"Trial! Stripping!"
The moment everyone entered the God Realm Committee, the God of Destruction couldn't wait to make his move. Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, he joined forces with the other three God Kings to directly pass judgment on Tang San!
Purple, green, black, and white—four divine powers merged into the round table in the main hall. Instantly, the round table was rendered by the four divine powers. With the center as the starting point, a vortex evolved, and a golden beam of light shot out, going straight into the Asura God's mark on Tang San's glabella.
"No!"
The next second, an octagonal star-shaped blood-red key stripped away from Tang San's glabella. As the golden light merged into it, the blood-red gradually faded, revealing the original golden light.
Looking at this golden key, the God of Destruction subconsciously reached out to beckon it. Accompanied by the red light in his eyes involuntarily beating violently, he clearly wanted to catch it and bring it under his control. After all, he had been waiting for this day for far, far too long—the day he would control the key to the God Realm's core!
But unexpectedly, just as the key was within reach, Slap—
A slender hand first swatted away the God of Destruction's outstretched arm, then reached for the key itself.
Regarding this, the God of Evil and the God of Kindness both chose to remain silent. Although the God of Destruction had objections, he ultimately held his tongue—after all, it was his wife, the "Goddess of Life," who had made the move.
"Destruction, the key to the God Realm's core cannot be left in your care yet." To avoid displeasing the God of Destruction, the Goddess of Life also gave her explanation. "Although the first generation of Kindness and Evil misjudged Tang San, I still agree with their evaluation of you. You act too impulsively and are not suited to manage the God Realm's core. So before it's officially decided, I will keep the key to the God Realm's core for the time being. Everyone shouldn't have any objections, right?"
Hearing this, everyone shook their heads repeatedly to show their stance. Even the seven Gods of Original Sin were currently not giving their Lord face.
They all thought that the Goddess of Life was right!
This scene nearly made Chen Junting laugh out loud.
It was simply too unanimous.
And this same scene also made the God of Destruction laugh.
It was just that, unlike Chen Junting, he was laughing from anger!
Although he admitted in his heart that it was pretty much the truth, couldn't you guys have expressed it a little less bluntly?! Especially you seven!
The God of Destruction glared at the seven Gods of Original Sin!
[You all wait for this old man!]
Even knowing that their Lord wouldn't actually do anything to them, the God of Destruction's years of suppression as a superior still caused the seven Gods of Original Sin to involuntarily shiver, immediately shrinking their necks like turtles.
The Goddess of Life also watched this farce-like scene, secretly shaking her head with slight helplessness. She then turned her gaze to Chen Junting beside her. "Sorry, we made a fool of ourselves in front of you."
Chen Junting smiled without speaking, only indicating that he was listening.
This was not an easy topic to respond to.
The Goddess of Life didn't continue on this casually mentioned topic. Instead, when she put away the key to the God Realm's core, she used her divine sense to implicitly transmit a message to Chen Junting.
[When you officially enter the God Realm Committee and become one of the five God Kings, would you be interested in taking charge of the God Realm's core?]
There were quite a few meanings revealed in this.
With his thoughts racing, Chen Junting immediately understood the two meanings behind the Goddess of Life's words. First, at least on her end, she held the view of treating Tang San like the Golden Dragon King before—sealing or imprisoning him, and then sealing away the existence of the Asura God. Because other than thoroughly destroying or downgrading the Asura God's god position, this was the only possibility that would leave just five God Kings after he joined, rather than six God Kings with a spot vacated for the Asura God. After all, given the Goddess of Life's personality, she wouldn't choose to destroy the Asura God's throne.
Or rather, none of the veteran gods would make that choice.
Including the God of Destruction.
Because one always had feelings for certain things.
As for the second meaning revealed—letting him take charge of the God Realm's core in the future—that was truly a great deal of trust placed in him.
Casting an imperceptible glance from the corner of his eye at the ambitious God of Destruction, he couldn't help but sigh inwardly: Just how impulsive a personality must one have, that even one's own wife maintained such distrust?
As for whether to take charge...
[I would be honored.]
He had no reason to refuse.
After giving the Goddess of Life his answer, Chen Junting didn't continue the conversation with her. The next main event was to conduct a criminal trial against Tang San and his accomplices!
Regarding how to carry this out, the God of Destruction gave his initial proposal first, "I still hold my previous view. Convene the God Realm Committee and let all the gods judge together! Determine the crimes!"
"Then Destruction, how do you think we should determine it?"
When it came to this point, the God of Evil and the God of Kindness no longer remained silent. Only the Goddess of Life silently shook her head on the side.
Before this matter, the God of Destruction had already discussed it with them. The view the God of Destruction held from the beginning was to get it done in one step—directly sentence him to death! But this result, even the Goddess of Life, who was extremely angry at Tang San because of Dong'er, didn't approve of, let alone Ji Dong and Lie Yan, these two younger ones.
Even if Tang San and the others had rebelled now...
The ones who would receive punishment would be the other seven gods. As for Tang San, they probably still wouldn't agree to sentence him to death.
He was a God King, after all!
Sure enough, just as the Goddess of Life had predicted, Ji Dong and Lie Yan both disagreed with the God of Destruction's view. Even until the end, they only chose to reserve their opinions—neither supporting nor opposing.
So, after skipping over the Goddess of Life, whose stance he had long known, the God of Destruction asked for Chen Junting's opinion. "God of Order, you will also be a member of the God Realm Committee in the future. Regarding Tang San's disposal, what do you think the verdict should be?"
However, Chen Junting hadn't paid attention to their dispute just now. Instead, he was thinking about something else.
It wasn't until the God of Destruction asked him that he spoke up, "Let's put this matter aside for now. What I care about right now is the Golden Dragon King—was he killed?" Seeing the God of Destruction and the others nod, Chen Junting followed up, "Then, before the Golden Dragon King died, did he leave any backup plan?" Because he remembered that in the original timeline, the Golden Dragon King left behind a divine core after death.
But this sentence instantly caused the expressions of all the gods to change.
"Not good!"
The Golden Dragon King's divine core was still on Tang San!
They had forgotten about this! Because of the importance of the God Realm's core, coupled with the fact that Tang San and the others were all sealed and couldn't stir up trouble, the gods' attention was mostly not on them, and they had subconsciously forgotten about the Golden Dragon King's divine core.
Almost at the same moment,
Chen Junting's divine sense fiercely locked onto Tang San.
Right now, a golden light appeared in front of Tang San without any warning. Chen Junting immediately took action upon seeing this. But even though the power of time and space instantly enveloped that golden light, it was to no avail. It merged into Tang San's glabella at the fastest speed.
And this golden light was shockingly the Golden Dragon King's divine core!
"You want to put me on trial?! Not that easy!"
From Tang San's mouth, a roar-like declaration fell!
Accompanied by the divine core merging in, a speck of golden light lit up on Tang San's forehead. It rapidly transformed into a circle of golden halo, sliding down from the top of his head and reaching his feet in the blink of an eye. Tang San's body was also dyed pure gold under the effect of that golden light. Piece after piece of fragments seemed to slide off his body, and the falling fragments dropped to the ground, turning into wisps of smoke and clouds that disappeared.
Hum—
Dazzling golden light instantly erupted from Tang San!
In that instant, not only did his cultivation return at this moment, but his entire body also turned into a translucent gold. That gold caused his body to begin expanding outward, and a layer of fine rhombus-shaped dragon scales surfaced on his skin.
Clearly, during their discussion, Tang San and the Golden Dragon King's soul had reached some kind of agreement, using this to break the seal while also fusing with the Golden Dragon King's divine power and bloodline!
"Ha—"
With a furious shout, Tang San's aura violently skyrocketed, and even the surrounding divine power was directly drawn empty by him.
As a God King whose strength originally ranked first or second in the God Realm, now with the addition of the Golden Dragon King's power, even if it wasn't all of it, his combat power was once again elevated.
Of course, the greatest improvement was his physical constitution!
Seeing that the trend of Tang San fusing with the Golden Dragon King's power was unstoppable, and considering that this was the God Realm Committee, the location of the God Realm's core, the gods deeply knew that a battle couldn't happen here, or the God Realm would be lost.
They had to change the battlefield!
Regarding this, Chen Junting naturally knew the importance.
"Spatial Teleportation!"
He immediately changed his attacking stance and instead struck out array patterns. Before Tang San could react, the array patterns rapidly formed a formation around him.
The next second, Whoosh—
Tang San disappeared from the spot.
"I'll go out and finish him off!"
Chen Junting left a sentence behind and rushed towards the location where he had teleported Tang San.
Right before he left, the God of Destruction's gloomy voice reached his ears, "It's fine to beat him to death!"
"Good!"
At this moment, this statement was tacitly approved by all the gods.
Because Tang San's current actions were the same as the jailbreaking Golden Dragon King—refusing to give up and insisting on causing trouble. For the future safety of the God Realm, such an extremely unstable factor should no longer exist.
...
Boom—
The earth rumbled, and a cloud of dust rose. Tang San suddenly appeared in mid-air and then fell, crashing fiercely into the forest of the Forbidden Land of the Gods, landing in the trench he himself had slashed out.
When the next second, Chen Junting appeared here, his divine sense immediately swept the surroundings. In the perception of his divine sense, a figure with an extremely tyrannical aura charged up from the abyssal trench!
In almost the blink of an eye, Tang San, whose entire body was in a dragonized state, had the Asura God's mark lit up on his glabella, but wielded the Golden Trident in his hand. Without any technique, it was all "stats"—he aimed right at Chen Junting's skull and smashed down with the trident!
Boom—
A weight of one hundred and eight thousand pounds, bolstered by the Golden Dragon King's power, fell as if carrying a vast ocean.
Seeing this, Chen Junting not only didn't dodge, but instead went to meet it with an excited face. The sharpest and most solid left hand armor lit up, and the qi and blood all over his body surged, turning into a crimson-gold giant dragon coiling around his left arm.
"Perfect timing!"
A punch blasted out, smashing towards the trident's edge!
Boom—
At the center of the collision between the trident's edge and the fist, the atmosphere was instantly drained into a vacuum. Space bore an unbearable burden under the terrifying force, and the void was instantly covered with cracks.
The moment Chen Junting and Tang San separated upon contact, the cracks collapsed in an instant, and a massive void rift directly caved in.
Seeing this, Chen Junting had just split off a thread of attention to repair it, in order to prevent the void collapse from continuing to expand and affecting the God Realm.
However, Tang San didn't give him the chance at all.
"Don't even think about it!"
The Golden Trident fiercely swung out, and Chen Junting drew the Seven Kill Sword with a backhand to meet it. Under these circumstances, he could only continuously slash out sword qi with one hand to crush Tang San's offensive, while using the other hand to block the void rift, preventing it from continuing to spread and collapse.
To seize this opportunity, Tang San's offensive became even more fierce, and his force became even more powerful. "Let's see how long you can last blocking the void rift with one hand while fighting my attacks with the other!"
Who would have thought that just as Tang San's voice fell,
"Roar—" ×2
Two dragon roars that were familiar to Chen Junting suddenly rang out!
A bone dragon suddenly appeared, and immediately after, the power of space rapidly spread, filling the collapsed void rift.
Along with it, there was also a giant fire dragon!
"Old Chen, we're here!"
"Old Gu, Little Feng, you've both successfully become gods."
Seeing the newcomers, a look of relief immediately appeared on Chen Junting's face.
In contrast, Tang San's expression drastically changed.
Originally, facing the over-standard Chen Junting, he was already under immense pressure. As a result, two more First-Class Gods had now arrived!
Instantly, Tang San harbored thoughts of retreating.
Unfortunately, Chen Junting wouldn't give him the chance.
Upon noticing Tang San's tendency to retreat, Chen Junting's sharp gaze and divine sense instantly locked onto him.
"Leave? Where to!"
With a wave of his hand, the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation immediately descended, thoroughly blocking all of Tang San's retreat routes. This left Tang San with only two final choices—one was death, the other was to fight his way out!
But before he could continue his attack, four more figures descended. However, they were not the four God Kings, but Rong Nianbing, Huo Yun'er, Huo Yuhao, and... Wang Dong'er!
Instantly, Tang San's eyes trembled slightly.
"...Little Qi..."
"I am not your Little Qi!"
Wang Dong'er's eyes were complex, but what dominated was disgust and hatred! "I am Wang Dong'er, and only Wang Dong'er! Tang San, you make me sick. You don't deserve to be my father at all!"
As soon as these words were spoken, Tang San was thoroughly enraged!
"Nonsense!"
"You are the daughter of me and your mother! You..."
Before Tang San could finish, Wang Dong'er interrupted his words once again. "I said! You don't deserve it! What kind of father would mess with his own daughter's memories, influence her personality and soul, and treat her merely as a tool to rope in a child of destiny!"
This barrage of words directly choked Tang San with anger.
He originally wanted to continue arguing, but when facing the gazes of Rong Nianbing, Huo Yun'er, and the others, Tang San, who had fused with the Golden Dragon King's divine core, was once again influenced by negative emotions, stripping away his reason. With the eruption of anger, only tyranny remained.
"Ah—"
With a roar, Tang San completely erupted!
"Go to hell!"
The Golden Trident transformed into the Asura Sword. At the same time, the nine-ring halo behind his head shattered in the same instant, unleashing the Ring Explosion technique from the Great Sumeru Hammer with god-level power.
At the same time, on his forehead, the Asura God's mark dissolved into specks of golden light, merging into the Asura Sword in his hand. Using the Great Sumeru Hammer technique, the Asura Sword transformed in the air as if illusory, its matching moves executed in one breath. Terrifying energy exploded like a volcanic eruption. A cold voice echoed in the air, filled entirely with tyranny and destruction!
"A—su—ra—God—Slaying!"
Tang San's entire body was dyed blood-red. A massive blood-colored beam of light suddenly spewed out from his body, enveloping everyone, including Chen Junting!
At this moment, Tang San was acting as if he had completely gone mad.
Like Qian Renxue back then, he shattered the Asura God's god position as a price, combining his own power with the Golden Dragon King's divine core to erupt with an attack far exceeding his own strength.
He only wanted these guys to die!
"Sigh—Everything is over."
Chen Junting let out a soft sigh and raised his right hand.
The moment the Seven Kill Sword fell into his hand, the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation instantly merged into it. At the same time, the God of Order's mark on his glabella lit up, and a golden light shot out from it, merging into the sword and completely dyeing it golden. Then, an unadorned, plain sword strike was swung out!
"Ragnarök!"
Rules collapsed, order ceased to exist!
Under this strike, Tang San's attack turned to ash. And what disappeared along with the attack was also Tang San's life aura.
After the aftershocks dissipated, Huo Yuhao held Wang Dong'er's hand as if to comfort her, and together with the others, approached Chen Junting.
Looking at the almost empty earth,
"Brother Junting, Tang San he..."
"Is already dead."
Chen Junting gave the answer expressionlessly.
Reaching out to beckon, the Golden Trident and the Asura Sword, along with a slightly dimmed Sea God's god position, and a shattered, blood-red, seed-like object, fell into his palm.
After just one glance, he transferred the Sea God's god position and the Golden Trident into Wang Dong'er's hands. "Although you're still missing the final trial, this Sea God's god position and Golden Trident already belong to no one but you. It's just because of Tang San that the Sea God's god position, which had already been promoted, fell back to its original level."
Wang Dong'er didn't stand on ceremony and directly took them.
"Brother Junting, thank you."
When this sentence was spoken, Wang Dong'er's entire person instantly collapsed. Fortunately, Huo Yuhao quickly reached out to support her.
Immediately after, a bout of loud crying vented out!
For Wang Dong'er, the shadow had completely vanished!
"Sigh—"
Rong Nianbing sighed, "What a sin."
After everything settled down,
"It's time to go back."
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