Douluo Continent: The Eternal Order of the Azure Sky.

The rock walls on both sides of the abyss rushed upwards, changing from an eerie gray-blue to pitch-black Xuanming Rock, and then from Xuanming Rock to the deep crust gleaming with a dark red light.

At 10,000 meters, 20,000 meters, and 30,000 meters, the surrounding light had long since disappeared, leaving only gray-blue mist churning in the darkness.

The temperature became extremely hot, and the air began to fill with the smells of sulfur and lava. The pressure in the abyss increased at an alarming rate with increasing depth, as if a massive mountain was crushing down from all directions.

That pressure wasn't purely physical compression, but a more fundamental oppression. It was as if something in the deepest abyss was repelling all outsiders with an irresistible will.

At the bottom of the Abyss of Heavenly Wounds, there seems to be a spatial law that is completely different from the outside world. The gravity is more than a hundred times that of the outside world, and the thickness of the spatial barrier is far beyond the normal level.

Even Kong Tianxu's god-level physique was finding it difficult to withstand at this moment.

The Divine Dragon Martial Soul possessed him on its own, and the dragon scales creaked under the immense pressure. His bones felt as if they were being repeatedly kneaded by an invisible giant hand, making it difficult to breathe. The space here was even compressed to an unbelievable density.

If it were an ordinary Limit Douluo, he would probably have been crushed into a pile of minced meat by now.

Kong Tianxu took a deep breath and activated the destructive power within his body. A layer of purplish-gold light shone on his body, forming a semi-transparent shield that isolated him from the surrounding pressure.

The speed of the fall increased.

Finally, he saw it.

At the bottom of the abyss, a layer of light membrane floats silently in the void.

The light membrane displayed a rainbow of colors, as if a piece of a rainbow had been torn off, crumpled up, and then spread out again. Countless dense runes flowed across the light membrane. Kong Tianxu could only barely make out a few dragon runes, but he felt an aura that resonated with the destructive power deep within his bloodline.

The power of destruction flowed. The purple light in Kong Tianxu's eye of reincarnation suddenly shone, resonating with the runes on the light membrane.

Kong Tianxu reached out and gently touched the layer of light membrane. The moment his fingertips touched it, the light membrane seemed to melt away, receding to both sides to reveal a deep space behind it.

Kong Tianxu flashed away.

The sight before him made him freeze in his breath.

A vast underground space, with a dome tens of thousands of feet high, filled with a faint golden light.

In the very center of this space, an unimaginably enormous golden dragon stood tall and unyielding.

Chapter 415 The Ninth Soul Ring of the True Body Martial Soul, Golden Dragon King

Its body length exceeds ten thousand meters. Even after countless millennia of erosion, its golden scales still shimmer in the darkness, radiating a brilliant and warm golden light like the rising sun. It resembles a mountain range made of pure gold, stretching across the bottom of the abyss, exuding an ancient and inviolable majesty.

Each scale is as large as a city gate, engraved with natural patterns that form ancient designs. Its wings are slightly open, with wing bones extending to both sides like mountains. Although the wing membranes are tattered, one can still see the magnificent sight of its former sky-covering power.

The dragon's spine stood straight, its five claws were deeply embedded in the ground, its head was raised high, and its spiral horns were like two golden giant swords piercing the sky. Its whiskers froze in the air, and its blood-red mouth was open as if about to devour. Even in the darkest light, one could still see the ferocity flashing in its golden dragon eyes.

But Kong Tianxu did not move.

Because it is already dead.

Countless wounds covered the majestic dragon's body. Some wounds were hundreds of feet long, with the scales at the edges rolled up and broken, revealing the dried-up muscle and broken dragon bones underneath; other wounds were small and dense, as if it had suffered countless blows before death.

The most fatal wound was the huge gash in his chest, a scar that ran through his entire chest cavity, extending from his chest to his abdomen. The muscles around the wound were a strange grayish-black color, exuding an obscure and incomprehensible aura, as if even after so many years, the power that had extinguished all life force had not dissipated.

Kong Tianxu stood before the dragon's corpse for a long time. He looked up at the half-body of the dragon god that had once stood proudly between heaven and earth, his blood surging and boiling, and an indescribable emotion welling up in his heart.

Yes, Kong Tianxu, a half-body of the Dragon God, possesses the bloodlines of three supreme dragon species: the Divine Dragon Aura, the True Meaning of the Gluttonous Beast, and the Purple Extreme Extinction Dragon. Yet, he still sensed a deep longing emanating from the depths of the Divine Dragon Martial Soul.

Such bloodline, such power, such noble appearance—only the half-body of the Dragon God, the ancestor of power, the Golden Dragon King, could possess.

Kong Tianxu was certain that even among true gods, he was absolutely a top-tier existence. That flesh and blood body, forged from gold, remained lifelike even after hundreds of thousands of years of extinction. The terrifying flesh and blood energy contained within it had a tremendous impact on the surrounding gravity and space. From the outside, this dragon king's corpse, collapsed in a small plane, was an extremely large gravitational center. Compared to it, the Titan Ape's gravity control was like a firefly compared to the bright moon.

I wonder what kind of splendor this Golden Dragon King would have possessed in his prime, and what kind of great calamity he would have endured to the point that even the Ancestor of Power, whose physical body had reached such a level, perished here. He could even withstand the spacetime storm that tore the entire God Realm apart!

Kong Tianxu slowly raised his hand and touched the dragon's head.

A strange sensation, like an electric current, made the seemingly cold scales feel warm.

The instant his fingertips touched it, a dazzling golden light shot out from his chest. It was a long spear, entirely golden, with nine lifelike golden dragon reliefs wrapped around its body, and a golden ray over ten feet long emanating from its tip.

It was the Golden Dragon Spear.

The forty-ninth rib of the first golden dragon, the pride of the dragon god, was originally part of the golden dragon king. At this moment, the dragon spear moved automatically without thought, letting out a high-pitched dragon roar in the void, drawing a golden arc in the air, and then flying precisely into the fatal wound in the dragon's chest.

The Golden Dragon King's body trembled slightly, like the last beat of his heart. The golden light on the spear resonated strongly with the Golden Dragon King's ribs. Starting from the twenty-fifth rib on the left side of the Golden Dragon King, the dragon's massive sternum lit up in sequence, followed by the spine, ribs...

The Soul Bone is undoubtedly a perfectly complete torso bone. Even though the Golden Dragon King was a top-tier god-level powerhouse in his lifetime, after coming into contact with Kong Tianxu, he still formed this treasure that a soul beast over 100,000 years old would inevitably drop, in accordance with the rules of the Douluo Continent.

Divine bones.

The entire skeleton of the dragon lit up at this moment, as if completing some ancient ritual. Countless golden light patterns spread from the brightened torso to the whole body. The divine nature of the Purple Extreme Extinction Dragon bloodline in Kong Tianxu's body also erupted at the same time when the Golden Dragon Spear returned to its place. The purple-gold light and the pure gold light of the Golden Dragon King merged on the dragon's body.

Two original bloodlines of the dragon race, sharing the same origin, reunited after countless millennia. The resulting energy ripples caused the entire underground space to tremble violently, echoed by countless fluorescent lights.

Kong Tianxu's three martial souls trembled simultaneously. The Divine Dragon Martial Soul let out a dragon roar almost identical to the one he had spoken, the Supreme Body Martial Soul frantically operated in an attempt to absorb this energy, and the Holy Spirit Puppet Martial Soul immediately deployed its full defenses, firmly protecting his meridians and bones.

With the three soul cores operating at full power, perfectly round black holes spun rapidly under their influence, eventually turning into pure gold. Even so, Kong Tianxu still felt an unprecedented shock.

The energy contained within the Golden Dragon King's remains was immense, so immense that even the divine bones channeling the power emanating from the corpse were almost too much for his divine body to bear. Fine cracks began to appear on his skin, and golden blood seeped from the cracks, only to be evaporated by the intense heat in the next instant.

Kong Tianxu's eyes hardened, and he pushed all the Golden Dragon King's divine power that was crowding out his meridians into his spiritual sea, feeding it towards the hungry Eye of Life and Death.

The divine seed and the seed of life of the God of Destruction throbbed violently in his spiritual sea, like a ignited star, releasing endless light and heat.

His consciousness began to rise, rise, rise—transcending the barriers of space, transcending the barriers of time, transcending the boundaries of life and death.

Just as Kong Tianxu felt he was about to be burst by this energy, a purple figure appeared in front of him.

A purple phantom was drawn out of Kong Tianxu's body by this resonant power. It was tall and hazy, surrounded by pure destructive power. Standing on the wound on the dragon's chest, it looked down, a complex emotion flashing in its eyes.

God of Destruction.

"The Golden Dragon King's body is still so powerful after all this time. It truly lives up to its reputation as half of the Dragon God."

Its gaze shifted to Kong Tianxu, a hint of undisguised surprise flashing in its dark purple eyes:

"As for you, your progress is astounding. I originally thought you would need at least ten more years to reach this point, but I didn't expect..."

"Humans are indeed blessed by nature."

Purple light surged from its hand, like a soft ribbon, and wrapped around a small portion of the Golden Dragon King's skeleton.

The Golden Dragon King's scales began to melt, and golden liquid seeped out from the gaps in the scales, like melted gold, flowing towards Kong Tianxu.

"Absorb it, and it will become your ninth spirit ring. Then you can complete the final divine inheritance," said the God of Destruction. "Absorb it while listening to me. My time is running out. This is my last wisp of divine soul. After it dissipates, there will be no trace of it left in this world."

The golden liquid energy merged into Kong Tianxu's body, and the feeling of being about to burst lessened. He sat down cross-legged as instructed, closed his eyes, and began to fully circulate his three martial souls, absorbing the power from the half-body of the Dragon God.

The voice of the God of Destruction echoed slowly in the empty underground space.

"Countless years ago, the Dragon God and I were born together in this sun and fell onto the Douluo Continent. We were the first beings born on this continent. At that time, the Douluo Continent was still a wild and chaotic place. There were no humans, no Soul Masters, and no Soul Beasts."

"From the day we were born, the Dragon God and I were destined to be different. We were born with intelligence, and our innate energy and wisdom were naturally combined. With each breath, we cultivated in harmony with heaven and earth. Over hundreds of thousands of years, we broke through the limitations of the Douluo plane step by step, broke through the spatial barrier, and went to the boundless universe. In the end, we met three equally powerful beings. Among them were two former God Kings of the God Realm, the Kind God King and the Evil God King, as well as my wife, the first life in this world, the ancestor of plants, the Tree of Life."

"Back then, we were full of ambition and together we created the divine realm."

The God of Destruction's laughter was somewhat desolate.

"When the God Realm was first created, it immediately attracted a large number of god-level powerhouses from various planes, gradually forming the order that followed. Among them, we, who have the highest cultivation and the deepest seniority, are collectively known as the Five Great Enforcers of the God Realm."

"Among them, the Dragon God is the strongest. He was born with a stronger physique and more powerful divine strength than other gods. Even if the two god-kings of good and evil joined forces, they could only barely match the Dragon God. My strength and that of the Tree of Life are a level weaker because of our respective preferences, but we each have our strengths. I control destruction, and the Tree of Life controls creation. Destruction and creation are the two most basic forces in the world."

As Kong Tianxu absorbed the immense primal power surging from the remnants of the Golden Dragon King, he silently sorted through the history of this ancient divine realm in his mind. Under the nourishment of the Dragon King's primal power, his martial soul was undergoing some extremely subtle changes.

"Several million years have passed in this way." The God of Destruction's gaze became distant, as if looking back at those past events that had long been buried in the years. "Another genius has ascended to the Douluo Continent. That human was named Shura, who entered the Dao through killing and became a god through slaughter. Because of his profound accumulation in the lower realm, he only took less than ten thousand years to cultivate from a mortal to a realm that was comparable to ours, becoming one of the enforcers—the God of Shura."

"Thus, the structure of the divine realm became: the Dragon God, the Benevolent God King, and the Evil God King, three God Kings; the Asura God, myself, and the Tree of Life, three Enforcement Gods. Among them, the Benevolent God King, the Evil God King, and the Asura God are all human, while the Dragon God, myself, and the Tree of Life can all be considered beasts."

"Over the countless years that followed, our divine realm acquired more and more planets from the lower realms. As the divine realm grew stronger, the balance was gradually broken."

"Human beings... are truly blessed by nature."

The God of Destruction repeated his earlier astonishment at Kong Tianxu, his murmur filled with endless melancholy.

Kong Tianxu felt the pain within his body gradually diminishing, and a sense of sublimation, as if he were one with heaven and earth, his eyes becoming clear.

He certainly knew what the God of Destruction was lamenting.

Compared to humans, animals have an inherent and almost irreparable disadvantage in their understanding of the laws of nature.

A newborn beast cannot possess high intelligence, unless it is a high-level beast race like a dragon. Even dragons require a certain period of growth before their intelligence fully develops. Therefore, the innate energy a beast possesses at birth cannot be absorbed by it. This is a significant reason why its development is hindered later in its cultivation process.

Humans, while having a lifespan far shorter than animals, possess extraordinary intelligence. This intelligence, combined with innate energy, grants humans a comprehension and speed far exceeding that of animals and other species during their cultivation journey. Once intelligence is activated, their growth becomes remarkably smooth, quickly surpassing the innate instincts of beasts.

"Gradually, the number of human deities in the divine realm far exceeded that of animal deities."

"The Dragon God began to feel uneasy."

The God of Destruction's tone turned somber. "At a supreme meeting of the divine realm, the Dragon God proposed that humans possess an innate advantage over beasts. This difference in talent has led to an imbalance of power in the divine realm, with more and more human deities and fewer and fewer beast deities. The Dragon God advocated strengthening the connection between the divine realm and the lower realm, allowing excess celestial energy to nourish the lower realm and promote the evolution of the less intelligent soul beasts there, in order to compensate for this imbalance."

"But the three human law enforcement gods strongly opposed it, including myself and Life. From the perspective of upholding the rules, we ultimately voted against it as well."

The God of Destruction remained silent for a while, without revealing the reason.

"Five to one."

"In a fit of anger, the Dragon God left the God Realm and returned to Douluo Continent alone. He transformed into a sacred dragon and traveled between Douluo Continent and various planes for countless years. Later we learned that when he left the God Realm, he actually took away the primordial energy that the God Realm had stored up for many years, which was the accumulation of tens of millions of years in the God Realm."

"When the Dragon God returned to the divine realm, he was fully prepared. He summoned all the beast-like deities in the divine realm and launched an unprecedented rebellion."

The voice of the God of Destruction trembled slightly.

"That battle was fierce and devastating, with countless gods falling. The Dragon God fought against three human law enforcement gods alone. I followed the agreement I had made with the two god-kings, one good and one evil, before the battle, and pretended to stand on the Dragon God's side to fight against the God of Life."

"But the situation on the main battlefield was completely beyond our expectations."

"The Dragon God has cultivated in the God Realm for many years, and his strength far exceeds everyone's expectations. Even the combined forces of the God Kings of Good and Evil were suppressed by him alone. Although the God of Asura possesses extraordinary talent, his cultivation period is short, and he is still inferior to the two God Kings. It seems the Dragon God is about to achieve victory against all three—"

The God of Destruction's voice became extremely low, each word seeming to be squeezed out from the depths of his throat.

"I was behind the Dragon God, and with my Destruction God Thunder, I pierced through his heart."

Chapter 416 Ascension to Godhood, Nine Years, The Authentic Golden Dragon Girl

"It's because the Good God King and the Evil God King promised me before the war that if I helped them defeat the Dragon God, they would elect me as the new head of the law enforcement gods and the supreme ruler of the divine realm."

"At the time, I did have doubts about the Dragon God's actions. I felt he was too radical and too biased towards beasts. I naively believed that as long as I could step forward at the most crucial moment to set things right, the order of the divine realm could be restored. And as the greatest contributor to this restoration, I would naturally become the one who would take charge of order. Moreover, for beings at our level, promises are never made out of thin air. Although good and evil are the creators of the rules of the divine realm, they swear an oath by their own divine origins, a supreme oath that no deity can violate."

A bitter smile appeared on the God of Destruction's lips.

"But I had no idea at the time that there were such damned 'white lies' and 'evil deceptions' in this world! I believed the promises of those two bastards."

"At that moment, the Dragon God looked back at me in disbelief, allowing the three gods of good, evil, and asura to unleash their trump card: the Sword of Judgment of the Three Realms."

"My betrayal, coupled with the full force of the three human law enforcement gods, was too much for the Dragon God to bear. His essence could not dissolve the entanglement of good and evil, and before his destruction, he forcibly split it in two. The enormous dragon body fell from the God Realm back to Douluo Continent, splitting into two nascent forms during the fall: the Golden Dragon King, representing the physical body, and the Silver Dragon King, representing the spirit and elemental power. Each of them carried a portion of the Dragon God's power and grew under the protection of the Dragon God's nine sons."