Sometime later.
The Abyssal Saint King launched an attack at the Douluo plane as planned. He desperately needed the strength boost to fight against Fan Lin because he didn't know if he will return later on or not. If Fan Lin did then the Abyssal Saint King was sure that he won't stop this time.
The Planar Ruler and the Energy source of the Douluo plane had already been prepared and left everything to Wulin and his gang while sending help from the sidelines.
Tang Wulin and his protagonist group fought against the Abyssal Saint King, used various different attacks, even used the final lvl 12 Soul missile Eternal Heaven on the Abyssal plane creatures.
They even broadcasted this event throughout the whole world. [Technology rocks]
Later they were able to defeat the Abyssal plane with the combined strength of the humans and soul beasts (they joined the war while posing as humans) and Tang Wulin was able to kill the Abyssal Saint King while taking away his Halberd amidst the glee and cheer of the whole masses.
A little while later, Tang Wulin came prepared with his forces to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters to propose with Gu Yuena and got the shock of his life when he realised what she wanted.
So they started arguing and with their argument, the soul beasts and humans were split apart into two different forces.
All the forces were ready to go on a battle, be it soul beasts or humans.
[I am not writing what happened. It's too big and bothersome. Just read the original. It's basically a 200 chapter filler with an unsatisfactory ending.]
Until they heard a voice.
"I am here to take the soul beasts. Who wants to go with me?"
The owner of the voice said while coughing blood from his mouth. He looked badly injured and nearby on his death as he looked at the world beneath his footsteps.
The world recognised his voice and his green eyes. He was the person who once upon a time spread enough fear in the people that they stopped believing in gods and federation altogether for some time.
Now the same person has returned and he was injured.
The whole world roared in unison, their voices echoing into the Sky.
""Kill Fan Lin!!!""
They had a new idol to them and they had enough of Fan Lin.
...
Above the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters.
Currently, it was the place where all the top forces of the world were segregated at.
Gu Yuena aka the Silver Dragon king, the current head of the Spirit Pagoda and a reincarnated soul beast, was having a confrontation with her lover Tang Wulin, the son of Tang San, leader of the Seagod Pavillion and the Seven Devils of Shrek and, the Dragon Hero of Humanity. They were having a lover's-turned-enemies spat.
Both of them were at the top of the world and a confrontation between them could very well destroy the said world as well.
And surroundings them was the final forces of both the humans and the soul beasts.
Gu Yuena gave five tasks to Tang Wulin while controlling all the other human gods.
Tang Wulin completed the tasks while still trying to change Gu Yuena's mind.
I between some lovey-dovey flashbacks happened and then both of them looked at the falling figure from the sky.
The figure suddenly stopped in mid air and made an announcement to the whole world while his figure was bloodied.
"I am here to take the soul beasts. Who wants to go with me?"
The figure looked at them and then at the all forces that was in the area. He slowly started to speak.
"I am Fan Lin. I have created the Divine Realm and now I am here to invite all the soul beasts to live in there."
He said with blood dripping from his mouth. His body was badly injured yet nothing seem to affect him as his voice was calm and emotionless, so were his eyes.
All the forces sensed the weak spiritual power of Fan Lin, he seen to be dying?
"Why would the soul beasts go with you?"
Someone said. It was a soul beast in human form.
"Because I can give you freedom. Freedom from the shackles of this world."
Fan Lin replied as if he heard the voice.
"I refuse."
A serene voice said. Fan Lin looked at her.
"I didn't ask you, Yuena. I asked them."
He said to her in his dead calm voice.
"Why would they go to you?"
She asked back. All the others were looking at them.
"Why would they stay here? They are just going to be treated like a commodity with no actual freedom of desire."
Fan Lin replied.
"And you can grant them freedom? Where were you when the Abyssal plane attacked and the soul beasts were going to disappear then?"
"The Absolute North is no more, wasn't it under your protection?"
"And how can you expect us to trust you when time and time, you have shown no regards for life? What if you are just acting as a samaritan and then later kill the soul beasts to gain power for yourself?
Gu Yue asked Fan Lin. She knew that he would never hurt soul beasts but she also knew that she knew too less about Fan Lin.
The things that she knew about him could be false. Instead of betting the future of her whole race into a hands of a stranger whom she knew nothing, she would rather place it on the hands of the person she can trust with her life.
(He died with her though?)
"I don't have much time to waste on you or I would have explained in detail. For now, I just want to hear the true answer of the soul beasts, without any pressure from someone else, anyone else."
"So take back your words and let them choose what they want. Here is a small example of the Divine Realm that they will be living in."
Fan Lin said while opening a small portal to his Divine Realm. The moment the portal was created, a vast amount of soul power and spiritual energy was released from the portal.
It was a testament of just how much the soul power was in the Divine Realm.
The soul beasts all sensed the energy that was released from the Divine Realm and gulped down in palpitation. They knew that even if they just practiced in the Divine Realm for less than a day, their gains would be more than enough to rival thousands of years of cultivation experience. Every moment there would be like consuming a treasure to raise their ranks.
Some of the soul beasts looked at the Beast King and then at Gu Yuena from the side of their eyes. Even though their allegiance was with the Beast King and Gu Yuena, they knew what their heart desired.
It wasn't just the soul beasts that were having a tough time though, the human forces, even the newly defeated gods felt a string of attraction to the Divine Realm.
They now realised why everyone was so mad about the Divine Realm.
Fan Lin closed the gates to his Divine Realm and asked again.
"All soul beasts are free to come here."
"They won't."
Although his sentence was cut short by Tang Wulin.
"If the soul beasts were to leave the Douluo plane, the humans will perish."
"I don't care." [Fan Lin]
Fan Lin apathetic response shocked quite a lot of them.
"I can't stay here for much longer. Please decide as soon as you can. I promise on my existence then in this Divine Realm, you would never have to fear humans, nor would you be restricted to your age. You won't have any age restriction and neither is there any restriction on achieving your Godhood."
"Just know that you guys will be free, just like the old times when pests like humans never dared to attack the soul beasts and even better, when they didn't exist."
"My Divine Realm is just for the Soul beasts and you can be worry free of any other forces."
"The Divine Realm is 19000 times bigger than the Douluo plane, so you guys would never have any problems on living space. So now you can live as you have always wanted."
"Lastly you don't need to worry about the sustenance of the Divine Realm. The Divine Realm that I created isn't weak like the previous one with Tang San's, nor is it as feeble as the current Douluo plane."
"It has enough energy that even if all the soul beasts were absorb the Divine energy in the Realm, I will take you guys nine quintillion years to depleted a tenth of it and the Divine Realm has an energy source as well."
"So even if your quantity was to be multiplied by a trillion fold, you guys still wouldn't be able to drain and destroyed the Divine Realm."
"It also offers complete protection that God-kings will never be able to find as it is based in a separate space from reality."
Fan Lin emotionlessly listed all the benefits of the Divine Realm that he offered. Time was of essence to him.
This although made the soul beasts overwhelmed because the more he said, the more delusional it seemed. It was too good to be true and their, Majesty Gu Yuena's reverberated into their mind.
They sort of knew Fan Lin but even he should not be able to, right?
What if the presentation that he did was all a pretence?
Truthfully most of the world literally didn't know that much about him. The ones that they knew were spread by the federation and the Spirit Pagoda, both of which can't be trusted perfectly. The world knew of the deeds by both of them that the New Shrek Academy released a few years ago.
On the other hand, Shrek and Tang Sect both played a huge part in Fan Lin's growth and that also put them into a tough spot as whatever they said about Fan Lin could be deemed as them trying to blame him for everything.
And the person in question were the soul beasts, the ones who had been in hiding and knew even less about him.
His so called hidden and fearful past and his current over the top words affected the credibility of his words quite a lot.
But even then, there were some soul beasts, the ones that belonged to the weaker sections of the soul beasts society that came ahead.
They knew about their feeble and unknown future, so why not take a chance and maybe they got lucky.
Their kind were often kidnapped, experimented and then killed by the humans of the Spirit Pagoda anyway. All in all, it all came down to strength and strength they lacked.
So after all the thoughts, one soul beast came ahead. It was a half-Blue Silver Grass spirit.
"Thank you for making a choice."
Fan Lin just quietly greeted the soul beast. All the others were looking at the situation in silence.
On one side was the fear of Fan Lin, on another side, they wanted to kill him in one swoop and were telepathically making plans for it.
They all had sensed the leaving vitality of Fan Lin's body and after 5 mins of waiting, they were sure that it wasn't an illusion or sham.
He was indeed dying and so was his strength. The current Fan Lin in front of them felt weak. Weaker that he ever was. They were sure that they would never get an opportunity like this again.
"Stop right there."
Suddenly a voice came and stopped the movement of the soul beast that was moving towards Fan Lin.
"Now what happened Yuena?"
Fan Lin tiredly asked. He was dead tired and on the verge of blowing up, mentally that is.