"Interesting... Is this your understanding of the King's path?"
"Then give it a try, shoulder the long-cherished wishes of the myriad people..."
Lucifer's figure gradually faded away, and that unobservable face finally revealed itself in the last instant—
Huo Yuhao's expression changed drastically. In this instant, it was as if he were looking into a mirror, seeing himself.
The scenery shifted madly. He suddenly returned to that terrifying sea of blood, and then found himself in Lucifer City from six million years ago. One second he was standing among the celebrating crowds accepting their worship, and the next second he was grabbed by countless corpses in the sea of blood—
Is this... the will of the myriad people?
Huo Yuhao could not move; he could only open his eyes wide as he was dragged into the blood pool by countless pale arms.
Blood red.
Blood red.
Still blood red.
Everywhere he looked, it was blood red.
"O King, please grant us salvation..."
"Please, King, save this country for us..."
"The King need not mourn for our sacrifices..."
"The King is innocent, and Eden is also innocent..."
"..."
As the voices of their hearts seeped into his sea of consciousness, a peculiar power of faith began to inject into his body.
Huo Yuhao discovered with astonishment that behind that terrifying hellish scene was actually the elegy of the hundreds of millions of Eden Kingdom subjects who had been sacrificed.
As the saying goes, the ghosts you fear are the people others yearn for day and night.
Their King tried to use the authority of forgetting to shield the voices echoing in his mind. However, the guilt overflowing from his chest tormented Lucifer into a state of half-madness. He tried to soothe the souls of his subjects while simultaneously wanting to forget that supreme tragedy...
Bibi Dong had once inherited the Rakshasa God position, and it is likely that such a terrifying depiction of hell also appeared during her test. Without the guidance of the other half, the Angel, she could not hear these voices coming from the souls of the Eden Kingdom's subjects.
Even though he had prepared himself mentally, when hundreds of millions of voices converged in his mind, Huo Yuhao was still driven to the brink of madness by the torment.
He could not block out these voices, let alone ignore them.
Because they were not vicious words, nor were they curses or demonic sounds. They were the devout blessings and prayers of the subjects who regarded him as their King—
Just as Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena had said, this was not a normal god position; it couldn't even be called a god position. It was more like a throne, a throne with authority overriding that of deities.
Soon, Huo Yuhao's consciousness fell into chaos, because there were simply too many voices appearing in his sea of consciousness—
After lasting for about several hours, when Huo Yuhao opened his eyes again, he found himself in an extremely primitive forest.
This is...
A burst of noise attracted his attention.
He cautiously moved closer. Through the lush branches and leaves, he could see a group of people gathered around a bonfire, singing and dancing with abandon...
This dancing posture...
For some reason, Huo Yuhao only felt that the dance movements before him seemed somewhat familiar, but due to his chaotic memories, he couldn't recall it for the moment.
By the bonfire, the one dancing the most freely was a well-proportioned man. However, his body was extremely bizarre, able to constantly change into various postures and even forms.
He laughed loudly, infecting the people beside him with his joy, making everyone present unable to help but laugh from the bottom of their hearts.
Among them, even Huo Yuhao was included.
Gradually, Huo Yuhao forgot about the time. He kept watching that man lead these people to travel the continent, spreading joy and knowledge to every corner of the land, rebuilding new civilizations one after another on the desolate earth.
Such days continued for decades, until a group of people descended from the sky, demanding to halt the progress of civilization.
Subsequently, that man named Apollo transformed into a giant, utterly defeating all these so-called Divine Officers, which in turn drew the wrath of the Divine Realm...
At this time, Huo Yuhao gradually came back to his senses. In the Demon God test he was currently undergoing, he probably still had the chance to witness that vanished history...
The Divine Realm, constructed by Lucifer based on the remains of the mutants, had attracted powerhouses from countless surrounding stars over the years, constantly expanding the Divine Realm. Today, it already possessed multiple God King-level powerhouses.
However, the resources of the universe are limited. The rules did not allow the Divine Realm to expand rapidly, much less allow a great civilization like the Eden Kingdom to be born again.
The survivors who had once received King Lucifer's protection, under the influence of the universal rules, stood on the opposite side of the Sun God who had once protected them—
The Goddess of Love, Aphrodite, ran around trying to stop the outbreak of this war, but was betrayed by her fiancé, Poseidon, and was stripped of her divine power.
On that day, the gods joined forces and engaged in a fierce battle with the Sun God Apollo, who remained on the Douluo Continent, and his partners. In the end, Apollo suffered a crushing defeat; he was pierced through by several Super Divine Tools and nailed to the earth.
The Divine Realm seized the power of faith from Apollo. That was the legacy of the Eden Kingdom, and the gods transformed it into massive mental power to continue the expansion process of the Divine Realm.
Huo Yuhao could see that after the gods left, the man who orchestrated all of this, the God King from the early days of the Divine Realm's creation, quietly stood beside Apollo's corpse.
"Tang Miao, do you want to seize the King's power?" Apollo's remnant soul let out a sneer.
"Thanks to the King, during my years in the Divine Realm, I finally came into contact with the will of the universe. From now on, I will be the first God of Creation in history, wielding the rules of the universe." The tall and thin man's face was calm, and only the flames dancing in his eyes could express the excitement in his heart at this moment.
"The King once fought hard against the Great Will for the sake of the country. As his subject, you actually betrayed him!" Apollo suddenly rebuked angrily.
"True, the King won, but my wife sacrificed her life for it." Tang Miao said indifferently, "My heart has long been completely empty. Now, I have even lost my faith."
"Therefore, I want to create a world with my wife. For this, I choose to cooperate with the Great Will."
After Tang Miao finished speaking, he casually burned Apollo's remnant soul completely into nothingness.
"From now on, the Douluo Universe will be dominated by me, Tang Miao."
...
Several days later, the true body of the Goddess of Love, Aphrodite, descended. She came to the center of the battlefield and found Apollo's corpse.
Aphrodite held her brother's corpse and wept bitterly, her tears gathering into a river. She was so heartbroken that she fainted at one point.
As the Douluo plane was downgraded in dimension, the authority of forgetting that Lucifer had imposed on her lost its effect, and she finally saw her own heart clearly.
Bringing Apollo's corpse back to the once ruined royal city, Aphrodite was heartbroken and ultimately committed suicide for love...
...Countless years passed again. The Dragon Clan rose to power, forcefully occupying the Divine Realm and constantly expanding it into the Dragon God Realm. The Dragon God became the Supreme God King, attempting to establish a Divine Star, and was once again noticed by the Great Will of the universe...
Huo Yuhao watched all this dumbfounded. He didn't expect these things to happen after Lucifer's death. No wonder the former Eden Kingdom was so powerful that it didn't seem like a civilization existing on Douluo Planet. It turned out Douluo Planet had also suffered a dimensional downgrade!
Lucifer was already dead, and he could not stop all this. Only a sliver of his intent remaining in the mortal realm recorded the true history.
From this, it appeared that whether it was the universal law enforcers or the God of Creation, they all had a very deep connection with the so-called universal rules and the Great Will...
At this time, the god position inheritance also reached its final stage. The voices of the myriad people that had just quieted down began to echo continuously in his mind once again.
Ahead of him, only the final stretch of the path remained. It was a magnificent grand hall. Beneath his feet, a long carpet spread to a supreme throne. On the throne, a dilapidated crown was placed quietly.
"I was once a King who discarded his crown, a weakling who could not save the continent without sacrificing the myriad people. I hope my successor can understand one thing: to wear the crown, one must bear its weight."
Lucifer's majestic voice sounded without warning. At this moment, it even overpowered the other voices in Huo Yuhao's consciousness.
Huo Yuhao first took a deep breath, then strode forward, heading toward the throne.
With every step he took forward, an additional demonic pattern appeared on his Angel Armor. By the time he arrived before the throne, his body was already covered in eerie black patterns, looking extremely hideous.
Looking at the throne close at hand, Huo Yuhao understood that as long as he sat on it and wore the crown, he would be the new Demon God.
Intense black light patterns suddenly rippled out from Huo Yuhao's body. On his body, the Angel Divine Raiment had already transformed into the terrifying Fallen Angel Divine Raiment. Feather-like light patterns drifted out, rotating violently around his body.
Huo Yuhao no longer hesitated. Treating it like a precious treasure, he picked up that crown, placed it on his head, and sat on that throne—
In the center of the grand hall, the huge angel statue suddenly began to tremble without warning. Fine streaks of black light began to appear on the statue, emitting layers of intense black light patterns.
Boom—
The next moment, the entire angel statue shattered instantly, transforming into countless golden spots of light surging in mid-air. At the core of its explosion, fully covered in black armor, with eight wings gently flapping on his back, the Demon God had returned. To be precise, it should be: Fallen Angel Huo Yuhao, had returned—
The Dragon Realm began to tremble violently. Both the Ice Empress and Gu Yuena noticed that cluster of black light in the sky above.
Before long, a figure stepped out from the light. He had six wings on his back, and his entire body bloomed with holy radiance.
"Yuhao!" The Ice Empress immediately cried out in excitement. Huo Yuhao looked like he had successfully inherited the god position.
But in the very next moment, the Divine Raiment on Huo Yuhao's body was covered in black patterns, and those six snow-white wings also turned pitch-black in an instant, while an additional pair of blood-colored wings extended out, revealing a trace of unusual aura from top to bottom.
"Is this the posture of the Demon God?" Gu Yuena's divine thought clone muttered as she watched Huo Yuhao land.
"What's wrong, don't recognize me?"
Looking at Gu Yuena's dazed expression, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but smile slightly.
"How... how do you feel now?" Gu Yuena remembered something and hurriedly asked.
"Aside from it being a bit noisy in my head, everything else is fine." Huo Yuhao smiled bitterly. This god position carried the souls of the Eden subjects from six million years ago; it would probably take some time to get used to it.
"Noisy?" Gu Yuena didn't understand his meaning. Then, she slightly sensed Huo Yuhao's aura and smiled beautifully, "Currently, your aura is roughly around the Half-Step God King level, even better than I expected."
Huo Yuhao nodded. The god position left behind by Lucifer still had many abilities waiting for him to discover. Next, he had to properly familiarize himself with his own abilities.
The ten soul rings of the Evil Eye martial soul emerged one by one. The final soul ring was impressively black, but it wasn't the pure black of a ten-thousand-year soul ring. Instead, it was covered in red patterns, looking extremely hideous.
His tenth soul skill was: Fallen Angel Descent.
"Next, I still need to find a place for some target practice..." Thinking of the Abyssal Plane near the Tianma Twin Stars, the corners of Huo Yuhao's mouth couldn't help but curl up slightly.
...
The Douluo Continent.
Huo Yunhan sat quietly in the classroom of Satan Soul Master Academy, the sunlight spilling through the window onto his focused face. Holding a book introducing advanced soul tools, he was immersed in the ocean of knowledge, trying to absorb more methods to improve his soul tool technology from it.
Suddenly, the ground beneath his feet trembled without warning, and the book in Huo Yunhan's hands almost dropped.
He abruptly raised his head, his eyes full of doubt and vigilance. The surrounding classmates also began to cause a commotion, and the classroom was instantly filled with an uneasy atmosphere.
"What's going on?" Someone asked loudly.
"Could it be an earthquake?" Someone was in a panic.
Huo Yunhan frowned. Instead of answering, he walked briskly to the window and looked out. In the distance, a plume of thick smoke rose from the ground, and the nearby buildings were also swaying slightly.
Right at this moment, the academy's alarm sounded shrilly, and the entire academy fell into tension and chaos.
"All students, assemble at the square immediately!" Mu Jin's urgent and stern voice came over the broadcast.
Huo Yunhan quickly put down the book in his hand and ran towards the square along with the flow of people.
On the square, Mu Jin stood on the high platform with a solemn expression, gazing at the distant ground.
The sudden violent tremor instantly attracted the attention of a large number of Satan City residents. The army was even more battle-ready, immediately surrounding the direction of the epicenter.
At the highest point of the Imperial Palace, the divine thought clone Huo Yuhao left on the Douluo Continent had a grim expression. It seemed that the ominous premonition was about to be fulfilled...
Many people ran out of the palace in a hurry. After seeing Huo Yuhao, it was as if they had instantly taken a calming pill.
With the Demon King here, no matter who the attackers were, they were confident in winning.
As the dust and smoke dispersed, many people discovered through long-distance observation that what landed on the ground was impressively a nearly spherical object.
Only Huo Yuhao noticed that engraved on that object were the characters for the Tang Sect—
Could it be...
Just as everyone felt curious, that thing actually slowly opened a door.
Subsequently, several figures slowly walked out from inside. And accompanied by their appearance, the entire Douluo Continent began to become extremely unstable.
Undoubtedly, those were deities. Only when multiple deities appeared on the Douluo Continent at the same time would it cause such changes.
Could it be people from the Divine Realm?
"Yuhao, what kind of gods are they?" Bibi Dong came to the side of Huo Yuhao's divine thought clone. She had not come into contact with the gods of the Divine Realm, so she was somewhat puzzled.
Huo Yuhao did not answer her immediately. His gaze stared fixedly at a man who was the last to walk out of the spherical object.
That glittering golden trident...
There can be no mistake, that is... Sea God, Tang San!