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The Dragon God was powerful, but His divine position was highly unstable.
From the intelligence Ye Wen had gathered, during the ascension of the Dragon God Realm, the Dragon God had witnessed two Dragon God Kings—representing time and space—suddenly go berserk and kill their own Crown Prince. This event had driven the Dragon God into a rampage, resulting in Him wiping out a large number of His own people along with those two mad God Kings.
To be honest, Ye Wen couldn't understand it. Anyone who could reach the level of a God King must possess an unwavering mind. Even if their entire family were wiped out, they shouldn't experience such extreme emotional fluctuations or lose the ability to distinguish friend from foe.
The root cause lay in the nature of the Dragon God's divine position—it required Him to embody two vastly different personas. One was the destructive, world-ending Mad Dragon God, while the other was the wise and all-ruling Dragon God.
These two personalities were extreme opposites, representing the once cold and absolutely rational Silver Dragon King Yue Na, and the frenzied, battle-crazed Golden Dragon King.
If inheriting the Dragon God's divine core meant developing these two extreme personalities, Ye Wen could confidently label the Dragon God's divine core as trash.
The wise state was tolerable, but the mad mode was unacceptable. Once triggered, it would result in indiscriminate destruction—no one could endure that.
Moreover, strictly speaking, the Dragon God's divine position fell under the same category as Ye Wen's Vast Sea divine position—both were Creators' divine cores.
Both possessed the powers of creation and destruction.
Given the same choice, why wouldn't someone choose Ye Wen's Vast Sea divine position instead? Why deliberately turn oneself into a lunatic?
As for the Dragon God's request to find an heir for His legacy…
Ye Wen wasn't foolish enough to create such a ticking time bomb for himself. Besides, he hadn't promised the Dragon God anything before He fled. Let Him deal with it however He wanted.
In the end, Ye Wen chose to seal the divine core away. Unless under special circumstances, it would never see the light of day again.
Ye Wen also consulted Yue Na, the dragon representative directly involved. As the embodiment of wisdom and rationality, Yue Na carefully considered the matter and agreed with Ye Wen's decision. After all, she didn't want to become a lunatic either.
Among the God King-level experts, the only one excluded from the discussion was Di Tian, who later received the news.
Upon learning that the Dragon God was still alive, Di Tian was initially stunned. What did that make the Lord he had served for so many years?
This was an internal matter of the dragon race, so Ye Wen didn't interfere much. Instead, he sent Yue Na to console Di Tian.
The dragon race's methods remained as straightforward and brutal as ever. Even though Di Tian had regained his God King-level strength, Yue Na didn't hesitate to step in when necessary.
Through sheer power, she made Di Tian understand that the Lord was still the Lord, and no amount of resistance would change that.
Later, Yue Na briefly explained the situation regarding the Dragon God. Di Tian was struck like lightning, his spirit nearly collapsing.
In the end, Di Tian could only utter one sentence:
"We servants are still willing to fight to the death, but why did our Lord lead the rebellion?"
Di Tian initially wanted to stubbornly resist, but after Yue Na showed him the Dragon God's divine core, he accepted his fate. How could he, the former chief guard of the Dragon God, forget the aura emanating from it?
Exhausted, he gave up. Let everything crumble.
From that point on, the most rebellious member of the soul beast faction completely fell into despair. He found a female dragon, married her, and started a family. As for the Dragon God's troubles, let whoever cared about them handle them.
Time passed, and two millennia had elapsed since Ye Wen's initial ascension.
During this period, Douluo Planet had truly evolved into a massive interstellar civilization spanning over a dozen star systems.
Its territory even surpassed the former Dragon God Realm, a terrifying feat.
Now, there was no need to elaborate on Douluo Planet's overall strength. Compared to the approximately thirty God King-level experts during the Dragon God's era, Douluo Planet now boasted at least a hundred God King-level experts.
As the King of Gods and the successor to the title of "King of God Kings" after the Dragon God, Ye Wen was not happy. Being stuck at a certain realm without breakthrough was incredibly frustrating.
Fortunately, most of the newer God Kings who had ascended were either Ye Wen's disciples or descendants. Moreover, the system Ye Wen had established didn't oppress them excessively, so he still maintained his revered status among the gods.
By now, Ye Wen had long ceased to be obsessed with power as he once was. Instead, he chose to delegate authority to the younger generation.
After all, as long as one wasn't brain-dead, the general direction of Douluo Planet was clear enough for any reasonably intelligent person to manage.
What concerned Ye Wen most now was how to break through to the next realm.
Though the God King realm was powerful, it was far from reaching the limits Ye Wen envisioned in his heart.
"How do I break through to the next realm? Could it be that the Dragon God's approach was correct after all?"
Sitting alone atop the peak of Douluo, Ye Wen muttered to himself.
The gift the Dragon God had left behind upon His departure was a hypothesis regarding the next realm.
However, Ye Wen hadn't taken the gift seriously at first. After all, the Dragon God had still been at the peak of the God King realm when He appeared. If He had broken through, His arrogant personality would have surely led Him to utterly dominate everyone.
Over the years, Ye Wen had tried every method imaginable. Unsurprisingly, all of his attempts had failed.
Though Ye Wen had mentally prepared himself for this outcome, he still couldn't help but sigh.
"Indeed, no cultivation system can be achieved overnight. It requires various kinds of accumulation."
At this moment, Ye Wen retrieved the gift the Dragon God had left behind and began to carefully study it.
It was indeed a new perspective, coming from a mind completely different from that of humans.
But alas—
"Was this guy's brain damaged?"
The method the Dragon God had left behind involved continuously destroying and recreating a world to gain insight into the true divine realm and achieve personal transcendence.
Setting aside the resource consumption, Ye Wen couldn't fathom how repeatedly destroying and creating a world would be useful.
For someone like Ye Wen, who possessed simulation skills, the concept of life and death within the palm of his hand was nothing extraordinary.
What use was this supposed enlightenment? No wonder the thoughts of a lunatic were so bizarre.
However, the final part of the Dragon God's gift left Ye Wen deep in thought.
[The God King realm represents the pinnacle of mastery over a single rule. Perhaps the next realm is the mastery of multiple rules. The advantage of possessing a Creator divine core is that it inherently contains multiple rules, allowing direct development.]
"Mastery over multiple rules at their peak?"
There was some merit to it, but not much.
By now, Ye Wen had already pushed every divine authority he possessed to its absolute limit, yet he remained stuck.
Currently, Ye Wen's situation resembled the leap from Level 99 to Level 100 for ordinary soul masters—a qualitative leap.
Limit, Demigod, Quasi-God.
Though technically within the same realm, the difference between them was vast.
When Ye Wen first mastered a single rule to its peak, he reached the level of a Limit God King.
Perfecting a second rule elevated him to the level of a Demigod Emperor. Now, having perfected ten rules, Ye Wen believed his current strength could easily defeat four or five versions of his past self. He had reached the level of a Quasi-Divine Emperor.
As for the next realm, Ye Wen referred to it as the Divine Emperor realm. A king above kings deserved the title of emperor—a simple and direct designation.
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