Chapter 2: Arranging a Little Brother for Xiaogang
In the chaos of the turbulent time-space stream, Huo Yuhao once again found himself face-to-face with the Golden Dragon King. However, the alliance between them had already shattered the moment Tang San fell. To seize the divine seeds of Life and Destruction in Huo Yuhao's possession, the Golden Dragon King launched a sudden and fierce attack.
Fortunately, Huo Yuhao had been prepared. The two clashed in a cataclysmic battle amid the chaotic currents of time and space. Their fight shattered time, crushed the Dao, and erased all order. In the end, the Golden Dragon King, gravely injured, was no match for Huo Yuhao and was slain. Yet, before his death, he poured his bloodline essence and all remaining power into Huo Yuhao's body, attempting to overload him and kill him within the time-space chaos.
To suppress this raging power, Huo Yuhao was forced to seal the Golden Dragon King's essence within his body using divine power. However, that act depleted all his divine force, leaving him crippled and exhausted. Dragging his broken body, he drifted into a strange new plane to refine the Golden Dragon King's essence and rebuild his strength.
At first, Huo Yuhao thought he had arrived at another world, but soon realized something was wrong. Due to the distortions of time, he had actually traveled to an earlier point in the Douluo timeline—tens of thousands of years before the first era of the Douluo Continent, a primitive age. In this era, the Sea God and Angel God had yet to ascend, the Dragon God had long perished, soul beasts dominated the world, and humankind cowered on a few scattered plains, struggling to survive against the beasts' attacks.
Upon learning the era he was in, Huo Yuhao's smile was so wide that not even an AK-47 could suppress it. Why had Tang San been able to stand above him? Luck? Huo Yuhao had begun with a million-year soul ring! Teachers? Yu Xiaogang couldn't even polish Electrolux's boots!
Tang San's success came from timing—from being born ten thousand years earlier than Huo Yuhao, gaining control of circumstance and momentum, and seizing heaven's favor. In other novels, a protagonist might struggle from ant to ascension, only to become a pawn again on a higher plane; yet Tang San soared from the mortal world to the Divine Realm and immediately became one of its five great overlords. The old gods of Evil and Kindness had reincarnated, leaving the entire divine authority in Tang San's hands as though destiny itself had cleared his path. Why should he be privileged so?
But now, things had changed. Huo Yuhao finally had the chance to punish him—from the upper reaches of time itself.
In this reborn era, with his unparalleled spiritual strength and the fusion of the Golden Dragon King's bloodline, Huo Yuhao combined the powers of Life and Destruction within himself, forging the embryo of a divine seat. Over time, he ascended to greater heights, comprehending universal laws until the divine core crystallized into existence—the Eternal Divinity. Fusing the divine seeds of Life, Destruction, and Emotion, Huo Yuhao directly ascended to the level of a God King the moment he achieved godhood.
To avoid interfering with Tang San's eventual birth, Huo Yuhao refrained from altering too much of the timeline. After laying down enough hidden plans across the continent, he ascended once again to the Divine Realm.
The instant he set foot into the Divine Realm, he was met with fierce resistance from the five existing God Kings. The God of Shura declared, "We just got rid of the Dragon God—a 'Great Father'. How could we allow another one to appear? We five are the rulers, the true masters of the Divine Realm!" Thus, Shura joined forces with the Gods of Life, Destruction, Evil, and Kindness, uniting against the newborn Eternal God, Huo Yuhao.
Tang San had gained his authority through timing. When he ascended, the old Shura had departed, and the Gods of Evil and Kindness—for reasons unknown—handed him their remaining power.
Huo Yuhao, on the other hand, claimed his place not through timing, but by taking it by force—ripping his share of divine authority directly from their hands.
Twenty thousand years later, the Angel God ascended, then the Sea God. Another ten millennia passed, marking the dawn of a new era.
"If I hadn't chosen betrayal," Huo Yuhao murmured, "I'd still be Tang San's dog right now. I've walked on the edge my whole life, but at last, I've crossed the abyss. Now, Tang San—it's your turn to tread on glass."
"Since Tang San hasn't yet been born," he muttered through clenched teeth, "I'll start with Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao."
The image within the Eye of Eternity shifted to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. A noblewoman, Wang Bilian, sat peacefully enjoying afternoon tea while her maid attended to her, unaware that a tiny life was forming within her. She, the wife of Yu Yuanzhen, was pregnant with a child—most likely Yu Xiaogang himself.
With a faint grin, Huo Yuhao projected his divine sense toward the lower plane. "Skydream, time to get to work."
"Oh? So soon, Yuhao? What's up?" asked the Skydream Iceworm below.
"Yu Xiaogang is about to be born. Historical records say he had no siblings, meaning Yu Yuanzhen had only one son."
"You have a plan?" Skydream probed.
"Give him another son—preferably one born the same year. You know what to do."
Skydream chuckled slyly. "Heh, Yuhao… you're such a bad guy."
Just as Tang San had left divine beasts on the Douluo Continent to set up his schemes after godhood, Huo Yuhao did the same. Skydream was one of them. Limited by the plane's power cap, Skydream now had the strength of a pseudo-god-level Limit Douluo—still far beyond Yu Yuanzhen's ability to resist.
After receiving his orders, Skydream acted immediately. He manipulated Yu Yuanzhen into drinking himself into a drunken stupor and arranged for one of the clan's maids to attend him.
Yu Yuanzhen, head of the powerful Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, the famed "Thunder Douluo," possessed a top-tier beast martial soul and unparalleled talent. There was never a shortage of women eager to approach him—drawn by either his sect's prosperity or his bloodline's allure.
As he lay senselessly drunk, his personal maid Yun Niang conceived a daring thought—and boldly carried it out.
The next morning, Yu Yuanzhen awoke hazily, recalling fragments of the previous night. Seeing Yun Niang by his side, he sighed and dismissed it as a passing indulgence. As a titled Douluo, fathering children was already difficult for him, so he paid the matter no mind.
What he didn't know was that her act had hit the mark perfectly. The little brother history never recorded for Yu Xiaogang was now to be born.
Months later, Wang Bilian's pregnancy advanced, her unborn child draining her life essence. As her belly grew, her body grew ever weaker.
(END CHAPTER)
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