A comparison of the two Douluo, starting with Dragon God Douluo Yu Xiaogang.

"So, before you started creating these hallucinations, didn't you even bother to find out anything about my situation?"

[Yu Xiaogang's voice was laced with sarcasm.]

[This illusion sounds wonderful, but if someone who knows nothing about god-level beings came here, they might actually fall for it.]

But Yu Xiaogang had seen the Sea God; although his understanding of the gods wasn't that deep, he knew some things.

For example, the existence of gods is higher than that of Douluo Star.

In other words, from the perspective of the gods, both the Sun Moon Continent and the Douluo Continent originate from the same heaven and earth.

Becoming a god means transcending Douluo Star.

[The idea that completing the divine test will make one a new god of the Sun and Moon Continent sounds like a complete deception of the people who have come here.]

Whenever he mentioned becoming a new god of Douluo Star or Sun and Moon Star, Yu Xiaogang would hesitate a little more about his own doubts.

[The next step is the additional preparation I need to make, which is changing my martial soul.]

Yu Xiaogang believes that the Sea God isn't just talking.

[The divine beast-related items on myself and Xiaolong are probably truly taboo in the divine realm.]

If the figure before me were a god, he should have already mentioned these things when I asked if I needed to make any extra preparations.

Yu Xiaogang's words echoed in this space.

The figure seated on the throne froze for a moment at Yu Xiaogang's words.

He seemed completely taken aback that Yu Xiaogang would say such a thing.

"Do you know what you're saying?"

The figure stared intently at Yu Xiaogang, his expression unreadable.

"Of course I know, this must be a hallucination too, right?"

"While this illusion is indeed very tempting, it has too many flaws."

After Yu Xiaogang finished speaking, the space fell silent.

Then a sudden feeling of being watched washed over me, as if something was scrutinizing me.

This feeling sent chills down Yu Xiaogang's spine. He wanted to do something, but found that he seemed powerless to do anything.

[After an unknown amount of time, as if that gaze had seen right through him, the other person finally withdrew their gaze.]

Then, as if glass were shattering, Yu Xiaogang suddenly felt a lightness in his spirit, and the scene before him shattered into pieces.

"Kid, you're not bad. Come to Qingyun Peak, I want to meet you."

A faint, ethereal voice rang in Yu Xiaogang's ears, and his gaze became much more serious after hearing it.

"That feeling I had just experienced wasn't an illusion after all. Was that voice truly from behind the Spirit Sea Mountains?"

[Yu Xiaogang muttered to himself.]

After a moment, having calmed down, Yu Xiaogang channeled his soul power and spiritual energy through his body.

A calm and comfortable feeling spread throughout my body, without the slightest discomfort.

This feeling tells me that I'm back in reality.

This conclusion brought Yu Xiaogang a sigh of relief.

He looked around and realized he had arrived at the place he had seen earlier, a place littered with corpses.

The surrounding area was littered with the remains of Soul Masters and Soul Beasts.

Yu Xiaogang was thinking of looking around to see if there were any soul tools or soul bones.

But to Yu Xiaogang's surprise, he found nothing.

[Aside from skeletons, there was nothing else around.]

"This isn't right, is it?"

Yu Xiaogang looked puzzled.

Logically speaking, since so many soul masters and soul beasts died in these dangerous places, and everyone who entered perished, their belongings must have been left behind in those places.

But what's the situation right now?

Does this mean all of these things were taken?

The question is, who will take these things?

[It couldn't possibly be the god behind the Spirit Sea Mountains, could it?]

If that's really the case, for a god to covet even such small possessions of a mortal, how greedy must the other party be?

After searching carefully again, Yu Xiaogang found some clues this time.

The marks were both new and old, indicating frequent visits. From these marks, Yu Xiaogang deduced that the items in the dangerous area had most likely been taken by the other party.

After confirming that nothing could possibly exist, Yu Xiaogang had no choice but to dispel his clone and return his spirit to his original body.

Meanwhile, the group of people who were quietly chatting in an open area suddenly noticed that Yu Xiaogang was frozen in place.

"Xiaogang, do you... have any results yet?"

[Gu Rong asked first.]

Chen Ming and Xu Aoxin cast expectant glances at him.

"I did indeed venture deep into the Valley of Illusions, and I broke free from the illusion."

"But there's nothing there."

Yu Xiaogang said with a frown.

"You've shaken off the hallucination?...No, what do you mean by saying there's nothing?"

Chen Ming was initially overjoyed to hear that Yu Xiaogang had shaken off his hallucinations.

But soon, Yu Xiaogang's words made him jump up.

"The perilous areas of the Spirit Sea Mountains are only for those who enter, not those who leave. The belongings of those who died there, including soul beasts, must have been left behind in those areas."

"How could it not be there? How could it not be there?"

[Chen Ming's voice was tinged with disbelief; after all, the treasure hidden in the perilous place was a topic that countless people in Silvermoon City had discussed for countless years.]

[But then Yu Xiaogang tells himself that the treasure doesn't exist at all; it was all just their imagination?]

This is no less absurd than telling Chen Ming that the higher-ups of Silvermoon City were creating chaos for the good of their people.

"But that's the truth. My clone went to the place where I saw the ground covered in bones, and there was nothing there."

"However, I found some traces there, signs that something had been there."

"If I'm not mistaken, there's probably something lurking within the Spirit Sea Mountains, and they've taken everything from this dangerous place."

[Yu Xiaogang said.]

"What did you say?!"

Hearing Yu Xiaogang's words, Chen Ming became even more excited, even more so than when he heard that there was nothing in the dangerous place.

[Because he couldn't imagine that people had been venturing into the dangerous areas of the Linghai Mountains all along.]

"How is this possible? Shouldn't dangerous places be places of no return?"

If people already have free access to these dangerous areas, wouldn't these people venturing into the mountains simply be the enemy's mobile treasure trove, their free-range pigs?

"Could it be the Sun and Moon Emperor?"

This was the first answer Chen Ming came up with.

The chaos in Silvermoon City, the only way to survive being to venture into the mountains, and the deliberate indulgence of the Silvermoon City leadership...

[Questions that I couldn't understand before, combined with the situation in this dangerous place, seem to have been answered at this moment.]