Tang Wutong, Three in One

Disgust showed plainly on Bibi Dong's face.

"And he called himself pure as ice and clean as jade? I bet he was already over the moon inside. This Tang San really did put on one face in public and another behind everyone's backs."

"That's true. Calling Tang San pure as ice and clean as jade was a mockery in itself.

"In fact, aside from his double standards, Tang San's behavior before he became a god was relatively normal.

"But after becoming a god, Tang San completely showed his true colors and stopped acting human."

"That's right. How exactly did Tang San turn the Douluo Continent into his own back garden?"

"To explain that, we have to go to ten thousand years after Tang San became a god. The child of destiny born to meet the needs of that era on the Douluo Continent was named Huo Yuhao.

"To obtain the Douluo Continent's destiny, Tang San set his sights on this child of destiny.

"And what he did will absolutely make your jaw drop."

"What did he do?"

"He split his daughter Tang Wutong's soul into three parts. He kept one part with him, preserving her childhood memories of the Divine Realm.

"He left one part in her own body and sent her to the Clear Sky Sect in the lower realm to be fostered.

"Care to guess where he put the last part?"

"I can't guess, but it surely wasn't anywhere good."

"Inside the body of the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion."

"Huh? He stuffed part of his own daughter's soul into a Soul Beast's body?"

Bibi Dong's eyes widened, her face full of disbelief.

"That's a lie, right? What father would do that to his daughter?"

"The Three-Eyed Golden Lion wasn't an ordinary Soul Beast. She carried the destiny of the Soul Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest.

"Tang San put part of Tang Wutong's soul in her precisely to seize that Soul Beast destiny."

Back on the Douluo Continent, Bo Saixi's eyes were vacant on Sea God Island.

"Lord Sea God, were you deceived by him too? How could you choose a beast like that to inherit your godhood? I simply can't accept it!"

"High Priestess..."

The maid beside Bo Saixi wanted to comfort her, but she didn't know how to begin.

Splitting his own daughter's soul into three was already hard enough to accept, let alone stuffing part of it into a Soul Beast's body, all to obtain a share of destiny.

He was an outright demon, unworthy of being called human.

In Spirit Hall, Qian Daoliu also cursed. "He really is a wicked man. Once he became a god, he completely exposed his true nature."

"Heaven is unjust! Why did the story end with a wicked man defeating the righteous Angel God?"

"Father, since we already know the future, we can surely change it. Perhaps we have to do something now."

Qian Daoliu understood what Qian Xunji meant. After thinking for a moment, he nodded.

"Make the arrangements! I, Qian Daoliu, will be a villain through and through for once."

Neither the Clear Sky Sect nor Tang Hao knew that danger was closing in on them.

In the Star Dou Great Forest, Di Tian flew into a rage. A dragon's roar frightened the Soul Beasts around the Lake of Life into trembling.

"This is going too far! He actually dared to set his sights on the Emperor Auspicious Beast! Unforgivable, unforgivable!"

"Lord Di Tian, please calm down."

Bi Ji tried to persuade him from the side, but it was no use.

"How can you expect me to calm down? That's the Emperor Auspicious Beast! She holds the condensed destiny of the Soul Beast Clan. If that destiny were lost, what would become of our Soul Beast Clan?

"No, someone must watch the Emperor Auspicious Beast day and night from now on. We absolutely cannot let anything happen to her."

The other Ferocious Beasts could only agree readily. At a time like this, even Xiong Jun didn't dare provoke Di Tian.

Back with Tang Fan, Bibi Dong asked again, "Did Tang San succeed?"

"He did. Having lost her memories and left with only one part of her soul, Tang Wutong took the name Wang Dong'er and was raised by her two uncles at the Clear Sky Sect. She later entered Shrek Academy and met Huo Yuhao, the child of destiny.

"The Emperor Auspicious Beast transformed into human form as Wang Qiu'er and also joined Shrek Academy, becoming entangled with Huo Yuhao.

"In the end, Wang Qiu'er sacrificed herself for Huo Yuhao, and the Soul Beast destiny flowed to him. Wang Dong'er's three soul fragments became one, turning her back into Tang Wutong, and she helped Tang San bind a child of destiny and bring him back.

"In this way, the vast majority of the Douluo Continent's destiny fell into Tang San's hands."

"That's a filthy trick!"

"I've only given you the broad outline. The things Tang San did in between were even more inhuman.

"Just one simple example: after Huo Yuhao's mother, Huo Yun'er, died, Tang San took her soul straight to the Divine Realm.

"He did it so he could hold it over Huo Yuhao after he went to the Divine Realm."

"He wouldn't even leave a dead person's soul alone?"

"He called it saving her, and Huo Yuhao even had to be moved to tears with gratitude."

"Doesn't anyone stop him? Wasn't it said that gods can't interfere with the lower realm? Why could he do it so brazenly?"

"Didn't I just say so? Because there are loopholes in the rules to exploit.

"Besides, Tang San inherited the dual godhood of the Asura God King and the Sea God, giving him an enormous say in the Divine Realm.

"Even if he broke the rules, as long as the other god kings didn't see it or didn't want to interfere, he wouldn't suffer any punishment. Naturally, he could act without restraint."

Hearing Tang Fan's words, Bibi Dong felt so stifled that she put a hand over her chest to steady her breathing.

"That's infuriating! Huh? Didn't you just say Wang Dong'er was raised by her two uncles? Wasn't her mother a Transformed Soul Beast? Then her uncles...?"

"They were Soul Beasts too, the two beast kings of the Star Dou Great Forest: Da Ming, the Sky Azure Bull Python, and Er Ming, the Titan Giant Ape.

"You gravely wounded them before Tang San became a god, and they sacrificed themselves to him.

"After Tang San went to the Divine Realm, he resurrected them and sent them down to the lower realm to serve as the Clear Sky Sect's sect masters. They also helped him carry out his plan to seize the destiny of the Douluo Continent's plane."

Back on the Douluo Continent, the people of the Clear Sky Sect were a little dumbfounded.

What did this mean? The Clear Sky Sect's sect masters weren't named Tang, and had even become two Soul Beasts?

So now that your branch of the family, Tang Hao, has become gods, you no longer care about the Clear Sky Sect's legacy, is that it?

Tang Hao's father, Tang Wei, was already too angry to speak. A little more shock and he would probably drop dead on the spot.

Back with Tang Fan, Bibi Dong said irritably, "Wasn't Tang San also breaking the Divine Realm's rules by doing that?"

"Mm. When breaking the rules comes at no cost, would you still care whether the rules existed?

"Now, do you still think the Jade Emperor should have spared Yao Ji in the television drama out of personal affection?"

Bibi Dong shook her head.

"Why is it so complicated? Can't this world be a little simpler?"

"The human heart is hard to fathom, and greed knows no bounds. After packing up and carrying away the Douluo Continent's destiny, Tang San didn't stop.

"He even arranged for Tang Hao to become the Plane Master of the Douluo Continent and for Ah Yin to replace the Core of Nature. With that, the Douluo Continent truly bore the Tang surname."

"Plane Master? Core of Nature?"

"Those count as two godhoods. They should have been created by the plane itself to serve the plane.

"But Tang San had his own parents occupy those two positions on the Douluo Continent.

"And to make the Douluo Continent, his own back garden, even bigger, he also came up with the infamous Ten-Thousand-Year Plan."