"You want to join the Tang Sect?" Huo Yuhao looked at Wang Dong'er in surprise.
By this time, thanks to the treatment of a healing-type Soul Master at Shrek Academy, the bodies of both Huo Yuhao and Dai Huabin had basically recovered. He never expected that just as they were preparing to leave the infirmary, Wang Dong'er would seek him out and submit an application to join the Tang Sect.
"That is correct. I presume you already know that I possess twin martial souls. My second martial soul is the Clear Sky Hammer. The ancestor of the Tang Sect, the Sea God Tang San, is likewise the ancestor of our Clear Sky Sect. To ensure the sect established by our ancestor does not continue to decline, I must do something."
Wang Dong'er looked at Huo Yuhao and Dai Huabin with an expressionless face. Seeing the two of them acting so chummy, with arms around each other's shoulders, her heart filled with increasing disgust.
"Second Brother, what do you think we should do?" Huo Yuhao was supporting Dai Huabin. During the time when Feng Piaoling, Nanmen Yun'er, and Zhu Lu were giving them a thorough thrashing, Dai Huabin had chosen to use his own body to shield Huo Yuhao. Thus, even though Dai Huabin's injuries had healed, Huo Yuhao insisted on supporting him.
Dai Huabin was happy to be supported, using his arm to pull Huo Yuhao closer by the shoulder. At this moment, the half-brothers had truly reconciled and buried the hatchet.
Dai Huabin was already a member of the Tang Sect. However, after performing the martial soul fusion with Huo Yuhao, his interest in Wang Dong'er had gradually waned, and now he felt completely indifferent toward her. Seeing her stare at them with eyes that looked as if she were viewing trash, his instinct was to refuse.
Right then, a flicker of light invisible to ordinary people shot out from Wang Dong'er's brow and vanished into Dai Huabin's body.
Dai Huabin dazed for a moment. The words at the tip of his tongue were swallowed back down, and he changed his tune. "We cannot make the decision on this matter; we have to ask Teacher Xiao Ya."
Speaking of Dai Huabin joining the Tang Sect, it was quite a farce. Originally, Huo Yuhao had taken Dai Huabin to find Tang Ya and Bei Bei to propose his membership. Tang Ya had looked at Huo Yuhao with an extremely strange expression, her face practically screaming: Are you kidding me, brother? This is the guy who killed your mother, and you've forgiven him just like that? You even want to bring him into the Tang Sect?
But Huo Yuhao had completely failed to notice Tang Ya's reluctance to recruit Dai Huabin. Not only did he try to persuade her himself, but he also dragged Bei Bei into it. Considering that Dai Huabin's talent was indeed remarkable and that he had formed a martial soul fusion skill with Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei felt that having him join could alleviate much of the pressure on his beloved Xiao Ya. Thus, he joined in the persuasion, asking her to give Dai Huabin a chance.
Tang Ya couldn't win the argument, so she made the same demand as she had of Wang Dong'er in the original story: as long as Huo Yuhao and Dai Huabin won the Freshman Assessment Championship, she would let him join.
Originally, with their martial soul fusion skill, winning the championship would have been as easy as reaching out and taking it. However, with a mountain like Feng Piaoling standing in their way, Huo Yuhao felt "forced," at Dai Huabin's suggestion, to teach him the Mysterious Heaven Technique in advance.
Now, Tang Ya was stuck; she had to accept him whether she wanted to or not.
Huo Yuhao was never someone with much of a mind of his own; one could see this from his actions after losing Electrolux in the original work. Seeing Dai Huabin speak this way, Huo Yuhao immediately said to Wang Dong'er, "Regarding this, we must consult Teacher Xiao Ya."
"Fine," Wang Dong'er replied softly. She turned and left.
At that moment, she felt a sudden, inexplicable wave of weakness, yet her heart felt strangely light. Her tense nerves suddenly relaxed. For a long time, a strong sense of crisis had lingered in her heart, as if a sharp sword were constantly hanging over her head. It was the most primitive instinctive reaction to a threat to one's life. She didn't know where the danger came from, but just now, that crisis had inexplicably vanished.
Vanishing along with it was her third martial soul—the Sea God—which had been impossible to release. It was actually the wisp of divine sense that Tang San had left within her sea of consciousness.
Of course, Wang Dong'er was destined to never perceive it. Just now, at the moment Tang San struck the other portion of soul within Wang Dong'er into Dai Huabin's body, he had sent that wisp of divine sense along with it.
Seeing this, Tang San nodded with satisfaction.
"This split soul isn't of much use anymore; at most, it can be considered the icing on the cake. Instead of keeping the divine sense on her, it's better used to protect the 'body fusion material' for my daughter. As for Wang Dong'er, let her temporarily safeguard my daughter's body for a while. It will be needed for the synthesis in the future. As long as I don't send down any tribulations, she will be protected by Shrek Academy and won't encounter any danger."
In the past, the Divine King Tang San simply couldn't bear to let his daughter's soul (the portion possessing memories of the Divine Realm) suffer. After gaining Dai Huabin as a new "experience pack," he didn't even want his daughter's body to suffer. Since it would eventually be fused with the "body fusion material" anyway, he had to protect the material to ensure it didn't perish during its hardships.
After all, the original owner of the fusion material had already achieved a 100% compatibility martial soul fusion with the Child of Destiny, Huo Yuhao. To some extent, the fusion material was more important than his daughter's body. If his daughter's body was lost, it could be re-condensed, or he could simply take Dai Huabin's and transform it into his daughter's likeness.
As long as Wang Dong'er died, everything belonging to her would return to the split soul inside Dai Huabin. In a way, it was no different from a sacrifice. It was just that the split soul hadn't yet obtained the Auspicious Beast's Golden Dragon bloodline, the Golden Dragon Spear, or half of the destiny; the time wasn't right yet.
If Dai Huabin were gone, he would have no way to put a leash on the Child of Destiny. That wisp of divine sense that was no longer needed in Wang Dong'er's body could be put to good use. Moreover, it could add an extra martial soul fusion skill for the two of them, allowing the Divine King Tang San to better control the Child of Destiny.
Unknowingly, the Divine King Tang San had already begun to treat Dai Huabin as his "new daughter." The way he looked at him was like looking at his daughter's body.
Having finished all this, Tang San felt his newly revised plan was flawless. His heart grew increasingly satisfied, and he stopped paying attention to the situation on the Douluo Continent.
Because Xiao Wu had arrived.
"Third Brother, are you finished with your business?" Xiao Wu's voice approached from the distance.
Tang San turned to greet her with a warm smile. "Mhm, just a trivial little matter. It's been settled. Come, let's go inside."
Although Xiao Wu didn't know what business Tang San had been handling, seeing that he was no longer melancholic, she didn't press the matter. It just so happened that the "radish pulling" from before hadn't been enough; her "Third Giegie" had to make it up to her.
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