Qian Renxue looked toward the voice. When she saw him, his Divine Power was contained, yet he still gave off a faint, unfathomable aura. He felt familiar, and she soon recognized him.
"It's you!"
Her reaction surprised Huo Yuhao. After all, he was not from Qian Renxue's era.
"You know me?"
Qian Renxue said, "My soul drifted through the turbulence of time with the shattered Angel God's divine core for twenty thousand years. Countless geniuses came and went in that time, but you were the only one who left a lasting impression on me."
"The destiny surrounding you surpassed even Tang San's. By all rights, you should have achieved more than he did. What a shame you ended up as his lapdog."
Huo Yuhao's mouth twitched at the mockery in her last remark. Qian Renxue knew about that shameful chapter of his past.
Qian Renxue continued, "Did Tang San tell you to bring me back? If he did, please kill me."
"What kind of thing is that to say?" Huo Yuhao asked.
"Whatever Tang San's reason for bringing me back, I won't let him have his way," Qian Renxue said firmly.
"I brought you back," Huo Yuhao said. "Tang San had nothing to do with it. And I'm not his lapdog."
"You married the Clear Sky Sect's Young Master, revived the declining Tang Sect, and joined Shrek Academy, taking it to new heights. How are you not Tang San's lapdog?" Qian Renxue demanded.
If some nobody had dared speak to him that way, Huo Yuhao might have crushed him with his Divine Sense. She was only a Level 99 Limit Douluo, but he could see that Qian Renxue was forthright. She was probably trying to anger him into killing her.
"What you see isn't always the truth, and what you hear isn't always false. I was the Son of Destiny born ten thousand years after your era. From the moment I was born, I was caught in God King Tang's schemes. Do you think I had any choice but to be his dog? What good was all my destiny? The life you saw me live was nothing more than a life someone else had arranged for me." Huo Yuhao spoke helplessly.
He went on to share his past with her, right up to the moment he betrayed Tang San.
"So you destroyed Tang San, Xiao Wu, his parents, and everything he had set in motion?" Qian Renxue asked in astonishment.
"That was the price he paid for making a fool of me my entire life," Huo Yuhao said, his eyes cold.
"You succeeded, but Tang San is dead, and you erased his parents too. Meanwhile, the Divine Realm is facing a crisis, and Douluo Continent is being invaded by the Abyss Plane..." Qian Renxue reminded him.
"I had one chance. If I missed it, the Divine Realm and Douluo Continent would belong to the Tang Family, and no one else would have a say." Huo Yuhao shook his head and sighed. "I don't know what will happen to the Divine Realm now that I'm gone, or how Douluo Continent will fend off the Abyss Plane. But even if the world is destroyed, that's better than letting it fall into that Little Scumbag's hands."
"I can hear how much you resent him," Qian Renxue said.
"If you'd spent your whole life like a puppet with him pulling the strings, you'd hate him too." Huo Yuhao added silently, Especially when you knew the plot but had to keep playing your part.
"My hatred for him is different from yours," Qian Renxue said. "He destroyed everything my people stood for. This is a blood feud."
"And that's why I brought you back. Do you know what happened after I entered the Space-Time Turbulence?" Huo Yuhao gave a wicked smile. "I went back to the past—to a Douluo Continent before even your Angel God became a god. I became a god tens of thousands of years before Tang San."
"Then that means..." Qian Renxue's eyes lit up.
"Yes. Spirit Hall still exists. It's the era of your grandfather and father, and that Little Scumbag hasn't even been born. Everything can still change." Resolve rang through Huo Yuhao's voice.
"Will you let me go down to Douluo Continent? I want to..." Qian Renxue began.
"I know what you want to do." Huo Yuhao cut her off. "We both want revenge on Tang San. But I'm the chief director. You'll follow my script and do as I say."
"I understand." Qian Renxue had plans of her own, but Huo Yuhao's words were a reminder. For now, she could only keep her plans for revenge buried in her heart. At least they agreed on one thing: neither of them would let Tang San live well.
After a long hesitation, Qian Renxue spoke in a trembling, pleading voice. "Could you let me see Grandfather, the other Consecrated elders, and my mother, Your Majesty, Eternal God?"
Huo Yuhao opened the Eternal Eyes and sent his divine vision into Qian Renxue's eyes.
Qian Renxue saw the towering Spirit City and the five Consecrated elders of the Consecration Hall. Qian Daoliu's circle was already much the same as it would be in later years. The only differences were that Qian Jun and Jiang Mo had not yet formally become Consecrated elders, while the Light Feather Guardian was still at level 96.
Then Qian Renxue saw her father, handsome and imposing, the very image of light. What she had learned after Bibi Dong's death had put a crack in that image, but she still could not contain her excitement at seeing him.
She saw six-year-old Bibi Dong awaken the Death Spider Emperor and Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, then set out for Spirit Hall. In that young face, Qian Renxue could already glimpse the mother she would later know.
It had been twenty thousand years. At the sight of those familiar, living faces, tears streamed down Qian Renxue's cheeks. Trembling, she reached through the vision to touch them, but the image rippled the instant her fingertips met it.
Qian Renxue withdrew her hand and bowed her head. "I want to kill Yu Xiaogang. I want to stop Father. I want to kill Tang San. I want to prevent every tragedy..." she whispered.
Huo Yuhao shook his head. "That isn't part of my plan. I don't want things to end so quickly for them."
"Then can I go to Spirit Hall and see Grandfather?" Qian Renxue asked.
"If you go looking like that, your grandfather will probably pull out the Heaven Measuring Sword and deliver Angel Judgment on the spot," Huo Yuhao warned her.
Only then did Qian Renxue notice how she had changed. Everything she had suffered in her later years had filled her with helplessness and hatred, driving her attributes to their opposite extreme. Her holy attribute had turned fallen, her light attribute had turned dark, and her Six-winged Angel had become a Six-winged Fallen Angel. Given her grandfather's temperament, they would probably start fighting the moment they met.
Huo Yuhao produced a letter of introduction from the Eternal God, a Divine Seed of the God of Fallen Angels, and a God Ring for contacting him, then handed them to Qian Renxue. "This God Ring will let us communicate between the two realms. The Eternal God's letter will help you find the Angel God so she can send a Divine Decree to your grandfather. You can enter Douluo Continent through the Realm Passage in her Angel God Palace. While you're there, give this Divine Seed to Qian Hanyu and let her decide what to do with it."
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