The Sixth War God, Yu Yang, had considerable seniority in the War Temple.
Breaking through to Titled Douluo granted a lifespan of two hundred years. By now, he had spent most of his life in the War Temple.
He had witnessed the rise of Qingtian Douluo and had also seen the style of experts from Chen Xinjie's generation.
Among them, naturally, was Heaven Favored Douluo.
Back then, because of Yuetian Douluo and Guang'an Douluo, the other party had come into contact with the War Temple quite a few times. Yu Yang had thus met Heaven Favored Douluo many times as well.
But as far as Yu Yang knew, Heaven Favored Douluo had gone missing a hundred years ago.
Yu Yang quickly suppressed the confusion in his heart. He looked at Heaven Favored Douluo with even colder eyes.
"As the previous Sea God Pavilion Master of Shrek Academy, do you know what you are doing?"
Whether Shrek Academy had intentionally hidden Heaven Favored Douluo's existence, or whether there was another reason for his disappearance back then, none of that mattered now.
What the other party was doing now is challenging the Federation's bottom line.
"I have heard some displeasing voices within the Federation."
A flicker of amusement passed through Demon Emperor's eyes. But his tone was equally cold. "Do you expect me to just wait until the Federation destroys Shrek? Rather than Wait for Death, I will act myself to fight for more leverage for the academy."
A flash of insight seemed to pass through Yu Yang's mind.
Heaven Favored Douluo wanted to steal the Eternal Heaven, making the Federation Spare the Rat to Save the Dishes, even compromise, and dare not continue to move against Shrek Academy?
His pupils contracted. "Are you mad? This will only Pour Oil on the Fire and completely Fall Out with the Federation."
Demon Emperor did not reply. He easily broke free from the ice chains and continued charging toward the Eighteenth Level of Hell.
The seed of doubt had been planted. The other goal had been achieved. There was no need to say more.
Just as Demon Emperor was about to break through the blockage and rush into the Eighteenth Level of Hell, the sound of something cutting through the air came.
A spear, its tip adorned with seven colored flames, instantly tore through space, hurtling toward Demon Emperor's heart.
Demon Emperor raised an eyebrow. He casually raised his left hand to block, intending to return the attack to its sender once more.
But as the spear passed through Demon Emperor's left hand, Demon Emperor's scream instantly resounded throughout the entire seventeenth level.
"Ah."
The scream was so shrill it did not sound human, as if his soul had been directly pierced and burned by a hot branding iron.
Demon Emperor's charging form suddenly halted. He looked at his left hand in disbelief. Where the seven colored flame spear tip had grazed, there was no Skin Torn and Flesh Gaping, no Bones Broken. Only a strange "nothingness." It was not a wound, but part of his existence itself had been "erased." The edges were dotted with specks of seven colored flame, like a Bone Attached Tumor, preventing any repair or regeneration, and even rapidly spreading along his arm.
That Unforgettable burning sensation did not just burn his body. It burned his spirit as well.
Without any hesitation, Demon Emperor simply cut off his left hand, letting it fall.
But even so, a seven colored glow still flickered above Demon Emperor's head. A pained expression appeared on his face. He had no choice but to use one third of his body within the Sea of Spirit, the part representing his first possession target, to bear the spiritual burning. Only then did he barely hold on.
But this also meant that from this moment on, everything about his first possession target had nothing to do with him. The soul he had occupied was also liberated.
Demon Emperor looked up, his face covered in cold sweat, looking at the approaching Tianhuo, his heart filled with shock.
That seven colored flame was terrifyingly powerful. Just by landing on the body he had possessed, it could use that to burn his spiritual body.
A divine fire. It was definitely a divine fire related to a deity.
He had never expected that this Fire Li Clan member from another continent possessed such depth.
If the divine fire from the spear tip had attacked his body.
For a moment, Demon Emperor was very glad he had not coveted Tianhuo's body.
As a Possession Demon that could possess three times, he still had one possession opportunity left. But because his second choice had been a Limit Douluo, his standards had risen, and he looked down on ordinary bodies.
And Tianhuo's body, in his view, was quite good.
Semi Divine level strength, plus the Fire Li Clan's innate abilities, made it a rare body.
Moreover, after possessing Heaven Favored Douluo, with his Spiritual Domain realm spiritual power, possessing Tianhuo would be much simpler than before. It was only because the Eternal Heaven was more urgent that he had not done anything unnecessary.
If his greed had been even a little stronger, he had unfolded possession, and had his body directly encountered this seven colored flame.
There would have been only one outcome. Death.
Demon Emperor's eyes were frozen.
Even though he was not dead now, he had still lost all the abilities of one possession target. And that was a Titled Douluo.
Moreover, with his body as a Possession Demon wounded, whether he could recover and undergo a third possession in the future was unknown.
"However, your consumption is not small either."
Watching Tianhuo's flame body become somewhat illusory, the combat experience from Heaven Favored Douluo allowed the Possession Demon to instantly make a judgment.
Could the power of a deity be so easy to use?
After unleashing that strike, the other party probably could not use that divine fire again for a short time.
Tianhuo naturally knew this as well.
His cultivation was too weak.
On the surface, his combat power matched a Semi Divine. But his actual cultivation was not even that of a Limit Douluo. Adding to that, a considerable part of his Seven Colored Lotus Flame origin had been given to Huo Yuhao. That the previous strike had achieved such results was already within his expectations.
Although the divine fire was powerful, he could not restrict the enemy's movements, nor could he sustain the consumption of the Seven Colored Lotus Flame.
If the power of a single strike, when Heaven Favored Douluo was being careless, did not land on a vital point, the subsequent development could be imagined.
However, his goal had not been to rely on the Seven Colored Lotus Flame to kill the other party.
Under Demon Emperor's astonished gaze, Tianhuo showed no desire to continue fighting. He directly charged into the Eighteenth Level of Hell.
Only then did Demon Emperor realize that Tianhuo's previous attack had landed in the passage. The flame spear, after Tianhuo entered, transformed into a cluster of flame blocking the entire passage. Within it, scattered seven colored lights flickered, burning even space itself, making the space around the passage extremely chaotic.
"His previous goal was not to kill me, but to seal the passage, enter himself, obtain the Eternal Heaven, and guard it personally?"
Demon Emperor stared at the cluster of flame with a dark gaze.
He had been outmaneuvered.
Until this cluster of flame, containing a trace of divine fire, disappeared, he dared not to cross to the eighteenth level.
And with this delay, the remaining War Gods of the War Temple gradually gathered at the seventeenth level.
Seeing this, Yu Yang finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The Fire Li Clan had cooperated with the War Temple for a thousand years. He trusted Tianhuo.
Tianhuo entering the Eighteenth Level first, obtaining the Eternal Heaven, coupled with the gathered War Gods, would make it more troublesome for "Heaven Favored Douluo" to steal the Eternal Heaven afterwards.
As long as they protected the Eternal Heaven, their guilt in this matter could also be somewhat alleviated.
However, contrary to Yu Yang's expectations, their group did not pose the slightest hindrance to "Heaven Favored Douluo."
The pressure the other party gave them was simply unlike a Semi Divine. It was comparable to the Lord and deputy Lord, and in some ways even stronger.
And Tianhuo, whom he had placed high hopes on, after arriving at the Eighteenth Level of Hell and sensing the increasingly fierce battle fluctuations from the seventeenth level, looked at the hiding place of the Eternal Heaven he had found and made a decision in his heart.
Since the War Temple's experts could not block that enemy, then.
Tianhuo recalled his conversation with Huo Yuhao that day.
"I do not trust Chen Xinjie."
As Huo Yuhao finished speaking, seeing his somewhat confused expression, his tone was quiet.
"He is a man bound by emotion. He might even hand over the Federation's strategic weapons to others because of that."
"This... are you saying Chen Xinjie might give the Eternal Heaven to Light and Dark Douluo and Shrek Academy? That cannot be, right? Chen Xinjie does not seem like someone who would be swayed by emotion."
Tianhuo frowned.
Huo Yuhao smiled and did not refute directly.
"Then, from another perspective, do you think the War Temple's system is suitable for protecting a strategic weapon like the Eternal Heaven?"
Tianhuo was silent.
A system that allowed a group of criminals to challenge. If the War Temple was only used for screening and recruitment, that would be one thing. But it was now a place guarding a strategic weapon. No matter how he looked at it, it was inappropriate.
"With that kind of system, as long as the Federation experiences some degree of chaos, and the schemers take the unprepared by surprise, many forces would be confident in taking the Eternal Heaven from there."
Huo Yuhao said in a serious tone. "Compared to the Dark Department, which hides in the shadows, and Mingde Hall, which uses the most soul tool technology, the War Temple, which has the most experts, is actually the most likely to have loopholes."
"Then what do you plan to do?"
Huo Yuhao's tone was firm. "The Eternal Heaven must not have an accident. I hope it will be used in the most critical place."
"I know that for you, who have cooperated with the War Temple for a thousand years, this might be somewhat hard to accept. But I hope that if one day, someone breaks through the War Temple's defensive line and comes to the level you guard, and you find it difficult to resist, you will tell me. Or."
"Help me do one thing."
Huo Yuhao handed him a device and within it, something that made even Tianhuo's heart tremble.
Tianhuo stared at the object in his hand, seeming to understand something. He was silent for a long while, then nodded. "All right. If that day truly comes, leave it to me."
After all, if that day truly came, it would mean the War Temple had not fulfilled its responsibility. As a member of the War Temple himself, he would naturally correct that mistake.
Boom, boom, boom.
On this day, which should have been Calm and Tranquil, a terrifying explosion suddenly erupted near the War Temple. A message then spread from the Federation's high ranking members.
The Eternal Heaven had been stolen.
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