NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 85: Chapter 85: Fate
Huo Yuhao, who, like the Dragon God, was originally a favored child of destiny in Douluo Continent, possessed potential and opportunities equal to those of the Dragon God. He was expected to reach the position of Supreme God King and stand at the pinnacle of the universe. However, the reality was that his life was full of hardships and setbacks, and in the end, he was completely subdued. His ultimate achievement was only that of an ordinary God King—vastly inferior to the universe's sole Supreme God King, the Dragon God.
Under the star system governed by the Douluo God Realm, there are 108 high-level planes and countless minor planes.
Why does Sea God Tang San always pay special attention to Douluo Continent and never let go?
It's not only because he ascended to godhood from Douluo, but more importantly, Douluo Continent is the land of the Dragon God's origin and hometown to many deities.
After countless ages of accumulation, this planet contains an unimaginably vast force of fate.
This power is enough to help a favored son of heaven achieve the Supreme God King position, just like the Dragon God once did.
Originally, this immense fate should have belonged to Huo Yuhao, helping him to the top of the universe, and becoming a unique Supreme God King.
But unfortunately, Huo Yuhao caught the eye of Sea God Tang San and ultimately became his son-in-law, chained down and stripped of his fate.
So, in the end, the one who successfully reached the Supreme God King throne wasn't the child of fate, Huo Yuhao, but Tang San.
In this era, Tang San's talent actually isn't that outstanding.
Twin martial souls are rare, but not unique among the many geniuses of Douluo Continent—not enough to leave others in the dust.
As for his beloved hidden weapons and the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, if you analyze them closely, they are nothing special. Within the grand framework of combat and cultivation systems, they have their unique aspects but are far from being decisive factors.
If Tang San has any redeeming feature, it's probably just his dual god positions.
Tang San's success owes much to his early advantage.
After ascending to the God Realm, he carefully planned and made every move count, securing resources and fate for his own growth.
Lu Jingming even suspects that since Tang San and his group ascended, no one from the Douluo Continent has managed to ascend to godhood. Tang San probably played a significant role in this.
After all, even without inheriting a god position, there's the path of creating one's own. The original Angel God and Sea God both created their own positions to ascend.
Is it really possible that in ten thousand years, no one from the Douluo Continent had the potential to create a god position themselves?
After all, every deity who ascended from Douluo would naturally acquire a portion of Douluo's fate—threatening what Tang San already considered his own, endangering his interests.
To keep this exclusive fate, Tang San racked his brains, even clashing fiercely with the God of Destruction, trying everything to prevent the expansion of the God Realm.
In Lu Jingming's view, Tang San's deeper purpose was to prevent any new gods from being born on the Douluo Continent, avoiding the splitting of fate he had reserved for himself.
Moreover, out of the five God Kings in the God Realm, the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life are both old and experienced, not to be underestimated.
Strangely enough, only Tang San sensed the coming crisis of the God Realm early on, while the other God Kings noticed nothing—as if kept in the dark.
The so-called future crisis of space-time turbulence was probably just blind luck, not Tang San truly sensing a crisis.
No wonder the God of Emotion, Rong Nianbing, always calls Tang San an old fox—he really is that scheming.
Lu Jingming even knows that the first Sea God, Poseidon, took only a thousand years to pacify the chaotic seas.
During that millennium, Poseidon gathered the faith of the sea's folk bit by bit, eventually forging a god position and ascending to the God Realm as the ruler of the ocean. There's a lot of info behind this.
At the very least, it suggests that in the first Sea God's era, a Level 99 Ultimate Douluo could live extremely long—at least over a thousand years.
But nowadays? Titled Douluo today don't live nearly as long.
In the ten-thousand-year history of Douluo, there have been Ultimate Douluo, but it's rare for any to live past five hundred.
Back then, both the first Sea God and the first Angel God spent a thousand years gathering faith and condensing their god positions.
But in today's era, gathering faith has become much harder.
Not only that, Ultimate Douluo lifespans are far shorter, so they don't have enough time to accumulate faith.
This is the real root cause of no new gods being born on Douluo in ten thousand years.
No god position inheritance is just one factor.
After all, weren't the earliest god positions in the God Realm created by their predecessors?
Thinking of this, Lu Jingming can't help but admire Atlas Douluo Yun Ming, who appeared ten thousand years later.
Yun Ming's talent was against the heavens. Without a god position inheritance, even when the God Realm was swept away by space-time turbulence and he hadn't gathered much faith, he broke through to Titled Douluo at 23, reached Level 95 at 26, Ultimate Douluo at 31, condensed divine sense at 35 to become a quasi-god, and began creating his own god position—just one step away from true godhood.
With such terrifying talent, it's no wonder he met an early death—even Plane Lord Tang Hao didn't revive him.
Someone like Yun Ming, if given enough time, could seriously threaten Tang San's monopolization of Douluo's fate.
Lu Jingming even suspects Yun Ming, after Huo Yuhao, was another person favored by the continent's fate. (PS: Yun Ming was the Former Sea God Pavillion Master in DD3. The most gifted in his era. Probably more gifted than Tang Wulin. He died because of the plot.)
But unfortunately, by that time, the will of the plane had switched to Tang Hao, and Yun Ming ultimately couldn't break the invisible shackles.
Though thoughts raced in his mind, Lu Jingming only glanced at Huo Yuhao before losing interest.
Under the wary eyes of Bei Bei and Tang Ya, he, Jingliu, and Zhang Lexuan left without lingering.
In his view, Huo Yuhao was just someone else's plaything. As for Skydream Iceworm and Electrolux, he wasn't interested—there was no need to snatch someone else's opportunity, as such fortune meant little to him.
After Lu Jingming's group left, Skydream Iceworm, who had been trembling above Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea, finally let out a long sigh of relief.
"Scared the hell out of me—how did I get so unlucky to run into them? I thought I was dead for sure this time!" Skydream muttered, still shaken.