Chapter 27: Sea God Tang San's Single Move Harmed Three Worthies and Shocked the Three Realms!
"Damn you, Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon! You actually dared to disguise yourself as me and wreak havoc on the continent! Today, I, the Sea God and Asura God, Dual Godhood in One, the Divine Realm Spokesperson, Supreme God King, and Divine Realm God of Law Enforcement, shall cleanse you, an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon, on behalf of the Divine Realm and the Douluo World, and restore a clear sky and bright heavens to the world!!!"
The formerly sinister Sea God Tang San of the Divine Realm transformed into the embodiment of justice. Every word dripped with righteousness, every other phrase was "Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon," and his face was filled with fury. With a beckon of one hand, the Super Divine Artifact, the Sea God Trident, appeared, and he stepped forward to stab his younger self to death.
Inside the Wenxin Livestream, broadcast across the Three Realms, everyone was dumbstruck at the sight.
"Amazing, amazing! Able to bend and stretch as circumstances demand-is this our Lord Sea God?"
"Heh, hahahaha! I'm dying of laughter! That damned will to survive! That genius Sea God Tang San probably still doesn't know the person standing before him, looking exactly like his younger self, really is his past self, does he??"
"I've seen people in Wenxin break down after learning what they would do in the future and want to perish together with their future selves, jade and stone burning alike.
"I've also seen people who, upon seeing in Wenxin that their future selves had accomplished nothing, wanted to kill them.
"But this is the first time I've seen someone whose true nature was exposed in the future try to kill his past self to salvage his image."
A reversal, another reversal, and yet another.
But when Sea God Tang San learned of the Wenxin Livestream's existence and discovered that everyone in the Three Realms knew about the schemes he had spoken of earlier, then angrily tried to pin the blame on his past self's identity as an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon, everyone burst out laughing.
"Sea God Tang San, don't you dare!"
"Here in Wenxin, I'm your past self! If you kill me, your present self will disappear too!!"
"This is Sea God Tang San's true nature! His mouth is full of schemes, all for his own power and prospects! His crimes are utterly monstrous! Everyone, don't believe Sea God Tang San's nonsense! I am me, and he is him! I will never become like him in the future!!!"
Seeing that, after everything was exposed, his future self, Sea God Tang San, wanted to kill him to silence him and dump all the blame on him, Tang San instantly felt a wave of familiarity.
The Tang Sect Rules instantly surfaced in both Sea God Tang San's and the young Tang San's minds.
[Tang Sect · Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record General Outline · Third Rule.] [Once you have confirmed that your opponent is an enemy, as long as they have a path to death, there is no need to show mercy. Otherwise, you will only bring yourself more trouble.]
Seeing that Sea God Tang San truly intended to kill him, the young Tang San instantly broke down and hurled all Sea God Tang San's dirty water back at him, making a particularly clear distinction: he was himself, and Sea God Tang San was Sea God Tang San.
"You damned Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon! You still dare to bewitch people's hearts!"
"What nonsense is this about me disappearing if I kill you? About you being you and me being me? Damn you, have you started spouting gibberish just to stay alive??"
"You utterly wicked Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon, you already have a path to death!!!"
The Super Divine Artifact, the Sea God Trident, in Sea God Tang San's hand instantly erupted with dazzling light.
"Today, I shall represent the Divine Realm and the world in exterminating you, an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon!!!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Sea God Tang San gripped the Super Divine Artifact, the Sea God Trident, and viciously thrust it at the young Tang San's kidney.
What the young Tang San had said earlier had still given Sea God Tang San misgivings. A calculating gleam flashed through his eyes, so his first thrust targeted the kidney rather than the chest or head. It would hurt badly and could even cause the loss of certain functions and leave scars.
If everything the young Tang San said was true, and his death would kill his future self, then any injuries he suffered should carry over as well.
If it left a hidden ailment that robbed him of certain functions, Tang Wutong and Tang Wulin would cease to exist too. With those two children gone, the crisis caused by the schemes he had voiced today would collapse without being attacked.
If he did not even have children, how could he have schemed to make the Child of Destiny his son-in-law? How could he have used his own son as fishing bait to hook the Golden Dragon King's power?
In that brief span, after careful deliberation, Sea God Tang San instantly found a way to salvage his image.
If there was no effect, he would simply deny the schemes he had spoken of earlier, splash all the dirty water onto the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Tang San, and refuse to admit anything.
If it was true, this move would directly cripple his remaining ability, and Huo Yuhao and Tang Wulin would disappear and cease to exist. He could freely claim he had never done those things.
In an instant, Sea God Tang San's terrifying capacity for calculation had placed him back on the moral high ground. No matter what happened, he stood upon an undefeated summit.
"Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon, die!!!"
Seeing the murderous intent and calculation in Sea God Tang San's eyes, the young Tang San's eyes instantly widened, and waves of prickling dread swept over his scalp.
Although the current Tang San had lived two lives and was mentally over thirty, he had not yet become a god, had not yet discarded his humanity, and had not experienced the plotting and scheming of Sea God Tang San tens of thousands of years later. He simply could not imagine that, in a single instant, Sea God Tang San had laid out a series of peerless killing moves.
Squelch~!!!
The Sea God Trident plunged viciously into Tang San's waist, and Sea God Divine Power swept through him, instantly shredding one kidney.
Tang San was afraid. Tang San was truly afraid. Sea God Tang San really had no honor in combat. He really would bully the young with his seniority. He really would kill him.
"Wenxin, save me!!!"
A golden beam instantly fell upon Tang San.
Sea God Tang San felt a sudden, vicious pain in his own waist, and shock flashed through his eyes.
"It's true, it's true. It's all true..."
Withdrawing the Sea God Trident, Sea God Tang San closed his eyes in deep thought.
"The world as the board, all living beings as the pieces!"
In his mind, he reviewed the Wenxin Livestream's notifications, its rules, and even its records over and over. At last, within the River of Time, he seized a single thread of survival and perfected his invincible public image.
The next instant, under Sea God Tang San's stunned gaze, Tang San's horrified gaze, and the terrified gazes of the Three Realms, Wenxin Exposure appeared.
[Detected: Prime Culprit Sea God Tang San is using the world as his board and all living beings as his pieces!] [Now exposing how Prime Culprit Sea God Tang San harmed three worthies with a single scheme!!]
Wenxin Exposure flickered faintly, and Sea God Tang San's inner voice instantly appeared.
["What does he mean, killing my past self will make my present self disappear? And what does he mean, you are you and I am me? These are simply heaven-defying questions that violate temporal causality. I don't believe it, but I can't actually kill him. What if? What if he's telling the truth?? I have to leave myself a way out!"]
[*"Stab his waist, carve out his kidney without anesthetic, and cripple his reproductive function. If he's telling the truth, my present self won't disappear, and it won't affect me at all. The pleasure of thrusting in and out with Xiao Wu won't disappear.
*"Tang Wutong and Tang Wulin will disappear in the past. Huo Yuhao will no longer be my live-in son-in-law, and I won't become someone who uses his own children as fishing bait to scheme over everything. I can simply deny ever doing those things.
"After all, in the original timeline, I won't even have children. I can also erase two formidable enemies at their source and shore up my public image before it collapses."]
["If what he said is false, heh... even my past self is fake, so why can't what I said be fake too? I just have to push every crime onto the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon. I'll still be the Pure and Spotless Sea God Tang San, with the added merit of having killed an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon."]
Rumble~!!!
When Wenxin Exposure revealed the single move that harmed three worthies, the Wenxin Livestream instantly exploded.
"Incredible, incredible! Lord Sea God is incredible! He calculated everything in just two and a half minutes! Lord Sea God, your brain really does work well!"
"My scalp is crawling. Sea God Tang San isn't even human anymore! Using his own children in his schemes was bad enough, but now he can even harden his heart and scheme against his past self. His title of Prime Culprit is beyond question!!"
"Lord Sea God, Lord God King, Third Young Master, I admire you!!!"
When Wenxin exposed Tang San's wish to completely erase his grievances with Huo Yuhao at their source, and even the existence of his own two children, everyone's scalp prickled in waves, and their pupils contracted violently.
They knew, they had thought, that Sea God Tang San hated deeply, but they had never imagined he could be this ruthless.
To preserve his public image and keep his reputation from collapsing, he actually intended to erase his own children with his own hands, and had even included his past self in the scheme.
"Madman, madman, madman!"
"Sea God Tang San, what on earth are you doing!!"
"Have you forgotten that family was what you yearned for most? You're killing them with your own hands now!!!"
Clutching his kidney, the young Tang San stared at Sea God Tang San in terror.
Sea God Tang San instantly froze in place, staring blankly at Wenxin Exposure. He had never imagined that his perfect plan would be exposed.
[Prime Culprit Sea God Tang San, your world is neither the final world of the timeline nor Wenxin's main world. Those whose appearance is already established have already appeared; once affirmed, forever affirmed. [You cannot destroy them at their source. Even if you destroy your kidney, the pain will merely fall upon you, and those you kill will merely be your children in another timeline.]
Outside Wenxin, upon the God King Throne in the Divine Realm Central Hub.
Authentic Yuhao tightened his grip on his Blade of Reincarnation.
"You want to sever the grievances between us?"
"But Mom's departure, Teacher's departure, Dong'er... Qiu'er..."
"The harm you inflicted on me has already happened. The present you cannot sever this causality. Once Wenxin ends... you must die!!!"
Outside the Divine Realm Central Hub.
God King Tang Wulin watched the Wenxin Livestream in his mind and sank into utter despair. Fury completely engulfed his reason.
Terrifying power of Destruction blazed in the Old Divine Realm.
"Why, why, why...!"
"If you hate me so much, why did you bring me into the world? Did you only give birth to me so I could repay the debt of gratitude I owed you!!"
"Or was it merely to... torment me!!!"
The power of Destruction shone dazzlingly in God King Tang Wulin's eyes as he descended into utter madness.
Inside Wenxin.
Sea God Tang San stared blankly at the exposure footage, thoughts racing through his mind. At last, the corners of his mouth lifted slightly.
"So what if my reputation has collapsed?"
"The Wenxin Livestream only reflects the Three Realms, and all three of those worlds are already in the past to me. It cannot affect the Divine Realm I inhabit. In my world, in everyone's eyes, I'm still that Pure and Spotless God King Tang!!"
"The God of Emotion is still Huo Yuhao, and he still has to address me as Father-in-law when he sees me. Tang Wulin hasn't become a god yet, and even if he does, he'll still have to call me Dad. The Wenxin Livestream... heh, it still can't affect me. Nothing but a joke!!!"
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