It Wasn't His Fault-He Had No Choice!

"If I hadn't stepped in and taken his mother's soul, that teacher of his could have brought the dead back to life, put flesh on bare bones, and resurrected Huo Yuhao's dead mother outright. If his mother came back to life, what would there be left for me to do???"

Sea God Tang San screamed himself hoarse, accusing the World Will and fate of injustice.

"The World Will wasn't even pretending anymore. Its support for Huo Yuhao never stopped."

"It even sent over the soul of an expert from a world one level above the Douluo World. Wasn't that just to resurrect his mother ahead of time?"

"But without my nod, without the consent of Sea God Tang San, that would never happen!!"

"Once I realized that Huo Yuhao was someone the World Will had cultivated to oppose me in the future, to rebel against me, I began targeting him even more cruelly... suppressing his destiny..."

Sea God Tang San waved his hand smugly.

"I secretly controlled the soul left in the deepest recesses of Wang Dong'er's heart-the person he liked at the time-and invited him into the Clear Sky Sect. Using the contingency I'd left in the Clear Sky Sect... I completely obliterated his teacher's soul."

"I cut off Huo Yuhao's beautiful dream of resurrecting his mother ahead of time."

"Fortunately, fortunately, he was only a wisp of a remnant soul, not in his complete state. Otherwise, I would have had to descend to the lower realm myself."

In the World Sea, at the center of the Undead Army surrounding the Old Divine Realm.

Authentic Yuhao's pupils shook violently. His chest instantly began heaving, his heart racing. With a beckon of one hand... a strange Undead Scepter appeared, and he clenched it tightly in his palm.

The brutality in his heart nearly made the darkened Authentic Yuhao lose all reason and charge into the Old Divine Realm regardless of everything.

But he still held back. Yet his endurance had reached its limit, and he could erupt at any moment.

Within Wenxin.

Sea God Tang San's cold laughter rang out.

"Heh, that laughable World Will. Wasn't it just trying to borrow the power of a world higher than the Douluo World to forcibly escape my control?"

"Unfortunately, it miscalculated. I'd already accounted for everything."

"But the World Will continued resisting. You know Wang Qiu'er? Before, I couldn't understand why a Soul Beast could share a bond of fate with the Child of Destiny. But after hearing Tang Wulin appear in your Wenxin, I understood."

"Wasn't the World Will just trying to find Huo Yuhao a powerful backer in the Divine Realm? Marry the Soul Beast Clan's Auspicious Beast to Huo Yuhao and revive the Soul Beast Clan along the way. Unfortunately, I snuffed out that budding possibility the moment it appeared."

The Douluo I era, the Peerless Era, the Dragon King Era... the Soul Beast Clan instantly erupted.

Tang San stared at Sea God Tang San in horror.

"That, I know about that. You fused with Wang Qiu'er's..."

Sea God Tang San smiled.

"Fused? No... that was just the mild way to put it. The less mild way was... devoured!"

"The Power of Fate, the Golden Dragon Bloodline... the Golden Dragon King. A pity-the World Will almost succeeded."

Sea God Tang San raised his hand, his gaze brimming with wisdom. It was a look that sent a chill through everyone.

"After that, I suppressed Huo Yuhao relentlessly. Tests of love, using severance and letting go... distance makes the heart grow fonder... he finally became a good son-in-law in my eyes. An obedient... dog!!!"

"He became my subordinate, the Tang Family's foremost loyal hound, and the most obedient blade I wielded against other powers!"

Tang San's body shook, his soul trembling as he thought of Authentic Yuhao's power to overturn the Divine Realm.

"Weren't you afraid... he'd take revenge?"

Whoosh!

Sea God Tang San turned his cold gaze toward his younger self, whom he regarded as an inner demon.

"Revenge?"

"I did consider that. Rank-ten Soul Power at eleven, godhood at twenty-six, a Million-Year Soul Ring, Ferocious Beast Soul Rings... with foundations like those, if I let him stay in the lower realm and establish a Self-Created Godhood, or if the World Will intervened... I wouldn't be able to control him."

"But I wouldn't give him that chance. I let him learn about a certain First-Level God in the Divine Realm beforehand, then had that god pretend to be considering finding a successor. He went. Huo Yuhao accepted the inheritance of the God of Emotion, a First-Level God, and his power was firmly restricted to the First-Level God rank."

"He was destined never to escape the palm of my hand for his entire life."

Boom!!!

Everyone's mind once again rang with wave after wave of thunder.

Their souls began trembling, terror filling their eyes.

"Is this fucker even human? Fuck, I finally understand what Huo Yuhao said before he became Authentic Yuhao. He had no choice. He really couldn't do it."

"What kind of fucking hellish start was this? He was trapped in someone's schemes from the very beginning. His Innate Soul Power at birth was schemed against, his mother's death was schemed against, even what faction he joined, what academy he entered, who he met... his God Position..."

"Huo Yuhao, we blamed you unfairly. You're a real fucking man, surviving under circumstances like these!!!"

The young Tang San's face twisted with agony as he looked at Sea God Tang San, who boasted that he had accounted for everything.

"Weren't you afraid all of this would be exposed?"

A smile slowly curled at the corners of Sea God Tang San's mouth.

Sea God Tang San raised his head proudly.

"That question of yours is indeed interesting. So... after he ascended, I held his mother's soul in my hands, along with the person he loved most!"

"With my own hands, I pulled out his fangs, stripped out his proud bones, crushed his dignity, and forced him... to change his surname and acknowledge his ancestral roots, utterly breaking all his spirit!!"

Rumble!!!

When Sea God Tang San casually spoke of scheming against Huo Yuhao just after his ascension, forcing Huo Yuhao to acknowledge his ancestral roots and change his surname, pulling out Huo Yuhao's fangs, stripping out his proud bones, crushing his dignity, forcing him to change his surname and acknowledge his ancestral roots, and breaking all his spirit.

Everyone watching the Wenxin Livestream was dumbstruck.

Truly dumbstruck. Beyond all the previous Wenxin sessions and shocks... they were all dumbstruck.

"What's the best way to destroy a high-spirited Deity? My answer is to force him to change his surname... and acknowledge his ancestral roots!"

"Huo Yuhao, did you see this? We saw it. When you said no one understood you, there was so much suffering hidden behind those words!!"

"Wenxin, are you trying to kill me?"

"I used to hate Huo Yuhao. I hated him for betraying his younger self, hated him for forgetting his youthful vows, hated him for having no temper at all, hated him for being the God King's Son-in-law, hated him for changing his surname. And now you're telling me... what Huo Yuhao really was!!!"

If Huo Yuhao had previously made everyone resent him for failing to stand up for himself, loathe him, and feel sickened by him, then when the hidden truth burst forth.

Everyone involuntarily recalled the sight of Huo Yuhao breaking down in tears before his younger self, neither dodging nor evading as his younger self stabbed him with a knife, abandoning all his defenses, never once dodging his own fists, weeping.

At that moment, everyone wanted to pause, pick up a tissue, and wipe away Huo Yuhao's tears.

"It wasn't his fault!"

"It really wasn't his fault!!"

"He had no choice. He really had no choice!!!"