Poseidon: I Don't Think This World Should Be This Way

[This was also one of the reasons why, later on, aside from the Spirit Ring age boosts granted by the Sea God, Tang San's martial soul could possess so many Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings.]

[After all, during the era of Soul Land I, Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were few and far between. Xiao Wu counted as one, Xiao Wu's mother Ah Rou, Tang San's mother...]

Soul Land I Xiao Wu: "..."

Soul Land I Ah Rou: "..."

Soul Land I Ah Yin: "..."

This... wasn't secretly insulting us, was it?

[When it came to Spirit Rings, Tang San completely stopped hiding the double standards ingrained in his bones. In order to obtain Spirit Rings, he would stop at nothing.]

[At first, he had solemnly promised Xiao Wu that he would never hunt a single kind Soul Beast in this life, spouting righteousness and compassion.]

[Yet the moment he needed to fill out his own Spirit Rings, he went straight to Sunset Forest and began slaughtering without restraint, massacring countless Soul Beasts.]

[Just how low was pure and immaculate Tang San's standard for defining an evil Soul Beast? Any Soul Beast that attacked him or Xiao Wu was definitely an evil Soul Beast!]

[As for why the Soul Beasts attacked him, don't worry about that.]

[When others hunted Soul Beasts, it was utterly devoid of conscience. When Tang San hunted Soul Beasts, those evil Soul Beasts simply had it coming!]

[In truth, Douluo Continent had always been ruled by strength. Hunting Soul Beasts could not really be called good or evil. Soul Beast clans themselves followed the law of the jungle; it was merely one link in the ecological cycle of the food chain.]

[What truly disgusted people was Tang San's utterly hypocritical conduct.]

[On one hand, he slaughtered Soul Beasts on a massive scale for personal gain. On the other, he frantically flaunted righteousness and morality, building up his pure and immaculate image. He wanted to be a whore and still have a monument built in his honor...]

The truths exposed by the diary unfolded clearly, word by word.

Especially for the young women of Soul Land II, who had grown up hearing of Shrek's glory and Sea God Tang San's legends, these few short sentences brutally shattered the illusions they had held since childhood.

Soul Land II Tang Ya: "... That isn't how it was. History didn't say that."

Soul Land II Ma Xiaotao: "Slander! How could this possibly be true? Don't you dare tarnish Shrek Academy's ten-thousand-year glory!"

Soul Land II Meng Hongchen: "So that was it. I finally understand why I always felt an inexplicable sense of disconnect whenever I read the history books of Douluo Continent."

Soul Land II Ling Luocheng: "Sea God Tang San? Shrek? So they were passed down through the same lineage. Heh!"

Soul Land II Ye Guyi: "History is written by the victors. Tang San is nothing but a despicable little man!"

[That said, aside from the reclusive ferocious beasts, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts that were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns on land were too numerous to count in the vast ocean.]

[Beneath the deep sea lurked an old schemer who had endured for ten thousand years. Just one step away from breaking the iron law that Soul Beasts could not become gods, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had come infinitely close to the realm of a million-year divine beast.]

[Unfortunately, because this "evil Soul Beast" refused to worship the Sea God and occasionally preyed upon Demon Soul Great White Sharks that worshipped the Sea God, its political stance was deemed incorrect. The Sea God directly slapped the label of "evil Soul Beast" onto it.]

[It had committed no monstrous evil and brought no calamity to the four seas, yet in these waters, failing to believe in the Sea God was the original sin!]

[In the end, this peerless ferocious beast was plotted against at every turn and became a stepping stone on Tang San's path to godhood. After Tang San ascended to the God Realm, the quality of its Spirit Ring was exceptionally elevated to divine grade, which could at least be considered the fulfillment of its dream of becoming a god.]

[It had to be said that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was sufficiently sinister and cunning, truly worthy of being called a ten-thousand-year-old schemer.]

[At the moment of its death, it hid a wisp of its soul within the Spirit Bone it dropped. It endured and lay dormant for years, waiting until Tang San underwent the Sea God's Ninth Trial. At the crucial moment, its soul suddenly appeared and nearly seized the Sea God's divine position.]

[Unfortunately, the overall situation had already been decided. Under the rules of the Sea God's home ground, how could an "evil Soul Beast" that did not worship the Sea God possibly have the right to turn things around?]

[Sea God Poseidon directly descended like a deus ex machina and brazenly acted, thoroughly wiping out the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's soul.]

[It had to be said, the Sea God truly passed things down through the generations. Soul Land II Tang San followed his example and even surpassed his predecessor.]

[When the Sun Moon Empire swallowed the two great empires of Dou Ling and Heavenly Soul and was about to unify Douluo Continent, Sea God Tang San descended like a deus ex machina and forcibly interfered in the war of the mortal world.]

[If it wasn't a Douluo Continent I liked, I'd just descend like a deus ex machina!]

Soul Land II Ju Zi: "???"

Soul Land II Meng Hongchen: "???"

Soul Land II Xu Tianzhen: "???"

Fine, fine, fine. If you can't win, you just cheat? Even gods can't afford to play fairly, huh?!

A suffocating fury instantly surged into the hearts of the Sun Moon Empire's leading ladies.

Since Sea God Tang San was so unwilling to follow the rules, then they could not blame the Sun Moon Empire for flipping the table... and discussing how to occupy Douluo Continent through conciliatory policies under the Sea God's watchful gaze.

If you provoke me, congratulations, you've kicked cotton...

[Who knew how Poseidon had become a god in the first place? What kind of sea Soul Beasts even believed in this guy?]

Soul Land I Xiao Bai: "..."

Soul Land I Bo Saixi: "..."

On Sea God Island, within a special temple, incense smoke curled through the air as holy radiance descended.

Bo Saixi, the High Priest who had served the Sea God for a hundred years, now had her brows tightly furrowed and her expression grave.

The truth exposed in the diary was entirely different from the history she knew.

According to the scriptures passed down through generations on Sea God Island, Sea God Poseidon had been a saint without equal, one who cared deeply for all living beings.

Before becoming a god, he had been a peerless Rank 99 Limit Douluo of his era.

In the ancient seas, the overlords among sea Soul Beasts carved up territories, while sea Soul Master tribes warred against one another. War had ravaged these waters for thousands of years, and marine life had suffered unspeakably.

It was at that time that Poseidon traveled across the four seas alone. With the unmatched strength of a Limit Douluo, he suppressed the chaos, completely ended that age of turmoil, and brought peace and order to the ocean.

It was also this pure power of faith, carrying the yearning for peace, that accumulated day after day and gathered into the momentum of an era. Thus, the Sea God's divine position was born.

Yet the diary's steadily escalating revelations utterly overturned the saintly image of the Sea God worshipped on Sea God Island.

The Sea God who had saved the world from chaos in the hearts of marine life had become an ambitious man skilled in calculation, concerned only with harvesting the faith of weak Soul Beasts!

The Sea God is not a benevolent god. He does not cherish sea Soul Beasts; he merely collects faith in order to become a god...

The two completely contradictory truths left Bo Saixi's thoughts tangled in chaos.

The faith she had upheld for a hundred years might actually collapse one day. This gradually threw her usually tranquil state of mind off balance...

[That said, since the anchor point for becoming a god had already been set, it proved that Poseidon had some skill with words. At the very least, he could rival Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang.]

[After all, Poseidon had achieved the Sea God's divine position as a human Soul Master, ultimately relying on the faith of sea Soul Beasts from another race.]

[So the question was, why hadn't Poseidon chosen to become a god on land? The root cause was simple: Spirit Hall stood there like an insurmountable mountain!]

[By that era, Douluo Continent was already the domain of the Angel God. The people voluntarily worshipped the Angel God, and even as a Limit Douluo, Poseidon did not dare seize the people's faith on the continent.]

[With no road left to take, the uncharted ocean became his only shortcut to breaking the deadlock.]

[But how could a human Soul Master make Soul Beasts develop faith in him? There were actually many examples of the answer throughout the history of human civilization...]

[Ahem... Let's return to how Poseidon harvested the faith of Soul Beasts.]

[Although sea Soul Beasts were a collective term, there was a strict food-chain hierarchy among Soul Beasts. This system dictated that powerful sea Soul Beast races were destined to be lofty dragonborn, while weak Soul Beasts made up the overwhelming majority...]

[At that point, class conflict... or rather, racial conflict emerged.]

[Powerful sea Soul Beasts were born above all others and could slaughter weak sea Soul Beasts at will, while these weak sea Soul Beasts, who made up the vast majority, could only wait to die.]

[This was originally the normal law of the jungle. Even sea Soul Beasts living in the ocean had long grown accustomed to this survival rule.]

[But then, one day, a Soul Master draped in the mantle of righteousness and salvation stepped forward from the moral high ground, possessing the strength of a Limit Douluo of that era.]

["My friends, I don't think this world should be this way."]

["The backward are beaten, and the weak are slaughtered. So why don't we unite, gather every force we can, and resist these evil Soul Beasts that oppress us?"]

[Amid the oppression of endless darkness, Poseidon's words were like a ray of dawn piercing the long night, bringing unprecedented hope for rebirth to every weak sea Soul Beast at the bottom!]