Douluo Continent: Long Live the Spirit Hall

The divine realm's inheritance is excellent, allowing us to quickly ascend to the level of a chief god or even a god-king, with the potential to rule over the divine realm and countless planes of the entire universe. However, in my opinion, the current divine realm is far too backward.

Since the era of the Dragon God, the God Realm has remained largely unchanged. Abandoning the physical body to cultivate a divine body and soul cannot be said to be a wrong path, but it is not necessarily the strongest one.

The five great god-kings of the divine realm were able to defeat the Dragon God and expel the lineage of divine beasts back then because the Dragon God himself had problems. So many years have passed, and they are still just god-kings, while the Dragon God had already reached a completely new level back then.

The Dragon God's homeland is Douluo Continent, a peerless existence born from this plane. It's not that this plane holds any secrets, but this fact is crucial; perhaps we can find the Dragon God's hidden secrets here, and find the key to embarking on the path to greater power.

After Bibi Dong tackled Yan, she drew circles on his chest with her jade-like fingers. "Little man, your ambition is truly unexpected. Most people would be grateful to become gods, but you don't even look down on the God King?"

Yan blinked. "Ambition is born from different levels of achievement. When I first met you, I could only see the Pope's level at most, and I just wanted to be his equal."

Bibi Dong lowered her head and chuckled, "You want to be the Pope, huh? Now that he doesn't want to abdicate, even if he does, he'll pass it on to Na'er, so you can only see it but not get it, hehe..."

Yan flipped over and pinned the mischievous teacher beneath him, smiling as he said, "Teacher, you misunderstood. I said not 'as,' but 'above the Pope.'"

"Pooh!"

When Bibi Dong heard "above the Pope" and thought of what he had just said, she couldn't help but spit. Looking up at that familiar face with a half-smile, she felt utterly humiliated. This brat just loves to bully people.

Bibi Dong felt increasingly embarrassed and angry as she looked at him. The angrier she became, the less she could hold back. After a quick roll, the Pope was once again above someone else. "Who's on top now?" she asked.

"Yes, teacher, please move a little so I can save some effort..."

Yan lazily put his hands behind his back, rested his head on his pillow, and smiled. His smug look, as if he had gotten a good deal but was still acting innocent, really made Bibi Dong want to bite him.

In the end, however, the teacher took the initiative to start the lesson, which made the bad student laugh even more smugly, which was simply inhuman.

"Hey! What are you really thinking? The gods are being so easy to talk to right now because they want you to ascend, but if you really don't go and turn against them in the end, we won't be able to stop them."

Someone was lazily squinting, and the Pope, who was in charge of the direction, couldn't help but slap him lightly to wake him up. Then he talked about his worries, "Xiao Yan, I know that you have a connection with a certain god, or rather, some gods."

But you must understand that the reason the God Realm is the God Realm, capable of hunting down lower-level gods and controlling countless planes at will, is because of their overwhelming power.

After the Dragon God Era, the lineage of divine beasts was almost wiped out. Now, the divine realm has recuperated and recovered its strength. No matter how fast we progress, we don't have the resources to fight them.

“I know, that’s why I’ve always maintained a good relationship with the divine realm. I never intended to confront the divine realm head-on at this stage; I just didn’t want to come clean so soon.”

Yan's eyes cleared, but his words revealed a hint of confusion. "I know some secrets about the God Realm. It had some flaws from the very beginning."

Compared to our Douluo Continent world, it has some problems. It lacks the support of real material things and is more like a spiritual world that is half physical and half illusory. This is why I am unwilling to bind myself to the God Realm.

The first generation of gods who ascended to the divine realm mostly abandoned their physical bodies, leaving only their divine souls, before re-forming their divine bodies. This made them invincible in the divine realm, but some problems arose in the mortal realm. More importantly, the divine realm itself was not stable.

You are like the Spirit Hall left behind by the Angel God, which exists in many lower realms, all existing to collect faith power for the God Realm.

The power of faith is crucial to the divine realm, assisting gods in their cultivation and power enhancement, and is also key to stabilizing and expanding the divine realm. However, in the current divine realm, the collection of faith power is mostly used for stabilizing the divine realm, which is quite problematic.

If the faith in the lower realms fluctuates, or if the stored faith power malfunctions, and then some natural disaster or divine calamity strikes, the entire divine realm could be destroyed. Since we would have already ascended by then, we might perish along with it.

After hearing Yan's words, Bibi Dong was speechless for a long time before whispering, "Yan, does the God Realm really have so many problems?"

"Yes, it's because the current divine realm has too many problems. If I take over, I'll easily become a patchwork artist, making things difficult at every turn. And there's too much resistance to completely solving them, which is why I'm so reluctant to inherit the divine position."

Information about the God Realm flashed through Yan's mind. He knew some things, such as how the God Realm in the original timeline was destroyed because of some internal problems.

The three god-kings, Good, Evil, and Asura, felt the mess was too difficult to resolve and simply walked away. Destruction, with its limited vision, tried to solve the problem but only caused more trouble.

This enforcer of the divine realm, currently on par with Shura, has a very low profile and limited abilities. After taking control of the divine realm, he has been making a mess of things.

This person was probably too eager to establish authority, as they used all their accumulated faith power to expand the divine realm. While the divine realm's territory did expand afterward, it also brought a series of problems.

It's unclear whether it was Tang San's conspiracy, but first the gods split into two camps and fought each other, then the Golden Dragon King broke the seal, then they encountered a spacetime black hole, and finally the God Realm was swallowed by the black hole. It's just unbelievable.

Of these three things, the most absurd is the spacetime black hole incident. It seems that the black hole only dragged the God Realm into it, while all the material planes were unaffected. Therefore, the biggest problem of the God Realm was exposed without any problems, and the God Realm was able to merge with the Douluo Continent after its return.

Yan understood this problem with the God Realm, knowing it was a flawed system. Given that abandoning the physical body was not advisable in the current God Realm system, why would he be willing to take on the role of a fixer?

But the current situation is not a question of whether he is willing to take over, but rather how to reasonably deal with the divine realm.

Just as he said, he definitely couldn't win in a direct confrontation with the divine realm. However, his abilities were too outstanding, and he came into the sights of the gods early on. It seemed that he couldn't escape either, so for the time being, he could only stall for time.

Yan is now absolutely confident in becoming a god, and he also has some ideas about cultivation after becoming a god. However, compared with the giants of the god realm, he has far less time, which is a major disadvantage.

His previous actions temporarily calmed down the Asura God, but this could only delay things for a few decades at most. If it went on any longer, those bigwigs who had their eyes on him would definitely have something to say.

Actually, the best way to quickly improve one's strength is to inherit a divine position, raise one's own cultivation to the limit of a divine position, and then pass it on to someone else and run away. But this is very difficult, really very difficult.

Later, Tang San thought about doing the same thing. He once tried to give the position of the Asura God to Zhou Xiaopang, but he failed. In the end, all the gods in the God Realm were sucked into the black hole.

"Are there any problems on the mainland now? There shouldn't be any issues with the Imperial government or the Star Dou Great Forest, right?"

Yan got a headache just thinking about the God Realm, so he simply stopped thinking about it and casually asked Bibi Dong about the situation on the Douluo Continent. He had been away for some time, and by then the Douluo Empire and the promotion of the Soul Spirit System should have made concrete progress.

"Everything is going smoothly on the Empire's side. Xue Ke is a smart girl with little ambition. She is very cooperative with the Spirit Hall's actions and, with our help, has eliminated all the open opponents."

Bibi Dong first introduced the situation on the Empire's side, "Now most of the forces on the continent are under our control, and only a few rats are hiding in the gutter, barely surviving, but I do not intend to eliminate them."

After the Killing City ran into trouble, it can't be used again for the time being. Building a similar prison again is not possible in the short term. But we can't expect everyone to be of one mind. There will always be rebels in the world.

These rats, seemingly lurking in the shadows but actually under our surveillance, aren't difficult to deal with. Even if we go to extremes, we probably won't completely eradicate their injustice. If we let them truly move to places we can't reach, they could really cause some trouble.

"Yes, the teacher has considered everything very carefully."

Yan approved of Bibi Dong's solution. Although they were doing things for the good of everyone, it always touched on the interests of others. It was impossible to get everyone to agree with them, which meant that there would inevitably be opponents.

Opponents are not actually scary; as long as they can be monitored at any time, everything is still under control.

It's not so easy to completely eliminate them. Even if you manage to do it temporarily, new waves of them will emerge over time. Rather than having a headache when that happens, it's better to set aside a territory for such a group from the beginning, so that they can't escape your control at all.

"Yan, things are actually going well on the Empire's side, and we're cooperating with the Star Dou Great Forest as well. However, I felt a little uneasy after my last visit..."

When Bibi Dong mentioned the Star Dou Great Forest, there was a hint of surprise on her face. She couldn't quite put her finger on what the problem was, but during one of her visits, she sensed something was off, an inexplicable feeling of unease.

Chapter 565 Silver Dragon Divine Thought

"Did you see or perceive something that made you feel uneasy?"

Yan was quite concerned when Bibi Dong mentioned the situation in the Star Dou Great Forest. "In the Star Dou Great Forest, although Di Tian and Bi Ji are capable, they are nothing to you now. Could it be that guy in the deepest part?"

“Deep within the Star Dou Great Forest? No, the threat I sensed didn’t come from the Lake of Life, but from the Soul Spirit Hall.”

Bibi Dong thought about it carefully, and then said somewhat uncertainly, "I think I saw a little girl with silver hair, but it was like a hallucination. I couldn't find her at all. At the time, I thought I was just too tired."

"A silver-haired little girl, could she really have been born now? But that shouldn't be the case; it should be almost 20,000 years before her injuries heal!"

When Yan heard Bibi Dong mention the silver-haired little girl, he immediately thought of his previous encounter in the Star Dou Great Forest.

During that battle with the ferocious beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest, Di Tian's repeated provocations made him want to kill. The reason he ultimately stopped was because he sensed a deeper threat.

Although Di Tian's strength was not weak, he was not the most dangerous existence in the Star Dou Great Forest. The real powerhouse was hiding at the bottom of the Lake of Life to recuperate, and that was the Silver Dragon King, one of the split bodies of the ancient dragon god.

Although this ancient being was severely injured by the divine realm at the beginning of the split and has not yet fully recovered, her strength is absolutely unquestionable.

Furthermore, Yan also knew that if this guy followed the normal timeline, he would somehow go crazy and transform into a silver-haired little girl to infiltrate human society or something.

Bibi Dong, a near-god level expert, shouldn't be mistaken. If she says she saw a silver-haired little girl, it's most likely the Silver Dragon King's doing. Although it's unclear why this girl isn't properly recuperating but instead running around recklessly, this matter must be taken seriously.

"The Soul Spirit Hall cannot have any problems. I will personally go to the Star Dou Great Forest today."

Yan made a decision quickly. Although it seemed a bit anxious to rush to the Star Dou Great Forest right after returning, it was better to settle some things as soon as possible.

You're leaving today?

Bibi Dong was surprised that Yan would take this matter so seriously. She was also a little disappointed. He had only just returned and hadn't spent much time with her before running off again. This little disciple was becoming more and more unfilial.

"Okay! Let's go tonight. I originally planned to go to the Star Dou Great Forest after I came back. I have some ideas for the remaining spirit rings, and I need to talk to those guys in the Star Dou Great Forest first."

Yan nodded, then looked in the direction of the Star Dou Great Forest. "Originally, there was no need to be in such a hurry, but if that guy really does appear now, I have to hurry. Besides, this also seems to be an opportunity to have a good talk with her."

"Is that so? Well then, be careful."

Bibi Dong wasn't naive; she was just a little reluctant to leave and didn't say much. The Pope, like a spider, swarmed around her. How could Yan be so naive? Of course, he tried his best to be filial to his teacher.

……

In the core area of ​​the Starry Sky Forest, towering trees are so dense that even sunlight cannot penetrate, shrouding large areas in shadow. Deep within the forest, however, lies a lake shimmering with emerald light, radiating boundless life energy.

The lake water is crystal clear, as pure as a piece of crystal. A strong sense of life ripples in the lake water, and even from hundreds of miles away, you can feel that vigorous vitality.

At this moment, a man was standing by the lake. He was wearing a black robe and looked to be in his forties. He had a handsome and resolute appearance, with a strand of golden hair hanging down to one side of his face.

He stood there, his body slightly hunched, as if waiting for something. And not far from him stood a group of people, some tall, some short, some fat, some thin, all with different appearances.

"Om..."

The ground beneath their feet trembled slightly, and then the lake in front of them seemed to boil, bubbling up in waves. These bubbles rose rapidly, and then the earth trembled more violently.

"Beast God, what's going on?"

A woman in a green dress stepped forward and questioned the man in black, who was none other than the ruler of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Beast God Di Tian.

“Bridgetie, wait a moment.”

A hint of doubt appeared in Di Tian's eyes. The one in the Lake of Life had also manifested his divine power before, but he hadn't made such a significant commotion.

"He's back, and he's even stronger. What terrifying talent!"

A deep voice echoed from the Lake of Life, wandering through the forest without warning. The voice seemed to come from all directions, and because it was so deep, it was impossible to tell whether it was male or female.

"My lord, who are you referring to?"

Di Tian was startled. He realized that the reason his master was acting differently today was because he had sensed someone's arrival. In his memory, no one should have been able to make his master lose his composure like this.

"The Holy Son of the Spirit Hall has arrived. I never imagined that in such a short time, he has already reached a level close to that of a demigod. More importantly, he has not even started any divine trials. His talent is truly terrifying."

The voice rang out again, and the entire forest trembled slightly. A ball of silver light suddenly surged from the bottom of the lake and then condensed in front of Di Tian and the others.

Di Tian quickly stepped forward, knelt on one knee, and said respectfully, "Welcome, Your Majesty."

The humans who had been standing around had all transformed into giant beasts. But faced with that blurry silver light, they could only prostrate themselves on the ground.

The dazzling silver light was so intense that even the largest soul beasts dared not look directly at it; they could only humbly prostrate themselves there, trembling.

Many soul beasts, including Bi Ji and Xiong Jun, were unsure of what this being truly was; only Zi Ji, a fellow dragon, knew something. But now, this being had merely revealed a ray of silver light, rendering all the soul beasts powerless against it. This was probably the true Beast God!

The silvery light gradually receded, slowly shrinking until it finally transformed into a semi-transparent human figure, resembling a little girl, delicate and adorable.

When Di Tian saw the little girl, he immediately bowed his head respectfully and said, "My lord, your injuries have not fully healed. It would be best if you did not use your divine sense."

"It's alright. As long as I'm not involved in a major battle, I'll just expend more of my divine energy and need to rest for a little longer."

The little girl shook her head, then floated into the air and transformed into a silver light that suddenly disappeared into Biji's shoulder. Her voice rang out again, "Why don't you all go to the Soul Spirit Hall together? You can take me with you too. Although I saw him last time, I didn't really understand him."

This time, I only had a vague feeling that he had undergone another great transformation, and was not far from becoming a god. We must figure out his purpose in coming here this time. Jialin and Qiu'er are still in the Soul Hall.

"The Fire Dragon King and the auspicious beast are still around, and their relationship with that person is an even bigger problem!"