Chapter 354: The Gap Between Cheating and True Ability
Hearing Tang San's taunts, Xiao Yu dismissed him with disdain.
"Tang San, you're someone who only forced your way onto a god seat because others cheated for you. Where do you get the confidence to look down on others? If the Sea God hadn't made things easy for you, you wouldn't reach this level in ten thousand years!"
"Shut up!"
Tang San's expression turned cold.
Although what Xiao Yu said was the truth—something Tang San himself had realized during the trials—the proud and arrogant God King Tang could never admit it.
"Xiao Yu, at this point, all you have left are words. Today, I'll avenge my father, mother, aunt, teacher, and all the companions you've killed!"
Xiao Yu raised his right hand before his face and gently blew on it.
"You? Have you forgotten the two slaps I gave you last time? I'll let you savor it again today!"
"You're courting death!"
Xiao Yu's gesture made Tang San involuntarily recall those previous humiliating meetings—getting slapped by Xiao Yu in public, a shame he would never be able to erase from his life.
Anger flushed Tang San's face red.
His breath became rapid and heavy, like a wild beast about to pounce.
Xiao Yu chuckled, stretched out his hand, and beckoned with his finger, as if walking a dog.
His next words snapped the last thread of reason in Tang San's mind.
"You know, that old rabbit who used to run wild with you died at my hands too. I used a spiritual attack to create an illusion, transformed into your appearance and acted completely desperate. That stupid rabbit was truly devoted to you—she sacrificed herself for me, allowing me to gain an unprecedented hundred-thousand-year martial soul avatar!"
"Ah! I'll kill you!"
Tang San's expression became crazed, his eyes turning blood-red.
Xiao Wu—his Xiao Wu—she had also died at Xiao Yu's hands!
"Mubai, that old man is yours!"
A terrifying divine power surged out in an instant.
Tang San shouted to Dai Mubai and shot toward Xiao Yu like lightning, arriving in front of him in a blink.
The Sea God Trident radiated a chilling killing intent, and with a roar, Tang San brought it down in a mighty strike.
"Tang San, let me teach you just how vast the gap is between those who rely on cheating to gain power and those who reach each step by true cultivation!"
With a cold laugh, Xiao Yu swept out his Death God Scythe.
With a single metallic clang, Tang San was instantly sent flying.
Blood seeped from the web of his hand.
"How is this possible?"
Tang San's face changed dramatically.
They were both gods—how could the difference be this huge?
Xiao Yu's lips curled with scorn.
"Tang San, I told you before: your godhood was forced on you by others, your foundation is unstable, and you're nowhere near the level of those of us who truly reached godhood on our own!"
He nodded to the side.
"Your good brother is just like you—he has a god seat, but can't use real divine power at all!"
Tang San looked to the side and saw Dai Mubai and Qian Daoliu locked in fierce battle.
Relying on his combat experience and mastery of divine power, Qian Daoliu was toying with the so-called God of War, with nothing like the one-sided outcome Tang San had expected.
"No... Impossible, I don't believe it!"
The God King Tang had never been able to handle setbacks.
Now that the situation was nothing like he'd imagined, his mentality instantly collapsed.
"Xiao Yu, I want you dead! Die!"
With a furious roar, the Sea God divine armor on Tang San exploded, recombining in midair.
Tang San himself turned into a streak of blue light, merging into the formation and fusing with the Sea God Trident.
The Sea God Trident instantly doubled in size.
Its original blue vanished, replaced by the purest, most translucent gold.
The final move of the Sea God Trident's Thirteen Golden Forms—Man and Trident as One, Stars Shift and Revolve.
A dazzling point of golden light suddenly burst from the main blade's tip, slashing through the sky toward Xiao Yu.
"If you don't have real strength, shouting as loud as you want is useless!"
Xiao Yu let out a cold laugh.
Terrifying blood-red light surged from his body, gathering into the Death God Scythe in his hand. Suddenly, he swung it out, sending a blood-red crescent slash to meet the trident head-on.
Crack—crack—
The scythe and trident collided in midair.
Cracks spread across the dazzling golden Sea God Trident, and Tang San—merged into the trident—was struck hard, blasted out of the weapon by the force of the Death God Scythe.
Losing the nourishment of Tang San's soul, the Sea God Trident instantly reverted to its original form and was sent flying after Tang San.
"Damn it, why—why!"
Tang San, tumbling through the air, grabbed the trident and managed to halt his fall, letting out a furious roar toward the sky.
"Why? Haven't I already told you the reason?"
Xiao Yu flashed forward.
His gaze toward Tang San was full of disdain.
A person this mentally fragile, who only relied on shortcuts and opportunism, wasn't even worth taking seriously.
To think, in his early years after crossing over, Xiao Yu had once considered Tang San a major enemy. But now, it was clear—if not for that wild Asura God of a father who kept force-feeding him power, how could Tang San ever stand at the top of the god realm?
"Shut up, shut up!"
Enraged, Tang San raised the Sea God Trident.
In an instant, all ten soul rings around him exploded. The energy from the explosion rushed into Tang San's body, boosting his aura even higher—so much so that his body began to swell.
The golden trident danced in the air, unleashing a mysterious series of techniques in one fluid motion. In an instant, countless trident shadows appeared.
The strongest move of the Sea God Trident's Thirteen Golden Forms—Thirteen Tridents as One, Sea God's Twilight.
Tang San's entire body, along with his Sea God armor, turned a strange topaz yellow.
A massive yellow beam of light shot from his body, blasting straight toward Xiao Yu, the one he hated most in this world.
"Tang San, I'll say it again: how can a cheater possibly compare to those of us who advanced step by step through our own strength? This move of yours is only a little stronger than that Sea God divine thought you used back in Qingyun City, at the Wuhun Hall sub-temple."
A chilling murderous aura erupted from Xiao Yu.
The temperature around him plummeted. If anyone dared approach now, even a god-level expert would be frozen into a statue in an instant.
The Death God Scythe expanded in a flash.
Blood-red light covered half the sky, drawing all the energy in the air into the blade. A massive arc of light, as if splitting heaven and earth, came crashing down from above.
(End of chapter)