Undercurrents

Following Electrolux's advice, Su Miu gave Bai Xiuxiu a hundred-thousand-year orb of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's origin energy for her cultivation.

Thanks to the special properties of soul beasts recultivating, Bai Xiuxiu could use it either to increase her cultivation age or to practice magic.

However, if she increased her cultivation age, she would have to face a heavenly tribulation once she reached a hundred thousand years. Practicing magic carried no such risk.

With the blessings of the Lake of Life and Di Qiu'er, the Emperor Auspicious Beast, her cultivation age had already reached fifty-five thousand years. There was little urgency on that front; magic was another matter.

Practicing it meant she would not have to worry about heavenly tribulations and the like, so she decided to use a little of the energy to cultivate magic first, then save the remaining origin energy for overcoming heavenly tribulations and other purposes.

"Xiu Xiu, I can't absorb this energy. Take it and use it to cultivate."

Su Miu placed an orb of light into her Sea of Consciousness, and she nodded. She had to work hard at cultivating, then kill the Deep Sea Demon Whale that had destroyed Sea God Island, along with that entire pod of Evil Spirit Orcas!

Di Qiu'er was next. Su Miu placed another orb of light into her Sea of Consciousness to help her cultivate.

An Emperor Auspicious Beast's cultivation could only increase little by little with the passage of time, with no other way to improve it. However, Su Miu's contract had nothing to do with the Douluo Continent, so it was not subject to that restriction.

"Su Miu, this is some Ten-Thousand-Year Queen Bee Honey I stole from Uncle Xiong Jun. Have a taste."

She was not particularly interested in spiritual origin energy that could only improve her magic cultivation. Instead, she took out a jar of fragrant honey, wanting to share it with him.

"Uh... no need. I'm a spirit right now. I can't eat anything."

Su Miu waved a hand in refusal. Seeing this, Di Qiu'er put the honey away and asked:

"Su Miu, is there anything else you want to eat? I'll steal it all from Uncle Xiong Jun. That'll teach him to bully you! I'll get him back for you."

"It's fine. I don't mind."

Only then did Su Miu realize that the little Auspicious Beast had never forgotten how Xiong Jun had wanted to kill him back then. That was why she had stolen Xiong Jun's belongings-she was clearly trying to get justice for him, though it was rather funny.

"But you, Qiu'er-you have such wonderful talent, yet all you think about every day is eating, drinking, and having fun. What kind of behavior is that? Get cultivating."

He reached out and poked the little golden-furred beast's head, urging her to stop slacking and cultivate properly. The moment she heard the word "cultivate," her expression fell, and her cheerful grin vanished.

Under Su Miu's insistence, however, she still began practicing magic. Bai Xiuxiu cultivated diligently beside her as well.

Watching all this from the shadows, Di Tian observed how Su Miu took forty percent of the origin energy and then distributed it to Bai Xiuxiu and Di Qiu'er.

It was no different from moving something from one pocket to the other. After all, their Soul Beast Clan benefited either way. Still...

He looked up at the sky, his eyes filled with apprehension. He had no idea whether the enormous disturbance just now had attracted the Divine Realm's attention. With that thought, his figure vanished.

Elsewhere, beyond Douluo Star, in the Divine Realm that ruled over more than a hundred galaxies, a figure holding a golden trident stood at the Divine Realm Center, using it to spy on the Douluo Continent.

Soon, a confident smile appeared on his face. Watching the Child of Luck gradually form countless ties with his Tang Sect, he sneered:

"The Child of Luck has fallen into my hands. Soon, I'll be able to guide him onto the right path."

Just as everything seemed firmly under his control, the orb of light before him representing the Child of Luck's fortune suddenly shrank.

The once enormous halo of luck was reduced to a tenth of its original size. At the sight, Tang San's expression changed drastically.

"Who is interfering with my ten-thousand-year plan?!"

He immediately used the Divine Realm Center to investigate. Soon, he saw a black dragon and discovered that the Emperor Auspicious Beast had stolen Huo Yuhao's fated opportunity. He also noticed two souls among them.

One was a deity from another world, though only his Divine Sense remained. The other appeared to be a spirit from another plane.

He could clearly see that most of the power of luck that should have belonged to the Child of Luck had fallen upon that spirit instead, while another portion had settled in the Star Dou Great Forest.

"A Child of Luck capable of traveling between two planes?"

Tang San sank into thought. Had the consciousness of the Douluo Plane reached an agreement with another plane's consciousness, intending to jointly create a Child of Luck who could travel through space and time?

He also distinctly sensed a cultivation system within the spirit that did not belong to soul power, and immediately snorted.

"Hmph! A mere Douluo Plane, yet you still insist on resisting. You really don't know what's good for you. Don't you know that only under this God King's rule can the Douluo Plane keep improving?"

"Heh, nothing but a petty trick. This God King need only lift a finger to crush your resistance."

As he spoke, Tang San attached a red thread to that otherworldly Child of Luck. Just as he was considering how to train his dog, a surge of purple divine power severed his connection to the Douluo Plane.

"Sea God, what are you doing?"

A voice Tang San utterly despised rang out. He calmly turned toward the figure shrouded in purple-black robes and replied as though nothing were amiss:

"Destruction, a rising star has recently appeared in my homeland. I was merely taking another look out of concern for my home."

"Hmph! Don't think I don't know what you're scheming. You'd better not let me catch you knowingly breaking the law as a God Realm Enforcer."

The newcomer pulled back his hood, revealing white hair and purple eyes that flashed red and radiated an aura of destruction.

"Destruction, I know you're dissatisfied that the former Evil God King and the former God King of Goodness entrusted the key to the Divine Realm Center to me for safekeeping, but that's no reason to make baseless accusations against an innocent man."

Tang San adopted a helpless expression, like a victim resigned to being misunderstood. Looking at him that way, one might have thought he was the righteous one.

"Hmph! That had better be true!"

The Destruction God King snorted, then turned and left. Only after confirming his departure did Tang San's expression darken. His thoughts raced; the Destruction God King would likely be scrutinizing him closely for a while.

He would have to keep his moves more subtle from now on to avoid trouble. Still, being watched so constantly irritated him to no end.

Nevertheless, he remained highly confident in his ten-thousand-year plan. After all, it could only be described as perfect.

Besides, he had bestowed the title of "God of Wisdom" upon himself in the Divine Realm. In his eyes, the Destruction God King was nothing but a brute, and the Goddess of Life was merely a naive fool overflowing with maternal love.

As for the former Evil God King and the God King of Goodness, both had been thoroughly taken in by the persona he had worked so hard to cultivate.