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Tang San perceived the earth-shaking changes occurring within Douluo Planet with a sense of utter shock that quickly dissolved into extreme terror. He finally realized exactly what kind of existence Ye Lan had evolved into.
If what Ye Lan said was true... then Ye Lan had become a true, primordial God! By combining his infinitely growing vitality with Future Sight and Equivalent Exchange, he could manifest any ability imaginable.
"Ye Lan! I was wrong!"
"Ye Lan! I was wrong!"
"Spare me! I only beg for death!" Tang San collapsed, weeping bitterly.
"Heh. You don't realize you were wrong; you only realize you are finished," Ye Lan said indifferently. "From this day forward, every city on the Douluo God Star must establish a Sub-Hall of Atonement."
"In front of every Sub-Hall, a kneeling statue of Tang San must be erected. For ten thousand, million, billion years, Tang San shall remain a sinner spat upon by the entire Douluo God Star!"
"No! Ye Lan! I'm truly sorry! Please, no!" Tang San's pupils shrank. If this happened, he would become a joke far greater than even Yu Xiaogang—the most laughable man in Douluo history. To the vanity-obsessed Tang San, this fate was more excruciating than having his divine soul set ablaze.
With a thought, Ye Lan used his divine intent—the ability Gods Cannot Be Looked Upon—to command his followers to transfer Tang San's soul into the pitch-black, sunless Depths of Atonement.
"I was wrong!"
"I was wrong!"
Tang San's pleas continued, but the heavy doors of the Hall of Atonement slammed shut, leaving him with nothing but endless darkness, pain, and the memory of his betrayals.
Ye Lan watched as Tang San was imprisoned, feeling a profound sense of satisfaction. The villainous Tang San had finally received his due punishment. His flesh had become Ye Lan's divine rings and shoes, trodden underfoot day and night. His soul had been forged into Twin God-King spirits for future generations to use in training. His divine core would burn eternally in divine fire. And his legacy would be a kneeling statue, cursed by the masses for all eternity.
After dealing with Tang San, Ye Lan touched the earring known as Silver Dragon's Sorrow. In the next second, he used Equivalent Exchange to pull the core of the Dragon God—the Golden Dragon King—back to the Douluo God Star.
When the Dragon God appeared, it gave Ye Lan a start. It wasn't the dragon itself, but a Dragon God Egg. The massive egg, spanning thousands of meters, was covered in layers of nine-colored scales, with a tiny Dragon God gestating inside. Through his spiritual power, Ye Lan sensed it would take about three years to hatch.
Next, Ye Lan used Equivalent Exchange to witness exactly how Gu Yuena had died in the Abyss Plane. When he saw her detonate her own soul to delay the Dragon God's birth for his sake, a wave of grief washed over him. He gently stroked the egg.
"Na'er, I will bring you back," he murmured.
However, standing before the egg, Ye Lan fell silent. Resurrecting Gu Yuena was incredibly difficult. When she detonated her soul, she hadn't considered coming back; she only wanted to buy time. In a sense, she hadn't "died"—she had merely returned to the source of the Dragon God. If he used exchange to "revive" her now, he would only create a replica. Even with her memories and looks, it wouldn't be her.
As Ye Lan stood at an impasse, a blue figure blurred toward him from the distance.
"Xue Di?" Ye Lan asked, puzzled.
The Snow Empress placed a hand on the Dragon God Egg, her blue eyes shimmering with tears. After a long silence, she turned to Ye Lan. Her eyes held a trace of reluctance as she spoke, "Ye Lan, I know how to bring the Sovereign back..."
"Really?!" Ye Lan grabbed her shoulders, his face lighting up with excitement.
Seeing his joy, a ripple of emotion crossed Xue Di's eyes. She reached out and brushed her hand against his cheek. Ye Lan looked at her, confused by the sudden intimacy.
"Ye Lan, I hope that in the future, you will remember my smile today. Thank you."
Xue Di spoke from the heart. The memories of her time with Ye Lan and Gu Yuena had taught her the beauty of the world, transforming her once-drab existence. Her smile was like a flame in the snow, burning away not just the cold, but her own attachments.
A single silver teardrop drifted from Xue Di's chest. As it left her, her expression shifted from a warm smile back to a cold, ethereal indifference—the persona of the Ice Sky Snow Lady who remained untouched by the mortal world.
Ye Lan watched the transformation in shock, not understanding what had happened. He instinctively caught the silver teardrop. The moment it touched his palm, his lost memories with Gu Yuena flooded back.
Meeting Gu Yuena, naming her, defeating her, becoming friends, her smiles under the moonlight... and finally, how Gu Yuena had erased his and her own memories for the sake of the Soul Beast race, entrusting them to the Snow Empress.
He finally understood why Gu Yuena's personality had changed so drastically—she had sealed her own heart. He also realized the source of Xue Di's inexplicable feelings for him. Over the years she held those memories, she had fallen in love with him through Gu Yuena's eyes. But to make Ye Lan and Gu Yuena whole, she had chosen to sacrifice her only emotion.
Looking at the now-aloof Snow Empress, Ye Lan felt a pang of guilt. He took her icy hand and said, "Xue Di, after Na'er is back, I will take you both to see the most beautiful fireworks in the world."
The cold Snow Empress looked at him. For some reason, she felt no aversion to his touch, only asking coldly, "Fireworks? What are those?"
"A manifestation of human warmth. They are beautiful," Ye Lan replied.
Ye Lan triggered Heartsteel hundreds of times, boosting his vitality to several times that of a Creation God. He then pressed his right hand against the Dragon God Egg.
A terrifying torrent of life force surged into the egg. It absorbed the energy hungrily, growing until it exceeded ten thousand meters in size. The Dragon God's grade ascended to the level of a Creation God.
CRACK!
The nine-colored egg shattered, releasing a blinding radiance.
"Hahahaha! I, the Golden Dragon King, am finally reborn!"
"What is this sweet energy? Have I struck luck?! I've ascended directly to a Creation God! What my original self couldn't do, I have achieved! No... I am the Golden Dragon God!"
"Gu Yuena! Your plan failed! Hahaha! Douluo Planet! Ye Lan! Everything you love will be destroyed by my hand!"
As the light faded, the Golden Dragon King looked around and fell into a frenzy of joy. "Hahaha! The heavens are on my side! I was wondering why I became a Creation God... I've arrived at a fabled God Star! Hahaha! People of the God Star! Your god has returned! Bow before the Golden Dragon God!"
He let out a thunderous roar that shook the entire planet. Across the Douluo God Star, humans and Soul Beasts were woken from their slumber.
"Damn it, who's the suicidal idiot making that noise?!" people cursed. "Disturbing the peace on a God Star? Do they want to end up like the fake god Tang San?!"
The Golden Dragon King, now a Creation God, was suddenly drowned out by the collective annoyance of a whole planet. He roared back, "What 'fake gods'?! From now on, I am the only god here!"
In the next instant, Ye Lan appeared directly in front of the dragon's massive head.
The Golden Dragon King's eyes flared with rage. "Ye Lan! I hadn't even come looking for you yet, and you dare show your face? Die! Golden Dragon's Wrath! Infinite Dragon God Claws!"
The claws tore through the air, creating a black void of shattered space.
"Hmph, a mere Divine Officer dares stand before me," the dragon sneered.
"Are you done talking?" Ye Lan asked. "Take this. Haymaker!"
A spectral Black Tortoise, tens of thousands of meters wide, slammed into the Golden Dragon King. Upon contact, the dragon's blood and bones were instantly vaporized. His soul recoiled in terror. Without another word, he turned and fled toward the edge of the system.
"Think you can run?"
In the next moment, a version of Ye Lan—hundreds of times larger than the Douluo God Star itself—manifested before the dragon's soul.
"Impossible!!!" The Golden Dragon King's mind broke. Who was the real Creation God here?!
Before he could travel another inch, he was pinched between Ye Lan's thumb and forefinger. Though the God Star was hundreds of times larger than the old planet, Ye Lan's divine form remained vastly superior.
"Mercy! Have mercy!" the dragon begged.
"If a part of Na'er wasn't inside you, you'd have been dead long ago," Ye Lan said coldly.
He used his spiritual power to annihilate the Golden Dragon King's true essence. Then, he merged the silver teardrop into the remaining divine soul. The memories of Gu Yuena and Ye Lan began to awaken.
The soul essence Gu Yuena had detonated had been drawn back into the Dragon God's core by the Golden Dragon King. The silver teardrop acted as a catalyst, knitting the shattered essence back together. With the Golden Dragon King's consciousness gone, his power became the fuel for Gu Yuena's soul to reconstruct.
Ye Lan funneled soul energy through Equivalent Exchange to ensure the process was a success. After a flash of nine-colored light, a silver divine soul appeared, crying out in panic, "Ye Lan! Ye Lan!"
"I'm here. I've always been here."
A familiar voice reached Gu Yuena's ears. She looked up in awe at the Ye Lan who spanned hundreds of millions of kilometers in the void.
"Ye Lan! Waaaah! I thought you were dead!" she cried with joy. Then she stomped her foot. "Change back! How am I supposed to hug you when you're that big?!"
Ye Lan shrank back to human size instantly. "Na'er, you've suffered enough." He swept her up in a princess carry and kissed her. On the Douluo God Star below, millions looked up to see the moon reflecting the silhouette of a silver-haired girl and a blue-gold-haired boy sharing a kiss.
Xue Di watched them from below, her eyes shimmering.
"Ye Lan! If you don't marry me soon, I'm calling it off!" Ning Rongrong shouted toward the sky, fuming at the display.
"That playboy..." Qian Renxue's lips curled into a smile. Now, all she wanted was for him to be happy forever.
After saving Gu Yuena, Ye Lan, Na'er, and Xue Di disguised themselves as nobles to travel the Douluo God Star and experience the mortal world. During their journey, Xue Di's feelings for Ye Lan gradually resurfaced. Under a display of grand fireworks, Ye Lan confessed to her, and she finally reclaimed the emotions she had set aside.
To Ye Lan's surprise, Na'er turned out to be just as much of a "jealous jar" as Qian Renxue, insisting that he give her an equally grand confession!
With his companions by his side, Ye Lan began to condense his final Godhood. Although Douluo was now a God Star, creating a Godhood that encompassed all rules required more energy than even a God Star's Immortal Spirit Qi could provide.
He used Future Sight to calculate the cost. In the process of evolving his Blue Silver Grass, he had mastered three thousand Laws. To create a Godhood that held them all, each additional rule increased the vitality cost a hundredfold. The final number was staggering.
However, against his Ultimate Heartsteel, it was manageable. He needed to trigger the effect roughly 9.22 million times. At 1,600 triggers per minute, it would take him about four days.
Four days passed in a flash.
A miniature universe appeared in Ye Lan's palm—his final Godhood. It contained the three thousand rules; anything known or unknown could be derived from it. As he absorbed it, the entire Douluo God Star was bathed in an aurora of every possible color. Countless beings knelt toward the radiance. Everything they had was created by Ye Lan; how could they not be grateful? They prayed for his success.
Months later, the phenomenon faded. As the light receded, his name echoed across the planet and the entire universe.
Ye Lan!
He had finally become the first Creation God of the Douluo God Star. A true Creation God. His title was not "God of Creation," "God of Life and Destruction," or "God of the Universe." His title was simply Ye Lan.
He opened his eyes, feeling the terrifying power within him. Beyond the energy, he now possessed the power to create. Anything he observed could be perfectly manifested—be it a planet, a universe, a multiverse, or infinite dimensions.
At that moment, his "Divine Nature" tried to emerge again, threatening to turn him into a cold, logical manifestation of the rules. Ye Lan instantly crushed it. Just like his title, he was simply Ye Lan. He was not a rule, nor a personification of the universe.
Though his rank was "Creation God," his strength could no longer be defined by tiers. With the authority of the Ye Lan Godhood, he could replicate any enemy's power, artifacts, or skills. Even without divine power, his control over his own Rules made him invincible—not to mention his infinitely scaling health.
Upon his ascension, his soul power transformed entirely into divine power. His base vitality increased a trillion-fold, and his combat Blue Silver Grass multiplied to a trillion stalks. His ten soul rings, through their unique nature, evolved into Creation Divine Rings, their color shifting to the hue of the starry cosmos.
His fifteen Hyper-Divine Artifacts evolved into Creation Immortal Tools. Any one of them could allow a mortal to slay a god; Ye Lan held fifteen. Even without his "cheat" systems, Ye Lan was now the undisputed strongest existence in the Douluo Universe.
(End of Chapter)