"Hmph."
Tang San snorted coldly. "You insolent brat, stop making excuses."
"Tell me, didn't Wulin often bring you breakfast before?"
"And didn't he willingly wear a skirt for your sake? Wulin's already fallen for you, and you're still claiming you didn't seduce him?"
Li Luo sighed helplessly. "Senior, why don't you listen to what you're saying?"
"What do you mean, he often brought me breakfast, or wore a skirt for my sake? That has nothing to do with me."
"It's not like I asked him to."
"Wulin did it because he wanted to."
"On the contrary, I often reminded him that he's a guy, and I don't like guys."
"Good heavens, I practically told him to get lost!"
"Senior, tell me: after going this far, haven't I done enough?"
"What else do you want from me?!"
Tang San's face turned ashen. Hearing it all laid out like that, it seemed his son really was the shameless one, sticking himself to someone who wanted nothing to do with him.
How outrageous. The Tang family had always trained other people to become their dogs. Today, one of their own had become someone else's dog.
Wulin could put up with it!
But the Sea God couldn't!
"If you weren't so devastatingly beautiful, would Wulin have acted like this?"
The Sea God, Tang San, radiated divinity. "Tell me, don't you have the Way of Seeking Death?"
For fuck's sake! Li Luo nearly cursed aloud. Was it his fault he was beautiful?
He'd gotten his looks from his parents. If Tang San had a problem with it, he could take it up with the parents who'd gone missing.
"Senior, don't you think you're being too overbearing?"
"Overbearing?"
Tang San looked even more divine. "My son is Douluo's hope. He bears the responsibility of protecting billions of living beings. And you, this wicked man, seduced him and nearly caused the sealed power inside him to run amok."
"I'd very much like to spare your life, but for the sake of billions of living beings..."
"So..."
The Sea God, Tang San, pointed a finger. "I can only ask you to die!"
Outside, Tang Wulin seemed to sense something. The azure light in his eyes faded, and he stared blankly into the void, as if he could see Li Luo and Tang San in another world.
"No!"
Tang Wulin cried out in anguish. "Grandpa, please don't!"
"Brother Luo is my best friend."
"You can't kill him!"
"You can't do this! If you do, I'll hate you for the rest of my life!"
"For the rest of my life!"
The Sea God, Tang San, froze with his hand suspended in midair. His whole body trembled, and he gritted his teeth as he said, "Li Luo, Wulin's turned out like this. Tell me, how can I not kill you?"
Li Luo: "..."
Xie Xie cursed angrily, "Tang Wulin, who said they were going to kill Brother Luo? Where is Brother Luo? Why are you saying someone wants to kill him?"
Tang Wulin kept crying. "If anyone's at fault, it's me."
"It has nothing to do with him!"
"Grandpa, please, let Brother Luo go."
The Sea God, Tang San, was exhausted. Why not unleash a Buddha Fury Fire Lotus and destroy the world?
But in the end, Tang San was a powerful god king. He was confident that after killing Li Luo, he could still set Tang Wulin straight.
"Die."
The Sea God, Tang San, didn't hesitate any longer. His finger came down. He knew perfectly well that no one in this world could stop a god king's strike.
But reality disappointed him.
His finger wouldn't come down.
"Who?"
"Who is it?"
An inexplicable, overwhelming terror welled up in the Sea God, Tang San's heart. His finger had been stopped by some unknown presence.
Not only had it been stopped, but the entity hadn't even shown its true form.
A chill ran through the Sea God, Tang San. What kind of being was this?
Even though he was only a fragment of his main body's consciousness, he was still a god-king-level consciousness. Who could that presence be?
"Hmph!"
"Quit playing tricks!"
Tang San snorted coldly, making it clear he wasn't convinced.
"Smack!"
A sharp slap landed across Tang San's face.
A vivid red handprint appeared at once.
Tang San was stunned!
In the thirty thousand years since becoming a god, he'd never been hit—not to mention slapped.
The slap didn't hurt much.
The humiliation, however, was beyond measure.
"If you've got the guts, show yourself!" Tang San still refused to yield.
But in the next moment, Tang San found that he couldn't move at all.
An invisible force lifted him into the air.
It carried him right in front of Li Luo.
Li Luo sensed what was happening and swung a mighty slap across his face.
"Smack!"
Tang San was knocked to the ground.
Soon, that invisible force seized Tang San again and brought him before Li Luo.
"Smack!"
Li Luo delivered another heavy slap and muttered, "Senior, oh, Senior, I'm terribly sorry. I hit your left cheek just now. I don't know if you have obsessive-compulsive disorder, so I had to give your right cheek a slap too."
"You won't hate me for it, will you, Senior?"
"Of course you won't hate me."
Before the invisible force could bring Tang San over again, Li Luo darted up to him, raised both hands, and slapped him back and forth across the face.
"Smack, smack, smack!"
Tang San's face had been beaten into a pig's head. His speech was slurred as he said, "D-don't hit me anymore."
How could Li Luo listen? A mysterious expert was clearly backing him, and this expert was stronger than Tang San—and was letting him beat Tang San.
If he couldn't beat Tang San to death, then he'd beat him within an inch of it!
Tang San was a pitiful sight.
There wasn't a single uninjured spot on his body.
Li Luo angrily planted his foot on Tang San's face. "You old bastard, you still asking me to die?"
"No, no!" Tang San gave in.
He'd been beaten into submission not only by Li Luo, but also by the mysterious expert lurking in the shadows.
If he didn't submit, he'd die.
The Sea God, Tang San, bowed his head.
After getting the mysterious expert's permission, Tang San shakily took a square box from some unknown space. "This is a small token of my appreciation. Please let me go."
"Get lost!"
A mighty, majestic voice rang out across heaven and earth.
Tang San vanished in tatters.
A small square box appeared in Li Luo's hand. He opened it, and a seven-colored mushroom flew out.
The mighty, majestic voice softened into a gentle whisper beside Li Luo's ear.
"This is a mushroom planted by the Goddess of Life."
"Absorb it and make it your second Soul Spirit."
"It'll do you a great deal of good!"
Li Luo cupped his fists. "Thank you, Senior."
He thought that if not for this senior, Tang San would probably have killed him with a single finger.
Now this senior had told him to absorb the Seven-Colored Mushroom.
He didn't refuse.
And he discovered that in the briefest instant, his Soul Power Level had completely stabilized at twenty.
Li Luo sat cross-legged and guided the mushroom toward him.
There was a saying: the more beautiful something was, the more dangerous it could be. This Seven-Colored Mushroom was so vivid, its poison seemed ready to spill out of it.
But Li Luo didn't hesitate.
He decisively took the mushroom into his body.
He closed his eyes and began the fusion...
In the shadows, a pair of eyes brimming with love gazed intently at Li Luo. In a low voice, the watcher murmured to himself,
"My darling, the mushroom planted by the Goddess of Life won't just become your Soul Spirit. It'll also strengthen your constitution to a certain extent and enhance your bloodline."
"In your previous life, your constitution was too weak to bear children who carried my powerful bloodline."
"In this life, I swear I won't let that happen again!"
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