Ghost appeared beside Wu Ling with his aura somewhat disordered. Heaven alone knew what he had just experienced. Heaven: I do not know.
When Wu Ling had awakened a moment ago, Ghost saw disappointment in his eyes and assumed Wu Ling had not obtained a Spirit Skill he liked. As a Titled Sage, Ghost understood that hunting Soul Beasts for Spirit Rings was like opening a blind box. Unless a family had researched each ring for generations to fix every choice, no one could obtain exactly the Spirit Skill they wanted every time.
He had been about to comfort Wu Ling.
Then a world-shaking malice erupted from Wu Ling's body.
Even before direct contact, that malice made Ghost's soul tremble. It was the feeling of death.
Even after he ran outward with all his strength, his mind remained shaken and his Spirit Power fell into chaos. With only brief contact, he could clearly feel that every cell in his body was close to being frightened to death.
Only after he saw Wu Ling wake again and confirmed that the malice had disappeared did he dare come over to check on him.
Seeing Ghost's condition, Wu Ling thoughtfully took out a soul-calming potion. This was one of his backup preparations for above-level Spirit Ring absorption, meant to guard against a Soul Beast's soul being too powerful.
"Grandpa Ghost, drink this."
Ghost was about to wave him off, only to realize that his hand was still trembling slightly. He raised his head toward Wu Ling, but Wu Ling had already turned away and was looking into the distance, his face thoughtful.
Ghost felt a little gratitude toward Wu Ling. He accepted the potion and drank it. Of course, before drinking, he did not forget to say, "Thank you."
After swallowing the potion Wu Ling gave him, Ghost felt as if his soul had been immersed in a cool spring. As his soul calmed, his trembling body gradually settled too.
"Haa."
Ghost breathed out and looked at Wu Ling with complicated eyes. As Bibi Dong's right and left hand, and as someone who had become a Worship and contacted Lucius Cross, he knew a little about gods.
He was one hundred percent certain that the malice just now had already surpassed the category of Spirit Masters. Even Lucius Cross could not make him feel death through aura alone.
"Wu Ling, I will not ask too much about what happened to you. This place is not suitable for a long stay. Let us return first and talk afterward."
Seeing Ghost's serious expression, Wu Ling also suppressed his urge to explain. He nodded and quickly left with him.
What Wu Ling did not know was that many beings had already acted because of Angra Mainyu's completely unconcealed aura.
Life Lake.
Several of the Ten Great Savage Beasts, including Di Tian, all looked toward the same direction with lingering fear.
"Di Tian, what was that just now?" asked Bear Lord, whose true body was a Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear. Normally, he feared nothing under heaven, but now even his voice trembled slightly.
Di Tian ignored Bear Lord's question and stared fixedly in that direction.
From that brief aura, he had sensed the presence of a god. And not an ordinary god.
At the center among them, the Iceworm they had been absorbing for years had already fainted. As a million-year spiritual-type Soul Beast, Tian Meng Iceworm could feel the malice in that aura even more clearly than the others, so he was affected the worst.
Deeper within Life Lake, the Silver Dragon King stared blankly in that direction.
"That aura. Is it that fellow Evil? No. Wrong. If his true body descended, perhaps it might reach this level. But this was only a trace of aura leakage, and it still made this small world tremble three times. Even if his cultivation improved greatly over these tens of thousands of years, he could not have reached such a level."
"So, an outside god?"
After thinking briefly, the Silver Dragon King sent a message to Di Tian.
"Come here."
Aside from the influence in the depths of the Star Soul Forest, the entire Douluo Planet was affected to some degree. Just now, almost at the same time, every living being on the planet developed an inexplicable agitation and unease.
Ordinary people and ordinary Spirit Masters, even Titled Sages, did not think too deeply about it. But among them, there were always a few exceptions.
Among humans, Lucius Cross and Bo Saixi both sensed an energy higher-grade than Spirit Power. Even Tang Chen, who was parasitized by the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King, woke for several seconds because of it, only to be suppressed again before he could resist.
Among Soul Beasts, Di Tian sensed it at close range. The Snow Emperor sensed it at medium range. Even the Tyrant, across the distant ocean, noticed that trace of aura because of his enormous spiritual power. Naturally, the million-year Tian Meng Iceworm and the Deep Sea Demon Whale King sensed it as well.
As for the other members of the Ten Great Savage Beasts, they mainly sensed it clearly because the Star Soul Forest was so close to the incident. In the far north, the Teal Ice Empress felt little more than restlessness and could not perceive much more.
The Divine Realm.
Meanwhile, the five members of the Divine Realm Committee were arguing fiercely. The aura carrying that malice had openly passed through the Divine Realm and descended toward the lower world.
Under normal circumstances, any one of the five present could trace the source and endpoint through the aura. This time, however, they were completely powerless.
It was like the difference between throwing a stone into a calm pond and dropping a bomb into it.
With the first, one could follow the ripples and other factors to determine the source and the foreign object. With the second, the entire pond was overwhelmed. More importantly, the threat carried by the bomb mattered far more than finding where it landed.
"Evil, do you still have no information from your side?" Asura asked, his gaze complicated.
"No. We are both called evil, but my power and that aura are far too different. Unless Kindness and I joined forces, there is no comparison at all."
After an intense discussion, the matter was left unresolved. All the gods treated it as leaked aura from some powerful being passing by.
But unlike the other four, Asura God knew the endpoint of that aura. It had descended precisely on one of his candidate inheritors. He could clearly sense his Deathgod Domain being devoured.
If this had happened in another world, Asura God would have dragged the other gods into it without hesitation. But Douluo Planet was different. On Douluo Planet, he still had another hidden move, one he had spent a massive amount of resources placing while avoiding the other gods' monitoring. For this, he had quietly modified Douluo Planet for tens of thousands of years.
"Since things have reached this point, I can only take one step at a time. Or perhaps I can pull in one more."
Asura God's eyes narrowed slightly. With that thought, he flew toward the Sea God's temple.