The Asura God had started choosing a suitable person a very long time ago.
And by "suitable," he did not simply mean someone who could inherit his god position. He wanted someone who could fill the gap he would leave behind, while also letting him gain benefits from it.
There were already very few people with the talent to inherit a God King's position.
And among them, those who also met his special conditions were even rarer.
Even after using his privileges as a God King, and even using some shameful methods, he still had to search for a very, very long time.
In the end, he finally found Tang San in a high-level world under the Divine Realm.
Tang San was the right chess piece.
After Tang San died, the Asura God guided his soul into the Douluo world. After that, he only made a few moves to guide Tang San's fate.
In the Asura God's eyes, Tang San's life from six to twelve years old was not worth much attention. That was only Tang San's time to grow and build his foundation.
Tang San's real growth would begin at twelve.
The Asura God was confident Tang San would not have any accidents during this time, nor would he die. So he did not pay attention to the Douluo world during these years. Instead, he kept watching the movements of the gods in the Divine Realm.
But now, when he felt the time was about right and sent down his divine thought to take a look, he found that reality was completely different from what he had imagined.
Where is the hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast I prepared for Tang San?
And where is Yu Xiaogang, the tool I specially arranged to deal with the Rakshasa God's successor?
He had spent great effort interfering with the timeline and fate from every angle. He had kept making moves in the dark to create this setup.
So where had all the things he arranged gone?
The Asura God reached into Tang San's memories and examined the changes that had occurred over the past few years. His entire divine being fell into a heavy silence.
Shouldn't the child of destiny in this era of the Douluo world be Qian Renxue?
Even if it wasn't Qian Renxue, it should have been a descendant of the Angel God, right?
Back then, I spent so much effort corrupting Qian Xunji. From the very start, I interfered with the fate of the child of destiny, took away part of that destiny, and moved it onto Tang San.
So why has the child of destiny changed now?
Where did this Chen Ming even come from?
How could the child of destiny of this era have switched so quietly?
The Asura God cursed in his heart and felt extremely unhappy.
But after thinking carefully, he also felt there was nothing he could do.
After all, after he had taken part of Qian Renxue's destiny and interfered with part of her fate, she had already become somewhat unqualified.
It would be normal for the Douluo world to keep choosing Qian Renxue as the child of destiny.
But choosing a new child of destiny was also normal.
Still, according to common sense, if sunk cost was considered, unless the child of destiny was truly beyond saving, the world rarely changed to a new one. It would usually try to correct the current child of destiny instead.
After all, being the child of destiny still required talent and special traits.
The world also cared about sunk cost. It might not choose to spend extra effort raising a new person.
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan?
The Asura God thought for a moment, then shook his head.
This family in the lower world was powerful, but it was not part of his plan.
Right now, the best choice was to start correcting everything and guide Tang San back into Shrek Academy, so he could gather with the failures who were meant to appear in his original fate.
Fate had main characters, and it also had side characters.
Some people with great fortune might look like main characters in the eyes of others. But in the world's plan, they were actually fixed side characters.
Before a certain point in time, everything would go smoothly for them.
But when that point arrived, they would face failure and become supporting characters and stepping stones for someone stronger.
The Asura God had specially chosen a group of people with potential, people who were originally supposed to become someone else's stepping stones.
People like them only needed a little interference, and there was a very high chance they could break past the upper limit of their original fate.
And the place where the fates of these people gathered was called Shrek.
For example, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing.
The Asura God knew very well that these two should have died in the imperial family's struggle, becoming nothing more than a symbol in history.
But they had good potential.
Their Martial Soul Fusion Skill and their identities could also help seize more of the Douluo world's destiny.
So the Asura God chose to interfere with their fate, letting the original losers replace the winners and seize more of the Douluo world's power.
There was also Xiao Wu, the hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast.
In the original path, she should have been discovered by an expert in her sixth year after entering the human world. Then she would have been hunted down and turned into a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone. Before she could even finish her revenge, she would have died completely.
But from the very beginning, the Asura God had interfered with Xiao Wu's actions and guided her to Suotuo City, bringing her to Tang San's side.
Oscar, the food-system Spirit Master, had talent, but because of Shrek's environment, he never got the best chance to grow. In the end, he died young by accident during his growth.
Ma Hongjun, whose mutated Martial Soul was never truly fixed, eventually died from the flames of lust burning through him.
Ning Rongrong, who had an extraordinary background, but never broke through her limits and finally faded into the crowd…
Even Tang San—the Tang San born and raised in the Douluo world—would have died in his original fate. He would have been caught in the aftershock of a battle and died in Tang Hao's arms before he ever had the chance to grow.
After that, Tang Hao would spend his life frustrated and bitter. He would grow old and die in a small mountain village, never daring to return to the Clear Sky Sect.
The Asura God did not need people who were already meant to win in the original timeline.
He needed people who had potential, but were meant to fail.
Those people could become his chess pieces, letting him move the world's fate with the smallest cost.
Back then, by corrupting Qian Xunji and affecting Qian Renxue's birth from the root, the Asura God had taken a portion of destiny. He had invested all of it here.
If he wanted to choose new people now, he most likely could not do it.
The Asura God did not know how much the world had changed.
But he understood one thing. If he did not interfere now, then this group of failures, whom he had painstakingly raised by stealing destiny from the child of destiny, would truly fail all over again.
In a small town outside the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan, Tang Hao, who had been wasting away for years, suddenly raised his head.
For no clear reason, an urge rose in his heart.
He wanted to sneak into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan and see how his child was doing now.
In the underground prison, Yu Xiaogang, whose eyes had long lost their light, suddenly trembled.
A strong will to live suddenly surged in his heart.
Yu Xiaogang had already accepted his fate. He had planned to wait until his child was born, then scheme against Tang Hao in exchange for a chance to survive.
But now, he suddenly changed his mind.
He felt he should not live like this.
He had to find a way to escape from the underground prison.
Ning Rongrong, who was cultivating in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, suddenly felt an itch in her heart, as if a cat was scratching at it.
The playful nature she had barely managed to suppress over the years suddenly rose again.
She suddenly felt like going outside for a while, then returning to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after she had played enough.
Inside Dugu Bo's mansion, Xiao Wu suddenly felt her heart fill with excitement.
She had already been living here lazily, eating and drinking while waiting for death. But now, a wave of ambition suddenly rose in her chest.
She felt that she should not keep rotting away in human hands, trapped in this place.
She should run out, cultivate, and wait for a chance to take revenge.
But after taking only two steps, Xiao Wu touched the collar around her neck and fell into thought.
She suddenly realized something.
Although she had no freedom here, the cultivation resources and guidance she enjoyed were the best. From time to time, she was even forced to cultivate.
It was a little restrictive, but the cultivation speed here was something the outside world could not compare with at all.
If she left this place, what if she was discovered?
And with her personality, what if she went outside, got too playful, and forgot to cultivate?
If she wanted revenge, shouldn't she stay here and let others push her to cultivate faster?
Then, after taking revenge, she could think about going out to play.
Also, if she ran away and got caught, she would probably die, right?
Xiao Wu knocked on her own head, throwing away the sudden thought in her heart.
Then she ran to the kitchen in Dugu Bo's mansion and asked for a large feast.
After eating and drinking wildly in her room, she climbed into bed and slept.
She had no intention of leaving at all.