No. 2 Work Policy

Gu Yue was certainly the first to be ruled out. She herself was the Silver Dragon King, the Dragon God's avatar. Her perception of the Dragon God Bloodline—especially one brimming with energy—surpassed even Tang Wulin's and Tang San's divine senses.

Even Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan, who were closer to Gu Yue, had their scores lowered by her as candidates for concealing the "key."

Yet the two of them had indeed been the first to follow Tang Wulin, staying by his side from Eastsea Academy all the way to Shrek Academy.

Xu Xiaoyan could be set aside. She was neither Tang Wulin's beloved first love nor someone who harbored feelings for him, so she had never been especially close to him.

However, Xie Xie's Twin Martial Souls, the Light Dragon Dagger and Shadow Dragon Dagger, had successfully evolved under the influence of Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King Bloodline into the Space-Time Dragon, once the Dragon God's shadow guard.

From initially being "lovers who fought and killed each other" to becoming lifelong best bros, and with a dragon-type martial soul as well, he was one of the best candidates to serve as the "key's" vessel.

Of the remaining four—Xu Lizhi, Ye Xinglan, Yue Zhengyu, and Yuanen Yehui—

the first two had clashed with Tang Wulin when they first met at the Tianhai Tournament. Their later development had also been ordinary and steady; the closeness of their relationship simply could not compare with those original members who had joined during Eastsea Academy.

As for the latter two, Yue Zhengyu came from the Angel Family. Their initial connection had arisen from the business interests of forging battle armor metals, and there had been no further entanglement of interests afterward.

Yuanen Yehui was Xie Xie's destined future partner. She had first met Tang Wulin because of Xie Xie. A friend's wife was not to be trifled with, so that was as far as things went in the early days.

But compared to the others, their relationship had grown closer later on. Yuanen Yehui's entire family descended from Er Ming, the Titan Giant Ape, and Er Ming was of Tang Wulin's uncle's generation. Tang Wulin had directly jumped several generations in seniority with Yuanen Yehui and become family.

After a comprehensive process of elimination, the only qualified candidates in Di Tian's eyes to conceal the "key" were Xie Xie and Yuanen Yehui.

"Xie Xie... the Space-Time Dragon martial soul he would evolve in the future is a close-fitting shadow guard... an original first-round member..."

"Yuanen Yehui... later development... becoming relatives through Er Ming... Er Ming recognizing kin later on... even the campaign against the Demon Plane could be connected to her..."

"Mm... Demon Plane, Demon Plane..."

After murmuring for a long while, Di Tian's pen had also pressed against the xuan paper for a long while. A large black dot appeared where the paper met the pen tip.

His dragon eyes focused on the pen tip, gradually taking on a crazed expression, as though an intent of destruction flowed within them.

His arm moved, and beginning from the black dot, the pen drew straight horizontal and vertical strokes to write a person's name—a name of four characters.

Yuanen Yehui.

She was not merely the "key" Di Tian had chosen. She was also the key chosen by the entire Demon Plane.

Her second martial soul, the Fallen Angel, was a guiding power projected over from the Demon Plane. Once the bearer of this Fallen Angel martial soul with its guiding power broke through Rank Ninety, she would actively open the Gate of Demons and guide Hell Demons into an invasion.

Yuanen Yehui's mother, Yehui, had been the one to open the previous Gate of Demons.

After writing Yuanen Yehui's name, Di Tian's thoughts gradually veered toward madness.

He connected the names "Tang Wulin" and "Yuanen Yehui" on the xuan paper.

Then, from Yuanen Yehui's name, he extended another line. It stopped at one corner, where he wrote the words "Demon Plane."

Not only could Yuanen Yehui become the vessel for the energy-brimming Dragon God Bloodline.

He could also conveniently advance her cultivation, keeping it at the Eight Rings level. When he needed her, he could use the reckless method of turning potential into cultivation to force her cultivation to Nine Rings in a short time, open the Gate of Demons, and guide the Demon Plane's invasion.

On the xuan paper, Di Tian extended another line from "Demon Plane" and wrote the four words "Abyss Plane."

Since he was already guiding an invasion from the Demon Plane, he could not play favorites. The Abyss Plane naturally could not remain in the audience as a mere spectator.

If Tang Wulin's madness was tying them down and there were still people beyond the norm coming to stop him,

then he might as well stop sending them one by one. Everyone could come as a group. Let the Demon Empress use the Blood River God-Slaying Array to open a passage to the Abyss Plane and guide the Abyss Kings and army of Abyssal Creatures from the Abyss Plane over, so they could all dance in a mad horde of demons.

Di Tian knew that the Abyss Plane was a plane composed purely of energy. It was divided into one hundred and eight layers. The Abyssal Sage King of the first layer possessed the lion's share of that energy, the Abyss Kings of the other one hundred and seven layers possessed the next largest share, while the enormous number of Abyssal Creatures possessed the smallest share.

The Abyssal Sage King had always wanted to encompass and devour all Abyssal Energy, so he certainly would not refuse the Demon Empress's invitation to guide over the Abyss Kings and army of Abyssal Creatures.

Moreover, he would certainly wait at the boundary where the planar walls of the two planes met, waiting for the chance to hunt the many powerful beings of the Douluo Plane, including but not limited to Di Tian.

At the same time, he needed time to absorb Abyssal Energy—the energy of those Abyss Kings and Abyssal Creatures who died while fighting the Douluo Plane.

The Abyssal Sage King, this nuclear bomb from outside the field, would threaten Di Tian, but he would also occupy the vast majority of Plane Master Tang Hao's attention.

With two great planes attacking at once and invasions coming from multiple directions, the living beings of the Douluo Plane would surely fall like rain. Ah Yin, as the Life Core, would inevitably be greatly weakened.

Under such circumstances, Tang San's Divine King divine sense, Tang Hao the Second Class God Plane Master, Ah Yin the Second Class God Life Core, and the Abyssal Sage King the First Class God—these four god-level combatants beyond the norm—would all be restrained at once.

For a short period, they would maintain a fragile and bizarre balance.

Then Di Tian wrote the names of the four god-level powerhouses beyond the norm on the xuan paper and drew a connecting line from each toward a shared central point.

That central point was Di Tian himself—the instigator who had stirred up this planar storm, the fulcrum of the bizarre balance.

But Di Tian was ultimately the weakest one at the table, and the four god-level powerhouses would not be too occupied to attend to him at every moment. He had to add more weight to his side before he could barely support that balancing fulcrum.

The best choice for that weight was the final remaining Level 12 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell, Eternal Heaven Kingdom. Its power even exceeded the combined might of the other two Level 12 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, God Slayer - World Destruction and God Slayer - Heaven Devourer.

It could blast back the Abyssal Sage King, a First Class God, with a single shot, destroy the Blood River God-Slaying Array, and possessed the terrifying ability to slaughter ordinary gods.

He also knew that after World Destruction and Heaven Devourer had been secretly stolen by the Holy Spirit Cult in cooperation with the Spirit Pagoda and some Federal Councilors, the sole remaining Level 12 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell, Eternal Heaven Kingdom, had been transferred to the God of War Hall for safekeeping.

In the end, with the tacit approval of Chen Xinjie, the master of the God of War Hall, it had been handed over to Shrek Academy, where his old flame Long Yeyue was.