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--- Chapter 538 ---
"Sea God's Thirteen Golden Halberds!"
Hovering in the air, the projection of the Sea God enveloped 'Tang Wuyue,' who wielded the glowing phantom of a divine golden trident, thrusting it forward at blinding speed.
"First Form: Unfixed Storm!"
Seeing several rapidly spinning golden whirlpools rushing toward her, the Golden Dragon King snorted in disdain. "You, a newly ascended divinity, actually dare to use a control skill on me? ON ME?!"
"The Golden Dragon King is the True God-King of Tyrannical Strength! I inherited the raw power and unyielding madness of the Dragon God!"
"Sea God, let me break your delusions!"
Balling her small, gold-scaled claws into tight fists, the Golden Dragon King threw a devastating straight punch directly into the heart of the incoming whirlpools.
"DESTROY!"
BOOOOOOOOM!!
"W-What?!"
The Sea God's soul widened his eyes in shock.
By simply swinging her fist, the Golden Dragon King had shattered the surrounding space itself, causing the spatial lock of Unfixed Storm to collapse and detonate prematurely mid-air!
The raw absurdity of the sight refreshed Tang San's entire understanding of divine entities.
In his original memories of the Divine Realm, he had primarily dealt with the Silver Dragon King, who inherited the Dragon God's Wisdom and Elemental Control.
Yet, in terms of sheer destructive force, the Silver Dragon King was far weaker than her counterpart.
Sealed and suppressed for countless millennia, the Silver Dragon King hadn't even been able to display her full strength before detonating her true soul during the Divine Realm's crisis, triggering an elemental storm that, combined with the Space-Time Black Hole, swept the Divine Realm far away from its original location.
Tang San had thought himself brilliant for sealing the remains and divine core of the Silver Dragon King inside his third child's body to nurture her talent.
Nevertheless, he had drastically underestimated the Golden Dragon King, known in the ancient records of the Divine Realm as the Mad Dragon King.
The reason was terrifyingly simple.
In those records, the Golden Dragon King's madness and tyrannical force were described as an infinitely erupting volcano.
Even if she suffered critical, fatal injuries, and even on the verge of death, her combat power would not decline.
Instead, the Golden Dragon King's strength would rise as her rage grew, exploding so high that even the God-Kings found her nearly impossible to suppress through force alone.
Her absolute hatred toward Gods served as an infinite fuel source for her power. In terms of immediate threat level, she far surpassed the Silver Dragon King!
Unfortunately, Tang San had no time to ponder these ancient records. He was currently nothing more than a fragile wisp of a Divine Soul residing within his young daughter's Sea of Consciousness.
A roaring shockwave from the spatial rupture swept over them.
"Not good! Wuyue's body is far too fragile!" Tang San growled inwardly as the shockwave rattled his daughter's internal organs.
He desperately channeled his remaining divine power to form a protective barrier, but how could a weakened mortal frame withstand the damage of a Dragon King's wrath?
BOOOOOM!
Cough!
Tang San was thrown backward into a crumbling Spirit Pagoda, coughing up a mouthful of blood.
Worse still, the Silver Dragon King's Divine Core sealed in Tang Wuyue began to fluctuate violently upon sensing the Golden Dragon King's presence.
If this continued, the eighteen divine seals he had meticulously placed on the core would break ahead of schedule.
At that point, not even the blessing of the Goddess of Life would be able to save his daughter!
"Damn you, Golden Dragon King!" Tang San cursed, wiping the blood from the corner of his daughter's lips. "You already have the way to die!"
Tang San knew that with a mere wisp of a soul, defeating the Golden Dragon King was impossible. His sole priority was to get his daughter as far away from this mad dragon as possible.
Yet, his planned contingencies had failed to appear.
"Father! Mother! Er Ming! Da Ming! Where are you?!" Tang San almost roared at the top of his lungs, scanning the surrounding space with his divine sense. Yes, he couldn't detect the presence of his guardians he ordered to remain in the Douluo Star anywhere nearby.
To make matters worse, Tang San suddenly noticed that the stream of faith power flowing into his Sea God position had plummeted to a very low level.
It was so weak that he felt a sudden, terrifying sense of isolation.
What Tang San did not realize was that due to Han Yuan's subtle ripples across the timeline and Xu Deming's relentless propaganda, the pure, selfless image of the Sea God and the Tang Clan had completely shattered among the people of the Douluo Star.
While many people still revered Shrek Academy and their founding Gods, a vast majority of the people also viewed them with deep skepticism and growing hostility.
With the evidence and historical records revealed on the global network by Xu Deming, public faith had morphed into horror and fear.
The public had already realized that beneath Shrek's noble facade lay a calculated ploy to rule the Douluo Star behind the scenes, effectively transforming it into a "Tang Family Star."
Tang San had severely underestimated the rapid, unstoppable evolution of technology and global communication. In fact, he always despised the Spirit Guidance Tools, believing history was written solely by the victors.
After toppling the Sun Moon Empire ten thousand years ago, he thought he could wash his hands clean by appearing and stopping the war.
Ironically, the rise of the digital age and open information had become his ultimate downfall.
'Xiao San?!'
Finally, a somber, heavily strained voice echoed through the sea. It was Tang Hao, his tone still tinged with heavy frustration over the recent disturbances.
'Xiao San!' Mo Yin's voice joined his, equally startled to hear her son's urgent summons.
Tang San forced himself to calm down. "Father, Mother! Hurry—help me suppress the Golden Dragon King! Also, immediately alert the Sea God Pavilion, Tang Sect, Sea God Family, and the Clear Sky Sect!"
"Otherwise, Wuyue will perish!"
'What?!' Both Tang Hao and Mo Yin gasped in horror.
Realizing the severity of the situation, they immediately began using their connections through the Ancient Golden Tree and the oceanic divine arrays.
However, none of the three realized that their spiritual communication channel had been fully monitored and intercepted from the very start.
Far above the planet, inside the Lunar Base, Xu Deming watched the energy signatures converge on his interface, a sinister grin spreading across his face.
"Kekeke... You walked right into the trap, Tang San!"
With a heavy slam on the control panel, the God-Sealing Array fully deployed over Glorybound City!
Massive, translucent pillars of gray light descended from the upper atmosphere, plunging into the earth around the city perimeters and forming an impenetrable, isolated realm.
As the top experts from the Sea God Pavilion, Sea God Family, Tang Sect, and Clear Sky Sect were alerted and began rushing toward the location, Xu Deming intentionally delayed sending an official emergency alert to the Federation military.
He wanted the situation to ferment.
When the high-ranking officials of the Federation arrived and saw the forces of the Tang Alliance already surrounding the battleground, acting on divine orders from their ancestors, anyone with half a brain would realize Shrek was operating outside federal authority again.
Sowing discord? No, Xu Deming was cutting off Tang San's remaining image and faith once and for all!
"SEAL!" Xu Deming commanded, locking the spatial coordinates.
Inside the barrier, Tang San, the Golden Dragon King, and Di Tianyu felt the heavy, suffocating spatial compression lock onto the region. All three frowned, unable to trace the source of the high-tech array.
However, the implications were clear.
'Who is it?! Who dares to interfere with me, Tang San?!' Tang San's expression turned extraordinarily dark.
The Golden Dragon King looked up past the glowing energy barrier, her eyes piercing through the clouds toward the distant moon. 'Someone up there, huh...?'
'Is it another one of those strange anomalies?'
'Wait... is he helping me?'
'No, he isn't helping me. He is simply attacking his own enemy, the Sea God, just like I am.'
'Heh. The enemy of my enemy is my friend... Very well, tin cans in the sky. I, the Golden Dragon King, acknowledge your petty assistance!'
Snorting inwardly, the Golden Dragon King snapped her attention back to Tang San, her golden dragon scales blazing with destructive light.
"Tang San! Take my Golden Dragon Claw!" She roared, lunging forward like a golden meteor.
"Damn it!" Tang San spat, forcing his daughter's battered body back into a defensive stance with the golden trident.