Southward
Tang San heard the crisp chirping of birds and the rustle of the leaves in the breeze.
This made Tang San open his eyes in a daze.
What came into view was the simple courtyard that was familiar to my bones, with the aroma of earth and wood.
Shrek Academy!
The warm sunshine fell on Tang San, dispelling all the coldness and fatigue.
"Hey, Tang San, this really doesn't seem like a place where you would come."
A familiar and cheerful voice suddenly came from behind.
"Aren't you the strongest?"
Tang San's body shook suddenly and he turned around subconsciously.
On the wooden steps of Corridor, sat the friends of Shrek Seven Devils who had died in the battle long ago.
Dai Mubai was leaning against the pillar and grinning, while Zhu Zhuqing stood quietly beside him.
Ma Hongjun and Oscar were playing in the yard.
Ning Rongrong sat on the stone bench covering his mouth and snickering.
Beside the flower garden, Tang Hao with a tall figure and Ah Yin with a gentle face were looking at them with smiles.
Everything is so carefree, as if I have returned to the purest and most relaxing days when Tang San was a child.
Tang San's face was full of shock, his pupils shrank sharply, and his voice trembled terribly. "Dai Mubai? And Ma Hongjun, Oscar----Dad----Mom----are they real or fake?"
Dai Mubai crossed his arms and smiled happily, "This is how you react when you see us? This really makes us a little sad."
After laughing, Dai Mubai calmed down slightly and looked sideways at Tang San: "So, what about that Lu Ren?"
Tang San was stunned for a moment, his eyes a little distracted for a moment. "Is that Lu Ren?"
He lowered his head bitterly, with a trace of loneliness and self-deprecation on his lips. "He is really too strong."
"I can even feel that he didn't use all his strength in this battle, and he still had enough left to fight me.
land."
"Even if Lu Ren did not choose to send people to destroy Divine Realm Center, I am actually not sure whether I can win this battle."
Tang San Youyou sighed, his tone full of powerlessness. "But I have shown everything."
"Two Super Divine Artifact, Asura and Sea God Dual Godhood, the power of the other four God King's full blessing, and even the Rule origin of the entire Divine Realm Center----"
"Such a huge force gathered together, but it is still no match for Lu Ren."
Speaking of this, Tang San even showed some inexplicable regret in his eyes. "But my strength is not enough to make Lu Ren also exert its full power."
"I'm really sorry that I couldn't make Master Lu Ren happy."
Hearing this, Dai Mubai and the others around them suddenly looked a little strange, as did Envy.
Tang San whispered in a daze, "It would be great if you were there at that time and could pat me on the back and say "Come on" softly to me."
Then he murmured softly, "But, I'm actually very lucky."
"What killed me was not time or disease, but someone stronger than me."
Ma Hongjun couldn't help but rolled his eyes and complained, "Where did you come from as a martial arts idiot?"
This made Tang San laugh.
It also brought back memories from the past.
Ma Hongjun put his hands behind his head and recalled the past, "But when we were chatting in the past, Boss Dai said, Third Brother wouldn't it be nice for you to be able to fight alone now?"
"After all, you never acted for the whole Douluo Continent or Divine Realm. You were just a pervert who acted solely to satisfy your own desires."
Oscar on the side stepped forward to finish the attack in time. "Isn't this something that everyone knows in their hearts, but no one dares to say it face to face?"
"For example, protecting Xiao Wu has completely evolved into this guy's extremely sick obsession."
Ma Hongjun shrugged, spread his hands and said, "So in Third Brother's last moments, I won't help you and say a kind word. At most, I will express my sympathy for you."
Tang San gave a bitter smile and did not refute. Instead, he looked at Ma Hongjun and asked, "What about your last moments?"
Ma Hongjun smiled, with far-away eyes. "At the last moment before Ascension to the Divine Realm, I went to Bai Chenxiang and asked her where to go."
"The advice she gave me at the time was: If you want to find a new you, go north; if you just want to keep the status quo, go south."
"Without any thought at the time, I took Agarwood all the way to Southward and spent the last warm time with her at the Douluo Continent."
"Although I was unable to take her with me when I finally ascended to the Divine Realm, which left me with a huge regret, but putting this aside, my last moments were quite pleasant."
Tang San looked lonely. Finally, he turned his head to look at Tang Hao who was standing not far away, and couldn't help but sigh, "Father - I originally thought that after I became a god, there would no longer be any regretful death."
"But now it seems that I really thought too much."
Tang San looked at Tang Hao and Ah Yin with sour eyes. "I lost, I lost openly."
"Whether it was a conspiracy or a collision of pure strength, no matter how hard I tried, or even the desperate self-destruction in the end - everything was prevented by Lu Ren."
"Father, mother, and everyone——I'm sorry, I couldn't help you get revenge, and I couldn't kill Lu Ren."
There was a "pop" sound.
Tang San knelt heavily on his knees, facing Tang Hao and Ah Yin. He finally collapsed completely and burst into tears.
Tang Hao stood in silence for a long time.
He slowly stepped forward, his tall body like an iron tower squatted down in front of Tang San, and a big rough hand suddenly pressed on his son's violently shaking shoulder.
That hand was full of calluses, exactly the same as the feeling deep in my memory.
"Keep your head up."
Tang San lowered his head and remained motionless.
"I want you to raise your head." Tang Hao's voice was not loud, but it contained a heavy pressure that was irresistible.
Tang San slowly raised his head, his face was full of tears, and his eyes were Crimson.
He stared blankly at his father's resolute and vicissitudes of face, and his extremely embarrassed and pitiful appearance was reflected in those deep pupils.
Tang Hao stared at him for a long time.
"Why are you crying?"
Tang San His lips were open and closed, his throat was dry and he could not make a sound.
"I asked you why you are crying." Tang Hao's voice fell completely. "You are kneeling here and crying because you feel sorry for me, sorry for your mother, and sorry for everyone?"
Tang San nodded subconsciously with tears streaming down his face.
"Then you think all the problems can be solved by just kneeling here and crying?"
Tang San's body suddenly shook.
Tang Hao withdrew the big hand on Tang San's shoulder, stood up, and looked down at his son who was kneeling down.
"You used both Super Divine Artifact to self-destruct, and the two God Position are gone. Your power is completely exhausted."
"You have used up all the cards you can pull out. If you can't beat me, you can't beat me. You lost so completely. What's there to cry about?"
"But----"
"But what?" Tang Hao interrupted him sharply, "Who do you think you are sorry for? Who do you think you owe?"
Tang Hao raised his hand and pointed at his chest. "How many years have I, Tang Hao, been dead? When you were a child, I was a decadent drunkard. I drank all the time and didn't even bother to take care of my own son. Do you think I owe you, or do you owe me?"
Tang San opened his mouth, speechless.
The quiet and gentle Ah Yin on the side walked over and gently held Tang Hao's arm. Her face was beautiful and elegant, her eyes were clear, and she was exactly the same as the mother in Tang San's memory.
"Xiao San." Ah Yin's voice was extremely soft. "You have done a good job."
Tears fell from Tang San's eyes again: "I didn't----"
"You do." Ah Yin smiled, his tone gentle but extremely firm, "Back then you walked out of Holy Soul Village alone and resisted all the heavy things by yourself. Ah Hao didn't care about you, and I wasn't by your side. You gritted your teeth and got to this point by yourself. It must have been very difficult in your heart."
Ah Yin squatted down, looked at Tang San with beautiful eyes, stretched out his warm palms to hold Tang San's cold cheeks.
"You have never owed anyone." Ah Yin wiped the tears from his face, "Everything you do is your own choice. No one forces you, and no one asks you. You choose, and then you lose."
"But that doesn't mean you did it wrong."
Tang San's vision was completely blurred by tears.
"Mom----"
"Okay, don't cry." Ah Yin patted his cheek with a smile in his eyes, "You are my Ah Yin's son. It's so ugly to cry like this."
Ah Yin stood up and retreated to Tang Hao's side.
Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing surrounded them one after another.
The partners stretched out their hands and put their warm palms on Tang San's shoulders and back.
That kind of care and tolerance from the heart is like a hot spring, completely submerging Tang San's tired and cold soul.
Tang San fell deeply into this warmth and support.
Is this the revolving door before death?
It's so warm.
Tang San is greedy for the peace that he no longer has to work hard or bear any responsibility to save Divine Realm.
Dai Mubai tilted his head and looked at Tang San. He asked, "Okay, stop wiping your tears here. So, do you choose Southward or go north?"
"Should we find a new self, or should we maintain the status quo?"
Tang San was silent.
Heading north is to return to the cold and cruel battlefield, to face the invincible and powerful enemy Lu Ren, and to shoulder the overwhelming responsibility of being God King.
Southward, on the other hand, completely puts down all the baggage, indulges in the carefree Illusionary Realm of the past, and escapes all the endgame and failure.
Under the gentle gaze and surrounding of everyone, feeling the long-lost father's and mother's love, Tang San let out a long sigh.
He is really too tired.
Faced with the desperate gap between Lu Ren, all the pride and fighting spirit in Tang San's heart have long since disappeared.
"If I had to choose again, I would never choose to provoke Lu Ren." Tang San lowered his head.
After a long time, he finally made his own choice. Tang San faced the crowd with a relieved but wry smile of Limitless nostalgia and selfishness, "I'd better choose Southward."
"I want to go back to my former self. I was omnipotent and high-spirited. My life was smooth and smooth, and I never encountered any real setbacks——"
"If possible, I would like to go back to my original past and be the omnipotent self."
Dai Mubai couldn't help but frown and asked, "Don't you care about Xiao Wu? Xiao Wu is still there waiting for the light----"
Tang San's bitter smile became more and more obvious, and his voice was low and hoarse. "Just let me be myself for once."
"I have become incompetent, I have burned everything that belongs to me - just let me go back to the time I left -"
He closed his eyes, curled up willingly in this illusory warmth, and allowed his soul to sink towards the bright south.
The revolving door came to an end, and on the main battlefield, Tang San, exhausted of energy and blood and covered in sticky blood, was lying miserably on the surface of the cold ruins.
His upper and lower body had already been cut off horizontally by a single blow!
Tang San's dull eyes were filled with endless sorrow and regret. Everything he was proud of was shattered at this moment.
Not only that, Tang San was completely beaten by Lu Ren to the point of autistic collapse, and even made an act of escape, abandoning his most beloved Xiao Wu, and made the choice to never return to Cheng.
This also caused the vitality in Tang San to drain away like quicksand, and its breath weakened with electricity visible to the naked eye. Finally, in this cold world, it exhaled its last breath in frustration.
Lu Ren, who was still standing upright not far away, casually explained the decisive blow just now, "Let me tell you at the beginning, if my blood volume is 100 points, then the Three Realms Judgment Sword you use at the beginning is not just to knock out 10 points of my health."
"Even if you can kill me instantly, as long as there is a drop of my active cells left in the world, I can instantly return to my full glory."
"The damage you caused to me with that desperate self-destruction blow just now is indeed considerable, but at best it can only knock out more than 70 points of my health."
Lu Ren raised the corner of his mouth confidently. "And with my instantaneous space, I have been waiting quietly for the moment when your last line of defense is relaxed."
"Not to mention you who just blew yourself up and lost even Dual Godhood. Shusan even fell out of the God King Realm. What can you do to defend yourself against my space-breaking blow?"
"These are the three things I gave you Life Blessing by blowing up Tree of Life several times before, leaving you with nowhere to hide."
"Oh, by the way, haven't you always been curious about what my Mahoraga is adapted to?"
"To tell you the truth, my Mahoraga is adapted to the power of life!"
"I successfully transferred Life Rule, which was adapted to the analysis of Mahoraga, to myself, and in one fell swoop, I was able to cut off the relationship between Tree of Life and the floc in your body."
"The little bit of life left in your body is not enough to pose any threat to me."
"Now that you have no ability to recover, it is time for you to die, Tang San."
At this time, all the Deity experts present could clearly see that the Tang San torso, whose lower body had been cut off, still maintained its bright and standing posture, standing alone in the center of the battlefield.
And Lu Ren calmly looked down at the lifeless body on the ground and said his final goodbye to Tang San: "It's so pleasant, Tang San."
"I guess I will never forget you."
However, at the moment when the battle came to an end, a figure descended on the main battlefield.
Without even a moment mourning the death of Tang San, it was Destruction God King who rushed to the battlefield immediately!
Destruction God King has a ferocious face, and the dark thunder that shines Heaven-Destroying Earth-Shattering surges all over his body. Without any hesitation, it brings a strong destructive power, like a black meteor, and rushes straight towards Lu Ren!