I Am the Rising Sun That Will Shine at Last! What's with “Sunshine Bro”?

Douluo I world.

Sunset Forest.

Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Chrysanthemum Douluo looked from Anaxa and Trianne on the Sky Curtain to the bruised and battered Yu Xiaogang and the others before him.

He couldn't help marveling: how could the gap between people be this wide?

He clicked his tongue.

"Well, aren't you a pair of crouching dragons and hidden phoenixes!"

"The teacher, Yu Xiaogang, deceives the world and steals a name for himself without a shred of shame."

"And every one of his students respects their teacher so much they beat him up for a reward!"

"What an eye-opener~"

Yu Xiaogang froze.

The savage beating he had taken to make the rankings had been witnessed in full by Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo!

And now he had to endure their mockery.

His face darkened as he said,

"Chrysanthemum Guan, why aren't you at Spirit Hall? What do you want with us?"

Chrysanthemum Douluo sneered and flicked his orchid finger.

"Spirit Hall? That rotten place? Sorry, we quit."

Yu Xiaogang stared. "You left Spirit Hall? Aren't you afraid they'll hunt you down?"

Ghost Douluo said coldly,

"No need to trouble yourself over us, you petty thief who stole Spirit Hall's theories!"

"Worry about yourself first!"

The Shrek Seven Devils were bewildered.

What did he mean, Grandmaster had stolen Spirit Hall's theories?

They could practically smell a juicy scandal!

After all, Grandmaster had always called himself the Theory Grandmaster. Surely the thing he was best at wasn't a fraud too?

Ning Rongrong had long doubted how much Grandmaster's title was worth, and Ghost Douluo's words only confirmed her suspicions!

For a moment,

Everyone looked at Yu Xiaogang!

Seeing that they still didn't understand, Ghost Douluo stripped away Yu Xiaogang's last shred of cover.

"You really thought he was the foremost mind in theory?"

"He made his name by compiling Spirit Hall's research."

"Look at Phainon's teacher, Anaxa. Now there's a true sage!"

"He discerned the nature of an entire planet through his own efforts!"

"He didn't just steal and cobble things together like Yu Xiaogang."

His last fig leaf had been torn away in public.

Yu Xiaogang's face turned green. Beside himself with rage, he shouted,

"I'll kill you! Chrysanthemum Guan, you dead freak! You too, old ghost! Neither of you will die a good death!"

Heaven Dou City.

Phainon's Clothing Store.

As Aglaea and the others sacrificed themselves one after another on the Sky Curtain,

The easygoing mood vanished.

Even Qian Renxue, who had just been mocking Phainon's taste, fell silent.

Wang Dong's eyes reddened, and she couldn't help sniffling.

She slammed a hand on the table.

"Do good people always have to sacrifice themselves?"

"With a terrible enemy at the gates, all those people in the Senate know how to do is fight for power and drag the Chrysos Heirs down. What good are they?"

She couldn't help thinking of the parasites at Shrek Academy. They were exactly the same!

Huo Yuhao silently handed Wang Dong a tissue.

He had lost his mother at a young age. He knew the pain of loss all too well.

He could empathize with Phainon completely.

He comforted her.

"Wang Dong, calm down!"

"The Sky Curtain said Teacher Anaxa uncovered the truth. The shopkeeper is going to carry everyone's memories and remake the world."

"But putting everyone's lives on one person's shoulders... that's too heavy a burden."

Qian Renxue couldn't calm herself for a long time either.

On the Douluo Continent, becoming a god meant immortality. It meant being able to do anything.

Surely a god could bring everyone back!

Qian Renxue looked at the Sky Curtain, her expression grave.

"So what happened in the end? You inherited a god's position, carried out Re-Creation, and brought everyone back?"

Phainon looked at their somber faces.

Good grief. Are they trying to turn on a Gravity Domain and give me a workout?

He stretched, deliberately breaking the oppressive mood.

"All right, all right. Stop looking like you're at a funeral."

"It all ended happily. Satisfied?"

"I'm just an ordinary clothing-store owner now."

"No saving the world, no carrying the weight of destiny."

"If you want to help, you could calm down the customers clamoring for refunds."

After saying that,

Phainon pointed at a table leg.

"Oh, and Wang Dong, you hit the table too hard just now. The leg's cracked."

"Remember to pay me ten Gold Soul Coins!"

"Huh?"

Wang Dong had still been immersed in her sadness.

Now she sprang to her feet in outrage.

"What's wrong with you? You're such a heartless boss! I was feeling sorry for you!"

"Ten Gold Soul Coins? Why don't you just rob me?"

Huo Yuhao watched them bicker.

He knew Phainon was deliberately changing the subject.

A happy ending?

If the ending really was happy, why had Phainon topped this list of sorrow?

That meant the road to that ending must still hold unimaginable suffering!

[Before long, Phainon and the others left the Holy City to face the Sky Titan.]

[After they seized the Core Flame, the corrupted Sky Titan descended. Phainon and the others faced rolling black clouds and the remnants of a sun struck by lightning.]

[Faced with the crisis,]

[Hyacine gripped the Sky Core Flame and stepped forward. "All I need is a little light to pierce the gloom!"]

[Phainon raised Dawn high and slashed at the sky.]

["Borrow mine, Hyacine!"]

["I am the one who bears the world!"]

["I am the sun that will rise!"]

[Phainon's light illuminated the sky.]

[Hyacine, Phainon, and the Trailblazer joined forces in an attack that brought the corrupted Titan down.]

[BGM: Daybreak]

Everyone across time and space watched the scene.

They couldn't help muttering,

"That was stirring, but why did it feel a little over-the-top?"

"That Sky Titan was terrifying!"

"Are the Chrysos Heirs really that strong?"

Star Dou Great Forest.

Watching the Sky Titan's terrifying display, even Di Tian grew solemn.

"It seems I underestimated the gods of Amphoreus!"

Bi Ji's expression turned conflicted.

"If only the Soul Beasts of our world could become gods too!"

"I wonder whether the rule preventing us from becoming gods will be gone in twenty thousand years."

She hoped Di Tian could cross that threshold!

Heaven Dou City.

Phainon's Clothing Store.

Wang Dong stood on a chair, holding a clothes pole.

Her expression was resolute!

"I am the one who bears the world!"

"I am the sun that will rise!"

She turned to Huo Yuhao and the others with a grin.

"Well? Did I sound like him?"

Qian Renxue was drinking tea and spat out a mouthful.

She hadn't meant to laugh. She simply couldn't hold it in.

Huo Yuhao looked equally speechless.

The shopkeeper's lines really were a little over-the-top, but the consequences of mocking him to his face hardly needed explaining.

Phainon merely said,

"You love performing that much?"

"There goes your pay for today!"

Damn it. How many times had people teased me with "Sunbro" already?

And every time I heard it, I still couldn't keep a straight face.

It was too embarrassing.

Wang Dong's face fell. "There's nothing in the employee handbook saying you can dock my pay for that."

Phainon said, "There is as of today."

Wang Dong clenched her fists. If she'd been strong enough, she would have given that damned heartless boss a thorough beating long ago.

Douluo III world.

Mu En looked at Xuan Zi.

"Well? One failure doesn't mean much. A savior is someone who can pick himself back up afterward!"

Xuan Zi watched Phainon swing his sword and press forward even against the terrifying Sky Titan. This time, he couldn't find fault with him!

But he still couldn't bring himself to praise Phainon.