The Douluo I Era.
In a deserted, silent forest near Holy Soul Village.
"With this strike, I announce my arrival!"
"With this strike, I declare your end!!"
"Come... die... with me!!!"
Four-year-old Huo Yuhao suddenly raised the kitchen knife in his hand high overhead. This time, he aimed at his own neck.
Everyone in the Three Realms watching the Wenxin Livestream saw this, and their pupils instantly contracted violently.
"This reckless disregard for his own life, this fury, decisiveness, and hatred aimed solely at hurting his enemy... there's only one person!"
"Divine descent! Huo Yuhao is fucking awesome!!"
Qian Renxue's pupils instantly contracted sharply.
"What kind of hatred could make someone choose to abandon his own life just to take someone else with him?!"
"He's cutting his own body, and he's the one enduring the pain!!"
At Spirit Hall, Qian Daoliu's pupils shook violently.
"Cutting himself to pieces alive, at four years old... this child has an iron will. He's this ruthless even toward himself. He must never be provoked!!!"
The moment they saw this, everyone's scalp prickled again and again.
The sharp kitchen knife in Huo Yuhao's hand sliced through his throat, and blood sprayed wildly.
On the Divine Realm battlefield, Sea God Tang San's eyes instantly bulged as though their corners would split.
"Bastard!"
"What the hell are you doing?!!"
"Fuck, can someone rein in this lunatic?!!!"
Sea God Tang San felt a pain in his throat. The next instant, the words he still wanted to say caught in his throat, and he watched in terror as his figure slowly began to fade.
Just then, a beam of golden light descended instantly, locking onto Huo Yuhao, who was still in the Douluo I Era.
[A bug has been detected in Life Exchange. A participant is about to die... applying a patch and fixing the bug.]
Wenxin had never imagined this. The original purpose of Life Exchange had been to keep the Wenxin Protagonists from being killed prematurely. After all, once their life experiences were exposed, enemies might come knocking. They might even continue down their life's path and gain access to shortcuts ahead of time.
But Wenxin had never imagined that Huo Yuhao was a madman. After learning through Wenxin Exposure about his experiences, his mother's death, and even the schemes awaiting him in the future, along with Sea God Tang San's interference and arrangements, he would decisively torture and even kill himself.
Before anyone else could target him, he was already trying to kill himself. This outcome left Wenxin utterly dumbfounded, and it immediately appeared to apply a patch and fix the bug.
[Fixing the Life Exchange bug. Your bodies will now be exchanged along with your souls. Agree to exchange immediately; if you refuse, they will merge...]
"Cough, cough... bleurgh!!!"
With the knife lodged in his neck, Huo Yuhao was covered in blood, vomiting mouthful after mouthful of it as his consciousness gradually blurred.
On the verge of death, Huo Yuhao could not help thinking of his mother.
The power of emotions erupted instantly, forcibly pulling Huo Yuhao's consciousness, which was about to lapse into unconsciousness, back into his body.
"Mom, Mom... I, I still haven't avenged you."
"No, I can't die. I still have to return to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion alive, avenge Mom, and cut off the White Tiger Lineage!!"
"I agree, I agree... I want my body exchanged over too."
The Peerless Era.
The White Tiger Duke's Mansion.
"Why, why, why do they have to bully me? I clearly... clearly haven't done anything!!!"
"This body is too weak, too weak. I still can't beat them. I still can't defeat them and protect Mom..."
Tang Wulin was covered in wounds. Thinking of his mother's worried gaze, he endured the pain and covered his injuries with his clothes, forcing a smile onto his face.
Just as he was about to push open the door and return to the courtyard, a prompt suddenly rang through his mind.
[Huo Yuhao has requested to exchange bodies back. Do you agree?]
Looking at the prompt before him, Tang Wulin thought of Huo Yuhao's blood-red eyes.
"Senior Yuhao exchanged lives with Tang San. Now that he wants his own body back, something really must have happened to Tang San's body."
Thinking that his adoptive parents' souls might already have been erased by Tang San's Divided Soul in the future, Tang Wulin then thought of Tang San being tortured by Huo Yuhao, and waves of satisfaction suddenly welled up within him.
"I agree!"
[Since Huo Yuhao, Tang San, and Tang Wulin are in the exchanged time period before Wenxin, Wenxin forcibly opened up a period they had already experienced. In other words, they are reliving the period from their birth until before Wenxin. This is to make them fully become part of another world. They cannot currently see the Wenxin Livestream either.]
As a flash of light passed, Tang Wulin felt his body suddenly lighten. The next instant, his own body was slowly disappearing, and his soul flew into the air.
In the Douluo I Era, Huo Yuhao, whose entire body had been in pain, suddenly felt waves of coolness, weakness, and hunger.
He lowered his head and looked. The wounds that had covered him and the pain of being sliced apart and having his bones scraped had vanished, replaced by a small, frail body.
"Is... is this my body?"
The moment he obtained his own body, Huo Yuhao felt his whole body shudder. The next instant, the dense Soul Power between heaven and earth, countless streams of golden fortune within the world, and the world's power surged toward him wildly.
"Child, child, my child... has actually been born ten thousand years early!"
The world was cheering, and terrifying fortune swirled around Huo Yuhao.
Slaughter City.
At the site of the Divine God Inheritance, the Asura God suddenly frowned.
"A variable?"
"Wait, how did the person I chose become this child?!!"
"No, no, the world's favor and fortune surround him. Haha, this child is destined by heaven to inherit my God Position!!!"
The Asura God had initially been puzzled. His chosen one's fate clearly had not changed, so where had he gone? The next instant, seeing the world's favor and fortune surrounding the child, he decisively chose to carry the mistake through to the end.
As long as the beginning was right, the process did not matter. All that mattered was that someone ultimately inherited his Asura God Position.
Besides, with the world's favor and fortune surrounding him, the child was destined to become a god. He would not even have to toil away intervening, working himself to death to personally support the child in inheriting his Asura God Position.
Sea God Island.
The Sea God also sensed the changes in the Douluo World and the gathering fortune, and decisively sent down a divine decree.
Bo Saixi stared blankly.
"Wait, wait, something doesn't seem right!"
"Wasn't Tang San supposed to be the Sea God??"
"Why has Lord Sea God suddenly changed his mind and decided to pass his God Position on to... the person favored by the world, at the center of its fortune?!!!"
Spirit Hall.
The Angel Temple.
As Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue watched the Wenxin Livestream, the Angel God's voice slowly sounded in their minds.
"The world is favoring that child. That child bears great fortune. Under his leadership, the Douluo World will flourish with renewed life."
"To oppose him is to oppose the world, to oppose the World Will. Do not make an enemy of that child."
Under the influence of fortune, Old Jack, the chief of Holy Soul Village, who had been feeling drowsy, suddenly wanted to take a walk. Then he found Huo Yuhao unconscious in the forest.
"Child, what happened to you?!"
"Hang in there!!"
"Child, if you no longer have any family in this world, then settle down in my Holy Soul Village. Think of me as your grandfather. As long as Grandpa has a bite to eat, I'll never let you go hungry."
(Many years later.
Old Jack, now a frail centenarian, looked at the statue of Huo Yuhao at the village entrance and the sign bearing the name God Soul Village.
"I adopted a god!"
The next instant, he was brought to the Divine Realm to enjoy eternal life.)
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