Chapter 35

The clouds and mist shifted endlessly, sometimes like rolling waves, sometimes like a serene beauty; each change had no pattern, yet they brought ever more beauty and shock.

Thick heavenly and earthly primordial energy lingered in the mist; if an ordinary person could come here, even a single breath could extend their life by ten years.

Of course, with an ordinary mortal's constitution, absorbing too much of this primordial energy would not be a good thing—because it is divine power!

The towering palace shimmered with a faint golden glow under the Divine Realm's halo; this was the highest point of the entire Divine Realm, the place that governed everything within it.

The main hall of the palace was octagonal, its surrounding walls bare of decoration yet filled with countless shifting, shimmering scenes; each light curtain represented a world, a landscape, from a different planet of the mortal realm. This was also where the Divine Realm Council monitored the planets of this star field.

Among these scenes was one showing Qian Renxue telling Tang Hao to get lost.

The Divine Realm Council had the duty to judge the gods and the responsibility to govern the Divine Realm and uphold its rules.

Each day, two God Kings of the Divine Realm are on duty: one comes to the Divine Realm Council to inspect the lower realm, another goes to an independent space to guard the Divine Realm's core, while the other three rest, rotating shifts. Today it happened to be the Asura God King's turn to monitor the lower realm.

At the center of the main hall stood a round table; its surface was of unknown material, but upon close look one could see drifting mist and what seemed like endless depth.

"Hmph—Rakshasa!" Suddenly a cold grunt echoed, and the entire Divine Realm Council trembled violently.

A tall figure, entirely wrapped in dark-red demonic patterns, slowly emerged. Dark-red light swirled around his body, obscuring his appearance; only vaguely could one see he wore armor covered in dark-red demonic markings—the Asura God King who wields the power of slaughter and judgment! If Qian Renxue had just been influenced by the Rakshasa's divine thought, truly letting Tang Hao absorb a ten-thousand-year soul ring, he could indeed manifest the Asura's descent; facing other gods' heirs, a god may aid his own successor, and he could fully exploit a loophole in the Slaughter God Domain.

After all, Tang Hao is the father the Asura God chose as his heir's progenitor; he cannot simply be discarded.

"That meddlesome Rakshasa—how does she show up everywhere!"

"But that crazy Angel God woman actually found such an excellent successor! A 100,000-year first soul ring! What a 100,000-year first soul ring!"

"In that case, can the Tang San I brought from another world truly match up against her?"

The Asura God King's blood-red eyes flickered uncertainly; he, a lofty God King! How could his heir be shorter than the Angel God by a head? She is merely a lesser deity! The Asura God King and the Angel God clash in office, both mighty deities governing judgment; due to conflicting faiths, they have always been at odds.

Though the Angel God is only a lesser deity, she cares not whether you are a God King or not, whether you seize faith—she simply loves judgment; with her around, who in those lower realms still knows the Asura God's divine mandate?

Unlike the Angel God, who casts a wide net to catch many fish, the Asura God King truly favors his successor; with the aid of the Angel God's statue in the lower realm, she feels no trouble—she would give as much divine power as needed, her mind set on discarding the Angel God's station to enact judgment elsewhere! "Qian Renxue." The Asura God King murmured, this descendant of the Angel God is not only exceptionally talented; her vision and character are unprecedented in his life.

What the Asura God King values most is not talent but character! That is his true selection criterion.

Speaking of talent in the lower realm, Bibi Dong ranks highest, but this woman is a fool, bewitched by a waste who cannot break past rank thirty—how could the lofty Asura God King tolerate such a stain? He wouldn't even glance at her; when he first walked out of the Slaughter Grounds, the Asura God King watched helplessly as she was eroded by the Rakshasa's divine thought.

The Rakshasa God thought the Asura God unaware, that snatching his heir would disgust him; in fact, the Asura God deliberately humiliated him, for in his view the Rakshasa God is nothing but a waste, fit only to pick up what he discards.

Speaking purely of talent, Tang Chen is first; that is why he subjected Tang Chen to the divine trial.

Alas, Tang Chen has talent but no wit; he is truly stupid, his nature overly simple—such a person is unfit to be a judging, slaughtering Asura God King; he'd likely be made a monkey by the Benevolent God King, who appears gentle and kind but is actually dark-hearted, full of evil schemes.

As for Tang Hao, Tang Chen—the deluxe version—doesn't want him, so why would he settle for the ordinary? Tang Hao's Spirit Douluo level could battle three supreme Spirit Douluo only because the Asura God secretly aided him through the Slaughter God Domain.

Given the Asura God King's pride, how could he endure such shame? Even if he passed on his godhood, his prestige must not fall below other God Kings! Thus, after discovering Tang San's existence, he ignored Tang Chen altogether—let whatever Rakshasa waste like him have him.

As for the Tang San the Asura God King now values, this person's thoughts are profoundly deep; from childhood he was taken in by the Tang Sect, becoming an outer-door disciple unable to access sect secrets. Yet he spent only twenty years researching the Tang Sect's highest profundity; in this regard his comprehension is astonishing, his talent brilliant.

Furthermore, from his obtaining the Profound Heaven Technique at age nine, spending twenty years until age twenty-nine to develop the Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus, we see that from being taken in by the Tang Sect to preparing psychologically to break sect rules, then mapping the internal guard routes of sect secrets, patrol schedules, acquiring the Profound Heaven Technique and blueprints—all took only a few years, while Tang San was merely nine years old then!

Tang San was not blinded by his station; his aims were clear, his mind meticulous, capable of such scheming even in youth—this person's character is terrifyingly extreme, his future limitless!

If he could inherit the Asura God's position, he would not be bullied by the remaining four God Kings, nor would the Asura God King's name be tarnished!

This was the Asura God King's original plan: for Tang San's growth, he placed a wisp of his Asura divine power upon a 100,000-year soul beast, waiting for Tang San to mature so he could guide that beast to meet, know, and love him, ultimately securing his inheritance of the Asura God's position.

But now? That crazy Angel God woman has done nothing! Her successor already possesses a 100,000-year soul ring! Damn it, saying this, my eye for people must be inferior to hers!

Qian Renxue—this person, the Asura God King had long noticed; she is the Heaven's Chosen Maiden selected by the Douluo Plane.

But the Asura God King initially did not take her seriously—merely a Heaven's Chosen Maiden chosen by a lowly plane's will; he could easily toy with her with a flick of his wrist, and besides, she is the offspring of that mad Angel God, so he could send a deity to intercept the Angel God and employ some vile means to disgust her to death.

Using Qian Renxue as Tang San's whetstone could not be more fitting.

The Asura God King originally thought Qian Renxue's background too exalted, her vision already limited by her elders; normally she would follow the elders' step-by-step cultivation, naturally becoming a god without stunning brilliance—though she could become a god, she would be neither surpassing nor lacking, her power far short of that of the predecessor Angel God who self-created a god-position.

No matter how proud the Asura God King, he acknowledges the current Angel God's strength; a weakling has no right to vie with a God King for judgment's office. But now things differ: Qian Renxue has not been blinded by the mundane so-called peaks of the mortal realm; she seeks the utmost strength! Not merely an ordinary god-position! She aims to be the strongest at every realm! Only such a person is the true heir the Asura God King desires.

Innate twenty-ranked soul power, yet she did not immediately hunt ordinary soul rings; she patiently lay low for three years, now directly securing a 100,000-year soul ring—what bold ambition! Does she not fear her plan failing, wasting three years of cultivation? Or does she believe that even if the hunt fails, squandering three years, none could surpass her?

Talent, ability, character—every aspect is top-notch among the top! The more the Asura God King pondered, the more he favored her.

This maiden is my kind! She ought to inherit my Asura God position!

But what about Tang San? This person's character is also decent, his future achievements won't be low—would he not interfere with Qian Renxue's inheritance of the Asura God position?

Right, I could let Tang San serve as the whetstone for my heir! Truly most fitting! The Asura God King casually sent the Tang San soul he brought from another world into the body of the child killed by Tang Hao's shock.

The Asura God King's face suddenly shifted from gloom to bright; he felt everything had cleared up, feeling relieved—how could the Angel God's successor, no matter how outstanding, change anything?

"From now on, she is mine!" "That Angel God woman has always been busy opposing me; now her successor is corrupted by the Rakshasa's divine thought and she doesn't even know it—she's utterly unqualified; since she can't hold onto it, I'll take it over!"

As for how to snatch her from the Angel God's grasp, he currently has no good plan; he must devise a way to have Qian Renxue visit the Slaughter City! This talent he selected must inherit the Asura God position! As for guidance, Bibi Dong also bears my Slaughter God Domain on her person; strictly speaking, she too is a candidate for my god-position—just erase the Rakshasa's divine thought from her, previously I merely disdained to bother with the Rakshasa.

Now Bibi Dong is useful; the Rakshasa can scram! Let Bibi Dong guide Qian Renxue to the Slaughter City to obtain the Slaughter God Domain! Moreover, they are mother and daughter.

Bibi Dong possesses twin martial souls; Qian Renxue has no reason to lack such potential—her talent vastly surpasses Bibi Dong's! It's merely that her Six-Winged Eight-Winged Angel Martial Soul is too mighty, her angel bloodline too pure, directly causing the two supreme Spider Emperor martial souls to struggle to fuse and evolve into a new martial soul, making the birth of twin martial souls essentially impossible.

But if I intervene, it's different: once she obtains the Slaughter God Domain and becomes my heir, I can act within the rules, using Asura divine power to guide the latent Devouring Spider Emperor and Death Spider Emperor martial souls within her to fuse and evolve, then add Asura power! This martial soul's potential will not fall short of the Eight-Winged Angel! Fortunately, the Asura God and Angel God positions share overlapping jurisdictions; Qian Renxue inheriting both god-positions is plausible, after which the remaining four God Kings will have nothing to say.

"The Angel God has no reason to be angry with me; at worst I'll first inherit her Angel God position, then my Asura God position—by then we'll all be family!"

"And that Rakshasa waste—must first drive him from Qian Renxue's body! Damnable creature, daring to defy Divine Realm rules!"

Li Jiechen brothers had a great idea; I tweaked it a bit, swapped the villain, set the boss as the current Rakshasa God! We really need to crush this jerk! You say it, but it's actually quite reasonable. Li Jiechen brothers! You are my Angel God! Brothers, post more comments—you're all geniuses! Haha, didn't expect this, huh? The Asura God isn't an opposing force; the Asura God is now one of us—I won't even slash Tang Hao. Actually, after reading so many fanworks I never understood why the Asura God must be bound to Tang San—could it be that after all those years of cultivation he's just a stubborn blockhead? I'll also explain to everyone why I chose Qian Renxue! It's not some random sudden fixation on Qian Renxue, haha (●°u°●) Also, the reason Qian Renxue sometimes undergoes drastic personality changes has come out! However, the twin martial soul aspect isn't instant; there will be an acquisition process, since Qian Renxue's first martial soul is too strong, there's nothing that can stand beside it, so to make the setting reasonable the Asura God King will intervene later! The Angel God trial won't be tampered with either, haha—if anyone has ideas, feel free to share! Fanworks are just for fun; don't dwell on bitter grudges, brothers—just be happy! Lastly, I ask for a wave of votes, love you all (≧≦)/(end of chapter)