I am the son of the Dragon God in Douluo Continent.

As the whistle blew, the match finally began.

Strangely, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er did not immediately start fighting; instead, they started chatting.

Wang Dong'er spoke first, a hint of disdain in her eyes: "Huo Yuhao, I really didn't expect that you would join the Holy Spirit Cult and become the captain of the Holy Spirit Team."

"So you're the newest Holy Son of the Holy Spirit Cult, aren't you? The Holy Spirit Cult is really something, choosing such a spineless coward as their Holy Son."

"What did you say?!" Huo Yuhao roared, his eyes blazing with fury.

Despite Huo Yuhao's outburst, Wang Dong'er continued speaking to herself, "To be honest, although I didn't like you when I was at Shrek Academy, I always thought you still had your own pride and backbone."

"In the end, you chose this evil path to gain power. No matter how pitiful you were in the past, you have no right to complain now that you have the blood of innocent people flowing in your veins."

Huo Yuhao replied with a cold look in his eyes, "It's all Xu Xingyu's fault! If it weren't for him, how could I have ended up like this! He always leads the attack against me, taking advantage of his superior talent to ignore me!"

Hearing the other party slander her lover like this, Wang Dong'er didn't get angry but laughed instead: "Brother Xingyu is targeting you? You really know how to label people."

"Brother Xingyu never targeted you from beginning to end, nor did he stop anyone else from targeting you. Rather than him ignoring you, it's you who ignored his good intentions and isolated us all!"

"You just act according to your own feelings without ever considering whether your actions are wrong! Your hatred for Xingyu is purely out of resentment and jealousy!"

Enraged, Huo Yuhao roared, "How could someone like you, born with everything, understand my suffering! The existence of people like you and Xu Xingyu only makes those of us struggling at the bottom feel utterly humiliated!"

"Humiliation? Effort? Born with everything?" Wang Dong'er inadvertently recalled the various experiences she had as Tang San's daughter, and the suffering Xu Xingyu had endured as the son of the Dragon God.

Indeed, Huo Yuhao was right. She and Xu Xingyu were born with everything. She had divine parents, and even without hard work, she was guaranteed to be a second-level god.

As the son of the Dragon God, Xu Xingyu is almost certain to inherit everything from the Dragon God in order to revive the Soul Beast race, and he also has Gu Yuena, a god-level powerhouse, as his bodyguard and teacher.

But what is the cost of all this?

Wang Dong'er's soul was split from her body by her so-called father from a young age, and then he forcibly placed the curse of the Butterfly God on her.

From birth, she was arranged by her husband to be a pawn in the game of choosing the chosen one in Douluo Continent, not allowed to have her own thoughts, and everything she did had to be for her father.

If it weren't for Xu Xingyu's efforts and help, she would most likely have been replaced by Tang Wutong and become the wife of this good-for-nothing in front of her. Just thinking about it makes her furious.

Xu Xingyu also faced many hardships. She was almost killed by her father for defying the rules of the divine realm, and she was tormented several times by his contingency plans.

In addition, they also have to work hard every day to maintain the Spirit Tower they created so that humans and spirit beasts can get along amicably.

You say that everything they have is something they were born with, and perhaps that's true, but the hardships and efforts we've endured are no less than yours.

Even if we seem to be living a glamorous life on the surface, there are still hardships behind the scenes.

This isn't something you can do better than them just by finding someone to replace them!

Wang Dong'er looked at Huo Yuhao with a calm gaze, "You say we were born with everything? Maybe so, but do you think anyone could have reached our current level, or even surpassed it, by simply swapping places with us?"

"If that's really what you think, you're incredibly naive. Even a ten-year-old is more mature than you. The effort we put in to forge our own paths in life is unimaginable to you!!!"

"What did you say?!"

"In the end, you're just a clown who can only see our glory and is jealous of it. What do you mean by 'how hard you've worked'? Don't you know? Hard work doesn't always guarantee a reward. And if you want a reward, you have to work the right kind of hard work!"

"With your talent, even if you didn't become an evil spirit master, you could still grow to the point where you could avenge your mother."

"But you simply felt inferior because your efforts weren't enough to place you in first place, and easily chose the path of self-abandonment!"

"The reason you keep saying we aren't is simply because you don't want to work hard. You always fantasize about becoming an unparalleled powerhouse overnight to avenge your mother! That's why you chose the shortcut of becoming an evil soul master! You're just a coward who only knows how to make excuses!!!"

Huo Yuhao was furious that his thoughts had been exposed. Deep down, he knew that what Wang Dong'er said was true, but he still refused to admit it.

Because once he admits it, wouldn't everything he's done so far just become the behavior of a clown?

His three eyes blazed with fury, flashing with a purplish-black light. Dark gray energy began to surge around him as his martial spirit was released. Dark gray tiger claws replaced his hands, his clothes were stretched open, and his originally pale skin was replaced by dark gray fur. Green-black wings, like those of a fallen angel, unfurled from behind him. His strong and powerful right foot transformed into something resembling a hook, and his teeth became tiger fangs, some of which were made of ice.

White, purple, purple, black, black, black, red, red—eight spirit rings swirled around him.

The audience was incredulous as they looked at the eight shimmering spirit rings. Those were eight spirit rings! Didn't that mean Huo Yuhao was a Soul Douluo powerhouse?

However, just as Huo Yuhao was enjoying the audience's amazement, Wang Dong'er calmly said, "Releasing two martial souls at the same time, and each of the two martial souls has a 100,000-year soul ring, it seems you haven't had much free time in the Holy Spirit Sect these past years. I just wonder how many innocent people have paid the price for this."

After speaking, Wang Dong'er released her Vast Ocean Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul. A pair of gorgeous pink and blue butterfly wings unfolded behind her, and seven soul rings shone: black, black, black, black, black, red, red.

She looked coldly at Huo Yuhao and said, "Enough with the words, let's start this battle now."

"Hmph." After snorting, Huo Yuhao roared and pounced on Wang Dong'er. The battle could finally begin.