Having concluded his trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, Huo Yuhao did not delay any further. With a thought of his Divine Thought, he brought Jin Li and directly returned to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters in Star Luo City.
Early the next morning, Huo Yuhao officially convened a high-level meeting of the Spirit Pagoda.
He sat in the main seat, his gaze sweeping across the familiar Faces on both sides of the long table. When he spoke, his tone was steady yet carried an unquestionable weight.
"I announce that starting from today, I am stepping down from the position of the Spirit Pagoda Master."
"The second Master of the Spirit Pagoda will be assumed by Gongyang Mo."
The Spirit Pagoda of Ten Thousand Years ago had been established for a relatively short time and did not have the complex factions and entanglements of interests like it would Ten Thousand Years later. Therefore, Huo Yuhao's proposal passed smoothly with almost no resistance.
When Gongyang Mo heard these words, he straightened his back slightly, then solemnly nodded. Without any superfluous decline or excessive statements, he simply replied, "I will do my utmost."
The power handover of the Spirit Pagoda was thus simply completed.
In the following days, visitors in front of the Spirit Pagoda gates remained an endless stream.
Huo Yuhao no longer avoided them as he had before; instead, he received the various visitors who came to pay respects one by one.
There were representatives from Shrek Academy, envoys from the Three Douluo Nations, and people sent by various Sects and noble families.
The purpose of their trip was nearly identical: to confirm whether Huo Yuhao had truly become a deity.
Huo Yuhao did not disappoint them either. Whenever someone asked probing questions, he only needed to release a wisp of his aura, and that aura's might, far surpassing a Limit Douluo, was enough to leave everyone present without a shred of doubt in their hearts.
However, when facing these factions, he did not display a lofty attitude; his tone was peaceful, his demeanor natural, and he even proactively left a few polite words for the future cooperation of the Spirit Pagoda.
He believed that after his Ascension, these people would still give Face to him as a deity and open wide the green light for the development of the Spirit Pagoda.
There was another matter worth mentioning: people from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy had also come.
Jing Hongchen personally brought his grandson and granddaughter to visit, his expression carrying a subtle complexity.
Clearly, the Sun Moon Empire and the Three Douluo Nations were still at war at this moment. For him, a high-ranking figure of the Sun Moon Empire, to appear in front of the Spirit Pagoda gates was in itself an extremely sensitive matter.
Considering the cooperative relationship of the Sun Moon Spirit Pagoda, Huo Yuhao still received them.
Jing Hongchen did not mention the war or the Holy Spirit Cult. He merely spoke a few polite words under the guise of "congratulations" and then took his leave with his people.
But Huo Yuhao knew that after this trip back, certain messages would soon be placed on the desk of Sun Moon Emperor Xu Tianran.
Presently, the frontline battles of the Sun Moon Empire were meeting obstacles, domestic public grievances were boiling, and continuous bad news reached Xu Tianran's ears.
But he truly had not expected that Huo Yuhao would actually become a deity; after all, not a single deity had appeared on the continent for Ten Thousand Years!
Yet now, this matter that should not have appeared in Xu Tianran's plans had happened just like this. Like the last straw that broke the camel's back, Xu Tianran had no choice but to abandon his invasion plans.
The moment Xu Tianran thought of how he had once sent Long Xiaoyao of the Holy Spirit Cult to deal with Huo Yuhao, an indescribable fear arose in his heart.
He was afraid that Huo Yuhao would hold a grudge, afraid that this newly-formed deity would personally enter the fray in a fit of anger.
Xu Tianran had seriously studied the history of the Douluo Continent. Two tens of thousands of years ago, what kind of momentum did the Spirit Empire have? In the end, didn't it still vanish into ashes because of a divine battle?
And the Sun Moon Empire had no deities backing it.
If Huo Yuhao held a grudge and took action to help the Three Douluo Nations, the Sun Moon Empire would likely cease to exist.
By then, Xu Tianran would naturally become a fallen monarch of the Sun Moon Empire.
This title was something Xu Tianran, as an ambitious overlord, would absolutely not allow himself to bear.
Therefore, the Sun Moon Empire suddenly began a large-scale troop withdrawal, and subsequently, the news of Xu Tianran announcing his abdication spread across the continent.
Following that, a collateral descendant of the royal family directly ascended the throne, and the first imperial decree issued was an unconditional ceasefire, even actively proposing the ceding of territory and reparations to seek a quick peace.
When the news arrived, even the high-level officials of the Three Douluo Nations were stunned for quite a while.
Afterwards, they also reacted: this was fear of Huo Yuhao, this deity!
Thus, this war that swept across the entire continent drew to a close in an unexpected manner.
From beginning to end, Huo Yuhao did not personally make a move, nor did he even speak out to state his stance.
But the moment he became a deity, he had already influenced the situation of the continent.
Therefore, it could also be said that he single-handedly ended this war!
More than ten days passed hurriedly like flowing water. Huo Yuhao had hardly rested during these days, meeting visitors from all directions, handling the handover affairs of the Spirit Pagoda...
Now that the matters that needed to be handled were finally completed, he stood by the window on the top floor of the Spirit Pagoda, looking at the city below gradually quieting down in the twilight. The long-standing sense of urgency in his heart was dissipating bit by bit.
Jin Li sat on the sofa, her hands gripping the hem of her clothes over her knees, her gaze falling on his back. After a moment of silence, she asked, "You... are you preparing to go to the Divine Realm?"
Huo Yuhao turned around and nodded. "Mn. But before that, there is still one matter to try out."
A trace of curiosity flashed across Jin Li's eyes. "Try out what?"
Huo Yuhao did not rush to answer, merely closing his eyes slightly as his mind and spirit sank into his Spiritual Sea.
In that emerald-green space, with a casual wave of his hand, an archaic bronze mirror appeared out of thin air in his palm.
This was precisely his reliance for traveling through Ten Thousand Years of time and space, the Super Divine Artifact, Kunlun Mirror.
Now that he had broken through to the Divine Rank, he should be able to truly activate the might of this Divine Artifact.
He slowly injected a wisp of destructive Divine Power into the mirror surface. The originally dim bronze light lit up slightly the moment the Divine Power touched it. The few cracks on the mirror surface were still clearly visible, but they gained an extra layer of luster that flowed like a living creature.
Immediately afterwards, that familiar feeling surged into his heart once more; space was silently folding, and time was quietly bending.
When his vision cleared once more, the scene before his eyes had quietly changed. He was lying inside his familiar bedroom, the sky outside the window was just beginning to brighten, and he had returned to Ten Thousand Years later.
This was his first active spatial-temporal Transmigration. His previous perception was correct; after becoming a deity, he was indeed able to control the time of his Transmigration between the two realms, no longer needing to wait passively.
At the same time, he also vaguely perceived that he might still be able to transmigrate to other time nodes.
It was just that stable connections had already been established between these two space-times—now and Ten Thousand Years ago—so he could travel back and forth at will.
As for wanting to head to other time nodes, it would likely consume an immense amount of power and bring a considerable burden to the Kunlun Mirror.
He looked down at the bronze mirror in his palm. Those cracks piercing through the mirror surface were still clearly visible, resembling one unhealed old wound after another.
Clearly, this Super Divine Artifact was not in a "peak state" either. Rashly heading to other time nodes might bring a massive load to this Super Divine Artifact.
In order to preserve this miraculous Super Divine Artifact, Huo Yuhao decided not to easily set foot in other time nodes.
If the Kunlun Mirror were to completely shatter because of this, that would be an irreparable loss for him.
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