Lan Xuanyu: I Was Already Max Level, and You're Telling Me to Start Over? (Please Bookmark and Follow)

Dou Ling Empire, Lingdou City.

Although the Dou Ling Empire had originally been the weakest of the three nations on the Douluo Continent, as its capital, Lingdou City's prosperity was easy to imagine.

Carriages and vehicles flowed through the streets, crowds bustled about, and Soul Guidance neon lights continued to flash even in broad daylight.

Yet the more prosperous a place was, the more filth and ugliness it tended to conceal.

This place was a slum.

The stench was so pungent that it was hard to breathe. Flies buzzed everywhere, garbage and sewage ran freely, and most of the people living here wore tattered clothes and looked gaunt.

At the far end of the slum, on a relatively clean set of steps near the street, sat a child who looked five or six years old. He wore a ragged outfit covered in patches and stared blankly at the sparsely traveled road before him.

The child's appearance was ordinary, with nothing particularly remarkable about him. He was the sort who would disappear into a crowd without a trace.

If there was anything noticeable about him, it was the two tufts of hair sticking high up from either side of his head. From afar, they looked just like dog ears.

"Xiuxiu... Xiuxiu..."

He kept murmuring those two words under his breath, as if calling out to his lover.

That was right.

Standing before you was—

The second-generation Dragon God, the Cosmic Law Enforcer, ruler of the Divine Dragon Realm, the Supreme God King—Tang Xuanyu.

None of that mattered. What mattered most was that he was Tang San's grandson.

Thus, the simple four words "Tang San's grandson" naturally eclipsed every title Tang Xuanyu had once possessed.

No, he should be called Lan Xuanyu now.

Because... he had been reborn.

Lan Xuanyu lowered his head and stared blankly at his tiny, tender hands.

Why... had things turned out like this?!

I was already max level as the Dragon God God King! And you're telling me to start over?!

Memories surged into his mind like a tidal wave, and Lan Xuanyu remembered why he had appeared here.

As the inheritor of the Dragon God Bloodline and the genuine second-generation Dragon God, Lan Xuanyu's strength and status had crowned the entire God Realm. He had been hailed as the strongest God King, without question!

He had even comprehended the true essence of the Dragon God's divine position and the laws of the universe, becoming the "Cosmic Law Enforcer." Even his grandfather, the Sea God Tang San, who had returned after reincarnation and reset his cultivation, was still no match for him.

By all logic, he should have been invincible throughout the cosmos. Why had he been reborn in this era?

It all began after [Reborn Tang San] returned.

Ever since Tang San's rebirth and return, Douluo Planet and the Great God Circle had developed at breakneck speed. The Douluo Continent in particular had flourished. After their [Shrek Team] plan succeeded, more than a dozen First-Level Gods had appeared on Douluo Planet in just a thousand years.

Although the distribution of resources might have been a little uneven, surely no one would raise any inappropriate questions.

After his cousin Huo Zhanji subdued the [Falan Galaxy] and the [God of Heaven Guard] joined the Great God Circle, everyone believed the time had come to advance into a God Star.

After all, they lacked neither favorable timing, geographical advantage, nor unity. Every god stood together, and the territories of the two God Realms were even more expansive than the [Divine Dragon Realm] had been at its peak.

Most importantly, he and his grandfather, two Supreme God Kings, stood watch over them, while the [God of Heaven Guard] was also within their God Realm.

No matter how one looked at it, the advantage was theirs!

But both he and Tang San had underestimated things.

Just as they led all the gods to give everything they had and completed the Douluo God Star, it was all over.

Before the gods of the newborn [Douluo God Star], that giant god who brought the end of the world appeared...

The image of that terrifying being rose uncontrollably in his mind. Lan Xuanyu shuddered instinctively. He was certain that it had been an unprecedented catastrophe for the entire universe.

He had been blown apart after taking only two hits. Even his grandfather Tang San's ever-victorious [Boundless Sea Ripples] had been utterly useless. Tang San and his halberd had been smashed into pulp... Even the two Supreme God Kings had been destroyed so easily. What hope had anyone else had?

Other than the Emotion God King, his uncle Dai Yuhao, who had fled from the very beginning, no one knew whether he was dead or alive.

Perhaps because of the Dragon God's divine position's immortal nature and his formidable cultivation, Lan Xuanyu had luckily retained a wisp of his Divine Soul.

After all the gods died, the two God Realms exploded from the inside out, leaving nothing behind. The blast far exceeded the God Star Ceremony of the [Dragon God era].

At least after the Dragon God's rebellion, a little of the [Divine Dragon Realm] had remained and later became the Douluo God Realm. But after that explosion, absolutely nothing was left of the two God Realms.

No living creature could have survived such a terrifying explosion... Every planet in the [Douluo Galaxy] and the [Longma Galaxy] had been erased as well. Lan Xuanyu even wondered whether the [Falan Galaxy] could have survived.

Perhaps because his cultivation had been deep enough and because he had been lucky, he had somehow traveled through time and space during that explosion, arriving in this era alive.

Whether it was fate or mere coincidence, this body was also named Lan Xuanyu. However, he was only an orphan living in the slums, his parents both dead—a textbook protagonist setup.

But ever since Lan Xuanyu had been reborn in this era, he had discovered something terrifying.

Although he had not yet awakened his martial soul, he could clearly sense that the Dragon God Bloodline in his body was gone...

One had to know that the Dragon God's divine position, the "sole existence in the universe," was bound to the Dragon God Bloodline. Without it, he could never gain the Dragon God's recognition, much less possess the Dragon God's divine position.

As for the Dragon God's talk about "wandering the universe for countless years in search of his inheritor," that was just something to hear and forget. Who could truly believe it?

Without a pure Dragon God Bloodline, how could anyone inherit the Dragon God's divine position? Hadn't the Silver Dragon King and Golden Dragon King failed to get even a scrap of it?

"..."

Lan Xuanyu clenched his teeth, trembling. Although the tremendous power he had possessed in his past life had all been built step by step through his own hard work and wisdom, the Dragon God Bloodline had also been indispensable.

But now... it was gone... everything was gone...

As a Supreme God King, Lan Xuanyu possessed not only overwhelming power, but also the wisdom belonging to a Supreme God King. Even compared to his grandfather Tang San, who bore the title of "God of Wisdom," he was hardly inferior.

Back in the Longma Galaxy, he had used his [wisdom] to disguise himself as a woman, fooling those Dragon Knights completely. He had stolen numerous Heaven-Nurturing Crystals from Tianlong Planet, making an incomparably enormous contribution to the prosperity of the Douluo Federation and Douluo Planet!

Thus, Lan Xuanyu understood very clearly that this rebirth was the rebirth of a wisp of Divine Soul, which had happened to land in this dying slum boy's body.

According to later research, martial souls were closely connected to one's bloodline and soul. No matter how they mutated, a mutated martial soul would still be linked to its owner's bloodline.

Even Yu Xiaogang's Luo Sanpao martial soul was the embryonic form of the Golden Sacred Dragon; Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eye martial soul had also mutated from the eyes of the [Evil Eye White Tiger].

Based on that, how could the Dragon God Bloodline possibly reappear within him?

Thinking of this, Lan Xuanyu could not help missing his true parents—not Nan Cheng and Lan Xiao, of course, but Tang Wulin and Gu Yuena.

After gathering information and making his own judgments during this time, Lan Xuanyu had confirmed that this era belonged to his aunt, the Butterfly Goddess Tang Wutong, and her husband, the Emotion God King Dai Yuhao.

In other words, his mother was still alive, but his father had not yet been born.

He could not obtain the Golden Dragon King Bloodline anytime soon, but if he could first acquire his mother Gu Yuena's Silver Dragon King Bloodline, he could soar once again...

But how was he supposed to meet his mother?

No, the issue Lan Xuanyu faced right now was not whether he could meet Gu Yuena.

"It costs ten Gold Soul Coins to awaken a martial soul?!"

Lan Xuanyu's expression stiffened. Awakening a martial soul required payment? Why had he never heard of that?

Back when he, Lan Xuanyu, had been born, he possessed Innate Full Soul Power, the universe's most supreme Dragon God Bloodline, and the super divine weapon [Heavenly Saint Splitting Abyss Halberd] had been born alongside him. The Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena and Golden Dragon King Tang Wulin had guided and protected him along the way. Though he had also "endured countless hardships" while growing up, he had overcome them all through his own efforts and exceptional wisdom.

But he had never imagined that he would now have to worry about how to awaken a martial soul... Ten Gold Soul Coins! In this era, that was enough to cover an ordinary family's expenses for ten years!

What kind of fucked-up era was this?! In his era, one could awaken a martial soul at home!

Suppressing the dissatisfaction in his heart, Lan Xuanyu shouted at the old beggar beside him, "Wait, what about Spirit Pagoda? What happened to it? Didn't it awaken martial souls for Soul Masters free of charge? Where is it now? And what about Tang Sect? Didn't Tang Sect distribute the Mysterious Heaven Skill for free?"

The old beggar waved his hand impatiently. "What Spirit Pagoda? What Tang Sect? What kind of nonsense are you talking about?! Where did you even hear those things?"

"..."

Lan Xuanyu slumped to the ground in disappointment. No Tang Sect, no Spirit Pagoda, no Spirit Ascension Platform...

Then where was he supposed to blow up the Spirit Ascension Platform... no, absorb Immortal Spirit Qi?

And Shrek Academy too. He was only five years old now. Even if he went there, they would never accept him.

After thinking it over and over, Lan Xuanyu could not come up with any particularly good plan. He could only first get close to his aunt and uncle, ride their opportunities, then find his mother in the Star Dou Great Forest and obtain her bloodline.

His uncle Dai Yuhao was the Child of the Plane in this era. Although his final achievements had not been particularly great and his standing in the Tang Family was low, under Grandfather Tang San's guidance, he had raised the God of Emotion from a First-Level God to a God King. He had even eventually become a Half-Step Supreme God King. If Lan Xuanyu got close to him, perhaps he might find a way to contact his grandfather.

Besides... in this era, the eighty-thousand-year-old Xiuxiu had not yet taken human form, so he could continue his romance with Xiuxiu.

He would do that for now!