Douluo: Ranking Teachers Across Realms, Yu Xiaogang's Face Turns Red
Chapter 32

When Father Was Wrong at Level Sixty, Would You Know Your Error at Level Ninety?!

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Either Tang San was selfish—having obtained Divine Slaughter's Domain himself,

he was unwilling to let anyone else have the same opportunity, so he simply destroyed the Capital of Slaughter completely;

or he was utterly foolish and had never considered the consequences at all.

Yet whenever a crisis arose before, Tang San had always emphasized that he had lived two lives,

boasting that his strategies were brilliant

and his tactics exquisite.

Why, then, did he become so brainless at such a crucial moment?

And with that level of ability, he dared call himself the strategist of the Shrek Seven Devils?

Great Ruler World

Tang San's various actions left Mu Chen deeply shocked.

As the saying went, one should remember the source while drinking water,

but after Tang San drank his fill, he turned around and filled in the spring itself!

"Setting aside the enormous impact destroying the Capital of Slaughter would have on the continent, such an ungrateful act alone is enough to make people despise him!"

Even Luo Li, who was usually calm and composed, could not help speaking out in condemnation.

It was understandable that you hated the residents of the Capital of Slaughter,

and forgivable that you eliminated evildoers within it,

but how could you destroy the entire Capital of Slaughter?

The guilty ones were people, not the land itself!

Not only had the Capital of Slaughter done nothing wrong, it was a natural prison that confined those criminals!

If the people inside were compared to prisoners,

then the Capital of Slaughter was the prison that held them.

It would have been one thing if you slaughtered all the prisoners, yet you even razed the entire prison to the ground!

Where would newly born sins be housed in the future?

Moreover, you yourself had benefited greatly from this place.

It might have been understandable if someone else had done it,

but since you personally destroyed it, no explanation could absolve you of blame!

"The most disgusting part is that after destroying the Capital of Slaughter, he even righteously claimed he was eliminating harm for the continent."

"Was that really eliminating harm for the people?"

"He clearly planted hidden dangers for the continent and cut off the possibility of future generations obtaining Divine Slaughter's Domain!"

Mu Chen added coldly from the side. In his view, compared with those grandiose excuses,

Tang San's true intention might simply have been that he did not want anyone else to possess Divine Slaughter's Domain.

The fact that he was willing to leave with Hu Liena of Spirit Hall showed that he retained a trace of humanity,

though it might also have been only because she was a beauty who had repeatedly saved him.

Without Hu Liena's help, Tang San could never have made it through Hell Road alone.

He did possess a little humanity, but that was all.

No matter what his reasons were,

such behavior—discarding the bridge after crossing the river and forgetting the trap after catching the fish—

was ultimately hard to condone.

Battle Through the Heavens World

Xiao Yan felt this most deeply upon seeing it.

The Capital of Slaughter was so similar to the Black-Corner Region he had experienced back then.

It had originally been a lawless land,

yet for that very reason, it became a natural cage for evildoers,

allowing them to slaughter one another within it and thereby reducing the harm they caused to the outside world.

Back then, with Yao Lao's assistance,

it would not have been difficult for him to flatten the Black-Corner Region if he had truly wanted to.

But why would he go out of his way to do that?

Even though he disliked the rules of survival in that region,

he had never considered wiping the entire place off the map.

Though it was not an intentional comparison,

his choice and Tang San's actions

formed a stark contrast.

[After destroying the Capital of Slaughter, Tang San returned to Tang Hao's side.] [Tang Hao sent him to his aunt at Moonlight Pavilion to cultivate his character.] [A year later, Tang San's Soul Power reached level fifty-seven, and he returned to his father's side.] [By then, Tang Hao had severed one arm and one leg.] [He revealed the truth that had long been buried to Tang San—] [Tang San's mother had actually been a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast,] [and had been forced by Spirit Hall to sacrifice herself for Tang Hao back then.] [However, Tang Hao had also killed a Title Douluo of Spirit Hall because of this, and even gravely injured the Pope, leaving him on the verge of death.] [Thus was the blood feud between the Clear Sky Sect and Spirit Hall forged.] [This incident forced the number one sect in the world into seclusion, and Tang Hao had always felt guilty toward the sect.] [He severed his own limbs and removed his Soul Bones, ordering Tang San to return them to the sect.] [After learning the truth, Tang San went to the Clear Sky Sect to return the Soul Bones, declaring that he was willing to bear all his father's guilt!] [The sect set three extremely harsh conditions, and only by fulfilling them could father and son be permitted to return to the sect.] [Even in the face of such deliberate difficulties, Tang San still bowed and swore before everyone that he would fulfill the requirements.]

Seeing this,

the people of the Heavens and Myriad Worlds finally understood the deeper meaning behind the latter half of the title.

"When Father Was Wrong at Level Sixty, Would You Know Your Error at Level Ninety?!"

Although Tang San had not yet reached level sixty,

after inheriting his mother's Soul Bone,

he had already reached level fifty-nine.

This perfectly matched the phrase, "When Father Was Wrong at Level Sixty"—so it turned out that deep down, you had never believed your father was wrong?

If so, why pretend to be atoning for your father's sins?

Seeing Tang San's submissive posture now, no one dared imagine

how arrogantly he would act once he cultivated to level ninety!

What impressive "forbearance"!

But was there really any need to throw away even his dignity?

He was clearly the very embodiment of saying one thing and meaning another!

Tang San's forbearance was more like smiling as he offered up his face to be slapped,

begging only for the other party's forgiveness.

He put on such a sincere act of "a son repaying his father's debts"

that anyone unaware of the truth would really be deceived by him!

Although the Clear Sky Sect's conduct also drew criticism from the people of the Heavens,

that was absolutely not an excuse for your hypocrisy!

His act was far too excessive!

Douluo World

The members of the Clear Sky Sect looked at Tang San's humble figure in the Light Screen,

and could not help recalling how domineeringly he had come to their doors to provoke them not long ago!

At that time, Tang San had truly stood alone against all opposition,

fighting five Title Douluo by himself and insisting that his father had done nothing wrong!

Although it was later proven that their concessions to Spirit Hall had indeed been a mistake,

Tang San's utterly different faces before and after left every member of the Clear Sky Sect feeling absurd!

He truly greeted them with a smile when he lacked strength, only to change his face the moment his cultivation was complete!

If Tang San had maintained his later hardline attitude from the beginning,

they might instead have praised him for his fierce temperament.

But this inconsistent behavior before and after

made them feel deeply—

this boy was simply hypocritical beyond measure!!

Since the Light Screen only showed Tang San's humble and obedient demeanor at this moment,

and the way he obeyed every word of the Clear Sky Sect elders,

the people of the Heavens and Myriad Worlds still did not know

what an ugly face he would reveal in the future.

Though they already vaguely sensed it.

Compared with the Clear Sky Sect elders who had personally experienced it,

they ultimately lacked that same bone-deep pain.

When Tang San had come to challenge them at their doors,

the elders had not thought deeply about the change.

After all, several years had passed since that visit.

Now, comparing his conduct before and after through the Light Screen,

they finally truly understood what it meant to be a master at changing faces!

His attitudes during the two visits to the sect had been as different as night and day!

It was truly astonishing!

It was not that they believed their actions back then had been correct.

In the current situation, they also understood that they had indeed made a wrong decision.

Had they been more forceful back then and united the Upper Three Sects with the Lower Four Sects,

they might not necessarily have lacked the strength to contend with Spirit Hall.

It was their retreat that gave Spirit Hall the opportunity to grow stronger.

But that absolutely did not justify Tang San's drastically different attitudes before and after!

During his first visit, he had acted as though he fully acknowledged his father's wrongdoing,

respectful and courteous, making others feel as though they stood in a spring breeze.

Whatever the elders said, he repeatedly agreed,

as if he placed the sect's interests above all else.

Yet on his second visit, he came directly to provoke them,

even founding the Tang Sect and becoming its sect master,

publicly declaring that his father had done nothing wrong!

It was simply worlds apart from how he had acted the first time!

Such a face was truly contemptible!

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