Douluo Continent: Little Huo Niang Taken Away by Di Tian

No—! This isn't right! This shouldn't be the direction the script is going!

Tang San's divided soul trembled violently, his mind churning with the flawless plan he had meticulously devised over decades. His original scheme was a chain of interconnected, deadly traps:

Huo Yutong should have been picked up by Bei Bei and Tang Ya, who were hunting for spirit rings, on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, and then naturally joined the Tang Sect and entered Shrek Academy.

He had already planted a wisp of his divine consciousness deep within Wu Tong's (Wang Dong's) mind, so that he could use this connection to guide her to join the Tang Sect and personally guide her to get to know Huo Yutong.

Then, he would secretly help them discover their amazing martial soul fusion skill—a 100% compatibility. Through daily training and mutual support when breaking through bottlenecks, feelings would naturally grow in their daily interactions.

When they need to acquire a Soul Ring, they will travel to the Star Dou Great Forest, where they will "encounter" the Emperor Beast that has run out.

He would use that wisp of divine consciousness to create a destiny connection between Huo Yutong or Wu Tong and the Imperial Beast.

In this way, he could silently transfer Wu Tong's wisp of soul into the mind of the Imperial Beast and begin to guide it.

Then, the Emperor Beast was transformed into a human and entered Shrek Academy.

Through the natural attraction of Wu Tong's divine consciousness in its mind, it falls irrevocably in love with Wu Tong (Wang Dong), who is disguised as a man.

After the All-Continent Elite Soul Master Competition ends, he will control the opening of the Qiankun Wenqing Valley and make a sacrifice.

That's just one of many conditions for opening it. Even if no one makes a sacrifice, he has plenty of ways to open this secret realm.

He would personally beat Wu Tong to the brink of death, so that the auspicious beast that loved her deeply would sacrifice itself to save her, becoming her soul ring and soul bone.

As for Wu Tong, she will fall into a long slumber due to this severe injury.

In despair, Huo Yutong would carry "Wang Dong" and flee all the way back to Haotian Sect.

And there he was, transforming the sleeping Wang Dong into himself. She was reborn as "Tang Wutong."

At that time, Huo Yutong will regard this "Wang Dong" who she has lost and found as her only lifeline and her most beloved lover.

Because he is Wang Dong, and Wang Dong is him.

Huo Yutong would willingly become the most perfect and irreplaceable piece in Tang San's plan.

As for why Tang Wutong wasn't allowed to approach Huo Yutong directly as a woman?

Ha... Tang San is a staunch heterosexual; he just wants to have a grandson. What he wants is a "male version" of Wang Dong, the perfect sense of control that comes from being deeply loved by a girl but never truly being able to reach her.

Tang Wutong, being a woman, simply couldn't achieve the effect he wanted!

However, all of this was destroyed.

"Tang Sect...an affiliated sect..."

These six words were like a thunderclap, repeatedly exploding in Tang San's mind.

Each reversal fueled his anger, almost burning away his reason.

The current leader of the Tang Clan... is a complete and utter waste!

They've already found a way to die!

Before Tang San could even continue his rage, the Valley of Love and Destiny collapsed, and the fragmented soul that relied on this secret realm naturally came to an end.

What made his heart bleed even more was that this was already the third fragment of his soul that he had lost!

Back when he ascended to the God Realm, in order to continue his strategic moves in the lower realm, he spared no effort to expend his own divine essence, leaving behind a fragment of his soul in four key locations: Seagod Island, Haotian Sect, the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye, and Qiankun Asking Love Valley.

Three out of four are gone. Now, only the last one, the Haotian Sect, remains!

As for the fragment of his soul that he left behind to protect Tang Wutong (Wang Dong) in her next life, he set strict restrictions on it—it could only be activated and used when Wutong became a Title Douluo and obtained the ninth soul skill "Sea God's Descent".

Only in this way can the ironclad rule of "gods cannot descend to the mortal realm" be perfectly circumvented, and power can be projected to the mortal realm in the form of "soul skill descent".

As the Valley of Love and Destiny completely vanished, Tang San's divided soul began to disintegrate inch by inch.

Golden fragments of divine power peeled off his body and scattered in the wind. In the end, even the blue-haired figure that had been shrouded in divine power was completely reduced to specks of dust.

In the nearby ruins, Ning Rongrong's fragmented soul, which held the Nine-Treasure Glazed Pagoda, was also gradually becoming transparent and dim.

In the end, the two divided souls vanished simultaneously into this desolate void.

……

Deep within the Sun and Moon Palace, in the emperor's bedroom.

The heavy curtains blocked out the moonlight, and only a few soul-guided night lamps emitted a dim yellow glow, enveloping the entire room in a suffocating atmosphere of oppression.

On the dragon bed, Xu Mu's face was as pale as paper, his cheeks deeply sunken. The once majestic emperor of the Sun Moon Empire was now so thin that he was almost nothing but skin and bones.

He leaned against the layers of brocade quilts, each breath sounding like a broken bellows being pulled, with a chillingly hoarse voice.

Xu Tianzhen sat on a chair beside the dragon bed, leaning slightly forward, her hands tightly holding her father's withered and thin hand.

Kong Deming and Xu Tianyuan were sitting on two other adjacent chairs in the room.

Shadow Douluo Xue Chen's figure clung to the corner of the wall like a real shadow, blending into the darkness. Unless one consciously perceives it, one cannot detect his presence at all.

Around the room, eight guards stood silently like stone statues, each one a genuine Soul Douluo.

This palace is now the gathering place for most of the power core of the Sun Moon Empire.

"Squeak—"

The heavy doors of the palace were slowly pushed open.

"Father, I have come to see you."

Orange pushed Xu Tianran's wheelchair slowly into the hall.

Xu Tianran sat upright in his wheelchair, his gaze sweeping over everyone present like a blade the moment he stepped into the hall.

The gaze swept past Kong Deming, past Xu Tianyuan, past the eight Soul Douluo guards, past Xu Tianzhen, and finally settled on the face of the dying man on the dragon bed.

"I didn't expect that Elder Kong, Imperial Uncle Tianyuan, and Tianzhen would all be here." Xu Tianran's voice was gentle and steady, even carrying a perfectly appropriate hint of apology. "It is I who am late."

That old geezer... he's almost dead, he doesn't have many days left to live.

Xu Tianran sneered inwardly.

What else can he do? What other waves can he stir up?

Xu Tianran desperately hoped that Xu Mu would take his last breath at this moment.

That way he could rightfully succeed to the throne, and then—

Then he could mourn Xu Mu's death.

He had even prepared his eulogy, reciting it silently countless times in his mind:

Father...you died so tragically! Your unfilial son failed to serve you at your knees...The Sun and Moon Empire has lost a wise ruler like you; it is a tremendous loss...

Thinking of this, Xu Tianran almost couldn't help but smile.