioned in outer space, was affected.
Vaguely, the Emotion God King felt as though he had seen this scene before.
"Holy crap! I actually forgot—a Space-Time Turbulence is what is generated when a God Star-level plane is destroyed!"
"Yuhao, look at that guy!"
Following the direction Snow Emperor pointed, the massive body of the Giant God of Finality, Tezcatlipoca, had completely crumbled. From within his body, a strange white hurricane appeared, no smaller in scale than the Douluo God Star.
It was strange because what the Emotion God King sensed from it were actually the two rules of Life and Death!
"That is..."
The Emotion God King desperately searched his memory for knowledge, finally finding a similar record in a dark corner.
The Reincarnation Hurricane.
Like the Space-Time Turbulence, it is a cosmic-level natural disaster. No one knows exactly how it is generated, but it possesses an inestimable terror.
And that is... the reversal of the laws of Life and Death.
Those who were originally dead might come back to life for no reason, and those who were originally alive might die mysteriously.
No one wants to encounter such a disaster. After all, with a Space-Time Turbulence, it's possible to survive if one's strength is formidable enough, but facing a Reincarnation Hurricane, survival depends entirely on fate.
These two cosmic disasters fully displayed their horror before the Emotion God King.
"...!!"
The Emotion God King looked troubled and with difficulty raised his hand to shield himself. His quasi-Ultra-Divine Artifact level Six-Word Battle Armor donned his body, as he poured deep blue and grayish-white Divine Power into the Battle Armor as if it cost nothing, helping him resist the impact of this terrifying Space-Time Turbulence.
It wasn't very effective. The pervasive power of time and space frantically invaded and destroyed his body; even the quasi-Ultra-Divine Artifact level Six-Word Battle Armor couldn't hold on, cracking inch by inch.
"Is it still not enough?"
The Emotion God King muttered to himself, unhesitatingly igniting his Divine Position. A Divine Position was optional for him now; even without it, he was still a genuine God King, unlike a certain reincarnated fellow who clung desperately to the Sea God Divine Position.