With just a single sentence, Lin Yun had left the scorpion and three dragons utterly stunned.
What the hell? So all this was your own doing?
The thought made the four of them look at Lin Yun with expressions so complicated they bordered on indescribable.
"Why are you looking at me like that? I already said I'm just the Dragon God's avatar, not the real Dragon God!" Lin Yun snapped, his face flushing with anger as he glared at them.
Damn it, who the hell do they think they're looking down on?
Even if you want to insult someone, this is going too far! Sure, the Golden Dragon King might be brainless, but at least he's not as much of a dumbass as that mentally deficient Dragon God!
Besides, at his core, Lin Yun was just a human with the Golden Dragon King's bloodline!
He'd even taken on the role of the Fierce Beasts' sovereign, and they still had the nerve to mock him like this?
Absolutely shameless!
"There's no way you can pin the Dragon God's sins on me or the Silver Dragon King! I refuse to take the blame for this!"
"Ahem, we're not blaming you. We know exactly who the real culprit is," the Fire Dragon King coughed awkwardly, trying to placate him.
Beside him, the Ice Dragon King sulked silently. Though she knew logically that none of this was Lin Yun's fault, she still felt an inexplicable frustration.
"So, Great One, what exactly is your speculation?" Di Tian asked.
He wasn't overthinking things. While Lin Yun's words had shattered the invincible image of the Dragon God in Di Tian's heart, his admiration for his idol, the Golden Dragon King, remained unchanged.
If Lin Yun said it, he believed it.
"It's simple. The Dragon God knew exactly how much destruction his madness had brought upon the Divine Realm. Not only were the Nine Great Dragon Kings nearly wiped out, but the higher-tiered beast deities also suffered devastating losses," Lin Yun said with a scoff, laying out his theory.
"With the beast deity faction severely weakened, they were bound to get caught up in the Divine Realm's power struggles. There was even a risk that after the Dragon God's death, the reshuffling of power in the Divine Realm would lead to the beast deities being oppressed by the human gods. After all, the Dragon God had nearly destroyed the entire Divine Realm—and while most of the casualties were beast deities, plenty of human gods had died too."
"Don't you think those human gods would resent the Dragon God and take their anger out on the remaining beast deities? The order forbidding Fierce Beasts from becoming gods served two purposes: first, to appease the human gods' fury, and second—in a twisted way—to protect the beast race from being oppressed in the Divine Realm."
"But the Dragon God underestimated human nature."
"What do you mean by that?" the Fire Dragon King asked, puzzled.
Though he couldn't fathom the Dragon God's mindset, Lin Yun's explanation made sense. The Fire Dragon King could easily believe the Dragon God would do something like this.
He had lived through that war. He had seen just how many gods had perished because of the Dragon God. And among those fallen gods, very few were lone wolves—most had friends and family.
It was only natural for those left behind to seek vengeance against the weakened beast deity faction.
But what did Lin Yun mean by underestimating human nature?
Lin Yun smirked coldly. "Human greed knows no bounds. The Dragon God might have thought that banning Fierce Beasts from godhood would quell the human gods' rage, but even gods can't escape the clutches of desire."
"With the Dragon God—the Supreme God of the Divine Realm—dead, and the Nine Great Dragon Kings, the backbone of the beast faction, missing, the human gods had free rein. Why would they willingly give up their power? What if the beast race produced another powerhouse like the Dragon God? Who would rule the Divine Realm then?"
"So my guess is this: while the Dragon God issued the order forbidding Fierce Beasts from becoming gods, the divine punishment that has destroyed countless Fierce Beast prodigies in Douluo Star was the work of the human gods!"
Heavenly Tribulations were, by nature, trials from the heavens. Those who passed them would receive the world's compensation, ensuring smooth progress on their path forward. This principle held true across all worlds.
The Heavenly Dao was impartial, treating all beings as equal. A true Heavenly Tribulation would never favor one race over another—at most, it might target a specific individual within a race.
But the Heavenly Tribulations faced by Fierce Beasts were different. They carried a will of pure destruction. Even someone like Di Tian, who was infinitely close to true godhood, would eventually fall to this divine punishment in the original timeline. And unlike normal tribulations, passing these brought no benefits—only devastation.
The only explanation for this was deliberate interference.
No matter how stupid the Dragon God was, he wouldn't have banned Fierce Beasts from godhood and created a divine punishment that cut off all their paths to advancement. This had to be the human gods' doing—an attempt to crush the beast race completely.
As a human himself, Lin Yun understood this mindset all too well. Especially in a world like Douluo, where scum like Tang San existed.
Had the previous Asura God really chosen Tang San because of his talent?
Not necessarily.
Maybe he had picked Tang San precisely because of his shameless, self-serving nature—just like his father, Tang Hao, who had turned his own wife into his ninth soul ring. Tang San had done the same to Xiao Wu, making her his sixth soul ring while also claiming the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Dragon as his own, effectively turning them into his dogs.
In the eyes of the previous Asura God, Tang San was the perfect extreme egoist—an ideal right-wing extremist!
With someone like Tang San around, how could the Fierce Beast race not be doomed?
And sure enough, Tang San was the one who pushed the Fierce Beast race into the abyss, turning them into nothing more than nourishment for the Tang family.
Didn't that perfectly align with the Divine Realm's desire to stomp the Fierce Beasts into oblivion?
Lin Yun knew this was all speculation, but it wasn't unfounded. In fact, it was probably close to the truth. Why else would the Dragon God be so consumed by guilt, hiding away and waiting for some poor sap to take his place and restore the Fierce Beast race?
Too brainless to see the true nature of the human gods, he had issued the order banning Fierce Beasts from godhood in a moment of lucidity during his madness—only to turn Douluo's Fierce Beasts into complete jokes.
Who wouldn't feel guilty after that?
Lin Yun's thoughts raced, and he spoke almost stream-of-consciousness, sharing every theory he had—except, of course, his knowledge as a transmigrator.
The scorpion and three dragons fell into silence.
Damn, that makes too much sense.
At the very least, none of them could come up with a more plausible explanation. It wasn't like the Dragon God was so stupid that he'd cut off the beast race's path to godhood and stomp them into the dirt at the same time, right?
What kind of Dragon God would that make him?
Still, even this much was enough to cement the Dragon God's status as an absolute moron. In unison, all five of them—including Di Tian—mentally cursed.
Damn it, what an idiot!
(End of Chapter)
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