“Talk too much!!!” A sudden, thunderous voice exploded in everyone’s face, and immediately the surroundings changed in every direction. Just moments ago, Yang Hao and Hunyuanzi were sitting inside a house, enjoying a delicious meal. But as the voice rang out, hurricane-force winds tore the roof off, the walls crumbled like tofu, and a red current from the sky rushed down rapidly.
“Dragon’s breath!!” Hunyuanzi cried out in alarm. Dragon’s breath came in red, green, black, and gold varieties, each with different properties. The red breath clearly carried immense heat, capable of reducing a person to ashes in an instant.
Yun Shang did not speak but immediately flicked his hand, instantly enveloping the three of them in a colorful liuli barrier. Hunyuanzi, having become a loose immortal with a new physical body, had also gained considerable strength. Without hesitation, he spat out a stream of true energy, forming a pill furnace barrier outside the liuli shield.
But at this moment, the distinction between a lower-level loose immortal among divine beings and an upper-level divine being became evident. The red dragon’s breath struck Hunyuanzi’s barrier, slowing only slightly before swiftly breaking through, rendering his magic as fragile as paper. Yet, when it encountered Yun Shang’s brilliant, colorful琉璃 light, it came to an immediate halt. Although merely a small luminous barrier, it seemed to hold immense power. The dragon’s breath swirled around it for a while, then completely dissipated.
As the immediate danger passed, the house where Yang Hao and the others had been standing no longer existed. A large group of giants appeared in the sky above. They weren’t strangers; they were the other four major deities that Old Yun Shang had mentioned.
Garuda, the golden-winged bird, and Samael, the dark angel king, stood upon the clouds, while the Titans and the black dragon were positioned slightly lower, though still as towering as mountains. The dragon’s breath from just now was naturally the doing of the hot-tempered black dragon. Seeing that Yun Shang wasn’t dead, it seemed quite displeased: “You闪族 are always so talkative. You never get to the point!”
“Then you talk!” Hunyuanzi, still chewing on a bone, brazenly raised his chin at the black dragon. In this world, these two master and apprentice were probably the only ones who weren’t afraid of dragons, after all, they had nearly killed one before.
This black dragon was the leader of the Cadis dragon clan here. When had it ever seen such an impolite attitude? Yet it couldn’t easily vent its anger, only sending out a wave of consciousness filled with resentment.
When dealing with high-intelligence divine races like dragons, the biggest advantage was that there was no need to speak. All information was directly transmitted into your brain in waves of thought, whether you wanted it or not.
So in an instant, both Hunyuanzi and Yang Hao had already understood the truth about the divine race’s so-called prisoners. This was indeed much simpler than Yun Shang’s lengthy explanations.
However, this truth was truly shocking, leaving Yang Hao and the others stunned for quite some time. These two had seen a lot and knew much, but they had never imagined they would come into contact with such a huge secret.
Compared to this secret, the sea became narrow, and the sky became low. Perhaps only the vastness of the universe could be compared to it. Hunyuanzi had always believed that his hatred and the history of his sect were the heaviest burdens in the universe. But today, he realized that there was truly something beyond even that. Compared to the divine race, those burdens seemed insignificant.
The truth that the black dragon had just transmitted was indeed a secret. Outside the divine realm, probably only a few people knew of it. The upper echelons of the Galactic Empire had wrapped this secret so tightly that not even a whisper of it had ever surfaced.
This was a secret of the divine, a secret of cultivators, and the deepest secret of the universe.
If this truth were made public, it would surely cause chaos across the world, even overturning the entire cosmic system. Many religious worship systems and leadership structures would cease to exist.
To put it simply, if everything were revealed, the universe would no longer be the universe as it once was. The faith in everyone’s hearts would be completely overturned.
In short, both Yang Hao and Hunyuanzi were sweating coldly and their faces turned pale. Although they didn’t have any particular faith in gods, they were still extremely frightened.
It turned out that, as Yun Shang had said, those arrogant divine beings in the divine realm were completely prisoners. They could only show off their might within the divine realm. The truth was that their divine powers had already been stripped away.
Who could strip away the power of gods?
Even in this era, when cultivators and imperial technology had reached an incredible height, no one could possess the power of the divine race, especially the might of the upper divine beings, which was still unmatched in the universe. They were supreme, possessing the power to decide everything.
Who could imprison the divine race?
Yang Hao’s consciousness drifted through countless threads of thoughts and dragon memories. After peeling away layers like unraveling silk, the truth slowly revealed behind the darkness was like a sharp knife, slicing through time and leaving it bleeding.
Indeed, no one could defeat the divine race.
But
Outside the divine race.
Gods indeed possessed supreme abilities, a talent that ordinary people and even ordinary cultivators did not have. However, humans had other talents: wisdom and cunning.
A thousand years ago, almost immediately after the third revival period of cultivators ended, Hunyuanzi had failed in multiple assassination attempts and was wandering the universe like a lost soul. At that time, an event that shocked the world occurred.
The Blood Sea War between gods and demons had begun.
This was a huge black period in the history of the universe. It not only ended the lives of countless intelligent species but also terminated the divine race’s rule over the universe.
Just as Earth and the Milky Way-centered cultivators were welcoming a revival of hope, a bloody battle between the Light and Dark factions of the divine race erupted once again in the depths of the universe. This battle was more brutal and on a larger scale than any previous conflict. Nearly all divine races were drawn into this war. Hundreds of thousands of dark angels, thousands of Cadis dragons, and all the Shem gods and Titan gods across the universe were engaged in combat across various star systems.
After thirteen cosmic months, the war entered a new level of intensity, and the flames of war even spread toward the core territory of the cultivators—the Milky Way. The over a hundred divine races that had originally left the Milky Way returned in droves and began recruiting loyal followers among the cultivators, preparing to launch an even larger decisive battle with Earth as the base.
At that time, Earth and the cultivators on various colonies in the Milky Way had already been completely unified, forming a leadership organization known as the Senate.
The leader of the Senate approached the Light faction of the闪族 gods, claiming willingness to lead all Milky Way cultivators in pledging loyalty and hoping to offer a unique sealing spell.
This spell was said to have been left by the Creator, sealed within Earth’s cultivation sects for thousands of years. Due to insufficient power, it could not be activated. However, if the divine race could infuse their power, the entire sealing spell could be activated. This was a spell barrier capable of sealing any power. If the Light faction gods infused their power, the Dark faction gods would be permanently sealed and could never be released.
The emergence of such a spell barrier naturally thrilled the Light faction’s divine race. The Light faction, led by the Shanzu gods, believed they had finally discovered the ultimate means to end the war, and they swiftly accepted the Senate leader’s pledge of loyalty. At the designated moment, they gathered nearly all the power of the Light gods and channeled their combined strength into the artifact that controlled the sealing barrier.
But the Semitic gods had not anticipated that the Senate leader had also pledged the same loyalty to the divine race of the Dark Faction. The dark angel king and the Cadis dragon clan likewise did not suspect the allegiance of human cultivators. They simultaneously channeled their dark divine power into another set of artifacts.
Light and darkness combined, the two sets of artifacts merged into one. At the center of the Milky Way, a brilliant light, originating from the beginning of the universe, flashed.
Everything seemed to return to the past. Time was rapidly moving forward and then swiftly reversing. Although everything had returned to its place, the order of the universe had completely changed under a conspiracy.
The main divine forces participating in the god-demon war completely disappeared. They were sealed by their own powers. Nine divine realms emerged in the universe, and tens of thousands of divine beings were sealed into these nine divine realms.
The leader of the cultivators succeeded. He used the opposing contradictions between the Light and Dark divine factions. He integrated all the divine energy and poured it into the Ten Divine Treasures. The final result was the complete deprivation of the divine race’s power.
From then on, the universe entered a new order, and the divine race’s rule came to an abrupt end. Most of the upper and middle divine beings were locked into the Nine Divine Realms, which were also known as the Hidden Divine Realm or the Forgotten Divine Realm.
The sealing barrier left by the Creator was very unique. The divine race was neither dead nor transformed. But what was worse than death was that they suddenly discovered that only within the divine realm could they continue to possess their immense power to reshape heaven and earth. Once they stepped out of the divine realm, their innate power was reduced to just one percent.
This was a fatal blow, especially for those upper divine beings who regarded power as their honor. They had once possessed tens of thousands of combat power, but now, if they stepped out of the divine realm, they would only have one hundred combat power left. With such ordinary abilities, even a loose immortal could defeat them. How could the Shang race gods, the dragon race, and the dark angel king Samael endure this?
Therefore, although these divine beings had the ability to leave the divine realm, they lacked the courage to face a universe that no longer belonged to them. In the past thousand years, all divine beings could only stay within the Hidden Divine Realm, unwilling to take even a single step out. These nine divine realms were prisons without cages, a deadly prison that confined the divine race’s courage and power.
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