30: The dragon spirit of humanity is its bones, the faith of all living beings is its flesh, and its own authority is its soul!

In the deepest part of the Imperial Capital of the Great Xia Country.

A temple, built specifically for the New God, gathered the entire nation's destiny.

Upon a lotus platform, Su Ke Ke sat cross-legged.

The “Thousand Year Dragon Qi” gifted by the Taizu High Emperor coiled majestically around her divine body like a living golden dragon.

It imprinted the power of imperial authority, order, and the suppression of all things into her very essence.

And from all directions of the Great Xia Country, an endless stream of faith, originating from billions of believers, transformed into a boundless, pure white sea of suffering.

This sea uplifted her divine throne, pushing the authority of calamity, chaos, and impermanence to its extreme.

Order and chaos, imperial authority and calamity—two irreconcilable, diametrically opposed supreme powers—began to perfectly merge within Su Ke Ke in a seemingly impossible way.

Her aura surged at a speed that would make the Multiverse envious.

As Su Ke Ke broke through, the inner demons from her past as a high school girl, bullied by Li Na and others, resurfaced.

She merely chuckled, a dismissive laugh.

The illusion shattered, and the inner demons vanished like smoke.

Tier 3 Peak, broken!

When her eyes opened again, her indescribable beauty, simply by her standing there, caused all things to lose their color and fade into grayscale.

She extended a finger, touching the cornerstone of the laws, and guided a meteor to strike a criminal gang's hideout.

With a loud “bang,” the trajectory of fate became clear.

This was the culmination of her own misfortune—the power belonging to the God of Calamity.

Her heart stirred.

Warm sunlight descended upon the Great Xia Country.

Withered plants sprouted new green shoots.

Patients with terminal illnesses began to recover.

Countless citizens knelt, gazing at the sky, shouting Su Ke Ke’s revered name.

This was the culmination of the Great Xia’s destiny—the power belonging to the God of Faith.

The power of two gods united!

With the Dragon Qi of humanity as bone, the faith of all beings as flesh, and her own authority as soul!

As Su Ke Ke exhaled her last breath of mortal air, she stood at the pinnacle of Tier 4!

This scene, broadcast through the Multiverse Live Stream, appeared before all the mighty beings.

It instantly ignited the bullet screen, which was filled with exclamations of “Holy cow, holy cow” in shock.

However, amidst the exclamations, a discordant bullet comment floated by.

[Arrogant Cold Immortal Lord]: Hmph, it’s just a pseudo-realm piled up with external forces. The Dao foundation is unstable; it will ultimately be difficult to ascend to the Great Dao. Unlike me, Deep Blue, add points!

Less than a second after this bullet comment appeared, a bold, crimson bullet comment, as if burning with rage, was sent out.

[Daoist Master Cang Xuan]: Rebellious son!!! Have you copied your “Scripture of Supreme Forgetfulness” a hundred times today?! Your junior sister has already achieved Soul Manifestation, yet you are still lingering in the middle stage of Golden Core! Look at her! And then look at you! How many days did it take her to go from mortal to Tier 3 Peak?! How many centuries did it take you to go from early to middle Golden Core?! Do you even have the face to comment on a Goddess’s Dao path here?! Get your ass to the Thunder Pool and face the wall for three millennia! Don’t come out until you reach Soul Manifestation!!!

This sudden “online family drama” instantly filled the entire live stream with lively air.

[Nine Nether Demon Lord]: Hahahaha! Tsk tsk tsk, Old Man Cang Xuan. Your son truly has your demeanor from back then! This Venerable One remembers, you were stuck between Tier 3 and Tier 4 for, like, two millennia, weren’t you? The pot calling the kettle black, it’s killing this Venerable One with laughter!

[Star Sea Traveler]: Database confirms, [Nine Nether Demon Lord]’s words are not false. Daoist Master Cang Xuan, Tier 3 to Tier 4, took two thousand two hundred seventeen years. This is the last place on the Multiverse Mighty Beings ranking in recorded history.

[Old Day Witness - Lin Moyan]: Fellow Daoists, please excuse the laughter. This is not external force, but the Lord’s ‘Divine Grace.’ In the Lord’s script, anything is possible. The leap of Goddess Su Ke Ke precisely proves the Lord’s great power, which cannot be fathomed by our mortal logic.

Within the temple, Su Ke Ke slowly rose.

The power that effortlessly tore open the void.

Her first thought was to share it with her best friend, Zhang Wei.

However, just as she was about to contact her friend, a strong spatial fluctuation and an urgent report arrived simultaneously.

General Gu Tiancheng, the iron-blooded commander in charge of the Soul Suppression Bureau, rushed into the temple, his armor disheveled and his face pale.

He knelt heavily before Su Ke Ke, his voice trembling violently from extreme anger and fear:

“Divine… Divine Lord! Something has happened! Miss Zhang Wei… she… she was forcibly taken away by a group of fanatics claiming to be from the ‘Ancestral Dragon Court’!”

“They left a message, saying… saying that a God of Calamity like you is destined only to bring misfortune. You are not worthy… not worthy of having friends of the True Dragon Imperial Lineage!”

The moment his words fell, the sky above the entire Imperial City of the Great Xia Country, which had been bright and sunny, suddenly darkened.

Black clouds, like ink, gathered out of thin air.

Purple lightning rolled and roared from within the clouds.

An aura of calamity, causing all things to wither and all beings to tremble, enveloped the entire city.

Within the temple, Su Ke Ke remained silent.

In her eyes, which were cold to the extreme, a raging inferno, capable of incinerating the nine heavens, ignited.

Su Ke Ke’s newly stabilized divinity trembled violently due to her extreme rage.

This was not the wrath of mortals, but the fury of a god!

It was the most direct projection of the will of the supreme being who wielded the authority of “Calamity” onto the real world!

In an instant, the entire world’s strings of fate were plucked into disarray by an invisible hand.

In North America, the core server of a financial data center, hailed as “unsinkable,” instantly crashed due to a high-energy cosmic ray penetrating its shielding and striking a critical chip.

This triggered a chain collapse in global stock markets.

In the depths of the Pacific Ocean, an undersea fiber optic cable, connecting two continents, was inadvertently severed by a deep-sea behemoth that happened to be rolling around, instantly cutting off billions of people from the world.

In Europe, a peace negotiation, determining the fate of tens of millions of people, saw its chief negotiator suffer a severe, unprecedented allergic reaction after accidentally consuming a nut.

As he went into shock on the spot, both sides, with their relationship already tense, suspected poisoning.

Guns were cocked on both sides, ready to fire at any moment.

The negotiations completely broke down, and artillery fire reignited along the border.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, storms, plagues… beneath these grand natural disasters lay the unspeakable “misfortunes” of billions of sentient beings.

Someone slipped on a banana peel and broke his leg when going out.

Someone choked on water.

Someone was signing a contract worth hundreds of millions, and his pen suddenly ran out of ink… The entire planet’s “misfortune index” soared to an unprecedented peak in just a few seconds!

This was the God of Calamity!

She never needed to act personally.

Just the aftershocks of her rage were enough to plunge a world into the abyss of chaos!

However, just as these calamities were about to reach the critical point of world destruction, Zhang Wei’s radiant smile flashed through Su Ke Ke’s mind.

She remembered the nights and days they spent together eating skewers, slacking off in class, and sharing their girlish secrets.

That warm humanity, like a golden rein, firmly restrained the wild horse that was about to break free.

She bit the tip of her tongue sharply; the intense pain instantly brought her back to her senses.

“No… I can’t do this…”

As her will was forcefully reined in, the invisible black hand that had enveloped the globe suddenly dissipated.

The stock market stabilized before a complete collapse.

The deep-sea behemoth yawned and swam elsewhere.

The backup negotiator entered the venue with a new proposal.

Everything returned to its original trajectory.

The global misfortune that had swept through earlier seemed like nothing more than an illusion.

Only in the Multiverse Live Stream did the wildly fluctuating world catastrophe index prove how terrifying what had just happened was!

[Nine Nether Demon Lord]: Holy cow! Did you see that?! That one moment! The whole world almost collapsed! Is this the authority of Calamity? It’s too damn overbearing! I’ll make a small account later and play around with it too.

[Future Heavenly Emperor - Huang]: @King of Ten Thousand Dragons Old Dragon King, come out and explain! The good deeds done by your dragon brats! They angered the New God and almost wiped out this world!

[Star Sea Traveler]: @King of Ten Thousand Dragons +1, strong condemnation! The Dragon Clan’s internal management is chaotic. I suggest immediate internal rectification!

[King of Ten Thousand Dragons]: Roar!!! (Yawn) Who dares to @ this King again! This King will spray them with a mouthful of dragon’s breath! ‘Ancestral Dragon Court’? What kind of dog-shit thing is that?! This King rules the dragons of the Multiverse and has never heard of that name! It must be some loach impersonating! Don’t let this King catch them, or I will surely flay them and hang them above the Dragon Gate!!!

Gu Jianghan watched the farce in the live stream, finding it quite amusing.

His laughter annihilated several small worlds.

With a thought, a golden divine decree, dazzling to the extreme, unfolded directly in Su Ke Ke’s mind.

【Ding! Divine Decree-level quest triggered: God’s Wrath — Tracing the Dragon’s Den】

【Quest Description: Your best friend has been abducted by a mysterious force called the “Ancestral Dragon Court,” and the dignity of a god has been provoked as never before. Make them understand the price of angering a god in despair and fear.】

【Quest Objective: Find the “Ancestral Dragon Court” and rescue Zhang Wei.】

【Quest Reward: 1. “Intermediate Calamity Authority Fragment” will be promoted to “Advanced Calamity Authority Fragment.” 2. A private gift from ??? — “SSS+ Tier Origin Treasure Chest” x1.】

(Note: This “SSS+ Tier Origin Treasure Chest” was given when Gu Jianghan completed the chat group quest during Gu Yanci’s world.)

The moment she saw the quest rewards, Su Ke Ke’s breathing hitched.

Especially that SSS+ Tier Treasure Chest, which made her feel the heavy “favoritism” of a certain supreme being.

She no longer hesitated.

The rage in her heart had transformed into icy, bone-chilling killing intent.

She slowly closed her eyes.

Her Tier 4 Peak divine sense, mixed with the law power of the Calamity Authority, like an invisible net of causality, broke through the limitations of space.

It extended to every corner, every crevice of the entire planet!

She didn't want clues.

She wanted to directly pluck the coordinates of that “Ancestral Dragon Court” from the long river of fate!