Time flew by like a shuttle, and Chen Tianshuo finally reached the age of six. The day for his martial soul awakening naturally arrived as scheduled.
This kid had been looking forward to this day for a long time. Even early in the morning, while most people were still in their dreams, Chen Tianshuo had moved a single-person sofa to block his parents' bedroom door, wanting them to awaken his martial soul the moment they woke up. However, he was still a child after all; unable to resist the onslaught of drowsiness during the wait, he fell asleep.
Thus, when Chen Junting opened the bedroom door, he saw this amusing scene. His son was sprawled on the single sofa at the door, mouth open and drooling, fast asleep.
"Little Tian, come look at your son."
Chen Junting stepped aside and called into the room.
Ning Tian, who was still feeling lazy, immediately perked up. With a sweep of divine power, her messy appearance vanished. "Where? Where?" With an excited voice, she conveniently grabbed her phone from the bedside table.
Without even grooming herself much, she rushed to the door, aimed at her son, and pressed the shutter a series of times from multiple angles.
Seeing these perfect photos, Ning Tian finally put her phone away, nodding in satisfaction.
Not bad, not bad. When this kid grows up, she'd let him see these embarrassing photos and see what kind of expression he'd make.
Regarding Ning Tian's actions, Chen Junting let her be. A son was meant to be teased like this, wasn't he?
Subsequently, Chen Junting prepared to wake him up. After all, the kid had been looking forward to this for so long; if he didn't wake him up early, he'd likely be upset for quite a while.
"Little Shuo, wake up, wake up..."
After a moment, "Ah?! I fell asleep!" A regretful voice rang out as soon as the boy woke up.
However, Chen Tianshuo quickly threw this regret to the back of his mind and instead began begging Chen Junting to awaken his martial soul.
Naturally, Chen Junting wouldn't disagree. But before that, he had to make things clear.
"Have you thought it through?"
Chen Junting looked serious, not joking at all. "The planes governed by our Douluo God Realm number in the thousands. Various cultivation systems are like stars in the sky, and martial souls are just a unique product of the Douluo Plane. Are you sure you want to walk the path of cultivating martial souls, adapt to the rules of the Douluo Plane, and go there to train?"
"I'm telling you, once you choose to descend to the lower realm, apart from giving you a large faction as a background, we won't provide you with any further assistance, nor will we help you. Have you thought it through!?"
Chen Junting would keep his word on this matter. Of course, the actual situation was that if his son truly encountered danger, he wouldn't even need to lift a finger. With the Douluo Plane's Plane Spirit watching over him from the shadows, Chen Tianshuo would be like a protagonist, ultimately turning peril into safety and having a thrilling but risk-free experience.
Naturally, he wouldn't tell his son this.
"I'm sure!" Chen Tianshuo's eyes were bright, his mind made up.
"Alright then."
Under Ning Tian's watchful gaze, Chen Junting placed his right hand on his son's forehead. In the next second, a golden light flashed.
A golden longsword appeared in Chen Tianshuo's right hand. Although it looked almost identical to the Sword of Order and also possessed the most powerful sharpness and Ultimate Metal, Chen Junting and Ning Tian, both God Kings, acutely perceived the difference.
Because the power carried by this sword didn't focus on Order, but rather on the path of Judgment contained within Order.
In other words, Chen Tianshuo's martial soul had mutated. Using the Sword of Order as the main trunk, it developed the branch of "Judgment."
Judging sins, trying heretics!
To put it another way, as long as Chen Tianshuo believed his opponent was evil, the "Sword of Judgment" could suppress anyone unreasonably. The effect of this suppression was equivalent to a sub-dragon martial soul holder encountering a Dragon King martial soul holder.
"Not bad."
In Chen Junting's view, his son could entirely rely on his own martial soul to forge his own path to godhood. There was no need to inherit a throne; he could condense his own god position—the "God of Judgment."
However, the martial soul awakening wasn't over yet.
Ning Tian and Chen Junting's gazes successively fell on Chen Tianshuo's left hand. After the "Sword of Judgment" martial soul in his right hand receded, the radiance of nine-colored glaze bloomed, displaying its own brilliance!
The red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, silver, and gold nine-colored radiance shone within the sky-blue glaze. A nine-story pagoda slowly rose and suspended itself in his palm.
Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda!
The absolute top-tier support system martial soul!
"One assault, one support."
The corners of Chen Junting's mouth curled up, and he cast his gaze towards Ning Tian.
"Our son is far more outstanding than we were."
"Isn't that a given?"
A proud look flashed through Ning Tian's eyes. She leaned over and kissed her son's glabella. "The new generation excels the old."
"Congratulations, son."
...
With Chen Tianshuo's martial soul awakening complete, he was about to begin his journey to the lower realm. After this matter was verified by the other God Kings through the God Realm Committee, the process began. Chen Junting's subsequent series of actions would also be filed in the God Realm Committee's archives, with no room for concealment or error—this was a rule he himself had presided over and established.
However, someone must have leaked the news, letting Huo Dongyu find out about it. The girl insisted on descending to the lower realm with Chen Tianshuo, and no matter how Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er tried to persuade her, it was useless.
Clearly, their daughter had been completely led astray by Chen Tianshuo. This situation made Chen Junting and Ning Tian feel a bit awkward for a long time afterward. But as for Huo Dongyu being their future daughter-in-law, they both highly approved.
They even felt a bit of secret amusement. After all, back when the fetus in Ning Tian's womb was of unknown gender, they had fantasized about having a daughter and played matchmaker. Now, it had completely flipped around.
Faced with Huo Dongyu's stubborn attitude, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er eventually had no other choice. They could only awaken her martial soul afterward so she could descend to the lower realm with him.
But upon this awakening...
Good heavens, she also had twin martial souls!
But most importantly, one of the martial souls had the elements of the White Tiger. Clearly, this was due to the Dai family bloodline within Huo Yuhao's body. However, it was only an influence, so it wasn't a pure tiger-type martial soul, but rather a fusion of three martial souls.
The White Tiger, the Ice Empress, and the Goddess of Light Butterfly—the fusion of these three major elements formed a brand-new mutated martial soul. It was a human-shaped martial soul that combined magnificence, beauty, majesty, and dominance, possessing the dual elements of Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Light.
Without a doubt, it was also a top-tier assault system martial soul.
In addition, there was the Spirit Eyes, though similarly metamorphosed. It was even more powerful than Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eyes, and at the center of her eyebrows, a third eye had already begun to manifest.
Upon learning about Huo Dongyu's "Spirit Eyes" martial soul, the first to come knocking on their door was no one else but Long Aotian, who had inherited the Strength God's god position, and Du Busi, whom he had also brought up to the God Realm to enjoy life. Their purpose was to have Huo Dongyu descend upon the Body Sect in the lower realm; if that didn't work, they wanted the Body Sect to join the ranks of her backers.
Because right now, in the lower realm, although the Body Sect frequently produced experts, with no small number having broken through Level 100, and their overall strength ranking in the top five of the plane, most of them belonged to the older generation.
In the recent millennium, Body martial souls had become increasingly rare. The younger generation of the Body Sect now only consisted of two or three 'kittens', unable to achieve much, which made Long Aotian and Du Busi incredibly frustrated.
Thus, after thinking it over repeatedly, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er agreed to Long Aotian and Du Busi's second point. It was a consensus between the young couple that Huo Dongyu must descend to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. But on this basis, the more backers, the better.
After reaching an agreement, in order to let Huo Dongyu familiarize herself with the Body martial soul, Long Aotian and Du Busi held nothing back. After all, when it came to the development of Body martial souls, even Huo Yuhao was inferior.
Soon, the day to descend to the lower realm arrived.
"Dad, Mom, Grandpa Purple, Grandma Green, and Uncle Chen, Aunt Ning..." Huo Dongyu went before each of her elders, obediently bidding them farewell. Wang Dong'er couldn't bear to let her go, holding her and looking her over, her eyes instantly brimming with tears.
On the other hand, Chen Tianshuo...
"You unfilial brat! Settle down!"
Bang—
Chen Junting grabbed Chen Tianshuo and ruthlessly punched him on the head. "Hurry up and say goodbye to everyone."
"Dad, there's no need, right?" Chen Tianshuo held his head, complaining, "We'll be back in the God Realm in a month at most."
"You little brat."
The more Chen Junting looked at him, the more disdain he felt, simply too lazy to pay him any mind.
After handing his son over to his wife, he walked straight to the God Realm's core. A golden light lit up, and the passage to the mortal realm opened.
The power of spatial teleportation was a privilege only God Kings possessed.
After it opened, looking at his still-bouncing unfilial son, Chen Junting decided out of sight meant out of mind. He took a step forward, arrived behind his son, and kicked him down while he wasn't paying attention!
"Ah, I will definitely be back!"
"This bastard kid."
Under Ning Tian's half-annoyed gaze and everyone else's amused looks, Chen Junting walked to Huo Dongyu's side and said to Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er, "It's time to descend to the lower realm."
"Alright."
Though reluctant, Huo Yuhao and the others didn't try to keep them any longer. Amidst Huo Dongyu's voice shouting "Goodbye, Mom and Dad," the spatial portal slowly closed. When they would meet again, it would perhaps be a month later in God Realm time.
Compared to the unconcerned Ning Tian, seeing the still somewhat apprehensive Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao who was comforting her, Chen Junting consoled, "Don't worry. Down in the lower realm, they have several major factions looking out for them—the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Body Sect, the Temple of Order, the Sea God Pavilion, Shrek Academy, and others. They won't be in any danger. What's more, I've notified the Star Dou Great Forest, and Di Yao has decided to follow by their side."
Speaking of this matter, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was quite willing.
...
With the matter of Chen Tianshuo and Huo Dongyu descending to the lower realm coming to a close, Chen Junting, Ning Tian, and the others quickly returned to working mode, constantly handling the increasingly complex affairs of the God Realm.
Gradually, this made the nine current God Kings of the God Realm want to further expand the seats of the God Realm Committee. Unfortunately, promoting a God King was not easy. The fact that Ning Tian, Gu Tianchen, and Huo Yuhao had previously been able to promote from First-Class Gods was, apart from their sufficient talent, most importantly due to a great opportunity. For something like that to happen again...
In a word—difficult!
This made the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life, two gods who had experienced far too long a passage of time and still wanted children, even more eager to pass down their god positions. But the reality was that very few people could meet their requirements and pass their divine trials.
During such days, Chen Junting received another message transmitted by Rong Nianbing. Compared to the previous message—"There are quite a few divine senses emitting from within the black hole, no less than five God Realms"—this piece of news interested Chen Junting even more, because he saw the four characters for "Electrolux."
According to Rong Nianbing's description, he had arrived at a powerful plane. There was no God Realm here, but there were traces of a Creator God. In addition, there were also deeds related to Electrolux here.
This made Chen Junting immediately realize that this plane was probably the plane of the "Throne of Seal." So Chen Junting immediately inquired about the current situation of the "Throne of Seal," and learned that the competition for the Divine Throne had not yet begun. Clearly, the different spaces these two planes resided in caused their flow of time to be different as well.
Realizing this, Chen Junting went to find Electrolux.
"Teacher, do you want to go back to your hometown and take a look?"
This sentence made Electrolux pause slightly.
Then, before he could recover his wits, Chen Junting continued, "The former God of Emotions, Rong Nianbing, went out traveling, right? He is currently in your hometown. Teacher, do you want to go back and take a look? If you want to go back, I'll make the trip with you."
Snapping back to reality, complex thoughts flashed through Electrolux's eyes. He truly hadn't thought that there would be a day he could return after his death.
Did he want to go back?
Perhaps.
However...
A hint of amusement flashed in Electrolux's eyes. "Let's not talk about whether I want to go or not first. Actually, the one who really wants to go is you, kid."
"That's right."
Chen Junting was straightforward and admitted it directly.
"Teacher, you also know that there are too few God Kings in the God Realm right now. One or two won't solve the problem. Given the God Realm's current size, we need at least three more God Kings to make things easier for us. So, that senior brother of mine whom I've never met might be very suitable. Besides that, it's your hometown, Teacher."
"According to Rong Nianbing, it's a world with potential comparable to the Douluo Plane. One is the origin of the Dragon God, and the other has traces of a Creator God. If we can bring your world into our God Realm as well, Teacher, it would be beneficial for both sides."
How it would be beneficial to the God Realm goes without saying.
As for how it would be beneficial to the Throne of Seal plane...
One must know that it was actually possible to become a god in the Throne of Seal plane as well. However, becoming a god in that plane required paying a heavy price: once one became a god, the newly ascended god would face "divinity stripping." Their physical body would dissipate and transform into the laws of heaven and earth, retaining only their consciousness.
Because of this, the Throne of Seal plane had no God Realm.
Electrolux, back then, had also chosen not to become a god.
Faced with Chen Junting's proposal, Electrolux fell silent for a long while. After a long time, he said, "In the end, I still can't completely let it go."
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