[To forge iron, one must be strong oneself.]

[Help from others is ultimately only an external force.]

[Ye Yu could take care of Cao Songming for a while, but he could never take care of him for a lifetime.]

[If he wanted to reclaim his status as the ruler of the Demon Race, Cao Songming needed to continue growing stronger!]

[Fortunately, his talent for comprehension was not bad at all.]

[With the assistance of cultivation techniques from the God Realm, combined with a few pointers from Ye Yu, Cao Songming's fallen cultivation was quickly restored!]

[He successfully returned to the late Demon Emperor Realm!]

[And this time, his physique was more than a hundred times stronger than before!]

[With such terrifying power, even if he could not become the ruler of the Demon Race again, there would be very few people in the entire Demon Race capable of defeating him.]

[As long as he continued cultivating according to the technique, returning to his peak was only a matter of time!]

[Soon, Ye Yu also reached the moment when he would Shatter the Void and ascend to the God Realm!]

[Before leaving, he specifically called Cao Songming over and gave him a few instructions.]

[In the future, while in the Demon Race, take good care of Ye Bancheng.]

[And if you ever have the opportunity to come to the God Realm, you can come find me.]

[Cao Songming was so moved that he burst into tears on the spot.]

["Big Brother, I won't be able to repay your kindness in this lifetime. As for Foster Father, please don't worry. From now on, he's my real father."]

[With those words, all the care Ye Yu had invested in him had not been in vain.]

[As the surrounding space shattered apart, Ye Yu once again ascended to the God Realm!]

[This time, however, the place where he arrived was completely different from before.]

[The area resembled a vast muddy swamp.]

[A nauseating stench filled the surroundings.]

[Even the sky, which should have been peaceful and serene, had been stained with a gloomy gray hue.]

[This was completely different from the God Realm he remembered!]

[Ye Yu even seriously suspected that he had arrived in the wrong place.]

[That couldn't be right. A normal Shatter the Void, a normal ascension to the God Realm—how could anything go wrong?]

[Just as he was puzzling over it, a muffled voice came from behind him.]

["Hey, newcomer. Come over here and get in line!"]

[Ye Yu turned around and saw a feminine-looking man standing not far away in a loose, oversized robe.]

[His eyes were ice-cold and carried an inexplicable sense of oppression.]

[Ye Yu frowned slightly, unable to understand what he meant by getting in line.]

[Nevertheless, he flew straight over, intending to see what sort of trick this person was playing.]

[Only after arriving beside the man did he discover that on the opposite side of the swamp, more than twenty members of the God Clan were lined up, waiting to enter a strange cave entrance.]

[Among them were Demon Gods and Ghost Gods alike.]

[None of their cultivation levels were particularly high. Most were around the early to middle stages of the New God Realm.]

[Every one of them wore a vacant expression, their eyes dull and lifeless, like walking corpses.]

[The man in the black robe slowly released his divine power.]

[A powerful aura erupted from him, causing tremendous pressure to descend upon Ye Yu.]

[The man's cultivation had reached the Golden God Realm.]

["My name is Zheng Ke. I will be your overseer from now on. I don't care how powerful you were in the Lower Five Worlds before ascending to the God Realm. Here, you are nothing!"]

["If you're a dragon, you crawl. If you're a tiger, you lie down."]

["From now on, just like these members of the God Clan, you will contribute your divine power to Lady Jin. Only then will you earn the right to keep living."]

["Otherwise, your death will be extremely miserable. Do you understand?"]

[Hearing these words, Ye Yu remained silent and lowered his gaze toward the gathered gods.]

[Zheng Ke said nothing further. With a sweep of his sleeve, Ye Yu instantly appeared at the entrance of the strange cave.]

[Zheng Ke remained where he was, silently watching him.]

[His eyes were still as cold as ice.]

[Like a hunter patiently waiting for his prey to make a mistake.]

[Looking at the pitch-black cave ahead, Ye Yu could not help muttering to himself inwardly.]

[At that moment, an unfamiliar voice suddenly sounded within his mind.]

["Don't turn around to look at Zheng Ke. Just keep walking forward. Since you're new, you only need to hand over seventy percent of your divine power before you can leave."]

["If you resist directly, Zheng Ke will eat you."]

["That guy loves eating gods more than anything."]

[Hearing this, Ye Yu glanced at the figure standing in front of him.]

[It was a Human God with messy hair and a somewhat hunched back.]

[The words just now had most likely come from him.]

[Ye Yu chose to trust him.]

[Besides, he was genuinely curious about what exactly this Lady Jin was.]

[Following the cave passage inward, he found himself surrounded by darkness, with visibility extremely limited.]

[After walking roughly a thousand meters, Ye Yu followed the dozen or so gods to a place that resembled an altar.]

[At the center stood a gigantic stone statue of a toad.]

[Beneath the statue was a black lotus platform.]

[Around the lotus platform were vessel-like depressions placed every few steps.]

[The gods moved with practiced familiarity to their respective positions before the depressions and began channeling the divine power within their bodies into the vessels.]

[At that moment, the lotus platform seemed to come alive, trembling slightly.]

[The divine power flowed upward through the vessels and was gradually injected into the stone statue.]

[To be honest, this was the first time Ye Yu had ever witnessed such a bizarre scene.]

[Then the same voice echoed once more within his sea of consciousness.]

["Hand over your divine power obediently, or you'll be in danger."]

[Hearing this, Ye Yu casually chose an empty depression and released seventy percent of his divine power.]

[About the time it took for an incense stick to burn.]

[After all the gods had finished surrendering their divine power, they once again formed a line and exited the cave, with Ye Yu following behind them.]

[As he stepped out of the cave entrance, he was surprised to discover more than a dozen gods waiting outside.]

[At the same time, another man dressed exactly like Zheng Ke was hovering in the sky above.]

[There seemed to be far more gods here than he had originally imagined.]

[In the blink of an eye, three months passed.]

[By now, Ye Yu had gradually figured out everything about this place.]

[This location was a hidden valley in the western region of the God Realm.]

[No one knew how many years ago, a Three Legged Golden Toad named Lady Jin had arrived and taken a liking to the area.]

[Using immense divine power, she transformed the terrain into a swamp and established multiple layers of formations and barriers.]

[She effectively made the valley her headquarters and settled there permanently.]

[According to what Ye Yu had learned, Lady Jin had originally intended to cultivate here in peace.]

[However, the valley covered an enormous area.]

[And whenever newly ascended gods shattered the void and entered the God Realm, their arrival locations were completely random.]

[As a result, gods would occasionally appear within her territory.]

[That was when Lady Jin came up with the idea of raising gods in captivity.]

[Later, the altar and the stone statue were built.]

[No one knew what secret technique she was using, but she was somehow able to convert other people's divine power into her own.]

[As long as the numbers were large enough, her cultivation speed would increase dramatically.]

[But as more and more gods arrived in the valley, Lady Jin no longer wished to manage them personally.]

[So she recruited five Demon Gods to oversee the tribute-paying gods on her behalf.]

[That was why overseers like Zheng Ke had appeared in this place.]

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