Soul Land 2: Body Sect

Chapter 337: The Divine Trial for Four Heirs

Despite Du Qianjue truly possessing both the attributes of life and destruction, his essence remains fundamentally aligned with chaos, with which he has the highest affinity. The attributes of life and destruction within him are essentially no different from other attributes when it comes to combat. At his level of attribute mastery, he is sufficiently powerful to stand alone in the world, even capable of defeating true bearers of these attributes with the enhancement of chaos, turning the tables against any adversary.

However, for inheriting a divine position, merely possessing the attributes of life and destruction is insufficient. Normally, the seventh trial in a divine exam involves the inheritor earning recognition from their divine weapon by drawing it from its resting place within the temple, thereby passing the test.

But the situation in the Divine Realm is currently complicated. With Tang San potentially causing trouble at any moment, the God of Destruction is indeed not in a position to pass on his divine weapon to Du Qianjue. It's not that he's unwilling to hand it over, but without his divine weapon, he wouldn't have much advantage over Tang San, who, despite his lack of prowess, still holds dual divine positions and divine weapons.

Du Qianjue also believes it's best to leave the divine weapon with the God of Destruction for now, as he already possesses a full set of divine armaments and doesn't lack the super divine weapons of the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life. At most, he might plunder some precious materials for making divine weapons from the two divine kings in the future.

Considering these factors, his seventh trial has been set as the condensation of the tenth spirit ring. Du Qianjue has once again entered seclusion. The God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life have informed him of how to condense the tenth spirit ring, but the specifics of the process still require him to figure out on his own.

During his seclusion, Xue Linglong is also busy inheriting the Ice God's divine position, undergoing the Ice God's divine trials. Compared to the time-consuming trials that Du Qianjue faces, Xue Linglong's trials are much simpler. The previous Ice God was a naturally born Ice and Snow Goddess. In the era before the fall of the Dragon God, although Ice and Snow Goddesses were still rare, they weren't as scarce as now, where Xue Linglong is the only one to appear in tens of thousands of years.

In an era without the concept of soul beasts and without the threat of heavenly tribulations, there were always a few beings of extraordinary talent who ascended to godhood. The previous Ice and Snow Goddess was one such being.

For Xue Linglong, the Ice God's position is a perfect fit. She doesn't even need to pass any trials; she just needs to continuously resonate with the Sword of the Ice God and increase her affinity with the ice godly power. Once she refines the Ice God's godly power, she will become the new Ice God.

Thinking about Xue Linglong's divine trials almost brings Du Qianjue to tears.

[Ice God's First Trial: Refine 5% of the Ice God's godly power] [Ice God's Second Trial: Refine 10% of the Ice God's godly power] [Ice God's Third Trial: Refine 20% of the Ice God's godly power] … [Ice God's Ninth Trial: Refine 100% of the Ice God's godly power]

Look at these trials. Di Tian would be silent, and the Deep Sea Devil Whale King would cry.

Bijie is similarly undergoing the Goddess of Healing's divine trials, which are more typical. They involve understanding this or that, or healing a certain number of lives within a specific time, or mastering control over the Healing Staff.

Although not particularly difficult, these trials are time-consuming. Still, for a nearly 600,000-year-old Jade Swan, these safe and non-dangerous trials are much easier than struggling for survival under heavenly tribulations.

In this era, four powerful beings on the Douluo Continent are undergoing divine trials. However, the first to complete the divine ascension isn't Du Qianjue, Xue Linglong, or Bijie, but Huo Yuhao, who swiftly passed all nine trials and has already fully ascended to godhood.

[Rakshasa's Nine Trials: Pass through the Rakshasa Demonic Realm. The trial is complete. Reward: 25% affinity with Rakshasa.] [Divine Trial completed. The inheritor's cumulative affinity is 115%, meeting the requirements for divine succession. The Rakshasa Secret Realm has opened. Please enter the secret realm to accept the succession of the Rakshasa Divine Position.]

Huo Dongxue opens her eyes, which no longer have whites but only the eerie red and dark purple, and looks calmly at the portal in front of her.

"Finally... it's done," she says with a weak smile.

The Rakshasa Demonic Realm is an extreme test of one's mental fortitude, where Huo Dongxue endlessly relived her tragic life, witnessing countless times her mother, Huo Yun'er, dying in various ways while she could only watch helplessly, protected by Huo Yun'er like a dog underneath, watching Dai Huabin's ferocious face as he continuously beat her mother with a thick wooden stick.

She could even hear the sound of her mother's bones breaking. And these were among the less painful ways her mother died; there were countless more tragic deaths.

Even knowing these were illusions produced by the Rakshasa Demonic Realm based on her deepest pains, Huo Dongxue nearly lost her sanity, almost becoming a mindless killing machine in the illusion.

Fortunately, she endured!

After entering the Rakshasa Secret Realm, the intense, almost tangible, atmosphere of terror and resentment made even Huo Dongxue shudder.

From the start of her divine trial, she had already killed thousands, if not tens of thousands, including innocents, former students of Shrek Academy and their families, and evil soul masters alike.

However, the murderous aura she carried was nothing compared to the dense malevolence in the Rakshasa Secret Realm, barely causing a ripple.

"How could so much resentment and murderous aura have formed?" Huo Dongxue wonders in disbelief.

But of course, no one can answer her questions, only an emotionless, icy voice resonates like divine might within the Rakshasa Secret Realm.

[The secret realm is open. The succession begins!]

Endless waves of dark purple negative energy converge within Huo Dongxue like rivers flowing into the sea, even causing a giant vortex that nearly covers the entire secret realm.

Assaulted by endless grudges, Huo Dongxue, whose face already bore an eerily sinister and twisted expression, becomes even more distorted and ferocious.

The darkest thoughts of the world—envy, anger, greed, lust, resentment, murder—all surge through Huo Dongxue like a tiny boat in the ocean, at risk of capsizing or being buried under malevolent thoughts at any moment.

Her bones, trunk, left and right arms, legs, the ghostly wings of a soul bone, and the re-forged divine weapon, the Rakshasa Sickle, appear on her body.

Transformation, evolution. Soul bone divine armor! (End of Chapter)

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