In the Divine Realm, Tang San stared solemnly at the space before him. To outsiders, there was nothing there. In his eyes, however, a thread had become so transparent it was almost nonexistent.
It was not as if he had never seen transmigrators before. He was one himself. The God of Destruction also existed because of the Evil God Pearl that crossed over after Tang San killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. That karmic link was one reason Tang San had allowed the God of Destruction to join Destruction's side. It was even said that the current Evil God King was a transmigrator as well.
According to his research, anyone connected to transmigration would eventually achieve something significant.
If this were only an ordinary transmigrator, Tang San was absolutely confident he could bring that person under his control and have both that person and the boy become his left and right hands. He had even planned it out. He would arrange for both of them to encounter Wutong after her soul split into two. Once Wutong became one person again, she would choose the obedient one. As for the disobedient one, after some correction, he would obediently fall in line too.
But what Tang San never expected was that this transmigrator would be anything but ordinary.
"Fate has already thinned to this extent? Who exactly is that person? Not only can he evade my detection, he can also kill a three-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast while only at Spirit Daoist level by relying on an external object. Most importantly, he has actually come into contact with that boy and affected his fate!"
At that thought, killing intent flashed in Tang San's eyes.
The boy named Asher Vale in the lower realm was not only the key to the Tang Sect's rise. His existence was also an important bargaining chip for expanding Tang San's voice in the Divine Realm. To control him completely, Tang San had even split his own daughter's soul in two. Now all of that had been disrupted by that man.
"Should I act personally? No. I cannot. Destruction is watching me. This time, sending the Fiery Sun Unicorn down can be excused as eliminating an otherworldly remnant soul. But if I personally act, the nature of the matter changes completely."
"Forget it. Someone like that is not worth my personal action. A transmigrator who is not a remnant soul or a reincarnation cannot truly integrate into this world in the first place. Under the hidden hand I left, that rejection will intensify again. In the long term, he will leave this world on his own within a year. In the short term, perhaps half a year. To the Divine Realm, that is only a single day. I can wait one day."
As Tang San thought through this, his expression gradually relaxed.
Just then, something like a screen appeared before him. A young man dressed in black and purple appeared on it. He was one of the current five God Kings: the God of Destruction.
"Tang San, why did your divine power appear on Soul Land?"
Facing the aggressive God King of Destruction, Tang San's expression did not change. He replied just as forcefully.
"Destruction, everything I did was for the Divine Realm!"
Half an hour earlier, in Star Soul Forest.
"I am the Fiery Sun Unicorn. By my god's command, I have come. Are you the evil spirits I am to destroy?"
Wu Ling looked up at the Fiery Sun Unicorn, which was absolutely at the hundred-thousand-year level. He had already guessed why this creature had suddenly appeared here: Tang San.
Unlike the original path, because of Wu Ling's interference, Clara would not join Tang Sect or Shrek. She would drift farther and farther away from both factions. That was definitely not what Tang San wanted to see. Before Asher Vale's fate still had a chance to be corrected, the first step was to kill the interfering factor.
"Teacher! Tian Meng says that by energy alone, that Fiery Sun Unicorn has a cultivation age of three hundred thousand years. Before he became my Spirit Ring, he might have been able to defeat it, but now there is no hope at all. We should run!" Clara urged from Wu Ling's side.
Wu Ling did not even turn his head. He raised his hand and accurately patted Clara on the head.
"It is fine, it is fine. Just a little burning horse. I was struggling with choice paralysis over my seventh Spirit Ring anyway, and now it has delivered itself to my door."
"Seventh... seventh Spirit Ring?"
Clara stared at the Fiery Sun Unicorn again in shock. She had never imagined Wu Ling would choose it as his seventh Spirit Ring. Had he not said yesterday that his Spirit Power was only level sixty-nine? Could he have broken through to level seventy in a single night?
"All right, all right. The next scene is not suitable for children. Turn around."
After saying that, Wu Ling walked toward the Fiery Sun Unicorn. The Dragon Frame beside him followed.
"Right, the Dragon Frame! Tian Meng said the Dragon Frame has defensive power equivalent to a five-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast. With its help, Teacher really might be able to defeat a three-hundred-thousand-year Fiery Sun Unicorn. But killing it..."
"Hmph. An unknown weapon with dragon aura? It is troublesome, yes, but I possess my god's blessing!"
"I will burn all of you to ash. Fiery Sun Light!"
Facing the golden-red pillar of light erupting from the Fiery Sun Unicorn's mouth, the Dragon Frame resolutely stepped in front of Wu Ling.
The heat wave spreading outward curled the tips of Clara's hair. Wu Ling, however, did not care. Through her narrowed eyes, Clara vaguely saw two more figures appear at Wu Ling's side. One was Rose, who entered the Dragon Frame. The other was a black figure.
"That person... could that be another one of Teacher's clones?"
Just as Clara formed that guess, the figure stepped forward and made a gesture as if embracing the world.
Darkness descended.
A massive black half-sphere swallowed Wu Ling, the others, and the Fiery Sun Unicorn. The blinding light vanished at once, leaving Clara's eyes uncomfortable from the sudden change.
She shook her head and was about to approach the black half-sphere when Tian Meng Iceworm stopped her from inside her spiritual sea.
"Wait, Clara. That is some kind of domain. Do not touch it!"
Hearing Tian Meng's serious voice, Clara immediately pulled her hand back. She did not know what a domain was, but since Tian Meng warned her so strongly, it had to be dangerous. That domain did indeed feel dangerous to her.
In Clara's perception, Wu Ling's Evil God Domain only seemed dangerous. In Tian Meng Iceworm's perception, however, it was endless malice. That thing was absolutely not something a human should be able to use. That was why he stopped Clara.
Roughly ten minutes later, when the domain fully dispersed, Wu Ling appeared before Clara with almost no injuries on his body, aside from a few scorched edges on his clothing.
Behind him stood the Dragon Frame, its exterior burned black but seemingly undamaged. Farther back lay the Fiery Sun Unicorn's corpse, its head separated from its body. Above the corpse, a red Spirit Ring was condensing.