Thanks to Tang San for the Ah Yin!!!

Wasn't Madara, who had painstakingly plotted his entire life, still easily robbed of the spoils by Black Zetsu and reduced to a laughingstock?

Besides, she had volunteered to draw Tang Hao and his wife's attention away from Su Mo. Su Mo had never forced her.

Su Mo had merely revealed his identity to her, as well as the bright future the Soul Beast race would gain after his plan succeeded.

Although Su Mo did not particularly approve of the Soul Beast race, he had to admit that he was now one of them.

For the sake of their shared kinship, Su Mo did not mind offering them protection once everything had settled.

Su Mo's plan was simple: plant a Divine Tree on Douluo Continent powerful enough to drain the entire continent's origin, helping him ascend to godhood.

Back in the Naruto World, as one of only two people in the Ninja World who knew of the Otsutsuki, how could Su Mo not have been interested in eternal life?

Thus, Su Mo's main focus in the Naruto World had been Bloodline Limits and the Divine Tree.

Using tissue from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path that he had traded from Sasori, along with the Tailed Beast Chakra he had collected himself, Su Mo spent years cultivating it before finally creating a juvenile Ten-Tails.

Although this juvenile Ten-Tails could not compare even to the One-Tail in either Chakra reserves or size, it was still a genuine Ten-Tails. Its Chakra quality was there for all to see.

However, Su Mo did not choose to become the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki immediately. Instead, he continued studying it.

For Su Mo, his ambition had never been to become some so-called Ten-Tails Jinchuriki. His goal was to unravel the Otsutsuki's path to godhood.

The Otsutsuki, who styled themselves as higher life forms, were not truly any nobler than the local natives of the Ninja World. Otherwise, they would not have fallen one after another in that world.

Since the Otsutsuki could use the Ten-Tails to cultivate a Divine Tree and transform into gods, there was no reason Su Mo, who also possessed a Ten-Tails, could not do the same.

Without an Otsutsuki to feed the Ten-Tails, he would feed it with the Hashirama cells, Sasuke cells, Naruto cells, and everything else from the Ninja World that he could gather.

Su Mo had not expected that, after years of such crude, relentless feeding, the Ten-Tails would truly change. It grew from a juvenile into maturity and eventually became a Divine Tree.

Through his study of that Divine Tree, Su Mo successfully uncovered the Otsutsuki clan's secret to godhood.

The Ten-Tails was merely a living energy converter. After transforming into a Divine Tree, it could absorb a planet's natural energy and convert it into Chakra.

Once the Chakra it converted reached its storage limit, it would expel the immense Chakra within its body in the form of fruit.

Having the Ten-Tails devour an Otsutsuki was only meant to shorten the time it took for the Ten-Tails to grow from its juvenile state into maturity.

Unfortunately, before Su Mo could wait for that Divine Tree to bear abundant fruit, he was blasted into the sky by the Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb.

He had clearly been so close. He had only needed a little more time.

That damned Uchiha Madara and Obito deserved to become clowns.

Now that he had been reborn, Su Mo naturally intended to complete the path to godhood he had failed to finish in his previous life.

Although Douluo Continent had neither the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path nor Tailed Beast Chakra and various Bloodline Limits for Su Mo to cultivate another Divine Tree,

that was no problem for Su Mo, who had thoroughly deciphered the Otsutsuki's secret to godhood. He only needed to make a few minor modifications to Deep Forest Emergence.

With a gold mine like the Divine Tree at hand, Su Mo was not stupid enough to sit there waiting for it to bear Chakra Fruit.

While waiting for the Divine Tree to bear Chakra Fruit, Su Mo had also used it to develop quite a few useful things.

But this time, Su Mo had been extremely lucky. Someone on Douluo Continent had already completed all the preparatory work for him.

Speaking of which, Su Mo had to thank Tang San.

If Tang San had not wanted his parents to replace the Plane Spirit and become the Plane Masters of Douluo Planet, allowing his mother to fuse with the Golden Ancient Tree,

Su Mo had no idea how much effort and time it would have taken to cultivate from scratch, using Wood Release, a Divine Tree capable of draining the entire origin of Douluo Continent.

But now that Tang San's mother, Ah Yin, was there, Su Mo only needed to gather Chakra of every attribute before he could begin his path to godhood.

All Su Mo could say was, thanks to Tang San for the Ah Yin!

Returning to the present, Su Mo looked at Di Qiu'er, who had begun wallowing in self-blame. His head throbbed, but he still had to comfort her.

Tyrannosaurus Warrior: "Enough. Things have already come to this. What's the use of blaming yourself?"

Tyrannosaurus Warrior: "Instead of blaming yourself, why not diligently practice the Sage Mode I taught you?"

Tyrannosaurus Warrior: "I'm counting on you to become one of my greatest supports in the future."

At Ragnar Hotel, Di Qiu'er saw the message Su Mo had sent through Jiuxin. Surprise appeared on her nearly perfect face before she quickly replied, "Can I really help you in the future?"

Although outsiders all regarded her as a leading figure of the next generation, Di Qiu'er, having lived another life, knew her own potential very clearly.

Without the blessing of the Auspicious Beast's fortune, she was merely an "ordinary" Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

The only things she could boast of were perhaps the exceedingly rare Golden Dragon Bloodline flowing through her body as a Three-Eyed Golden Lion, along with her two ultimate attributes.

Though she was unwilling to accept it, the truth was that those things would mean nothing before the opponents Su Mo would face in the future.

Drawing Tang Hao and Ah Yin's attention away from Su Mo was already everything she could do.

So, in order to better complete the task Su Mo had given her, she rarely cultivated. Most of her time was spent showing herself in public.

As for crushing both the inner and outer courts of Shrek this time?

With two ultimate attributes and the Golden Dragon Bloodline, dealing with opponents of the same level was effortless for her.

"I..."

Su Mo was dumbfounded as he looked at Di Qiu'er's reply.

Although he had told her back then that her task was to help draw Tang Hao and Ah Yin's attention away from him,

she could not truly regard herself as nothing more than a target meant to attract attention.

Hadn't he taught her Sage Mode because he hoped she would cultivate diligently and become his right-hand woman in the future?

When he had given Leng Yulai the method for cultivating Sage Mode, she had immediately gone back and started practicing without a word.

Although Leng Yulai had ultimately failed to master Sage Mode, Su Mo had seen all of her efforts.

Why did Di Qiu'er need him to remind her to cultivate properly?

"Even if you can't help me in the future, shouldn't you still work hard at cultivating?"

With a resentful expression, Su Mo sent her that message.

"..."

Only after seeing Su Mo's latest message did Di Qiu'er realize that she seemed to have misunderstood something. A trace of guilt flashed across her face, and her eyes began to dart away unconsciously.

"I'm going to cultivate!"

"Let's talk next time!"

After saying that, Di Qiu'er logged off in a fluster without caring how Su Mo might respond.

"..."

Looking at the profile picture in his friends list that had gone dark, Su Mo was truly speechless.

He couldn't carry her. He really couldn't.