1: Chapter 1 "My little one, you must live your own life!"

(Pure love fans, fan circle beware! There will be some personal headcanons, look forward to it~)

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"Huo Yuhao, where do you want to go?"

Inside the Divine Realm center, Huo Yuhao's fingers were only a fraction of an inch away from the core of the Divine Realm center.

A voice drilled into his ears.

He slowly turned around, looking at the figure that appeared out of thin air, that face he once respected immensely, now left only with disgusting hypocrisy.

"Father-in-law." Huo Yuhao's address carried a hint of imperceptible mockery, "I just want to go home and take a look."

"The Divine Realm is your home."

Tang San stood with his hands behind his back, the Sea God Divine Power forming an invisible pressure around him, enveloping the entire Divine Realm center. "God of Emotions, you have disappointed me too much."

"Disappointed?"

Huo Yuhao seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world; he laughed in a low voice, and the laughter grew louder.

Finally, it turned into an almost manic questioning, "Yes, I have indeed disappointed you! I actually discovered your secret, and did not do as you expected, obediently acting as a dog for your Tang Clan. Of course, I have disappointed you!"

Tang San's expression turned gloomy instantly: "What nonsense are you spouting?"

"Nonsense?"

Huo Yuhao took a step forward, the fluctuations of the seven emotions and six desires boiling with his anger, "Wang Donger! Wang Qiuer! Tang Wutong! Tang San, do you dare say you haven't tampered with their souls!"

"Do you dare say that in order to cultivate a tool absolutely loyal to your Tang Clan, you didn't split your own daughter's soul into three?"

"Do you dare say that you didn't take Wang Donger's soul fragments and the soul fragments of the Emperor Auspicious Beast, Wang Qiuer, and like stitching up rags, stitch them into a main soul, just so she could perfectly approach me, control me, and make me eventually willingly become the gatekeeper for your Tang Clan!"

Every one of Huo Yuhao's questions was like a heavy hammer, striking fiercely at the surroundings.

Tang San's gaze shifted from initial indifference to a hint of surprise, and finally returned to calm.

He was silent for a moment; that silence itself was a form of admission.

Huo Yuhao's heart, following his silence, sank completely into the abyss.

All of this has to be told from three months ago.

After becoming the God of Emotions, Huo Yuhao possessed the power to move freely within a limited range of the Divine Realm.

However, he always felt that the gods of the Divine Realm looked at him with strange eyes, a complex gaze mixed with sympathy, pity, and a hint of mockery.

Even his wife, Tang Wutong, was always distant from him, as if separated by a layer of impenetrable fog.

It wasn't until three months ago that, in order to relieve the boredom in his heart, he inadvertently broke into an area shrouded by powerful Divine Power restrictions.

That restriction was not unfamiliar to him; it belonged to Tang San's Sea God Divine Power.

Relying on his familiarity with this power, and some soul secret techniques taught to him by Teacher Electrolux before he passed away, he unexpectedly passed through the restriction.

Behind the restriction was a secret laboratory.

In the center of the laboratory were two crystal containers, each floating with a faint soul fragment.

One mass was a warm powder-blue, and the other was a brilliant gold.

Huo Yuhao recognized their aura in an instant.

That was Wang Donger, that was Wang Qiuer.

They were the two girls deep in his memory, one bright and warm, one fiery and resolute.

Hadn't they already merged with Tang Wutong?

Why were their soul fragments preserved here separately?

A terrifying thought sprouted in his mind.

He remembered Teacher Electrolux.

Unfortunately, when they were at the Valley of Love in the lower realm, everything about his teacher had already been erased by the God King Tang. To help him, the last bit of his teacher's Divine Soul had also completely dissipated, unable to guide him again.

But he still remembered the soul exploration secret technique left by his teacher.

With trembling hands, he carefully probed his divine sense into those two soul fragments.

Fragmented memory images surged like a tide.

He saw Wang Donger, whose soul was forcibly stripped away by Tang San, her cries mercilessly isolated by Divine Power.

He saw the golden soul of Wang Qiuer, intertwined with unwillingness and love after her sacrifice, being forcibly detained by Tang San using Divine Power, and then subjected to cutting.

He saw a shocking truth.

Tang San, in order to cultivate a God King successor absolutely loyal to the Tang Clan—that is, him, Huo Yuhao—had actually planned a scam spanning ten thousand years.

He divided the soul of his own daughter, Tang Wutong, into three parts.

Two of them were fused with the core soul memories of Wang Donger and Wang Qiuer respectively, creating a brand new "Tang Wutong" whom he did not know.

A perfect "stitched monster."

Wang Donger's love for him, Wang Qiuer's love for him, all became the threads Tang San used to weave this great net.

And Tang Wutong was just a container executing a mission, a tool to ensure that he, Huo Yuhao, could be firmly tied to the Tang Clan's war chariot.

Everything in the past instantly had a reasonable explanation.

Tang Wutong was sometimes gentle like Donger, sometimes domineering like Qiuer, yet kept her distance from him at critical moments.

That was because she wasn't them at all; she was just acting.

Tang San's so-called "tests" and "tempering" for him were merely to make him a more useful pawn.

The strange looks from the gods of the Divine Realm were because some of them might have known the truth long ago, but dared not speak out under the pressure of the Sea God King.

He, the God of Emotions Huo Yuhao, had lived in a huge lie from beginning to end.

The love he cherished, everything he fought for, was nothing more than a ridiculous play already written in someone else's script.

He was struck by lightning, his heart turned to ash.

He decided to return to the Douluo Continent, to the place where everything began, to find the real answer, even if it was self-deception.

Thus, there was this scene of breaking into the Divine Realm center today.

"Why?"

Huo Yuhao looked at Tang San, his voice hoarse, his eyes bloodshot, "They both loved you so much. Donger is your daughter, and Qiuer was just a Spirit Beast. Why did you treat them like this?"

Tang San finally spoke, his tone so indifferent as if he were recounting a trivial matter unrelated to himself.

"It is their honor to be able to pave the way for you and serve the future of my Tang Clan."

Honor?

Huo Yuhao laughed out of extreme anger, laughing until tears came out.

"Haha... Hahahaha! What a great honor! Tang San, you are truly... shameless to the extreme!"

"Presumptuous!"

A cold light flashed in Tang San's eyes, "God of Emotions, it seems you have lost your mind. In consideration of your past contributions, I will only abolish your cultivation and throw you into the Divine Realm prison to reflect on your mistakes."

Before the words finished, an unrivaled, terrifying Divine Power like the Heavenly River flowing backward pressed down on Huo Yuhao.

That was the power of a God King, far beyond what he, a first-class Divinity, could contend with.

Huo Yuhao closed his eyes; he did not resist.

His heart was already dead; what was the use of a God Position?

However, just at the moment when that Divine Power was about to touch his body, an ice-blue figure blocked in front of him without hesitation.

"Snow Empress!" Huo Yuhao opened his eyes in horror.

It was the Snow Empress, his most trusted Soul Spirit, and one of the most important people in his life.

With her Soul Spirit body, she condensed the purest source power, trying to block that earth-shattering blow from the God King.

"Puff."

The Divine Power pierced through the Snow Empress's body.

Her body became transparent at a speed visible to the naked eye, and her soul origin began to shatter inch by inch.

"No... No!!!"

Huo Yuhao let out a heartbreaking roar. He rushed forward, trying to hug the dissipating body, but only passed through a phantom.

The Snow Empress turned her head with difficulty. There was no pain on her beautiful face, only the same tenderness and attachment as always.

She used her last strength to gently kiss Huo Yuhao's lips.

Her aura was cold and familiar.

"Don't cry..."

Her voice was ethereal, as if it could dissipate in the wind at any time.

"Being able to meet you in this life... is my greatest luck... Yuhao... I love you..."

As the words fell, her body completely turned into ice-blue light spots filling the sky, dissipating in the divine palace.

Among them, a core origin radiating extreme coldness and endless vitality, like a tired bird returning to the forest, instantly merged into Huo Yuhao's body.

Huo Yuhao stood blankly on the spot, reaching out his hand, seemingly wanting to grab something.

Snow Empress... was also gone.

To protect him, she was also gone.

Teacher Electrolux was gone, Donger and Qiuer were used, and now even the Snow Empress...

Why?

Why must everyone who loves him end up like this?

And that culprit was still high and mighty, dominating everything!

An unprecedented rage and despair erupted from the deepest part of Huo Yuhao's soul.

He hugged the place where the Snow Empress last dissipated, roaring in anger.

"Ahhhh!"

His eyes instantly turned blood-red, and the Divine Power of the seven emotions and six desires went violently out of control in his body.

"Tang San!!!"

"I'll kill you!!!"

Huo Yuhao suddenly raised his head, his eyes devoid of any reason, leaving only the madness that would burn everything.

He burned his Divine Power, burned his Divine Soul, and burned his God Position as the God of Emotions!

"Not good!"

Tang San's expression changed drastically. He didn't expect Huo Yuhao to be so resolute. The self-detonation of a first-class Divinity was enough to threaten a God King!

He immediately opened the Sea God Domain, trying to suppress this violent power.

But, it was too late.

Centered on Huo Yuhao, a destructive halo mixed with seven colors and ice blue exploded!

"Boom!!!"

The entire Divine Realm shook because of it, and a terrifying energy storm swept through more than half of the Divine Realm.

Tang San, bearing the brunt, was hit solidly by the power of this self-detonation, letting out an angry roar.

Although he did not fall, his God King body was already severely damaged, and he spat out a large mouthful of golden divine blood.

"Huo! Yu! Hao!"

He roared that name angrily, but at the center of the explosion, there was no longer any aura.

Huo Yuhao's consciousness floated in boundless darkness and destruction.

He felt himself being torn apart, decomposed, and about to completely dissipate between heaven and earth.

Is it over...

That's fine too... Donger, Qiuer, Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Brother Tianmeng, I'm sorry to you all...

Mother... Teacher... I'm coming to accompany you...

Just at the moment when his consciousness was about to completely perish, an incomparably warm, incomparably gentle power.

Like a mother's embrace, gently wrapped around his soul core that was about to shatter.

A gentle, loving, and slightly sighing voice echoed in the depths of his soul.

"Child, you shouldn't end like this..."

"Who... is it?" Huo Yuhao's remaining consciousness emitted a question.

"You can call me the Mother of the Plane."

The voice replied, "I am the land that gave birth to you and raised you, the will of the Douluo Continent."

"Mother of the Plane..."

"Yes, child. I have been watching you, from your birth, to your growth, and then to your becoming a god. You are one of my most outstanding children, and also the hope I have chosen to break the shackles of this world."

The warm power continuously repaired Huo Yuhao's soul core, carefully preserving all his memories and all his emotions.

"Tang San's actions have long severely damaged the balance of the plane. He steals the luck of the plane, manipulates the destiny of living beings, and treats the entire continent as his Tang Clan's private back garden. I have been looking for an opportunity to resist, and your appearance, your awakening, is that opportunity."

"I will use the source power I have accumulated for ten thousand years to protect your soul and memories, and send you back to the beginning of time."

Following the words of the Mother of the Plane, Huo Yuhao felt a vast power beyond his cognitive range injected into his soul.

At the same time, an eye-shaped mark radiating an eternal aura was deeply branded onto his soul origin.

"This is a gift I have prepared for you. This was originally your life-bound pseudo-super artifact, the 'Eternal Eye'. I used the plane's origin to strengthen it, elevating it to the level of a true super artifact. Now it is sealed; it will gradually unseal as your strength improves, becoming your greatest help."

Huo Yuhao's consciousness was wrapped by that power and thrown into a rushing river of time.

He traveled through the torrent, seeing his childhood, seeing the first encounter in the Star Dou Great Forest, seeing the struggle at Shrek Academy, seeing those victories he once prided himself on...

Now looking back, everything seemed like a carefully choreographed play.

"Go, my child."

The voice of the Mother of the Plane, filled with endless love and expectation, became the last ray of light before his consciousness fell into darkness.

"Go and change everything... In this life, don't be manipulated by anyone again..."

"Live out... your own self..."

Huo Yuhao's consciousness completely fell into boundless darkness.