Tang Hao's heart-rending roar rang throughout heaven and earth, enough to grieve all who heard it and bring tears to their eyes.
There was anger in that roar as well.
Who was he?
He was the Plane Master of the Douluo Continent, governing the entire continent.
The fate of everything in this world lay within a single thought of his.
Yet now, a variable like this had actually appeared.
That damned Beast God Di Tian had actually dared to summon a Heavenly Tribulation to spite him.
He, the lofty Plane Master, had been reduced to a helpless husband, forced to watch his own wife get blasted into nothingness by the divine lightning filling the sky right before his eyes.
And the greatest irony was that he had unleashed this Heavenly Tribulation himself.
Although it had not been his intention, this Heavenly Tribulation had been released by him, the Plane Master. With his own hands, he had struck his beloved wife dead and destroyed the efforts they had made over these ten thousand years.
Their ten-thousand-year plan was gone, just like that.
They had finally endured ten thousand years and were almost at the end, with only a few hundred years left. With luck, they might even have completed it within a hundred years.
Now everything was ruined. How could Tang Hao not go mad?
"Ah Yin! Ah Yin!"
Braving the divine lightning filling the sky, Tang Hao tried to touch his beloved wife once more, but there was nothing except a patch of scorched earth. His wife had been utterly blasted to pieces.
But just as he was breaking down, he saw a Blue Silver Grass seed floating quietly where the Blue Silver Emperor had fallen.
This was the only chance at life the Blue Silver Grass had left behind. In an instant, a surge of hope forcibly sprang from Tang Hao's despair.
A seed! There was still a seed!
That's right. He had forgotten that the Blue Silver Emperor possessed these innate gifts of her origin-Everlasting Vitality and Withered Wood Blooms in Spring.
Plant Soul Beasts were inherently different from ordinary Soul Beasts, especially a sovereign among plants like the Blue Silver Emperor.
When his wife had sacrificed herself to him back then, she had offered up both her soul and her flesh and blood. She had been even more thoroughly dead than she was now, yet she had still come back to life.
Tang Hao could not sense any fluctuations from the Blue Silver Emperor's soul, but he merely assumed it was the same as twenty thousand years ago and considered it normal.
As long as the seed remained, he believed that if he planted it in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well again and supplied energy to accelerate its growth, Ah Yin would soon return to life.
Then they could carry out their ten-thousand-year plan again. It would only mean waiting another ten thousand years.
Only twenty years would pass in the Divine Realm. They could afford to wait.
As for the Abyss's invasion, he would have to think carefully about how to balance things.
As for how many people would die, he did not care.
But the Tribulation Lightning overhead would not give Tang Hao time to think.
The moment the Blue Silver Emperor died, all the lightning instantly redirected its assault toward Tang Hao.
This Heavenly Tribulation had long since ceased to be meant for Di Tian. It had been meant for the Blue Silver Emperor instead.
Once the Blue Silver Emperor died, it locked onto the sole interloper, Tang Hao.
The power of the sixteen purple-gold lightning dragons actually grew stronger once again. Pitch-black lightning chains appeared on every dragon, carrying the absolute suppression of the rules, as though they meant to punish Tang Hao, the Plane Master who had stolen what he was entrusted to guard.
For the first time, Tang Hao sensed danger.
He raised his hands and swung the Clear Sky Hammer and the Heavenly God Spear, attacking the Chains of Order in an attempt to shatter this bizarre Tribulation Lightning.
Bang, bang, bang!
Every collision between Martial Soul and chain shattered a swath of the void.
And each time Tang Hao destroyed a lightning dragon with his own hands, the Chains of Order bound around it would coil tightly around his divine soul and Yun Ming's body, locking them fast.
This made Tang Hao feel increasingly miserable.
By the time he had frantically attacked and shattered all sixteen Heavenly Tribulation lightning dragons, resolving this Heavenly Tribulation, the sixteen Heavenly Tribulation chains had completely locked his soul to Yun Ming's body, coiling around them layer upon layer.
"What is going on? Why are you doing this to me?"
"Hahahahaha! Tang Hao, your retribution has come."
Just as Tang Hao was bewildered and alarmed, a hollow, ancient voice emerged from the void, filled with indescribable satisfaction.
"Plane Master, you're actually still alive? You still have a breath left."
"I should have died long ago. I kept holding on, waiting for an opportunity.
"I thought that opportunity would never come, but who could have imagined you would really be this stupid?
"Back then, I forged a bond of goodwill with Tang San, only to be repaid with his wolfish ambition and a stab in the back, making a piece of trash like you the Plane Master.
"You python and sparrow devoured the dragon, but how could you have known that I kept this last breath solely to deal you a final blow?
"This is the last of my Power of the Plane, used to punish a false Plane Master like you, who abused the Plane Master's authority to interfere with the Douluo Continent at will.
"These sixteen Divine Punishment Chains have bound you firmly to this human's body. Unless you break free of all sixteen chains, you will remain a mortal forever.
"How does it feel to fall from godhood to mortality?
"I don't know. Take your time and savor it.
"Also, if this body of yours dies, you will truly die.
"The Divine Realm is lost, and no one on the Douluo Continent can become a god anymore. This body of yours has little more than a hundred years left to live at most.
"A hundred years from now, I'll be waiting for you in the Netherworld."
With that, the voice fell utterly silent. He was finally dead for good.
"Plane Master, damn you! Come back!
"Come back here!"
Tang Hao's eyes were bloodshot, and he panted like an ox.
Today, he had truly learned what it meant to fail to steal a chicken and lose the rice used as bait. His own stupidity had brought him to tears.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
Meanwhile, after learning of everything that had happened, Lin Ming wore a smile unlike any he had ever shown before.
How satisfying. That idiot Tang Hao really had done himself in with his own stupidity.
Di Tian's Heavenly Tribulation had not only brought about the Blue Silver Emperor's death, but had also dragged Tang Hao, the Plane Master, down from his divine pedestal and turned him into a human, stripping him of all the Plane Master's authority.
Then all he needed to do was kill Tang Hao, and his work would be complete. The pressure had plummeted.
Although Tang Hao still possessed god-level strength, a god who could be killed was better than a Plane Master who could resurrect endlessly.
He had finished watching.
Everything had settled!
Lin Ming stopped paying attention to what was happening over there.
He casually switched off the Soul Guidance Projection Screen, feeling somewhat wistful.
Although he was still young, he had indeed visited Shrek City several times.
This most luxurious, most prosperous city, built by sucking the blood of the Douluo Continent's people, had turned to charcoal just like that, leaving nothing behind.
Even the Spirit Pagoda's Heavenly Spirit Tower, which had stood for thousands of years, was gone.
It was easy to imagine what upheaval would shake the entire Douluo Continent starting tomorrow.
Compared to Shrek's destruction, the loss of the Heavenly Spirit Tower was what mattered most, because the Spirit Ascension Platform's main server had been inside it.
The Spirit Pagoda's Spirit Ascension Platform was normally a little convoluted to explain, but it was easier to understand in terms of a game.
The Spirit Ascension Platform had been created by the Spirit Pagoda using fragments of the Divine Realm. All Soul Masters could use special soul guidance equipment to send their souls into the Spirit Ascension Platform to train.
Anyone could log into the Spirit Ascension Platform through the Eighteen Heavenly Pillars or the Spirit Pagoda's other Branch Pagodas.
Although they logged in from different places, everyone appeared in the same world. It was simply divided into many regions.
Just like a battle royale survival game!
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