Douluo Continent II: The Peerless Tang Sect: I, Huo Yuhao, join the Sun Moon Sect.

Chapter 558 Breakthrough Failure, Tang Shenwang's Defenses Broken
At such a critical moment, a lack of faith is undoubtedly an extremely troublesome matter.

The divine realm has a long history, and there have been some exceptionally talented first-level deities who have attempted to break through the boundaries and become half-step god-kings.

But all of these people ultimately failed.

However, Tang San, relying on the Asura Godhood, possesses the cultivation of a God King. Compared to other gods who only possess the first-level Godhood, it is undoubtedly much simpler for him to break through to the Sea Godhood.

Moreover, during the time when he held control of the central authority of the divine realm.

He spent a lot of time secretly cultivating his reputation in Douluo Continent, opening up another channel for obtaining faith power besides sea spirit beasts and the Sea God family.

The power of faith has many uses. It can be used not only to solidify a divine position, but also to elevate the level of a divine position. However, the amount of faith power required to elevate the level of a divine position is undoubtedly enormous.

Tang San's mind was racing.

"Logically speaking, the power of the Sea God's faith that I gain every other God Realm Day should increase day by day. After all, Shrek Academy in Douluo Continent promotes my greatness."

In the ocean, the Sea God's family helps tame sea spirit beasts, gaining their faith in me. However, the faith power collected today is nearing depletion. Could it be that the faith power collected today is actually less than before?

Tang San felt increasingly strange as he thought about it. As time passed, because the power of faith poured into the Sea God's position was decreasing, the solidification speed of the eighth ring of light wheel, which was gradually becoming solid, slowed down considerably.

He was a little unwilling.

To be honest, when he absorbed that power of faith in the past, his eighth ring of light was only in an illusory state.

Once he stops absorbing the power of faith, the illusory eighth ring of light will vanish in an instant.

Now that the eighth ring of the light wheel has begun to solidify, it means that he has a chance to stabilize the solidified state of the eighth ring of the light wheel today and truly cultivate the Sea God's position to the level of a half-step God King.

This is very important for improving his strength.

He knew he had to make some changes, otherwise his plan to solidify the position of the Sea God would fail.

If I fail, I will inevitably be injured, and I don't know when I will have the opportunity to break through the shackles of becoming a first-level god while holding the position of the Sea God.

With that in mind, he decided to take a gamble.

So he began to communicate directly with the Asura God within his body, and a murderous aura gradually emanated from his body. Of course, he did this not to switch god positions, but to use the Asura God as a channel to absorb the faith power belonging to the Asura God and transfer it to the Sea God's god position, thereby helping the Sea God's god position to break through.

Although doing so would deplete some of his faith power, he couldn't care less about that now that they were at a critical juncture.

If the Sea God's position can break through to the level of a half-step God King, it will be an achievement that no human deity in the God Realm has ever accomplished before, laying an incredibly solid foundation for cultivating the Sea God's position to the level of a God King.

As long as he possesses two God-King positions and appeases Xiao Wu, with two gods coexisting, even the God of Destruction who has always targeted him would not be his match.

The Asura God wields the power of slaughter, placing him somewhere between the gods of darkness and the gods of light.

Generally speaking, whenever there is killing on a planet under the jurisdiction of the God Realm, the Asura God can obtain the thought of killing and transform it into pure faith power, which is also an important source of the Asura God's faith power.

After all, there aren't many lives that simply worship the Asura God.

If a large-scale war breaks out, the Asura God will have even more killing intent.

This is one of the deeper reasons why he didn't stop the clash between the Sun Moon Continent and the Douluo Continent back then. Even Xiao Wu didn't know this reason, and still believed that she was simply following the rules of the God Realm, so she didn't interfere.

To be honest, interfering with the collision between the Sun Moon Continent and the Douluo Continent does indeed violate the rules of the God Realm.

However, if the collision between the two continents results in greater losses for him than benefits, he will stop it even if it means violating the rules of the divine realm.

As he had predicted, a large-scale war broke out after the two continents clashed, resulting in countless deaths and injuries. Moreover, the war left a lasting trauma on people's hearts, and even after the war ended, many vendettas broke out.

He also gained a lot of bloodlust and converted a lot of pure faith power from it, which was really a huge profit. Although he did not want to see the Tang Sect gradually decline, there are gains and losses.

After that large-scale war, Shrek Academy did not join forces with the three great empires to divide up the "evil" Sun Moon Empire, nor did it even ask for war reparations. This was naturally the result of his dream to the former Sea God Pavilion Master. Of course, he also gave some reasons when he appeared in the dream.

He did this mainly to lay mines, thereby creating a favorable opportunity for another large-scale war to break out on the Douluo Continent.

Once a large-scale war breaks out again, he will be able to generate a great deal of bloodlust from it.

Before the war broke out, some Douluo people, through the ten thousand years of propaganda by Shrek Academy, naturally developed a sense of reverence and even faith in themselves as the Sea God and Asura God, thus providing them with the power of faith.

According to his plan, when the next large-scale war breaks out, if the situation of the Douluo Three Kingdoms becomes critical and he is needed to turn the tide, he will step in to stop the Sun Moon Empire, plant another mine, prevent the other side from unifying the Douluo Continent, and ensure that there will be another opportunity for a large-scale war to sweep across the continent in the future.

To be honest, in this way, the Douluo people are quite similar to a type of vegetable from the Sichuan region in his previous life—leeks.

After one crop is harvested, another will grow, thus continuously providing him with the power of faith.

Gradually, as the power of faith from the Asura God's position flowed into the Sea God's position, the eighth ring of light behind his head gradually stabilized and became more solid, and the aura emanating from his body gradually became more and more powerful.

"You're almost there, you little devil! Your doomsday is coming!" Tang San exclaimed excitedly.

He had always wanted to cultivate the Sea God's position to the God King level, so that he could have two God King positions. However, the prerequisite for doing so was to advance the Sea God's position to the half-step God King level.

Suddenly, he felt the power of faith coming from the Asura God's position rapidly depleting, and the seemingly solid eighth ring of light behind his head was now teetering on the verge of collapse, gradually becoming illusory.

Tang San's expression changed drastically: "Even the faith power from the Asura God's position isn't enough? That's impossible. What exactly happened in the lower realm that affected the total amount of faith power I've collected? Oh no, I'm going to fail my breakthrough."

The next moment, the eighth ring of light behind his head shattered and dissipated. His face turned pale, blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, and even the seventh ring of light behind his head dimmed.

There has never been a precedent in the divine realm for a deity to successfully advance to the next level of divine rank. This involves the very essence of divine rank, making the breakthrough extremely perilous.

If Tang San fails to break through, he will not die, but he will be injured and suffer huge losses.

After all, the failure to break through meant that all the faith power he had invested in truly condensing the eighth ring of light had gone down the drain.

He lost more than just the faith power he had just used. He had invested a lot of faith power in the past to accumulate progress. With this failed breakthrough, it was as if the progress bar, which had reached 99%, had been completely reset to zero.

At this moment, the sea god of light was consumed by an uncontrollable rage.

His face contorted into a grotesque expression, like that of a demon. With each breath, his chest heaved, and his entire body trembled slightly with rage.

(End of this chapter)