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"Donghai City is a small pond, yet the Silver Dragon King's reach has actually extended here..."
Tang San—inhabiting Tang Wulin's body—moved away from the smoking ruins of East Sea Park. His mind, the mind of a God King, processed variables at a lightning pace. "Her subordinates aren't just Di Tian. Excluding the possibility of her manifesting a human form personally, she must have agents embedded in the human world."
Suddenly, he hit upon the key. Who possessed the top-tier cultivation to be valued by the Silver Dragon King? Who held a draconic bloodline so potent it rivaled the core of the Dragon Clan? And who was currently standing right beside his son, Wulin?
The answer was clear.
"Xie Xie!"
Tang San's gaze narrowed. It had to be him. That Time-Space Dragon King was too much of an anomaly. "If a tool cannot be controlled, it must be broken in the cradle. Otherwise, such a person will only bring disaster to this continent."
His face grew flushed with a righteous, divine anger. He decided then: if the opportunity arose, he would place a brand upon the boy's soul, turning him into a subservient auxiliary for Wulin's growth. In Tang San's eyes, anyone he couldn't supervise was a "cancer" to the world.
Just then, a familiar, melodic voice drifted over.
"Brother Xie Xie, what was that commotion? The sky turned yellow so suddenly..."
Xu Xiaoyan held Xie Xie's hand as they walked toward the park, her face filled with curiosity.
"Perhaps some high-level experts were sparring," Xie Xie replied, though he was secretly vigilant. He had sensed the mobilization of world-tier energy. He suspected that Old Tang had been forced to intervene to save Wulin from some threat—likely Gu Yue's subordinates.
Then, he saw him. Standing near the edge of the destruction was Tang Wulin. But one look told Xie Xie that something was profoundly wrong.
"Is that... Tang Wulin?" Xu Xiaoyan asked, her small face going pale as she saw the ruins of the park behind him. "The park... it's gone!"
"Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan. What a coincidence," the "Tang Wulin" said, a smile appearing on his face.
Tang San was inwardly delighted. He only had three opportunities to manifest, and since he was already active, he could maximize the benefit. He would seize control of Xie Xie right here, right now.
Xie Xie's instincts screamed. He subtly stepped in front of Xu Xiaoyan, shielding her. This Tang Wulin had bloodshot eyes and a flushed, arrogant expression—nothing like the gentle boy he knew. It's him, Xie Xie realized. The Sea God has taken the wheel.
"Are you guys heading out?" Tang San asked, stepping closer with a mimicry of his son's smile. "I'm heading back too. Why don't we walk together?"
"Better not," Xu Xiaoyan frowned. She didn't sense the divine aura, but she knew an intruder when she saw one. "We're on a private outing. We don't want you tagged along."
"I see." Tang San ignored her, his gaze locking onto Xie Xie.
In that instant, he activated a Mental Shock. Though it was only a strand of his consciousness, it was a strike from a God King. To him, crushing the spirit of a tiny Spirit Grandmaster was like crushing an ant.
But as the divine mental energy surged toward Xie Xie's sea of consciousness, it didn't find an open door. It found a meat grinder.
[PEERLESS SYSTEM ACTIVATED]
[DETECTED: SEA GOD'S DIVINE SENSE ATTEMPTING HOST CONTROL.]
[COUNTERMEASURE: STRANGLE.]
CRACK—!
The divine strand was instantly seized by a cold, primordial force and obliterated. Tang San's consciousness within the body was snuffed out before he could even register a protest.
Tang Wulin's eyes rolled back into his head, and he collapsed onto the pavement like a puppet with its strings cut.
"Brother Xie Xie... what just happened?" Xu Xiaoyan blinked. From her perspective, Wulin had walked over, smiled creepily, and then fainted. "Is he... broken?"
Xie Xie was just as stunned, but for a different reason. A series of notifications were flooding his vision:
[Sea God's Divine Sense successfully strangled.]
[Rewards Obtained: Sea God Fragment x1, Sea God's Affinity.]
[Sea God Fragment: A piece of divinity containing pure oceanic energy.]
[Sea God's Affinity: A passive aura that grants the host influence over water-based entities.]
Old Tang... is dead? Xie Xie's heart hammered. He hadn't expected the Sea God to be shameless enough to try and mind-control a child, but he certainly hadn't expected his System to be strong enough to execute a God King's avatar.
Thank you, System, Xie Xie thought. If not for that intervention, he would have spent the rest of his life as a mindless "support" for the protagonist.
"Brother Xie Xie, what do you want to do with him?" Xiaoyan asked, poking the unconscious Wulin with her shoe.
"We can't just leave him here," Xie Xie sighed. He hoisted Tang Wulin onto his shoulder. With a flicker of spatial power, he bypassed the streets entirely.
Two seconds later, they appeared inside Wu Changkong's office.
"What is this?" Wu Changkong looked up from his desk, startled by the sudden appearance of three students.
"Teacher Wu, we found him lying on the road," Xie Xie said, dumping Wulin unceremoniously onto the sofa. "He seems to have fainted from... excitement? We thought you should have him."
Wu Changkong: "..."
Meanwhile, in a realm far beyond the stars...
Inside the Douluo God Realm Committee chamber, Tang San suddenly clutched his chest, gasping for air. His eyes widened with a mixture of agony and pure, unadulterated shock.
"My Divine Sense... it's shattered?"
He grit his teeth, his hands trembling. A strand of his soul had been permanently erased. It was impossible. Unless a God King had descended to the Douluo Continent, nothing should have been able to destroy his safeguard.
"My Wulin! What is happening down there?!" he roared, his voice shaking the pillars of the God Realm.
He felt a cold chill. There was a threat near his son—something that didn't just fight gods, but consumed them.
"Who is it..." he hissed, his eyes burning with blue fire. "Who dares to harm my son?!"
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