Soul Land: Soul-Searching Swaps—Why Is Everyone Breaking Down?
Chapter 40

Tang Wulin Turned Dark and Went on a Killing Rampage-Evil Electrolux Appeared!

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Chapter 39: Tang Wulin Turned Completely Dark and Went on a Killing Rampage-Evil Electrolux Appeared!

"Cough, cough... heh, hahahaha!!!"

God King Tang Wulin's expression went from excitement, shock, and terror to utter madness.

"Yes, yes, yes!"

"Na'er is Na'er, and Gu Yue is Gu Yue. How could they, how could anyone, how could they be treated as the same person?"

Watching Na'er retreat frantically in terror, the last thread holding God King Tang Wulin together finally snapped.

"Meeting Na'er again in Wenxin could never compare to seeing my little sister in my youth!"

God King Tang Wulin threw his head back, tears spilling uncontrollably from the corners of his eyes.

He had seen Na'er again.

But Na'er was no longer that Na'er.

His little sister was no longer the little sister who belonged to him.

"Aaaargh!!!"

"God King Tang Wulin, you're nothing but trash! Anyone who stays with you suffers!! You were born amid disaster-you are disaster itself!!!"

His life flashed rapidly through his mind.

His little sister in his youth-he had failed to protect her. His mom and dad-he had failed to resurrect them. His friends-they were all gone.

His own father had used him as bait, scheming over everything.

Even though he had met Na'er again, Na'er was no longer his little sister. She was the young Tang Wulin's little sister.

What did he have left?

His wife, Life God King Gu Yuena?

But she had helped Sea God Tang San instead of him.

So what if he had become a God King standing high above others in the Divine Realm? His life was nothing but a joke.

In the Wenxin Livestream, everyone in the Three Realms fell utterly silent as they watched God King Tang Wulin lose his mind.

"Ah! When you think about it, God King Tang Wulin was a tragedy. He did none of what he should have done and everything he shouldn't have. By the time he realized it, there was nothing he could do anymore."

"God King Tang Wulin can only grieve in vain... the era that belonged to him has already passed."

"His own father used him to bait the waters. All his tragedies and disasters came from his own father. He never found his little sister, never resurrected his parents, and lost all his friends. Even his wife stood against him in the divine war..."

"This tells us that when choosing a wife, even a slightly foolish one who only cares about you and sides with her loved ones rather than reason is better than one who sides with outsiders."

New Divine Realm.

Evil, whom Wenxin had resurrected, abruptly turned toward Kindness, his gaze shifting uncertainly.

It seemed First-Generation Destruction and Life had been like this too. Life had supported Sea God Tang San like a woman possessed, and in the end, Destruction had failed to win the factional power struggle. Otherwise, whether the Divine Realm would still have ended up under Sea God Tang San's control was uncertain.

He himself had later been stabbed in the back by Sea God Tang San too.

Undead World.

Authentic Yuhao looked at the butterfly in his hand.

"Damn you, Sea God Tang San! You actually devoured Dong'er's soul and replaced her with Tang Wutong. No wonder she wouldn't help me. I'm no man if I don't avenge this!!!"

Old Divine Realm.

Sea God Tang San, reduced to a remnant soul, had actually made a faint, uncanny connection through Wenxin with his Divided Soul in the lower realm.

"What? My past self actually got my son God King Tang Wulin's script?"

Sea God Tang San watched Gu Yue and Na'er in their separated state from the Dragon King Era on the Wenxin Livestream, deep calculation flashing through his eyes.

"If the Silver Dragon King didn't take human form, I really couldn't do anything to her. But she did, and she even has a human consciousness. Isn't she just handing herself over?"

"Use the God of Love's power immediately. The Silver Dragon King, the Golden Dragon King... I'll soon have two more peak God King combatants on my side. Help me up-I can still cook!"

Inside the Heart-Questioning Space.

"Older Brother, big brother, can you find a way to send me back to Older Brother?"

Just as God King Tang Wulin was breaking down, Na'er's small, fair hand slowly took hold of him.

God King Tang Wulin, who had blamed every sin on himself, suddenly shuddered all over and turned toward the pitiful-looking Na'er.

God King Tang Wulin saw the pleading in Na'er's eyes, and for that instant, his grieving heart grew calm.

"Na'er... Na'er, do you want to go to Older Brother?"

Na'er nodded frantically.

"I do. Na'er does. Na'er wants to stay with Older Brother. Na'er regrets the wager. Na'er doesn't want to stay in a world without Older Brother."

God King Tang Wulin slowly turned toward the Wounded Soul Beast Co-Master, the Silver Dragon King, and Gu Yue.

"Then Older Brother will kill them for you."

"As long as they're dead, you'll be the only Na'er. When Wenxin questions you, just say you want to go to a world where Older Brother is. That'll be enough."

God King Tang Wulin had figured it out. Even if he could no longer change or reverse things, his past self could.

He was trash, but he couldn't let his past self be trash too.

His regrets could no longer be undone, but his past self could undo his.

"Let me bear everything. In this life... I can't suffer anymore!!!"

Seeing the killing intent in God King Tang Wulin's eyes, all three dragons panicked.

God King Tang Wulin was a true God King of the Divine Realm, and one with a Super Divine Artifact at that. With the Life God King beside him, there were two God Kings. How were they supposed to fight that?

They consisted of a wounded Soul Beast Sovereign who could barely qualify as a First-Level God, a Silver Dragon King who was half a step from God King, and a human-form Gu Yue whose power had been divided away and who couldn't even summon the Silver Dragon Spear.

"We can only end Wenxin. Damn it, we absolutely cannot repeat the same mistakes!"

The Wounded Soul Beast Co-Master and the Silver Dragon King exchanged glances before finally turning their eyes toward Gu Yue, the only one who could change the outcome.

Gu Yue panicked.

"Wait, why are you looking at me like that? I'm Gu Yue, not Gu Yuena, and certainly not the Life God King. I absolutely won't become the Tang Family's daughter-in-law either!"

Finally, Gu Yue turned a fierce gaze on Life God King Gu Yuena.

"I will never become someone like you. I don't care about the wager anymore. Once I return, I'll reclaim the power that belongs to me, kill that child, devour the Golden Dragon King Power, and become the new Dragon God!"

Hearing Gu Yue's words, the Wounded Soul Beast Co-Master and the Silver Dragon King let out long sighs of relief.

"Take this!"

"I'll lend you my Silver Dragon Spear."

"I'm sleeping and recuperating in the Lake of Life during the Douluo I era anyway."

In the end, the Wounded Soul Beast Co-Master handed over her Silver Dragon Spear. The battle between God Kings never happened after all, because all three of them chose to withdraw from Wenxin at once.

[Have you all found your own paths?]

"Revive the Dragon Clan, bring about the rise of Soul Beasts, and never become the Tang Family's daughter-in-law!"

The three gave different answers.

[What about you, Na'er?]

God King Tang Wulin sighed and slowly released Na'er's hand.

"I want to go to a world where Older Brother is."

[Emperor Auspicious Beast, Three-Eyed Golden Lion, Wenxin Wang Qiu'er!]

The second Wenxin.

A noble-looking Soul Beast with three eyes slowly stepped into the Heart-Questioning Space.

"I'll only ask you one thing."

"Have you ever felt regret?"

"Regret, regret... of course I regret it!"

"If only I'd met him sooner, instead of him meeting someone else first!!"

"I wouldn't be called Wang Qiu'er, and I wouldn't be someone else's shadow!!!"

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion saw the tears in Wang Qiu'er's eyes.

"I understand."

"Exchange, exchange... I want to go to a world where he exists!"

"I want to see just what kind of person will hurt me to the point of breaking down in the future!"

A voice instantly rang through the minds of the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Na'er.

[Both parties have agreed to the exchange. You will undergo a Life Exchange...]

[With the blessing of the Power of Fate, a person of destiny will be randomly selected to fill the vacancy in fate.]

The Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Na'er instantly underwent a Life Exchange, descending into Douluo I and Peerless, while a certain little rabbit in Douluo I was transported to the Dragon King Era just after taking human form.

Next, Tang San in the Dragon King Era would face his body bursting from the Golden Dragon King... and pursuit by Gu Yue, who lacked any humanity and wanted only to devour his power...

All the suffering of Tang Wulin's original life would be inherited by his biological father, Tang San.

Meanwhile, Tang Wulin wasn't having an easy time either, because he had received Huo Yuhao's script. Just how miserable Huo Yuhao's childhood had been had already been demonstrated to everyone.

Wenxin did not begin questioning Qian Renxue's heart.

Instead, it directly split off three enormous Life Exchange screens.

Huo Yuhao in the Douluo I era was adopted by Old Jack. With the World Will's favor, the whole of Holy Soul Village began developing rapidly and gradually grew prosperous.

Peerless Era.

Following Huo Yuhao's script, Tang Wulin endured the six most tragic years of his life.

The script was fixed. Although his Martial Soul was no longer Spiritual Eyes, his Innate Soul Power was still that laughable level one.

It was even lower than it had been during the Dragon King Era.

"Trash, you've dragged down the bottom line of the entire White Tiger Duke's Mansion!"

"A whore's child deserves to die!!"

"Why are you still alive?!!!"

Facing the mockery of everyone in the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, Tang Wulin clenched both fists tightly.

He didn't cry, because he knew tears wouldn't earn their sympathy.

Until someone began punching and kicking him.

"So noisy, so noisy. Why... why are they so loud!"

Under six years of oppression, Tang Wulin's endurance had long since reached its limit.

The only reason he hadn't fought back before was that his body hadn't been strong enough.

His current body was not Huo Yuhao's frail one.

"Enough!!!"

"All of you, shut your mouths!!!"

"Roar!!!"

With a dragon's roar, Tang Wulin slapped a Soul Elder flying, and the entire place instantly fell silent.

Everyone stared in terror at Tang Wulin, whose right hand had transformed into a dragon claw.

The reason was simple. Although Tang Wulin had only just awakened his Martial Soul and had a pitiful single level of Soul Power, he carried the Dragon God Inheritance. In his fury, his Dragon God Bloodline had already begun to partially awaken.

There were no flashy techniques, only raw stats. His left hand was strong, and his right was even stronger, enough to send a Soul Elder flying with a single punch.

Under everyone's dumbfounded gazes, Tang Wulin headed straight back to his little home.

But the sight of Huo Yun'er covered in injuries instantly broke him.

"Mom!"

Tang Wulin threw himself into Huo Yun'er's arms and wept, because this was his mother, the mother who had given birth to him and raised him.

Having received Huo Yuhao's life script, Tang Wulin had vividly experienced the same events and moments of life as Huo Yuhao. He felt the same deep affection for Huo Yun'er that he did for his own adoptive parents.

Especially with the entire White Tiger Duke's Mansion maliciously targeting him, only his mother protected him, and only his mother loved him. Almost exactly like Huo Yuhao, Tang Wulin had come to regard his mother as his everything.

(Like the others whose lives had been exchanged, Huo Yuhao's case was entirely an accident. He had run into someone as neglectful as Tang Hao, and Huo Yuhao himself deeply loathed the role of his own Dai Hao [father], wishing he could kill him and be done with it. It could be said that not immediately committing suicide after the Life Exchange, but instead repaying two years of care, was already the last of Huo Yuhao's kindness.)

"Wulin, Wulin, my child, my good child. It's all my fault. It's my fault I wasn't born into better circumstances, that I couldn't give you a chance... to live with dignity..."

Hearing Huo Yun'er's words, Tang Wulin broke down again, clenching his fists tightly as he thought of Huo Yun'er's death a few years later.

"Mom, Mom, let's run away!"

Late one quiet night, Tang Wulin fled with Huo Yun'er.

They escaped to a small town dozens of kilometers from the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.

Tang Wulin knew Huo Yuhao's script. He knew that if they didn't flee, Huo Yun'er would sooner or later die in the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.

What he hadn't expected was that the script had already been written. All his resistance was futile; instead, it would only bring things forward.

After their escape, their lives gradually improved.

Huo Yun'er mended clothes for people and took odd jobs... their household gradually accumulated some savings, and they no longer lived from one uncertain meal to the next.

Tang Wulin also gradually began earning money through blacksmithing, but because of his Dragon God Bloodline, he ate an enormous amount and had no choice but to risk entering the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Beasts to survive.

On his way home from one hunt, Tang Wulin suddenly spotted several familiar figures bullying a little silver-haired girl.

Tang Wulin recognized those familiar figures as guards from the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, people who had once bullied him and his mother. His heart instantly sank, and he initially wanted to ignore them.

But just one glance at that little silver-haired girl froze Tang Wulin in place.

"Let her go!!!"

Roar!!!

Tang Wulin instantly activated Raging Blood Mode and charged into the crowd, felling one with each punch.

"Older Brother!"

Na'er looked up in delight, and the instant she saw it was Tang Wulin, she burst into loud sobs.

"Oh? So it's that piece of trash, the child born to that whore!"

"Get lost, trash. The second young master has taken a liking to this little girl. Becoming his maid is her good fortune!!"

Dai Huabin raised his head coldly.

"Garbage. Beat him!"

"Bring him and that bitch of a mother of hers back to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion! How dare you steal what I had my eye on-"

Bang!

A claw formed from a golden dragon instantly seized Dai Huabin's face with savage force. Dai Huabin went flying backward and fell to the ground like a dead dog.

"You're asking to die!!!"

Two and a half minutes later, people with broken arms and legs lay all over the ground. Tang Wulin was covered in wounds and brimming with viciousness, his blood-red eyes filled with boundless killing intent.

"Noisy! Noisy!! Noisy!!!"

"Why are you all so annoying? I really want to, really want to... kill you all!!!"

Dai Huabin lay on the ground, a bloody mess. As he watched Tang Wulin leave with Na'er, his blood-red eyes filled with killing intent.

"Just wait, just wait... I'll... cripple you!!!"

After bringing Na'er home, Tang Wulin looked at Huo Yun'er apprehensively.

"Mom, can we adopt Na'er? She's really well-behaved!"

"I'll work even harder to earn money and support Little Sister Na'er."

"Our lives will get better and better."

Huo Yun'er put down what she was doing and looked at the injured Tang Wulin with heartache.

"Wulin, are you all right?"

She carefully bandaged Tang Wulin's wounds.

"Na'er is a child with a bitter fate too. Don't worry. Now that you've come into our family, I'll provide for you!"

Malice descended from the heavens, bitter fate swept in-a million-level scene transition.

That night, the White Tiger Duke's Mansion sent over a hundred Soul Masters to forcibly seize Tang Wulin and Huo Yun'er. They did not spare even Na'er.

The execution ground.

"Mom, Mom! Stop hitting her!"

He looked at the smug Dai Huabin and those servants with broken arms and legs.

"Cripple him! Cripple him for me!"

"Beat her mother to death! How dare she run away from the White Tiger Duke's Mansion!!"

"Let me tell you, in life, you belong to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, and in death, you'll be its ghosts!!!"

The power of Tang Wulin's bloodline erupted in full. He rushed straight to Huo Yun'er, who had been beaten half to death, and shielded her with his body.

"My child, my child... my good child. Such an obedient child, but why, of all people, did you have to be my child?"

Tang Wulin's eyes were blood-red. Na'er's cries for help rang out nearby.

"Older Brother!!!"

Crack!

Streaks of lightning flashed across the sky. Space split open in an instant, and an evil Spirit Body flew straight into Tang Wulin's mind.

"Keh keh keh! Holding the sun and moon, plucking the stars-there is no one like me in this world!"

"To think a wisp of my remnant soul could still survive in this world!!"

"Oh! This boy, such intense hatred and powerful killing intent!! Heh, hahahaha! Let me help you!!!"

Roar!!!

"Noisy, noisy! Damn you, damn you! You all deserve to die!!!"

With Huo Yun'er half-dead and Na'er captured, Tang Wulin was utterly enraged, and a thunderous boom shook his mind.

Under the evil Spirit Body's influence, he completely lost his reason.

"Aaargh!!!"

"Roar!!!"

An enormous dragon silhouette slowly appeared behind Tang Wulin.

Riiip!!!

Tang Wulin tore a Soul King apart with his bare hands and entered slaughter mode.

As scalding blood splashed over him, Tang Wulin's eyes grew even redder, and the killing intent around him grew even stronger.

"Heh, hahahaha... I should've killed them long ago!"

"If I'd known it would come to this, I should've killed them long ago!!"

"These noisy things should've been killed long ago!!!"

"From now on, I'll just kill anyone I don't like!!!!"

"Heh, hahahahaha!!!!!"

Tang Wulin killed one person every three steps. Bathed in blood, he slaughtered his way forward step by step until he stood before Dai Huabin.

"What's going on? Isn't his Martial Soul Blue Silver Grass?"

"Dragon... what the hell is this Dragon Transformation??"

"And this aura, this killing intent... an Evil... Evil Soul Master!!!"

When the Dragon God Bloodline was activated and Evil Electrolux descended, Tang Wulin, shrouded in extreme hatred and killing intent, went utterly mad with slaughter.

His dragon's roar forced Soul Ancestors to their knees, his bare hands tore Soul Kings apart, and his fists battered Soul Emperors. He was not even pretending anymore.

"Die, die! You have to die too!!!"

The White Tiger Madam's expression changed drastically.

"Quick, hurry and save Huabin!"

A Soul Saint unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar, but Tang Wulin, in his blood-fury state, seized the Soul Saint's right arm with one hand. The next instant, his Dragon God Bearing and Dragon God Inheritance exerted their power, twisting the Soul Saint's arm into a braided dough twist.

Everyone watching Life Exchange instantly felt their scalps explode with tingles.

"Dragon... do Dragon God Bearing and Dragon God Inheritance follow any rules at all?!"

"No technique, just raw stats!!"

"He only awakened his Martial Soul two and a half months ago, and now he can take on a Soul Saint! He's not even pretending anymore. It's all just brute strength, isn't it?!!!"

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