"The Seed of Asura... what a pity."
In the room on the second floor of the God Realm Committee, Chen Junting examined this shattered seed, his tone inevitably carrying regret.
Because the destruction of the Seed of Asura meant that the Asura God's god position was broken, and a perfectly good God King's position had thus fallen into decline.
However, while the complete decline of a veteran God King's position like the Asura God's couldn't be called good news for the entire God Realm, it was actually a good thing for Chen Junting.
Because the rules of judgment, rules of slaughter, and so forth controlled within the Asura God's god position could be said to have a great deal of connection with the God of Order's god position that Chen Junting had condensed. If his God of Order's god position could absorb these rules, then in essence, it would not be inferior to the God Realm's original five God King god positions, and could even condense a Seed of Order belonging to the God of Order's god position.
Thinking of this, Chen Junting didn't dawdle.
Anyway, after the Asura God's god position was broken, although the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life expressed regret and reluctance, they still handed it over to him for disposal. There wouldn't be any further follow-up no matter what.
In that case...
Hum—
The power of Order enveloped the Seed of Asura. Under precise separation, the rules matching the God of Order's god position were quickly drawn out, merging into the God of Order's divine mark on Chen Junting's glabella.
However, Chen Junting didn't rush to absorb them. Instead, he continued to focus on the crumbling Seed of Asura. After all, having extracted so many rules, the Asura's divine status had long been lost. That it could still be maintained was entirely supported by the power of Order.
"The remaining rules can't be wasted either."
As soon as his voice fell, the Heavenly Eye on Chen Junting's glabella suddenly opened. The next second, a thread of the power of destiny was cast onto the crumbling Seed of Asura. Instantly, the signs of dissipation couldn't help but stabilize. The distinctive blood-red of Asura gradually faded, replaced by a pure, flawless transparent crystal.
After pondering for a moment, Chen Junting looked at this brand-new crystal. With a flick of his finger, a set of sword rules and the sword intent he had comprehended were peeled away and thrown into this crystal.
In an instant, this transparent crystal underwent a metamorphosis.
The original calm and peace were immediately replaced by sharpness and ferocity, but soon, it became heavy and slow, followed by... constant changes, yet all of them were sword rules.
In this way, the rudiment of a divine status was shaped, and one that leaned towards the aspect of "sword" at that.
"This will do."
Extending his right hand, he pinched this divine status rudiment between his index finger and thumb. After examining it closely, Chen Junting nodded in satisfaction. "This way, even if Old Ji has difficulty obtaining faith, he can shape his own god position based on this divine status."
After all, his success in becoming a god through faith back then could be said to be the convergence of the right time, the right place, and the right people. If any one of the three was missing, not only would it not have been so smooth, but let alone a God King's throne—even becoming a First-Tier God would have been somewhat difficult.
And given the current situation of the Douluo Plane, obtaining enough faith was hundreds, if not thousands, of times harder than when he did it.
But with this rudiment, everything would be different.
"...The rest is up to Old Ji himself."
The Heavenly Eye locked onto Ji Juechen's location in the Douluo Plane. With a flick of his finger, this divine status rudiment shot across the sky like a meteor, falling towards Ji Juechen's location.
After Chen Junting finished doing all this, knock, knock, knock...
The door to his room was suddenly knocked upon.
"Come in."
With a casual wave of his hand, the door opened in response.
"Brother Junting, the meeting is about to start."
A haggard-looking Wang Dong'er was standing outside the door. Currently, her interest could be described as low, even somewhat depressed.
But this was understandable.
"Alright, I'll head down right now."
As someone who had replaced the Asura God's God King position and was also acting as the keeper of the God Realm's core, for this major event that was called a "meeting" but was actually a "trial declaration," Chen Junting couldn't be absent.
But just as he stepped out of the room, "Dong'er."
"...Hmm? What is it?"
The somewhat absent-minded Wang Dong'er didn't react for a moment. It wasn't until she met Chen Junting's eyes that her spirit seemed to receive a jolt, and she snapped back to attention.
But when Wang Dong'er clearly saw Chen Junting's actions, it was no longer as simple as a jolt and snapping back to attention.
"This is the Sea God's god position and super divine weapon."
Chen Junting produced a blue-gold trident-shaped mark, and the Golden Trident lay horizontally in his palm, its weight of one hundred and eight thousand pounds seeming as nothing.
"Now that Tang San is dead, the Sea God's god position is vacant and masterless. And since you've already passed the Sea God's trials, you're only one step away from inheriting the god position. So this Sea God's god position is returning to its rightful owner. Go inherit it first, then attend the meeting with the status of a Main God."
As for why the Sea God's god position, which possessed God King combat power, was still only a Main God's status... that was because what Tang San had broken through in his Sea God identity was his own strength, not a metamorphosis of the Sea God's god position. Once Tang San died, the God King nature of the Sea God's god position would fall, returning to a Main God's. Regarding this point, even the God of Destruction and the others hadn't figured it out back then. It was only after Chen Junting obtained the Sea God's god position that he understood.
"Brother Junting, you're underestimating me too much."
However, Wang Dong'er didn't take it.
Instead, she stared at Chen Junting with burning eyes, her words firm. "Yuhao and the others think this way, and even you think so too!"
Actually, the reason they had Wang Dong'er come up to call Chen Junting, rather than anyone else, was precisely because Huo Yuhao and the others had considered Wang Dong'er's current state of mind. Otherwise, for something that could be handled with a single divine sense transmission, there was no need to go up and down to give notice.
It was precisely because he realized this and understood Huo Yuhao and the others' intentions that Chen Junting used the Sea God's god position to distract Wang Dong'er's attention. Otherwise, the matter of inheriting the Sea God's god position, whether sooner or later, was all the same and didn't matter.
"Do you really think you can handle it?"
Chen Junting looked at Wang Dong'er and asked a question.
"Of course!"
"Little Qi is Little Qi, and I am me!"
The root cause of Wang Dong'er's previously low mood wasn't Tang San. Because Tang San was already dead—as the saying goes, death settles all debts. What had truly caused Wang Dong'er's state of mind to become slightly unbalanced was actually Xiao Wu.
Half an hour ago, after Tang San died, Wang Dong'er had gone alone to see Xiao Wu. Although no one knew what happened, after Wang Dong'er came out, her mood was off. Similarly, the same was true for Xiao Wu—even more so, a hundred times more exaggerated than Wang Dong'er. Her hatred and resentment could be described as visible to the naked eye, and she had practically become a madwoman.
"If you feel you can handle it, then that's fine."
Seeing Wang Dong'er say so, Chen Junting didn't press further.
They were all adults—what more could happen?
"Regardless, put these two items away first. You've passed the Sea God's trials, so according to the God Realm's rules, your inheritance of the Sea God's god position is already a certainty. As for when to inherit it, that's ultimately up to you to decide."
"Okay."
Wang Dong'er didn't decline and took the god position and divine weapon.
The moment she took them, she spoke again.
"Then can I attend?"
At these words, even Chen Junting couldn't help but curl his lips upward.
"Could I even stop you? Although you don't want to acknowledge them, physiologically and ethically speaking, even if you weren't a god, you'd have the right to attend. But have you really thought it through? Punished for the crime of rebellion, they will be sentenced to the ultimate penalty!"
Which was—the death penalty!
"Of course!"
...
"Now, having been adjudicated by the God Realm Committee, tried by the five God Kings and highest law enforcers, and voted on by the various Main Gods, with the charge of 'rebellion,' the Strength God, War God, God of Speed, Phoenix God, Nine-Color Goddess, and God of Food are hereby stripped of their god positions and sentenced to death. The Asura Sword Sheath is sentenced to death. The families of all the above gods shall be imprisoned in the Forbidden Land of the Gods for life, never to step out!"
"Effective immediately from today!"
With a unanimous vote, the trial concluded.
Through the God Realm's core, Chen Junting used the power of Order to mobilize the God Realm's rules, easily stripping the god positions from the judged gods. At the same time, he also took away all their divine weapons.
Immediately after, "Boom, boom, boom—"
Seven divine bolts of lightning fell. Amidst curses, silence, and final declarations and dying words, the Shrek Seven Devils and Zhou Weiqing came to a bleak end. For a time, the entire God Realm fell into silence.
Because a trial scene like this, with so many gods perishing, hadn't happened in god knows how many years.
After the meeting was adjourned, only the five God Kings and Huo Yuhao and his group remained in the God Realm Committee's meeting hall.
"Everyone, here are their god positions and divine weapons."
Chen Junting flipped his palm, and the god positions and divine weapons of the six gods floated above his palm. Just as he was about to discuss with the other four God Kings how to dispose of these god positions and weapons, before he could even open his mouth, the God of Destruction spoke up to set the example.
"Leave all of this for you to dispose of."
His final gaze looked at the Strength God's god position, but he only shook his head in disappointment. "They were all captured by you in life, so these god positions and divine weapons should rightfully be disposed of by you."
The God of Destruction's words received the approval of the other three God Kings. Seeing this, Chen Junting didn't decline any further, and instead put away these six god positions and six divine weapons.
However, after this, the God of Destruction and the others discussed with Chen Junting how to dispose of the Golden Dragon King's corpse.
"The Golden Dragon King's corpse..."
"Exactly."
"As a split body of the Dragon God, an existence that carried the Dragon God's physical strength and power of destruction, although he couldn't rival us in cultivation, his strength was absolutely above that of an ordinary God King, and his physical body goes without saying. Back then, the forty-ninth rib that we broke in that battle could be transformed into a divine weapon, the Golden Dragon Spear. So even though he has perished now and his power was mostly drawn away by the divine core, his corpse is still a treasure."
"I see." Chen Junting smiled and shook his head. "But never mind. The Golden Dragon King was dealt with by the four of you previously, so the corpse should also be distributed by you, just like before."
He wasn't greedy for the Golden Dragon King's corpse.
And just as the God of Destruction had said, most of the Golden Dragon King's essence had already been drawn away by the divine core, and after the divine core was forcibly absorbed by Tang San, it was destroyed by him. There weren't many good things left.
Moreover, the God of Destruction had been extremely generous in letting go of his subordinate, the Strength God's "Hating That Heaven Has No Handle" suit, without any intention of asking for it back. One had to know, that was a super divine weapon.
So there was no need to fight over the Golden Dragon King's corpse at all.
Besides, he truly hadn't contributed much to the killing of the Golden Dragon King.
One shouldn't accept rewards without merit.
"Alright then."
Seeing that Chen Junting didn't want it, the God of Destruction didn't force the issue.
However, afterwards, he cast his gaze towards the God of Kindness and the God of Evil. When the two saw this, they immediately understood the God of Destruction's meaning, so they bid farewell and turned to leave.
The same naturally went for Gu Tianchen and the others.
"Senior Space passed down the god position to me, and we still need to coordinate some follow-up matters. If there's nothing else, I'll take my leave first. Old Chen, we'll gather later."
"Well said, I'll take my leave too."
Wu Feng nodded in agreement.
But before she left, she leaned close to Chen Junting's ear.
"If you need anything, call us. I'll rush over and kill them immediately!"
Her deliberately lowered voice was practically the same as if she hadn't lowered it at all.
In the end, under Chen Junting's gaze that held both helplessness and awkwardness, she was dragged straight away by Gu Tianchen, bringing the episode to a close.
Thus, the entire God Realm Committee was left with only Huo Yuhao, who was about to leave with Wang Dong'er. But just as he started to move, he was directly stopped by the God of Destruction. "You go. She stays."
The cold tone could easily be misunderstood—just as Huo Yuhao subconsciously thought that the God of Destruction was grouping Wang Dong'er with the "families of rebel gods" and was going to throw her into the Forbidden Land of the Gods.
As a result, the atmosphere instantly became tense.
Fortunately, just as Chen Junting frowned, the Goddess of Life promptly cleared up the misunderstanding. "Destruction, your words are causing a misunderstanding."
Her playful scolding was like spring thunder, her words like a spring breeze.
When the Goddess of Life turned to Huo Yuhao and said, "Don't misunderstand. We want to chat with Little... Dong'er about some private matters. Give us some space alone, can you?" Huo Yuhao's emotions were also soothed, and he turned to look at Wang Dong'er.
So after a moment of silence, Wang Dong'er said:
"Yuhao, wait for me outside."
Then, after Chen Junting also gave a promise of "Don't worry, I'm here," Huo Yuhao naturally agreed.
After Huo Yuhao left, the Goddess of Life looked at the God of Destruction, but only received a shaking head in response. So only the Goddess of Life alone led Wang Dong'er towards a room on the second floor of the God Realm Committee to talk privately.
And just as only the God of Destruction and Chen Junting were left in the hall, the God of Destruction spoke up somewhat abruptly. "Actually, Life and I have always wanted a child, but because of our god positions and their essences, we fundamentally cannot conceive life."
At these words, Chen Junting immediately understood.
But at the same time, there was also astonishment.
"So you want Dong'er to be your daughter?!"
"That's right."
The God of Destruction looked towards the direction of the second-floor stairs. "Dong'er, or rather Little Qi, was also watched by our couple as she grew up. Because we didn't have children, we poured all our love for a child onto Little Qi. Who would have thought..."
At this point, the God of Destruction's eyes turned red. For a moment, the intent of destruction surged around him. Fortunately, Chen Junting made a slight move, using the power of Order to calm it down and bring him back to rationality.
But even so, it couldn't pacify his anger.
"...That guy Tang San simply doesn't deserve to be a father!"
Indeed.
Chen Junting nodded silently on the side, expressing his high agreement while continuing to listen to the God of Destruction's outpouring.
"So in the end, Life and I discussed it. Since Tang San didn't cherish her, then we would. Dong'er never experienced parental love, so our couple would give it to her."
For the first time, the God of Destruction used a slightly uneasy gaze to look towards the direction of the second-floor stairs, and then fell into silence.
Seeing this, Chen Junting also kindly advised:
"Since you're worried, why not go up and take a look?"
"No need. It might not be appropriate for me to go up."
[Or rather, I trust Little Green.]
This last line, the God of Destruction muttered in his heart.
Seeing this, Chen Junting didn't try to persuade him further.
Until...
"Do you still have something to say to me?"
"...Yes."
"What is it?"
When asked this, the God of Destruction's expression became serious and solemn. "I want you to support me in one matter!"
"Expand the God Realm!"
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