Douluo Continent: The Underworld Emperor Halosa Lets Three Fly

Chapter 204 The Great Ming Dynasty, the Second Ming Dynasty, the Platform of Ten Thousand Beasts

Within the core of the Starry Sky Forest, at the bottom of the Lake of Life.

The pure black and crescent white divine power of reincarnation flowed like two intertwined streams into Gu Yuena's body, which was sitting in meditation, nourishing her old wounds and repairing the fundamental damage left by the war between the gods.

The amount of energy required for this process far exceeds imagination. Therefore, she also needs to draw a trace of the primordial power containing the law of creation from the core of the Dragon God from time to time to make an unequal exchange with Harosa through the skull figurine. For her, the law of creation is more precious, but for Harosa, who needs the law of creation, the transaction is fair.

On this day, she slowly ceased absorbing energy, and the divine light flowing around her gradually subsided. Her deep purple eyes opened, and her clear, cold voice echoed through the space: "Zi Ji."

Before the words were finished, a slender purple figure appeared silently like a ghost, respectfully kneeling on one knee: "My lord, I am here."

Gu Yuena's gaze was calm, as if recalling some distant memory: "Back when I was in my slumber, it seemed that two little creatures of mixed blood were guarding this Lake of Life?"

Zi Ji immediately replied, "Yes, my lord. One is a Azure Bull Python named Da Ming; the other is a Titan Giant Ape named Er Ming. Twenty thousand years ago, they were responsible for guarding the core area."

Gu Yuena nodded slightly: "Di Tian mentioned it to me. I heard that these two little ones chose to sacrifice themselves for a human twenty thousand years ago? Later, that human became a god and resurrected them. Now, they are on this Douluo plane, right?"

Her tone was unreadable, yet it naturally carried a chilling air of authority.

Murasaki bowed her head and agreed, "That's exactly right."

Gu Yuena's lips curled into a cold smile: "Sacrificing for humanity—that's commendable 'loyalty,' but unfortunately, the object of that loyalty seems to be the wrong one. Go and bring these two cowards, who deserted their posts and mistook enemies for friends, before me."

Zi Ji's face showed a hint of difficulty, but she still answered truthfully: "My lord, when I and Di Tian returned after achieving godhood, we also thought of asking them to come out and question them. However—although they do not have godhood, they still have god-level strength. If they are determined to hide, I cannot search for them in a big way, so as not to alert the human forces."

Gu Yuena glanced at her and said calmly, "Go find Harosa. He now has someone controlling the life core, which is integrated with the Douluo plane and its senses cover every corner of the continent. Finding two hidden god-level soul beasts is not difficult for her."

Zi Ji's eyes lit up, and she immediately replied, "Yes! Your subordinate understands!"

God's efficiency far surpasses that of ordinary people. With the help of Yali's global network of life perception, the hiding place of Daming and Erming was quickly located.

Not long after, the space above the Lake of Life rippled and Zi Ji appeared. She was carrying two extremely burly men in her left and right hands, who were now bruised and weak, as if she were carrying two chicks. She fell from the sky and landed directly in the lake, arriving at the bottom of the lake.

"Bang!"

With two muffled thuds, Da Ming and Er Ming were unceremoniously thrown onto the smooth, jade-like ground in front of Gu Yue Na.

The two struggled to their feet, hurriedly knelt down, and didn't dare to lift their heads. They bore obvious injuries, clearly indicating that they had undergone a rather "profound" exchange during the process of being "invited" here.

Gu Yuena's gaze swept over the two's disheveled appearance, her brows furrowing slightly as she looked at Zi Ji, her tone carrying a hint of barely perceptible displeasure: "How did you end up like this? Didn't you tell them I was the one who wanted to see them?"

While her intention was to hold people accountable, she didn't need to be so humiliated.

A hint of embarrassment flashed across Zi Ji's face as she bowed and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. Your order was to capture them," and I—I thought they would certainly refuse to submit, so I—I was a little too rough."

She did go there with a bit of anger, and had no good feelings towards the two "traitors".

Upon hearing this, Erming, who was kneeling on the ground, immediately raised his bruised and battered face. With a tearful voice, he wailed at the stunningly beautiful woman before him, whose aura made his blood tremble and his soul submit: "My lord! My lord, please understand! She—she never said she was summoned by you! She just attacked me! If we had known it was you, my brother and I would have crawled over here ourselves! How could we have troubled the Demon Queen to do this!"

Although Da Ming didn't speak, the frustration and fear in his eyes said it all. Before this true ruler of soul beasts, their god-level strength was utterly insignificant.

Upon hearing this, Gu Yuena remained silent for a moment before lightly saying, "Very well. Since that's the case, let's consider it Zi Ji's guidance to the two of you."

In a single sentence, the one-sided beating was characterized as "instruction," and the matter was dismissed lightly.

She would never punish a loyal, pure-blooded dragon-level subordinate for the sake of these two non-dragon soul beasts with a "previous record".

Da Ming and Er Ming immediately stopped looking miserable, and even the bruises on their faces seemed to fade a bit. They lowered their heads and dared not say anything more, but their bodies still trembled slightly uncontrollably.

Gu Yuena's gaze returned to them, her voice still calm, yet seemingly carrying a tremendous weight: "Daming, Erming. You two already knew I had returned, yet you neither came to pay your respects nor returned to your duties to guard the Lake of Life. You allowed the Soul Beast race to wither away day by day, struggling to survive in the cracks between humanity and the Abyss."

"Do you all know your crime?"

She didn't release any pressure, but the suppression that came from the depths of her blood and soul, and the questioning contained in her calm words, terrified the two burly men, Da Ming and Er Ming, who were as big as mountains, so much that they almost collapsed to the ground.

Their greatest sin was not hiding, but rather that in order to help Tang San become a god, from the perspective of soul beasts, this was undoubtedly a form of "betrayal." This is an undeniable fact, and any attempt to justify it is futile.

Da Ming took a deep breath, suppressing the fear in his heart. He knew that only honesty and demonstrating his value offered him a glimmer of hope.

He kowtowed heavily to the ground, his voice filled with remorse and fear: "My lord, please see the truth! Your subordinate—your subordinate knows that your past actions were wrong, and you deserve to die ten thousand times over! For the past twenty thousand years, we have witnessed countless of our people being slaughtered and our race exterminated. Your subordinate and Erming have also been heartbroken and unable to sleep at night! Although we are powerless to change the situation, we are not entirely numb and indifferent!"

He raised his head, a glimmer of light flashing in his eyes, as if grasping at a straw: "Your subordinate and Erming have exhausted all our efforts, secretly searching for and preserving the bloodline imprints and surviving embryos of almost all endangered soul beast races! We have placed them in an extremely secluded sub-plane that we jointly created, naming it the Myriad Beast Platform," hoping that if there is an opportunity in the future, we can preserve the seeds of revival for the soul beast race! We beg Your Majesty to spare our lives, for we still have a shred of kinship! We are willing to serve you like dogs and horses, to atone for our sins!"

The Ten Thousand Beasts Platform was originally built by Da Ming and Er Ming after they left the God Realm with regret. They were dissatisfied with the gradual deterioration of the Spirit Pagoda and were powerless to fight against humans. Therefore, they spent a lot of effort to build this small plane on the edge of the Douluo Starfield. Their original intention was to provide a final sanctuary for the endangered soul beasts.

However, due to limited power, the Ten Thousand Beasts Platform was initially very small in scale and required them to continuously inject divine power to maintain stability, so it could not accommodate too many soul beasts.

Gu Yuena listened quietly, her purple eyes calm and undisturbed, revealing nothing of her inner thoughts. She remained silent for a long time as she looked at Da Ming and Er Ming, who were kneeling and pleading, offering the unexpected gift of the "Ten Thousand Beasts Platform."

The pressure within the space seemed to solidify.

Finally, her cold voice rang out again, breaking the deathly silence: "It seems that you haven't completely lost your bestial nature. You still know how to preserve a sliver of vitality for your people."

She slowly stood up, looking down at the two people who seemed both relieved and even more nervous.

"You may be spared the death penalty." Her words brought a sudden sense of relief to Da Ming and Er Ming.

But then, the cold voice fell again: "Sin—is unavoidable."

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