The spatial passage that suddenly appeared above Sea God Island caught everyone's attention.
Simply because the aura emanates from it demanded attention.
They had sensed such an aura before on Yun Ming and Di Tian. It was the pressure of a true god.
Yu Guanzhi and Dong Zi'an temporarily stopped, put some distance between themselves and Long Yuye, and looked up at the passage in the sky.
"Is the true god behind Shrek Academy finally going to act?"
"It seems so." Yu Guanzhi nodded, glancing at the direction of Di Tian and Yun Ming's battle, his expression grave.
Now that His Majesty Di Tian was dealing with Yun Ming, how should they respond here?
It was not only Yu Guanzhi who had such concerns. The Federation experts present all had similar thoughts. So they all diverted a bit of their attention to that passage, reducing the intensity of the battle.
If a true god acted, they would probably need to join forces immediately just to hold on until Di Tian could come to their rescue.
Compared to the somewhat uneasy Federation experts, the Shrek side's morale suddenly soared.
"Those are the two true gods. We can leave safely."
"Finally, they are here."
Long Yuye, clutching her wound, also showed a relieved smile of hope on her pale face. But deep in her eyes, there was still a lingering worry and doubt.
But why had they not acted earlier? Did they really need to be that wary of just one Di Tian?
"Everyone, stop."
Er Ming's voice was like muffled thunder, coming from within the passage, carrying an unquestionable meaning.
Then, his sturdy, mountain like figure, with surging blood and qi, stepped out and stood at the passage's entrance. The pressure he emanated temporarily held the chaotic battlefield below in check.
Er Ming's gaze swept across the scene below. Seeing the considerable casualties among the Shrek teachers and students, he frowned slightly, then looked at the Federation side. "Today, I am taking the people of Shrek."
"Shrek Academy will follow us to carry out the Sea God's Ten Thousand Year Plan, to seek the welfare of all beings. Their past grievances end here."
"Do you mean to let Shrek's merits and demerits cancel each other out?" Ferocious Wolf Douluo had originally been puzzled by the strange mixture of Near Divine and true god aura on Er Ming. Upon hearing this, he laughed in anger. "Merits are merits. Demerits are demerits. They cannot be conflated."
"Shrek's ten thousand year foundation is real. It has cultivated talents and resisted the Abyss to protect the continent. These are its merits. However, it has relied on its aloofness, formed cliques for private gain, interfered in Federation internal affairs, and colluded with enemy nations. These are its demerits."
"How can merits and demerits cancel each other out? Rewards and punishments must be clear. The Federation will remember its merits in history and give it due respect. But its demerits must be settled. In dealing with Shrek, we have already shown leniency in consideration of their past contributions to the Federation. Now, those who should Submit to the Law should do so. Those who should disband should disband. That is the rule. That is order."
He stepped forward. A ferocious wolf spirit seemed about to burst from his body. His voice was decisive. "You pride yourself on being a true god and want to use empty words of the Sea God's Ten Thousand Year Plan to take away Shrek's remnants and Wipe Clean their sins. Where in the world is there such a bargain?"
Although Dong Zi'an's personality was naturally hot tempered, he had after all risen step by step from the bottom to his current position, commanding an army. Even with a fiery and resolute character, he was well versed in the essentials of military and political affairs. His words had their own edge and logic.
Er Ming was momentarily speechless.
How could a rough man used to living in seclusion possibly out argue a corps commander like Dong Zi'an? Besides, they were in the wrong here.
But he quickly realized he was here to take the people. Why waste time arguing with them?
They could not stop him anyway.
As for the problem of antagonizing the Federation?
Now the plane was under Tang Hao's control. Once everything was over, the plane would be elevated, and Shrek and they would be vindicated. With Tang Hao's protection, they would not face any trouble.
No matter how strong Di Tian was, could he contend with a second class god, or even a first class god Plane Lord after the plane's elevation?
World-shaking Wisdom told him to use World-shaking Power.
"Enough prattle."
Having figured this out, Er Ming suddenly roared. The sound wave was like a tangible shockwave, shaking loose stones below. Federation and Shrek soul masters nearby felt their eardrums sting and their blood and qi surge.
The terrifying blood and qi and pressure of a true god were released without reserve, like a tangible hurricane sweeping across the field, instantly and brutally suppressing Dong Zi'an's gathered momentum.
"Today, I am here to take the people of Shrek Academy. If you have the guts, stop me. Shrek members, enter the planar passage."
Before his voice had faded, his massive body leaned slightly forward. An invisible force field spread out, forcibly "pulling" those hesitant or determined Shrek teachers and students toward the passage entrance.
"Dream on."
Dong Zi'an roared.
If he let the other side take Shrek Academy's people away like this, this operation would be a failure. No matter what, they had to at least tear a piece of flesh off this true god.
"Ninth spirit ability, Heavenly Wolf."
"Seeking death."
Er Ming casually raised his giant palm, capable of crushing mountains, and slapped down through the air at Dong Zi'an, who was charging toward him, like swatting a fly.
The motion seemed casual, even carrying a hint of impatience.
But a true god's palm was no joke.
In an instant, space solidified. It was not Huo Yuhao's meticulous spatial control, but a crude, brutal blockade formed by pure, unmatched force squeezing space.
Dong Zi'an only felt the air around him suddenly become extremely heavy. His forward momentum suddenly stopped. Even the surging spirit power within his body seemed frozen. The condensation process of his ninth spirit ability was forcibly interrupted.
Then, a palm print formed from pure blood and qi, covering the sky and blocking the sun, rapidly enlarged in his pupils, instantly filling his entire vision.
If this palm landed solidly, even a Semi Divine like Dong Zi'an would be Smashed to Pieces.
"Old Dong."
An anxious cry rang out.
It was Yu Guanzhi.
He reacted quickly. The moment Er Ming raised his palm, he had already realized the danger. Knowing that recklessly rushing up would be suicide, in the flash of a moment, he made the most correct choice when Er Ming raised his hand.
He added countless ink runes to the shield, doing his best to activate the divine weapon's power, then suddenly threw the unrivaled defensive Thousand Mountain Heavy Rock Shield in his hand toward Dong Zi'an.
He had originally wanted to directly cross through space to block it. But Er Ming had also tyrannically sealed space when he acted, making it impossible. And this also meant Dong Zi'an could not get the divine weapon in his hands to face this attack head on. The consequences.
Yu Guanzhi's eyes nearly split.
At this Critical Moment, even Dong Zi'an felt he was Doomed, a hand pressed against his back from behind.
"Disperse."
Accompanied by this calm syllable.
Crack. The spatial imprisonment suddenly released. Dong Zi'an only felt his body lighten. The Rock God's shield was also by spirit power and fell into his hands.
"Clang."
A deafening crash exploded.
The palm print solidly struck the Thousand Mountain Heavy Rock Shield.
Dong Zi'an felt his body sink. But with the help of the person behind him, who assisted him in mobilizing the earth element power of heaven and earth to activate the divine weapon's power, he perfectly blocked the blow without taking any injury.
Seeing this, he could not help turning to look at Huo Yuhao behind him.
The Rock God's divine weapon was naturally best used by someone skilled in earth law. But his and Divine Brush Douluo's martial souls were unrelated to that aspect. They were not skilled in it. Although they could also use their Spiritual Domain realm spiritual power to mobilize the elemental power of heaven and earth, compared to this one, they were far inferior.
But Huo Yuhao's twin martial souls were said to be spiritual and spatial, were they not?
Being able to comprehend spatial law and reach the Spiritual Domain realm in spiritual power at this stage was already unprecedented. Yet Huo Yuhao's ability to mobilize heavenly and earthly elements was even stronger than him, and he could even affect a true god's spatial imprisonment.
This was not right. Who was the real Semi Divine here?
On the other side, Er Ming saw the group block his attack. A flicker of surprise passed through his eyes.
Although he had not intended to kill Dong Zi'an directly, he had not held back just now. After all, who knew if Dong Zi'an had any Federation trump cards on him? If he did, he could just knock him down in one blow to make an example and avoid trouble.
If not, he could still pull his palm at the last moment, spare his life, and achieve the same deterrent effect.
But the result completely exceeded his expectations. An attack that had reached the true god level with the help of planar power had actually been blocked.
Er Ming looked at Huo Yuhao, the Chief Culprit of all this, feeling the aura on him, and quietly marveled.
"Good heavens. I remember that Tang San only managed to fight a Limit Douluo at level eighty, right? No, at that time, Bibi Dong was only at level ninety eight, and he succeeded by exploiting an information gap. But that was already remarkable. And the reason Tang San could do it was because he was the Sea God's inheritor, with a super divine weapon and divine abilities at his disposal."
"This young man has Limit level strength at the Soul Sage level. Could it be the same?"
Thinking of the objects that had fallen from the divine realm on the continent now, Er Ming boldly guessed.
Back then, Tang San had found almost all the divine inheritances on the Douluo Continent and given them to those around him. After that, there were probably no divine inheritances left on the Douluo Continent. But now that the divine realm had changed and divine weapons had fallen, divine inheritances might not have been lost either.
Of course, Er Ming also had another more terrifying guess in his heart.
Huo Yuhao's understanding of spatial power did not seem like something someone his age could achieve.
His thoughts flashed quickly. Er Ming's gaze finally turned to the Federation experts below.
The moment he actively attacked, all the Federation experts had begun to gather, clearly planning to join forces against him.
But did this make any sense?
"The second class god Rock God's divine weapon is indeed quite good. But you cannot unleash its full power. It took three Semi Divines using a divine weapon together just to block one of my strikes. Do you still want to stop me? Do not force me to kill."
Yu Guanzhi and Dong Zi'an fell silent.
A peak Near Divine could rival three Semi Divines. What about a true god?
Apart from Di Tian, probably no one could fight a true god now, could they?
"Your strength is indeed very impressive."
Huo Yuhao stepped forward, looking at Er Ming inside the passage, his expression unchanged. "But why do you not come out of the passage and fight us? Is it because you do not want to, or because you cannot? And where does the passage behind you lead?"
Upon hearing this, Yu Guanzhi frowned and looked at the people Er Ming had sent into the passage beside him. He also found it strange.
He had come to pick people up, yet Er Ming was stubbornly blocking the way by the passage. Although the passage was wide, it still looked very odd.
Er Ming's expression darkened. He looked at Huo Yuhao warily, a bad feeling rising in his heart.
"What exactly are you trying to say?"
"Your aura is very strange. On the surface, it seems only at the peak Near Divine level, yet you can erupt with an aura and power comparable to a true god. There must be external force boosting you. But you have no battle armor. The only peculiar thing is that you refuse to leave that passage."
Hearing Huo Yuhao say this, Yu Guanzhi and Dong Zi'an's eyes widened. Looking closely, they finally noticed that there seemed to be a power behind the passage enhancing Er Ming.
It seemed to be the power of a plane.
"Planar power. I understand now. You were once a true god, but now you are also suppressed by the Douluo plane. Now you are using planar power to restore yourself to true god strength. The passage behind you connects to some small plane."
Yu Guanzhi said definitively.
The Federation had some concept of a Plane Lord. They had also seen many small planes. They understood planar power. After all, what suppressed their cultivation advancement was planar power.
But the Plane Lord of the Douluo Continent seemed to have no consciousness. The Abyss Saint Lord had not truly invaded the Douluo Continent. So this was their first time seeing a true Plane Lord.
And this also explained the anomaly of the true god before them. He had once been a true god, but was not truly at the divine level now. He had reached it through the status of a Plane Lord.
Watching Er Ming's expression turn somewhat gloomy, Huo Yuhao also completely confirmed some things.
In the original work, Da Ming and Er Ming had created and developed a small plane, eventually becoming the Ten Thousand Beast Platform. But to understand the cause and effect, the reason they had developed the small plane was not originally to save spirit beasts and turn it into the Ten Thousand Beast Platform. It was simply because, after staying on the Douluo Continent, they were extremely bored and wanted to design a safe residence for themselves.
Clearly, in this world, Da Ming and Er Ming had done the same thing. As the Plane Lords of that small plane, they could reach the divine level within that world with the help of planar power.
But Er Ming had chosen to fight in the inconvenient manner of planar augmentation, so the worst case scenario in Huo Yuhao's mind was ruled out. After all, because of Soul Land IV, Da Ming and Er Ming's strength also fluctuated like the Dragon God's, jumping between ordinary divine officers and second class gods. But now, it seemed second class gods had not become that cheap.
(In Soul Land IV, Da Ming and Er Ming were first said to be weak divine officers, then later said to be second class gods. Here, they are set as divine officers.)
Er Ming snorted coldly. "So what if you know my background?"
Huo Yuhao spoke calmly. "The intensity of battle a small plane can withstand is far less than that of the Douluo Continent. If we fight inside it, how long can it last?"
Er Ming was about to mock him, saying that with him there, no one from the Federation could enter their plane, and anyone who did would be suppressed by him. But he found that a gradually rising aura on Huo Yuhao made his heart palpitate.
Watching Long Yuye about to enter the passage next, and glancing at the sudden battle fluctuations by the Golden Tree, Huo Yuhao weighed the pros and cons. A short spear appeared in his hand. The Extreme Ice spirit power within his body rapidly converted to another attribute. Heat waves rose around him.
The ancient Fire God divine weapon, the Tian Fen Shen Chu.
When extreme reaches, reversal comes. Extreme Fire.
And.
"Teacher Electrolux, I have to trouble you again."
In the Sea of Spirit, Electrolux sighed. "It is no trouble. If the plan goes smoothly, this may be the last time you borrow my power."
Before his voice had faded, his divine consciousness power had already been applied to Huo Yuhao.
A scorching heat radiated from Huo Yuhao. The Tian Fen Shen Chu in his hand emitted an ancient and violent divine might. The Crimson Gold Mysterious Flame had already attached itself to it, increasing its power.
This sudden scene stunned everyone, including Er Ming.
Although the aura on Huo Yuhao had not reached the divine level, everyone understood that at this moment, he could definitely threaten the divine level.
"Extreme Fire. Divine fire. A first class god fire attribute divine weapon." Er Ming looked at Huo Yuhao and swallowed.
At this moment, Huo Yuhao appeared before him like the Fire God descending to the mortal realm.
Wait. The Fire God descending to the mortal realm?
A flash of insight passed through Er Ming's mind. His World-shaking Wisdom, suppressed by World-shaking Power, began to operate, making him think of his other earlier guess.
Spatial law and strength completely mismatched with his cultivation level.
Divine fire.
A first class god fire attribute divine weapon that gave him a familiar feeling.
And the aura of divine consciousness that had flashed briefly but he had absolutely not misperceived.
All of these pointed to one possibility.
As Huo Yuhao tore through space and attacked him, Er Ming's World-shaking Wisdom gave him an answer. A guess that nearly made him lose his composure blurted out.
"You are not some divine inheritor. You are a first class god of the divine realm, the Fire God Reincarnated."
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