"I understand! I''ll make sure to protect myself."


    Blood One nodded in response. "Go on, I wish you a smooth journey."


    After extending another military salute, Tang Wulin turned around before rising up into the air. The dragon wings on his suit of battle armor spread open, and he glided toward the east.


    Sima Jinchi, A''Ruheng, Ling Wuyue, Ma Shan, Jiang Wuyue, Long Yuxue, and the 20 other Blood Dragon Squad members also rose up into the air before flying into the distance behind him.


    Cao Dezhi looked on at their departing figures with a faint smile on his face. "A supreme prodigy willplete their metamorphosis to be a dragon as soon as they rise up into the heavens. Wulin, I wish you all the sess in the world. We can only give you a helping hand, but how far you can go will depend on you."


    Zhang Huanyun sighed, "You know what? I''m a little sad to see him go."


    Cao Dezhi chuckled, "You''re just sad that he''s taking so many of our legion''s elite young talents, right?"


    "Ahem!"


    Light began to shimmer in Cao Dezhi''s eyes as he mused, "It''s about time these young people take over the Douluo Continent; let''s see just how brightly they''ll shine."


    Zhang Huanyun''s brows furrowed slightly. "You don''t seem to be concerned at all. You should be well aware of just how powerful his future enemies will be."


    Cao Dezhi replied in an indifferent voice, "How will he continue to improve without powerful opponents to test him? Besides, he''s never been fighting alone. Do you really think that just two Godyer missiles can truly destroy the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy, both of which have stood at the pinnacle of the continent for over 20,000 years?"


    Zhang Huanyun''s expression changed slightly, and he seemed to have gleaned the implications behind Cao Dezhi''s words.


    "Let''s go back, I have to further examine the seal. I''m sure the abyssal ne will remain dormant for quite a while after this. That so-called Holy Lord has most likely been severely wounded, and ording to our past experience, there may not be another abyssal tide in the next few centuries."


    Indeed, the abyssal ne had been dealt an extremely heavy blow during this recent battle. Three of the 108 nar seeds had beenpletely destroyed, thereby shaking the entire foundation of the ne. Even more abyssal emperors had perished in order to force open the seal, and even though they could be revived in the abyssal ne, their resurrections would take a very long time.


    It could be said that this was the heaviest blow that had been dealt to the abyssal ne, second only to when they had first invaded the Douluo Continent over 6,000 years ago.


    After that battle, the abyssal ne hadn''t attacked the Douluo Continent for over 1,000 years, so the Blood God Legion should be given a long time to rest and recuperate following this battle. Furthermore, it was important to remember that the Blood God Legion could enter the abyssal ne through the abyssal passageway at will.


    Another reason that Cao Dezhi had agreed for Tang Wulin to depart was in order to prepare for theplete eradication of the threat posed by the abyssal ne in the future.


    Tang Wulin required more growth and development. He was already a Soul Sage now, but in the eyes of truly powerful beings, there was still a lot of potential for him to improve.


    With Tang Wulin''s current situation, once he became a Titled Douluo, Hyper Douluo, and even Limit Douluo, he would pose an extremely potent threat to the abyssal ne. After he reached that level, the threat of the abyssal ne could truly be eradicated for good.


    They didn''t need to destroy the entire abyssal ne; all they had to do was force them to cut off the passageway, and by extension, the connection to the Douluo Continent.


    ……


    A heavy aura was permeating throughout a greyish-white world, striking all of the abyssal creatures with a sense of asphyxiation.


    This situation had already persisted for three abyssal days. Every single abyssal level was trembling as the ruler of the entire abyssal ne, the Holy Lord, was in a maddened state of fury.


    They had failed!


    Even after making such massive sacrifices, the abyssal ne had still failed in their invasion of the human world; they didn''t even manage to kill that man who posed a fundamental threat to the entire abyssal ne!


    When the Ant Emperor''s nar seed had beenpletely devoured, causing that abyssal level to be destroyed, tremors had run through the entire abyssal ne, and this had happened twice in quick session! Theplete destruction of the two nar seeds struck all of the abyssal emperors with an extremely urgent sense of peril. They finally understood why the Holy Lord was determined to find that human and kill him at all costs.


    That human really was posing a threat to the survival of the entire abyssal ne.


    The Holy Lord sat on his massive lofty chair with an unmatched aura radiating from its body. The entire abyssal ne was trembling in the face of his peerless might. To the Holy Lord, who was the true ruler of this ne, it was an extremely simple matter to destroy any of the abyssal levels.


    The 108 abyssal levels were like parts of its body, and the deepest level was the level where its essencey.


    At this moment, all of the other abyssal emperors were standing before the Holy Lord. Aside from the Holy Lord, only 84 of the 107 abyssal emperors remained. In order to facilitate that final attack from the Holy Lord, 20 abyssal emperors had to sacrifice themselves in order to produce enough energy to temporarily open up a spatial passageway.


    The Holy Lord''s power was indeed unmatched. However, as the ruler of the abyssal ne, it had to face enormous pressure from an entire ne when it tried to attack an alternate ne.


    Tang Wulin was able to draw upon so much natural energies through the Blood God Array and avoid overexertion despite wielding far more power than he was capable of, and this was exactly because the entire Douluo Continent ne had been protecting him at the time. Otherwise, how could a mere Soul Emperor like him have yed such a significant role during that battle?


    Despite the heavy price that had been paid by the abyssal ne, Tang Wulin was still alive, and the Holy Lord had even been injured in its attempt to kill him; this was simply unimaginable.


    The Holy Lord had already been sitting in silence for three abyssal days, and no one dared to utter a single sound as a grave atmosphere settled over all of the abyssal emperors.


    They had always regarded the human world as prey that could be hunted down to elevate the abyssal ne into a divine realm, but could it be that the human world now truly possessed the power to destroy the abyssal ne instead? This was something that they were simply unable and unwilling to ept.


    "That was the power of a god; it was true godly power!" The Holy Lord''s voice was very calm andpletely emotionless. However, all of the abyssal emperors heaved a collective sigh of relief upon hearing this. At the very least, the Holy Lord had eased the tense atmosphere by breaking the silence.


    However, was that really the power of a god? How could a godly being exist in the human world? Gods should be entities that existed outside of all of the nes. They were higher life forms that all beings on all nes strove to be.


    The Holy Lord could''ve be a god a long time ago if it had intended to so. However, as the ruler of a ne, it had many innate advantages, but also extremely severe disadvantages.


    With the Holy Lord''s power, there would be no issue for it to be even a godking if it were willing to ascend into the divine realm of its ne. It possessed absolute power, and all it required was a godseat.


    However, as the ruler of a ne, it had to face an issue that no other living beings had to face during their journeys to ascension.


    A nar ruler was the core of an entire ne and ruled over everything within that ne. If the Holy Lord wished to do so, it could even make the entire abyssal ne self-detonate and destroy all of the abyssal creatures within it. The Holy Lord could bend the entire abyssal ne to its will, but due to the fact that it was a nar ruler, it waspletely integrated with the entire abyssal ne. In a sense, it could be said that it and the abyssal ne were the same inseparable entity.


    As such, if it wanted to be a god, then it would have to transform the entire abyssal ne into a brand new divine realm. Setting aside whether that would result in shes with other existing divine realms, just the energy required to elevate a ne to be a divine realm was downright immeasurable.


    As such, only through devouring the power and life force energy of other nes could the abyssal ne be more powerful than other divine realms, thereby giving the Holy Lord a chance at ascension.


    As for the abyssal emperors and abyssal sovereigns, no matter how powerful they became, they wouldn''t be able to be godly beings. As long as the abyssal ne didn''t be a divine realm, they would never have any hope for ascension. In this regard, the abyssal ne waspletely different from the Douluo Continent.


    The Douluo Continent didn''t have a true nar seed, and all of the nar power had transformed into all types of resources on the Douluo Continent, including martial souls, soul beasts, Soul Masters, humans, nts, oceans, mountains, rivers, etc.


    These were all constituent parts of the Douluo Continent''s nar power, and any living being could earn themselves a chance at bing a god as long as they could cultivate to the human peak using these resources.


    Of course, the prerequisite to this was the existence of a divine realm.