16)Insect Table: First Spiritual Ring

"Alright, Wūgūi, when the ring is almost fully formed, bestow upon it your power of luck to compensate for the energy needed to reach 10,000 years of power," Erym finished speaking and approached the dying infant emperor ant.

Shényú had nearly shattered all its bones, and its body was riddled with cracks and wounds; if left as is, it would die within half an hour at the least.

Standing before the ant, Erym entered a semi-possession state, and the insect tablet appeared above him.

It moved over the ant and released its power to begin extracting the ring.

Minutes later, the black ring with purple details was nearly fully manifested.

At that moment, Wūgūi moved, and a bright golden energy emerged from him towards the ring.

When the golden energy touched the ring, the purple details quickly vanished, and a complete black ring of 10,000 years was formed.

As the ring finished forming, a dark green energy beam shot from the Insect Tablet to the infant ant, healing all the wounds of the dying ant in seconds, and the years of power began to rapidly recover.

In a minute, it had returned to its peak of 9,999 years, and upon doing so, it stood up and roared powerfully as an even stronger aura emerged from it; its power finally reached 10,000 years, the purity in its blood increased, and its size doubled directly.

Except for Erym, everyone else watched with interest the transformation of the ant. As for young Erym, well, he was suffering while absorbing the 10,000-year ring from the insect tablet.

After 20 minutes, the assimilation ended, the semi-possession had deepened further, the skin on his arms had turned into smooth, pure white armor, his height grew by 1 cm, and his white hair grew 5 cm longer, the golden glow of the thousand arms was present, albeit very faintly.

Everyone watched the changes attentively; the humans felt their martial souls wanting to emerge and bow before Erym, the spiritual beasts did not resist and bowed with genuine respect.

Erym opened his eyes, and the golden pupil shone with natural superiority. He stood up calmly and summoned the other two tablets of Heaven and Steel.

When they manifested, their respective rings appeared above them, the most notable being the black ring of the Insect Tablet, but the other two tablets were not lacking in momentum. A titled Douluo known as Dugu Bo could tell that the age of the ring hardly limited the momentum of the elemental tablets.

"Amazing, a level 19 already has 3 spiritual rings, and the lowest is a thousand years," Dugu Bo smiled excitedly. Every time he saw Erym absorb his spiritual ring, he felt more that he could help him cure his family's poison.

Erym smiled at Dugu Bo's words and turned to look at the emperor ant, "introduce yourself," his voice was an order that reached the depths of the 'little' ant's soul.

"Huándì Chòng presents itself before His Holiness, I thank you for the fortune you have granted me and swear to follow you until my death," a somewhat feminine voice reached everyone's mind, causing confusion, especially to Shényù who knew this ant was male.

Erym didn't care about the tone of voice; he just nodded slightly and lifted the semi-possession, "Well, from now on you will follow us, and I assure you that you will surpass your predecessors."

Just a moment ago, as he finished absorbing the spiritual ring, Arceus sent information to his mind, this information was enough to support any empire in conquering the world for hundreds of thousands of years.

Likewise, from all this information, he received some secrets of this world, knowledge that he was unaware of even with all his meta-knowledge.

For example, this world is not only the native world of the dragon god but was one of the first worlds to form a god in the Douluo universe, with the Dragon God being one of them along with other gods who have now died.

Another secret is that this world could give birth to another Dragon God, only the previous one had to die first, or it had to merge with the origin of the world to help the world grow and become a superior world that allows beings below the god-king.

Shura and the other gods must have known that if they killed the Dragon God, his inheritance would return to Douluo and inevitably another Dragon God would be born, even stronger than the previous one.

Therefore, Shura and other gods cursed the beast and non-human clans of the Douluo World to never easily touch the divine realm.

Thus, the celestial crews were formed every 100,000 years, to prevent non-humans from reaching the god level or 1 million years and forming their own divine throne.

Indeed, the natives of the Douluo world do not need to inherit the divine throne to be a god; it was enough to understand a celestial law to a certain extent, ignite the divine fire, and forge the divine throne.

The beasts and non-humans formed the divine core that contained all the divinity of the beast god, freeing the beast god from the divine responsibility of the divine throne.

For that reason, the Dragon God was so strong; without the limiter of the divine throne, his power scaled according to his understanding of the laws increased.

Now he can do something similar, not now, but Arceus created methods for beasts, non-humans, and humans to cultivate to the divine realm ignoring the laws of the Douluo gods.

Do not take Arceus as just a martial soul; just as all martial souls have spirituality, they are too weak to communicate with their bearer, Arceus is a complete entity that by its own will became my Martial Soul, creating a perfect and eternal symbiosis with me.

All this knowledge opened his mind and allowed him to create objectives; he did not want to be a slave to the Douluo gods, he did not want to be their puppet, nor did he want to continue seeing the current chaos and madness of the Douluo world, although he only wanted to live in peace, he was more than willing to do some things before living that life.