"Did he save Mom and me?!" Nan Qiuqiu said in delight.
Unlike everyone else, who was shocked by Shao Zhuang's talent and potential, Nan Shuishui and her daughter of the Earth Dragon Gate focused on something entirely different.
After all, the people Shao Zhuang had rescued in the future were the two of them.
Among hundreds of hostages, why had he singled them out? And no matter how dangerous the situation became, he had never abandoned them.
All these signs were enough to reveal certain things.
Could it be that Qiuqiu and Shao Zhuang ended up together in the future? The Earth Dragon Gate's leader, Nan Shuishui, looked at her daughter and found herself considering that possibility.
If that guess was true, it could not have been better!
After all, all of the continent had witnessed Shao Zhuang's potential and limits.
If such a future peerless powerhouse, someone who might even become a god, became her daughter's husband, it would truly be a gift from heaven.
Even as she rejoiced for her daughter, a deeply complicated emotion arose in Nan Shuishui's heart.
The reason was simple: through the Heavenly Curtain, she had seen the Third Elder of the Holy Spirit Cult and recognized that familiar face.
That person had once been her husband's rival in love.
Later, after she married, he had become an Evil Soul Master in a fit of rage.
She had never expected him to end up like this.
Thus, Nan Shuishui's emotions were exceptionally complicated at that moment.
Meanwhile, within the Holy Spirit Cult.
Shuishui~
So this is how I ended up.
Third Elder Ming Lei Douluo watched as the woman he loved was rescued on the Heavenly Curtain, while he himself was erased by divine power. Instead, he felt a sense of relief.
Back then, trapped by love, he had joined the Evil Soul Masters in a moment of anger and completely set foot upon a road of no return.
Over the years, with the Holy Spirit Cult's resources, his strength had grown rapidly.
Not only had he cultivated to the realm of a Titled Douluo, but he had also become a Level Nine Soul Tool Master.
A person's energy was limited. This alone proved that Ming Lei Douluo was an unquestionable genius.
But he had ultimately gone down the wrong path and committed sins that could never be forgiven!!
Star Dou Great Forest, Lake of Life region.
"Di Tian, this human must be dealt with as soon as possible. Otherwise, he will definitely become a great calamity for our Soul Beast clan in the future!"
Seeing the future potential of Shao Zhuang, this human, even a relatively "brainless" Fierce Beast like Xiong Jun immediately became wary.
Even setting aside godhood, Shao Zhuang's future soul ring configuration alone was enough for the Soul Beast clan to regard him as their foremost enemy.
If they allowed him to grow into a Titled Douluo, it would be equivalent to four Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts losing their precious lives.
Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were truly high-level combat power for their Soul Beast clan.
Moreover, compared to human Soul Masters, unless Soul Beasts encountered extraordinary opportunities, they could only spend long years cultivating and tempering themselves to become Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
As the number of Soul Masters increased, their quality improved, and Soul Tool Technology developed, their Soul Beast clan had gradually fallen into a disadvantage when facing human Soul Masters.
It was only because of the Beast Tide triggered by the Body Sect thousands of years ago that their Soul Beast clan had an excuse to make an agreement with the human world, reducing the number of high-age Soul Beasts hunted by human Soul Masters in the Star Dou Great Forest.
"Yes, the human race is simply too much of a threat to us Soul Beasts~" Hearing Xiong Jun's words, Di Tian sighed.
On the Douluo Plane, humans were the darlings of heaven and earth.
When would their Soul Beast clan achieve its great ambition and become the rulers of the Douluo Plane?
However, Di Tian naturally disdained killing a junior like Shao Zhuang.
He even hoped that Shao Zhuang could become a god.
The reason was simple: the ascension of seven human Soul Masters into godhood ten thousand years ago had awakened him from his slumber.
Unfortunately, it had been too late. Those seven Soul Masters had already left the Douluo Plane.
Therefore, Di Tian would not obstruct Shao Zhuang, who possessed the potential to become a god. He was even willing to lend him a hand at a critical moment.
The price he wanted in return was equally simple: after Shao Zhuang became a god and ascended to the God Realm, he would tell Di Tian about the God Realm.
To Di Tian, that was the matter with the greatest significance.
It could only be said that Di Tian possessed great vision. In the original work, he had indeed thought this way.
If Huo Yuhao had not been sacrificed to by the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, thereby binding himself to the fortune of the Star Dou Great Forest, he truly would have proceeded like that.
[Why did Shao Zhuang possess a strand of divine power within his body, which erupted at that critical moment to protect him?] [There was one and only one answer: Shao Zhuang had truly gained a god's attention.] [The worst possibility had ultimately appeared. The rumors across the continent that Shao Zhuang was favored by a god were actually true; moreover, Shao Zhuang had truly begun the legendary Divine Trial, just as the legends claimed.] [As I reached this conclusion, I admitted that even I was incomparably jealous, jealous of Shao Zhuang's luck!] [Why could a mere junior receive a god's favor and attention, beginning a Divine Trial that offered a path to the heavens and the chance to become a god?!] [Trapped at the Limit Douluo realm for nearly a hundred years, I had constantly sought a way to break through the shackles and even become a god.] [Yet I gained nothing over those hundred years. Just as I had given up my fantasies of becoming a god and shifted my focus to the Holy Spirit Cult's cause, new hope appeared in an unexpected way!] [I was moved. Before my desire to become a god, everything else became insignificant. Thus, I frantically searched for Shao Zhuang's whereabouts.] [But Shao Zhuang seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth, disappearing completely from the continent without a trace.] [Therefore, I reasonably concluded that Shao Zhuang might have been transported by a god to the place where he would continue his trial.] [How could the power of gods be imagined by mortals like us? Naturally, I found nothing.] [The cruelest thing in this world was being allowed to see hope, only to have that hope erased, leaving behind nothing but overwhelming despair.] [After searching for half a year, I finally gave up unwillingly.] [Because there was an even more important matter at hand: the Sun Moon Empire had launched a lightning war against the former Douluo Three Kingdoms.] [Under such circumstances, no matter how desperately I craved godhood, I had to suppress it first. I mobilized the Holy Spirit Cult and gave everything to help the Sun Moon Empire unify the Douluo Continent!] [Perhaps after the entire continent was unified, it would be easier to search for Shao Zhuang.]
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