One month later, Shrek City.
On this day, representatives of every faction gathered together.
Because just half a month ago, they had all received an invitation from Chen Junting, stating that he wanted to discuss the continent's upcoming situation.
Although the representatives of the various factions were uneasy at heart, facing a God King, they naturally didn't dare to have the slightest objection.
"My invitation today, I presume, makes all of you somewhat uneasy, right?" Chen Junting walked to the front of the stage, dressed in casual robes. Apart from his otherworldly temperament, there was no difference from the past.
"No, no, why would we be uneasy?"
The representative of the Sun Moon Empire was the first to speak up and state their position.
After all, among the various factions present, apart from their Sun Moon Empire, which originated from the Sun Moon Continent, the other factions all belonged to the Douluo Continent, all cut from the same cloth. If Chen Junting, the God of Order, wished, he could single-handedly conquer the entire Sun Moon Empire and let the various factions carve it up.
Facing this possibility, the Sun Moon Empire couldn't help but be cautious.
Seeing through the thoughts of the Sun Moon Empire's representative, Chen Junting, though somewhat dismissive, still gave his promise.
"Rest assured. Since I have become a god, from now on, I will not intervene in the disputes between the four great empires and the major factions. Furthermore, apart from me, from now on, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect will stand from a neutral perspective, not favoring any empire. Whether the continent will be divided or unified in the future, or who will unify it, that will be the choice of the era."
These words from Chen Junting directly defined the nature of himself and even the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect in front of the world, and it could be considered as thoroughly setting the tone for the future Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Perhaps there would still be changes in the future, but they shouldn't be significant.
Hearing this, the Sun Moon Empire's representative immediately breathed a sigh of relief in joy. For them, obtaining such a promise from Chen Junting was enough. In contrast, the three great empires of the original Douluo Continent, as well as the factions bound to them, secretly sighed.
Of course, they wouldn't dwell on it too much.
When the time came, whoever emerged victorious would rely on their own abilities!
Taking everyone's expressions into his eyes, Chen Junting didn't mind. This matter was just a minor interlude for him.
What he truly wanted to implement was the following matter.
Waiting until everyone redirected their attention back to him, Chen Junting spoke again: "The main reason I summoned everyone here today is to implement the following matter."
"I want to build a faction."
Whoa—
As soon as these words were spoken, it immediately caused an uproar.
The Tang Sect, the Sea God Pavilion... such information flashed through their minds one by one.
Then, after recovering their wits, they almost immediately cast their gazes towards the position of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Sect Master, Ning Bowen, wanting to see his thoughts. But having been briefed by Chen Junting, how could Ning Bowen care? He just put on a relaxed and composed appearance.
"None of you need to be nervous."
Having long anticipated their reactions, Chen Junting didn't keep them in suspense and directly gave his explanation: "Regarding the establishment of this faction, it is actually very different from traditional factions. Overall, the faction I want to build is somewhat biased towards an academy, but in reality, it is vastly different from an academy."
"First of all, this faction will be reorganized from the organization we previously formed to target evil soul masters. That is to say, it not only bears the obligation to crack down on evil soul masters, but also belongs to every faction on the continent; it is not an independent entity. Secondly, I will use this faction as the center to forge a path to godhood."
If the previous words only made people less nervous, then the latter sentence thoroughly excited them.
A path to godhood!!!
What this meant was self-evident, but how exactly this path to godhood would lead to becoming a god inevitably set their imaginations running wild.
Consequently, the people below began to eagerly rub their hands in anticipation.
"May I ask what exactly the path to godhood is like?" Shrek's Bei Bei took the lead to speak, asking the question in everyone's hearts.
"Naturally."
Seeing someone actively pick up the topic, Chen Junting naturally went along with it and answered. However, before that, he wanted to let everyone know one thing—that the world had changed.
"I believe most of you here participated in that cross-planar war, and you are well aware that the Demon Plane has been devoured by our Douluo Plane. However, many people are not clear on what kind of benefits such a plane being devoured by our plane will bring."
"Today, I will tell you. Once the energy and origin of the Demon Plane are thoroughly digested by our Douluo Plane, Level 99 will no longer be the ceiling in our Douluo Plane. Replacing it will be Level 100. Of course, it will only be Level 100."
For a moment, the entire venue fell into silence.
Everyone was stunned by this news.
What did Level 100 mean?
It meant a God!
And they had long since witnessed the power of a god!
The crowd immediately fell into excitement, but there were also a few sharp ones who caught the final phrase, "only Level 100."
And when someone asked this question, Chen Junting also gave the answer. "Between gods and between soul masters, just like between soul masters themselves, there are differences. Level 100 is only the starting point of gods, not the end. If you want to continue forward, you can only enter the God Realm. But the God Realm is not so easy to enter; you must obtain a god position. Naturally, the combat power difference between having a god position and not having one is also a full tier."
Saying this, Chen Junting took the opportunity to pour a bucket of cold water on them.
"Also, although the boundary from Level 99 to Level 100 has been broken, wanting to break through is extremely, extremely difficult—a hundred times harder than a Level 98 Super Douluo breaking through to a Limit Douluo! And the reason I'm forging this path to godhood is to enhance the foundation of potential geniuses and increase the possibility of breaking through to Level 100."
"After all, from the Demon Plane's invasion, you should all be very clear that there are many planes in the vast universe. There will eventually be planes that covet our plane's life energy, and these planes even possess god-level experts. If we purely leave the safety of the plane in the hands of the God Realm or gods, it will ultimately be unstable. The plane must have the ability to protect itself. This is the first point."
Recalling the war between planes and the actions Tang San had taken, everyone suddenly felt that these words struck a chord in their hearts.
Having it from your father or mother is never as good as having it yourself.
Seeing everyone nodding in agreement, Chen Junting began to speak of an even greater benefit. "Second, you also all know now that a plane can grow. Once the plane grows, not only can the difficulty of becoming a god in that plane decrease, but the ceiling for godhood can also continue to rise. By that time, whether or not to enter the God Realm will actually no longer matter."
And this was also Chen Junting's purpose.
Although he had condensed a god position and was about to ascend to the God Realm, it didn't mean he had completely abandoned the Douluo Plane. In his heart, he ultimately still held the wish for the Douluo Plane to transform into a mortal God Realm. Who wouldn't want their homeland to become more prosperous?
Of course, there was a big difference between making the people of the Douluo Plane passively do it and letting them actively choose for themselves.
Now, Chen Junting had laid the choice out in the open.
As for the result, it was self-evident.
Under the temptation of massive benefits, no one refused.
Seeing the situation developing as he had anticipated, Chen Junting raised his other two suggestions. It should be said that they were proposed based on the situations that would occur in the era of the Dragon King Legend in the original timeline. Although the ten thousand years that followed would now welcome great changes, they still had to take precautions in advance. Of course, it was also to bring forward the appearance of the Ultimate Douluo era.
The first was to point out the importance of life energy to a plane, and that the amount of life energy was closely related to the entire ecosystem—such as the overexploitation of resources, population growth, and the plundering of other organisms. And once the life energy dropped to its minimum, what awaited would be the destruction of the plane.
The second was to strengthen scientific research construction. Reinvest in higher-level soul-guided research. Not only dedicating to weapons, but also dedicating to space exploration. Striving to find richer resources on other planets in space, to improve our scientific research level, and to vigorously develop soul-guided technology, which could also alleviate the resource crisis and the inevitable population growth.
These two points also received everyone's approval.
As for the future...
Chen Junting felt that it should all be left to them.
In the following days, Chen Junting selected the location, and then the major factions jointly contributed money and effort, building a divine temple on the land above the ruins of Slaughter City, combining the strongest architectural craftsmanship and soul-guided technology—the Temple of Order.
Chen Junting's divine statue was also erected in the center of the temple.
Here, Chen Junting laid down two teleportation arrays. One of them led to the yet-to-be-built path to godhood; the other was connected to Slaughter City and the Hell Road.
Because as the God of Order, he had already shouldered the duty of suppressing evil thoughts. Therefore, in the Douluo Plane, he naturally needed a place to suppress evil thoughts, and Slaughter City was the most suitable.
It was just that the current Slaughter City still needed to be remodeled, even if it had already been reduced to ruins. After all, Slaughter City was originally a testing ground for the Asura God, not a prison cage. And as a prison cage, a place where one could enter but not leave was the best.
Thus, while the temple continued to be arranged, Chen Junting directly tore through space and arrived at the ruins of Slaughter City. As far as his eyes could see, there was the sunless sky, and that blood moon...
Everything here still appeared the same as before.
Chen Junting didn't linger long, merely reaching out with one hand to grab!
In an instant, his palm arrived in the sky and transformed into a sky-obscuring dharma avatar. The power of time and space diffusing from his palm actually completely paused and sealed the entire Slaughter City.
The next second, accompanied by a violent shift in wind and clouds, Slaughter City was directly uprooted by Chen Junting, including the Hell Road and the buried Rakshasa Divine Temple and Asura Divine Temple.
However, his actions did not draw any attention from Tang San.
Of course, even if Tang San truly had his divine sense appear because of this, or even if his true body directly descended to the mortal realm, Chen Junting wouldn't be the least bit afraid.
Under the effect of the power of time and space, all the buildings of Slaughter City rapidly shrank. Like a mustard seed, it was taken into Chen Junting's palm. What was left now was only an empty void of space; apart from the blood moon in the firmament, there was nothing else.
Chen Junting pointed out with a finger, and array patterns instantly spread from his fingertips. They first covered the blood moon, and then, with the blood moon as the center, thoroughly enveloped this entire alternate space.
From now on, this alternate space would become the gathering place for all the evil thoughts of the entire Douluo Plane, as well as the prison for soul masters who committed evil. The role of the blood moon here was equivalent to a server, monitoring everything here, and also making a rule that prevented the mobilization of any energy, spiritual power, or blood essence power envelope this place.
However, with this cage situated beneath the Temple of Order, Chen Junting had another consideration, which was that in the future, he could use the power of the Divine Throne of Order to better wear down the evil thoughts here.
Having done all this, Chen Junting left this place.
Next, he would begin to build the path to godhood.
According to his conception, this path to godhood would not exist within the main plane of the Douluo Plane, but would exist as a series of small planes attached to the Douluo Plane. He would use the power of a God King to smelt the already existing small planes and lands of opportunity, extract ten items, and use array formations as the cornerstone to create an unprecedented trial path. He would be the first to go through it, and later, after Ning Tian, Gu Tianchen, and Huo Yuhao became gods, they would supplement it, setting down trials and laying out opportunities for future geniuses to vie for passage.
All of this would start from the most basic.
Such as Slaughter City in his hand.
In a flash, Chen Junting arrived at the Giant Sword Mountain. The secret realm left behind by the Angel God inside was exactly a small plane. With the suppressed Tyrant Dragon no longer there, there was no need to suppress anything. Since leaving it there was a waste, taking it away to use was the way to go.
So, one grab, one take.
Under the mighty power of the God King, the small plane was directly shifted out of the Giant Sword Mountain, no longer stationed at any specific place. Instead, it was like a satellite in another space, orbiting the Douluo Plane.
With a movement of Chen Junting's mind, his true body entered it.
He tossed Slaughter City in his hand.
Immediately, the massive building shrouded the sky.
Chen Junting merely raised his right hand lightly, and countless array patterns thoroughly enveloped heaven and earth, subsequently covering the entire small plane.
When everything settled, a brand-new yet seemingly old and rustic small plane presented itself before his eyes. This also meant that the first checkpoint on the path to godhood had taken shape.
Here, the theme was blood essence, and slaughter.
The opponents for those future geniuses would come from Slaughter City, the blood that Chen Junting had infused into the core of the small plane.
This blood had already been detoxified by Chen Junting, becoming the purest power of blood essence. Under the effect of the array formation, all means other than the power of blood essence and killing intent were forbidden here. And this blood essence could transform into different forms, becoming the opponents of the intruders, tempering the intruders' physiques. Likewise, it could also temper their killing intent. And only by braving the final Hell Road could one pass the first level of the path to godhood.
After the first checkpoint was set up, Chen Junting continued on his way, heading to the Qiankun Love Querying Valley on the Sun Moon Continent.
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