Gu Linyuan's Origins: He Really Was the Son of a God King

Gu Rong, one of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's two Title Douluos, was a level ninety-five Super Douluo.

The moment he landed, the sight before him stunned him.

With the experience of a Title Douluo, he actually sensed a trace of pressure from that youth?

No, that wasn't right.

It wasn't merely pressure.

It was reverence.

Reverence originating from the Martial Soul itself, from the instincts of life.

"Linyuan."

Gu Rong's voice trembled slightly.

He looked at the youth floating in midair, at the ancient tree radiating endless life energy, and at the scepter that seemed capable of destroying everything in the world.

He knew what they were.

They were existences that transcended mortals, standing above all known Martial Souls.

Gu Rong took a deep breath and swiftly acted, using Title Douluo-level Soul Power to seal off all auras around the rear mountain.

If such a phenomenon spread, the entire continent would be shaken.

Only after finishing did he raise his head to look at the youth, tears glimmering in his cloudy old eyes.

"Linyuan..."

"Grandpa knew you wouldn't remain dormant forever."

Gu Rong muttered.

"It seems my guess was right. Linyuan... you truly are a God Child."

"Could it be that Rongrong truly lacks that fate? Otherwise, why would Linyuan undergo such a change right after they broke up? Is this Heaven's will?"

Gu Rong gazed at the youth in midair, surrounded by the divine light of life and destruction, and murmured to himself. Unspoken emotions churned in his cloudy old eyes.

There was shock, there was relief, but more than anything, there was the peace of mind that came when a secret guarded for years was finally confirmed.

He recalled that rainy night twelve years ago.

That night, he had been out on business by order and passed through the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Rain poured down in sheets, and heaven and earth were shrouded in chaos.

With his cultivation, he could have ignored such weather entirely and flown through the air.

Yet for some reason, he suddenly stopped.

A strange feeling enveloped him.

The feeling was impossible to describe. It was as though someone were calling to him, yet also as though some unseen force were drawing him onward. As if possessed, he deviated from his planned route and headed deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest.

After walking for about an hour, he came upon a thousand-year-old banyan tree.

There, he saw an infant abandoned in the torrential rain.

Amid the curtain of rain, the infant lay quietly in his swaddling clothes, neither crying nor making a fuss.

The downpour crashed down, yet it seemed to be blocked by an invisible barrier. Not a single drop landed on him.

His skin was as white as jade, faintly emitting a pale golden glow. The glow was exceedingly weak, yet it made the heart of Gu Rong, a Super Douluo, tremble.

It was not a fluctuation of Soul Power, nor the aura of a Martial Soul, but genuine divinity from a higher dimension.

That aura was ancient and vast, as though it had crossed an endless river of time from a distant era.

At that moment, Gu Rong had only one thought: this child was no ordinary mortal. This child had come from the heavens.

Gu Rong did not dare investigate further, nor did he dare tell anyone about it.

Not even Ning Fengzhi.

He knew all too well what kind of bloody storm would be stirred up if a child possibly from the God Realm became known to the other forces on the continent.

Spirit Hall, the Upper Three Sects, the royal families of the two great empires... no one would let such an existence go.

So he kept his mouth shut and buried the secret in his heart for twelve whole years.

Even though Gu Linyuan's cultivation had remained stagnant ever since awakening his Martial Soul, Gu Rong knew that the child would eventually shine with a brilliance all his own.

Thinking of what Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong had done, Gu Rong sighed inwardly.

He had watched both Rongrong and Linyuan grow up. If they could be together, he would naturally have been delighted.

"Perhaps Rongrong truly doesn't have that blessing."

Gu Rong sighed.

He did not even dare imagine it.

If Rongrong and Linyuan had truly ended up together,

then when Linyuan's parents came for him someday, wouldn't Rongrong have a chance to enter the God Realm as well?

Fengzhi had been far too impatient.

So I was actually the biological child of the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction?

Within the chaos, Gu Linyuan's consciousness gradually became clear.

Ever since coming to this world, he had been deeply curious about his mysterious origins and had asked Gu Rong many questions about his past.

But he never could have imagined that he was the son of two God Kings.

The Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction were the two most ancient deities, having existed since the birth of the God Realm.

The two represented the universe's most fundamental and extreme opposing laws. This also meant that the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction fundamentally could not have offspring. The Origin of Destruction, enough to annihilate all life, could naturally destroy even detached sperm and egg cells.

In the original work, when the God of Destruction saw Tang San's daughter, Tang Wutong, in the God Realm, he paid her special attention. He had always wished to have a child of his own, but his wish had never been fulfilled.

For the God of Destruction, the Origin of Destruction was both incomparably powerful strength and an unbreakable curse.

Life and destruction were the most extremely opposed forces, which was why the two God Kings loved each other yet could not have children.

But there were exceptions to everything...

When the God Realm faced the enormous crisis of the Space-Time Turbulence, the two chose to merge the powers of life and destruction, transforming them into the Power of Creation to resist the disaster. It was precisely this fused Power of Creation that broke through every limitation.

Gu Linyuan murmured.

The Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction had never expected to obtain their biological child in such a way.

However, the God of Destruction had originally been a drop of Destruction Condensate from the cosmos, while the Goddess of Life had been a small sapling that grew from that Destruction Condensate.

The two were not inherently unable to touch one another. It was merely that as their cultivation grew stronger, the rejection between their attributes became increasingly intense.

When the Space-Time Turbulence arrived, the two God Kings abandoned their own powers in order to protect the God Realm, doing everything they could to help it weather the crisis. After losing most of their strength, the two God Kings instead gained an opportunity to merge once again.

So that was it...

To take revenge on Tang San, he chose to use the power of the Space-Time Countercurrent to send me to the era when Tang San was growing up. That does sound like something the God King of Destruction would do.

The God of Destruction knew that once the child he shared with the Goddess of Life was exposed, Tang San would certainly kill him. Thus, he simply used the power of the Space-Time Countercurrent.

The Space-Time Turbulence reversed time and space.

The newly born Gu Linyuan was sent through reversed time and space, crossing tens of thousands of years and countless dimensions to arrive on the Douluo Continent.

Everything had happened too suddenly, leaving the two God Kings no time to bestow blessings upon Gu Linyuan.

This also caused Gu Linyuan, who had inherited those two extreme powers, to suffer backlash from them. That was why he had been unable to break through all these years.

Life and destruction were both the most supreme powers in the world.

When the two merged, they became the power of creation.

A power of that level was inherently something heaven and earth could not tolerate.

If there was a Heavenly Dao in this world, then the creative power born from life and destruction had likely come infinitely close to it.

Dragons do not dwell with snakes.

Perhaps that truly was the case. Only, the identities of the dragon and snake might have to be switched.

Feeling the surging power within him, Gu Linyuan murmured.