At the mere mention of Huo Yuhao, Tang San couldn't help but feel a headache coming on. As things stood now, the situation was already a foregone conclusion. Even if he killed Dai Huabin, Huo Yuhao would not fall in love with Wang Dong'er again.
In fact, after killing Dai Huabin, he would completely lose the ability to put a leash on Huo Yuhao. This was by no means the outcome he wished to see.
After hearing Tang San's words, Dai Mubai was instantly broken into a cold sweat. He swallowed hard and asked, "What kind of Martial Soul Fusion Skill is this exactly?"
He knew he had just brushed past the gates of hell. If he hadn't answered correctly just now, it would have undoubtedly confirmed that he had arranged for Dai Huabin to interfere. At that point, Tang San would never have let him off.
As for being a so-called successor, although Dai Mubai wasn't particularly bright and was a bit of a brute, he understood Tang San very well. This was a man who appeared righteous on the surface but, in reality, valued power, status, and strength above all else. It was impossible for him to truly pass down his divine position. The reason he spoke of cultivating that person as a successor—even to the point of offering up his own daughter—was certainly because that person possessed something he or his daughter required.
Tang San said with a solemn expression, "This Martial Soul Fusion Skill is very special. Not only does it grant both parties 100% Martial Soul compatibility, but it also causes them to gradually fall in love with each other. Seeing the successor I chose being toyed with like this, how can I, as a God-King of a generation, remain indifferent?"
"Uh—" Although Dai Mubai was mentally prepared, he couldn't help but feel his mouth twitch violently.
To be cultivated as a son-in-law by Tang San, it went without saying that the person was a male. And this Dai Huabin, judging by the name, was certainly a male as well. If the two of them truly mastered the Martial Soul Fusion Skill as Tang San described... wouldn't that mean Tang San's future son-in-law and his own descendant, two men... Dai Mubai didn't dare think further. He was afraid he wouldn't be able to stop himself from laughing out loud.
"So... you suspect someone is pulling strings in the shadows?" Dai Mubai's face twitched again as he asked, barely suppressing his mirth.
Tang San nodded. "Indeed."
"I think that shouldn't be possible. You are one of the three Great Law Enforcement Gods of the God Realm. No one should have the courage to stroke your tiger whiskers. No one in the God Realm should have the audacity or the ability to mess with your successor without your knowledge. Perhaps it's just an accident."
Dai Mubai still felt Tang San was overthinking. After all, that tiny patch of land known as the Douluo Continent had long since become Tang San's back garden. Tang San monitored it constantly; who would dare to pull such stunts?
Hearing this, Tang San felt it made sense. After all, he currently controlled the Core of the God Realm. Aside from a few gods who had ascended from the Douluo Continent and might have left inheritance sites there, no one could hide anything from him.
Moreover, thinking carefully, his daughter's split soul, Wang Dong'er, was supposed to enter Shrek Academy cross-dressed as a boy and share a dormitory with Huo Yuhao. That plan had been ruined because of that teacher from Shrek's Outer Courtyard—who had already been eliminated—revealing Wang Dong'er's true gender. Perhaps it really was an accident.
However, he always felt that this matter reeked of something bizarre. Why was it such a coincidence that the roommate arranged for Huo Yuhao happened to be Dai Huabin, the possessor of the White Tiger Martial Soul?
Thinking of this, Tang San suddenly regretted letting that Outer Courtyard teacher die so easily. Before he died, he should have questioned him thoroughly to see if anyone had instructed him.
"Regardless, the priority now is to find remedial measures," Tang San said.
"What do you plan to do?" Dai Mubai asked, stunned.
"That Martial Soul Fusion Skill is extremely unique. To get things back on track—whether it be the Martial Souls, the souls, or the bodies—all are indispensable..."
Tang San did not finish his sentence, but Dai Mubai had already guessed most of it. He intended to make Dai Huabin a part of Xiao Qi—Tang San's daughter, Tang Wutong. Or more clearly, turn his body into a woman's and have his soul and Martial Soul swallowed by Tang Wutong.
"Do you need me to do anything?" At the end of the day, it was just a descendant separated by countless generations. Having one more or one less made no difference to Dai Mubai.
"No need. I will leave this matter to Rongrong to handle when the time comes. Before that, let them continue on this wrong path for now."
Among the Shrek Seven Devils, aside from Xiao Wu, Tang San trusted Ning Rongrong the most. After all, she had refrained from having children with Oscar for ten thousand years for his sake. It was even such that if he simply crooked his finger, she would obediently climb into his bed. Although Tang San had no interest in Ning Rongrong, her actions were enough for him to trust her implicitly.
Having said this, Tang San rose and transformed into a streak of blue light, leaving Dai Mubai's divine hall and heading back the way he came.
As soon as Tang San left, Zhu Zhuqing emerged from the hall. "Mubai, what did Third Brother want with you just now?"
"Matters between men. You're just a woman, don't meddle." Whereas Dai Mubai had been walking on thin ice in front of Tang San, he was now as arrogant as could be toward Zhu Zhuqing. This caused Zhu Zhuqing to stop speaking immediately. She lowered her head despondently, her eyes filled with grievance and a faint glimmer of tears.
On the other side, after confirming it wasn't Dai Mubai's doing, Tang San's mood improved considerably.
In any case, they were just tools to suffer in place of his daughter. Letting the split soul Wang Dong'er suffer was one thing, and letting Dai Huabin suffer was the same. In the end, he only needed the soul in his hand—the one containing his daughter's memories of the God Realm, the true daughter in his heart—to reap the rewards. At that time, he could still put the leash on Huo Yuhao. He would become Tang San's dog.
However, Wang Dong'er could not be wasted either. She was, after all, a possessor of twin Martial Souls: the Radiant Goddess Butterfly and the Clear Sky Hammer. When the time came for his daughter to inherit the position of the Butterfly God, he would still need her to sacrifice her soul and return the body to his daughter.
A moment later, upon arriving at his divine hall, Tang San saw Wang Dong'er through the Core of the God Realm. At this moment, Wang Dong'er was following Feng Piaoling's suggestion, heading to the academy's infirmary to apply to Huo Yuhao to join the Tang Sect.
Seeing this, a satisfied smile appeared on Tang San's face. "Hmph, for now, I'll let you grow freely for a while."
As he spoke, Tang San's hands quickly formed seals. He intended to temporarily transfer the other split soul he had left in his daughter's body into Dai Huabin. This way, the next time Dai Huabin and Huo Yuhao performed a Martial Soul Fusion, this split soul would quietly merge into Huo Yuhao's body without alerting the Plane's Consciousness.
After that, he only needed to wait for Huo Yuhao to encounter the Emperor Auspicious Beast. Once their destinies were linked, that split soul would enter the Emperor Auspicious Beast's body. Influenced by this soul, the Emperor Auspicious Beast would take human form of its own accord and fall in love with Huo Yuhao.
Finally, she would sacrifice herself, allowing his daughter's split soul to return to her original body carrying half of the Auspicious Beast's destiny, the Golden Dragon bloodline, and the Golden Dragon Spear. There, it would swallow Wang Dong'er's soul and take over the body.
Then, he would turn Dai Huabin into a woman who looked exactly like his daughter and guide that new soul—the one that had swallowed Wang Dong'er—to devour everything of Dai Huabin's. Finally, he would let the soul in his hand, the one containing his daughter's memories of the God Realm, take control of everything.
What a perfect plan.
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