#1001 - Restoring the original heart, the former Haotian Douluo, Tang Chen's past

With his hair turning black, the middle-aged man appeared even older.

His pale and eerie complexion regained its proper color, and his sharp fangs slowly retracted, reverting to normal human teeth.

The old man seemed to awaken from a long slumber, slowly opening his eyes.

The deathly silence and gray, empty world made the old man mistakenly believe he had entered the afterlife.

However, when he looked up and met those deep, heterochromatic eyes that seemed to contain the vast universe, he was completely awakened.

As a peerless Douluo, his alertness allowed him to quickly assess the situation.

When he noticed the various objects being stripped away around him, and the absolute stillness of the silence, he instead revealed a smile of liberation.

He replied in his aged voice, "Haha, it's been a long time since I've been so clear-headed.

Although I don't know who you are, I still thank you for helping me escape the control of the evil thoughts and the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King."

Clear eyes, a steady voice—all of these demonstrated that the one now standing before the goddess was not the King of Slaughter who secretly sucked blood in his room, but the former Haotian Douluo, Tang Chen, who was once known as "Invincible on Land" before Bibi Dong.

To his right, a giant hammer covered in dark gold magic纹纹 floated. Although the style was slightly different, the aura of unparalleled and extreme power was too obvious.

It was the Haotian Hammer, and a peerless Haotian Hammer at its peak.

Seeing it, combined with the person's age of over a hundred years, it would be impossible for the goddess not to guess his identity.

"Senior?

Do you know me?"

The goddess nodded slightly, and then went straight to the point, "We can discuss our affairs later, but for now, let's talk about your situation first.

I wonder why the dignified Haotian Mianxia has fallen into such a state of being neither human nor ghost?"

Regarding the goddess's inquiry, Tang Chen knew that he had no room to refuse, and moreover, he had no intention of refusing.

Possessing powerful strength beyond his imagination, yet still asking him so carefully, he was even somewhat flattered.

Considering that the other party also had the power to help him escape his predicament, Tang Chen immediately told the goddess everything about his encounter in detail.

Tang Chen's story began with a promise.

For the sake of a promise, Tang Chen was determined to break through and become a god, but for him, to become a god, he had to spend thousands of years accumulating enough power of faith to help him become a god with his physical body.

However, thousands of years were too long for him, so he chose to find a way to inherit a god's position.

In this world, there were already many examples of becoming gods, but only a true main god could leave behind their divine sense aura when transcending this world, in order to find their successor.

The Spirit Hall's God of Light, Seagod Island's Seagod, and the Asura God of the City of Slaughter all belonged to this category.

However, finding a divine sense was also difficult for Tang Chen, who had already reached level ninety-nine.

After several searches, he finally found the divine sense left in this world by the Asura God in the City of Slaughter.

According to Tang Chen, there were two gods of evil thoughts in this world.

One was the Asura God in charge of slaughter, and the other was the Rakshasa God in charge of evil thoughts.

The City of Slaughter was the ruins left in this world when the two ascended to the God Realm.

These two gods were not in a symbiotic relationship; on the contrary, they were eternal enemies.

The Asura God controlled the purest slaughter energy, while the Rakshasa God controlled the power of ultimate evil.

The two forces of evil thoughts restrained each other, maintaining the stability of the world.

At first, Tang Chen thought he had found the position of the Asura God, and obtained the Asura God's approval, being granted the Asura God's trials.

The Asura God's Nine Trials.

The first few trials were very simple for a peak Douluo, but as the number of trials increased, he found himself being eroded by evil thoughts, which separated his evil obsessions and sealed his true heart.

It was also at this time that his main body was parasitized by the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King, becoming the current King of Slaughter.

Beside Tang Chen, a nine-headed bat condensed from a blood-colored energy body floated.

In its blood-like energy body, there was a chronic toxin that Quan Yi had detected in Bloody Mary.

That should be the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King's natal toxin.

After listening to Tang Chen's explanation, the goddess immediately realized that it must be the bat king that was causing trouble by spreading the toxin in the City of Slaughter.

Its purpose should be to treat people as blood bags, nurturing them in the early stages to make them grow stronger, and then waiting for the toxin to become increasingly addictive and deeply ingrained in their bones, before triggering the toxin to kill them, draw their blood, and provide nutrients for itself.

Having completely awakened, Tang Chen immediately realized that what he had accepted was definitely not the pure Asura God's trial.

It was a distorted divine trial that was affected by the Rakshasa God's divine sense and lost its true nature.

Back then, the Rakshasa God chose to ascend in this place, certainly in order to prevent his successor from being obstructed by the Asura God, and deliberately faced the Asura God's divine sense.

And it was this choice that caused the Asura God's divine sense to be constantly eroded by the Rakshasa God's divine sense, turning the entire domain into a place of depravity and evil.

Since he was parasitized, the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King had been corroding his body with toxins, absorbing his energy, wanting to completely control his body.

But Tang Chen, whose original heart was still there, had been fighting against it, until just now when the goddess stripped the divine sense itself and the Bat King from Tang Chen's body, he finally awakened his original heart.

After listening to Tang Chen's turbulent path to becoming a god, the goddess was also filled with emotion.

To be honest, Tang Chen's experience made them even more grateful for their decision to become gods independently.

The content of the assessment was already very difficult, but they didn't expect external factors to interfere. Even the divine sense of a God King could be eroded. What else was impossible?

Sure enough, rashly approaching a god is dangerous.

After saying all this, strong emotional fluctuations appeared in Tang Chen's eyes, and his body began to bend forward.

The goddess noticed this and directly stopped him.

"Senior, what are you doing?"

A trace of surprise and confusion flashed in her eyes.

How could a man who could resist the evil thoughts of the Rakshasa God for so long bend over so easily?

But Tang Chen, with red eyes, struggled with his weak body, "Please, you guys, you should be sublimating your own power to the God-level realm through martial soul fusion skills now.

Your purpose should be for the Asura God position on my body, right?

I can give you the divine position, and even all the power I have accumulated through the first seven trials.

In exchange, I only have one request, and that is to send me to Seagod Island in the ocean."