As the great and wise (laugh), pure and immaculate (laugh) God King of the Divine Realm, Tang San had naturally detected the existence of the child of destiny early on.
After discovering his existence, the first thing he did was block the other gods' perception of the Douluo Continent, preventing them from snatching the child of destiny away.
What a joke. The Douluo Continent was his backyard, the backyard of Great God King Tang. How could he let anyone else casually lay a finger on it!
Whatever he saw first was his, and whatever he saw later was not necessarily anyone else's. If anyone wanted to seize anything without permission, he would certainly deliver fair and impartial sanctions on behalf of the God Realm Committee!
As for what the child of destiny thought... who cared? He was merely a chess piece. Wasn't what he thought still up to His Lordship the God King?
When the time came, he only needed to offer a little sweetness to make him eternally grateful.
And what would that sweetness be? Hadn't Xiao Qi been wanting to play in the lower realm lately? She would do nicely.
Once the child of destiny had been properly raised, he could at least become a First-Level God, so he would not be beneath Xiao Qi.
And to be safe, he had even split Xiao Qi's soul into two halves. With double the temptation, was there any need to worry about failing to lure that child of destiny in? Not a chance.
What pleased him even more was that, when he took a rare look at the Douluo Continent because of the child of destiny, he actually discovered a Three-Eyed Golden Lion in the Star Dou Great Forest!
That was a rare divine beast with the destiny attribute, blessed with fortune. His father and mother really were getting old, to overlook something so important.
Everything on the Douluo Continent was clearly his lawful property, yet this stinking cat was outside his control. How could that be allowed?
So he decisively added a setting to Xiao Qi-as soon as this stinking cat approached her, part of her soul would attach itself to that stinking cat.
Hehehehe. To actually be possessed by His Lordship the God King's daughter-surely that stinking cat would cry with gratitude once she found out.
Oh, no. This stinking cat would soon be his beloved Xiao Qi.
When Xiao Qi returned, he would gain a brand-new daughter possessing the power of destiny and a trace of Dragon God Bloodline.
At this point, every gap in the spiderweb Tang San had woven from his hidden schemes had been patched. All that remained was to wait patiently for the prey to fall into his web.
-That was how it should have been.
"How is this possible? Why! I clearly sealed off the Douluo Continent! Even Destruction couldn't possibly detect what I was doing on the Douluo Continent, much less interfere with the child of destiny! Who was it? Who on earth was it!"
Tang San's expression twisted slightly.
Just now, he had sensed that the Tang Sect route he had arranged for the child of destiny had suddenly been cut off.
He did not understand. A barrier erected with his strength was difficult to breach even for someone at the God King level, let alone forcibly interfere with the fate of someone under his particular attention. It was impossible.
"Could it be..."
An outlandish conjecture flashed through Tang San's mind.
He hurriedly shook his head, driving the thought from his mind.
No, impossible. Absolutely impossible!
An ant from the lower realm breaking through the barrier I set up with the power of destiny alone, then twisting the child of destiny's fate? That was nothing but a wild fantasy.
He really had become somewhat flustered, to have such an absurd thought.
"Whew."
Calm down. Calm down.
Now was not the time to panic.
The first thing to do now was find a way to contact the lower realm.
At that thought, he placed a call to Da Ming.
As a blue screen lit up before him, Da Ming's and Er Ming's faces appeared on it.
"Da Ming, Er Ming, how have you been lately?"
"Haha, don't worry, Brother San. We're having a great time in the lower realm."
"Exactly, exactly. And wasn't Xiao Qi hoping to come down and play? We haven't seen her in ages. When is she coming?"
Da Ming's and Er Ming's eyes shone, and they looked genuinely eager for Xiao Qi to descend to the lower realm.
"She'll be there in another two days." Tang San smiled outwardly, but inside, he was extremely anxious. He could not care less how these two beasts were doing; he was merely exchanging a few pleasantries to humor them. "Have any heaven-sent prodigies appeared over there? Their age doesn't matter."
"Hmm..."
The two Ferocious Beasts exchanged glances.
Finally, Da Ming spoke:
"Brother San, weren't you the one who forbade us from leaving the Clear Sky Sect's grounds? All we know is that none of those who've made a name for themselves are astonishing geniuses. As for the younger generation, we've been staying in the Clear Sky Sect all this time, so we don't know the specifics."
Tsk. Two utterly useless pieces of trash!
Tang San secretly gritted his teeth, then smiled.
"It's fine. If you don't know, never mind. I was only asking casually. But if an unprecedented genius appears on the continent, you must notify me immediately."
"Understood."
After receiving their affirmative response, Tang San hurriedly ended the call.
Since Da Ming and Er Ming were of no use, there was no need to ask Sea God Island either.
The Sea God Douluo, isolated from the world, would only know even less of worldly affairs than Da Ming and Er Ming.
"Hmph! A bunch of trash. They depend on me for everything, yet when I need them, every last one is this useless!"
Tang San paced back and forth, gritting his teeth.
He could not count on his father and mother now, either. A hundred years ago, they had still barely been able to contact him, but now they had reached the critical stage of corroding the Golden Ancient Tree and usurping the position of Plane Master. The slightest distraction would bring all their efforts to ruin, and the losses would outweigh the gains.
He had clearly left a contingency in the Star Dou Great Forest too, but for some reason, it had inexplicably disappeared not long after he ascended to the Divine Realm. He could not discover the cause, and when he asked Destruction and Life, that wretched couple gave only vague answers.
Although both the Qiankun Asking Love Valley and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well bore traces of his presence, these two treasure basins both required someone to step inside personally. Furthermore, because of those two dead dragons' corpses, his divine sense could not remain in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for long. He could only rely on that fence-sitting plant, Youyou, to speak for him.
After all that reckoning, was his own daughter still the only one he could rely on in the end?
Tang San sighed helplessly.
"I'm sorry, Xiao Qi. Everything is for the sake of your daddy's grand plan proceeding smoothly. Although it will cause a little damage to your soul, you can understand this much, can't you?"
With that, his figure flashed, and he vanished.
He was going to add something new to the restrictions on Xiao Qi.
Interfering with the child of destiny's fate? No matter. As long as the child of destiny remained the child of destiny, he would certainly possess the strongest fortune on the Douluo Continent.
He only needed to set it so that Xiao Qi would subconsciously approach the person around her with the strongest power of destiny.
With his interference, no matter how the child of destiny's fate changed, he would still end up back in his hands.
At this moment, Tang San still regarded this incident as nothing more than an ordinary miscalculation and did not attach much importance to it.
In his view, even if he ignored it, he would at most lose a good dog. Although that would be a pity, it was hardly anything significant.
However, he did not yet know.
It was precisely this dismissive attitude that would soon bring a catastrophe upon him, and even the entire Divine Realm.
A world-destroying catastrophe caused by him.