Within Wenxin.
Tang San knelt before Sea God Tang San. Looking at Sea God Tang San's smug expression, he felt his scalp tingle in waves.
He did not know how strong his future self would be, or how strong he could become.
But as for how strong Authentic Yuhao was, the Wenxin Exposure had shown him slaughtering his way through the entire Divine Realm alone.
Even four God Kings joining forces had failed to protect the person Authentic Yuhao wanted to kill.
Had Authentic Yuhao not been in a hurry to wipe out the White Tiger Lineage, it was questionable whether those four God Kings could even have survived.
Yet even then, the entire Divine Realm uniting and four God Kings joining forces had only barely managed to defeat Authentic Yuhao.
And even though they had finally managed to kill him, Authentic Yuhao had succeeded at Wenxin and broken through. His strength would only keep growing.
Wenxin had been livestreamed from start to finish. This utterly idiotic Sea God had exposed everything. The people of the Three Realms, and even Authentic Yuhao and God King Tang Wulin, who had undergone Wenxin, probably knew about it too.
For all he knew, they were already on their way to kill him.
Tang San's mind raced through his options, seeking a foolproof plan. He ran through countless scenarios in his head, trying to work out a sliver of hope for his survival.
"You're fearful, you're trembling, you're afraid?"
"Hehe, isn't it perfectly normal for even an inner demon to fear my pure and spotless self?"
"After all, you little inner demon just happened to run into me in the prime of my life, at the height of my power, currently the strongest in the Divine Realm..."
Sea God Tang San lowered his head arrogantly, looking coldly down at his trembling young inner demon kneeling on the ground as he sneered.
At Sea God Tang San's words, young Tang San jolted, as though something had occurred to him, as though he had caught hold of his last lifeline.
"The strongest in the Divine Realm?"
For some inexplicable reason, Tang San thought of the first Wenxin Livestream, when Authentic Yuhao's former self, Huo Yuhao, had called himself the strongest in the Divine Realm.
Could my future self possess strength like Huo Yuhao's too?
The strength to slaughter my way through the entire Divine Realm alone, so that even all the God Kings together could do nothing to me?
If that were the case, Authentic Yuhao and God King Tang Wulin didn't seem quite so frightening.
Although I might not beat those two working together, keeping myself alive against them shouldn't be a problem, right?
Hearing young Tang San's words, Sea God Tang San raised his head arrogantly.
"Naturally. How could a tiny inner demon like you comprehend my power?"
The next instant, young Tang San spat out questions like a machine gun.
"Can you slaughter your way through the Divine Realm alone?"
"Can you face the combined attacks of four... no, five God Kings alone?"
"Forget it, let me be more specific. Can you withstand an encirclement by two Divine Realms, four God Kings, plus a Supreme God King who commands the power of the Earthly Dao?"
Whoosh!!!
Sea God Tang San whipped his head around to look at Tang San kneeling on the ground. His gaze was strange and uncertain. He felt that something was wrong with his young inner demon.
Wasn't he supposed to question my heart and break my composure?
Could my Dao Heart already be as solid as a rock, leaving him no opening, so he changed directions?
"Ahem, as the strongest in the Divine Realm, I naturally possess the strength to slaughter my way through [the Divine Realm I control]!"
"I unite the Dual Godhood of the Sea God and Asura God. I'm currently the Divine Realm's only Supreme God King."
Sea God Tang San said this without blushing or his heart skipping a beat. Of the Five Great God Kings in the Divine Realm he controlled, only he, Kindness, and Evil remained.
First-Generation Destruction and First-Generation Life had just sacrificed themselves and departed to reincarnate, and the Golden Dragon King had run amok.
Three of the Divine Realm's Five Great God Kings were gone, and the other two were Kindness and Evil, the weakest, who possessed only their God Positions and divine power, without even a single Divine Artifact.
Sea God Tang San truly had not lied. He could indeed slaughter his way through the Divine Realm he controlled.
But faced with young Tang San's second question...
"Why would I fight four or five God Kings?"
"Why would they attack me?"
"Never mind that the Divine Realm doesn't even have that many God Kings now, including me. Why would they fight me in the first place?"
Sea God Tang San raised his head proudly.
"I am the ruler of the Divine Realm, the law-enforcing Asura God..."
Before he could boast about his strength again, Tang San immediately interrupted him.
"You only need to tell me whether you can or can't. No concealment or excuses!"
"I have my reasons for asking."
Tang San stared firmly at Sea God Tang San.
Sea God Tang San frowned and was just about to retort... when streaks of golden law-light suddenly descended and circled him.
"This power, the Dao... could I finally be about to break through to Creation?"
Sea God Tang San was overjoyed. Even the sight of his young inner demon before him became a little more pleasing.
Life's three great joys: reaching the pinnacle of power, breaking through in strength... all that was missing was a dead father-in-law.
"Ahem, do you really think God Kings grow like cabbages? Wouldn't the Five Great God Kings include me? Why would I fight myself?"
"Let me explain it to you properly. There are different levels of power among God Kings too: first-generation law, second-generation God Position successors..."
"Not all God Kings have powerful combat strength. Some have no combat strength... but only a God King empowered by a Super Divine Artifact is truly a God King."
"One first-generation God King can stand against all the second-generation ones... but I happen to be the exception... because I have three."
Boom!!!
Tang San's mind thundered in waves, terror filling his eyes.
All he heard was that a First-Generation God King with a Super Divine Artifact could stand against every second-generation one. Tang San automatically filtered out everything else.
Watching Sea God Tang San continue boasting about his three Super Divine Artifacts on the Wenxin Livestream, everyone in the Three Realms laughed themselves silly.
"Brilliant, three Super Divine Artifacts, so you're the exception among second-generation God Kings, huh...?"
"What awaits you is your son-in-law Authentic Yuhao, who has four Super Divine Artifacts that might already have evolved, wields an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon (Dao Artifact), and is brimming with killing intent, having sworn to kill you!"
"Sea God Tang San, what wonderful three great joys of life: reaching the pinnacle of power as ruler of a realm, breaking through to the Earthly Dao... Authentic Yuhao is only missing a dead father-in-law too, and he'll accomplish that very soon. You don't have much time left!"
Tang San looked at Sea God Tang San, who was still immensely pleased with himself. His expression grew pained, and even his eyes began to show sympathy.
No, no... this is my fucking future self! If my future self gets killed, will I be punished too?
No, no, I have to try to save him. What if that enormous future karma implicates me?
The current Tang San no longer hoped to obtain any Wenxin rewards from Wenxin.
Now, he only hoped that when his future self died, it would not affect him.
"So, as the strongest in the Divine Realm, you said you control the entire Divine Realm Central Hub. All the Deities should obey your commands, right?"
Remembering Sea God Tang San's earlier remark that the Divine Realm he controlled did not even have all Five Great God Kings, young Tang San hesitated slightly, then changed his question.
"With the Divine Realm you control, could you withstand... a joint assault from two worlds stronger than yours?"
Young Tang San had truly racked his brains to save his future self, simply afraid that his future self would splatter blood all over him.
Hearing the question from his young inner-demon self, Sea God Tang San shuddered.
He looked at his younger self, then thought of the Power of the Great Dao that had appeared earlier.
Could this be guidance from the Great Dao?
Inner demon, questioning the heart, questioning the Dao... guidance about the future!
Could the Divine Realm encounter two worlds within the Temporal Turbulence in the future, and even come under attack from both?
Sea God Tang San's eyes flickered. Never had he felt so sheltered by heaven.
The inner demon tribulation, Wenxin-once this ended, my cultivation would break through, and the Great Dao was even protecting me, giving me advance knowledge and guidance about the future.
Sure enough, the Douluo World had been targeting me. Now that I had left the Douluo World with the Divine Realm, my fortune immediately soared as high as heaven.
This was simply the Great Dao's favor...
The Douluo World must already be regretting targeting me and forcing me to leave, right?
After all, without God King Tang's protection, that little world of Douluo would sooner or later...
Looking at his young inner demon, Sea God Tang San pondered for a long time before finally answering.
"Destruction and Life have just sacrificed themselves. They won't return for ten thousand years."
"The Divine Realm now doesn't have even one First Generation. The Five Great God Kings are incomplete. It endured the Golden Dragon King wreaking havoc, then was swept up in temporal turbulence... the Divine Realm is battered by wind and rain. This is the weakest era in its entire history."
Hearing that the Divine Realm his future self controlled was in the weakest era of its history, young Tang San instantly lost his composure.
"Fuck your mother!"
"Then why the fuck did you say so damn much?"
"You kept bragging about how fucking amazing you were, and now you're telling me the Divine Realm you control is the weakest Divine Realm?"
Young Tang San's composure shattered completely. He had tried to stop Sea God Tang San from exposing his schemes, but could not.
He had wanted to ask about his future strength, hoping to suppress Authentic Yuhao and God King Tang Wulin through sheer power, only to find that he was stronger than merely Kindness and Evil, those two useless God Kings who did not even have Divine Artifacts.
He had wanted to rely on his forces to preserve his future life, lest his death implicate his current self, only for Sea God Tang San to tell him that the Divine Realm he controlled was at its weakest point in history.
Tang San could not hold it together. His composure collapsed completely. He had run through over a thousand plans to save his future self, only to discover that his future self was certain to die.
"What the fuck are you showing off for?"
"I'm begging you, pull your weight! If you don't have the strength, can you stop forcing the act?"
"Being the tallest among dwarfs isn't worth all this bragging."
Having lived two lives, Tang San should have been deeply calculating. His combined age was over thirty, and he should have been able to keep his composure easily no matter what he faced.
But Sea God Tang San was frantically courting death and dragging him into it too. He could no longer hold himself together.
Manners? Gone.
His mother? He did not want her anymore. He had not had one in either life anyway.
Since he was going to die regardless, Tang San simply indulged his tongue.
Listening to his young inner demon's abuse, Sea God Tang San's face darkened rapidly.
He was a God King, a God King with Dual Godhood united in one, the Divine Realm's Supreme God King, currently its strongest, the being who controlled the entire Divine Realm. Who dared insult his mother?
Watching young Tang San break down and lose his composure over and over, everyone in the Three Realms could no longer hold it in.
"I felt Tang San's despair. I could also see that he truly wanted to save his future self, but Sea God Tang San really outdid himself."
"Hehe, hahaha, I'm laughing myself silly, I can't take it. Authentic Yuhao is about to fight his way to the Divine Realm Central Hub, and the undead reported that the enemy vanguard has been wiped out, but they still can't find the main army!"
"I can't wait to see Sea God Tang San leave Wenxin and discover that the Divine Realm he schemed for tens of thousands of years to finally control is completely empty."
Clop, clop, clop!!!
The sound of warhorses, of perfectly synchronized hoofbeats, continually rang out beyond the Divine Realm Central Hub.
Divine corpses and divine blood covered the ground...
"My lord, the enemy vanguard has been completely annihilated. Only remnants remain, having retreated to defend the Divine Realm Central Hub. We have yet to locate the enemy's main army!"
Authentic Yuhao silently looked at the Undead Commander, wanting to speak but stopping short...
The next instant, without the slightest hesitation, he raised the Super Divine Artifact in his hand and cleaved open the Old Divine Realm's Central Hub with a single slash.
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