Di Tian Wrote Down the Name "Tang Wulin"

Di Tian Wrote Down the Name "Tang Wulin." She had thought Di Tian had hurriedly brought her to this human city because of some urgent matter, but never could she have imagined that her mother was actually in this human city.

Though she had missed her mother a thousand, ten thousand times over, as the moment of meeting drew near, Lan Fozi began to feel lost.

Her footsteps below quickened. Taking three steps as two, she grabbed Di Tian's hand, and the two stopped at the street corner by the Forging Masters Association Headquarters building.

Di Tian turned back and asked, "What is it?"

Lan Fozi bit down on her Red Lips. "Senior, when my mother talked to you about how I... left without saying goodbye, was she angry?"

"Do you think my mom might hit me later?"

"Just in case—I mean, just in case—if my mom really does want to hit me, could you step aside? It'd be so embarrassing."

"..."

Just as she hesitated and babbled nonsense to Di Tian, the Demon Empress arrived.

It was Di Tian's first time seeing the Demon Empress without the black hooded robe covering her head. Unlike the viciousness she projected, her face was exceedingly beautiful, her features gentle, even kindly. Only her flowing hair remained streaked with gray.

Seeing the excitement on her face and the faint glimmer in her eyes, Di Tian knew there would definitely be no eye-catching scene of a mother spanking her daughter.

He removed Lan Fozi's hand and gave her a reassuring look before walking alone toward the Forging Masters Association Headquarters building, leaving the two mothers and daughters the space to be alone after so many years apart.

As he passed by the Demon Empress, he could clearly sense her move, along with faint, restrained sobs. But Di Tian had no intention of watching the touching scene of the mother and daughter embracing and weeping.

He entered the Forging Masters Association Headquarters building and returned to his private resting room.

The room had little decoration. Everything was simple.

Before the windowsill sat a pure wooden desk and chair, the fragrance of wood filling the air.

Di Tian stood before the desk, spread out a sheet of xuan paper, and with a sweeping stroke of his brush, wrote down a person's name.

By now, the Soul Beast Bureau's work had entered a proper rhythm and was proceeding entirely according to its predetermined policy.

There were two branches to the effort of gathering the scattered remnants of the soul beast race. First, the sea soul beasts had already been completely brought together. The Beast Traitor Demon Soul Great White Shark clan had been exterminated, the Sea Princess had submitted and offered up the Ocean Heart as proof of loyalty, and the many sea soul beast races now shared a common hatred for the enemy.

Second, the terrestrial soul beasts had also gotten on track. Several former colleagues at the level of ferocious beasts had already been contacted through Zi Ji, and soul beast four-word battle armor and God-level Mecha were emerging one after another.

Now, all they needed was time to catalyze and ferment things, and the soul beast race's high-end combat strength could be pushed to a minor peak.

Di Tian was quite satisfied with this.

At the very least, during the Final Chapter Peak Competition, he would not appear quite so alone, nor would the soul beast race seem like the dying embers of a setting sun.

Since the Soul Beast Bureau's first policy had gotten on track and was proceeding smoothly, Di Tian naturally had to begin planning its second policy, its work in the second direction.

The starting point was the name he had just written in bold, flowing strokes. The three characters "Tang Wulin" stood prominently upon the xuan paper.

As the Appointed Protagonist of this era, Tang Wulin was destined to keep walking along his father's Ten Thousand Year Plan.

And Di Tian's revival of the soul beast race was likewise Using Their Plan Against Them.

After the Holy Spirit Cult took the enticing bait Tang San had cast down—namely, Shrek Academy, where he had come from, and the countless lives of Shrek City—

With the sunk cost greatly increased, Di Tian would personally initiate the Final Chapter Peak Competition against humanity.

Tang Hao, the Plane Master and a Second Class God; Ah Yin, the Life Core; and Tang San's Divine King-level divine consciousness truly would not think much of a Million Year Soul Beast like him, one who did not even possess the combat strength of a Third Class God.

Even the successfully revived soul beast race would appear to the true God Realm as nothing more than a final flash before extinction, something they could destroy with a wave of their hands.

With such immense sunk costs, and to prevent the Abyssal Sage King from noticing, they basically would not interfere with what he was doing.

Yes, all of that was true.

He could use careful planning against an unprepared opponent and place his hopes on their inability to act, but he could not place all his hopes on them alone.

He also needed the ability to flip the table! Once an enemy beyond all expectations joined the battlefield, he needed contingencies and trump cards to deal with them.

Tang Wulin, Tang San's precious eldest son, the one carrying out the Ten Thousand Year Plan and someone bound to cross paths with him, was an excellent point of entry.

At the same time, he was an extremely useful trump card against an enemy.

Tang Wulin possessed the divine core of the Golden Dragon King, the Dragon God's split form, as well as the Golden Dragon King's full bloodline power.

That bloodline power had made him what he was, but it also threatened his life at every moment.

Once too many of the eighteen seals Tang San had placed were unsealed at once, the destructive power contained within the Golden Dragon King Bloodline would infect Tang Wulin's clear mind, destroy his life force, and turn him into a monster capable only of slaughter until he died.

If Tang Wulin could be triggered into that state, the Divine King-level divine consciousness Tang San had left behind would surely have to devote all its strength to suppressing the Golden Dragon King's will of destruction. It would then have no attention to spare and be stripped of the chance to meddle in the Final Chapter Peak Competition.

The most effective means of doing this was an energy-rich Dragon God Bloodline. To Tang Wulin, who bore eighteen Golden Dragon King Seals, it was the finest tonic in the world—and also the deadliest poison.

Unsealing several Golden Dragon King Seals at once could indeed strengthen Tang Wulin, but too much was as bad as too little. Tang Wulin simply could not claim so much power for himself in one go, and his life would instead be put at risk.

Had Tang Wulin not nearly died when he absorbed half of the Dragon God's dragon soul in Dragon Valley, opening two Golden Dragon King Seals in succession? It was only through absorbing numerous Dragon Clouds and using dragon souls to temper his body that he managed to preserve his life.

And Di Tian happened to possess an energy-rich Dragon God Bloodline! The Dragon God Bloodline extracted from a Million Year Soul Beast's body would certainly unlock a vast treasure trove of combat strength for Tang Wulin.

As for whether Tang Wulin could handle it?

Hehe~

That was not something Di Tian needed to consider. Old Schemer Tang could deal with the headache.

This key known as the "energy-rich Dragon God Bloodline," this key that would unlock Tang Wulin's treasure trove of combat strength, naturally had to erupt at the most crucial moment.

Moreover, this "key" could not remain on Tang Wulin at all times, nor could Di Tian personally deliver it. No matter how deeply it was hidden, if matters dragged on for too long, there was always the possibility of discovery.

While ensuring that the "key" could erupt at the critical moment, only one possible place remained for it to be stored.

Among the people closest to Tang Wulin, those inseparable companions who called themselves one body of Seven Monsters, never to part—the members of the Shrek Seven Monsters.

"Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Yue Zhengyu, Yuanen Yehui, Xu Lizhi, Ye Xinglan."

"Oh, and Gu Yue."

"Hmm... who should I choose?"