Within a secret realm of the Douluo Federation.
Time has lost its meaning here, leaving only the endless roar of thunder and the flow of laws. Yu Yuanchen has sat cross-legged on the central stone platform for an unknown number of years.
His aura is as deep as the sea, resonating in a profound way with the entire secret realm and even the vast Douluo Plane outside.
Floating before him are two clusters of light. One is chaos-colored, the purest origin left behind after the fall of the Saint Demon Continent's Planar Spirit; within it, countless worlds seem to be born and destroyed, with law runes flowing like stars, radiating boundless energy and information.
The other is an ancient, three-legged cauldron—the Heavenly Dao Cauldron. Its body remains cracked, yet its brilliance is restrained, exuding a heavy artistic conception capable of suppressing the heavens.
However, Yu Yuanchen's focus is not entirely immersed in these two treasures. Deep within his consciousness, a more critical and perilous transformation is underway—the condensation of his own, true God King position!
He has cast his initial goal toward one of the foundations of his own path: Martial Dao Faith!
It has been nearly sixty years since he pioneered the Martial Dao from humble beginnings and spread its teachings to the world. Over these decades, thanks to the rise of the Martial Dao on the Douluo Continent, countless Soul Masters and commoners have benefited, embarking on their own path of cultivation and changing their destinies. This merit of creation and guidance has long since gathered in the unseen, forming a vast, pure, and fervent torrent of faith!
This power of faith is intangible and formless, yet it exists in reality, containing the reverence and gratitude of countless practitioners toward the "Martial Dao," as well as their respect and trust in its founder, Yu Yuanchen!
"Condense!"
With a thought from Yu Yuanchen, his Spirit Origin Realm spiritual power acts like a precision-woven net, reaching deep into the void to guide and gather the power of Martial Dao faith scattered throughout the world.
This is an extremely mentally taxing process, requiring his own divine essence as a guide and his profound insights into the Martial Dao as a base to capture, gather, and solidify this intangible force.
Gradually, strands and wisps of pale golden light, filled with life force and a spirit of progress, are stripped from the void. Like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, they converge toward Yu Yuanchen's palm. At first, they are like hotarubi, then like streams, and finally, they transform into a surging ocean of pale golden faith!
Yu Yuanchen's expression is solemn. As he forms seals with his hands, his vast thunder divine essence surges out, transforming into countless intricate and mysterious purple-gold runes. Like the sturdiest mold, they forcibly compress and refine this vast ocean of faith!
Yu Yuanchen's divine essence operates like an invisible furnace, wrapping, tempering, and purifying the massive amount of faith power! Impurities are cast aside, leaving only the purest Martial Dao intent.
At the same time, he uses his insights into the true meaning of the Martial Dao—the essence of power, the boiling of qi and blood, the art of combat, the leap of life, the resilience of will, and more—as the most precise carving knife, imprinting them stroke by stroke into the mass!
Hum—!
The pale golden light grows brighter and more solidified! Finally, in the palm of Yu Yuanchen's hand, a crystal about the size of a pigeon egg slowly takes shape. It is pale gold throughout, with countless fine Martial Dao runes flowing across its surface, radiating complex artistic conceptions of exploration, progress, power, life, and combat!
The Martial God Divine Spark Prototype!
Although this divine spark is merely a prototype, it already possesses the foundation of a god position! If nourished by sufficient power of faith over time, and nurtured by a successor with deep insights into the Martial Dao whose path is highly compatible with his own, it may one day give birth to a complete "Martial God" position!
However, Yu Yuanchen's goal goes far beyond this!
"The position of Martial God is good, but it is not the ultimate end of my path." Yu Yuanchen stares at the pale golden crystal in his palm, a flash of determination in his eyes.
The Martial Dao has not been spread for long; while it has great potential, the accumulated foundation of faith is far from enough to support the birth of a God King position! What he wants is to open up an unprecedented, heaven-defying path!
The next moment, he moves his mind again! Within his Dantian, the Thunder God position—now largely repaired, purple-gold in color, with a thunder dragon coiling inside and radiating glorious heavenly might—suddenly flares with light. It breaks free from the nourishment of his spirit core and floats beside the Martial God Divine Spark Prototype!
One is purple-gold, representing the judgment, destruction, and creation of thunder; it is the manifestation of heavenly laws, with strict order!
The other is pale gold, representing the exploration, power, and life of the Martial Dao; it is the gathering of the will of all living beings, full of variables!
The moment these two distinct, even opposing, divinities approach each other, they erupt with violent repulsion! Purple-gold thunder light and pale golden martial intent collide and erode each other frantically, emitting a harsh humming sound. They are like fire and water, seeking to annihilate one another completely!
Yu Yuanchen's thunder divine essence vibrates violently, and his complexion turns pale instantly! The backlash from forcibly placing two such disparate origins of divinity together far exceeds his estimates! If not for his solid foundation and formidable divine body, he would have been severely injured in an instant!
"Now is the time!"
At the very moment the conflict between the two divinities reaches its peak and is about to spiral out of control, a sharp gleam erupts in Yu Yuanchen's eyes! Without hesitation, he triggers the sealed, chaos-colored origin of the Planar Spirit!
"Merge!"
He presses his hands out into the void. With his supreme will, he forcibly splits the chaotic origin—which contains the ten-thousand-year accumulation of the Saint Demon Continent and encompasses all laws and vast energy—into two.
One part transforms into a stream of the purest law energy, acting like a gentle adhesive, and is slowly injected between the two clashing divinities; the other part transforms into countless tiny law runes, acting like the most skillful craftsman, attempting to build a bridge of communication and transformation between the two completely different divine rules!
This is an extremely dangerous process, one that is nearly going against the heavens! Although the origin of the Planar Spirit contains all laws, its own attributes are mixed. If not controlled properly, it could become a catalyst for the conflict rather than an adhesive!
Yu Yuanchen concentrates all his focus, splitting his divine sense into billions of parts to precisely control every wisp of energy and every rune.
He is like a tightrope walker, dancing on the edge of destruction and new life! Sweat pours from his body like rain, and his skin cracks, with pale golden divine blood seeping out, only to be instantly evaporated and healed by the power of thunder.
Time passes bit by bit, and the energy fluctuations within the secret realm become increasingly terrifying, as if gestating a chaotic egg about to split the heavens and earth!
Gradually, under Yu Yuanchen's desperate "pouring" of his own profound insights into laws as a guide and the plane origin as provisions, a subtle balance begins to emerge between the violently clashing purple-gold thunder and pale golden martial intent!
The repulsion still exists, but it is no longer a purely destructive conflict; it has transformed into a strange "unity of opposites."
The order of thunder begins to accommodate the variables of the Martial Dao, and the life force of the Martial Dao begins to nourish the destruction of thunder! Tiny, brand-new law threads, never before seen in the universe, begin to be born and extend at the boundary of the two divinities!
These newborn laws are neither pure thunder nor pure Martial Dao; they transcend both, containing even more fundamental and grand artistic conceptions of "creation," "inception," "hope," and "evolution"!
Yu Yuanchen experiences a flash of inspiration; he knows the most critical moment has arrived!
"With my soul, I forge the divine foundation! With my thought, I open a new path!"
"The Dao of Yuanchen, open!"
He lets out a shout that resonates through his soul, pouring all his divine soul will, his longing for transcendence, and his expectations for the future into the process without reservation.
The partially repaired Thunder God divine spark burns violently, transforming into the purest thunder origin! The Martial God Divine Spark Prototype also disintegrates, turning into a vast torrent of Martial Dao faith!
The origin of the Planar Spirit is drained frantically, thrown like fuel into this newborn furnace of laws!
Rumble—!!!
Deep within Yu Yuanchen's sea of consciousness, a sound like the splitting of heaven and earth erupts! The purple-gold and pale golden colors merge completely, transforming into an indescribable chaos color that seems to contain the very first light of the universe's creation.
A brand-new divine spark, chaotic throughout, with the shadows of the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, plants, insects, and countless living beings flickering on its surface, slowly condenses and takes shape!
The moment the Divine Spark took form, a supreme majesty—one that transcended all things, as if holding the power to initiate the dawn of an era and renew all creation—erupted from within Yu Yuanchen, piercing through the barriers of the Secret Realm and shooting straight into the heavens!
The sky over the entire Douluo Continent changed color in that instant! It was not the destructive scene of a Thunder Tribulation descending, but rather a display of ten thousand auspicious clouds and a thousand streaks of radiant light!
The sun and moon shone together, and the stars manifested!
It was as if the entire world was cheering, celebrating the birth of a supreme God Position that represented "beginning" and "hope"!
Although this God Position was still in its infancy, with many details requiring long ages to perfect and vast amounts of faith to nourish, its rank had truly and firmly stepped into the realm of a God King!
The prototype of a God King rank—the Yuanchen God Position! It signified that Yu Yuanchen would initiate a new beginning for all creation, holding the start of an era and bringing forth infinite possibilities and hope!
Yu Yuanchen opened his eyes abruptly, chaos light swirling within his pupils as if the scene of the universe's creation were unfolding there.
Feeling the unprecedented power surging from the Yuanchen Divine Spark within him, along with a deeper sense of control over the laws of heaven and earth, a vast sense of ambition welled up in his heart!
He had succeeded! He, Yu Yuanchen, had finally relied on his own strength to fuse the Thunder God Position with Martial Dao Faith, using the Plane Origin as provisions to successfully carve out an unprecedented path and condense his own prototype of a God King rank!
However, just as his heart was surging and he was carefully contemplating the mysteries of this newly born God King rank, a terrifying supreme will, carrying the essence of destruction and termination, suddenly crossed the endless void and descended upon this realm!
The strength of this will far surpassed that of the previous Planar Spirit, carrying a majestic Heavenly Might that seemed to hold the power to govern the rules of the universe and judge the fates of all living beings! It was none other than one of the Five Great God Kings of the God Realm Committee, the God of Destruction who held the authority of destruction!
"Hmm? The Thunder God Position... has disappeared? No! This is... the aura of a new God King?! In a lower plane, someone has actually managed to create their own God King rank?!"
The God of Destruction's divine sense, filled with shock and disbelief, exploded in Yu Yuanchen's mind like a thunderclap! Clearly, the anomaly of the Thunder God Position and the birth of this brand-new God King rank had alarmed this supreme existence!
Yu Yuanchen's heart tightened, but he did not panic. He had long anticipated that condensing a God King rank would inevitably attract the attention of the God Realm, and from the essence of that will, he could easily deduce that the person before him was likely the God of Destruction.
He restrained his aura, temporarily hiding the Yuanchen Divine Spark prototype deep within his body, and responded with a calm divine sense: "This junior, Yu Yuanchen, pays his respects to the senior God of Destruction."
"Yu Yuanchen... it is you!" The God of Destruction's divine sense swept over him, immediately recognizing him. "You actually managed to... use the Thunder God Position as a foundation, fuse faith, carve your own path, and condense a God King rank?! This... how is this possible?!"
The voice of the God of Destruction was filled with unprecedented agitation. As an ancient God King, he had seen countless geniuses, but someone like Yu Yuanchen, who had single-handedly carved out a path directly to the God King realm in a lower plane, was unheard of! This could no longer be described as mere talent; this was an act of defying the heavens!
Yu Yuanchen remained neither humble nor arrogant, stating frankly: "I was fortunate to have some insights, and by borrowing the legacy of my predecessors, I integrated and mastered them to take this step. However, this position is newly formed and still a prototype; it requires vast amounts of faith to nourish and long ages to perfect the details. The road ahead remains long."
He directly pointed out the current situation, both demonstrating his potential and explaining the difficulties, maintaining a perfectly balanced demeanor.
The God of Destruction was silent for a moment, seemingly digesting this astonishing information. After a long time, his majestic voice sounded again, the tone carrying less scrutiny and more of an indescribable complexity and... a hint of scorching heat?
"Good! A fine Yu Yuanchen! This God King felt you were no ordinary person back then, but I never imagined you could reach this step! Creating your own God King rank... how many tens of thousands of years has it been since the God Realm has seen this? No, it has never happened before." (After all, the five God Kings of the God Realm were all born as such.)
He changed the subject, his tone becoming solemn and even carrying a hint of equal exchange: "Perfecting the details is a matter of slow, grinding work that outsiders cannot assist with. But this Power of Faith... my God Realm may be able to lend you a helping hand!"
Yu Yuanchen's heart stirred: "What does the senior mean?"
"A God King rank concerns the foundation and future of the God Realm! With one more God King, the rules of the God Realm will be more perfect, and its potential will be even greater! This is a matter beneficial to the entire God Realm!"
The God of Destruction's voice carried an unquestionable decisiveness. "Once you have completely stabilized your realm and handled matters in the lower plane, you may ascend to the God Realm. At that time, the God Realm Committee can, at its discretion, allocate a portion of faith resources to help you perfect this position!"
This was a massive promise! The God Realm controlled countless lower planes; how vast was the accumulated Power of Faith? With official support from the God Realm, the time Yu Yuanchen would need to perfect the Yuanchen God King position would be greatly shortened!
"Many thanks, senior!" Yu Yuanchen was also delighted and thanked him solemnly. This undoubtedly solved his most pressing need.
"No need for formalities." The God of Destruction's tone softened. "That you could walk this path is your own fortune. I hope you use this position well and do not fail the meaning of 'Yuanchen initiates a new beginning for all creation.' The God Realm... looks forward to your arrival."
He paused, then added: "According to the rules of the God Realm, a newly ascended god may have a hundred years to handle the karma of the lower plane. Take care of yourself."
As his voice fell, that terrifying will of destruction receded like a tide, disappearing without a trace.
The Secret Realm returned to calm, with only the chaos light faintly radiating from Yu Yuanchen's body, indicating that what had just happened was no hallucination.
Yu Yuanchen stood up tall, feeling the vast power and infinite possibilities transmitted from the chaos Divine Spark within him, his eyes bursting with unprecedented brilliance.
The Yuanchen God King rank prototype, complete! The path to the God Realm had also been paved!
Next, he needed to completely refine the remaining origin, fully control the Heavenly Dao Cauldron, and use this hundred-year period to arrange everything on the Douluo Continent, cultivate successors, and then... ascend to the God Realm, heading toward that much broader stage!
His journey had finally stepped onto the fast track leading to the pinnacle.
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