Douluo Continent: When Huo Yuhao Becomes the Lord of the End

Chapter 246: All members must be at least level 80; the limitations of godhood (4K)

Sunset over the great forest.

After their trip to Dragon Valley and their brief stay in Heaven Dou City, Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, and Yu Qiu'er have finally returned to this place.

Nourished by the Life Gold, eradicated by the Seven Absolute Flowers of Azure Phosphorus, and blessed by the Life Core of Douluo Star, the Sunset Great Forest has now recovered a large part of its vitality.

Meanwhile, Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and the other two, who were cultivating in the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire, were overjoyed to see Huo Yuhao and the other two return earlier than planned.

Meng Hongchen was the first to step forward.

"Yuhao, you're back."

She happily hugged Huo Yuhao's arm, a sight that made Gu Yuena frown, but she quickly relaxed.

Like I said before, Meng can only follow behind me.
Yu Qiu'er raised an eyebrow. Clearly, now was not a good opportunity to stir up trouble in front of Meng Hongchen and 'backstab' her master.

"Wow, Qiu'er, your strength?"

"You're level 90?!"

After exchanging pleasantries with Huo Yuhao, Meng Hongchen quickly noticed something was amiss.

This doesn't make sense. When she left, Yu Qiu'er was only slightly stronger than me. Now, in just a few months, her strength has increased to level 90. Even if she were on drugs, she wouldn't be able to reach that level so quickly.

Yu Qiu'er crossed her arms and looked at Meng Hongchen, who was sizing her up and down, with a hint of pride.

"Of course, Yuhao took me to a treasure trove this time, no less than the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye."

Upon hearing this, Meng Hongchen immediately became interested, and Xiao Hongchen and Ji Juechen couldn't help but show curious expressions as well.

They knew that when it came to opportunities, even if they were all tied together, they couldn't compare to a single hair on Huo Yuhao's head.

Previously, Yuhao obtained those immortal herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. It was these immortal herbs that helped them improve their talents and achieve a leap in strength.

Now Yuhao has actually discovered another treasure trove. This guy is practically the illegitimate child of this world, no, the biological child.

Huo Yuhao hadn't originally intended to hide it, and offered an explanation.

After learning that there really were ancient pure-blooded dragons in this world, and that there was a cemetery exclusively for dragons, it took Meng Hongchen and his companions quite a while to accept this incredible fact.

Huo Yuhao then inquired about the others' cultivation progress.

Although only a few months have passed, thanks to the environment at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, the spiritual absorption technique he had assigned to them last time, and the complete refinement of the primordial energy from the torso bones and the 100,000-year-old soul bones, the three of them have all reached level 79.

With just one step away, Meng Hongchen and his two companions could become true Soul Masters.

It's fast, of course it's fast, but we also need to see what kind of opportunities each person gets.

Leaving aside the immortal herbs, their purification, and the soul bones, the seventh soul rings of the three are all at the 100,000-year level, and they are also blessed by soul spirits and 100,000-year soul bones. Moreover, there is more than one 100,000-year soul bone.

Judging solely from their qualifications, they can be considered among the most outstanding super geniuses in the past ten thousand years on the mainland.

If it weren't for what happened in the God Realm and its central hub, and the fact that the will of the Douluo Star Plane blocked the God Realm's perception of this place, all three of them would have been able to gain the attention of the gods in the God Realm and inherit their divine positions.

In this situation, if the cultivation speed is still slow, then something is really wrong.

Look at their ages now. Huo Yuhao is not yet seventeen, Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen are not yet nineteen, and only Ji Juechen is a bit older. But if we look at their current strength and talent, they have surpassed the top geniuses on the continent for the past thousand years by far.

Even the Shrek Seven Devils from ten thousand years ago, without the strength honed by the Sea God's trials, would not be as powerful as the current group.

Of course, the improvement of strength is actually similar. As long as the soul rings, soul power, attributes, etc. are improved, without forcing growth or prematurely using up one's talent, one is a genius.

Since there was nothing else to do, and the focus would be on acquiring the ninth spirit ring, with the main time allocated to things like creation, spirit armor, and spirit spirits, Huo Yuhao decided to stay here with everyone for a while.

This won't be long. The Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well was originally a cultivation treasure land that he reserved for those around him to rapidly improve their strength. Now that Meng Hongchen and the other two are about to reach level 80, its usefulness is no longer significant.

He currently possesses countless true dragon soul bones obtained from Dragon Valley. Once the three of them reach level eighty, he can arrange for them to absorb dragon soul bones and devise an eighth soul ring for them.

This process will be arranged together with his ninth spirit ring.

By then, his team will be barely complete, and the emergence of the yakuza organization will no longer be subject to any constraints.

At the same time, the Dragon Clan's True Dragon Soul Bone energy is extremely powerful. While helping the three absorb it, it can also help them condense their first soul core in advance, making their combat power comparable to that of ordinary titled powerhouses.

There are also their two teachers and Dean Hongchen. At that time, they can completely use the power of the soul bone to raise their physical fitness to another level.

This also prepares for Teacher Kong Deming and Dean Jing Hongchen to break through to the true Limit Douluo level.

Three months passed in the blink of an eye.

During this time at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Huo Yuhao, Meng Hongchen, and the others thoroughly enjoyed a secluded and undisturbed life in this paradise.

No one devoted all their time to cultivation anymore.

While studying the Heart of the Dragon God and Elder Yi's Eternal Tower, Huo Yuhao also tried to combine necromancy with the Soul Armor.

He now has no shortage of metal and soul bones. He only needs to obtain the soul spirit of the Evil Eye Tyrant to condense a head-mounted soul bone with the ultimate spiritual attribute for him. Then, the 'installation' of the soul armor can be put on the agenda.

With the Dragon God's Heart, a super artifact that can convert cosmic energy and enhance weapon rank, he could already foresee that his soul armor, forged from his soul bones and rare metals, would eventually grow to the level of a divine artifact, or even a super artifact.

On this day, the sun shone brightly and the white clouds stretched out.

The simulated cultivation grounds within the three Yin-Yang Wells of Ice and Fire emitted waves of soul power, and Huo Yuhao, who was perfecting his soul armor design on the green grass not far away, couldn't help but look up.

"What a coincidence, they all broke through to level 80 on the same day."

Beside her, Gu Yuena, who was using her God-King level spiritual power to continuously shape the metal and trying to imbue it with spirit as Huo Yuhao had instructed, also stopped what she was doing.

Gu Yuena looked at Huo Yuhao with exceptional tenderness in her eyes. During this time, without the constraints of strength, she had spent a lot of time with Huo Yuhao doing those kinds of naughty things.

The saying goes, "once you've tasted the marrow, you'll crave more." For Gu Yuena, such things, especially doing those things with Yuhao behind Meng Hongchen's back, were exceptionally exciting.

However, there were some things she still wanted to ask Yuhao.

"Yuhao, Meng and the others clearly had the opportunity to inherit divine positions, but now the fortune of Douluo Star is in chaos, and the God Realm can't investigate the situation here at all. If they lose the opportunity and there's no divine trial to contact them, Meng and the others..."

Although it wasn't explicitly stated, Huo Yuhao already understood Gu Yuena's meaning.

To put it bluntly, Gu Yuena, who now possesses the strength of a God-King, no longer cares about or worries about the spying of the gods in the God Realm. It can be said that as long as she is willing, even if the God Realm is really searching for her whereabouts as the Silver Dragon King, they will not be able to discover her existence.

Even the God King of the God Realm wouldn't be able to know her location unless she deliberately revealed herself, let alone with the Douluo Continent covering her up.

In this situation, with Meng Hongchen and the others becoming increasingly powerful, they have clearly become qualified for the divine succession of the gods in the divine realm, that is, the divine examination. Neither Gu Yuena nor Huo Yuhao has any doubt about this.

So, in this situation, why not take advantage of the divine realm? What if there's a suitable divine position for Meng Hongchen and his companions?

If they really turn against the God Realm, then with Meng Hongchen and the others obtaining the divine inheritance, they will also gain a lot of influence in the God Realm. Why not?

Huo Yuhao had only one answer to this.

"It's not yet time."

He knew perfectly well that Meng Hongchen and the others had the opportunity to obtain divine positions, but given the example of Qiankun Wenqing Valley, he would not, and could not, take such a risk by deliberately letting Meng Hongchen and the others be noticed by the divine realm.

Besides creating one's own divine position and becoming a god through faith, one way to become a deity is through a divine trial conducted at a place of inheritance left by certain deities in a lower plane.

This process involves a great deal of subjective initiative, that is, it is influenced by the subjective consciousness of the inheriting deities in the divine realm.

To obtain a divine position, one must undergo the trials of the inheriting deity. These trials are varied and complex, and it is difficult to guarantee that the deities will not have ulterior motives. In other words, the deities may very well change the inheritor into their preferred form.

Furthermore, let's set aside whether there is a suitable place for them to inherit their legacy on Douluo Star, and just take Qiankun Wenqing Valley as an example.

In this place where the goddess of love fell, a place of inheritance that has absolutely no connection to Tang San, the latter can indirectly intervene in the name of his agent, arbitrarily manipulating the people there, subjecting them to sex reassignment, abuse, and murder.
How could he possibly believe in such a ridiculous rule as the divine realm, where deities cannot interfere with the succession of divine positions?

Even if there really is a divine test suitable for Meng Hongchen and the others, and a divine position suitable for them, what if other gods learn of their existence through their memories?
Even setting aside recent examples, and ignoring the fact that Tang San is currently under surveillance by the God Realm Committee and cannot arbitrarily interfere with the divine trials of other gods, just considering the Rakshasa divine trial of the Pope ten thousand years ago, the fact that he ended up in that inhuman, ghostly state was not what he wanted to see.

There are far too many variables involved, not just the narrow-minded factor that he didn't want to expose himself or be noticed by Tang San.

Rather than doing that, it would be better to conceal everyone's existence and let the fate of Douluo Star remain in chaos.

At the same time, he also had his own other plans in mind.

Now that he has the Undead Demiplane and the Dragon Valley Minor World at his disposal, and he also possesses super artifacts such as the Heart of the Dragon God and the Tower of Eternity, once the world is created, it is not impossible for several new gods to be born in the new world.

He can then take charge of creating several suitable divine positions for Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and others, and also enhance the foundation of the new world, making the new world even stronger.

What is the realm of gods?
It's just a bigger and more powerful dimension.

He was confident that if the creation plan could be realized, the new world that combined the undead demiplane and the Dragon Valley small world, along with the echo of [Eternal Life], would be fully capable of supporting the divine positions required by several gods in terms of dimensional potential.

Moreover, in terms of growth potential, it will absolutely not be subject to the same powerful constraints as the divine realm.

Look at Tang San. In the God Realm for decades, since inheriting the position of the Sea God, has he made any progress?

The only thing we can see is that despite his countless efforts, he was unable to fully inherit the Asura God's position and still needed Xiao Wu, the sword sheath, to bear a portion of the Asura God's power. You could say he was useless and foolish, but his potential was undeniable.

The rift between the Deity of Destruction and Tang San, and the much-anticipated expansion plan of the God Realm, was largely driven by the desire to gain greater strength and opportunities for further advancement through the growth of the God Realm.

Tang San's reason for stopping it may not necessarily be because he thought the destruction plan was too radical.

Perhaps it was simply because he was unable to fully inherit the position of the Asura God and was worried that the expansion of the God Realm would widen the gap between himself and Destruction. In the original storyline, didn't he ultimately follow the same old path as Destruction?

And then there's the Dragon God, so powerful, yet he was held back by the divine realm. As his strength grew, he could no longer rely on any of the gods, and was ultimately punished by the rules of the universe.
In conclusion, while there may be suitable positions for Meng Hongchen and his companions among the gods in the divine realm, it is best not to pursue them in the long run. This presents an opportunity, but it also hinders their future progress towards greater power.

Huo Yuhao told Gu Yuena all his thoughts. Nowadays, he rarely hides anything from Gu Yuena on such topics.

After listening to Huo Yuhao's explanation, Gu Yuena said no more. She was always like this: when she was with Huo Yuhao, she would avoid using her brain as much as possible and fully supported his opinions.

Huo Yuhao's plan to merge the two planes was never intended to be kept secret from Gu Yuena from the moment she regained her strength.

An assistant with the power of a god-king, who also possesses the divine nature of creation and the authority of elements, would be able to provide unimaginable assistance to a brand new plane when a new world is opened.

"Let's go. The three of them have now reached level eighty. It's time to let them absorb a few pieces of true dragon soul bone."

"Ah."

Gu Yuena gathered up the rare metals and handed them to Huo Yuhao, who then put away his soul armor design blueprints.

Over here, Xiao Hongchen, who had broken through to level 80, had already joined Ji Juechen.

"Hahaha, a level 80 quasi-Soul Douluo who is not even nineteen years old, let me ask you, Old Ji, in the entire history of the continent, is there anyone who can compare with us?"

Ji Juechen, on the other hand, was much calmer. That was just his nature. Although he had been influenced by Xiao Hongchen a lot during this period, he still spoke slowly and deliberately.

"Uh, I think there probably aren't any."

Xiao Hongchen laughed even louder, and as for the several gods from ten thousand years ago that Shrek Academy had spread, he didn't take them seriously at all.

I laugh at the mortal world, I am invincible in this era!

Uh... okay, Yuhao doesn't count, Gu Yuena, Yu Qiu'er, and Meng don't count either, how could I, Xiao Hongchen, compare to women? And Lao Ji, he's not a Soul Master, so he doesn't count either.
(End of this chapter)