6: Chapter 6: Were you acting from the very beginning?

It had been played like a fiddle by this Clone! First, it was humiliated in public by filth from the Lower Realm, losing its mind and making a scene in front of everyone. Then, this Clone exposed all the scandals of its interference in the Lower Realm in front of all the high-ranking members of the Divine Realm. Finally, it was told that from start to finish, it had been raving at a mere Clone?

This was even more unbearable for it than death!

The dignity of a God King, built over tens of thousands of years, had been trampled into the dirt and repeatedly rubbed in by this ant from the Lower Realm today, leaving not a shred of face behind.

It was simply courting death!

"Otherwise?"

Qian Chongguang laughed even more heartily, as if he didn't see the Asura God's gaze that seemed ready to devour him: "Did you really think I would be stupid enough to send my true body under the nose of a God King like you, just to let you manipulate me?"

"From the moment I realized you were manipulating everything in the Douluo Continent, and from the moment I realized I might be forcibly triggered by your Ascension power, this trap had already been set."

His voice gradually turned cold, and every word clearly struck the heart of the Asura God: "You thought that by forcibly dragging me up to the Divine Realm, you were cutting off my ability to continue disrupting your plans in the Lower Realm and putting me under your control? On the contrary, it was you who personally created the best opportunity for me."

"Although you snuffed out my Ascension phenomenon, your enraged loss of composure attracted the four God Kings and all the high-ranking members, locking the eyes of the entire Divine Realm firmly onto this Stairway to Godhood, and furthermore, you helped me pin everyone's attention onto this Clone."

"As for my true body, long before you triggered the Ascension power, it had already quietly headed to the Angel God Temple in the Divine Realm to retrieve something that should have belonged to the Angel Clan and had been dormant for tens of thousands of years—the angel god position!"

He raised his hand, pointing toward the still-brilliant golden pillar of light in the east, his smile full of certainty: "The light you see now is the proof that my true body has successfully inherited the angel god position and resonated with the Angel God Temple of the Divine Realm."

The gods were completely stunned.

They finally understood that Qian Chongguang's goal from the very beginning was not to perish together with the Asura God here.

Exposing the Asura God's scandals in public was to stall the four God Kings, preventing them from interfering with the Legacy of the angel god position; using filthy objects to enrage the Asura God was to make it completely lose its mind and have no time to care about anything else; even being knocked to the ground and beaten by the Asura God was all an act!

From start to finish, he had been using this Clone to stage a grand play, buying time for his true body to inherit the angel god position!

And all of them, including the five supreme God Kings, were nothing but background props in this play, being played like a fiddle by him!

The Asura God was so angry that its vision went black, and it almost spat out a mouthful of God King Origin blood.

It had lived for tens of thousands of years, presiding over the laws of the Divine Realm, and had seen countless plots and schemes, yet never once had it been schemed against so thoroughly and so embarrassingly!

It suddenly raised its hand, and blood-colored Divine Power instantly condensed into a giant palm capable of shattering mountains, which it was about to slam down hard toward Qian Chongguang's Clone—even if it was just a Clone, it had to crush it to vent its anger!

But just at this moment, Qian Chongguang's Clone suddenly smiled, its body gradually becoming transparent, and like a reflection in water, it began to slowly dissipate.

"Don't be in such a rush, Asura God King."

His voice carried a final mockery, lingering for a long time on the Stairway to Godhood.

"This play has only just begun, the climax hasn't even started yet."

"Next, it's time for you to face a different Angel God."

The moment the words fell, the Clone, along with the light and dark swords in its hands, completely turned into golden specks of light filling the sky, dissipating into the air.

Leaving behind only a scene of devastation, a group of gods looking at each other with various expressions, and the Asura God standing in place, its Divine Power trembling chaotically, enraged to the extreme, yet with nothing left to vent its anger upon.

The golden pillar of light in the east remained brilliant and dazzling, illuminating the firmament of the entire Divine Realm.

The golden light from the dissipated Clone had not yet completely faded, but the atmosphere on the Stairway to Godhood had already frozen like ten-thousand-year ice.

The other four God Kings turned their heads in unison, their gazes landing squarely on the Asura God, whose face was livid and whose Divine Power was still surging uncontrollably around its body.

The Destruction God King spoke first, his thick voice carrying undisguised frustration, and he sighed heavily: "Asura, oh Asura, what am I supposed to say about you? Having lived for tens of thousands of years and presided over the Divine Realm's laws for so long, you were actually played like a fiddle by a kid who just came up from the Lower Realm, unable to even distinguish between his true body and a Clone?"

"More than just played like a fiddle." The Evil God King folded his arms, unable to hide the smile at the corner of his mouth, and leaned over to add, "He used a single Clone to expose the very underwear of you, the Divine Realm's number one combat power, and dragged us all in as background props. Honestly, this newly promoted Angel God really has something; this depth of cunning and calculation is far superior to those little guys in the Lower Realm who only know how to kill."

The Goddess of Kindness frowned slightly, her gentle voice carrying a hint of helplessness: "Things have reached this point, and there is no use in saying more. Asura, I think you should just stop here and not go looking for trouble with him again. You have to accept this loss. He has now inherited the angel god position and is a legitimate First-Rank Deity; if you seek revenge in private, it is neither reasonable nor in accordance with the rules of the Divine Realm."

"Accept it?"

These two words were like a spark landing in a pan of oil. The Asura God turned its head abruptly, its blood-colored pupils surging with a rage capable of burning everything, and its voice was trembling: "He ruined my layout of tens of thousands of years, exposed my secrets in public, humiliated me with filthy things from the mortal world, and played me like a monkey for so long, and you want me to accept it?!"

Its clenched fists clicked and popped, knuckles turning white, and the aura of slaughter around its body almost condensed into a tangible sea of blood: "If I don't grind this kid to dust, cast his Divine Soul into the Nine Nether Purgatory for eternal damnation, then I am not worthy of being the Asura God, and I am not worthy of presiding over the Divine Realm's laws!"

Just at the moment when the Asura God's rage was about to erupt again, a sudden change occurred!

In the direction of the Angel God Temple in the east, the golden pillar of light that pierced through heaven and earth suddenly underwent an earth-shattering change.

Within the originally pure and holy divine light, which carried the scorching aura of light and justice, a completely opposite force suddenly surged—it was pure darkness, bone-chilling cold, carrying a sense of annihilation and evil that devoured everything, yet it intertwined perfectly with the brilliant golden light, without any repulsion, instead forming a strange and magnificent balance.

One light and one dark, one holy and one evil, two forces that should have been locked in an endless struggle were now, above the Angel God Temple, twisted into a dual-colored pillar of light that tore through the firmament!

"What is going on?!"

"How can there be such a dense aura of darkness within the light Divine Power?! Is this still the power of an Angel God?"

"Could this be another move by that newly promoted Angel God? What on earth is he trying to do?!"

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