Douluo Continent: My Martial Soul is the Black Dragon, I am the Lord of the Gods

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"Is this what mortals are proud of as 'godslaying'?"

Xuanming looked at the ball of light in his hand with indifference. "You can't even break through my palm? How dare you claim to defy the heavens?"

Then, he flipped his palm over.

The ball of light vanished instantly, turning into nothingness.

"Truly... ignorance is bliss."

Tang Ya stopped what she was doing and looked at the scene with a complicated expression.

She recalled those arrogant federal officials from back then, and their arrogance when they held the "Heavenly Punishment" in their hands.

In retrospect, they were nothing more than a bunch of frogs in a well, waving toothpicks at the dragon in the sky, thinking they had mastered a divine weapon to slay the dragon.

"The difference between gods and mortals has never been the amount of energy they possess."

Xuanming turned around, looking at Tang Ya and everyone else present.

"It's about mastering the rules."

"Tang Ya, remember this."

"What you're building isn't a more powerful firecracker."

"Instead, it is a container that can... hold rules."

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In the realm of gods, time flows on.

For gods, twenty years is merely a slightly longer period of seclusion, but for the Douluo Star in the lower realm, it is another millennium-long cycle of change.

Just as Xuanming had predicted, the "Soul System" left behind by Huo Yuhao, which was once regarded as a seed of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, eventually bore a twisted fruit over the long years.

The Spirit Pagoda, once an organization symbolizing peace and hope, has now become the Federation's largest soul beast trafficking agency.

Human Soul Masters' greed is like a bottomless pit. They are no longer satisfied with finding those dying or willing Soul Beasts, but have begun to turn their attention to those young beasts with powerful bloodlines that are still in their growth stage.

Forced contracts, bloodline extraction, soul enslavement...

What was originally an equal "partner" relationship has turned into a naked master-slave contract.

The Soul Beast race, of course, would not sit idly by and wait for their doom. Deep within the Star Dou Great Forest, the new generation of ferocious beast overlords let out furious roars.

The conflict between humans and spirit beasts gradually evolved from sporadic skirmishes into a full-scale confrontation that swept across the entire continent.

On Elf Star, the new generation of dragons are eager to fight, and several times they have wanted to cross the plane and return to Douluo Star to avenge their compatriots.

If Di Tian hadn't stopped them, this conflict would probably have escalated into a war of annihilation between two planets and two races long ago.

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The divine realm, the frontline command center of the Great God Circle.

Huo Yuhao stood before the star map, gazing at the azure Douluo Star, his eyes filled with a complex and unfathomable light.

He had long since shed his youthful naiveté. He wore a deep blue divine armor, with seven divine halos symbolizing the peak of a first-level god floating behind him, and his body emanated a heart-palpitating aura of law.

For the past ten thousand years, he has fought on the front lines of the divine realm, opening up dozens of new planes.

In a few years, once that thin veil is lifted, he will become the new God-King.

But now, looking at the mother planet that gave him birth and nurtured him, and seeing the system he built with his own hands turn into this state, his heart has turned cold.

"Is this...human nature?"

Huo Yuhao clenched his fists tightly. "I gave them the best system and the brightest future. In the end, they turned it into the greatest evil."

"Greed, selfishness, shortsightedness..."

"Is this why Senior Xuanming was unwilling to get involved back then?"

Beside him, the young man who was actually the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm patted him on the shoulder and sighed.

"Yuhao, stop looking."

"Some things are inherently bad. You can save them for a while, but not forever."

"The Soul Beast race on Douluo Star today is not weak. They have enough power to resist and fight for their own living space. This is their war, and it is also the survival of the fittest in this era."

"As long as there is no genocide, the Dragon God will not interfere, so why bother with such trivial matters?"

Huo Yuhao remained silent for a long time before finally releasing his fist. "Yes."

He turned away, no longer looking at the planet that had disappointed him so much, and cast his gaze into the vast and boundless depths of the universe.

"I'm tired."

"There's nothing left for me to miss in that place."

"Let's go, Brother Tianmeng. I heard that the God of Destruction has discovered an ancient plane that may contain the ruins of a supreme god, and he's gathering people to explore it."

"Instead of getting angry at those hopeless idiots, why not... go and see for yourself that there are always people more capable than you?"

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The central hub of the divine realm.

Xuanming and Bibi Dong stood side by side, watching Huo Yuhao's resolute departing figure, both with calm expressions.

"It seems this kid has finally figured it out."

Bibi Dong chuckled softly, "He has let go of his obsession with his homeland and his vanity in wanting to be a savior. This time, he is truly about to step into the realm of God King."

"That's a good thing too."

Xuanming said calmly, "A god should have the mindset of a god. If he is always bound by the rise and fall of a planet, then he can only be a slightly better nanny in his life."

"As for Douluo Star..."

Xuanming's gaze swept across the war-torn continent, his eyes showing no emotion whatsoever.

Let them be.

"As long as they don't cross the bottom line of the divine realm, don't commit massacres, and don't launch genocidal wars, let them do what they want."

Life always finds a way.

"Whether it's humans destroying soul beasts, soul beasts turning against humans, or both sides reaching a new balance in blood and fire."

"Those were all...their own choices."

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Just then, a golden figure rushed in with great fanfare.

"Xuanming!"

Qian Renxue waved a drawing in her hand excitedly, "Look, look! That girl Xiaoya has caused quite a stir!"

"What big commotion?" Xuanming raised an eyebrow.

"A God-King level mech! A true God-King level mech!"

Qian Renxue slammed the blueprints on the table, her eyes shining. "She completely rebuilt that Dark Blood Demon! She used a full hundred pieces of Primordial Divine Iron, replaced the core with the Destruction God Core borrowed from Xiao Wu, and even inscribed a portion of my Angelic Judgment Law!"

"According to her, once this thing is activated, it can unleash a strike that surpasses even a god-king in a short period of time!"

"This girl gave it a new name: Angel of the End!"

"A strike surpassing even the God-King?"

Hearing this description, even the usually composed Bibi Dong couldn't help but be moved.

"Really? That girl can make something like this?"

"Of course it's true!"

Qian Renxue said triumphantly, "I just tried it myself, and I almost got blasted away by that thing!"

Upon hearing this, Xuanming's lips curled into a playful smile.

"That's interesting."

He stood up and stretched.

"Go and have a look."

"Since there's nothing interesting to see in the mortal realm, let's go see what kind of devastating weapon our own little genius has created for the divine realm."

"If it's really that powerful..."

Xuanming gazed at the endless void outside the window. "Then perhaps... our Great God Circle plan can take a bigger step." (End of Chapter)