The God-Making Plan: Take Tang San's Path and Leave Him Nowhere to Go

And there was Divine Craftsman Lou Gao. In the future, he would become one of the Tang Sect's most vital figures.

He was also obsessed with crafting.

If Huo Yuhao produced the Tang Sect's Hundred Solutions to Hidden Weapons, or even blueprints for advanced Soul Tools, he could win over the Divine Craftsman—and perhaps even Gengxin City—without losing a single soldier.

Of course, Huo Yuhao had a little selfish motive mixed in.

On his way to Spirit Hall, Huo Yuhao had delved into fragments of the two God Kings' memories, both past and future, and finally glimpsed the secrets of the entire continent.

The Douluo God Realm had originally been governed by five God Kings: Goodness, Evil, Destruction, Life, and Asura. The God Realm Committee deliberated collectively, and its rules forbade gods from interfering at will with the realms below.

But after Tang San became a god, that balance began to change, step by step.

His entire family became gods. The Shrek Seven Devils were brought to the Divine Realm too. Soon, the Divine Realm would become a place where the Tang Family's word was law.

After the War of the Gods, Tang San defeated the God of Destruction and gained the final say. The committee, once balanced by five God Kings, remained a government of gods in name. In practice, the Tang Family controlled the core authority of the God Kings, and the rules applied one way to their own and another to outsiders.

Destruction and Life had foreseen the collapse of the God Realm Committee's balance. On the eve of their sacrifice, they had used the Power of Creation to intervene, pulling Huo Yuhao out of his original timeline and sending him ten thousand years into the past. It was their one chance to rewrite the Divine Realm's fate.

As for Huo Yuhao, the son-in-law who had married into the Tang Family, he had seen the misery of his own life with his own eyes.

In Qiankun Asking Love Valley, Tang San had personally set trials that tormented him again and again, making him experience death repeatedly to test whether he was worthy of marrying Tang Wutong. Tang San had even arranged a fated confrontation between Dong'er and Qiu'er. Whether Qiu'er died or Dong'er did, the Tang Family stood to gain. Wang Qiu'er's fate had been part of the calculation from the start.

Even after becoming a god, Huo Yuhao had lived without standing or dignity, crushed beneath Tang San's tyranny from beginning to end.

Tang San!

Given another life, I hadn't wanted anything more to do with you.

But since I can't kill you yet, I'll make you spend your life learning what it means to fear being ruled by fate!

What he needed to do now was lay his plans ahead of Tang San: take Tang San's path and leave him nowhere to go.

Huo Yuhao had laid out every temptation for Bibi Dong because he needed more leverage. After all, he had little time left.

Besides, he trusted that Bibi Dong was clever enough to offer something of equal value in exchange.

A long while passed.

Only then did Bibi Dong recover from her shock. She glanced at Yue Guan and the others before speaking again. "You may leave. I need to discuss what comes next with Huo Yuhao alone."

"Yes, Your Holiness."

"Yes, Teacher."

Hu Liena was delighted to hear it. She turned to give Huo Yuhao a long look, then left the Pope's Hall with Yue Guan and the others.

Wonderful.

Hu Liena smiled as she walked. Had Teacher finally accepted Huo Yuhao?

Wouldn't I be able to see him often from now on?

After watching them leave, Bibi Dong composed herself and spoke again. "You're powerful and mysterious, and your Soul Tools are irresistibly tempting to Spirit Hall. But..."

Her tone suddenly shifted. She studied Huo Yuhao with a steady gaze. "Why did you choose Spirit Hall?"

A test?

Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow. Bibi Dong really isn't just a madwoman.

Then again, anyone offered such a huge pie would stop to consider whether a trap was hidden beneath it.

All the more so Bibi Dong, His Holiness the Pope.

With that thought, Huo Yuhao's lips curved slightly. "Douluo Continent belongs to the empires and their nobles. Even Soul Masters who want to rise must contend with four mountains bearing down on them: their Martial Souls, poverty, talent, and birth. I know that firsthand. Spirit Hall, on the other hand, helps children awaken their Martial Souls for free. It charges no tuition and teaches anyone willing to learn. It even gives low-level Soul Masters a monthly stipend. In the Soul Hunting Forest, where Soul Beasts are raised, lower-level Soul Masters can use Spirit Hall's advancement certificates to obtain Soul Rings."

"Of course, those are only the things I admire about Spirit Hall."

"The real reason I chose Spirit Hall is that I have another plan."

At those words, Bibi Dong narrowed her eyes. So he finally can't hold back the truth?

Let's see what this boy really wants.

Thinking this, Bibi Dong slowly sat back on the papal throne and gave Huo Yuhao a slight nod. "Tell me your plan."

"The God-Making Plan," Huo Yuhao said.

"What?!"

Bibi Dong, who had only just sat down, shot to her feet. A cold light flashed in her violet eyes.

Her composure was gone.

He even knows gods exist?

Now Bibi Dong truly could not sit still. No one knew better than she did that gods were not merely legends. They truly existed.

If the Soul Tools Huo Yuhao had brought were enough to shock her, the words "God-Making Plan" shattered her composure outright.

What an audacious plan.

And he thinks he can do it?

Shocked as she was, the God-Making Plan tempted her far too much. "Go on."

"I've studied the history of Douluo Continent. Gods don't exist only in legend."

Seeing that Bibi Dong had taken the bait, Huo Yuhao continued. "There are two paths to godhood. One is to gather a Godhood through the Power of Faith, as the Angel God and the Sea God once did. The other is to find a Godhood left on Douluo Continent by the Divine Realm and ascend through Godhood Inheritance."

"But either path requires overwhelming strength to have any hope of passing the Divine Realm's trials and gathering a Godhood. Human Soul Masters alone simply cannot possess that much power."

"That is why human Soul Masters and powerful Soul Beasts must work together to become gods."

His words fell into silence.

Bibi Dong's eyes went round as eggs, and shock sent a tingle across her scalp.

At first, she had thought Huo Yuhao fairly reliable. Only after hearing his plan did she realize how absurd it was.

Never mind whether the God-Making Plan was credible. Asking human Soul Masters to cooperate with Soul Beasts was impossible. Since ancient times, humans and Soul Beasts had never been able to work together.

"Your Holiness, look..."

Huo Yuhao knew Bibi Dong did not believe him. She probably thought he was spinning a wild tale. Rather than rush to explain, he decided to show her that his idea was possible.

As he spoke, Huo Yuhao willed his Ultimate Ice Martial Soul to manifest.

One Soul Ring after another slowly rose from beneath his feet.

Those are...

As she watched the Soul Rings rise, even Bibi Dong could not help drawing a sharp breath.

Red, orange-gold, orange-gold, orange-gold, orange-gold, red, red, red. Eight Soul Rings pulsed around him, and Bibi Dong finally saw what the impossible looked like.

Eight rings! Four red and four orange-gold!

Bibi Dong knew what red Soul Rings were. Her own Twin Martial Souls had three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings. But what were those Orange-Gold Soul Rings?

They seemed even stronger than Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings!

Clearly, this was beyond anything she knew.