Tang San: Is It Because I Was Useless That I Had No Mother?!

The enormous disparity was like a massive hammer, brutally shattering Tang San's Dao heart.

"I... when I was just born, all I could do was wail helplessly as I watched Mother sacrifice herself and Father suffer grievous injuries..."

Tang San's voice trembled, filled with endless bitterness and self-doubt.

"Yet the me from another world could bless his parents the moment he was born?

"He even... even directly reversed a doomed situation?!"

At that moment, scenes from the past dozen years flashed through Tang San's mind like a revolving lantern.

He remembered those days and nights in Holy Spirit Village.

He remembered that alcoholic father who spent every day drunk and dreaming, unshaven and disheveled, and only knew how to make him cook porridge.

He remembered the melancholy and pain in his father's eyes, feelings that had never once faded.

He had once thought it was because his father was strict with him, because life weighed too heavily on him.

But now, looking at the imposing Tang Hao on the right-side Heavenly Screen, fiercely protecting his wife—

Tang San finally understood.

Father had become so despondent because he had lost Mother!

"So... Father never needed to become so despondent..."

"So... I could have been a child loved by his mother..."

Two clear tears silently slid down Tang San's cheeks.

This blow hurt ten thousand times more than losing a match in the arena or having his bones broken!

It was a complete denial of his entire life, of every hardship he had endured!

So his suffering had never been inevitable. It was only because... he was not strong enough! Because he was inferior to that "Tang Shan"!

"Xiao San..."

Dai Mubai wanted to reach out and support him, only to discover that his own hand was trembling as well.

Dai Mubai looked at the infant on the Heavenly Screen, who possessed Ultimate Life and the Power of Destruction from the moment he was born, and swallowed hard.

A profound sense of helplessness rose in his heart.

How could they possibly compete with that?

What that person had accomplished at birth was more earth-shattering than anything they had achieved after struggling for more than a decade!

"This is impossible!

"This is absolutely impossible!"

Yu Xiaogang looked as though he had gone mad. Clutching his head with both hands, his eyes bloodshot as he stared at the Heavenly Screen, he said:

"To possess such power at birth?

"That violates the Ten Core Competencies of the Spirit Master World!

"How could an infant possibly withstand that kind of energy?

"This isn't scientific!

"This has to be fake!"

Master's theoretical system suffered an unprecedented impact at that moment.

The knowledge he had always been so proud of was nothing more than a joke before the monster called "Tang Shan."

However, what hurt even more was yet to come.

The Heavenly Screen seemed to feel that it had not dealt Original World Tang San a heavy enough blow. That cold mechanical voice rang out again, this time delivering the final conclusion to the first comparison.

[Comparison Event One · Summary]

[Original World Tang San: Began as a Lone Star.

Although he possessed Twin Martial Souls, he could not alter his parents' tragic fate.

He spent his childhood caring for his alcoholic father, becoming sensitive, prematurely mature, and repressed as a result.]

[Current World Tang Shan: Began as a destined God King.

He used his own divine power to nourish his parents and rewrite the tragedy.

He spent his childhood under the dual affection of his parents and the full support of Clear Sky Sect, becoming domineering, confident, and supremely self-centered.]

[First Round Comparison Result: Current World Tang Shan, Complete Victory!]

Looking at those enormous words, "Complete Victory," Tang San felt his chest tighten. With a "Puh," he spat out a mouthful of blood onto the ground!

"Mother... is still alive..."

Tang San wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his gaze greedily fixed on Ah Yin, who smiled gently in the image on the right. It was a scene he had not even dared to hope for in his dreams.

"Why... why could you in that world do it..."

"While I... could only be a piece of trash who never even saw his mother's face?"

Intense jealousy mixed with hatred for his own weakness.

Like venomous snakes, they gnawed at Tang San's heart.

"Was it because I was useless that my mother had to sacrifice herself?!"

[Current World · Spirit City · Pope's Palace Viewing Platform]

Unlike the deathly silence and despair of the Original World, the atmosphere on this viewing platform was equally solemn, but it held more relief and warmth from having survived a disaster.

In the distinguished seats not far behind Tang Shan sat a dignified middle-aged man dressed in a luxurious black robe embroidered with silver patterns.

He tightly held the hand of the beautiful woman in blue beside him.

His features were resolute, his eyes bright and piercing, and every gesture he made carried a terrifying aura as profound as an abyss and as towering as a mountain.

There was no trace left of the despondent "drunken blacksmith" from the Original World.

This was the Clear Sky Douluo of the Current World, Tang Hao!

(Tang Chen was the first Clear Sky Douluo. After Tang Chen was welcomed back, he changed his title and called himself the Asura Douluo.)

The beautiful woman in blue beside Tang Hao had skin as fair as snow and a gentle, noble temperament. A faint emerald glow of life circulated around her.

She was the Blue Silver Emperor of the Current World, Ah Yin!

At that moment, the couple watched the tragic scene on the Heavenly Screen to the left—

Ah Yin transformed into a sky full of red light and made a beautiful yet tragic sacrifice to save her husband and child, while Tang Hao let out a heart-rending howl...

Both their hearts clenched fiercely.

"Ah Yin..."

Tang Hao instinctively tightened his grip, as though afraid that the woman he loved beside him would suddenly vanish just like she had on the Heavenly Screen.

Watching his counterpart from that world helplessly fail to turn things around like a bereft dog—

A deep lingering fear and pain flashed through Tang Hao's eyes.

"Too tragic... We in that world were actually driven into such a desperate situation."

Ah Yin's beautiful eyes brimmed with tears as well. She gently covered her chest with her other hand and said in a trembling voice, as though she could feel it herself:

"Being forced to sacrifice myself, leaving behind our newborn child and you to live alone in the world...

"How desperate and reluctant I must have been in that world."

The two exchanged a glance. In their meeting eyes, they saw the deep love in each other's hearts, as well as the trace of relief neither could conceal.

Then, their gazes fell in unspoken accord upon the young man seated at the head of the platform, his back as straight as a pine—

Tang Shan.

At that moment, their previous heaviness instantly turned into boundless pride and gratitude.

"Hah..."

Tang Hao let out a long breath, wrapped an arm around his wife's shoulders, and said with deep emotion:

"Fortunately, truly fortunately... in this world, we have such a wonderful son in Xiao Shan."

Ah Yin nodded gently. Looking at her son's back, her gaze was filled with boundless affection.

"Yes, Brother Hao.

"If it hadn't been for Xiao Shan, then on that thunderstorm night fourteen years ago, our fate would likely have been exactly the same as on the left side of the Heavenly Screen."

Thinking back to that scene, Tang Hao could not help but curve his lips into a proud smile.

"Who could have imagined that the moment our precious son was born, he would give us such a world-shaking gift!"

"That Ultimate Life Force and Ultimate Power of Destruction were simply a miracle!"

Tang Hao looked at his palm, as though he could still feel the violent, exhilarating rush of that power flowing into his body back then.

"Not only did it instantly heal your postpartum weakness, it also made both our Soul Power erupt like volcanoes. We directly broke through that barrier and both entered the realm of Titled Douluo!"