Shangguan Li watched Qian Renxue and Tang San start fighting without using any Soul Power at all, merely trading blows with their weapons.
Yet Qian Renxue's divine artifact still gained the upper hand, while Tang San made a baffling move, gouging out one of his own eyeballs.
"Be happy, Qian Renxue. This is the first time I've ever unleashed such a powerful move on the Douluo Continent: the Tang Sect's number one hidden weapon, Guanyin's Tears."
Was he really this brutal? He said it was Guanyin's Tears and then gouged out one of his own eyes-could this thing only be used twice?
With that, blood-red teardrops appeared all around Tang San, and he even detonated all of his soul rings.
These teardrops condensed into a massive blood tear, hurtling straight toward Qian Renxue.
"Oh no!" At a single glance, Qian Renxue knew the attack of this blood tear was incomparably powerful; with her current methods, she definitely could not block it.
At that moment, Shangguan Li appeared, and the surrounding blood tears also condensed into a single drop of blood, stopping directly in the palm of Shangguan Li's hand.
Tang San's sole remaining eye stared fixedly at Qian Renxue, hoping that Guanyin's Tears could kill this hateful woman to avenge this grudge, and that it wouldn't waste the eye he had sacrificed.
Yet this woman who had suddenly appeared actually blocked Guanyin's Tears. This was his all-out strike, coupled with the Tang Sect's top hidden weapon-there was absolutely no way anyone could block it.
"Who are you?"
Tang San didn't ask much more because the woman before him was even prettier than Qian Renxue. Moreover, this woman seemed somewhat familiar. Where on earth had he seen her? With a beauty like this, seeing her even once should have left a deep impression.
"My name is not something you are worthy of knowing. Tang San, vanish from this world right now."
"Qian Renxue, you actually found a helper! This is unfair, completely unfair."
Qian Renxue hooked the corner of her mouth slightly. "This is a fight, you see. When did I ever say I wanted to fight you fairly? Combat is all about the victor taking all. Since you've already lost, hurry up and die here."
"Senior, please don't strike. Let me finish him off by myself."
"Alright." This Tang San had already become a knot in Qian Renxue's heart; as long as she didn't kill him, she might never be able to walk out of that path to godhood.
Right at that moment, a pillar of blood-red light descended from the sky, enveloping Tang San within it, while Qian Renxue's attack was also bounced back by that pillar of blood-red light.
"What is this?"
This was the power of the Asura God. Shangguan Li knew very well that Tang San was a part of the Asura God himself; no matter how utterly worthless Tang San was, the Asura God could never abandon him.
Yet Shangguan Li hadn't expected that even after she had guided Tang San to fall to such depths, the Asura God still hadn't given up on him. It seemed this successor was of the utmost importance to the Asura God.
"Successor of the Angel God, for my sake, let my successor go this time."
"Who are you?" Qian Renxue shouted. She had never heard a voice of such overwhelming force, not even from her own grandfather.
"I am the Asura God of the Divine Realm. This is the successor I have chosen; please do not disturb him."
Qian Renxue hurriedly shifted her gaze to Shangguan Li, seeing Shangguan Li shake her head. Thus, she replied, "Fine, for senior's sake this time, I will spare this person. But senior, please do not forget-this person is an enemy of my Spirit Hall, and one day I will sever his head."
"Very well. If I encounter him again next time, I certainly will not stop you."
As for what had actually happened to Tang San, it was learned through the divine sense of the Rakshasa God, which had been disguised by Shangguan Li's clone.
Originally, the moment the Rakshasa God's divine sense transmitted the wrong message, the Rakshasa God himself had already known. However, Shangguan Li had continued to follow the Rakshasa God's steps one by one using that disguised divine sense.
Therefore, the Rakshasa God had allowed Shangguan Li to act as she pleased. But today, the move Tang San made on the chessboard had been misplaced, so the Rakshasa God discovered that this Shangguan Li intended to kill Tang San.
In order to protect Tang San-or rather, to sell the Asura God a favor-he made a special trip to the God Realm Committee to report the fact that someone intended to kill Tang San today, and that the person who wanted to kill Tang San was the successor of the Angel God.
This displeased the Asura God. Whether it was the successor of the Rakshasa God or the successor of the Angel God, they were all stepping stones he had prepared for his own successor.
How could mere stepping stones be permitted to kill their master? How could this ever be allowed?
Yet standing behind the successor of the Angel God was actually an even more powerful deity, whose power was so unfathomable that even the Asura God had no way to probe it-it was simply endless.
To avoid provoking Shangguan Li, the Asura God still intervened to save Tang San, but he did not obstruct Qian Renxue's divine trials, and even gave Qian Renxue a promise.
"Consider him lucky this time, but he will definitely come here."
Shangguan Li pointed toward the Clear Sky Sect. As long as all those people from the Clear Sky Sect were rounded up and brought to justice, she wouldn't have to worry about this fellow Tang San refusing to take the bait.
Understanding, Qian Renxue returned to the Spirit Hall and immediately began mustering her troops to attack the Clear Sky Sect.
Meanwhile, after being rescued by the Asura God, Tang San remained unconscious the entire time. The side effects of using Guanyin's Tears were simply too severe, and he had also detonated all of his soul rings, leaving him with no way to cultivate for a short time.
The Asura God looked at Tang San with a face full of disgust. He never expected that the successor he had meticulously chosen would turn out like this. Although the Rakshasa God bore the initial blame, the root cause was still that he, as the selector, had chosen the wrong path for his successor.
"You're awake?"
"Might I ask which deity you are? Are you the reinforcements sent by Lord Rakshasa?"
"I am the Asura God of the Divine Realm, even more powerful than the Rakshasa God. The Rakshasa God is merely a first-level god, while I am a God King."
Tang San was shocked. So gods were divided by ranks as well! This Asura God said he was his successor-could it be that he had been chosen by the gods long ago?
"You thought correctly. The reason you were able to transmigrate with your memories also has to do with me. From the very moment of your birth, I regarded you as my successor-it is only a pity that you were seduced by the Rakshasa God."
Tang San was filled with regret, yet his sole remaining eyeball revealed a lingering hatred. Hateful Rakshasa God, why did you choose him? If not for him, he could have long since become the successor of the Asura God.
And this Asura God was hateful as well. Since he had clearly chosen him as a successor, why hadn't he appeared sooner? If you hadn't shown up so late, would he ever have chosen the Rakshasa God?
Whether it was the Rakshasa God or the Asura God, both of you deserve to die. However, he would wait until he had inherited both of their divine positions; once they lost their power, wouldn't they just be at his mercy?
"Lord Asura, I never expected the Rakshasa God to be laying a test upon me. I have failed you! Actually, I have always deeply regretted why I listened to the Rakshasa God's words and absorbed human flesh and blood. If I were given another chance to choose, I would absolutely never do such a thing."
"To err is human, and to correct it is the greatest virtue. Since that is the case, I shall bestow your divine trials upon you."
Shangguan Li silently watched everything that transpired between Tang San and the Asura God, while at the same time a question arose in her heart: why had this Tang San appeared here? Could it really be a conspiracy of the Asura God's?
Ordinarily, to find the answer to such a matter, one would have to search in Shangguan Li's own world. Yet the Tang San of that world kept courting death and acting against Shangguan Li's bottom line; later on, to prevent Tang San from seizing someone else's body, Shangguan Li had shattered Tang San's soul.
Therefore, Shangguan Li had no clear grasp of the deeper relationship between the Asura God and Tang San, or perhaps she had already faintly sensed something.
Once the Asura God departed, Shangguan Li directly knocked Tang San unconscious and entered his soul memories, wanting to see what on earth this Tang San was.
When Shangguan Li opened her eyes once more, she arrived in an unfamiliar place. This ought to be a dwelling, extremely small and dilapidated, furnished with nothing more than a wooden table and a tiny bed.
Reflected in the mirror was an unfamiliar face, and since she was viewing the memories of Tang San's soul, this unfamiliar person before her must be Tang San of the Tang Sect in his previous life, right?
Sure enough, after a short while, someone appeared. "Third Young Master, someone is looking for you."
Following Tang San, Shangguan Li saw the inner-disciple quarters and sensed Tang San's unyielding, resentful inner thoughts. Sure enough, that very night, Tang San sneaked into the Tang Sect's inner sect to steal the sect's confidential Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.
Yet in the midst of this theft, Shangguan Li discovered something interesting. Tang San, who should have been exposed, was actually protected by a nameless force, and this nameless force was extremely clear to Shangguan Li-it was the power of the Asura God from the Divine Realm.
Furthermore, this power wasn't external; it resided within Tang San's own soul. This gave Shangguan Li an understanding: this Tang San was not the successor chosen by the Asura God at all. Rather, Tang San's soul was simply the Asura God's power, or perhaps a part of his soul.
Yet this Asura God truly calculated well. As long as a fraction of his split soul inherited his divine position, he could both maintain his own power and make himself even stronger.
By this time, Tang San was already an utterly selfish person. When stealing the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, he had actually been spotted by one or two disciples, and inner disciples at that.
What was most exasperating was that Tang San's exposure was not due to carelessness, but deliberate intent-he wanted to take the opportunity to vent his spleen. Thus, the inner disciples who saw him enter had already died tragically at his hands; the original novel had never mentioned this matter.
Returning to the small, dilapidated bedroom, Tang San continued cultivating the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, because he discovered that this Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record seemed tailor-made for him, and his cultivation of it progressed with extreme speed.
Yet another puzzling matter remained: the Tang Sect's highest secret had been stolen, so why hadn't the sect master and elders discovered it to this day? Shouldn't someone like this be hunted down immediately and executed on the spot?
Still, fortune did not favor Tang San; the matter of his theft of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record was exposed three years later. The fact that he had managed to hold out for a period of time made Shangguan Li hesitant to imagine otherwise-it seemed the defensive restrictions of the Tang Sect were not all that rigorous after all.
At that moment, when Tang San wanted to flee, a voice rang out within his soul: "Come to Ghost Cliff. I have a way to help you escape."
Not knowing whom to trust at that moment, Tang San could only choose to listen to the voice within his heart. After arriving at Ghost Cliff, he leaped down, but his soul did not arrive on the Douluo Continent as it had in the original book.
Instead, he arrived in a blank room. The room was utterly devoid of anything, pure white on all four sides. Suddenly, a dark red figure appeared before Tang San. Although Tang San didn't recognize him, Shangguan Li did-this was the Asura God of the Divine Realm.
"The one who told you to come to Ghost Cliff just now was me. Well? Have you been saved?"
Tang San dropped to his knees. "Many thanks to this benefactor for saving my life. Might I ask how you are addressed? This subordinate is called Tang San."
"Me? Just call me Asura. Although I have saved you, your physical body has long since been destroyed, so I will cast you into another continent. Upon reaching that continent, you will lose the memories of meeting me, while all your remaining memories will be preserved for you. When the time is ripe, you will naturally understand the matters between you and me."
Sure enough, watching the Asura God's crafty smile, Shangguan Li saw that this Asura God was no good stock either.
The rest of the events were already known to Shangguan Li: Tang San successfully transmigrated to the Douluo Continent, met Xiao Wu, met the Shrek Seven Devils, and met her.
Yet the Asura God's voice never rang out again. Thanks to these memories, Shangguan Li understood one thing.
As it turned out, Tang San's transmigration was entirely a conspiracy of the Asura God's. He simply refused to relinquish power in the Divine Realm, yet wanted to escape the tediousness of the realm, which was why he had manufactured the individual that was Tang San.
It was only a pity for Qian Renxue, the Son of Destiny, whose entire life had been ruined on account of Asura's scheme.
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