Chapter 258: Douluo: Emerald Poison Emperor [258]
The Angel God, using her divine power, relocated this space to the largest human settlement of the time, which is now the location of the Spirit Hall, and established the Douluo Hall.
Initially, the purpose of the Douluo Hall was merely to suppress the fate and destiny of the human race. The souls of every deceased Titled Douluo were preserved within the Golden Tree, and their martial souls were inscribed into the bloodlines of humanity. Even if a lineage became severed, martial souls that had vanished would reappear over time.
Every Titled Douluo further strengthened the fate of humanity, enhancing humans' reproductive abilities, increasing the likelihood of soul masters being born, and raising the probability of geniuses emerging.
The Golden Tree is the source of life in the Douluo Star and holds an inherently pivotal position. By ensuring that the Golden Tree was not taken away, the Angel God guaranteed humanity's continued survival on the Douluo Star. The Luck energy would only grow and not easily weaken for various reasons.
Even if humanity faced disasters and their population was drastically reduced, their fate would not dissipate quickly. Instead, the remaining Luck energy would be redistributed among the surviving humans, enabling them to recover and thrive once more.
At first, the Angel God's intentions were simple—she merely wished to ensure that the development of humanity on the Douluo Continent would proceed more smoothly. However, after the Golden Tree was transplanted, the deity who had granted her the power of judgment began to act strangely.
Initially, this deity only requested some of the Golden Tree's power, claiming it was for research. But later, he began to demand the Luck of humans and soul beasts, the bloodlines of human soul masters, and even the Golden Tree itself.
At first, the Angel God believed this God King intended to help humanity. However, as her understanding deepened and the demands of the God King escalated, she realized that he seemed to covet the Douluo Star itself.
The Angel God, after her rebirth and within a century, had elevated her divine position to the level of a First-Class God. However, no matter how much faith she gathered, it seemed as though her divine position had hit an unbreakable ceiling. After decades of investigation, she discovered that the issue lay in the Judgment Power within her divine position.
The God of Asura, through his Judgment Power, was forcibly suppressing the further advancement of her Angel God position. He was even secretly attempting to use the Judgment Power to turn her into a puppet.
Having no other choice, the Angel God devised alternative plans.
Before becoming a god, she extracted all the bones from her body, enduring immense pain for a century to transform her bones into a set that others could inherit. Each piece of soul bone, originally ranging from ten thousand to two hundred thousand years in age, was fixed at 99,999 years.
If someone managed to absorb the entire set of soul bones, they could elevate their soul bones to the hundred-thousand-year level and further develop their body toward a divine physique.
The transformation of her soul bones took the Angel God a century. After temporarily recovering, she then extracted her ninth soul ring, imbuing its essence into the Golden Tree.
Using the combined power of the Golden Tree and her divine energy, the Angel God activated the bloodline of a divine beast within the soul ring, recreating its body.
She permanently split a portion of her divine consciousness, infusing it into the divine beast's recreated body. Over the next several centuries, she gradually linked the divine beast to the Golden Tree and infused both the human and soul beast Luck energy into this divine beast's body.
With the Golden Tree, its unique powers, and the Angel God's divine essence, she created a divine beast with a million-year lifespan. Through the connection between the divine beast and the Golden Tree, she developed this half-plane further, forming a space imperceptible to the Divine Realm.
Over centuries, the Angel God repeatedly rejected and delayed the demands of the God of Asura, eventually arousing his suspicions. He repeatedly urged her to ascend to the Divine Realm, threatening her with the Divine Realm law that no First-Generation God could remain in their native plane for more than a thousand years, and no inheritor could remain for more than a hundred.
With no alternative, the Angel God ascended to the Divine Realm, becoming a First-Class God there.
Before her ascension, the Angel God used the Golden Tree's power of life and creation to grant her followers a replicated version of the six-winged Angel Martial Soul. This lineage became her successors and inheritors on the Douluo Continent.
As a First-Class God, the Angel God gained access to the Divine Realm's highest knowledge. She learned that the Douluo Star had once birthed a powerful deity known as the Dragon God, who left behind a rich legacy on the Douluo Star.
After several confirmations, the Angel God discovered that the Golden Tree contained the Dragon God's legacy—the most primordial power of the universe and one of the key reasons for the Dragon God's immense strength. This power was a remnant of the Dragon God and the Dragon Kings during the Era of Dragons.
If she absorbed this power, the Angel God could directly ascend to the level of a God King and might even surpass that level in the future. However, the cost would be the permanent depletion of the Douluo Star's essence, leading to the plane's gradual decline and eventual destruction.
Unwilling to see her homeland destroyed, the Angel God not only refrained from absorbing this power but also split off another portion of her divine consciousness, transforming the divine beast into her avatar. Using the Golden Tree and the divine beast, she began to reconstruct the subspace and implement her plans step by step.
With the knowledge from the Divine Realm and the Dragon God's power within the Golden Tree, the world inside the Douluo Hall had been transformed to resemble the Divine Realm. The Golden Tree and the divine beast now possessed the power of a Third-Class God.
Every deceased Titled Douluo whose soul was linked to the Golden Tree could be reborn. Using the Golden Tree's life force and original power, their bodies would be recreated, with innate talents surpassing the limits of the Douluo World. Each reborn individual would have talents equal to or exceeding those of the six-winged Angel inheritors (innately at Rank 20), and their martial souls would be further enhanced.
Thanks to their accumulated experience and strength, these individuals would have the potential to achieve the highest levels of power in the Douluo World, becoming Ultimate Douluos or even touching the divine realm.
Over ten thousand years, the Douluo Hall has buried over a thousand Titled Douluos and nearly a hundred Ultimate Douluos, amassing an enormous wealth of martial souls, laws, unique powers, and faith. The Golden Tree has grown from a few dozen meters tall to a towering height of a thousand meters.
Although this accumulation wasn't primarily focused on combat, the immense energy caused the Golden Tree and the divine beast to surpass their initial Third-Class God level, reaching Second-Class God strength. With the Angel God's divine consciousness, even a First-Class God could be temporarily resisted in this space.
If the Douluo Hall's accumulated power were unleashed, the entire Douluo Star would experience a tremendous elevation, raising both its upper and lower limits.
In this environment, every Titled Douluo buried in the Douluo Hall could qualify to become a divine official. Super Douluos could become Third-Class Gods, and Ultimate Douluos who achieved their power independently could hope to become Second-Class Gods. As the Douluo Star grew, this upper limit would continue to rise.
With the Angel God's divine position capable of reaching the level of a God King, the Douluo Star could essentially become a small Divine Realm. Even on a cosmic scale, it would be considered a formidable force.
The key to unlocking this treasure is the Angel God's divine position. Once the Douluo Continent's accumulation reaches its peak, a new generation of Angel God inheritors will appear. As the Child of the Plane, they will unify the Douluo World, fully awaken its potential, and elevate the plane's level.
Every Titled Douluo who enters the Douluo Hall and whose soul can be found is judged by the Angel God. Those who are irredeemably evil are absorbed by the Golden Tree, while those deemed acceptable are partially informed of the reasons behind the plan. They are then allowed to choose between waiting for rebirth or passing on naturally.
Over the millennia, the vast majority of Titled Douluos, inspired by the Angel God's grand plan, have unhesitatingly pledged their loyalty, awaiting the arrival of an era when all shall rise like dragons.
However, for thousands of years, the Angel God's divine consciousness, which controls the divine beast in the Douluo Hall, has lost contact with her main body.
Although she can still sense the existence of the Angel God divine position she created, indicating that the key remains secure, she fears that her main body's plans and the Douluo Hall's millennia of accumulation might have been discovered or targeted by the Divine Realm.
The Angel God's divine consciousness and the divine beast are bound to the Golden Tree, and this subspace is specially designed to shield itself from the Divine Realm's gaze. If the Douluo Hall's seal were forcibly opened from within, the entire space would be exposed to the Divine Realm.
Only the Angelic Holy Sword, the key, would allow the Angel God's divine consciousness minimal access to observe the outside world.
In some ways, the Angel God anticipated that her divine consciousness might change and impose restraints on it. However, after her main body encountered issues, these restraints became a hindrance.
Normally, no one would lock the key to a safe inside the safe itself. The Angelic Holy Sword is the sacred artifact of the Angel Clan and is only used in times of great need. It was never intended to be sent into the Douluo Hall, leaving the Angel God's divine consciousness unaware of her main body's situation.
Thus, the Angel God had no choice but to awaken the souls of powerful Titled Douluos, allowing them to take turns guarding the Douluo Hall.
The Douluo Hall contains over a hundred Ultimate Douluos, about half of whom are inheritors of the Angel Clan and reached their level through the Angel God's power.
Among these Ultimate Douluos, some reached the divine realm through their strength alone.
The Douluo Continent is filled with opportunities, and the Angel God herself became a deity through a fortuitous encounter. While others may not achieve godhood, some have touched the divine realm through their adventures.
Among the hundred Ultimate Douluos, eight achieved divine-level strength in life. Two possess physiques close to divine bodies, two wield soul power near divine power, and four have spiritual strength at the level of divine consciousness.
PS: OH! The golden tree is the one in Soul Land 2, but Tang San truly makes the Douluo planet his own. He plants his mother's soul in the ancient tree and then replaces the Douluo Will with his father's will.