"Hehe…"
Jin Ling'er folded her immense, rainbow-colored dragon wings around Su Wen, sheltering his figure. Her vertical pupils, filled with majesty, watched these enemies with playful amusement.
The only one among them who could pose even a slight threat to her was Tang San. The rest were nothing more than weak chickens and mongrel dogs.
"One might not be enough," Su Wen said thoughtfully.
"In that case—Crimson Mother, Xuan Ji, come out…"
His voice echoed through the heavens.
Yet it made Tang San and the others blanch.
What did he mean… there were more?!!
In the next instant, two more ancient auras slowly rose. The Crimson Mother seemed to tread upon the void itself. With a casual wave, all the attacks aimed at the Dragon God were sucked into swirling black vortices.
Xuan Ji, meanwhile, loomed from earth to sky.
His gigantic body ran through the stars, his liquid-gold eyes gazing coldly down upon the world.
"So it's you… who seek to harm my lord?"
The entire firmament throbbed with a soul-shaking vibration.
"World-Ending Fist!" Kuangshen roared, gold blood mixed in the spittle at the corner of his mouth. He unleashed another earth-shattering punch.
Xuan Ji crushed him with a single claw.
Hai Long met the same fate.
Once numbers reached a certain magnitude, the gap became absolute. No amount of "mechanics" or "tricks" could bridge it. Xuan Ji was such an existence. At this point, there was nearly nothing that could pierce or injure his body.
His physical combat power was terrifying to an absurd degree.
Against Kuangshen and his ilk, it only took a single swipe of his claw for each of them.
No one knew how long that battle raged on. Blood ran like rivers throughout the Divine Circle. The gods who once towered above all others were now like ants—one swipe of a claw, and they fell in swaths.
This divine war was no evenly matched contest.
It was one-sided slaughter.
Could gods be killed?
Xuan Ji had given the answer.
Ye Yinzhu knelt at the edge of the Divine Circle. His Jiaowei Qin finally shattered to dust with a bang. Still… it wasn't enough?
Despair flickered in his eyes.
When facing such a villain, was there truly no one who could stop him?
He recalled scenes of his former victories.
He slowly closed his eyes…
Why… why did the opponent have to be male?
Unwinnable.
"…"
Tang San roared helplessly, and finally collapsed.
Half-kneeling on the ground, he glared at Su Wen with seething hatred.
"It's all because of you…"
"AAAAHHHH!!!"
"Tang San, you recklessly interfered with human development, repeatedly meddled in human internal affairs, obstructed humanity's unification, and idled in your lofty position while the entire star domain teetered on the brink of crisis—all for your so-called ten-thousand-year grand plan. This is your first crime."
"You sought to control the Child of the Plane, Dai Yuhao, with boundless greed. You schemed in advance to capture his mother's soul and ripped apart your daughter's soul—one part to devour the fortune of the entire soul-beast race, the other used to keep Dai Yuhao on the hook. This is your second crime."
"Your third crime…"
Su Wen's eyes suddenly paused.
He looked at the scene before him with a strange, slightly startled expression.
"Dai Yuhao, what are you doing?!!!" Tang Wutong's voice was shrill with fury.
At that moment, Tang San slowly lowered his head—only to see a pale-blue ice blade piercing through his chest. His eyes went blank, as he turned his head with difficulty in disbelief.
The "dog" he'd regarded as nothing more than an attack hound, who had always been utterly loyal and had never dared show the slightest sign of disloyalty, had suddenly leapt at him—and viciously bitten him—in this critical moment.
"How dare you… How dare you?!!" Tang San's shock turned to rage as he lashed out, sending Dai Yuhao flying with one palm.
"Pft…" Dai Yuhao's body was smashed away.
He barely managed to stand, but an indescribable joy and madness lit his face.
"Tang San, did you ever imagine this day would come? Hahahahaha!"
"Why! My father has treated you well. Why would you betray us!" Tang Wutong strode over in a fury and slapped Dai Yuhao across the face.
But he only turned his head aside, looking at her with mocking eyes.
"You whore… I've long since had enough of you."
"Y-you… How dare you!!" Tang Wutong stumbled back a step, disbelief clouding her eyes.
"Heh… Ever since Dong'er died and Qiu'er sacrificed herself, my heart has long been sealed shut. Tang San, you beast—for the sake of keeping me as your family's hunting dog, you tore apart your own daughter's soul as bait, just to dangle me along…"
"I am Wang Dong'er, Dai Yuhao. Have you gone mad?" Tang Wutong roared.
"You're just a monster."
Dai Yuhao's lips curled into a sneer as he coldly regarded this "wife" who had shared his bed for so many years.
"You're just a monster that seized Dong'er's body and devoured the soul fragments of Dong'er and Qiu'er."
"I've never once regarded you as my wife."
"I've never once loved you."
"I've always known that Dong'er and Qiu'er died on Douluo Star long ago."
"These years, I've lived like a walking corpse. I've long since lost my dreams. Dai Yuhao, Child of Destiny, Master of the Spirit Pagoda… Heh. Hehehehe…"
"And another thing—my damn name is Huo Yuhao! Don't you dare stick me with that disgusting surname again."
Huo Yuhao had steeled himself to die.
More and more divine blood ran from the corner of his mouth.
He looked toward Su Wen in the distance, who stood with his hands clasped behind his back, and a faint trace of gratitude and release flickered in his eyes.
"Thank you…"
With that, he let go of all attachments, his figure dissolving into a wisp of green smoke that dispersed.
"Damn it, you bastard! I raised you all these years, and you dare betray me!!" Tang San was still reeling from Huo Yuhao's betrayal.
It wasn't that he thought especially highly of Huo Yuhao. He was simply outraged.
He could not accept that this man, whom he had broken and remade into a hound, had always been loyal—yet today had revealed his true fangs.
That such a one dared betray him?
"In that case… it's time to end everything."
Su Wen shook his head.
"Kill him."
"Roar!" Xuan Ji's roar shook the heavens, and his claw came crashing down again. Tang San's aura was completely extinguished. His eyes, brimming with unwillingness and rage, could only watch helplessly as the God Realm he had built up over ten thousand years was ground to dust and dispersed. The grand blueprint he'd drawn for the Tang family to unify the entire God Realm was completely torn apart.
The Tang family… was gone.
Tang Wutong stared blankly at this scene, both furious and deranged.
She launched a desperate attack on Xuan Ji and was crushed to death with a single claw.
Thus, the Divine Circle was annihilated.
"In the future, I will personally lead humanity to stride into this vast universe." Su Wen gazed down over the whole cosmos and spoke slowly.
"And… just what should I call myself?"
"Lord of the Divine Court?"
"Forget it. Let's go with 'Emperor.'"
[END]