Chapter 3 — The Third Life! The Great Tide Rises! I Alone Shall Rule!
Ten thousand years later—Legend of the Dragon King!
After the God Realm vanished into the void, the Sun Moon Empire unified the entire continent and founded a new nation.
It was called the Federation of Douluo!
Back then, since Huo Yuhao had been successfully taken away by Jiang Chen to the Sun Moon Empire and distanced from Princess Tang, he eventually fell in love with Juzi.
However, under the shameless interference of the so-called God King Tang San, Huo Yuhao's consciousness was altered—he fell deeply in love with Tang Wutong and was forced to abandon his wife and child.
But Jiang Chen hadn't stopped scheming. Huo Yuhao's biological son, the Sun Moon Empire's crown prince, Xu Yunhan, was renamed Huo Yunhan!
Through the Spirit Transmission Tower's technology, his soul was passed down, generation after generation, as the Huo Clan's guardian soul spirit.
Because the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger carried the bloodline of the Evil God, it cultivated by devouring others. The Huo Clan, once the Dai Clan, had the Evil-Eyed White Tiger martial soul—perfectly compatible with Jiang Chen's beast form. Each generation he chose to follow him would eventually achieve the realm of Ultimate Douluo.
And when their lifespans reached their end, they willingly sacrificed themselves—offering their entire being to him.
An Ultimate Douluo's lifespan was only around three hundred years. So after ten thousand years, Jiang Chen had devoured more than thirty of them.
Now his cultivation had reached a terrifying one million years!
He had truly achieved transcendence through a curve overtaking straight paths.
Yet Jiang Chen now faced the direst problem that no soul beast could avoid—
The Heavenly Tribulation.
And not just any tribulation—the fatal one-million-year Soul Beast Tribulation!
In Mingdu, the Huo Clan—
Within the Douluo Federation, the Huo Clan held immense authority. Once the rulers of the Douluo Empire, they had later abolished the monarchy as it no longer suited the age.
They transitioned from an empire to a federal system.
Still, no one dared underestimate the Huo Clan. Within the Federation, their influence remained monumental.
After all, the founder of the Spirit Transmission Tower, the dean of Shrek Academy, and the master of Tang Sect—the Spirit Ice Douluo—was their ancestor!
Even more importantly, they possessed a divine-class soul beast as their ancestral soul spirit—a near-million-year being—
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!
Naturally, each generation of the Huo Clan had produced an Ultimate Douluo, suppressing the world in their era.
Now, within the ancestral grounds of the Huo Clan, countless descendants were gathered for the clan's once-every-three-centuries ancestral ceremony.
At its center stood the thirty-fourth patriarch of the Huo Clan—Huo Shenyu. Martial Soul: Evil-Eyed White Tiger. Realm: Ultimate Douluo.
After three centuries of life, his end had come.
He was to offer himself to the heavens.
Many of the Huo descendants knelt and bowed before a massive stone statue of a soul beast.
The ancestral totem of the Huo Clan—The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!
Jiang Chen!
Behind the statue was a grand hall containing the memorial tablets of the thirty-three previous Ultimate Douluo ancestors of the Huo family.
And now, a new one was about to be added.
Kneeling before Jiang Chen's effigy, the clansmen manifest martial spirits—Three-Eyed White Tiger, Evil-Eyed White Tiger, and Spirit Eye—all shimmering with soul power.
These were the three main branches of the Huo bloodline.
"Farewell to the ancestor ascending to the heavens!"
In the sacred temple, the atmosphere was solemn. Meanwhile, in a sealed chamber accessible only to titled Douluo—
An elderly man sat with lifeless eyes, his vitality nearly gone. A single breeze might topple him, yet his aura still exuded immense pressure.
Beside him lay a large black-purple cat with tiny wings, crouched on the floor and gnawing on a glowing fruit.
The old man sighed as he looked at the cat and whispered, "Ancestor… if only I could become a god. I… really don't want to die."
"You think I don't want to become a god?" The cat rolled its eyes at him.
What nonsense! Of course he wanted to ascend!
The old man sighed again. "This world is truly despairing."
In the past, with the God Realm existing, you couldn't become a god without a divine seat.
Now, with the God Realm gone, you still can't become a god—because there is no divine seat.
The path is forever blocked.
"And, ancestor," said the elder weakly, "you won't be able to overcome the one-million-year heavenly tribulation either, will you? Seems I'll have company on the road to the Yellow Springs. It's just a pity… I don't know if the Huo Clan can endure for millennia once you're gone."
As an Ultimate Douluo bound to a million-year soul beast, his power had already brushed the boundary of godhood.
Yet even so, hopelessness filled the air.
Without a divine seat, becoming a god was impossible.
"Bah!"
The black cat—Jiang Chen's true form—spat, stuck out his tongue, and kept chewing the fruit.
Though the fruit was a bit tough on the teeth, it was worth it.
Because it was a soul core—the very essence of an Ultimate Douluo's cultivation!
Specifically, it was the core of the man before him, the current patriarch, Huo Shenyu.
Jiang Chen glanced at him and said, "Don't worry. I'll reforge myself into human form soon. I'm not dying yet."
The old man paused, then nodded. "True. If the ancestor transforms again, you can live another three hundred years."
"What do you mean again? I'll become a god!"
Now that the God Realm had vanished, no one could suppress him anymore!
He—the one-million-year soul beast reborn—would ascend to godhood!
As for why he hadn't done it before?
The God Realm had loomed over them then. Even if he had trained as a human, they'd never have allowed him to ascend.
Since the Douluo God Realm's creation, not a single soul beast had successfully become human and later achieved divinity.
That damned clown Dragon God!
Every time Jiang Chen thought of it, he wanted to flay that dragon alive.
Through the soul-spirit method, Jiang Chen had helped many Huo descendants reach Ultimate Douluo rank.
First, to ensure they'd sacrifice themselves to him when their time came—boosting his strength.
Second, to conceal himself as a soul spirit and escape tribulation.
This was how he'd managed to surpass limits and reach a million years.
He'd devoured thirty-three Ultimate Douluo!
Even a pig could ascend from that much power!
But he knew—this time, the soul-spirit strategy wouldn't save him from the million-year tribulation.
That was the trial the clown Dragon God himself had designed.
It gave no chance for any soul beast to ascend, unless the dragon race revived.
But what did the dragon race's revival have to do with him, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger?!
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He turned his frustration into appetite and bit hard into the soul core.
A crack sounded.
His tooth broke.
Expressionless, Jiang Chen turned his cat face toward the elder. "Your soul core's a bit rough on the teeth."
The old man chuckled weakly. "After all these millennia, ancestor, you still act like a child."
Before Jiang Chen could retort, life suddenly flared in the old man's eyes.
Brilliance bloomed—as an Ultimate Douluo touching the last vestiges of godhood.
The sky for ten thousand miles darkened, sunlight blotted out.
Day turned to endless night.
"The thirty-fourth Ultimate Douluo of the Huo Clan — Huo Shenyu — ascends to the heavens today!"
As Jiang Chen's gaze softened, the old man's body rejuvenated, transforming into his youthful form before vanishing amid divine light.
Across Mingdu, a thunderous voice echoed.
The sacred grounds shimmered with starlight.
Purest soul power dispersed through the air, sprinkling across the martial souls of the Three-Eyed White Tiger, the Evil-Eyed White Tiger, and the Spirit Eye.
The aura of countless descendants surged upward, breakthroughs echoing one after another.
"The disciples of the Huo Clan! Send off the ancestor ascending to the heavens!"
(END CHAPTER)
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