The Useless Old Father

A figure walked straight toward Bai Ran.

He had a waterfall of aqua-blue hair that hung all the way to his feet. If not for his towering build and broad shoulders, one might have mistaken him for a woman from behind.

Ripples seemed to flow across his luxurious blue robe. If one looked closely, their gaze would instantly be drawn into that deep azure, as though even their soul would be swallowed by the ocean-like, profound, endless blue.

His handsome face looked only a little over twenty, yet his eyes were unfathomably deep. His gaze appeared vacant, but also seemed to contain all things. Occasionally, a flash of violet would flicker within them, enough to stir the soul. They carried the sensation of fleeting splendor, of life and death vanishing in an instant.

This man was Tang San, the Tang God King who regarded Douluo Continent as his private property and received "rave reviews" on Hu Pu's male protagonist rankings for Chinese animation.

What the hell, did I violate some heavenly law? Other transmigrators only faced the villain Tang San in the middle or later stages after arriving in Peerless Tang Clan. Why had Tang San blocked me right at the beginner village? Isn't this completely unfair?

"Da Ming, are you saying Little Seven became this child's martial soul?"

As Tang San spoke, he used his divine sense to domineeringly strip the child before him bare.

How strange. I'm standing still, so why do I feel like I've been completely seen through? And that look in Tang San's eyes... Tang San's from Chengdu too, right? Don't tell me he...

Within Bai Ran's body, Tang San saw the figure of his daughter.

At that moment, Tang Wutong was curled up in a ball, as if she had suffered immense pain earlier.

At the sight of this, Tang San's face instantly darkened.

Tang San treasured his daughter so dearly that he feared she would shatter in his hand or melt in his mouth, yet now she had to reside within the body of some country boy.

The more he thought about it, the angrier Tang San became.

He reached out and seized Bai Ran by the throat, gripping it tightly, seemingly intending to forcibly strip Tang Wutong from Bai Ran's body.

As for whether the child would lose his martial soul after Tang Wutong was removed, falling from a genius with innate twentieth-rank soul power into trash without even a martial soul?

Who cared? I only wanted my daughter back.

With the methods of a God King, stripping a child of his martial soul should have been effortless.

Yet in the next instant, Tang San's face darkened even further.

It was because Tang San discovered that the boy's origin had completely fused with his daughter's origin.

They had reached the point where each existed within the other.

Never mind stripping Tang Wutong out—so long as the boy suffered even the slightest injury, Tang Wutong would experience the same pain.

Tang San was currently gripping Bai Ran's throat, making it difficult for him to breathe.

When he examined Tang Wutong within Bai Ran using divine sense, he found the girl's face pale, her pain even worse than before.

To keep his precious daughter from suffering further, Tang San hurriedly released him.

"What exactly is going on?"

Although Tang San had thrown him to the ground, and Bai Ran could only lie there like a dog being washed, gasping for air,

Bai Ran did not dare reveal the slightest dissatisfaction on his face.

He could only roar inwardly, Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river. Tang San, just you wait. Once I become stronger...

Huh? Why did Tang San's killing intent suddenly disappear?

Honestly, Bai Ran had felt incredibly close to death just moments ago.

He had even thought Tang San had discovered that he was a transmigrator and was eager to eliminate him before he could ruin his ten-thousand-year plan.

But now Tang San had let him go. Could it be that Tang San considered him useful and wanted to take him in as a dog?

Better to be Xiao Yan's lackey than Tang San's brother.

Even becoming Tang San's brother brought no benefits, much less becoming Tang San's dog.

What happened to Dai Yuhao in the original story? Bai Ran would probably meet a similar end.

Besides, Huo Yuhao had at least truly gotten Tang Wutong in the end. As for Bai Ran, he was not a child of destiny born in response to Douluo Continent's fortune.

How could Tang San possibly be willing to marry his daughter to him?

Tang San left. More accurately, he went back to think of a solution.

Before leaving, he told Da Ming and Er Ming to take good care of that brat.

Da Ming and Er Ming: How were they supposed to take care of him?

Tang San: Take care of him the way you take care of Little Seven.

"Why did he leave?"

Watching Tang San suddenly depart, Bai Ran was utterly baffled.

Wasn't Tang San going to take him in as a dog?

Why had he disappeared again?

Could the god-level martial soul inside me have been bestowed by some powerful god? And after Tang San sensed the aura of that divinely bestowed martial soul, he didn't want to offend that god, so he left?

But Tang San was a God King, and one who possessed two divine positions.

In the entire Douluo God Realm, aside from the remaining few God Kings, there was almost no one Tang San feared offending.

And that girl's appearance earlier...

Wait, Little Three, Little Five, Little Seven!

Over these six years, I don't think I ever heard of a little princess in the Clear Sky Sect.

So Little Seven was Tang Wutong.

And Tang Wutong was currently inside his body in the form of a martial soul.

Oh~

Bai Ran suddenly understood why Tang San had looked ready to eat someone earlier.

If he were Tang San and learned that his daughter had become a martial soul residing inside some unfamiliar boy's body, he would definitely be even more anxious than Tang San.

As for why Tang San had left?

And left in such a hurry.

It was probably because he had discovered that he could not strip Tang Wutong, who had already become a martial soul, from Bai Ran's body.

After figuring out the whole story, Bai Ran instantly straightened his back.

Since his martial soul was Tang Wutong, the only difference between him and Tang Wutong should be their genders.

Kill me?

Anyway, my life is worthless. If I die, then I die.

But your daughter will die right along with me, Tang San.

Even if you resurrect her, you'll have to resurrect me too.

After all, their origins were bound together. They would surely die together and live together.

In a sense, Haki Bai and Haki Tong truly were a pair of ill-fated lovebirds.