Spirit Pagoda Headquarters.
The atmosphere has turned intense as the whole world was looking at the translucent rings of Fan Lin with baited breaths.
They had never seen soul/spirit rings like that and secondly, there were eight of them.
And lastly there were no spirit souls floating around him.
Fan Lin was clearly a Titled Douluo with nine rings and four spirit souls when they last saw him.
Now his weirdly colourful spirit rings were gone, he looked like he was on his deathbed and he still had the gall to make demands at a time like this.
The people couldn't fathom how or why he was there.
....
Gu Yuena looked at Fan Lin while in thought as he was bickering with Tang Wulin.
What Fan Lin said did make sense and if she sent the soul beasts to the Divine Realm of Fan Lin, then she can also leave the caretaking of the soul beasts to him and with the heavy burden of the survival of her kind gone, she would be able to live with Tang Wulin.
But only if Fan Lin's motives are what he claimed them to be.
If he was truly right, then she can transfer most of the soul beasts in his Divine Realm and with her knowledge and experience, given enough time, she could create more better spirit souls in the Spirit Pagoda.
Maybe even artificial hundred thousand year old spirit soul with causing any harm to any of the soul beast.
She just needed time and if Fan Lin can give her that, she might just compromise and allow the weaker soul beasts to enter his Divine Realm.
As for trying to forcefully take control of his Divine Realm or connect the spatial passage to form a warp hole to it?
She tried and failed miserably at both of them. What he said was right. The Divine Realm wasn't in the reality. Nothing will be able to reach it, or at least only someone who isn't a part of reality could.
She didn't know how he had done it but maybe the injuries that he had on him was due to it.
As she was thinking, the matter between Tang Wulin and Fan Lin fell and the surrounding human forces got ready to attack at any given moment.
They were just waiting for someone to attack because they didn't know if Fan Lin was faking his weakness in any way.
What if they attacked one moment and got turned to meat paste the other.
They knew of his deeds really well.
But all of this didn't apply to a single person because he was the protagonist. Tang Wulin had already given his final warning to Fan Lin and Fan Lin's stance on the matter was already clear.
Now there was no need to talk. He just needed to take out Fan Lin for once and for all.
"Don't say I didn't warn you."
Tang Wulin immediately disappeared with his Golden Dragon spear in his hands.
The next moment, his figure appeared just in front of Fan Lin while Wulin's spear was aiming at Fan Lin's heart.
....
Fan Lin sensed his surroundings but except for the gods, his senses were unable to sense the other targets. A clear sign that his spiritual power had become non existent.
He can just have a guess that he was surrounded by foes on all sides.
A small smile formed on his face as his three word Battle Armor covered his body.
This was one of the things that wasn't stripped from him. The other being his rank 98 Super Douluo level cultivation.
His translucent rings were as he said before, skill less. They just existed but had no actual use.
They were just decorations. At least in the hands of others.
In Fan Lin's hand though...
[Spirit Ring fusion]
All eight of his translucent rings fused to create one transparent ring.
Unlike most of the soul masters in the world, Fan Lin was different in one expect that all his spirit rings were perfectly crafted for him and had 100% synergy to him.
This made it possible for him to combine all his spirit rings to not just enhance the effects of all his soul skills but also in the creation of a new self made skill.
Many soul masters could do that but only a few could combine more than three spirit rings and only geniuses with top level martial spirits can achieve four and five fusion spirit ring skills.
But as stated earlier. Fan Lin was different. He was on the verge of death and he was a madman.
[8 rings fusion skill - Unknown]
Generally, each added spirit rings in the fusion increases the abilities by 1.5 but that changes in four spirit rings fusion skills have ten times the power bonus of their strongest skills.
Some pretty good examples are Blue Lightning Dragon king and Xuan Wu martial spirit owners that appeared in DD2.
Both of them had quadruple fusion skill skills that were said to be 10 times stronger than their normal skills.
[Read readers note 1 at the bottom.]
Fan Lin had access to complete fusion of all his soul rings, all 9 of them. Even though he just had 8 soul rings at the moment.
The cute spear that destroyed the Abyssal plane by 4/5 was an example of his fusion skills, along with Endless Tensei, Final Tensei and many others.
Except this time, he didn't have any skills and secondly, without his Petrosapien physique, Superior Energy Body and Energy Manipulation, it was going to be a foolish decision to do it.
It all came down to three simple question.
Fan Lin had time?
Nope.
He has the strength to contend against all the people who were there to fight him?
Nope.
He had other ways to change the situation given his current situation?
Nope.
Fan Lin looked at the impatient Tang Wulin and the thoughtful Gu Yuena. All his thoughts took less than a second of his time.
And in a breath, his soul skill fused to create a transparent skill.
It had a really simple effect.
All skills enhancement. How much he didn't know because he didn't have any skills.
Life seemed to play a joke on him as a thought appeared along with the spear of Tang Wulin.
"Should I have done things differently? Maybe the outcomes would have changed."
He internally sighed as he had given up.
Currently he was just a shell of his past self. Be it Fan Lin or Gloomy Forest.
And the people he was fighting, the ants that he could have crushed with a thought of his, were something he wasn't able to contend against at the moment.
He had to give up and give up he did.
He was regretful and bitter at his defeat. He was regretful that he made the mistake of believing on the person who sent him on a punishment.
Fan Lin slowly started to close his eyes as if nothing mattered to anymore.
Tang Wulin's spear came just a centimetre away from Fan Lin's heart.
The whole world felt like they had a weight of their chest as their minds started to imagine the spear piercing Fan Lin's chest and Tang Wulin raising his body high as a proof of his victory.
Everyone heart seemed to nearly stop.
Gu Yuena was also watching the scene in silence. She had thought about the various things he said again and realised that even if she somehow were able to save the soul beasts, the main problem will still won't end.
Either she or Wulin had to die for the Dragon God to re-awaken. There were no other choices in that regard.
....
The soul beasts looked at the end of Fan Lin and felt a tinge of pain at the loss of the Divine Realm.
The soul masters felt the same.
At that moment, all the living beings who were watching the situation had thoughts of their own.
The moment of tension passed, Fan Lin had closed his eyes and awaited his end.
He felt nothing. No, he did feel something but it wasn't pain or the feeling of being pierced.
It was something else. He calmly open his eyes and then looked at the Hundred thousand year old Fantasia Tulip who had ascended to Godhood in front of him.
Currently it was pierced by the Golden Dragon spear of Tang Wulin. Much to the of not just him but all of the world.
Fan Lin's mind went blank. He couldn't think of anything. He was sure that he had restricted their exit when he sent his spirit souls. He was also sure that no one had cracked his Divine Realm defences, nor where there any kind of teleportation from the outside.
He couldn't fathom how did the Fantasia Tulip came here and more than that, he couldn't understand why.
And neither did he wanted to. Because the blankness in his mind turned to an another kind of emotions at a rate that was faster than his thought.
He calmly looked at the Fantasia Tulip and then at Tang Wulin.
Everyone present at the scene took a moment to sense that the plant type soul beast was one that had ascended into Godhood and many of them even recognised it as the fourth spirit soul of Fan Lin.
It all happened so fast that many of them hadn't even reacted to it.
But the moment they realised it, they suddenly felt their mind turned into a mush as their sights began to dim.
Even the stronger ones were having difficultly in keeping their mind sane because all of them were under the massive influx of killing intent.
An intent so vast that it covered all the Shrek City and it kept on increasing with any signs of stopping.
All the things that were enveloped in it began to wither and die. Didn't matter if they were young or old, plant or humans, animal or soul beasts.
All of them began to die.
Suddenly the killing intent disappeared and so did Fan Lin. Not just him but Tang Wulin and Gu Yuena were gone as well.
The surviving forces broke down in fear. They immediately used their spiritual senses to check on the others.
The broadcast through the satellite also began to show the various areas of the Shrek City and what all of them saw left them horrified.
The broadcast showed the newly created Shrek City that was littered with corpses. Plants, trees and even grass had withered, the birds and the insects layed dead everywhere.
No one was spared. Be it the soul beasts or the humans. The weaker ones had shriveled up as if they aged tens of years in a blink of an eye.
While the slightly stronger ones had just died.
Those who watched it gulped down at the scene. Fear clearly written on their face.
In the zeal of the winning of the Dragon Hero and the fact that Fan Lin looked extremely weak seemed to make them forget about who Fan Lin was or exactly why he was feared by the Federation.
....
The Fantasia Tulip had weakly fallen to the ground after Tang Wulin carefully took his spear out. Even if it was a God soul beast, it was still weaker that Abyssal Saint King and obviously weaker than Wulin as well. So it trying to take an attack from Tang Wulin was a stupid move and it knew about it as well but what can it even do.
Its master abandoned them and when they finally found a way to leave the area when he opened the portal. It saw his master on the verge of getting killed.
Before it knew, it had been pierce and its ruthless master disappeared after his tantrum.
The worst case scenario it feared had happened. It's master had stopped caring, the soul beasts that died under his killing intent was a proof of that.
How do we stop that? It thought as it lost its consciousness.
All the remaining soul beasts looked at the lifeless body of the Divine Beast Fantasia Tulip yet no one dared to get any second thoughts about it. So did the humans.
Both remaining sides looked at each other and the situation turned grim every passing moment.
....
Extreme North
In an area that was completely desolate and devoid of life.
Fan Lin's figure suddenly appeared in there. His killing intent spread hundred of miles.
Except nothing changed as the Extreme North had already been ravaged by the forces of the Abyssal plane and its residents had already it.
In the present time, it was completely empty with no life in sight.
Fan Lin slowly turned to look at the figure of Tang Wulin and Gu Yuena who were floating at a distance away from him.
Both of them were looking at him with wary, ready to attack him at a moments notice.
"Why? Why? WHY?"
Fan Lin muttered to them as tears flowed down his eyes. He looked at them, his face devoid on any signs of expressions but hs eyes said a different tale.
The situation had reached a point of no return.
They had seen and felt the dangerous that Fan Lin was. Adding to the fact that now he was, in a long time, exuding emotions and not in a good manner.
They looked at each other and attacked him without a moment to spare. The situation didn't allow them to wait. He was just that unpredictably dangerous.
To them, Fan Lin was an enemy that needed to die for both the future of humanity and the Douluo plane.
He needed to die now!
Fan Lin was still looking at them, with each moment passing, his thoughts turned sinister.
He just wanted to take the soul beasts. He wasn't even forcing everyone. He would have just taken those that wanted to.
The Douluo plane would not be in any danger. Nor would the humans perish. He was an epitome of Energy at one time. He knew that much.
Yet no seemed to listen. Even if he explained it clearly.
He had accepted failure. He had accepted death.
Then why?
How did the Fantasia Tulip got out?
[Flashback]
In the Divine Realm.
What to do? There is no way to leave this place.
The spirit souls were discussing about their endeavours to leave the Divine Realm. Although all failed.
Suddenly a portal was opened just in front of them and they saw the sight of Fan Lin being pierced by something.
The hundred thousand year old spirit beast turned Divine beast Fantasia Tulip immediately went by the portal and appeared in front of Fan Lin and pushed him aside, therefore getting the burnt of the attack.
Flashback ends.]
"Who opened the portal?"
Fan Lin wondered while looking at the memory of his Divine Realm.
His killing intent disappeared into nothing at the realisation that he was being played by someone. And he didn't need to think twice before knowing exactly who.
He was the strongest existence in the whole universe and his Divine Realm was created outside it. No being that existed in reality would have any kinds of effects towards his Divine Realm.
Even he himself didn't have much control over it now. The only reason why he could open its gates whenever he wanted was because of his relation to the Divine Realm and his Godseat.
Even that was going to end in a few seconds.
I can't die. Not when I had done it again. This time I will properly repent. This time I will properly settle everything.
His thoughts went into a frenzy as the world around his slowed down. So much that even the passing of light felt like a snail was coming towards him.
His Godly state, or whatever was left of it helped him at this time by letting him 'see' everything despite his maximum thinking speed.
[41 seconds left]
With a thought, he disappeared from the attacks of both Gu Yuena and Tang Wulin. An ability that he got when he turned into a god.
The passing light was the light emitted from the massive fire- thunder lighting that Gu Yuena had thrown towards him while Tang Wulin was just behind with with his strongest attack.
They both had Fan Lin in a pincer attack and thought that finally they got him but his sudden disappearence changed everything. Tang Wulin burnt the impact of the whole attack but shook it off as if nothing happened.
Both of them immediately tried to sense Fan Lin and found him a a thousand miles away. He was crouching down on the hard snow and in front of something that looked like a small plant.
Huh?
He was crouching down in front of a small plant in the hard snow... !!!
The moment they both sensed him with the plant, a terrifying thought came to their minds.
Both of them immediately tried to stop Fan Lin.
But it was quite late as the ninth soul ring began to rise from his body.
A god with a Rank 98 cultivation level was absorbing a measly ten year old soul ring. How much time would it need him?
1 second.
Fan Lin had absorbed the white ten year old spirit ring with his divine sense to shorten the process.
Both Gu Yuena and Tang Wulin stood still in the air as they watched the ninth ring floating around him.
It was a white colour ten year old spirit ring but that wasn't the thing that terrified them.
It was on whom that made them feel a tinge of terror into their spines. Their instincts as the apex predator warned them with just a single thing.
RUN!!!
Fan Lin's figure slowly stood up, all his rings merged up into one and in less than a fraction of second, he was in front of them.
His hands turning into a punch as he punched Gu Yuena in the solar plexus at a rate where both of them couldn't even react.
His figure disappeared from the sight of Tang Wulin once again and before Wulin can even divert his attention from Gu Yuena, Fan Lin hand pierced through his gut and made a gaping hole into it.
"I don't have time to waste on you."
Soon Fan Lin disappeared from their sight and returned to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters. He would have killed them but the energy signature in Gu Yuena's womb
He had less than 39 seconds now.
The moment he appeared in the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, the hearts of everyone present nearly stopped.
If Fan Lin was there and their leaders were, it could mean just one thing. Fan Lin had won against them and had came to take his revenge against them.
"I am sorry. I just lost control but you don't have to worry about it happening in the future. I am going to die in a few seconds and I need all of your answers before that."
"You can take your time. You can refuse me. You can can resent me and you can rebel against me. I won't force you to do anything. It's your choice."
Fan Lin said, his divine sense spreading as far as he could. In his Godly state, he could even understand the desires of ten year old animals, much less soul beasts.
All the soul beasts looked at him with vary and fear in their eyes. The proof of Fan Lin's strength layed everywhere they can see, in the form of shriveled up corpses and plants.
So despite the fact that he did said that he wouldn't mind whatever he decided, they couldn't fully trust him.
Not even a full minute has passed since the sudden massacre and the perpetrator was asking for forgiveness. No matter who heard of it, it sounded ridiculous.
Time ticked by. Seconds passed and finally when he had less than twenty seconds less, the same soul beast that had volunteered before came forward.
A voice was transmitted to him, not just him but to all the surroundings as well.
"I will."
He calmly replied and sensed the location the the soul beast in front of him wanted to.
With a swipe of his hands, every piece of flora to the last blade of grass of that area was taken into his Divine Realm along with the soul beast.
The other soul beasts looked at Fan Lin.
Fan Lin looked at them. Some time passed as their were still hesitating.
"10."
He started to count. He didn't need to tell them why.
"9."
"8."
Some of the soul beasts came forward and alleged themselves to him. They disappeared in a flash of light.
"7".
He looked at the body of the Fantasia Tulip and then delivered it to the rest of his spirit souls with a simple message: Not Dead, just let it rest for a day to recover.
He had nearly forgotten that his spirit souls still were still linked to his Godseat instead of him and could be revived like normal spirit souls.
"5."
He carefully checked the situation of his Divine Realm and become more sure than it wasn't a person of the world who let the Fantasia Tulip leave the Divine Realm.
"4."
More than a tenth of the remaining soul beasts came forward and were teleported to his Divine Realm.
"Sorry."
He left a small message to his spirit souls after some thought. It was indeed a little rude of him to suddenly throw them into a different place and cut ties with them.
He looked at the Beast King Di Tian and his entourage. His look carried his question.
The Beast King stay silent. His intentions clear, although he did allow his subordinates to leave if they wanted to.
No one left though.
"2."
At that moment, Tang Wulin and Gu Yuena appeared at the venue again. They had reverted time on their wounds and left the Extreme North as fast as they could.
'I guess, Yun Ming and Yali died in the Abyssal clash. She might have died as well.'
"1."
He took one final look at the whole Douluo world and took away nine-tenths of the Blue Silver Grass in his Divine Realm. He also took 2/5 of the flora the Douluo world.
'Forget the stupid rules. let me be a little selfish as my last wish.'
And as the final countdown left his mouth. His body disappeared in the eyes of everyone present.
Less than 8 minutes have passed since he appeared and except for those who were present in front of Fan Lin, the rest of the world couldn't understand what happened or exactly what was going on?
The whole world was in silence.
And with that, Fan Lin died.
He completed what he wanted. He did create a world in which soul beasts have no need to hide themselves into a small area of land.
And he killed far innocents this time.
But he did have regrets.
....
In an infinite void.
[Do you want to try again?]
A voice came to Fan Lin but he ignored it.
...
[You can even make some changes in yourself, maybe even have the calmness of your past life's peak, erase the memories of your past life or just brainwash yourself into a good guy]
...
[You won't have any memory of this event as well.]
...
[The current world would not be resetted or destroyed in any way. You will be reincarnated in a different universe.]
... .......
[You can use the second ability of your actual Ninth soul skill.]
....
[Would you like to try again?]
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..
...
....
.....
[Waiting time's over]
[No denial given]
?
[Checking your deepest intentions]
[Two different desires of the same level were found in you.]
!!!
[We have been feeling generous now. Granted.]
!
!!!!
????
[Enjoy your punishment into a world that you will hate to your bones]
The End.
...
And with this finally this story ended.
I already told you guys that the ending was Meh okay. Don't blame me.
And now you should be able to understand why I am rewriting it.
I don't know how I reached this kind of ending. Wrote it a long time ago.
And I did say that I would upload a little bit earlier, but you seem blab blah trouble and then xxxx things and then some more things later.
So all in all. Sorry.
Sorry for being late as well.
But don't worry. I have prepared some apologies.
You can read them on 22 January 2023. That is a week later.
This time, I have posted most of the apology stories.
And there is still the the epilogue and extra episodes of this book left.
I will post the epilogue tomorrow.
And this chapter was written by me nearly a year ago, you can see the writing difference in it if you read this and then read the first 18 chapters of this book or the chapters in the other Blue Silver Grass series.
Okay bye.
[Readers note 1
It wasn't said that in the DD2 but in DD4, there is this Blue Lightning Dragon martial spirit kid who created a self fusion soul skill of four rings and it's power was said to be around 10 times his highest attack while some elder later says that that was the normal attack increase and five rings fusion skills were even more terrifying than that while indirectly pointing at the Tang something girl with five elements martial soul that appeared some chapters later and used the mentioned skill.]
[Readers note 2.
Just read the dd2.5 comic and found that ascend soul beasts were termed as Divine beasts. Could be wrong as well, different translation groups has different words.]