Chapter 150: God of Destruction? A Freebie

A pleasant surprise.

Under his cloak, the God of Destruction raised an eyebrow.

It was like walking down the street and suddenly finding money—the amount wasn't the point; what mattered was that it was free.

Even the God of Emotions, who was busy making a fuss while interacting with an inheritor, seemed less annoying than usual.

Who would have thought that the secretary beside the Dragon Lion of the Star Dou Forest—suspected to be a human reincarnate retaining past-life memories—was actually the lover of the Phoenix God from ten thousand years ago, the one who never ascended to the Divine Realm?

And what price would the Phoenix God be willing to pay for news of his lost love?

It was well known that the group brought into the Divine Realm by the God of Shura, Tang San, consisted entirely of second-tier gods. Bound by their divine positions, they had no room for advancement and had long succumbed to the eternal comfort of the Divine Realm, abandoning any effort to improve—of course, maybe they simply lacked the talent, the God of Destruction thought with disdain. After all, these divine positions were practically handed to them by two generations of the God of Shura rather than earned through their own efforts and enlightenment. Strictly speaking, their individual abilities were even inferior to ordinary second-tier gods, making them insignificant threats.

Only the Phoenix God, heartbroken, had continued to cultivate in solitude beneath a lake of magma.

When he first ascended to the Divine Realm, the Phoenix God had wanted nothing more than to return to the Douluo Continent. A dignified second-tier god had shamelessly sat on the ground, wailing, begging to return as a mere mortal to live out his life with his wife. Half of the Divine Realm had laughed at him.

Most gods thought that since the Phoenix God had already attained divinity, yet still wished to become mortal for the sake of a woman, he was nothing more than a fool blinded by love.

After all, the Divine Realm was full of countless female god-servants and lower-tier goddesses, many of whom were far superior to the Phoenix God's mortal wife in both talent and beauty.

Yet, the Phoenix God's tears were not entirely in vain. The Kind God had taken pity on him, even considering making an exception to allow him to renounce his divinity and return to the Douluo Continent. After all, the Phoenix God's divine position was a marginal second-tier beast god role—its vacancy would have no impact on the Divine Realm.

Even the Good God had agreed, saying, "Love is the greatest power of intelligent beings." But it was Tang San, the newly ascended Supreme God, who personally declined the Kind God's offer on behalf of his "brother."

No one knew what Tang San and the God of War had told the Phoenix God, but after that, he no longer resisted. He quietly retreated to his long-abandoned domain, submerged himself in the magma lake, and did not emerge for decades.

However, the Phoenix God's solitude had not gone unnoticed. Among the seven Original Sin Gods under the God of Destruction, the God of Lust had taken a peculiar interest in his story. She didn't believe in so-called "pure and flawless love stories" and was determined to witness the Phoenix God's inevitable change of heart. Every so often, she would pay a visit to his domain, "gathering intelligence."

If not for her, the God of Destruction wouldn't have known that the Phoenix God had silently attained a level of strength capable of challenging first-tier gods.

A second-tier god at his peak was still far weaker than a first-tier god, and the God of Destruction did not consider him a serious threat. But if you added the Food God and the Nine-Colored Goddess under Sea God Tang San's command into the mix, the situation became more complicated.

Now the question remained: when the time came, would the Phoenix God choose his lover or his "brother"?

But Tang San was not innocent in this matter. If used properly, the God of Destruction was confident that the Phoenix God would take his side.

He smirked coldly.

His patience was wearing thin.

Recently, there had been disturbances in the Golden Dragon King's seal. Most gods paid little attention to that insignificant seal—except for the God of Destruction.

The Golden Dragon Spear was a crucial part of the forbidden seal. The formation sealing the spear was linked to the formation sealing the Golden Dragon King; the two were interconnected. Now that the Golden Dragon Spear had disappeared… yet only the part of the seal under the jurisdiction of the God of Shura had weakened.

Only Shura's divine power could loosen the seal without triggering an alarm.

There was no mystery about who had taken the Golden Dragon Spear.

The God of Destruction was unsurprised.

He had already sent one of the Original Sin Gods to monitor Tang San. As soon as it was confirmed that Tang San had taken the spear for himself, he would overturn the table—after all, the Golden Dragon Spear was a living artifact, and only the combined power of five God-Kings could have sealed it. Tang San could not possibly keep its powerful aura concealed forever.

…What the God of Destruction hadn't considered was that Tang San might have stolen the Golden Dragon Spear, only to somehow lose it again.

Who would expect that?

Holding two divine positions at once seemed like an unprecedented feat, but in truth, the two conflicting divine natures were more of a hindrance than an advantage.

If two divine positions shared similar origins, they could merge, breaking their original limits—this had been done in ancient times. For instance, the God of Shura, who governed slaughter, could merge with the God of Decay, as their principles complemented each other, allowing their divine laws to combine and elevate them to a higher level.

It was a simple matter of addition and subtraction.

In the brutal ancient era, slaughtering gods to claim fragments of their divine laws was standard practice. Otherwise, how else would the Dragon God have accumulated so many attributes?(Dragon God: Two conflicting attributes might cancel each other out, but if you collect them all, they form a cycle. If you don't like it, don't play.)

But long before the Divine Realm was established, the God of Decay's divine core had been completely shattered, scattering its laws and authority among multiple gods—ensuring that no single being could ever master the full power of death and destruction to trigger a true "Twilight of the Gods."

Returning to Tang San, the current God of Shura, it was likely that his Sea God position was hindering him from fully controlling the power of the Shura God-King.

He couldn't even activate the Shura God's full power without relying on his wife's sword, which served as its scabbard—how could he claim to have truly mastered the power of slaughter?

He had the status, but not the strength. It was only natural that he coveted a masterless, immensely powerful artifact. The real question was why the old Shura had chosen such a greedy successor.

If Tang San wanted to escape his predicament, the solution was simple: abandon his Sea God position and fully embrace the power of the Shura God. Only then would he become the true Shura God-King, instead of the half-hearted "Sea God Tang San" he was now. But he clearly had no such intention.

Not to mention, the power of the Shura God was no blessing—it was a corrupting force. His wife, Xiao Wu, lacked even the Shura God's killing-intent-based domain, and with the Shura Divine Sword sealed within her body, sooner or later…

That was Tang San's problem to deal with.

If not for his Shura God title, he would have already been subjected to the God of Greed's judgment.

As for that Dragon Lion… how was he so certain that the sacrifice of the Swallowtail Swift would attract the Phoenix God's attention?

The God of Destruction suspected the Dragon Lion wasn't reckless—perhaps he had a way to ensure his subordinate's survival.

Maybe that young girl the God of Emotions was recruiting held the key?

Or perhaps… the Dragon Lion had counted on him to inform the Phoenix God?

The God of Destruction scoffed at his own paranoia.

Impossible.

Huo Yuqing found herself inside her mental space.

Compared to a year ago, it had transformed dramatically.

Golden, star-like specks of light had grown larger and brighter. Below, the azure-gold ocean had deepened, its waves shimmering in hues of blue and violet, reminiscent of the flames she and Wang Rui conjured during their Martial Soul Fusion Technique.

At the center of her mental space, the golden liquid sphere formed from the power of Life's Gold had vanished, replaced by a single, majestic sapphire-colored vertical eye.

The towering eye, slightly taller than her, held an intense azure glow—noble, distant, gazing upon all living beings with cold indifference.

The eye's presence was overwhelming. Around it, only her golden mental energy remained, while the power of the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion and Skydream Iceworm was pushed to the periphery.

The Ice Emperor's green energy formed a wedge-like shape, while Skydream Iceworm's ten golden rings connected end to end, resembling a primitive insect form.

As Huo Yuqing locked eyes with the vertical eye, her consciousness blurred, as though staring into her own reflection. She felt an ancient force examining her.

A faint sound of bubbles bursting echoed. A profound understanding of the world's mysteries, the ebb and flow of cause and effect, flooded her soul through the eye's azure depths.

"Xiao Qing! Wake up!"

A desperate voice—Skydream Iceworm's—shouted in urgency.

(End of Chapter)