Junior Vala Looks for His Mother

"First Soul Skill: Blue Silver Entanglement!"

The God Tree in Tang Feng's hand showed no change, and neither did the Blue Silver Grass around him.

Clearly, Tang Feng's First Soul Skill differed from that of the traditional Blue Silver Grass control-type school.

"As long as it isn't Mother's Entanglement."

Smack!

Tang Feng clapped his hands together. His Martial Soul, the God Tree, merged into his body, and his First Soul Ring lit up.

"First Soul Skill: Sage Mode!"

Tang Feng's eyes changed from black to a brilliant gold, and black, striped eye markings formed at their corners.

He gathered his strength and punched!

Thud!

Tang Feng slammed his fist with all his might into a tree trunk more than ten meters tall. With a crack, the trunk broke, while his fist was injured and began to bleed.

Watching the wound on his fist heal at a speed visible to the naked eye, Tang Feng gained a clear understanding of his current state.

Apart from Soul Power, his spiritual power, Taijutsu, Wood Release... all his physical attributes had increased by roughly onefold. His physical recovery had increased even more, by at least threefold.

"And this is only a Hundred-Year Soul Ring, yet it gave me a Soul Skill that only a thousand-year or even Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring could possess."

"It's seriously overpowered!"

Tang Feng could hardly imagine how broken it would be once his First Soul Ring reached ten thousand years, or even a hundred thousand years.

If he wanted stats, it had stats. If he wanted mechanics, it still had stats.

It just consumed Soul Power a little too quickly.

In only a few moments, Tang Feng had used up roughly twenty percent of his Soul Power.

Tang Feng exited Sage Mode, climbed to the treetops, and took the map out of his Storage Soul Guidance Ring. After roughly checking his bearings, he continued into the distance along his original route.

Blessed by dogshit luck, he had completed the first task of this trip. Next was finding Ah Yin and the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone she had left behind.

Mountain ranges stretched on and on, their peaks towering into the clouds and their cliffs almost vertical.

"This should be the right place this time, shouldn't it?"

Tang Feng looked up at the seemingly endless mountains, anticipation in his heart.

This was the Swordbreak Mountain Range, at the easternmost edge of the Heaven Dou Empire.

Over the past six months, Tang Feng had encountered many mountains with geological formations similar to the one before him.

But each time, he had failed to find terrain resembling the description in the original work, with a valley, a pool, and a waterfall all in one place.

Of course, it was also possible that Tang Feng had not ventured deep enough. After all, merely approaching some places sent a chill through him; great horrors lay within.

He did not dare go any closer.

"This is the last trip. If I can't find it, I'll look again later."

Tang Feng's strength was limited for now. With Soul Power below rank twenty, there were too many places he dared not enter.

Besides, judging by the time, Tang San's first school year was almost over.

By then, Tang Hao would also leave Tang San to go out and do some things unknown to others.

If Tang Hao happened to be standing guard there when Tang Feng found Ah Yin, wouldn't he be done for?

Time was short and the task was pressing. Tang Feng concentrated Soul Power in the soles of his feet and began to climb.

He climbed from nearly noon until nightfall, but had made it less than halfway up.

The air around him was cold and damp. As fierce winds swept past, Tang Feng felt as though someone were pricking him with needles.

"I can't go on. I can't."

"I need to stop and rest. The weather at night is torture."

He pressed his palm against the smooth cliff face and sent out Soul Power. A wooden platform one meter wide and one and a half meters long grew out of the rock.

Lying on the platform, Tang Feng sent Soul Power surging through his hands again. The wooden platform beneath him grew upward, forming a horizontal half-cylinder that completely enclosed him, leaving only a tiny gap for air to circulate.

That way, he would not suffocate.

The next day, just as a streak of pale white appeared on the horizon, the wooden half-cylinder on the cliff opened on its own.

Tang Feng stretched, took food and drinking water from his Storage Soul Guidance Ring, and had a quick meal. Standing on the platform, he took his first piss of the day, then continued climbing.

The sun sank in the west. After another full day, Tang Feng finally reached the top of the cliff.

Looking into the distance, he saw an endless expanse of forested mountains, peaks, and valleys, serene and profound.

Somewhere in the unseen, Tang Feng felt as though something ahead was calling to him, drawing him onward.

"Mom?" The word slipped out of Tang Feng's mouth.

Tang Feng quickly covered his mouth. Oh no, his identity as junior Vala had been exposed!

Traveling at night was unsafe, but the mountaintop was too cold at night. Before the sun had fully set, Tang Feng hurried down the mountain.

Night fell once more. Curled up in his little wooden nest, Tang Feng closed his eyes and waited for dawn.

"Huff~"

"Huff~"

In the valley, Tang Feng panted heavily as he looked at the sparkling pool before him and the waterfall plunging straight down three thousand feet. He smiled.

He laughed until tears streamed down his face, until he doubled over.

"Hahahahahahaha~"

Hard work had not failed the determined!

Wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes, he reached out with his senses. His bloodline connection to the Blue Silver Emperor allowed Tang Feng to sense Ah Yin's location.

"She's right behind the waterfall in front of me."

Having confirmed that he had found the right place, Tang Feng began working out how to enter the stone chamber behind the waterfall.

He went to the side of the waterfall. There was a gap wide enough for one person between its base and the cliff, but that did not mean he could pass through it.

Tang Feng fetched a wooden stick and poked it into the gap. The immense difference in air pressure instantly tore it from his hand and swept it into the waterfall, where it vanished.

He reached out and felt the cliff beside the waterfall. After being scoured by the water day after day, it had become exceptionally smooth. An ordinary Soul Master would probably have trouble climbing it without some means, but for Tang Feng, having feet was enough.

Even so, to be safe, Tang Feng chose to use Wood Release to make a small wooden stake every meter he climbed, giving himself places to rest his feet.

By nearly noon, Tang Feng had created a row of wooden stakes on the cliff beside the waterfall, stretching from the bottom to a height of over two hundred meters.

On the cliff beside the waterfall, a quarter of the way down from the top, Tang Feng stopped, holding on to the wooden steps.

"If I split the waterfall here, I should be able to see the stone chamber."

Tang Feng's Soul Ring lit up, and he entered Sage Mode.

He pressed both hands against the cliff. Behind the waterfall, two wooden planks fifty centimeters thick and fifteen meters wide grew out of the rock, forming an inverted V.

The inverted V-shaped planks extended ten centimeters outward before stopping.

Tang Feng did not have enough Soul Power left to create a V-shaped diversion board capable of splitting the waterfall in one go.

Another day passed...

"Split—open!!!"

Beside the waterfall, Tang Feng, in Sage Mode, continuously sent Soul Power into the cliff before him. The V-shaped diversion board behind the waterfall kept growing, pushing against the water blocking it.

Puff!

After he had used up more than half his Soul Power, the V-shaped diversion board finally broke through the waterfall, splitting the vertically cascading water down the middle into two separate falls.

"Run!"

On the left side, Tang Feng quickly climbed upward, dodging the diverted water.

Once the two waterfalls had settled into steady streams, Tang Feng climbed back down the cliff.

Looking at the exposed cliff face between the two waterfalls, Tang Feng eagerly crossed the pool. With Soul Power concentrated in the soles of his feet, he reached the section of cliff where the stone chamber was hidden.

"Where is it?"

"Found it!"

After some feeling around, the rock under Tang Feng's palm sank into the wall with a click. Just like that, a pitch-black cave appeared before him.

Perhaps because of their bloodline connection, Tang Feng's brain seemed to short-circuit at that moment. All he wanted was to rush into the cave and embrace the Blue Silver Emperor on that little mound of earth.