Chapter 5 Poseidon Suffers a Double Loss: The Trident of the Sea God is Gone?!
The Goddess of Life frowned slightly:
"I'm more worried about the beings on Douluo Star. Will this isolation affect them?"
The five God-Kings discussed, realizing the seriousness of the situation far exceeded their expectations.
This was no longer a simple interruption of inheritance, but a blatant provocation against the order of the God Realm!
Just as the atmosphere in the meeting hall reached its peak of tension, "Bang!!"
The door to the meeting hall, forged from divine power, was violently smashed open!
The five God-Kings frowned and looked over in unison.
In the God Realm, it was unheard of for someone to so rudely intrude into the God-Kings' meeting!
Poseidon, the Sea God, stumbled in.
His divine crown was askew, and his magnificent divine robes were in disarray.
His handsome face no longer held any divine majesty or composure, only endless panic and horror!
"Sea God? Have you gone mad?!" The God of Destruction roared.
Poseidon seemed not to hear him. He staggered to the center of the hall, his voice trembling sharply with extreme fear:
"God Kings! Something terrible has happened!"
The God of Asura coldly looked at him:
"We were discussing the loss of contact with Douluo Star, you..."
"It's not loss of contact!"
Poseidon interrupted him shrilly, clutching his head, almost collapsing.
"It's my faith! My faith!!"
He raised his head, his eyes bloodshot, his face deathly pale.
"Just now, the power of my faith from Douluo Continent... suddenly... collapsed like a precipice!"
"Now... now... almost nothing!!"
The air in the meeting hall seemed to freeze.
The five God Kings looked at the seemingly insane Poseidon with varying expressions.
The Goddess of Kindness asked softly, "Poseidon, you have held your divine position for twenty thousand years, your divine body is immortal, and your divine soul is eternal. The power of mortal faith is no longer the foundation of your power. Why have you lost your composure over this?"
Indeed.
For high-ranking gods who have already secured their divine positions, mortal faith is more of a symbol of status and a link to the lower realms, rather than the source of power it was at the beginning of their godhood.
The sudden drop in faith, though strange, shouldn't be enough to cause a peak-level first-tier god to collapse like this.
"No! You don't understand!"
Poseidon shook his head violently, his eyes bloodshot. He pointed towards the lower realms, explaining in a hoarse voice, "Faith itself doesn't affect my current divine power much, but this phenomenon... is too unusual!
Something terrifying, enough to overturn the understanding of gods, must have happened on Douluo Star!"
He gasped for breath, finally voicing his deepest fear.
"More importantly... my Trident of Poseidon! My ultimate artifact, still in Douluo Continent!"
Upon hearing this, even the Goddess of Life, who had been meditating with her eyes closed, suddenly opened her emerald green eyes.
An ultimate artifact!
This was an extremely rare existence even in the God Realm.
Only the Asura Sword could compare to it.
It was the most supreme treasure in the God Realm, its value even exceeding that of some ordinary second-level gods!
The God of Destruction frowned and sneered:
"You actually left your natal ultimate artifact in the lower realm? How foolish!"
"This isn't foolishness! It's an investment!"
Poseidon retorted painfully, his face full of regret and resentment.
"The reason I've kept the Trident of Poseidon in the inheritance grounds of Poseidon Island is to utilize the continuous, purest power of ocean faith to nurture and refine it day and night!
I hope that through ten thousand years of accumulation, its quality can be further improved, touching the threshold of the legendary creation artifact!"
This was his true scheme!
A grand plan that would elevate his status in the God Realm even further!
If this plan succeeded, he could also use the divine power of faith accumulated by the Trident of the Sea God to break through to the God King level!
However, now, everything had vanished.
The cold gaze of the God of Asura fell upon him, succinctly revealing the key:
"Therefore, Douluo Star is out of contact, and the God Realm cannot communicate. And your faith collapsed at the same time. These are not two separate events, but two outcomes of the same event."
Poseidon's body trembled violently; he finally understood the terrifying connection between them.
The Heavenly Curtain!
It must be that damned Heavenly Curtain!
It not only exposed his shameful deeds from 20,000 years ago, destroying the foundation of his faith, but also, in conjunction with some great power, sealed off the entire Douluo Star!
This was a series of interconnected schemes!
A deadly trap aimed at Poseidon, spanning 20,000 years!
The collapse of faith meant that the "furnace" nurturing the Trident of the Sea God had been extinguished.
The loss of contact with Douluo Star meant that even his path back to retrieve his super artifact had been completely severed!
His Trident of Poseidon, that divine artifact forged with the culmination of his life's work, even stained with the blood of his closest friend, was now a peerless treasure lost in the mortal realm, ownerless and irretrievable!
"Pfft—"
Having grasped all this, Poseidon could no longer suppress his rage, spitting a mouthful of golden divine blood onto the polished floor of the conference hall.
Poseidon's face was ashen, his eyes unfocused, only one thought echoing wildly in his mind:
"It's over...it's all over..."
His reputation was ruined, his faith gone.
Even his most cherished divine artifact was lost!
This was simply...a double loss! Inside the conference hall, Poseidon's golden divine blood stood out starkly against the polished floor.
He seemed drained of all strength, collapsing to the ground, his eyes filled with despair.
Reputation, faith, the ultimate artifact everything he had built over 20,000 years had crumbled in this one day!
However, those 20,000 years were on the Douluo Continent.
In the God Realm, only a few decades had passed.
The God of Destruction looked at him with no pity, only contempt:
"For your own selfish desires, you betrayed your dearest friend and stole glory. Poseidon, your current fate is nothing but karmic retribution. You have even lost the dignity of a god!"
Back then, three geniuses on Douluo Star had consecutively created their own godhood, naturally attracting the attention of the God Realm Committee.
Poseidon's actions were also observed.
The Evil God King made no attempt to hide his schadenfreude, chuckling:
"Interesting, truly interesting."
"A mere mortal's scheme has managed to leave a peak-level first-tier god in such a sorry state. I'm becoming increasingly interested in that old acquaintance named 'Wei Yuan.'"
There was even a hint of regret in his words.
Back then, the Evil God King had also highly valued Wei Yuan, subjecting him to the Nine Trials of Evil and offering him his Evil Godhood.
But Wei Yuan refused.
If Wei Yuan had accepted back then, where would he be now?
Poseidon, listening to the mockery of the several god kings, was filled with shame and indignation, yet powerless to refute them.
(End of Chapter)