Chapter 288: · Divine Realm Rules, Forbidden Knowledge

“And Sea God Island isn’t truly without a treasury. Spirit Beast races with special abilities, such as the mermaid race, also hand over products made through their natural talents to Sea God Island. Some things are absolutely impossible to even see on Douluo Continent.”

Sea God’s voice sounded in everyone’s minds at the same time. Besides dignity, there was also a bit of pride in his voice.

As Sea God’s Light lit up from the Sea God Trident, the crystals sealed by Sea God’s power rose from their display platforms one after another. They turned half-transparent, revealing what was sealed inside.

“This is the heart left behind by a hundred-thousand-year Ice Phoenix. Because its bloodline was not that pure, and because its attribute was wrong, this phoenix did not have the ability to revive itself. Although the heart still contains very strong life force, it can only remain in an undying state. It cannot truly come back to life.”

“When I found this heart back then, it had already sealed itself for tens of thousands of years, maybe even longer. Even I can’t say how many years ago this hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast entered this state of self-sealing.”

A huge sealed heart appeared before Chen Ming.

Although it was sealed by Sea God’s Light, under Sea God’s protection, Chen Ming could still sense the vast life force contained inside it. Even though only a heart remained, the power within it was still not something an ordinary hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast could compare to.

“As for its downside… I sealed this heart with Sea God’s Light. Before I ascended to the Divine Realm, even though my power had already reached god level, I still couldn’t truly revive this Ice Phoenix. After all, the price was too great. It wasn’t worth it for me.”

“After becoming a god, reviving it would be easy, but first, it has no meaning to me. Second, because of the Divine Realm’s rules, I can’t casually use divine power to interfere with living beings in the lower realm.”

“If you open the seal, how you deal with this thing will be entirely up to you. It won’t be possible to seal it again.”

As the Ice Phoenix heart was once again covered by Sea God’s Light, another treasure flew up.

“This is the dragon bone of an eighty-thousand-year sea dragon. Although much of its essence has already been extracted, it still has a trace of its old charm.”

“This was a pure-blooded water-attribute true dragon. It wasn’t a sub-dragon with true dragon blood, nor was it something that turned into a dragon through later evolution. It was a water dragon with a truly pure dragon bloodline.”

“If it had reached a hundred thousand years, perhaps it could have broken through to the level of a Dragon Elder. Its name would have changed from Sea Dragon to Azure Sea Sacred Dragon.”

“It’s just that after all these years, this thing has basically been hollowed out. Only a little of its old charm remains.”

“And this one. A giant pearl produced by a hundred-thousand-year shellfish Spirit Beast. A peerless treasure. It contains vast and pure energy.”

“The problem is that this energy is too stable, so there’s no way to extract it through normal means. It also can’t be absorbed by humans or Spirit Beasts.”

Although this place was indeed the treasury Sea God had once left behind, too much time had passed.

The good things from back then had either been used by Sea God himself or given to the people around him. As for the scraps that remained, they had mostly been taken and used by the people of Sea God Island over the past ten thousand years.

Only a very small number of things had been left from long ago.

Most of the things that could remain here either had problems of their own or were not precious enough.

Either they were hard to use, had already lost much of their value, or no one knew how to use them at all.

In short, the truly good things had already been taken out to train Spirit Masters. The things left here all had some issues, more or less.

Although there were quite a few hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts in the sea, Sea God Island could still obtain materials from high-level Spirit Beasts from time to time. Every few thousand years, a genius capable of hunting hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts would also appear, allowing them to obtain some rare parts from such beasts.

But in the end, most Spirit Beasts in the whole sea were Sea God’s believers.

There were already few hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts that did not believe in Sea God. After years and years of hunting, plus the sea being so vast, even Sea God Island only had a fairly good supply of ten-thousand-year materials. Hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast materials were still rather few…

But at least it was more than what Spirit Hall on the continent had.

“You can choose two treasures from here and take them away. Consider it me settling Xiao Bai’s debt for her.”

“No matter what, Xiao Bai was my mount when I conquered the sea back then. If only she hadn’t yet reached the state of transformation at the time…”

“Cough, cough.”

Sea God’s divine thought coughed twice and skipped over the subject.

Earlier, when Chen Ming heard that hundred-thousand-year Devil Soul Great White Shark say Sea God had almost become his brother-in-law, he had not quite believed it.

But this short remark from Sea God’s divine thought made Chen Ming feel that perhaps the matter was not entirely groundless.

“To be honest, I’m also very interested in the Spirit Core condensation method you researched. If you’re willing to leave this method on Sea God Island, I can give you two more treasures, or give you another God-bestowed Spirit Ring.”

“Senior Sea God, before you became a god, you also had a Spirit Core. And you’ve stayed in the Divine Realm for so many years. Haven’t you done any reverse research on the Spirit Master cultivation system?”

“If you used the realm of a god and the Divine Realm’s environment to reverse-deduce the path of Spirit Masters, it should be very simple.”

“Gods can’t casually release power, but passing down knowledge, especially passing it down to your descendants and inheritors, doesn’t seem like it should be that taboo, right?”

Chen Ming sincerely asked Sea God.

After a moment of silence, Sea God spoke in a somewhat depressed tone.

“I did do some research in the Divine Realm. Back then, I was also thinking about why Spirit Beasts couldn’t become gods. But I seem to have touched on a taboo. I don’t know what great secret of the Divine Realm I accidentally glimpsed, but Asura God came to my door and warned me.”

“Before becoming a god, everything in the Douluo world is easy to talk about. But after becoming a god…”

“And, kid, you got one thing backward.”

“Casually releasing divine power in the Divine Realm to interfere with the lower realm is indeed a very serious crime. It can even lead to a god’s soul being destroyed.”

“But compared to casually releasing power, passing knowledge down to the lower realm is the more serious crime.”

“The latter is almost ten times stricter than the former.”

“Leaving behind power or leaving behind your divine weapon doesn’t matter.”

“But if one dares to use the Divine Realm’s channels to pass knowledge from another world, or pass down research done in the Divine Realm to one’s original world, then in the entire Divine Realm, that god will become a major sinner.”