Soul Land 5: The Rebirth of Tang San

Chapter 600: Revived

A long time passed—to Tang San, it felt infinite.

He remained in a very peculiar state. When everything was gone, leaving only a bit of his divine consciousness, he was in a state somewhere between existence and void.

After all, he wasn’t even a god. How could he possibly contend with an Emperor? No matter how much knowledge and experience he had from his past life, without a proper foundation in this life, it was impossible to fight against an Emperor of this world. The gap between them was simply too vast.

However, he certainly wouldn't give up because of this. Even without the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor's reminder, he had already begun preparing long ago.

For Mei Gongzi, he had given up being low-key, instead accompanying her to compete and win. But during this process, Tang San had already considered the dangers that he and Mei Gongzi might face after the competition. After all, the Peacock Demon clan no longer had the status it’d had under the rule of the Peacock Demon Emperor.

As the saying goes, the tree that stands out in the forest will be toppled by the wind. Without a strong backer, it was obvious what they would face.

They could seek help from those Emperors who might be beneficial to them, but in doing so, the Peacock Demon Clan would have to side with their benefactor and would never be able to stand independently like before.

Whether it was the White Tiger Demon Emperor or the Sword Saint Demon Emperor, their protection wouldn't be unconditional. This wasn't what the Peacock Great Demon King wanted, nor what Mei Gongzi wanted. Tang San was even more unwilling to let his beloved be dependent on others.

Therefore, he had long been preparing for their departure.

Why hadn’t he let his companions leave with them, why had he separated from Big Cat? It was all for this final moment.

Tang San didn't know which Emperor might be against them, and he wouldn't have been surprised if it had been the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor himself. Therefore, his hypothetical enemy had always been an Emperor.

In his previous life, he had two godly seats: one was the Sea God seat, and the other was the Asura God seat, which his wife held on his behalf.

Both godly seats were at the God King level, and each possessed their own innate divine weapon. After countless years of nurturing, they had both become transcendent divine artifacts. The Asura God's innate divine weapon was naturally the Asura Divine Sword, which Tang San had connected to through Mei Gongzi and had used to decisively defeat Meng Dede.

So what about himself? Tang San, being the reincarnation of the God King, had never lost his connection with his own innate divine weapon. However, during his reincarnation and rebirth, it was impossible to carry a transcendent divine artifact with him, so he had come alone, leaving the transcendent divine artifact elsewhere.

As his divine consciousness gradually recovered, his connection with the transcendent divine artifact was naturally reestablished. After all, if he could help Mei Gongzi connect with the Asura Sword, how could he not connect with his own super divine artifact? This was his true trump card, the one trump card that allowed him to actually contend with Emperors.

The Sea God's Trident, also known as the Golden Trident!

Although what he could summon now was still a projection, the power of the Sea God's Trident that he could summon was far beyond that of the Asura Sword. After all, this was his own divine weapon, the one he’d used the longest; moreover, in terms of distance, the Sea God's Trident was also much closer.

During the competition, Tang San never even entertained the thought of using the Sea God's Trident; this trump card could not be revealed. But he knew that he would end up using it. Thus, the amethystine coins he had absorbed had enhanced his divine consciousness and strengthened his connection with the Sea God's Trident.

Long-distance teleportation was the first step in escaping from the Ancestral Court, but Tang San never thought that such teleportation alone would allow them to completely evade pursuit. If it were that simple, there would have been no need for the Master of Destiny to give a reminder.

Tang San understood well that the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor's words were not just a reminder but also a form of pressure. The Celestial Fox Demon Emperor might not target Mei Gongzi and the Peacock Demon Clan, but his inability to see through Tang San meant he would not leave him unchecked.

A calamity worthy of being mentioned by the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor was sure to be a truly terrifying calamity.

Therefore, Tang San had already made preparations before setting out.

To escape the control of the Master of Destiny, the simplest way was to make his own destiny vanish completely. If he had no destiny, then the Master of Destiny naturally had no reason to bother with him.

Therefore, Asura had to die. Only through Asura's death would the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor no longer be locked onto Tang San's fate.

How could he, thus, achieve this? Of course, it was simple. He had to die.

The appearance of the Sea God was still just an illusory figure, but to the Tenebrous Demon Emperor, it brought immense pressure. If just an illusory figure caused such great pressure for the sixth-ranked Demon Emperor, then what about the real body of the Sea God?

To the Tenebrous Demon Emperor, Asura was nothing but a vessel, a medium for the Sea God, or rather the Sea God's messenger. A vessel that was not divine just yet could not contain divine power at that level; after unleashing such power, the vessel would naturally shatter.

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Asura truly perished, at least in that final moment. But it was Asura who perished; the real Tang San quietly disappeared into a spatial-temporal point, to reappear only when the pre-programmed spatial-temporal point arrived.

Everything was planned down to the tiniest detail. At the moment of Asura's demise and Tang San's disappearance, his life truly vanished, leaving only a bit of his divine consciousness essence stored in the amethyst.

His lifeless body was preserved in one spatial-temporal point by the Spacetime Beacon, while his divine consciousness was separated elsewhere. In other words, at that moment, with the Sea God's power as cover, ninety-nine percent of his divine consciousness was used to sustain the Sea God's power, while the remaining one percent was isolated in the amethyst.

Such a phenomenon would appear as true death in this plane. Even the power of the blood oath would dissipate—not that it would’ve done anything otherwise. The oath had been done to reassure Mei Gongzi and the Peacock Great Demon King, as well as to establish a connection between him and Mei Gongzi. But it was not truly binding; how could it be binding to a divine consciousness like Tang San’s?

And when everything was over, his body was returned to its original place by the Spacetime Beacon, and the amethyst happened to appear there. At the moment of their contact, his divine consciousness returned to his body, and with the immense energy of the amethyst nurturing that minuscule bit of divine consciousness still inside it, Tang San was able to be reborn.

This sounded simple, but in reality, to deceive any Emperor, let alone an Emperor who controlled fate, was unimaginably difficult. Without the experience of a former God King, precise control over his divine consciousness, and absolute confidence, Tang San wouldn’t have dared to attempt this.

In this process, even the slightest mistake could prevent his divine consciousness from returning, resulting in his true death. His divine consciousness would be forever sealed within the amethyst, with no telling when he could be revived.

Therefore, before undertaking this, Tang San had activated his Polar Luck Domain to its fullest extent, greatly enhancing his fortune. He perfectly utilized the Spacetime Beacon to ensure contact between his body and the amethyst.

When he opened his eyes and looked at the sky, he found it full of stars. He had died at night, and he had come back to life at night.

Tang San himself did not know how many days had passed since the incident.

The surroundings were completely silent, with not even the sound of insects or birds, clearly due to the lingering fear from the Tenebrous Demon Emperor's earlier presence. With that in mind, it was likely that it hadn’t been that long.

His body felt weak and limp. Although his divine consciousness had returned and was mostly restored thanks to the amethyst, further adjustments were still needed. Fortunately, the amethyst's nurturing of his divine consciousness was indeed powerful. Otherwise, Tang San would have had to rely entirely on the Spacetime Beacon to sustain his remaining bit of divine consciousness. In that case, he had no idea how long it would’ve taken to fully restore his divine consciousness to its previous state.