Huo Yuhao's feelings were deeply conflicted, yet his mind was clear.
The Douluo Plane Will was at once utterly familiar and utterly strange to him.
Familiar, because from the moment he was born into this world, the plane had quietly nourished, bound by Fate Bond, and favored his soul and Fortune. His rise, his opportunities, his gifts—all had come from this world's favor.
Strange, because he had never truly touched the plane's source.
Scenes from the trilogy he had read in his previous life flashed through his mind. Plot holes he had once noticed now joined into one vast, cold web of conspiracy.
One theory went like this: in Legend of the Dragon King, Tang Hao had ascended as Plane Master, taken control of the rules governing all of Douluo, and ruled its Fortune while looking down upon every living being.
But few knew that this had not been the Plane Will's choice. It had been a naked seizure of power.
For ten thousand years, the Plane Will and Tang Hao had stood opposed, each restraining and maneuvering against the other.
At the end of the original story, Tang Hao had played the better move. He had crushed the plane's original will, usurped its sovereignty, and bound the entire Douluo Plane beneath Tang San's divine order.
That was not all. The Golden Tree, the plane's Life Core, concealed an enormous secret of its own.
Ah Yin, the Blue Silver Emperor of Douluo I, was a supreme plant-type emperor Soul Beast. In bloodline, origin, and species, she was utterly different from the eternal Golden Tree that sustained the plane's life system.
The gulf between their species was as vast as heaven and earth. Transformation and fusion should have been impossible.
Yet Ah Yin had forcibly replaced the Golden Tree's source in