After forming an alliance with the Silver Dragon King and setting the grand plan to banish the Divine Realm, Lei Chen did not rush into action. He understood deeply that patience was far more important than impulse when scheming such a monumental event.
The Silver Dragon King needed time to recover some of her power, attempt to sense and guide the distant Space-Time Turbulence with spatial secret arts, and also seek an opportunity to establish contact with the Golden Dragon King sealed within the Divine Realm.
As for Lei Chen himself, he focused his attention on two places crucial to his plan: the White Tiger Dukes Residence in the Star Luo Empire, and the Clear Sky Sect in the Heaven Dou Empire.
He was like a chess player positioned high behind the scenes, quietly observing the subtle changes on the board.
Within the Clear Sky Sect, he waited for the girl burdened with karma to appear; in the White Tiger Dukes Residence, he watched over the growth of that ill-fated boy.
Under Lei Chen's continuous observation, several years passed by imperceptibly.
Until today, as his 'gaze' swept over the Clear Sky Sect, a girl of about eleven years old, delicate as carved jade, abruptly appeared within the sect. The unusual divine radiance deep within her soul revealed her origins.
At the same time, beside a simple wooden hut in the White Tiger Dukes Residence of the Star Luo Empire, a frail figure, filled with resentment and resolve, successfully broke through the bottleneck of the tenth level of spirit power.
'The time has come.' Ripples stirred within Lei Chen's consciousness.
He did not interfere with the injustices Huo Yuhao suffered in the Duke's Mansion, nor did he stop the child from secretly leaving home, filled with hatred and a sliver of hope, embarking alone on the perilous journey to the Star Dou Great Forest. He simply watched silently.
Lei Chen's 'gaze' followed Huo Yuhao, watching him enter the Star Dou Great Forest after many hardships, watching him struggle with hunger and exhaustion, until he finally had a narrow encounter with that ten-year Wind Baboon.
Relying on sheer ferocity and unrefined combat skills, the boy narrowly achieved his first life-or-death kill. At that moment, a seductive mental fluctuation echoed in Huo Yuhao's mind.
'What luck! I never thought I'd encounter a human with your mental attributes in my lifetime. It's a pity I can't shed tears, otherwise I'd be crying my eyes out...'
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, this million-year Spirit Beast, began its first conversation with Huo Yuhao.
Lei Chen's gaze observed all this calmly. He watched as the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm narrated its tragic plight with exaggerated tones, painted the grand blueprint of creating a 'god,' and step by step guided Huo Yuhao to accept its sacrifice.
'Yuhao, relax your mind. I'm about to begin! The process might hurt a bit, bear with it!' The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's voice carried determination.
Huo Yuhao closed his eyes, tense yet expectant.
Simultaneously, Lei Chen's consciousness instantly became highly focused. He knew the most critical moment had arrived!
What he needed to do, of course, was not to interrupt the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's sacrifice, but to conceal an approaching remnant soul from another world with lightning speed, before a certain Divine King in the Divine Realm could detect it.
As an unprecedented million-year Spirit Beast on the Douluo Douluo, the immense energy produced during the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's sacrifice and its unique spiritual essence would act like a lighthouse ignited in the cosmic deep sea, briefly illuminating this plane.
And in that moment of illumination, a faint yet supremely pure remnant soul from another plane would be attracted by this power, shattering the void to arrive!
In the original work, this wisp of a remnant soul—namely Electrolux—merged into Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, only to inexplicably shatter and dissipate in the end. But now, the well-prepared Lei Chen would never let this happen again!
Electrolux, this legendary powerhouse from another plane, was the Necromancer Saint God who commanded necromantic magic in his original world, just one step away from a true God Position.
Now, after his fall, only a faint yet supremely pure remnant soul remained, drifting through the endless cosmic void. This wisp carried the knowledge, experience, and a portion of the power of his lifetime—the last imprint of his existence in the world.
And Lei Chen's target at this moment was precisely this wisp of Electrolux's remnant soul, about to be attracted by the massive energy fluctuations generated during the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's sacrifice!
If there was anything at this point in time on the Douluo Douluo that the Divine King perched high in the Divine Realm, who believed he controlled everything, absolutely could not anticipate or control, then this sudden arrival of a divine-level powerhouse's remnant soul shattering through the void from another plane was definitely one of them!
In the original storyline known to Lei Chen, Tang San had almost Huo Yuhao's entire life meticulously arranged. From Tang Wutong's descent to the mortal realm, to a series of subsequent opportunities and trials, all were within Tang San's calculations.
Only Electrolux, this 'foreign object' from outside the world, was the greatest anomaly in Tang San's plan. This anomaly not only gave Huo Yuhao the possibility of independent growth but could even allow Huo Yuhao to deviate from Tang San's predetermined path.
And Tang San, this Divine King with an extremely strong desire for control, would obviously not allow anyone beyond his control to influence Huo Yuhao.
In the original work, Electrolux, initially nourished by the gold of living beings within Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, had stabilized his remnant soul and begun a slow recovery. Everything was progressing positively.
However, after Huo Yuhao merely visited the Clear Sky Sect—Tang San's most important proxy and stronghold on the Douluo Plane—Electrolux inexplicably found himself in a desperate situation where he had to burn his own divine sense to save Huo Yuhao, ultimately fading away in sorrow.
Was that really a coincidence?
Not to mention, the life-saving trump card Electrolux left for Huo Yuhao was later completely destroyed during the 'trial' orchestrated by Tang San in the Qiankun Valley of Questioning Love.
All these instances clearly demonstrated Tang San's determination to eliminate Electrolux, this 'unstable factor.'
He needed a'son-in-law' completely under his control, growing according to his script, not a 'Child of Fortune' with an independent will and unknown variables.
And what Lei Chen intended to do now was, of course, the opposite of Tang San. He would seize this once-in-a-millennium opportunity to intercept Electrolux's remnant soul the moment it crossed the planar barrier and descended upon Douluo Star, before any possible gaze Tang San might cast could detect it!
At the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's sacrifice had reached its most critical moment. Vast spiritual power and life energy transformed into an intangible pillar of light, shooting skyward, even briefly disturbing the planar barrier.
Now!
As the Lord of the Plane, Lei Chen had a thorough understanding of any subtle spatial fluctuations and energy anomalies occurring within his plane.
He'saw' that within the energy ripples caused by the sacrifice, an almost imperceptibly fine spatial crack, emitting a faint grayish glow, quietly appeared.
A wisp of a soul fluctuation, weak yet carrying an energy property utterly distinct from anything on the Douluo Plane, drifted out from the crack like a candle flickering in the wind, confusedly perceiving this unfamiliar world.
This remnant soul was too weak, so weak that had Lei Chen not been prepared and scanned with the utmost precision using his authority as Lord of the Plane, he might have overlooked it. It was like a grain of sand dropped into the ocean, almost negligible against the vast backdrop of cosmic energy.
However, Lei Chen knew that it was this very remnant soul that possessed the potential to change many things.