In the future timeline.
The Heaven Dou Empire's million-strong army surged toward Jialing Pass like a black tide, their battle cries shattering the clouds overhead.
But the Shrek group did not go.
They stayed in the camp at the rear, gathered around the stone platform where Tang San lay.
Going would have been useless anyway.
Everyone's Soul Power had been reduced to zero. Now they were worse off than ordinary soldiers.
Ordinary soldiers had at least trained to fight in military formations. Without Soul Power or Soul Skills, this group of Soul Masters could have done little if they had gone.
Besides, they were in no mood to go.
Tang San was still lying there.
"Oscar, Rongrong, what's wrong with Brother?"
Xiao Wu crouched beside the stone platform, holding Tang San's ice-cold hand. Her eyes were red, and her voice was thick with tears. "His body has clearly recovered. His heartbeat and breathing have both returned. Why won't he wake up?"
She looked up at Oscar and Ning Rongrong, her eyes full of helplessness and anxiety.
Oscar and Ning Rongrong exchanged a glance, both looking troubled.
"Xiao Wu, we... we don't know either." Oscar scratched his head, his voice bitter. "This Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Resurrection Divine Light-it was the first time Rongrong and I used it."
"That's right," Ning Rongrong said, picking up where he left off, her voice full of exhaustion. "We don't know what happened either. Tang San's body really has been repaired. Look, all his wounds have healed, and his heartbeat and breathing are back. By rights, he should have woken up."
"But he just won't wake up."
Xiao Wu bit her lip, tears falling one by one.
"We really did our best..."
Ning Rongrong lowered her head, her voice growing quieter and quieter.
"Tang San's soul may have been damaged."
Yu Xiaogang crouched beside them and spoke gravely. "His body has been brought back to life, but his soul hasn't fully returned."
"Then what do we do?" Ma Hongjun asked urgently. "Is there any way to make Third Brother's soul return?"
Yu Xiaogang fell silent for a moment. "I don't know."
"Then can Third Brother still wake up?"
Xiao Wu gripped Tang San's hand tighter and looked at Yu Xiaogang, her face pale.
Yu Xiaogang remained silent and did not answer.
In the past timeline, beneath the sky screen.
Oscar and Ning Rongrong's words on the sky screen exploded like a thunderclap in every corner of Douluo Continent.
"What? Tang San was already dead?!"
Flender sprang up from the ground, his glasses long since lost to who knew where, his face full of shock. "Little San was killed? And then Oscar and Ning Rongrong brought him back with a Martial Soul Fusion Skill?"
"Resurrection Divine Light... resurrection..." Yu Xiaogang's lips trembled, his face pale. "These two children's Martial Soul Fusion Skill can actually bring the dead back to life?"
"A fusion skill between a Food-type Martial Soul and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and its effect is resurrection?"
Ning Fengzhi stood in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's main hall, trembling all over. "Rongrong... Rongrong's Martial Soul Fusion Skill actually has that kind of power?"
Bone Douluo Gu Rong and Sword Douluo Chen Xin exchanged a glance, their eyes full of shock.
"Bringing the dead back to life... that's a god-level power." Gu Rong's voice was hoarse.
"No wonder Rongrong can become a Titled Douluo in the future," Chen Xin said gravely. "If her fusion skill with that Food-type boy has the power to resurrect, then their potential is far greater than we imagined."
At Shrek Academy, Oscar himself was utterly dumbfounded.
"I... my Martial Soul Fusion Skill can bring people back from the dead?" He pointed at his own nose, his face full of disbelief. "Me? A sausage seller?"
"And that Martial Soul Fusion Skill was something you used together with Rongrong." Ma Hongjun nudged Oscar's arm and waggled his eyebrows. "You two are something else."
Oscar's face reddened, a rare sight, and he stole a glance at Ning Rongrong.
He could also tell from the sky screen that, in the future, it seemed he really had won Ning Rongrong over.
Ning Rongrong herself was not doing much better.
She lowered her head, the tips of her ears turning red as she twisted her fingers together, her thoughts in a tangle.
In the future, her Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Oscar could bring Tang San back to life?
Then her relationship with Oscar...
She did not dare think any further.
She clearly did not like him one bit right now!
"Wait!" Flender suddenly shouted. "Look at the sky screen! What's that?"
Everyone looked up.
On the sky screen, the image moved away from Tang San and shifted to Xiao Wu.
Xiao Wu was crouched beside the stone platform, holding Tang San's hand and speaking softly.
Then her attribute card appeared.
[Name: Xiao Wu] [Age: 25] [Cultivation: level 0 (Asura God)] [Soul Ring Configuration: none]
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It was as if someone had seized the entire Douluo Continent by the throat.
Then it erupted.
"Asura God?!" Flender's voice turned as shrill as if someone had stepped on his tail, and his glasses shattered completely. "Xiao Wu is the Asura God's inheritor?!"
"Asura God...!" Yu Xiaogang trembled all over, excitement on his face. "I taught two gods?"
Swish, swish, swish~~~
Gaze after gaze turned toward Xiao Wu.
"I... I don't know either..."
Xiao Wu herself was completely bewildered.
But when she thought that she could actually become a god alongside Tang San in the future, she grew happy.
Deep in the Star Dou Great Forest.
The Titan Giant Ape Er Ming and the Sky Azure Bull Python Da Ming stared at Xiao Wu's attribute card on the sky screen, utterly dumbfounded.
"Sister Xiao Wu... the Asura God?!" Er Ming's roar shook the entire forest. "Sister Xiao Wu becomes the Asura God in the future?!"
Da Ming's enormous dragon eyes were also full of shock. He could not understand how Sister Xiao Wu had suddenly become the Asura God either.
Even if she was a level-zero Asura God, she was still the Asura God!
In the past timeline, at the Divine Realm Core.
The Asura God himself looked at Xiao Wu's attribute card on the sky screen, his expression subtle.
The gods were all surprised. With a brief sweep of their senses over Xiao Wu on Douluo Continent, they immediately learned the truth: she was also a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
"Asura God, is that the inheritor you chose?" The Angel God Qian Yuhan turned to look at him, an indefinable note in her voice. "A girl transformed from a Soul Beast?"
The Asura God was silent for a moment before speaking slowly. "Inheritance of the Asura Godhood has never depended on identity. Only character and potential matter."
"She passed the Asura God Trial?"
"How would I know now about something in the future timeline?" The Asura God's face was expressionless. "But since the sky screen shows that she is the inheritor, she must be."
"A transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast inheriting the Asura Godhood..." The Rakshasa God spoke coldly from the side. "You certainly aren't picky."
The Asura God glanced at the Rakshasa God and said nothing.
He himself did not know why he would choose such an inheritor in the future.
"Enough."
The God of Destruction spoke, then turned to question the God of Wisdom.
"Wisdom, tell us!"
"What exactly is going on? Why wasn't a Godhood displayed above her head before, but now one has appeared?"
"Could the divine punishment in the future have something to do with Asura?"