Tang Wutong's secret

Of the three Peerless Douluos, the one who detonated himself was, of course, neither Gentleman Mu En nor Ye Xishui, but Long Xiaoyao.

A Peerless Douluo was an existence capable of laying waste to an entire region. When all his soul power and spiritual sense erupted in a single instant, they unleashed a force that seemed capable of destroying heaven and earth.

Seeing that terrifying force, Di Tian carried the Silver Dragon, who had fallen unconscious again, on his back and held Qiu'er in one hand. With his other hand, he tore open a spatial passage and entered it.

The three reappeared directly at the bottom of the Lake of Life, where every drop of water was liquefied vitality.

The backlash from her interrupted transformation had curled Qiu'er's entire body into a tight ball.

Inside Qiu'er's mind, the Black Crystal Di Tian had previously used to seal that strand of Tang Wutong's Divine Sense shattered as well, having been seen by the Supreme God's gaze earlier.

That strand of Tang Wutong's Divine Sense immediately revealed its hideous true nature and began devouring Qiu'er's Sea of Consciousness.

Within Qiu'er's Sea of Consciousness, the enormous azure butterfly suddenly turned blood-red. It clung to her slumbering soul core, gnawing away like a locust devouring grain.

"We're in serious trouble!" After gently setting down the Silver Dragon, Di Tian touched a finger to Qiu'er's brow to examine her condition and immediately realized how dire it was.

"Di Tian, bring her here. Let me have a look!" Just as Di Tian was considering how to respond, a cool voice suddenly rang out.

"Your Majesty, you..." Hearing the strength in the Silver Dragon's voice, Di Tian was both startled and delighted.

The Silver Dragon Empress now appeared in human form: a woman of ethereal beauty, her white robes billowing around her.

"That person said earlier that this strand of Divine Sense inside her had ties to a Divine Realm Supreme God, someone we could not afford to provoke."

The Silver Dragon Empress said, "Now this strand of Divine Sense seeks to ruin the fortune of our Divine Dragonkind. Are we still supposed to swallow our anger in silence?"

Di Tian then respectfully presented Qiu'er to the Silver Dragon Empress.

Once the Silver Dragon Empress took her into her arms, Qiu'er suddenly opened her eyes. All three were filled with blood-red light, especially the vertical one.

"You old she-dragon, what are you planning? If you harm this princess, Father God will surely exterminate all of Dragonkind." This "Qiu'er" suddenly spoke in human language rather than the tongue of dragons.

It was Tang Wutong speaking through Qiu'er's mouth.

"Your Father God? You mean that stray dog, Tang San? Is he supposed to be so impressive?" Her face cold as frost, the Silver Dragon Empress pressed a hand onto the crown of Qiu'er's head.

An enormous seven-colored hand suddenly appeared in Qiu'er's Sea of Consciousness and seized the blood-red butterfly, whose body was already halfway inside Qiu'er's soul core.

The blood-red butterfly struggled violently, spewing venomous curses without pause. "She-dragon, you female mudfish! You're nothing but the future wife of this princess's younger brother, already picked out by my father, yet you dare harm this princess..."

"This personality of yours will die a miserable death."

...Under the onslaught of pain, Tang Wutong had revealed her true nature through those curses, inadvertently exposing a secret of the Divine Realm's supreme ruler.

The Silver Dragon Empress ignored her clamor and forcibly dragged her out of Qiu'er's soul core.

Although the Silver Dragon Empress's current level was only one hundred by the standards of the Douluo Continent's plane, her divine standing was that of a First-Level God. Twisting and crushing this strand of Tang Wutong's Divine Sense however she pleased required no more than a thought.

Once the Silver Dragon Empress dragged her out of Qiu'er's soul core, the strand of Tang Wutong's Divine Sense parasitizing Qiu'er's Sea of Consciousness and calling herself "Sister Tong" revealed her true form: an enormous butterfly with a human face for a head.

Half of that face bore Huo Yun'er's appearance, while the other half had already taken on Snow Girl's appearance.

"Sister Tong" desperately sank the teeth of that human face into the enormous seven-colored hand. But that hand, wreathed in seven-colored radiance, was a law formed from the Silver Dragon's understanding of time. How could her teeth possibly bite through it?

The enormous seven-colored hand dragged "Sister Tong" out of Qiu'er's Sea of Consciousness. At the bottom of the Lake of Life, Di Tian soon saw that after his sovereign lifted her delicate hand from the crown of Qiu'er's head, she held that strand of Tang Wutong's Divine Sense in her grasp.

The enormous butterfly's wings were covered in images of human skulls. Had Huo Yuhao been there, he would not have found this form of Tang Wutong's strange.

In Huo Yuhao's previous life, the reason Tang San had forbidden him from touching the Tang Family's princess for twenty thousand years was precisely because she was lustful by nature and delighted in consuming the vital essence and souls of mortal men.

In his previous life, Huo Yuhao had been neither willing nor brave enough to consider why Tang Wutong always headed straight into the boys' dormitory whenever she entered the mortal world.

Whenever Tang Wutong ordered a Divine Realm Lady Official to take the form of an austere, abstinent man and engage in the act with her, the man that official had become would afterward die, utterly drained of vital essence and soul, never to be reborn.

Through this method, Tang Wutong had attained the cultivation of a Second-Level God. Its sole requirement was that her true body remain that of a virgin.

Because this method violated heaven's benevolence toward all living things, Tang Wutong ultimately failed to break through to a higher level. Only then did Tang San agree to let her bear Huo Yuhao's children.

"You lowly beasts, you inferior mudfish! What do you intend to do to this princess? Release me at once! Otherwise, every living thing in this forest will die! Even this entire Douluo Continent will be wiped clean of life and become a realm of ghosts, doomed beyond redemption! You will all die!" Feeling the pain, Tang Wutong did not stop cursing for even a moment.

"You ask what I intend to do to you? Then you ought to consider what the one who sent you here intended to do to my Dragonkind!" The Silver Dragon Empress sneered.

As she spoke, the Silver Dragon Empress reached out with her other hand and tore the blood-red butterfly apart. Amid agonized screams, that strand of Tang Wutong's Divine Sense dissolved into nothingness.

"I have indeed healed Qiu'er. When she wakes, her transformation will be complete. Di Tian, take her to the forest's northern border to gain some experience! I have now reclaimed my divine station, but I still need the power of faith to restore my cultivation. I wish to rest for a while first. Go attend to your duties."

"As you command!"

Di Tian immediately erased Qiu'er's traumatic memory of nearly having her soul devoured by Tang Wutong. After taking her out of the Lake of Life, he told her to explore the northern border.

In Qiu'er's memory, Long Xiaoyao had detonated himself during the battle beside the Lake of Life. Di Tian had opened a spatial passage and taken her away from the lake, then sent her to the Northern Star Dou Great Forest while he went to deal with other matters.

At the moment that strand of Tang Wutong's Divine Sense was annihilated, Huo Yuhao also arrived at the Star Dou Great Forest Northern Border, where it adjoined the former territory of the Heaven Dou Empire.

Along the way, Huo Yuhao had killed hundreds upon hundreds of Holy Spirit Cult members with considerable innate talent. Their souls had also been utterly destroyed by his Soul Blast.

Huo Yuhao showed not the slightest mercy toward these Soul Masters who had supposedly been "forced to join" the Holy Spirit Cult.

After reaching the Star Dou Great Forest Northern Border, Huo Yuhao soon narrowed his eyes. He had spotted two figures he likewise loathed: Niu Tian and Tai Tan, the two beasts who had made things difficult for him when he visited the Clear Sky Sect in his previous life.

Looking back on it in this life, he could be certain that those two beasts had played no small part in the chain of events that led to Elder Yi's death in his previous life.