To Lay the Foundation for Godhood, You Must Take Me, Yu Xiaogang, as Your Master!

At that moment, the Wenxin Livestream-and indeed the entire Douluo I Era-had already descended into chaos.

Yu Xiaogang's breakdown.

Spirit Hall's shattered composure.

The dumbfounded Huo Yuhao.

Of course, the first to erupt was Ma Hongjun, the Phoenix God, a Second-Level God among the First Generation Shrek Seven Devils in the Divine Realm.

"What about me?"

"What about me, Tang San!!"

"I don't think I've ever wronged you. You knew perfectly well what Chen Xiang meant to me, yet you still didn't bring her to the Divine Realm!!!"

Sea God Tang San's expression changed drastically, and he raised a hand to soothe him.

"That's enough, Hongjun."

Flames rose from Ma Hongjun's body, and an enormous phoenix phantom flickered behind him.

Ma Hongjun gazed up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle, tears shimmering in his eyes, melancholy radiating from his entire body.

"Chen Xiang was one of our Shrek Eight Monsters!"

"She was also one of the affiliates of your Clear Sky Sect, your Tang Sect!!"

"You knew perfectly well what she meant to me, and you clearly had slots to bring people to the Divine Realm. So why, why didn't you bring her up here!!!"

Sea God Tang San closed his eyes. He truly didn't want things to get too ugly.

There had already been one Yu Xiaogang. As for the kindness Yu Xiaogang had shown him, he could still forcibly cover it up with his own explanations.

But if the Shrek Seven Devils, the First Generation Shrek Seven Monsters, who had followed him into the Divine Realm and served as his foundation, chose to leave at this moment too, then his persona, the image he had worked so hard to establish in the Divine Realm, would collapse completely.

"Hongjun, I'll explain this to you afterward."

What stunned every deity in the Divine Realm was that one of Sea God Tang San's five most loyal Second-Level Gods would actually turn on him when he was in trouble.

"Explain?"

"Explain what??"

"The Eight Monsters are one-weren't those your words, Third Brother!!!"

Ma Hongjun suddenly broke down sobbing.

"Yes, yes, you have Xiao Wu, Boss Dai has Zhu Zhuqing, and even that bastard Oscar has Rongrong!"

"What about me!!"

"After becoming a god, I had no one. I've always been all alone. Have you ever thought about me!!!"

"You clearly had slots to bring people to the Divine Realm, so why weren't you willing to..."

Ma Hongjun pressed him step by step. The Shrek Seven Devils had paired off, finding partners within the team.

Yet his Chen Xiang had been left in the lower realm. If there had been no way, Ma Hongjun would have accepted it, but he had never imagined this.

Tang San still held at least two slots for bringing people into the Divine Realm, and Ma Hongjun broke down instantly.

"Enough, Fatty!!!"

Sea God Tang San erupted instantly, the look in his eyes transforming in a flash, devoid of all feeling.

"Since you're throwing away your dignity, don't blame me!"

"You think you're some fine bird? Putting on this fucking act of devotion here-which of the Seven Monsters did I help the most??"

"Immortal herbs? I gave you those. An inner core? I gave you that. I even arranged your god position for you. Didn't I help you? If you'd worked even a little harder, why would you have needed to beg me?? Who saved you when failing your godhood inheritance meant certain death???"

Bang!!!

Sea God Tang San slammed the table and rose, the aura of a Supreme God King pouring out wildly in an instant, forcing Ma Hongjun to his knees on the floor.

"So now you get to curse me?"

"So now you get to accuse me??"

"Let me tell you, anyone in the world can curse me, anyone can accuse me, but you, Ma Hongjun, cannot. Without me, you'd have died eight hundred years ago. You must engrave a God King's kindness upon your heart!!!"

At the Supreme's wrath, the entire Divine Realm trembled, and everyone stared at Sea God Tang San in horror.

Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing hurried forward to smooth things over.

"All right, all right, Hongjun. You really can't blame Little San for this."

"Yes, exactly. If you'd just made a few fewer trips to the brothels back then..."

"Hongjun, calm down. You really can't blame Third Brother for this..."

Sea God Tang San snorted coldly and turned to Huo Yuhao below.

"Huo Yuhao, it's time you made your choice!"

"No, you no longer have a choice!!"

"You can't possibly reach Sea God Island as you are now. If you seek Asura God's inheritance now, there can be only one outcome... And you certainly cannot join Spirit Hall. Don't forget, you're holding the script of my life. Spirit Hall and I have a longstanding blood feud that won't end until one side is dead!!!"

A smile slowly curled Sea God Tang San's lips.

At first, he had worried that Huo Yuhao would join Spirit Hall and, with its help, become even stronger than he himself had originally been.

But thinking it over carefully, Huo Yuhao was holding the script of his life. Though he couldn't change it, the grudges woven into fate, the antagonism between god positions... meant they were destined never to come together.

"There's only one choice left to you: take that useless Theoretical Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang, who's nearly fifty and still hasn't broken through Rank 30, as your master."

"Don't worry, Huo Yuhao. Though Gangzi is useless, with soul power below Rank 30, and can't help you in actual combat or even in hunting soul rings..."

"His theories are useless too! Spirit Hall, the various sects, the Soul Master Clans-everyone has a copy of that stuff, and he plagiarized their work to get it. But you can only take him as your master."

"Heh, hahahaha!!!"

Sea God Tang San's laughter rang throughout the Divine Realm Central Hub.

After falling out completely with Yu Xiaogang, Sea God Tang San stopped pretending altogether and launched a one-sided attack on Gangzi.

Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy.

Yu Xiaogang instantly clenched both fists tight.

"Sea God Tang San, one day I'll prove it to you. Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west-do not bully the old and poor!"

"If you want to lay the foundation for godhood, Huo Yuhao, you must take me, Yu Xiaogang, as your master!!"

"I'll use my theories to lay an unsurpassed foundation for you as a soul master, allowing you to absorb a four-hundred-year first soul ring at the very limit. I'll call on every connection I have and use every means at my disposal to lead you in destroying the Divine Realm ruled by Sea God Tang San, no matter the cost!!!"

Pfft!!!

A nearly fifty-year-old Soul Grandmaster, about to break through Rank 30, was talking about destroying the Divine Realm at any cost.

The gods of the Divine Realm could barely keep straight faces, and everyone watching the Wenxin Livestream held theirs stiff as well.

"Gangzi, without me this time, it's hard to say whether you'll even break through Rank 30."

"You'd better think about how to break through Rank 30 before you turn fifty first!"

"Huo Yuhao, you already have no choice!"

Whoosh!!!

The Divine Realm Central Hub.

Huo Yuhao instantly raised his head.

[Mentor selection: Spirit Hall, Sea God Island, Slaughter City... Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang of Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy...!]

Looking at the four choices that had appeared before him, Huo Yuhao fell silent.

"Must my life follow a script that's already been written?"

"No, I'm Huo Yuhao. I've already lived through that kind of scripted life once. My future self would regret it... and my present self refuses too!!"

"So... I choose none of them. I choose a fifth option... taking Electrolux as my master!"

Hum!!!

Two films, one of the Douluo I Era and one of the Peerless Era, appeared instantly, then slowly merged in the next moment.

Within the two eras, two Electroluxes in spirit body form slowly appeared, one radiant, one evil, with identical faces.

"With sun and moon in my grasp, I pluck the stars; none in this world is like me!!!"

[Coming reveal: the life experiences of Electrolux, the teacher both have chosen as their master!]