Boom~!!!
Wenxin Exposure opened with such a blazing scene that everyone's pupils instantly contracted violently.
"Crossing space, yet unable to reverse time-what era is this? Has the Martial Soul system already become this powerful?"
The Douluo I era.
Spirit Hall, the Upper Three Sects.
Watching Wenxin Exposure show someone tear through the void, trying to return to the past and cross time to reach the future, only to fall in the River of Time in the end, the people within the void space had eyes filled with shock.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
"Uncle Bone, his Martial Soul is a dragon too. Just what is his relationship to you?"
"Can your use of space reach this level?"
Bone Douluo, Gu Rong, wore a deeply embarrassed expression.
"No. The reason I can teleport through space is my Soul Skill, and I can only use it over a small area."
"Entering space, returning to the past, and crossing spacetime to reach the future is basically impossible."
Next, scenes flashed through the exposure one after another, all showing the close brothers from God King Tang Wulin's life-those with whom he shared deep bonds, whom he could trust with his back, and with whom he had faced life and death.
[Boss, Boss... Boss, where are you~!!!]
Call after call, hope after hope.
Once their boss, always their boss.
[The third-generation dragons remain to this day, yet nowhere is the young glutton with the Golden Dragon Claw of those years!]
God King Tang Wulin stared blankly at the exposed heart-questioning content. Those familiar faces from days past appeared before his eyes, and those calls of "Boss" echoed in his ears.
He completely broke down, tears spilling uncontrollably from the corners of his eyes.
The young Tang Wulin stared blankly at Wenxin Exposure.
"These... these are my future brothers and friends, the friends I've always hoped to make!"
The young Tang Wulin had practically no friends-or rather, he had no friends at all. Although his classmates at Red Mountain Academy seemed nice enough on the surface, weren't their repeated comments of "You can eat," "You can really eat," "Glutton," and "Bottomless stomach" actually mocking him?
So Little Sister Na'er, Dad, and Mom were everything in his life.
Now, seeing that he would have so many friends, brothers, and sisters in the future, those repeated calls of "Boss" instantly reddened the young Tang Wulin's eyes too.
"What happened to them?"
God King Tang Wulin said nothing, merely covering his endlessly weeping eyes with his arm.
In an instant, a thick gloom shrouded the young Tang Wulin's heart.
"Your friends-you didn't save them. Your little sister-you didn't find her. Your parents-you didn't bring them back to life."
"Aren't you a God King? God of where? King of whom?"
"Answer me!"
Under his younger self's questioning, God King Tang Wulin's inner defenses crumbled again and again.
"I'm sorry... I haven't accomplished a single one yet."
Wenxin continued its exposure.
On the distant horizon, a figure with long, ice-blue hair slowly appeared. Just the sight of that back made God King Tang Wulin completely lose his reason.
"I just haven't done it yet. Believe me, I can. I'll make amends."
"Dad, Mom, Teacher Wu, my friends..."
God King Tang Wulin reached out, trying to take the young Tang Wulin's hand.
But the young Tang Wulin flung his hand away.
"Then go do it! Go do it right now! Go make amends like Senior Huo Yuhao!"
"Little Sister Na'er, Dad, Mom... go bring them back to life!!"
Hearing his younger self's questions, God King Tang Wulin immediately lowered his head.
"I'm sorry. I... I can't."
Crack~!
A bolt of purple lightning instantly streaked across the sky.
"Then what are you even a god for? Senior Huo Yuhao could bring his own mother back to life!"
"And you? You can't do anything! Is it that you can't, or that you won't!!"
"God King Tang Wulin, you're a coward! Anyone who follows you is doomed!!!"
The young Tang Wulin looked at his god-king self. The anticipation in his eyes vanished completely, leaving only profound disgust in their depths.
That disgust ran into his bones, that revulsion reached into his heart.
Was it anger at his failure to rise to the occasion? No, it wasn't. It was loathing, nothing but loathing from the inside out.
"Wulin, it's true that I'm a God King now, but I can't act according to my own preferences."
"I have to protect the Divine Realm. I have to answer to all the gods..."
"The Divine Realm has rules..."
Wenxin Livestream.
Everyone erupted after hearing God King Tang Wulin's words.
"Bravo, Your Majesty the God King. Faced with your own heart-questioning, you really haven't accomplished a single thing?"
"Facing your younger self's hopes, have you ever felt even a shred of regret??"
"Answering to all the gods, my ass! You can't even protect your own people, yet you want to protect others???"
Whoosh~!!!
Tang Wulin turned around without the slightest hesitation.
"So you... you're going to sacrifice the people who helped you, the people who love you, and the people who accommodate you, is that it?"
"To hell with your Divine Realm, you hypocritical God King!!"
"You're not worth a single hair on Authentic Yuhao!!!"
The young Tang Wulin's eyes were bloodshot.
"If I can't even protect my own world and my own people, what meaning is there in staying alive?"
"If the price of becoming a God King is spending the rest of my life in loneliness, pain, and regret, then what's the point of being that God King??"
"So it's not that you can't-you just won't! One day, I'll overturn this whole damned Divine Realm!!!"
The Heart-Questioning Space erupted.
Watching the young Tang Wulin, Huo Yuhao was shaken to his core. Even Tang San's eyes widened.
"Tang Wulin of the Golden Dragon Aspect, I don't know what kind of person you'll become, but right now, you're a man!!!"
Tang San clenched his fists.
"Selfish and self-serving. You have to understand that you're a God King... damn it, I can't keep that stance up anymore. Tang Wulin of the Golden Dragon Aspect, you're right! If you can't even protect your own people, then to hell with protecting anyone else!!!"
Tang San's opinion of Tang Wulin changed in a single instant. At first, he had felt that the young Tang Wulin blamed others and himself, and he had looked down on him. But the instant Tang Wulin said those words, hot blood rushed straight to his head. He had never found this child so pleasing to the eye.
He was practically a copy of himself, just a little short on strategy, but still countless times more pleasing to the eye than Huo Yuhao next door.
Although the young Tang Wulin and God King Tang Wulin appeared to be the same person, they were practically two different people-two people heading toward opposite extremes.
"Wulin, wait! I can explain! I really have difficulties that leave me no choice!"
Tang Wulin waved his hand.
"I gave you a chance, but now, I don't want to listen, and I can't be bothered to listen. You don't deserve to explain!"
"The way you are now disgusts me!!"
"I want to end the heart-questioning!!!"
The young Tang Wulin did not spare God King Tang Wulin another glance, because he was already utterly disappointed in him.
[Detected that Tang Wulin of the Golden Dragon Aspect wishes to end the heart-questioning early. Dao-questioning has not been triggered... Have you found your heart and the Dao you wish to embark upon?]
Wenxin Livestream forcibly questioned the heart and Dao of Tang Wulin of the Golden Dragon Aspect.
"Seeing my future self, I understand my present self. I've found my heart, and I know the path I will take."
The young Tang Wulin wiped away his tears, his gaze resolute.
"In my world, none of this has happened yet. I must... I must change all of this. I will never sink to becoming the future God King Tang Wulin!"
"Power. I'll master my own power, protect the people I want to protect, and stop these tragedies from repeating themselves. From this day onward, I never want to see that person who fills my heart with disgust again!!"
"He forgot his roots. He forgot everything. I won't!!!"
A golden dragon slowly circled Tang Wulin's entire body.
[Seeing your future self, understanding your present self, awakening to your true heart... enlightenment at the Dragon Field. Child, congratulations on finding your heart. You are about to embark upon your own Dao. Wenxin has received your request... distributing the reward.]
Just then, the Divine Realm rumbled, and the will of the Douluo World made a request.
A beam of golden light erupted from the Divine Realm, from the battlefield remains of the fallen God Clan... the Dragon Clan.
[Congratulations on obtaining the destiny reward: Dragon God Inheritance!]
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