"Tang San, it's time we settle things between us once and for all!"
Wang Chen looked toward the God Realm, murderous intent surging in his eyes as the boundless power of rules fused and intertwined.
In the end, they formed a slightly illusory, multicolored divine seat. Through this multicolored divine seat, one seemed to glimpse the birth and destruction of countless worlds—an extremely profound sight.
This multicolored divine seat contained the Rule of Spirit, the Rule of Time, the Rule of Space, the Rule of Elements, the Rule of Life, and the Rule of Destruction.
Any one of these rules, taken alone, would be enough to achieve the position of God King.
Now that six mutually complementary supreme rules had fused into a single divine seat, its power was simply immeasurable.
One must know that even the Dragon God, whose strength far surpassed that of ordinary God Kings, had only grasped the two complementary divine seats of Rupture and Creation, whereas Wang Chen had grasped a full six!
Even though Wang Chen's divine seat was still illusory due to a lack of energy infusion and could only be considered the prototype of a divine seat,
It was still more than enough for Wang Chen to stand above God Kings and beat Tang San as easily as eating or drinking.
Having grasped so many rules, Wang Chen was already the supreme among gods.
Wang Chen stood within the starry sky, high above the Douluo Planet.
Immediately afterward, his well-defined, large hand reached out across the void toward the Douluo Planet and directly began using the Rule of Spirit to seize control of the planet's world will.
After comprehending the Rule of Spirit, Wang Chen could control the spirituality of all things in existence. He could grant spirituality to all things or strip and control it.
As the condensed essence of the Douluo Planet's spirituality, the world will naturally fall within the scope of Wang Chen's Rule of Spirit.
Wang Chen could even directly extract the world will and add it to himself, achieving a state where "my heart is the heart of heaven, my will is the will of heaven," becoming the true master of the world.
The Rule of Spirit appeared ordinary, yet it was extraordinarily profound. When combined with the Rules of Elements, Time, Space, Life, and Destruction,
Wang Chen could completely create complete worlds possessing life. Calling him a Creator God would not be an overstatement.
Creating such worlds was far more difficult than opening a half-plane.
Half-planes might sound impressive, but in reality, they were merely constructed by using spatial power to cut out a portion of matter from the real world.
Moreover, half-planes could not exist independently; they could only attach themselves to a complete world like parasites, relying on the rules and energy of the complete world to function.
Faced with the sweep of Wang Chen's Rule of Spirit, although the will of the Douluo Planet resisted with all its might, it was completely futile.
It was like an insect trying to stop a chariot—utterly crushed by Wang Chen's Rule of Spirit in the blink of an eye.
In just a single breath, the world of the Douluo Planet was fully grasped by Wang Chen. From this moment on, Wang Chen's will was the planet's will.
Wang Chen immediately manipulated the world will, drawing out all the sentient beings' mind power on the Douluo Planet—commonly known as the power of faith—then used the power of rules to refine it and fuse it into his divine seat.
However, although the power of faith contained within the entire Douluo Planet was considerable, even enough to fill a first-level god's divine position,
compared to the divine seat Wang Chen had created, it was merely a drop in the ocean—not even one-tenth was filled.
As the power of faith from all sentient beings on the Douluo Planet merged in, Wang Chen's originally illusory divine seat merely became slightly more solid.
Wang Chen thought to himself, "The divine seat I created is simply too powerful. If I want to fill it, I'm afraid I'll have to collect the power of faith from the entire God Realm and all the worlds under its jurisdiction."
However, Wang Chen was in no hurry. With his current strength, no one in the entire God Realm was his match. After Tang San was eliminated and he became the boss of the God Realm, gathering the power of faith to fill the divine seat would not be too late.
"Before killing Tang San, I should first eliminate the hidden dangers on the Douluo Planet. Otherwise, if someone steals my home and threatens me during the great battle with Tang San, that would be bad."
Wang Chen's deep gaze locked onto a man and a woman inside a half-plane on the Douluo Planet who bore some resemblance to Tang San.
Then he stretched out his hand and, as if swatting insects, casually grabbed.
In the starry sky, a heaven-obscuring giant hand suddenly appeared.
Wherever the giant hand passed, time stopped, elements dispersed—vast and mighty, unstoppable!
…
On the Douluo Planet, inside an isolated half-plane.
A dark-skinned, ordinary-looking, tower-like, burly man was farming in the fields.
Beside him, an extremely beautiful woman looked at the man gently with smiling eyes, then took out a water jug and said, "Brother Hao, drink some water."
The man put down his hoe, took the jug, and happily drank all the water inside.
The two were none other than Tang San's parents—Tang Hao and A-Yin.
After Tang San ascended to the God Realm, Tang Hao and A-Yin were conferred as second-level gods. Because A-Yin liked life on the Douluo Continent, the two did not enter the God Realm and instead lived in seclusion on the continent. Of course, that was only the reason on the surface; the true reason was to prepare for Tang San's ten-thousand-year plan.
However, due to the rules of the God Realm, the two were not allowed to enter human society or interfere with the development of the world.
Just as Tang Hao and A-Yin were sweetly enjoying their time together,
"BOOM—"
The heaven-obscuring giant hand tore through the half-plane barrier without warning and continued unabated toward Tang Hao and A-Yin.
Tang Hao's pupils constricted upon seeing the giant hand. An intense sensation of life-and-death crisis caused cold sweat to pour down his back.
Facing the crisis, Tang Hao had no time to think about who wanted to kill him. He immediately summoned his Clear Sky Hammer; as the Clear Sky Hammer appeared, ten soul rings flashed madly.
"Great Sumeru Hammer! Ring Detonation!!"
All ten soul rings shattered instantly, the energy within the rings completely merging into Tang Hao's martial soul, the Clear Sky Hammer, turning it into a several-thousand-meter giant hammer.
Tang Hao exerted strength with all the muscles in his body, roared, and poured out all his divine power and divine sense, delivering the strongest strike of his life.
The energy storm produced by the ring detonation even turned the surrounding space into nothingness. Yet the giant hand merely trembled slightly, and the Clear Sky Hammer—known as the number one tool of martial soul under heaven—cracked inch by inch.
As his martial soul shattered, Tang Hao immediately suffered heavy injuries and spat out blood.
"Brother Hao!" A-Yin screamed as she released her Blue Silver Domain. Countless tough, blue-golden roots and vines tried to entangle the giant hand. But the moment those vines touched the giant hand, they visibly withered and decayed due to the time runes flowing on its surface.
Moreover, those time runes spread along the blue-golden vines to A-Yin's main body, causing the originally youthful and beautiful A-Yin to instantly turn into a white-haired old woman.
"Third Sister!" Seeing the woman he loved most reduced to such a state, Tang Hao's eyes cracked with rage, breathing heavily like an ox.
But no matter how furious Tang Hao became, it was useless. The gap in strength was simply too vast. How could a second-level god resist even a casual strike from Wang Chen?
The five fingers of the giant hand began to close, and in an instant, time throughout the entire half-plane froze. Tang Hao and A-Yin could not move; they could only watch wide-eyed as the giant hand clutched them in its palm.
"Little San… avenge us!!" Tang Hao's final thought emerged.
With a light squeeze of the giant hand, the two second-level gods Tang Hao and A-Yin were crushed in an explosion.
Even their divine souls were annihilated by the terrifying power of the Destruction Rule contained within the giant hand, leaving only their two second-level divine positions, which were taken away by the giant hand.
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In the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Land of Great Evil, deep beneath the Lake of Life.
The heavily injured and sleeping Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena suddenly opened her eyes upon sensing the aura of a supreme expert.
Her dragon body shook, then she surfaced and transformed into a white-haired, purple-eyed peerless beauty.
At this moment, beside the Lake of Life, Di Tian was staring blankly at the terrifying heaven-obscuring giant hand.
As the number one-ranked ferocious beast, Di Tian's strength was extremely close to the god level. He was also very old, had witnessed the peak of the dragon clan, seen the Dragon God, and encountered many god-level experts—he could be considered extremely experienced.
Yet it was precisely because he was so experienced that he could feel just how terrifying the owner of that heaven-obscuring giant hand was.
The master of that giant hand was at the very least a top-tier existence among first-level gods, and very possibly a God King. Even the slight aftershocks of the power contained within the giant hand would be enough to reduce him to dust, body and soul both extinguished.
Di Tian truly could not imagine that such a powerful being existed on the Douluo Planet—no, it should be called a god. It was simply appalling.
For such a powerful expert to be on the Douluo Planet instead of the God Realm—this was a terrifying game.
It was simply a max-level boss rampaging through a newbie village, completely unfair.
Just as Di Tian's mind was filled with shock and fear, a dignified and cold female voice sounded beside his ear.
"Di Tian, what is going on? Why is there such a powerful expert on the Douluo Planet? Do you know who this person is?" Gu Yuena asked.
Hearing the familiar voice, Di Tian immediately turned around, knelt on the ground, and respectfully saluted Gu Yuena.
However, he could not answer Gu Yuena's question. Because he had always guarded the core region of the Star Dou Forest, he was unfamiliar with the outside world and had never seen Wang Chen, so naturally, he knew nothing.
Di Tian replied, "Lord, this subordinate does not know."
Seeing that Di Tian knew nothing, Gu Yuena immediately raised her head toward the sky. Her purple eyes penetrated the endless clouds and saw the tall, upright, and handsome man in the starry sky.
She dared to look because she did not sense the auras of the five great God Kings she was familiar with, and also because Wang Chen had not used his true power when crushing Tang Hao and A-Yin—it had merely been a casual swat. After all, who would exert much effort when dealing with ants?
This caused Gu Yuena to greatly underestimate Wang Chen's strength.
Just as Gu Yuena gazed at the starry sky, puzzled by how unfamiliar this god's face was and having no impression of him,
She discovered that the man she was observing had turned his head, and their gazes collided.
'How is this possible—he actually discovered me!'
Gu Yuena was momentarily stunned. As the split body of the Dragon God that controlled the spirit aspect, even God King-level experts would find it difficult to detect her peeping.
Gu Yuena hurriedly tried to retract her gaze, but before she could act,
An irresistible, mighty power surged along the line of sight, and then Gu Yuena lost consciousness.
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With the deaths of Tang Hao and A-Yin, inside an enormous palace floating among the clouds in the God Realm,
Tang San suddenly felt his heart palpitate. The Sea God Trident mark on his forehead flashed violently.
Then, in horror, he discovered that the bloodline connection with his parents had been completely severed.
There was only one possibility for this situation—his parents were dead.
"NO—!"
A miserable howl shattered the glazed roof tiles of the palace. Tang San, eyes blood-red, rushed out of the hall.
Having been an orphan in his previous life, Tang San deeply cherished the parental affection he finally obtained in this life. Upon learning that his parents had died, his killing intent could no longer be suppressed and exploded forth.
Tang San's divine sense spread out, searching in all directions. Very quickly, he discovered Wang Chen's figure above the Douluo Planet.
"Wang Chen! The hatred of killing my father and mother is irreconcilable—I will tear you into ten thousand pieces!"