Amidst the chaos of the temporal vortex, Huo Yuhao once again encountered the Golden Dragon King. However, their alliance had already shattered the moment Tang San perished. Seeking to seize the divine seeds of Life and Destruction from Huo Yuhao, the Golden Dragon King launched a sudden and ruthless attack.
Fortunately, Huo Yuhao had anticipated this. A cataclysmic battle erupted between them within the temporal vortex. Their clash caused spacetime to collapse and the fundamental laws of the universe to erode. Ultimately, the heavily wounded Golden Dragon King was no match for Huo Yuhao and was slain. Yet before dying, the Golden Dragon King poured his bloodline essence and all his power into Huo Yuhao, hoping to overwhelm and crush him within the temporal chaos.
To resist the overwhelming force of the Golden Dragon King's essence, Huo Yuhao was forced to seal it within himself using divine power. This act, however, drained all his godly energy, leaving him crippled as he drifted into an unfamiliar plane where he had to merge with the Golden Dragon King's essence and rebuild his cultivation.
At first, Huo Yuhao believed he had arrived in another plane entirely. But soon, he realized the truth: due to the distortions of the temporal vortex, he had come upstream in the Douluo timeline—an ancient and savage era tens of thousands of years before the first era of Douluo Continent. In this age, the Sea God and Angel Gods had yet to ascend to divinity; the Dragon God had already fallen; spirit beasts still dominated absolutely, and humanity was confined to a few small plains, barely holding off the beast incursions with the aid of spirit masters.
Upon learning the era he was in, a grin crept across Huo Yuhao's lips that he could hardly suppress. Why did Tang San get to lord over him so arrogantly? By chance? Huo Yuhao had started with million-year spirit rings. By teachers? Yu Xiaogang wasn't even worthy to carry the shoes of Huo Yuhao's Electus Moon!
Tang San's dominance was due to perfect timing: born ten thousand years before Huo Yuhao, he took advantage of the right circumstances—terrain, timing, and alliances—to lock down Huo Yuhao's entire life path. In other novels, the protagonist struggles from humble origins to greatness, only to fall back to insignificance in higher realms. Tang San, however, rose directly to one of the "big five" rogue gods of the divine realm; veteran gods of evil and good alike reincarnated, while the central authority of the divine realm fell into his hands, as if the world paved a path just for him. But why?
Now, everything was different. Huo Yuhao could finally punish Tang San from this upstream vantage point in time.
Thus, in this rebirth era, leveraging his cultivated peak spiritual power and the ultimate physique granted by merging the Golden Dragon King's bloodline, Huo Yuhao fused the powers of Life and Destruction, forging the embryonic form of a divine seat. Over time, advancing step by step, he comprehended the laws of the universe and crystallized the form of an eternal divine throne. Combining the divine seeds of Life, Destruction, and Emotion—the three great divine king seeds—at the moment of his ascension, Huo Yuhao was catapulted directly to the divine king realm.
To avoid disrupting Tang San's smooth birth, Huo Yuhao did not drastically alter the era's major forces. After planting sufficient contingencies on the Douluo Continent, he ascended to the divine realm.
The moment Huo Yuhao entered the divine realm, he faced strong opposition from the five divine kings. The Asura God declared, "The divine realm just sent off the Dragon God, our 'big daddy.' How can we allow another 'big daddy' to arrive? We five divine kings are the true rulers here!" Thus, Asura God united with the Life, Destruction, Good, and Evil Gods, acting in unison to isolate the newly ascended Eternal God Huo Yuhao.
What did Tang San rely on to gain power at his ascension? Timing. When he ascended, the old Asura God had left, and the Evil and Good Gods either lost their senses or were bewitched, foolishly handing over authority to this insignificant nobody.
Huo Yuhao, however, took his authority through sheer strength, wresting it from the hands of the five divine kings.
Twenty thousand years later on Douluo Continent, the Angel God ascended, followed by the Sea God a thousand years after that. A new era began.
"If I hadn't chosen to betray, I'd probably still be Tang San's lapdog," Huo Yuhao murmured. "My life has been walking on thin ice, but now I've reached the other shore. Little nobody, now it's your turn to tread carefully."
"Before Tang San is born, I'll start by arranging things around Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao," Huo Yuhao said through gritted teeth.
The Eternal Eye's vision shifted to the Blue Electric Tyrannosaurus Sect. A noblewoman leisurely sipped afternoon tea, tended by a maid, unaware that a new life was growing in her womb. The noblewoman, Wang Bilian, was the wife of Yu Yuanzhen; the child she carried was most likely Yu Xiaogang.
At this thought, Huo Yuhao used his divine sense to contact Tianmeng Ice Silkworm in the lower realm: "Tianmeng, there's work to do."
"Oh? So soon? What's up, Yuhao?" the Ice Silkworm replied.
"Yu Xiaogang is about to be born. Historically, Yu Xiaogang had no siblings, meaning Yu Yuanzhen only had one son."
"Do you have plans?" Tianmeng asked.
"Arrange for him to have a younger brother, preferably born the same year. You know what to do."
"Why do this?" Tianmeng's voice carried a hint of teasing. "Hehe, Yuhao, you're so naughty!"
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Just as Tang San left divine beasts on the Douluo Continent to set up his own schemes after becoming a god, Huo Yuhao also left part of his divine beasts behind, Tianmeng among them. Due to the plane's limitations, Tianmeng's current strength is only that of a peak Douluo quasi-god, but even that is more than enough to handle ordinary title Douluos like Yu Yuanzhen.
After receiving his orders, Tianmeng acted immediately. She subdued Yu Yuanzhen, getting him drunk to the point of unconsciousness, and summoned the sect's maids to serve him.
As sect leader and famed Thunder Douluo, Yu Yuanzhen possessed a top-tier beast martial soul and outstanding talent. Many women desired him—wealth, power, or the powerful bloodline inheritance of his martial soul made him worth the risk.
Seeing Yu Yuanzhen utterly drunk and unconscious, his personal maid Yun Niang suddenly conceived a bold idea—and put it into action.
The next day, Yu Yuanzhen vaguely recalled the previous night and glanced at Yun Niang. As a title Douluo, he knew having offspring was difficult, so he didn't think much of the one-night affair.
What Yu Yuanzhen didn't know was that the night had hit the mark perfectly. A historically non-existent younger brother for Yu Xiaogang was about to be born.
In the months that followed, Yu Xiaogang's mother Wang Bilian's belly grew larger, the child inside draining her essence. As her pregnancy progressed, Wang Bilian's health weakened.