Douluo's Soul Power increases by two levels every year

Chapter 603 Past Grudges

The strategies employed by the God of Destruction and the God of Life were indeed effective; in fact, it could be said that they had found a good way to deal with the Silver Dragon King and the Gold Dragon King.

If all eight elemental gods and seven original sin gods were to unleash their full power, their strength would be no less than that of two god-kings!

The arrogant god who has seen blood is considered a half-god king. The fire god and the ice god, when they work together, can unleash the power of a complete god king. They are only lacking a super artifact and a god king domain. With the addition of the power of the dark god and the others, even if the five god kings are restrained, the eight elemental gods and the seven original sin gods are enough to hold off the golden dragon king and the silver dragon king!

Even if we can't win, we won't let the realm of gods fall in an instant!

Of course, the problems of the God of Fire and the God of Ice are also a headache for the God of Life.

Getting back to the main point, the Asura God, the God of Destruction, and the God of Life all have their own countermeasures, so it's impossible for the God of Evil and the God of Goodness to be completely unprepared.

They're both god-kings, who's inferior to whom?!

However, the gods of evil and good are special; they do not like to teach disciples and can only find other ways.

The God of Goodness prepared to strengthen the defenses of the divine realm and seal the Golden Dragon King, while the God of Evil went even further, preparing to learn from the barbarians' strengths to subdue them!

The so-called "learning from the barbarians' superior techniques to subdue them" means using the power of soul beasts to fight against soul beasts!

The Golden Dragon King and the Silver Dragon King are indeed strong. Each one of them is a formidable opponent even at the God King level. However, the Evil God believes that he can easily create a large group of soul beast henchmen to deal with the two dragon kings. In any case, these henchmen are different from the gods of the God Realm. No matter how many die, the Evil God will not feel sorry for them!

Of course, since mass production is the goal, the production process cannot be too difficult.

The best way for the evil god to think of to advance these soul beast henchmen was to devour them, mindlessly devour them, and forcefully advance them with endless energy—after all, they were all meant to deal with the Golden Dragon King and the Silver Dragon King, so if they died, they died. The comprehension of laws, the mastery of profound mysteries, the understanding of divinity, and even the most basic rationality were all irrelevant. As long as there was power, that was enough!

The God of Evil has had countless experiments, and the infamous Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in Douluo Continent is one of his creations!

To be honest, the Dark Demon God Tiger was actually the most satisfying creation of the God of Evil, even combining the methods and power of the three God Kings. However, this beast was inherently ferocious, killing people and gods alike, which was despised by the God of Goodness, so the God of Evil had no choice but to abandon it.

The Fire-Eating Beast is the final result obtained by the evil god through a series of coincidences after countless generations of improvements!

Its chaotic and ignorant intelligence, absolute obedience to the evil god, endless devouring ability, and hope of advancing to god-king status make it a true masterpiece of the evil god!

The fact that the Fire-Devouring Beast was able to advance to the God-King level, in particular, greatly pleased the Evil God!

In order to break through to the God-King realm, all the gods have to fight to the death and rebuild from the ashes. But for the Fire-Devouring Beast, as long as it devours the fire power of a world, it can break through to the first level of godhood. As long as it can devour a trace of the origin of the God of Fire's position, it can break through to the God-King realm!

This is a terrifying thing, because it means that the evil god's plan to mass-produce incompetent god-kings has succeeded!

Undeniably, once the Fire-Devouring Beasts are mass-produced, even if the Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King were to return, or even if the Dragon God were to be reborn, they would only face defeat and destruction!

Even a God-Emperor would likely be in serious trouble if faced with the self-destruction of nearly a hundred God-Kings, who would perish together with him!

Admittedly, the evil god's plan does involve toying with life, and can even be described as cruel. But so what? You have to give up something to gain something. The evil god doesn't think there's anything perfect. It's normal to have flaws. A plan that's too perfect is often the beginning of failure!

As for the infamy of playing with life...

To be honest, the evil god doesn't care at all!

The evil god is no pushover!

Labeled as evil, the God of Evil has witnessed the malice of tens of thousands of universes. What does it matter toying with life? As long as the safety of the divine realm can be ensured, that is the greater good!

Of course, this is unfair to Vulcan.

The essence of a godhood is not a renewable resource. Every bit of the essence of a godhood is stripped away, causing great damage to the godhood. Not only will the inherited divine power be depleted, but the godhood's rank will also drop. Back then, the five great god-kings used the stripping of the essence of their godhood as a means to suppress the remnants of the beast god from the Dragon God era. One by one, the first-level gods were reduced to second-level gods. As long as enough essence of a godhood is stripped away, even a god-king's godhood can be reduced to an unranked divine servant!

Moreover, deities stripped of their divine status will suffer a fundamental wound, an incurable injury to their Dao!

In short, once a god is stripped of even a trace of their divine essence, they will never have the chance to advance further in this lifetime!

To the evil god, this was no big deal; sacrificing oneself for the greater good was perfectly justifiable!

Back when the five great god-kings defied the dragon god, weren't they all risking their lives?

It's not like we're sending the God of Fire to his death; it's just stripping him of a small portion of his divine essence. At worst, we'll just protect him for the rest of his life. What's there to refuse? So what if his divine rank drops? So what if he can't break through to God King?

To put it bluntly, in the eyes of the evil god, the chances of the fire god breaking through to the level of a god-king were already extremely slim, almost nonexistent. Wouldn't it be more meaningful to contribute to the divine realm than to waste endless years in vain?

As for the drop in divine rank, it's not a big deal, and it's not impossible to cultivate back. The God of Evil isn't a one-off deal; he plans to take it slow and steady. After this God of Fire has finished exploiting the current one, he will pass the position to the next God of Fire, help him cultivate, and continue exploiting him after he reaches the first-level god realm!

The evil god estimated that the fire god, a first-level god, could probably create two fire-devouring demonic beasts at the god-king level. With a cycle of five thousand years, and repeating this cycle for ten thousand years, even if the dragon god were reborn, he could only die in regret!

But one's perspective is determined by one's position; how could the god of fire accept something so trivial to the god of evil?

Playing with life, being treated like pigs for meat, being harvested repeatedly for 100,000 years, and bringing disaster to future generations!

Not all gods are like the evil god, who can see all the evil thoughts in the universe at a glance, nor are all gods as hard-hearted as the evil god, who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals!

It is foreseeable that the god of fire would certainly not willingly help the god of evil.

However, the god of evil doesn't require the god of fire to volunteer.

After the evil god accidentally created the Fire-Eating Beast, he did not restrain its nature and released it directly!

The newly born Fire Devouring Beast was only at the level of a second-level god. However, due to its innate attributes, it might not be able to put up five or six points of its strength against others, but it was extremely adept at dealing with the God of Fire. Its level of second-level god strength was enough to shake the first-level god God of Fire. In addition, the Fire Devouring Beast had an innate greed for fire, so it went straight for the God of Fire!

What followed was a great battle. The Fire-Eating Beast fought against the Fire God while devouring flames, growing stronger with each battle and eventually breaking through to the level of a first-level god!

Although the God of Fire was not devoured of his divine origin, his divine power was drained by the Fire-Eating Beast!

This delighted the evil god!

The power of the God of Fire alone can transform a divine beast with the combat strength of a first-level god. Is there anything cheaper in this world?!

But what the evil god didn't expect was that the Fire-Eating Beast, after advancing to a first-level god, went berserk and completely turned into a wild beast. It not only wanted to eat the Fire God, but also wanted to devour the other gods along with it, roaring across the divine realm!

There are certainly many gods who can subdue the Fire-Eating Beast, but they either stand by and watch, not ready to take action; or they know that the Fire-Eating Beast is backed by an evil god and are unwilling to get involved; or they are like the God of Defense, simply ready to watch the god-kings make a fool of themselves!

The elemental gods of that time fell into the first category. They were very strong, but they could only suppress and seal the Fire-Devouring Beast. They dared not kill it, since the title of the evil god was still very useful, at least it had enough deterrent power.

Although the water god was filled with resentment, he could only suppress his hatred and heal the fire god's wounds, preparing for the god of life to confront the god of evil!

The water god was still rational. The matter had escalated to such a great extent, yet the god-kings still hadn't shown themselves. Clearly, there was a greater karmic connection involved. The water god dared not act rashly, lest he implicate the fire god, who was already exhausted at the time!

Only the God of Life can stand up for them!

But at that time, there was a god who didn't need to think so much. After all, there is no greater sorrow than a broken heart. Now that his beloved had suffered another serious injury, his already stubborn nature was ignited. A round ice moon shone directly on the divine realm, and the Ice God, in front of all the gods, directly beat the Fire Devouring Beast to half death!

Ice Goddess did act impulsively, but she can't be blamed for it.

The Ice Goddess only saw the Fire-Eating Beast suddenly appear and severely injure the Fire Goddess, but the Fire Goddess's relatives and friends merely imprisoned the Fire-Eating Beast. How could she swallow this insult!?

That brutal beating left a shadow on the Fire Devouring Beast, demonstrating just how ruthless the Ice God was!

(End of this chapter)