The Asura God drifted through the chaotic currents of the universe. He had already been away from the Divine Realm for quite some time.
Ever since the ascension of Kindness and Evil, he knew the Divine Realm was no place to linger. He had planned this departure for a long while.
He hadn't expected Huo Yuhao to move against him so quickly. Luckily, he had been the one to set the seal on the Golden Dragon King. Before leaving, he had undone it—hoping it would at least delay the pursuers from the Divine Realm.
As for what came next, the Asura God had already planned his path.
In the vast cosmos, there were countless god-star planes. With his current peak God-King strength, he would be a top-tier force no matter which one he joined. His plan was to seek refuge on one, then plot his resurgence.
"Just wait, Eternal God. The day I ascend to Supreme God-King will be the day I settle accounts with you."
A cold voice came from ahead in the chaotic currents:
"No need to wait. Today is the day we settle our old debts."
The Asura God stopped. Huo Yuhao was already there, as if waiting for him.
"Eternal God… how can you be here? The Golden Dragon King—" the Asura God asked in shock.
"You mean this?" Huo Yuhao revealed a drop of golden essence in his palm—the Golden Dragon King's bloodline. "It's right here."
The Asura God fell silent. He hadn't expected the Golden Dragon King to be subdued so easily.
The very next moment, invisible chains wound through the surrounding space. The Asura God could feel through his divine senses that the entire region had been sealed by another of Huo Yuhao's supreme artifacts.
Space sealed. Not even divine thought could pierce out to another plane.
Huo Yuhao regarded him like a cat toying with a trapped mouse:
"Old Asura, are you ready to hand over your head?"
The situation was already obvious. Gripping the scabbard of the Asura Sword, the Asura God drew it free, pointing the gleaming blade at Huo Yuhao.
"Eternal God. Since you've caught me today, I have no excuses. But there's one thing I must ask you."
"Speak," Huo Yuhao said, conjuring a long spear of chaotic energy with a sweep of his hand.
"You judge me, accuse me of abusing my office, of meddling in the lower realms for selfish gain. Yes—I did those things. I admit them. But can you truly say that you have never interfered with the mortal world?" the Asura God demanded furiously.
He recalled what he had witnessed before Huo Yuhao's uprising: the missing Blue Silver Emperor life seed, mysteriously reappearing in the rear mountain of Huo Yuhao's precious disciple.
That seed had vanished under the Asura God's very nose—only to later show up in such a suspicious place. Who else in the Divine Realm could secretly interfere with the mortal realm besides Huo Yuhao?
"Hahaha!" Huo Yuhao laughed. "Yes, I did it. Not only that, I imitated your little tricks perfectly. So what?"
"You call me unworthy of being the God of Judgment, yet what about yourself? You meddle just the same! How do you have the face to accuse me?" the Asura God roared.
Huo Yuhao's eyes grew cold.
"Old Asura… after all these years as Judge God, how have you become so naïve? Children think in terms of right and wrong. Adults only see winners and losers. You did it, I did it—it's all the same. The difference is, you lost. Weakness itself is your original sin."
The Asura God was struck dumb, unable to reply. Finally, he said:
"You're right. Eternal God, I joined with four other God-Kings to oppose you. You've won. I've lost. I renounced everything and fled into exile—why must you hunt me down to the death?"
Huo Yuhao chuckled softly:
"Between us, it's only politics. Without that, we'd have little quarrel. You never offended me. But your chosen inheritor did. I need your Asura God position and your sword and scabbard to deal with him. That's why you must die."
Tang San offended you? The Asura God was dumbstruck. But there was no time to question.
Battle erupted instantly.
"Eternal God! You think you can take me so easily?!" the Asura God roared.
Blood-red aura surged around him, manifesting as boundless killing intent. He raised the Asura Sword and unleashed the strongest strike of his existence.
It was that very sword strike which had once wounded the Golden Dragon King—and even caught the Silver Dragon King in its sweep.
But within Huo Yuhao's Eternal Eye, that devastating blood-colored slash moved in slow motion, every detail exposed.
He hurled the Eternal Singularity Spear.
The god-spear met the sword strike. At the instant of contact, the blow that could slay a God-King shattered like glass, scattering into glittering fragments that dissolved into the void.
It all happened in a single heartbeat.
The spear did not stop. Like a meteor, it pierced the Asura God's heart, vanished into a whirlpool of time-space, and reemerged from the vortex behind Huo Yuhao—returning to his hand.
The Asura God's divine core had been pierced. God-blood trickled from his lips as he stared at Huo Yuhao in disbelief.
One a peak God-King, the other a Supreme God-King—he had expected to lose, but never imagined such a total defeat.
The Asura God fell.
Huo Yuhao stood over his corpse, extracted the soul, and burned the body to ash with Eternal Fire. From the remains, three treasures were left behind: the Asura God Seed, the Asura Sword, and the Asura Scabbard.
Huo Yuhao casually gathered them up and returned to the Divine Realm.
By now, the rift the Asura God had cut before leaving had been repaired through the combined efforts of the four God-Kings. The crisis of the Asura God and Golden Dragon King was smoothed over.
When Huo Yuhao returned, the God of Destruction came forward.
"Eternal God, what of the Asura now?"
Huo Yuhao sighed with feigned regret.
"When I caught up to him, I intended to arrest him and bring him back for trial under Divine Law. But he resisted violently. In the end, I had no choice but to execute him—on the spot."
As he spoke, Huo Yuhao displayed the Asura God's three relics.
"These are what I recovered."
After the Asura God was executed on the spot by Huo Yuhao, the Divine Realm carried out the final judgment against the remnants of his faction.
The Sea God, the God of War, the God of Speed, the God of Food, the Nine-Colored Goddess, and the other deities aligned with the Asura God were executed, leaving behind vacant god positions.
Huo Yuhao took charge of redistributing these vacant divine thrones.
He announced:
"These corrupt Asura faction deities abused their power, meddled wantonly in the mortal realm, and disrupted order. Though they are dead, their godhood cannot be left unclaimed. We must select successors for these positions. From now on, I will grant certain gods the authority to oversee the inheritance trials for these vacant thrones."
"Angel God, I entrust you with the oversight of the Sea God's inheritance." Huo Yuhao handed the Sea God's divine seed and trident to Qian Hanyu.
Qian Hanyu accepted the items respectfully and bowed:
"I will ensure a suitable successor is chosen for the Sea God's position."
One by one, Huo Yuhao distributed the divine seeds of the God of War, the God of Speed, the God of Food, and others, appointing overseers to monitor their inheritance trials.
At last, Huo Yuhao produced the Asura God's divine seed and sword sheath.
"As for the Asura God's trial—allow me to supervise it personally. Any objections?"
The divine committee all shook their heads, voicing no dissent.
"In that case, rest assured. I will fulfill my duty as overseer with strict impartiality. I will rigorously examine all candidates. Better to have none than to appoint the unworthy—I will select only the right successor for the Asura God." Huo Yuhao declared righteously.
And so, with this reshuffling, the Asura God's entire faction was wiped out from the Divine Realm.
On the other hand, the Rakshasa God, though complicit in the crimes, was spared due to confessing truthfully—her merits offsetting her faults.
Huo Yuhao summoned the Rakshasa God.
"Your Eternal Majesty, why have you called for me?" she asked.
Huo Yuhao presented her with the Asura God's soul, sealed within a soul pearl.
"This is the reward I promised you—the soul of your old lover. I've sealed it within this pearl. As for how you use it—whether to resurrect him as your Star Fury, or simply make him your plaything—that is up to you."
The Rakshasa God flushed red at his words, then carefully accepted the pearl, cradling it as though it were a priceless treasure.
"Rakshasa God, my assistant Evil Emperor will aid you during your Rakshasa inheritance trials. Alongside Ah Yin, he will assist you as proctors." Huo Yuhao added.
"Yes, Eternal Majesty." the Rakshasa God replied.
"Good. You may withdraw now." Huo Yuhao waved her away.
Once she and the Evil Emperor departed, Huo Yuhao opened his divine vision and turned his gaze upon the mortal world—Douluo Continent.
At this time, Tang San was competing with the Shrek Seven Devils in the five-year Continental Soul Master Tournament.
Because of his lack of martial fusion skill with Xiao Wu, Tang San had become the weakest link within the group.
Even so, his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and Clear Sky Hammer potential remained, leaving him countless possibilities for the future.
"Tang San's love for Xiao Wu is born of his past-life obsession. But even dogs can awaken to some extent. Relying solely on emotional bonds to leash this brat is risky. We need something irresistible to bind him more firmly to Xiao Wu—profit, a benefit he cannot refuse." Huo Yuhao mused.
With that, he reached out to the mortal realm's Evil Emperor.
"Your servant is here," the Evil Emperor replied.
Huo Yuhao handed him a phantom seed formed from divine power.
"This is the Illusion Seed. It traps its target in a fabricated world, distorting their perception. Even once freed, they will believe the illusion was real. Find a chance to plant it in Tang San."
"Understood," the Evil Emperor cackled.
Not long after, Shi Nian—while plotting against the Spark Team—was caught by Evil Emperor and forced to use illusion magic against Tang San.
Alone, Shinian's illusion wasn't strong enough to shake Tang San. But Evil Emperor used it as a channel, embedding Huo Yuhao's Illusion Seed into Tang San's mind.
In that illusion, Tang San lived through a script prepared by Huo Yuhao.
When the illusion ended, Tang San's belief had been twisted into this:
Xiao Wu is the scabbard of the Asura Sword. Only by earning the scabbard's recognition can I inherit the Asura God's position.
What had begun as a joke was now engraved into Tang San's heart.
Huo Yuhao wasn't done. He produced the Asura God's three sacred artifacts.
First, he stripped the Asura divine seed of its Judgment Law, leaving only the Law of Slaughter. Bereft of one of its most crucial god-king laws, the Asura position was downgraded from peak god-king to ordinary first-tier deity.
Because of this downgrade, the Asura Sword and its scabbard also fell—from super-artifacts to the level of primary divine weapons.
Finally, Huo Yuhao modified the Asura Scabbard, then cast his gaze again on Douluo Continent.
By then, the tournament had ended. Tang San had suffered terribly throughout, even being forced at one point to use his soul power to push a six-headed Chimera.
Tang Hao, sensing something was wrong, stormed Spirit Hall. Intending to make a grand show, he instead made a fool of himself. In the end, he fled with Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang.
He confined Xiao Wu, planning to cultivate her relationship with Tang San until she belonged to him completely, then make Tang San inherit the Asura throne.
Seeing this, Huo Yuhao hurled the modified Asura Scabbard into Douluo Continent.
One quiet night, it entered Xiao Wu's body and fused completely with her.
From then on, "Xiao Wu is the Asura Sword's scabbard—you must gain her recognition to inherit the Asura position" was no longer a joke.
Having secured Xiao Wu's role, Huo Yuhao casually tossed the Asura Sword itself into the Asura Temple deep within Slaughter City.
And Douluo Continent unfolded exactly as Huo Yuhao had foreseen.
Xiao Wu, upon learning of her connection to the scabbard and the true intentions of Tang Hao and Tang San, decided to play along with their schemes.
In the end, Tang San finally "consummated" his love with his goddess Xiao Wu. She even bore him three fat sons. Truly a joyous occasion.
Thus, with family and children secured, our little wretch set his sights on career. He departed for Slaughter City, preparing to undergo the Asura God's divine trial.