Soon, Lin Huan appeared in Dragon Valley. Home at last! He had gone out and picked up two little girls along the way.
"I'm back! Xiaozi! Xiaolü! Jia Lin!"
At his call, a flurry of footsteps immediately sounded inside, followed by several barefoot figures running down from the second floor.
"Dad! You're back!"
Lin Xiaozi threw her arms around Lin Huan in a bear hug and hung from him. She was the liveliest of the little ones. Jia Lin tugged at his sleeve, while the shyer Xiaolü simply stood beside him.
"Mm. I went out and picked up two children nobody wanted."
Looking at the three little ones, he nodded slightly, then snapped his fingers. A hammock flew inside, and the three little girls followed his gaze.
They saw two little girls, one silver-haired and one pinkish-blue-haired, lying quietly in the hammock. The three little girls studied the pair curiously.
For some inexplicable reason, Lin Xiaozi and Lin Xiaolü felt close to the pinkish-blue-haired little girl, as though... she were their child. Rather, they seemed to regard her as a junior.
Jia Lin looked at the silver-haired little girl in puzzlement. For some reason, she felt so close to her, like family.
"Dad, did you become a human trafficker?"
Bam!
"Ow!"
Lin Xiaozi opened with a king bomb, leaving Lin Huan's face covered in black lines. What the hell do you mean, human trafficker?! Without hesitation, he punched her, and Xiaozi immediately clutched her head and cried out in pain.
"If you don't know how to talk, then don't..."
He had picked this Na'er up in the universe. Hadn't they seen that old bastard Dragon God cut her off himself? Clearly, that old geezer Dragon God had abandoned her. What was wrong with picking her up?
And this Wang Dong'er was clearly another child Tang San had thrown away.
Those two bastards, Dragon God and Tang San, simply abandoned their children without raising them. What's wrong with me picking them up and raising them? How could I possibly be a human trafficker?
Lin Xiaozi pursed her lips and covered her forehead, feeling wronged. The main issue was that her dad had only gone out for a day, then suddenly brought two children home. Wouldn't any normal person think he was a human trafficker?
"All right, let's settle these two little ones into a room first."
As Lin Huan spoke, he took the two little girls into a room and laid them on the bed, while the other three watched curiously.
"Dad, when will these two little sisters wake up?"
Lin Xiaolü asked softly. Lin Huan wasn't entirely sure either. Although he knew healing skills, he hadn't studied medicine professionally. He immediately snapped his fingers and said:
"Yueyue's Mom, help me analyze when these two little ones will wake up."
As his words fell, a white-haired, blue-eyed catgirl poked his head out of a spatial passage. The blue-and-white gradient cat ears on his head twitched, and he began his analysis.
"All right, let's analyze when the two of them will wake up. One fell unconscious after encountering spatial turbulence during transformation, and the other fell asleep due to soul trauma. They are expected to wake up in half an hour."
Hearing the information Ying Yueyue provided, Lin Huan chose to believe it outright. His Ying Yueyue was the most perfect existence he had personally created. Although he wasn't Mom, he was Mom.
Even if I had to let Ying Yueyue step on me, then whip me to death with his tail, I'd be willing. This is a Super Divine Artifact, after all.
The core of Lin Huan's entire set of Super Divine Artifacts: the mecha catgirl Ying Yueyue! If you couldn't even trust Yueyue's Mom, how many people in the world could you trust?
"They should wake up in half an hour. Watch them for me. I've still got things to do."
He waved a hand, asked his little daughters to help look after them, then went out again.
This time, Lin Huan planned to get that little femboy Lan Xuanyu out and thoroughly screw him. Then Tang Shan, Tang Wuling, Wang Dong'er, Huo Yutong, and Lan Xuanyu-the entire genderbent Tang Family set-would be complete. Later, he could stage a battle royale between the real and fake Tang Family members.
There was no shame in enjoying a spectacle. Speaking of which, Lan Xuanyu's appearance could practically be called a dimensional strike. The Dragon God Bloodline was simply too unreasonable.
According to unofficial accounts, the Dragon God's stats were data Third Spoon had filled in with his dick while God Ling rubbed ointment on him until he came, which was why Douluo IV was pure wish fulfillment.
What he didn't understand, though, was why, with such a powerful Dragon God Bloodline, his wife still had to sacrifice herself. Was this really just an old tradition?
Also, since Rotten Idle Fish liked cross-dressing and being a young-dragon killer so much, he could cross-dress for the rest of his life. Dress once, dress for life-and fulfill Sword Dao Southern Liang Old Hometown Tea's wish along the way.
The instant that thought settled, Lin Huan's voice had already crossed several light-years and reached the Douluo Realm.
In Douluo IV, super-god-level powerhouses could already fly faster than light. Naturally, as an existence infinitely close to a God King, Lin Huan could cross countless light-years in an instant and reach the Douluo Realm.
In Aolai City, a small figure leaned against a window at home, gazing up at the sky from time to time.
Not long ago, he too had witnessed the battle between numerous powerhouses and felt a yearning for it. Now, as he looked up at the sky, he was curious when that great cosmic arena would appear again.
After all, those were Level 99 Limit Douluos, peerless powerhouses he might never see in his entire life.
Just then, Lin Huan silently appeared behind the little boy, who sensed nothing unusual at all.
Then Lin Huan slowly reached into his trouser pocket, pulled out his large USB drive, and forcefully plunged it into the back of the boy's neck from behind.
Tang Wulin immediately tipped his head back and rolled his eyes upward. Don't get any strange ideas-the USB drive was merely inserted into the back of his neck. The head-tilting and upward-looking were only because a sensitive place like his Sea of Consciousness had been invaded.
Lin Huan's Divine Consciousness silently infiltrated through the USB drive. With the Super Divine Artifact's enhancement, his Divine Power was scarcely different from a God King's, not to mention that he was a rare wisdom-type, spiritual-system peak First-Level God.
His Divine Consciousness had also long since reached the God King level. Amplified by the Super Divine Artifact, it easily evaded the Sea God's Divine Consciousness.
The firewall of Old Tang, formed from the Sea God's Divine Consciousness, might as well not have existed before him. He could enter and exit Old Tang hundreds of millions of times in an instant, then leave a little-bird wallpaper inside.
"Yueyue's Mom, help me transfer the files."
Within Tang Wulin's Sea of Consciousness, Lin Huan's Divine Consciousness crossed its legs and reclined in midair as he gave the order. Hearing him, Ying Yueyue appeared and began transferring the files.
Soon, the seventh through eighteenth Golden Dragon King Seals had all been transferred to the Super Divine Artifact computer's desktop.
It wasn't that he didn't want to take the remaining first through sixth layers of Golden Dragon King essence. Rather, those six seals had been sealed with Sea God Divine Power, while the final twelve had been sealed by Ji Dong and Lie Yan using the power of rewarding good and punishing evil.
There would be no problem transferring those away, but if he touched the first six, Old Tang would definitely wake up. Besides, the essence in the first six Golden Dragon King Seals combined amounted to less than the seventh, so there was no need to take that risk.
As everyone knew, straight men simply hadn't met a man they liked, and straight women simply hadn't met a woman they liked.
Gay men simply hadn't met a woman they liked, lesbians simply hadn't met a man they liked, and little boys and little girls simply hadn't met him.
Now, as Lin Huan used the USB drive to transfer away the twelve seals within Tang Wulin, the latter's innate Soul Power instantly soared from rank three to rank seven.
The Golden Dragon King Seals were both an opportunity and a burden. Of course, he personally didn't think much of the Golden Dragon King Bloodline.
After all, Soul Beasts placed far too much weight on bloodlines. Take Di Tian, for instance. He possessed the bloodlines of both the Light Dragon King and the Dark Dragon King, and his ceiling was about the same as Lin Huan's: around First-Level God.
Bloodlines became diluted. A bloodline was both an opportunity and a shackle. Its ceiling was right there. Whoever obtained that bloodline could basically reach First-Level God as long as they didn't die prematurely.
The Golden Dragon King Bloodline was much the same. Its ceiling was God King, with no further progress possible afterward. Lin Huan could improve without these bloodlines; taking them was merely for amusement.
Looking at the six Golden Dragon King Seals now inside Tang Wulin's Sea of Consciousness, Lin Huan thought for a moment, then suddenly had an idea and snapped his fingers.
The six portions of Golden Dragon King essence before him began to merge and change, becoming a phantom dragonman resembling both a dragon and a human. It was none other than the Stand user, Golden Dragon! From then on, it would accompany Tang Wulin's growth in a state similar to a Martial Soul.
And... perhaps it could even give Little Scumbag's divine soul a thousand rounds of ORA.
After finishing his stroll here, Lin Huan vanished in a flash. When Tang Wulin came back to his senses, he instinctively touched the back of his neck, feeling as though he had just been subjected to marquis rites. (The elaborate formalities for facing a marquis in ancient times, abbreviated as "marquis rites.")
The back of my neck really hurts... But after searching around and finding nothing, he withdrew his gaze.
Elsewhere, as Lin Huan passed through Eastsea City, a blue exclamation mark suddenly popped up on his minimap. At the same time, Ying Yueyue appeared beside him and began explaining:
"Now, please look northeast on our minimap. A World Quest marked with a blue exclamation mark has appeared in an area approximately twenty kilometers ahead."
"This quest is called 'A dying wish that cannot cross spacetime.' The quest procedure involves saving a mother who has fallen ill from longing."
"There are five recommended treatment plans here. The first is an illusion-based plan: simply weave a dream in which she accompanies her lover and enjoys their romance, and the problem will be solved. The second is healing-based: use a healing skill to cure her directly, though that only treats the symptoms, not the root cause. The third..."
"All right, Yueyue's Mom! You don't need to go into that much detail."
Seeing that Ying Yueyue was about to introduce every solution in detail, he hurriedly stopped him, lest the readers accuse him of padding the word count.
At his interruption, Ying Yueyue stopped explaining and displayed all five solutions instead. Lin Huan glanced at them, clicked to bookmark them, then tossed them into storage to gather dust.
His video bookmarks were mostly various guides, including BUG-related guide videos released by the creator [Beneath the Snow]. After bookmarking them, he was too lazy to actually do them, so they simply piled up in his bookmarks.
Meanwhile, at the Xie Family residence in Eastsea City, a boy with short brown hair held a phone. Though he was crying his eyes out, he furiously roared at the person on the other end:
"Dad, where the hell are you?! Do you even care about Mom anymore? Mom's about to die!"
The little boy's voice was filled with fear, shock, anger, grief, and urgency. Their Xie Family had already tried countless methods.
Healing medicines, hiring Eastsea City's best doctor-none of it had helped at all. Eastsea City's best doctor was a Soul Emperor-level healing-type Soul Master whose Martial Soul was the Healing Scepter.
Even after the Xie Family invited that doctor over to diagnose her, they had learned nothing. All the doctor could see was listlessness and malnutrition.
Yet all kinds of nutritious foods proved useless, and her condition worsened by the day. This was an illness of the heart. After all, an illness of the heart could kill even a deity, so it was normal on the Douluo Continent, where the God of Love had fallen.
"Xie Xie, Dad is busy in Skysea City right now. This involves a ten-million deal. It's very important to our Xie Family... Soon. Dad will be back very soon."
A middle-aged man's weary voice came through the phone. Clearly, he was very busy, without even a chance to return home. Hearing that answer only made Xie Xie angrier.
"Work again! It's always like this! Our Xie Family already has enough money. Is work really that important?!"
Xie Xie couldn't understand. Their Xie Family counted as a wealthy family in Eastsea City. Was work really more important than family?
"Xie Xie..."
Just then, a weak woman's voice came from the room. Hearing it, Xie Xie immediately rushed inside. Looking at his mother's utterly haggard face, his heart filled with helplessness.
"Mom... that bastard is still working in Skysea City..."
Even Xie Xie's hands trembled as he held his mother's hand. Yet she reached out to stroke his face and comforted him:
"Xie Xie... don't blame him... he just wants us to live better..."
"But we're not living well at all! Mom, your health keeps getting worse, yet he doesn't even have time to come back and see you..."
Hearing his mother's reply, Xie Xie's face was full of indignation on her behalf, but he still changed the subject at the right moment.
"Mom, you'll definitely get better."
"Mm. Everything will get better."
Mother and son leaned on each other. Above the clouds, Lin Huan quietly watched this scene, looking at the little brown-haired fellow as he sighed:
"Isn't this the little fellow who competed with the Golden Dragon King in strength and the Silver Dragon King in spiritual power, then still thought he hadn't worked hard enough? Responsible for over half the laughs in Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King, the comic relief of the whole show-Spacetime Douluo, little Xie Xie of Eastsea."
Lin Huan sat cross-legged atop the clouds, his right arm propped on his knee and his palm supporting his face, quietly watching.
He liked filial children very much, and he hoped his own children would be filial to him in the future. He also couldn't bear to let the boy simply watch his mother die before his eyes.
Soon, Xie Xie, who stood silently in the courtyard of the Xie Family residence, suddenly heard a voice in his mind.
"Do you want to save your mother?"
"Who?!"
The sudden voice startled him. Xie Xie immediately grew wary, looking around for its source.
"My name is the God of Games."
"The God... of Games?!"
Hearing the voice ring out in his mind again, Xie Xie shook all over and instinctively looked toward the sky. The name of the God of Games was known to everyone on the Douluo Continent.
"Do you want to save your mother?"
While Xie Xie was still reeling in shock, another question came. After clearly hearing those words, Xie Xie knelt without hesitation, slammed his forehead heavily against the ground, and shouted:
"Yes! I beg Your Holiness, the God of Games, to save my mother! I'm willing to pay any price! Even a life for a life!"
Xie Xie's words were filled with resolve, without the slightest hesitation. Lin Huan smiled too and slowly raised his hand. A blue exclamation mark appeared in it.
"When people's wishes grow intense enough to reach a certain extreme, the God of Games will turn his gaze upon them and bestow a blue exclamation mark."
"Afterward, some blond sucker will come along and fulfill your wish."
The second and third updates for October 26.