Emperor Auspicious Beast: Huh? Am I Going to Die Too?

After giving Tang San a furious dressing-down, much of the fire in Lin Ye's heart dissipated. Once he had some free time, his thoughts inevitably drifted back to the original story. With a thought, he wrote:

[Wang Dong'er had it pretty rough, but no matter what, she only had her memories sealed and her life path predetermined. The Emperor Auspicious Beast was the one who truly had it worse.

Despite all the top-tier ferocious beasts of the Star Dou Forest protecting it like the apple of their eye, once Tang San set his sights on it, it had no chance of escaping his grasp.

He forcibly manipulated the auspicious beast into coming into contact with Huo Gua, stirring up its curiosity about the human world. Then, shamelessly guiding it to take human form, he stuffed half a wisp of Tang Wutong's divine consciousness and the Golden Dragon Spear's imprint into it, turning it into Wang Qiuer and sending it into the human world. He really had no shame at all.

One Wang Dong'er, one Wang Qiuer. The key was that the two looked seventy to eighty percent alike. Even a blind man could tell there was definitely a conspiracy behind this.

The poor Emperor Auspicious Beast thus walked step by step into the dead end Tang San had laid out, and in the end, it was even sacrificed to Huo Gua.

Once the Emperor Auspicious Beast died, the fortune of the entire soul beast race completely dispersed. Tang San also smoothly completed his wholesale plundering of Douluo Continent's fate.

Come to think of it, Huo Yuhao, the child of fortune—Huo Gua—wasn't much of a person either.

The only reason his reputation still looked decent was because Tang San was standing in front of him taking all the blame. If you really dug into it, he wasn't any good himself.

At first, he fell for Wang Dong'er. Then Wang Qiuer appeared, and he immediately developed feelings for Wang Qiuer too. Once Wang Qiuer and Wang Dong'er merged into Tang Wutong, this ridiculous guy naturally fell in love with Tang Wutong again.

Damn, that was absurd. Really absurd!

So he fell for every girl he met? As long as she was pretty and had anything to do with Tang Wutong, he liked her, huh?

When I read the original story in my previous life, I already thought this plot was absurd beyond belief.

And those move names so cringeworthy they could make you dig out an entire Shrek City with your toes—Thinking-of-Dong Fist, Longing-for-Dong Palm—they practically killed me with embarrassment.]

Almost the instant Lin Ye finished his thought and the diary updated, a golden little beast curled up in the warm grass beside the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Forest's core region gave a violent shudder and sprang to its feet.

It was a Three-Eyed Golden Lion, covered in golden fur with eyes as dazzling as molten gold. It was the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the treasured darling all the ferocious beasts of the Star Dou Forest held in their palms.

When the golden diary appeared in its mind, it instinctively sensed that this diary was extraordinary. Ever since it had appeared, it hadn't mentioned a single word about it to Scarlet King, who stood guard not far away.

Over the past few days, it had intermittently read the diary's contents, eagerly following the gossip about the god called Tang San and Wang Dong'er. It had only thought the human world was strange and fascinating. But today's newly updated content struck it like a bolt from the blue.

Its golden vertical pupils widened into circles, its little body froze stiff, and even the third eye atop its head opened uncontrollably, filled with incredulous shock.

It? The Emperor Auspicious Beast, the core of Star Dou's fortune, was going to be plotted against by the god called Tang San, transform into a human girl named Wang Qiuer, and ultimately be sacrificed to a human soul master called Huo Yuhao?

How was that possible?!

It was Star Dou's auspicious beast! With Lord Beast God Di Tian, Auntie Bi Ji, Uncle Scarlet King, and the others protecting it, how could it possibly end up being sacrificed?

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion panicked, its little body trembling uncontrollably.

It felt an immensely powerful malice descend upon it through the threads of fate.

That malice carried an unquestionable sense of control, like an invisible net that had already tightly enveloped it. And the source of that malice was likely the Sea God Tang San mentioned in the diary.

In an instant, all the golden fur on the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's body stood on end.

It was true! Everything the diary said was true!

No! Absolutely not!

It didn't want to transform into a human, didn't want to go to the human world, and certainly didn't want to be sacrificed to some human!

The Lord! Right, it had to find the Lord! Find Lord Di Tian! Only Lord Di Tian could protect it!

The little fellow no longer cared about basking in the sun. Its four short legs moved at lightning speed as it darted into the depths of the Lake of Life. Even when Scarlet King called after it, it didn't dare stop, afraid that if it slowed down even a step, the malice from the God Realm would completely devour it.

Inside a private chamber deep within the Haotian Sect, Wang Dong'er had just forced herself to calm down.

She stood before a mirror, trying to find even the slightest trace of "Tang Wutong" on her own face.

Suddenly, the diary copy updated once more.

Her heart lurched, and she immediately focused all her attention on it.

But after reading the updated contents, the emotions she had only just calmed instantly exploded again.

When she first read about the Emperor Auspicious Beast and Wang Qiuer, she learned that there would be a girl in the future who looked seventy to eighty percent like her—and that girl actually carried half a wisp of her divine consciousness?

Didn't that mean the girl called Wang Qiuer was also a part of her? Or rather, a part of Tang Wutong?

Before she could recover from that shock, the diary's ridicule of Huo Yuhao that followed made her tremble all over in fury, her pearly teeth grinding together.

Falling for every girl he met? Liking Wang Dong'er, then Wang Qiuer, and after they merged into Tang Wutong, he could naturally fall in love with her again?

So in his eyes, it didn't matter who she was, as long as she was pretty and looked similar? Wasn't he just a complete looks-obsessed scumbag?

"Huo Yuhao..."

Wang Dong'er gritted her teeth and spoke the name one word at a time, her eyes filled with disgust. "What child of fortune? I, Wang Dong'er, will never have anything to do with such a disgusting person!"

Once she finished making that fierce declaration, however, a wave of helplessness instantly washed over her.

No matter how much she resisted, she had to face a cruel reality.

From beginning to end, she had only been a chess piece in Tang San's hand.

If she, this chess piece, slipped out of his control and aroused that God King's suspicion, what would await her?

Would he simply erase her without mercy? After all, he was a true god.

Just as her heart sank to rock bottom, a flash of inspiration suddenly crossed her mind.

Wait! The diary!

She recalled the rule vaguely mentioned in the diary—the more often a person's name was mentioned in the diary, the better the rewards they could receive, and the faster their strength would improve.

Did that mean that as long as she continued to be mentioned in the diary, she could keep receiving rewards without end? One day, could her strength rise to the point where she could contend with Tang San?

She raised a hand to her chest, feeling the beat of her heart as her gaze gradually became firm.

She was Wang Dong'er, Wang Dong'er who had grown up in the Haotian Sect. She wasn't Tang Wutong, much less anyone's substitute or chess piece.

Her life would be decided by herself.

Wang Dong'er took a deep breath and swiftly sorted through her current situation in her mind.

Right now, her most urgent task wasn't to agonize over who she truly was, nor was it to resist going to Shrek Academy. It was to find the diary's owner, Lin Ye.

Only by finding him could she learn the truth about everything and discover a way to break out of this situation.

At the same time Wang Dong'er made up her mind, Tang Ya stood outside Shrek City with her fists clenched tight, her nails digging deeply into her palms. Tears welled in her eyes as rage made her whole body tremble.

As the current sect master of the Tang Sect, Tang San had been her only faith since childhood.

She had grown up listening to the legends of Ancestor Tang San. He had founded the Tang Sect, saved Douluo Continent, ascended to godhood, and become a figure revered by everyone across Douluo Continent.

The Tang Sect's current standing was entirely due to Ancestor Tang San's legacy. Her greatest wish in life was to revive the Tang Sect and not disappoint Ancestor Tang San's expectations.

But two days ago, a mysterious golden diary had suddenly appeared in her mind.

Its contents were all slander and abuse directed at Ancestor Tang San, claiming that he had stopped at nothing to seize fate, used his own daughter as a chess piece, plotted against the soul beast race, and committed every evil imaginable.

The earlier contents had already enraged her enough that she had nearly smashed up her room. She only felt that whoever had written this diary had to be a madman with ulterior motives, maliciously smearing her ancestor.

But today's update made her fury burn even hotter.

"Slander! It's all slander!"

Tang Ya gritted her teeth, her voice even carrying a sob. "Ancestor Tang San is the Sea God who saved Douluo Continent, the hero of the entire continent! How could he possibly do such heinous things? Absolutely impossible!"

She desperately told herself that all of it was fake, lies maliciously fabricated by the diary's owner.

Yet the more stubbornly she denied it, the more panicked she became.

Because everything mentioned in the diary followed airtight logic. Even many of its details matched some of the clues she already knew.

Wang Dong'er, the young mistress of the Haotian Sect who was going to Shrek Academy. Huo Yuhao, whom she had used the Tang Sect's special admission privileges to send into Shrek Academy.

Everything was exactly as the diary had written.

On one side was the faith she had upheld for more than a decade, the entire spiritual pillar supporting her dream of reviving the Tang Sect.

On the other was this mysterious diary, whose "truth" kept updating and being proven again and again.

Tang Ya leaned against the wall and slowly slid down to sit on the ground, her eyes vacant as she completely sank into endless conflict and struggle.