Tang Hao Makes the List, His Life Exposed

At the Worship Hall, Golden Crocodile Douluo and the others exchanged looks as they watched Dugu Bo battle Gengar.

Something about it felt off.

"...Is the combat strength of Pokemon World's prodigies really this uneven? Gengar clearly seemed far weaker than Charizard before, so why was he ranked above Charizard? Was his talent simply better?"

Guangling Douluo could not make sense of it no matter how hard he thought.

Qian Daoliu slowly said, "This battle... is rather peculiar. Gengar's tactics were clear: he focused on attrition, as though concealing his strength or pursuing some other objective.

"Still... regardless, such tactics are not without merit. They are particularly worth studying. We must prepare ourselves for this sort of attrition battle."

Golden Crocodile Douluo snorted. "All flash and no substance! Before absolute strength, such tricks are utterly worthless!"

The evaluation text upon the golden Sky Screen flickered slightly, and a new name slowly emerged.

At Shrek Academy, when Dugu Bo took the stage, Yu Xiaogang forced a trace of all-knowing certainty onto his pale face.

"Foolish!" He shook his head at the Sky Screen and declared to Tang San and the others, "Though Dugu Bo is level 92, the quality of his Martial Soul is far inferior to my Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.

"There is no suspense in this battle. Dugu Bo will certainly lose, and lose even more disgracefully than my father! In my opinion, he will not even withstand three moves from Gengar!"

Yet the battle developed in the complete opposite direction from his prediction.

As he watched Dugu Bo and Gengar trade blows, with Dugu Bo even gaining the upper hand for a time, Yu Xiaogang's expression went from stiff to livid.

When the final image of Dugu Bo collapsing from his poison backlash and Gengar's "miserable victory" froze on the screen, an eerie silence fell over the surroundings.

Yu Xiaogang felt his face burning, as if he had once again been viciously slapped by an invisible hand.

He opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

Tang San helplessly turned his head away, while Dai Mubai and the others shifted their gazes.

"Th-this... the creatures of Pokemon World really... do not follow common sense..." he finally muttered dryly, trying to salvage the last shred of his dignity.

Everyone remained silent. The only reason no one mocked him was out of consideration for their companion.

The atmosphere suddenly sank into an eerie silence.

Just then, the Sky Screen rippled again, revealing an entirely new ranking.

[Ranked Eighteenth: Tang Hao, age 59, cultivation: Level 95 Titled Douluo]

[Evaluation: The son of the Clear Sky Sect's leader. At age 28, he passed through Slaughter City, obtained Divine Slaughter's Domain, and drew the attention of the Asura God. He became partners with the transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, the Blue Silver Emperor. Through the Asura God's deliberate arrangements, he once learned of the method of Soul Beast Sacrifice in Slaughter City.

When the Blue Silver Emperor became pregnant and gave birth to a child, he used the dual pressure of familial love and romantic love to force her to choose sacrifice. Tang Hao successfully broke through level 90 and became a Titled Douluo.

He embarked upon the "sacrifice" shortcut planned by the gods. Every gift of fate had its price secretly marked upon it. After gaining Divine Slaughter's Domain, he also completed his task as a God King's chess piece: bringing a Soul from Beyond the Heavens for his son, Tang San, giving him the possibility of bearing a God King's Divine Position.]

[Reward: Domain enhancement, Martial Soul quality elevation]

[The prodigy's life will now be played]

[Random prodigy matching in progress. The greater one's fighting spirit, the higher the chance of selection.]

Distortion World.

Even Lu Feng was stunned as he looked at Tang Hao's life story and evaluation.

"A God King's chess piece? Tang Hao? A Soul from Beyond the Heavens... Is that real? But... it actually does make sense."

"If Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts could be sacrificed, then throughout Douluo Continent's long history, it seemed that aside from the Tang family, no one else had ever received a Soul Beast Sacrifice."

"So here was the question: if other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts all knew the method of sacrifice, there was no way such information could have remained hidden."

"It felt like it suddenly appeared. Tang Hao started it, and afterward, a whole pile of Soul Beasts transformed into humans and copied his sacrifice approach."

"So the Asura God had been behind all this after all. As for his motive, it was not impossible to understand..."

As a powerhouse at the God King level, Lu Feng knew very well the gap between God Kings and Spirit Masters.

Even comparing them to clouds and mud was giving Spirit Masters too much credit.

An ordinary First-Level God would be instantly killed the moment he showed himself before Lu Feng, let alone a Spirit Master inheriting the position of a God King.

Tang Chen's Asura God Test could never have succeeded. He existed only to make a wedding dress for someone else.

Spirit Masters had foundations that were far too poor. Did they really think just anyone could inherit a God King's Divine Position?

Tang Wulin later directly became the God of Destruction due to multiple factors stacking together.

Both his parents were gods, and one of them was even a God King.

He had also undergone tempering by the Golden Dragon King's origin. He was not a normal Spirit Master to begin with. Anyone else would have been fortunate just to become a First-Level God.

No one could become fat in a single bite. Spirit Masters could not hold the position of a God King; if they forcibly accepted it, the only outcome would be sudden death.

If Tang San wanted to inherit the Asura God's Divine Position, he first had to become a First-Level God as a transition.

Otherwise, even as a First-Level Sea God, Tang San had Asura Domain upon him, and they still dared to shove the Divine Position onto him.

If there had not been tacit approval from a God King, that would have been pure suicide. Since the Sea God and Asura could chat and laugh together, it basically confirmed that they were on the same side.

It was somewhat similar to the relationship between the God of Emotion and Huo Yuhao.

As for Tang San once saying he would pass the Asura God's Divine Position to Huo Yuhao, perhaps he only later discovered that Spirit Masters could not directly become God Kings.

There might also have been issues concerning the soul. Some rules could only be ignored by Souls from Beyond the Heavens like Tang San.

He could only let Huo Yuhao inherit the God of Emotion's Divine Position as a transition first.

Lu Feng had once read some conspiracy theories concerning Tang Hao, but they had always felt as though they were missing something.

Mainly because some things simply did not add up. Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts could be killed, and they could also be sacrificed.

Why, then, had there been no one besides Tang Hao in history? The Blue Silver Emperor had chosen to sacrifice herself willingly.

Other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts might also have known that Soul Beasts could sacrifice themselves, and the power gained from sacrifice was obviously far greater than the benefits of directly killing a Soul Beast.

Since Soul Beasts could transform into humans, Tang Hao could not possibly have been the only person to date a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Had no predecessors ever tried something like this?

Even without using feelings.

Were there really people who would not resort to crooked methods of threats and inducements?

Take Tang San, Da Ming, and Er Ming, for example: the classic situation of being driven into a desperate corner and forced to sacrifice themselves.

Yet the facts proved that while every Titled Douluo knew Soul Beasts could transform into humans, Tang Hao truly was the first person of the current era to use the Soul Beast Sacrifice approach.

That created a bug: people on Douluo Continent now seemed not to know that Soul Beasts could sacrifice themselves for Spirit Masters.

It felt like the Blue Silver Emperor and Tang Hao had started it.

If this was not common knowledge among Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, then why had Ah Yin chosen sacrifice when she was driven into a desperate situation?

But if it had been arranged by the Asura God, then everything made sense.

He slipped extra information to Tang Hao in Slaughter City, then used the power of a God King to force strange knowledge into the Blue Silver Emperor's mind.

Perhaps he had been the first to use the Soul Beast Sacrifice approach, possibly employing that very method of forced sacrifice.

All to bring Tang San, this demon from beyond the heavens, over here. Holding two Divine Positions was the standard requirement for rapidly becoming a God King.

Still, one could not be too absolute about anything. There was another possibility.