God King Tang Argued with Destruction for a Day, Returned Home, and Saw the Child of Destiny's Fortune Diminish, Instantly...

In the original work of Douluo Continent, it was clearly stated that Huo Yuhao founded the Spirit Pagoda and eradicated the Holy Spirit Cult, earning immense merit. Yet his merits did not compare to Tang San's.

Tang Wulin repelled the Abyss Plane and earned immense merit, yet his merits likewise did not compare to Tang San's.

From the readers' perspective, everyone knew exactly what Tang San had done. In terms of contributions to Douluo Continent, his merits should have been far inferior to those of Huo Yuhao, who created the Spirit Pagoda, or Tang Wulin, who repelled the Abyss Plane.

But if this were translated into reality, then from the perspective of the great nobles of this world, it would not be too wrong to say that Tang San's merits far surpassed those of Huo Yuhao and Tang Wulin.

Huo Yuhao created the Spirit Pagoda and provided Soul Spirits to replace soul rings, but the Soul Spirits at the beginning were nowhere near as powerful as those of later generations. A thirty-thousand-year soul ring serving as someone else's seventh, eighth, or even ninth soul ring might come with a Soul Spirit capable of assisting in battle, but such a soul ring was simply too weak.

Moreover, purchasing Soul Spirits from the Spirit Pagoda was itself a transaction. The Spirit Pagoda sold Soul Spirits to anyone who wanted to buy them, even Shrek, which had slapped the Spirit Pagoda's tower master in the face. They would still sell Shrek high-quality Soul Spirits.

This state of affairs had become so commonplace that the great nobles could not feel much need for the Spirit Pagoda's existence. Aside from the Life Platform, which was genuinely useful to great nobles, Soul Spirits in Douluo III were indeed nothing special. Thus, in the eyes of those great nobles, Huo Yuhao's contribution in this regard was limited.

As for eliminating the Holy Spirit Cult, that was certainly a merit as well, but to those rulers, its significance was similarly limited.

After all, Evil Soul Masters generally would not take the initiative to seek out powerful Titled Douluo. Whether it was the Blood Infant Douluo, who cultivated by drinking infants' blood, or the Evil Soul Master Dragon God Douluo Mu En had seen massacring villages in his youth, they only targeted ordinary people at the bottom of society. They posed no threat to the powerful Titled Douluo families.

The deaths of a few commoners meant nothing to the Soul Masters above. In fact, after some villages had been completely slaughtered, the land could conveniently be reclaimed and given to people who had been oppressed by them and could no longer survive. This instead helped preserve the rule of the great nobles above, and they did not even have to bear the infamy.

Therefore, Evil Soul Masters were not the first enemies the rulers of Douluo Continent wished to eliminate. But Spirit Hall was different.

Spirit Hall gave money to every lower-class Soul Master across the continent. Even if their martial soul was merely something like a cow, sheep, or horse, and even if their first soul ring was only a white ten-year soul ring, as long as they were Soul Masters, Spirit Hall would give them money. The source of that money was the two great empires, forced to pay by Spirit Hall's overwhelming strength.

Spirit Hall might have been trying to give commoners a chance to rise, or perhaps it merely wanted to weaken the two great empires. But the commoners of that era truly benefited, while the two great empires truly suffered heavy losses because of it.

In Douluo I, the two great empires did not have any Titled Douluo of their own. But in Douluo II, God King Tang's merit was destroying Spirit Hall and bringing the Titled Douluo back into the embrace of the two great empires.

To explain it in real-world terms, the empires no longer had to take money from their coffers to support lower-class Soul Masters throughout the continent. Thus, those great nobles who already possessed excellent martial souls not only had good martial souls, but after ten thousand years, they no longer lacked cultivation resources either.

Once they no longer had to provide money to lower-class Soul Masters, that money could be used to purchase more cultivation resources. At the same time, those Soul Masters who had originally relied on Spirit Hall's payments to survive were left with nothing.

If Soul Masters wanted cultivation resources, or even if they simply wanted to survive, becoming household slaves to the great nobles of the two great empires was practically their only choice.

Those household slaves could work for them and serve as cannon fodder when the descendants of great noble families hunted soul rings and died. After all, without Spirit Hall handing out money, there were as many commoner Soul Masters seeking resources and greater strength among the great nobles as they could ever want.

Tang San came from the Clear Sky Sect, the continent's number one assault-type tool martial soul sect. His uncle was even the Sect Master of the Clear Sky Sect and had no sons.

Under such circumstances, Tang San, as a representative of the great nobles born into the continent's top-tier families, led the nobles and imperial families of the two great empires to completely destroy that evil Spirit Hall.

Tang San had an impeccable background and an unquestionable stance. After Spirit Hall was destroyed, the two great empires gained tangible benefits as well. In the eyes of those great nobles, Huo Yuhao naturally could not compare to Tang San.

One ensured their rule, while the other merely cleared away some Evil Soul Masters who were of little consequence to them. Any great noble knew which one was more important to them.

It was precisely because of this that Shrek City, which represented great nobles like Tang San, became the only city on the continent capable of giving subsidies to ordinary Soul Masters.

Of course, the city generally did not allow ordinary Soul Masters to settle there. Shrek Academy's admission requirements included not only talent, but also a letter of recommendation from the lord of a main city. For a lower-class Soul Master, such a thing was almost beyond imagining.

It was also for this reason that Shrek, which perfectly aligned with the interests of the great noble class, could still retain such significant influence despite not possessing strength sufficient to overwhelm the great nobles.

Tang Ya took Huo Yuhao to collect the subsidy reserved for Soul Masters of Shrek City. After that, in the God Realm of Douluo Continent...

At the God Realm Committee, the Goddess of Life remained neutral. After Tang San and the God of Destruction argued for a full two hours, the expansion of the God Realm by Destruction was ultimately not approved.

Destruction slammed the door and left in a rage, while Tang San was not having an easy time either.

Convincing the Goddess of Life to remain neutral had not been easy. After all, she was the God of Destruction's wife. Tang San had nearly racked his brains dry just to keep her neutral and prevent her from siding with Destruction.

Fortunately, the final result was still a success. This time, the Goddess of Life once again did not stand with the God of Destruction. Yet while facing Destruction's pressure and preventing him from expanding the God Realm, even though they had only argued for two hours, Tang San felt as if he had spent two hours fighting Destruction.

Fortunately, Tang San had already begun planning around the Son of Destiny. In just over ten days, he would gain the assistance of a Son of Destiny. By then, his pressure would lessen somewhat.

With that in mind, Tang San checked on the Son of Destiny's condition the moment he returned home. Then he saw that the star representing the Son of Destiny's fortune had dimmed somewhat.

Tang San: "???"

"How could the Son of Destiny's fortune have decreased by nearly thirty percent? What exactly happened?"

Tang San frowned and immediately thought of the God of Destruction, who had always been at odds with him.

"Damn it, did he ruin my plan?"

Tang San clenched his fists, but in the next instant, his aura returned to calmness. He knew that he was not yet Destruction's match, but...

"You ruined my plan." Destruction, you have brought death upon yourself.