In Douluo, the Goddesses All Collapse
Chapter 17

A Man in Douluo, All the Goddesses Fall Apart

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This continent was made up of two great empires, various kingdoms, and duchies. Empires stood at the top, kingdoms came next, and duchies ranked last.

Beyond that, there were transcendent forces no weaker than the empires, such as Spirit Hall, as well as Sea God Island far beyond the ocean.

I was currently in the capital of one of the two great empires—the Heaven Dou Empire's Heaven Dou City.

Heaven Dou City!

The Diary Owner was actually in Heaven Dou City!

When Wu Xing revealed that he was in Heaven Dou City, the eyes of countless beauties lit up, especially those who were currently in the city.

This was good news to them. Although the Diary Owner had said not to seek him out without a good reason, knowing his location gave them peace of mind. After all, who could guarantee that they would never encounter a troublesome emergency?

I ended up here because I happened to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy by chance. I was currently a student there.

Since Heaven Dou Royal Academy had come up, you must all be familiar with Tang San, whom I mentioned before. He was the Child of Fortune in this world, and I happened to see him and the Shrek group today.

Just as the plot had developed, they were deliberately provoked by Xue Beng and ultimately failed to join the academy.

I originally thought that since I had not gotten involved, today's events would pass just like that. But that evening, I was invited to my pen pal's home as a guest and ran into Tang San again.

However, her grandfather had captured him, so what happened next was far from pleasant.

To be honest, I really did not understand how someone like Tang San could become the protagonist, much less receive the protection of fate.

His actions completely overturned my understanding of protagonists. He was self-righteous, slandered others, and was incredibly hypocritical.

This was what happened. My pen pal's grandfather captured him because he wanted to know how Tang San had broken his granddaughter's third spirit skill, while also venting the frustration she had endured for the past three months.

My pen pal did not actually know about any of this, nor had she asked her grandfather to capture him. Yet the moment Tang San woke up, he immediately denounced her, saying she was malicious and had called in her grandfather because she could not beat him herself.

Naturally, my pen pal was unwilling to take the blame, and the two immediately clashed.

Everything still seemed normal at that point, but what happened next was absurd—utterly absurd.

Tang San noticed that my pen pal's grandfather had been deeply poisoned. Worried about her grandfather, my pen pal came to ask me whether I had a way to cure him.

I had previously received a Detoxification Pill as a system reward, so I told her the truth. Yet Tang San actually mocked me. Can you believe that? I was an outsider, someone completely unrelated to him, and I had never offended him. Just because I could cure my pen pal's grandfather of his poison, he jumped out to sneer at me!

This was the protagonist? This was the magnanimity of a Child of Fortune? His mind was far too narrow.

Did he really think that because he had the Tang Sect Secret Realm brought over from his previous life and understood poisons, he could look down on everyone else?

To put it bluntly—and this might be something the beauties of the Douluo world did not want to hear—the Tang Sect Secret Manuals, Tang Sect Hidden Weapons, and Tang Sect's methods of using and curing poison might be able to scheme against Titled Douluo on Douluo Continent, perhaps even kill gods, but in other worlds, they were nothing but a joke.

Douluo Continent was called the sewer of the Fantasy World for much the same reason.

Not to mention the worlds inhabited by the three powerful beauties I discussed yesterday—even in the worlds of the Snow Moon Sword Immortal and the like, which were merely martial arts worlds, these things were not worth mentioning.

The funniest part was that he began bearing a grudge against me simply because I stepped in to cure my pen pal's grandfather and embarrassed him. And he had been the one to come over and offer his face for me to slap in the first place. It was pretty hilarious.

I said before that this person was an extreme hypocrite. He was allowed to slap others in the face, but no one else was allowed to slap his. Otherwise, he would kill you in a heartbeat. I was probably the person he wanted to kill most right now.

Based on my understanding of him, I was almost certainly right. Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, you Three Beauties of Shrek Academy can wait and see if you do not believe me. Let's see whether he does it!

As more and more words appeared in Wu Xing's updates, the beautiful eyes of the many women reading them gradually widened.

Was this really the protagonist? The Child of Fortune? Rather than a villain?

At that moment, Tang San had shattered their worldviews...

Analyzing Tang San's Trump Cards

Blue Tyrant Academy.

Liu Erlong had now handed the position of headmaster over to Flender and was planning to rename the academy Shrek Academy within the next few days.

In one of the rooms, although it was already late at night, Xiao Wu and the other girls were still gathered together, reading the newly updated contents of Wu Xing's Diary.

Tang San had been taken away by Dugu Bo. With something so major happening, they naturally could not fall asleep so early.

They had originally thought that today's events had ended there, but they never expected the Diary to mention this matter as well!

"Ben Yuan from today was the Diary Owner, right?" Ning Rongrong looked at the lines appearing in the book, her eyes gleaming with an unusual light. That fellow had finally stopped hiding himself.

When she heard Teacher Qin Ming's explanation at noon, she had been extremely surprised. The other party was merely a Soul Elder, so how could he possess three astonishing Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings?

Everything could now be explained. Only the Diary Owner could accomplish such a thing.

Thinking back to the brief instant when they had crossed paths, Ning Rongrong's thoughts immediately became active. She had already been deeply impressed by that handsome Heaven Dou Academy student. Now that he had this identity as well, he was practically the perfect partner in her heart.

"Hehe, Wu Xing, this young miss will definitely win you over!"

Ning Rongrong clenched her small fist and decided to take the initiative. As for his talk about staying rational, she automatically ignored it.

With a beautiful woman like this young miss throwing herself at him, she refused to believe that that pervert could resist being tempted.

Unlike Ning Rongrong's excitement, Xiao Wu looked utterly lost. She had not expected the Diary Owner to bring up Tang San again, and in such an unflattering manner.

Ever since Wu Xing revealed Tang San's double-standard personality, she had deliberately avoided thinking about it these past few days. Yet before she had even had time to recover, another revelation had exposed his hypocritical side. He had even begun to hate the Diary Owner for curing Dugu Bo's poison and wanted to put him to death.

She no longer knew what to do. Should she continue believing in Tang San, or choose to trust the Diary Owner?

"Xiao Wu, do not overthink it. If what the Diary Owner said is true and Tang San is a hypocritical person, he will definitely reveal it sooner or later. If it is false, then it proves that fellow has malicious intentions." As Xiao Wu tightly clasped her hands, Zhu Zhuqing hurriedly comforted her.

She could understand Xiao Wu's feelings, but she was more inclined to believe Wu Xing because she had experienced something similar herself.

She had been deceived by her eldest sister. If she had not experienced it personally, she still would not have believed that her eldest sister, who had once cared for her so dearly, harbored such vicious thoughts. Once her true face was exposed, she had even wanted Zhu Zhuqing dead and pursued her all the way to the border of the Heaven Dou Empire.

If she had not been lucky, and if not for her third sister's help, she would likely have died on the road long ago.

That was why her once innocent and lively personality had turned cold and distant. It was the protective color she had put on herself.

"Right, Sister Zhuqing is right. If Tang San really is that kind of person, it would be better for you to see his true nature sooner rather than later, Xiao Wu." After hearing Zhu Zhuqing's comfort, Ning Rongrong also came to her senses and hurriedly spoke.

Her words, however, were much more direct. Under the influence of Wu Xing's Diary, she had already concluded in her heart that Tang San was indeed that hypocritical double-standard person.

Seeing the comfort offered by her two good sisters, Zhuqing and Rongrong, Xiao Wu felt a little warmth in her heart and nodded heavily.

Elsewhere, in a cottage in the woods.

Liu Erlong frowned deeply as she read the updated contents of the Diary Instance. After Wu Xing's subtle influence over the past few days, she no longer had the feelings she once held for Yu Xiaogang.

After seeing Yu Xiaogang's actions revealed later on, those feelings had changed from unfamiliarity to disgust.

She knew better than anyone that Yu Xiaogang was an honorary elder of Spirit Hall and had ties with that woman. Moreover, Flender had told her that afternoon that Tang San's father came from the Clear Sky Sect, making her feel even more disgusted.

He deceived women for fame and profit, and for fame and profit, he could turn around and betray the Spirit Hall that had nurtured him. Now, the disciple he had taken in was the same—double-standard and hypocritical. Like teacher, like disciple.

If not for Flender's sake, she would have directly expelled Yu Xiaogang.

She had gone to Dugu Manor that night only out of consideration for Flender. Looking back, it had not been worth it at all. She should have just let him die there.

However, she liked Xiao Wu and the other girls very much. She absolutely could not let those two hypocritical master and disciple deceive them.

With that thought, Liu Erlong simply got up and hurried toward the academy's female dormitory building. She could not allow such promising girls to be ruined.

Those were the events I experienced today. Thank you all for listening.

Now, let us talk about what Tang Sect Secret Manuals and Tang Sect Hidden Weapons were, and why they became Tang San's greatest reliance. Those of you who do not know must be dying to find out, right?

But before discussing Tang Sect Secret Manuals and Tang Sect Hidden Weapons, we first needed to understand where they came from.

These Tang Sect Secret Manuals and Tang Sect Hidden Weapons were not originally from Douluo Continent. They came from the world Tang San had originally lived in.

The world he came from was a martial arts world similar to the worlds of the beauty Jing Ni from The Legend of Qin and the beauty Han Yi from Great Journey of the Young.

The Tang Sect Secret Manuals and Tang Sect Hidden Weapons came from a sect called the Tang Sect in that world.

You could think of secret manuals as cultivation techniques for personal training, while hidden weapons were external tools used to enhance one's offensive methods, much like Spirit Bones in my current Douluo world.

With that explanation, you should understand now, right?

Yet things like these could shine brilliantly on Douluo Continent. First, Tang San used Tang Sect Secret Manuals to dominate in Soul Fighting Master battles. Then, he used Tang Sect Hidden Weapons to scheme against Soul Masters far above his own level. In the end, he even used those hidden weapons to injure the beauty Xue Xue after she became a god.

Tang Sect Hidden Weapons could actually injure me after I became a god?

In Tiandou Imperial Palace, Qian Renxue's heart shook violently when she read this, and her eyes narrowed.

If Wu Xing had not said these things were beneath notice, she would have thought Tang Sect Hidden Weapons were some incredible supreme treasure.

No wonder he said Douluo Continent was the sewer of the Fantasy World. It truly was ironic!

As fellow fantasy worlds, when she looked at Willow God, the supreme giant of Perfect World, then at the Ruthless Great Emperor of Shrouding the Heavens, her face felt burning hot.

It was not just Qian Renxue. At that moment, many beauties across Douluo Continent felt equally uncomfortable after reading this.

As for the beauties from other worlds, especially those from martial arts worlds, they were completely dumbfounded, their alluring red lips hanging open.

Tang Sect Hidden Weapons could hurt gods?

It was the biggest joke they had ever heard. Even with their professional training, they could not hold back their laughter. It was simply ridiculous, was it not?

Resurrection Skill

However, beauties of Douluo Continent, you do not need to worry too much. Tang San's secret manuals and hidden weapons were nothing more than a pile of trash compared to the Diary Instance.

So there was no need to care too much about them. Perhaps the Diary Instance would reward you with something even better someday.

There was a saying popular in my original world: everything produced by a system was high-quality, and system rewards contained everything.

Haha, back to the point. Having discussed the secret manuals and hidden weapons Tang San relied on, let us now discuss the advantages he possessed in this world.

Since this fellow could become Douluo Continent's protagonist and Child of Fortune, his luck was naturally exceptionally good.

As for why I said that, we had to start with his origins. You already knew that in his previous life, he stole the Tang Sect Secret Canon, was purged by the sect, and fell from a ten-thousand-foot cliff before transmigrating here. He then replaced the unborn child of a native couple and inherited that couple's Martial Souls.

Speaking of transmigration, heaven truly was unfair. In my original world, I was a model citizen. I had never cheated or deceived anyone, and I often helped elderly men and women cross the street. Yet I was thrown directly into Sunset Forest and left to fend for myself.

Tang San, on the other hand, was already a thief before transmigrating and committed a grave betrayal, yet he could directly take someone else's place and inherit the legacy of that couple. Tell me, was that not blatant unequal treatment?

"Pah, this fellow has no shame. You already have the Diary System. What more do you want?"

Faced with Wu Xing's complaint, the many beauties rolled their eyes. They had thought he had changed, but a leopard could not change its spots. Could Tang San's opportunities even be mentioned in the same breath as your Diary System?

Of course, ladies, there is no need to defend me. After all, I have a group of beautiful pen pals like you, so heaven has treated me quite well. Taking a little loss is no big deal.

"Who is defending you, you big-headed ghost!"

Seeing the aggrieved tone in Wu Xing's Diary, many beauties gritted their teeth in frustration. Why did they feel so annoyed?

Ahem, I have gone off topic. Back to the main point. The father of the child Tang San replaced was named Tang Hao, and he came from the Clear Sky Sect, the sect regarded as possessing the strongest tool-type Martial Soul in the Douluo world.

His mother, Ah Yin, was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had rebuilt her cultivation and taken human form. Her true body was the Blue Silver Emperor.

Speaking of this couple, I had to complain again. Douluo Continent being called the continent of love was absolutely right. So many people here had Love Brains.

Ah Yin was one of them, and she was also the most miserable. She was deceived and used by Tang Hao, and in the end, she even sacrificed herself.

Ah Yin of Pure Land World: ???

At that moment, Ah Yin felt the world spin around her. If she had not already died, she might have died all over again.

Not only had the child in her womb been replaced, but she was now being told that the man she loved had been deceiving and using her all along?

Sigh, they were all pitiful people. No, pitiful beasts.

With such parentage, Tang San's bloodline was naturally not weak. He perfectly inherited both of their Martial Souls—one Clear Sky Hammer and one Blue Silver Emperor—becoming the third Soul Master in Douluo Continent's history to possess Twin Martial Souls.

That was why Yu Xiaogang had betrayed you without hesitation after meeting Tang San, Dong'er, aiding your enemy. Everything was for his own reputation.

"Yu Xiaogang, you deserve to die!" Bibi Dong slammed her hand onto the table when she saw this.

As the Pope of Spirit Hall and a possessor of Twin Martial Souls herself, she naturally understood the power of Twin Martial Souls. He had nurtured such a powerful enemy to oppose her—no wonder her grand plan would fail in the end.

Aside from Twin Martial Souls, heaven had practically been spoon-feeding him all along. Others could kill hundreds or thousands of Soul Beasts without obtaining a Spirit Bone, but what about him? He casually killed a Soul Beast and obtained an External Soul Bone even more precious than a Spirit Bone.

Even Immortal Herbs unknown to Titled Douluo were somehow known to him, ultimately becoming his wedding dress.

For another example, the extremely precious Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Rings in this world. Even Dong'er, the beautiful Pope who stood above imperial powers, had only managed to obtain one after immense hardship. Yet Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts rushed to sacrifice themselves for him.

The same went for becoming a god. Countless powerful people in this world struggled for their entire lives toward that goal, yet the gods of the upper realm simply gave it to him for free—and gave him two at that.

Now you understood how terrifying a Child of Fortune was, right?

"This..." As Wu Xing's update reached this point, the many beauties all sat with their mouths open and vacant eyes.

This was the protagonist?

This was the Child of Fortune?

It was utterly terrifying!

Of course, what they found most unacceptable was that Tang San was double-standard, hypocritical, and vindictive. How could someone like that receive heaven's protection? Was heaven blind?

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