This novel has been finished on Patreon! Over 600 Chapters đź‘€available! Thank you to all my Patrons for the support over this and the other novels <3
I've also recently started a new translation, please check it out and show your support! Douluo: Seven Kill Shock the World
--------------------------
The departure of the youth didn't cause even a ripple.
Time lost all meaning in this desolate valley.
In the blink of an eye, a month had passed.
"Indeed, worthy of being a God King who studied bloodlines," Xu Yuan sincerely remarked.
Over this month, he watched as a youth of mediocre talent was transformed by the Blood Demon God King into an omnipotent plug—ahem, a body compatible with numerous bloodlines.
"I wonder what kind of constitution this is called here." The Blood Demon God King admired his own masterpiece.
"Since you made the transformation, the naming rights naturally belong to you. Are you imitating some other constitution?"
"Not imitation; this is something I developed based on my understanding." The Blood Demon God King spoke with pride, as if comparing himself to Xu Yuan.
Though it felt somewhat out of place, the reality was undeniable.
Xu Yuan's displayed talent over such a short period left even the Blood Demon God King, who had nearly reached the pinnacle, feeling inferior. This subconscious comparison stemmed from that sense of inadequacy.
Clearly, he already regarded Xu Yuan as an equal.
And for someone like the Blood Demon God King to view another as an equal meant that Xu Yuan was, in his eyes, worthy of being considered a Supreme God King.
"Since it's my creation, let's call it the Blood God Constitution!"
The Blood Demon God King didn't care if this name might overlap with others.
Moreover, this constitution was developed through his own insights but wasn't his greatest achievement.
After all, his greatest accomplishment was fusing nine bloodlines to achieve the True Dragon Bloodline, and he still hadn't completed the final step.
This Blood God Constitution was merely the result of his research and summarization of bloodline power—a divine opportunity. However, how far this youth could develop it depended on his encounters.
Divinity, on this Falan Planet, might not yet count as truly top-tier.
Qian Nian felt as if his body were about to fall apart.
Though he fell from the cliff and landed without turning into a mess of flesh, the impact still caused him to faint from pain.
The Blood Demon God King's modifications on his body also made him endure unbearable agony.
However, whether due to Qian Nian's determination or the Blood Demon God King intentionally dulling his pain, Qian Nian ultimately endured it.
During this month, Qian Nian remained unconscious, passively enduring the excruciating pain. Amidst the torment, he vaguely heard two unfamiliar voices.
Their words brought a glimmer of hope to the desperate Qian Nian.
Perhaps
There was still hope for the rise of the Nine Gates families!
Divinity!
How could Qian Nian have ever imagined obtaining a divine-level constitution one day?
Blood God Constitution, huh.
"Boy, it's about time you woke up. I've got a few questions for you," Xu Yuan's voice entered Qian Nian's consciousness.
Whether this voice held some magic or not, despite his previously chaotic will and inability to control his body, Qian Nian instantly became aware of his body and opened his eyes to see the sky above the valley.
No one?
Qian Nian moved his eyeballs and realized his surroundings were dim, except for a small patch of sky overhead?
It was like a frog at the bottom of a well looking up at the sky.
The pain in his body snapped Qian Nian out of his daze.
He became aware of his situation.
Falling from the cliff, he had smashed a human-shaped crater into the ground, and now he lay at its bottom.
But where were those two people?
"Don't bother looking. I'm right here."
Qian Nian suddenly felt a jolt in his chest, as if his heart was being tugged and violently beating.
Fear flickered in the boy's eyes.
Is he inside my heart?
"Hehe, kid, your heart doesn't interest me." The Blood Demon spoke, "By residing in your body, we won't bring you harm. Instead, we'll help you in your cultivation. Once we recover, you'd be begging us to stay."
Qian Nian suppressed the chaos in his mind.
At this moment, he forced himself to calm down and think.
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Though they claimed he didn't need to do anything, he keenly spotted the loophole.
"Senior, you mentioned you need to recover. What treasures do you require? I'll do my best to find them for you."
"The boy's pretty smart, but the things I need aren't something you can find," said the Blood Demon. "I need the primordial bloodlines of nine divine beasts: the Celestial Camel, the Divine Light Rabbit, the Sky Devouring Python, the Phantom God Clam, and the Earth-Shaking Ox. Do you think you can find them for me?"
Qian Nian was utterly shaken.
He was startled by the Blood Demon's tone.
If he hadn't misheard, he caught mentions of the Celestial Camel and the Divine Light Rabbit.
Being listed together implied these nine items were of the same level in the other's demands.
Qian Nian only knew of the Celestial Camel and the Divine Light Rabbit, which belonged to the most powerful divine beast bloodlines on the entire Falan Planet.
During the era of the Spirit Continent on Falan Planet, various demon clans emerged, and many divine beast bloodlines flourished. Even so, among these bloodlines, there were tiers. The Celestial Camel and the Divine Light Rabbit were top-tier, and possessing their pure bloodlines gave hope of reaching the Celestial God realm!
On Falan Planet, reaching the tenth stage was godhood. The tenth stage was the Star God, the eleventh stage the Moon God, and the twelfth stage the Celestial God!
Qian Nian knew little about the Celestial Camel and the Divine Light Rabbit, but he knew one of the Nine Gates families, the Tiger Gate, inherited the Heavenly Spirit Tiger bloodline, which was on par with the Celestial Camel and the Divine Light Rabbit.
Of course, Qian Nian's worldview lacked information on the true top tier of Falan Planet. He didn't know that even among bloodlines capable of reaching the twelfth stage, there were distinctions.
Though the Heavenly Spirit Tiger, Celestial Camel, and Divine Light Rabbit had the potential to reach the Celestial God realm, it was just potential. Even with pure bloodlines, most stopped at the Star God stage, with very few reaching the Moon God stage.
Qian Nian felt a wave of helplessness.
This senior casually asked for the primordial bloodlines of nine divine beasts, essentially asking for their lives.
Nine pure bloodlines with the potential to become Celestial Gods...
Just thinking about it was terrifying.
Was this really achievable?
"Boy, tell us about this planet first," Xu Yuan interrupted the Blood Demon, starting to inquire about Falan Planet's intelligence.
He had a rough understanding of Falan Planet, but he didn't know much about its cultivation system.
Qian Nian wore a puzzled expression.
This senior's words were comforting, not as arrogant and unsettling as the Blood Demon's. But why did he refer to Falan Planet as 'this planet'?
Qian Nian wasn't foolish; he had just fallen and woken up with his brain not fully functioning.
Soon, he realized the key point and widened his eyes.
If his body weren't in so much pain and immobile, he probably would have jumped up.
"You're not from Falan Planet?"
"It took you this long to realize," the Blood Demon's voice seemed to carry a hint of disdain, likely with a look of disapproval if visible.
Qian Nian came to his senses and began organizing his thoughts.
Regardless, these two seniors were his saviors and gave him hope. In his worldview, they were good people.
"Twelve stages in total?"
Naturally, Xu Yuan was most concerned with the cultivation system.
Upon hearing Qian Nian's narration about the complex cultivation systems in the Divine Realm, where different races, even within the same race, might have different cultivation methods, but there were always twelve stages, Xu Yuan showed a surprised expression.
He didn't interrupt Qian Nian, allowing him to continue explaining.
"Humans have three cultivation methods. We are in the Holy Domain, where cultivating demon power is prevalent. It uses the bloodlines of demon clans or spirit races as the foundation. Stages one to three are Demon Envoys, four to six are Spirit Envoys, seven to nine are Holy Spirit Envoys, and ten to twelve are Angelic Envoys."
Xu Yuan pondered.
He looked at Qian Nian, waiting for him to explain each stage's details.
However, Qian Nian revealed an awkward smile.
"My talent isn't good. I've just barely entered the first stage as a Demon Envoy and haven't even fused my ancestral bloodline yet."
Xu Yuan was speechless.
He had forgotten Qian Nian was a protagonist of the wastrel archetype.
Though, this wastrel was quite thorough.
He didn't understand cultivation much.
"Forget it. I'll observe when you meet other cultivators later," Xu Yuan said. "Tell me about Falan Planet's history and power distribution. Just share what you know."
Upon hearing this, Qian Nian began recounting Falan Planet's four major eras—the Ice Age, the Dark Age, the Sacred Age, and the Golden Age—to Xu Yuan.
"The Three Great Scriptures, beyond the twelfth stage, Ancestral God..."
After listening, Xu Yuan quickly focused on the key points.
"The Three Great Scriptures are the foundation of humanity. Without them, humanity wouldn't have risen. Relying on the Three Great Scriptures, humans cultivated divine scriptures, established the first human nation—an Order Nation—and gained a foothold. This laid the groundwork for the subsequent parts of humanity that valued freedom and collaborated with demon clans to conquer the Blue Domain and Holy Domain, resulting in today's humanity."
Qian Nian continued to elaborate on the terms Xu Yuan mentioned, but both Xu Yuan and the Blood Demon God King fell silent.
Qian Nian didn't realize what Xu Yuan and the Blood Demon God King were doing at this moment.
"You've triggered spacetime!" The Blood Demon God King's tone was solemn.
At this moment, both of them seemed enveloped by a powerful force, about to impact time itself.
"It's fortune," said the Blood Demon God King, whose knowledge surpassed Xu Yuan's, recognizing the powerful force Xu Yuan was still questioning.
"Fortune? Why is it fortune?"
"True time cannot be altered; what can be done is merely influencing, especially the past." The Blood Demon God King's expression was grave as he explained to Xu Yuan, "God Kings can influence time, but the degree of influence is actually small. They can only glimpse future trends and capture fragments of the past. As for truly exerting influence, it involves striving towards an anticipated future and anchoring that future."
"In fact, such anchoring has minimal impact on the future, but it does have some effect. Combined with personal arrangements, it can amplify this change, potentially leading to a qualitative transformation."
"But altering the past is something even God Kings cannot do."
"Even Supreme God Kings cannot change timelines, alter the past, or directly determine the future."
Xu Yuan listened quietly to the Blood Demon God King's explanation, digesting the information.
"But Supreme God Kings can influence past memories."
Influence past memories?
Xu Yuan was taken aback.
Various thoughts rapidly sparked in his mind.
Feeling the surrounding forces of fortune, he felt he had found the answer.
"Is it the power of fortune?"
"Precisely. The power of fortune is a domain only Supreme God Kings can touch. Of course, someone like me, a half-step Supreme, can sense this power but dare not delve too deeply."
"Time force exists in the universe, but it cannot traverse past and future."
Xu Yuan nodded, saying, "Time is a product of sentient beings' cognition, a law derived from material changes. Time force is merely the power under this law, existing only in the current spacetime."
Change occurs, hence existence. Thus, time force is the intermediate value of change.
Moreover, it holds the attribute of this intermediate node.
The current thread of time force, and the time force after another instant, though the same force, possess different attributes.
"What traverses past and future is instead fortune."
"Why does fortune have this characteristic? I don't know, but I do know fortune carries all past changes."
Xu Yuan slightly narrowed his eyes.
Fortune, past history…
"A force derived from the origin?"
The Blood Demon God King looked at Xu Yuan in surprise.
"Correct. I suspect it's a force derived from the universe's origin. This force carries the past. Supreme God Kings can journey through the past via fortune, gather fortune, and thus make an alternative modification to 'history.'"
An alternative modification to history…
Xu Yuan took a deep breath, understanding the root of this incident.
"A Supreme God King altered Falan Planet's history within fortune, and we touched upon that part."
"Precisely!" The Blood Demon God King's expression was serious.
"Normal discussion or study of this history wouldn't be affected, but we two are special. I've somewhat dabbled, and you can perceive it, so we were enveloped by fortune and saw this scene."
Xu Yuan was speechless.
Isn't this telling everyone, 'Here's the history I altered; don't touch it'?
"What benefit does altering history bring to Supreme God Kings?"
"There is one!" The Blood Demon God King said. "History permeates the entire universe. Placed in the memories of sentient beings, it's countless. To alter the history of an entire temporal node, do you know how much fortune needs to be controlled?"
"Understood. Supreme God Kings' cultivation requires fortune."
The Blood Demon God King enjoyed speaking with someone like Xu Yuan.
Exactly.
"The progress of Supreme God Kings relies on expanding the permissions of the Supreme God position, which is rooted in the universe, eternally unique, but extremely similar to fortune that spans ancient and modern times, past and future." The Blood Demon God King spoke.
His understanding of Supreme God Kings was indeed extensive.
It was evident that he himself had certainly reached that height. If not for the Dragon God obstructing him, becoming the True Dragon God would have been almost guaranteed.
"However, this history of Falan Planet does seem a bit suspicious. Such a low-level protection manifested itself after we triggered it..." The Blood Demon God King's face showed hesitation, as if recalling all the details and correlating them with the current situation.
T/N: I'm not familiar with Falan Planet as I haven't read DD5 or Shenlan Qiyu. Please let me know if I need to correct some things. Cheers!
------------------------------------------------------
40+ Chapters Ahead Guaranteed: patreon.com/EphemeralShadow
There's something for free patrons too! Free Patrons receive 1 chapter in advance :)