He Was the Son of a God King, Yet Spent His Life Losing Everything!

Tang Wulin's consciousness plunged into boundless darkness. His eyes widened with despair.

He was tired. Tang Wulin was so tired. Ever since his bloodline awakened, a force had pushed him, pressed him to grow stronger without pause.

Cultivate too slowly, and he would be possessed. Cultivate too quickly, and his body would break down.

But he didn't want to die. He hadn't found Na'er. He hadn't seen his parents.

He didn't want to die without knowing why. All he could do was let himself be swept forward, step by step.

But now he was so, so tired.

Inside his Spiritual Sea, a colossal golden dragon roared without cease.

A faint blue soul form unleashed terrifying Sea God's Light to suppress it. But he was only a Soul Fragment. Against the Golden Dragon King, who had regained his strength through outside aid and broken through, he was utterly helpless.

Tang Wulin's body cracked apart inch by inch. Agony that tore at his heart and lungs surged from his core through every limb and bone.

"Old Tang, even you can't do it?"

The blue figure fell silent, then jerked his head toward the Golden Ancient Tree at the heart of Shrek Academy.

The moment he neared the Golden Ancient Tree, the blue figure seemed to trigger some last-resort safeguard. A glimmer of clarity returned to his eyes.

"Mom, I need your power!"

Within the Golden Ancient Tree, a golden figure stared in shock at its Life Core. There, a blue figure brimming with life force was slowly taking shape.

Swish, swish, swish!

Golden Blue Silver Grass vines appeared one after another.

"Mother's Entanglement!"

Tang San's Soul Fragment borrowed the Golden Ancient Tree's power, trying to reinforce the Golden Dragon King's seal. But the Golden Dragon King had long since grown too powerful for him to suppress.

"Is there really nothing I can do?"

Tang Wulin clutched his head in agony. As his consciousness blurred, familiar calls slowly reached him.

"Brother!"

His vision swayed. A familiar figure gradually appeared before Tang Wulin's eyes, drawing his memories back to the seaside in Eastsea City when he was little.

That was his most beautiful memory, and the last sweet moment he had known to this day.

"Brother, this time, let me protect you."

In the next instant, his little sister Na'er's figure shattered and surged wildly into Tang Wulin's body.

"No... don't... Na'er, don't!"

Roar!

The Golden Dragon King struggled furiously. Sensing the seal grow stronger and stronger, his eyes turned bloodred.

"Damn it! How? How could it be you?"

"How could you possibly be here?"

"Silver Dragon Spear!"

With a fierce shout, a silver figure wielding the Silver Dragon Spear stabbed viciously at the Golden Dragon King, who was on the verge of breaking the seal and devouring Tang Wulin's soul.

After Na'er vanished, her bloodline power slowly flowed into Gu Yue. Under the Silver Dragon King's suppression, golden seals appeared once more.

"No!"

The pain came from deep within his heart, tearing him apart. He had never imagined that seeing his little sister again after so many years would also be the last time.

[Electrolux defeated Wu Changkong in the comparison!]

[Wu Changkong defeated Yu Xiaogang in the comparison!]

...

[Heavenly Screen reveal: Tragedy Chapter. Chosen: Third-Generation Dragon-God-Form Tang Wulin, Second-Generation Child of Destiny Huo Yuhao, Angel God Qian Renxue (Empty Sorrow), and First Generation Sea God Tang San (the culprit)!]

The teachers of the Shrek Seven Monsters had only just finished their comparison when the Heavenly Screen revealed the Tragedy Chapter.

Before anyone could react, Tang Wulin's section of the Heavenly Screen flashed wildly. In the next instant, everyone saw his miserable condition.

"Wait, wait. Something's wrong. Didn't Tang Wulin just get his Betting reward?"

"Shouldn't he be stronger? How did he end up like this? Is he still the Heavenly Screen's favorite?"

[He was the son of a God King in the Divine Realm, born at the Divine Realm Core. He should have enjoyed every privilege, standing atop the mountain from birth. Godhood was only his starting point!]

At the Heavenly Screen's first explanation, the Three Realms erupted.

"Holy shit. A God King for a father, born in the Divine Realm, with everything from the moment he came into the world!"

"Hold on. Third-Generation Dragon-God-Form Tang Wulin, weren't you supposed to be a common-born genius rising through hardship? A noble son from humble roots? You started with a God King for a father?"

"All I want to know is why Tang Wulin's childhood was so miserable when he was born with all that."

[He never drank a mouthful of his birth mother's milk or received a shred of kindness from his God King father. Born amid disaster, he was cursed by his God King father's dying enemy, who poured all his power into the boy's body. He could burst apart at any moment!]

Images flickered across the Heavenly Screen. In the next instant, a beam of light cast an infant still in swaddling clothes onto the Douluo Continent.

[To stabilize the Divine Realm, his God King father sent him to the Douluo Continent. Contact with the Divine Realm was lost, and the highborn son of a God King was reduced to an abandoned child in the mortal world!]

At the words "abandoned child in the mortal world," the Three Realms fell silent.

"Some God King father. Tang Wulin, you really hit the jackpot!"

"You've been reborn! Good news: your father's a God King. Bad news: he can't give you a thing. You've been dumped on the Douluo Continent, and you could burst apart at any moment!"

The Heavenly Screen played on rapidly.

[He was adopted by foster parents who loved and cherished him. Because his Golden Dragon King Bloodline gave him an astonishing appetite, they spent most of their savings raising him. At six, he awakened the worthless Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and had to forge metal as a child to earn money for a Soul Spirit... a ten-year Soul Spirit...]

[After all that, he finally found little Na'er, only to be separated from her just as he gained a family bond. His foster parents left because of forces beyond their control... At ten, he was utterly alone!]

[Every few years, he had to break another seal, and every time he stood at death's door... He finally joined Shrek Academy... and met little Na'er again, but only as his bloodline erupted and he was about to be possessed. To save him, his little sister... the Silver Dragon King's power was used to reinforce the seal, and her bloodline returned to where it belonged.]

The people of the Three Realms could no longer hold back as they watched Tang Wulin's life unfold. When his little sister died saving him, they broke down completely.

"What the hell? Is this how a God King's son gets treated?"

"I thought he'd lived a life of happiness, but you're telling me that, from birth until now, the only happy years he had were before he turned six, when he had enough to eat?"

"How the hell do you call that happiness?"

At that point, the Heavenly Screen deliberately skipped the rest of Tang Wulin's life and flashed straight to its end.

[He was the son of a God King, yet spent his life losing everything.]

[He bore the Golden Dragon King Bloodline, and his wife was the Silver Dragon King... He was the one who should have become the Dragon God.]

[Yet in the end, fully conscious, he had no choice but to descend into the Far North, seal himself away for ten thousand years, and remain awake and alone within the Ice Seal for all that time!]

"Why? Why do this to me?"

"Was my birth itself a mistake?"

"I brought disaster with me. If I had never come into this world, would the people who loved me, the people who cared about me, everyone whose life crossed mine... would they still be alive?"

The Douluo II Era, the Peerless Era.

Freed from the fate that had been ordained for him, Huo Yuhao was riding high. With the Holy Spirit Cult's vast resources supporting him, he had successfully reached Soul Ancestor.

White, yellow, purple, black... When his fourth Soul Ring, a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring so dark it gleamed red, appeared, a surge of Soul Power at the peak of rank forty-nine erupted. The entire Holy Spirit Cult went wild.

Less than two months remained until the next comparison.

Over nearly a year, Huo Yuhao had killed relentlessly and devoured souls. With the Holy Spirit Cult's vast resources behind him, he had already reached the threshold of Soul King.

"It's time to go to the Far North and claim my third advantage."