A Father's Love from Tang Hao

[Option one: Return the 'Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone' to Tang San.]

[Option two: Return the 'Hundred-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone' to Tang San.]

[Option three: Return the failed absorption of the 'Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone' to Tang San.]

As Su Mu looked over the options, his eyes lit up.

He had thought the system would at least leave Tang San a few scraps.

A single-digit-year Soul Bone to console him.

As it turned out, it really had left him a few scraps.

"Option three."

[Host's selection successful. The failed absorption of the 'Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone' has been returned to Tang San.]

Hearing the system's response,

Su Mu concealed himself and raced toward Nuoding City.

What Su Mu didn't notice was that,

In the dense forest in the distance, Gu Yuena's figure flashed past and vanished.

In the cave,

Tang San, his heart brimming with excitement,

Placed his mother's Soul Bone against his right leg.

That familiar, abundant life force

Spread throughout his body.

After entering Tang San's body, the power was exceptionally gentle.

It began to merge with his body.

Tang Hao looked at his son, whose body was giving off a faint blue light,

And at the Blue Silver Grass glowing blue not far away.

A hundred emotions welled up in his heart.

As the light around Tang San grew ever brighter,

Tang Hao knew the fusion was about to succeed.

Tang San felt the same, his heart overflowing with joy.

Just then, the blue light around Tang San rapidly receded.

The powerful life force in his body was also vanishing rapidly.

Sensing the change within his body,

Tang San was horrified.

What's going on?

Didn't I absorb it successfully?

Why can I feel the Soul Bone's power draining away?

The sensation reminded Tang San of when he had taken the Sea God's Nine Trials,

And his Soul Bone had evolved.

This is—!

Tang San's eyes flew open in shock.

The Soul Bone that had been on his right leg

Had lost its former color and vitality.

Tang Hao noticed the anomaly as well.

Before father and son's eyes,

The blue slowly faded from the 'Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone' on Tang San's right leg.

It gradually turned a withered yellow.

At last, the 'Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone', now a withered yellow, cracked inch by inch.

Like dried grass,

It crumbled to the ground.

The Blue Silver Grass not far away seemed to have been affected by something as well.

Its once-upright leaves began to droop.

"No~"

Seeing this, Tang Hao let out an anguished roar.

"Xiao San! What on earth did you do?!"

Tang Hao glared viciously at Tang San.

Tang San wore a vacant expression.

How could this happen?

The last time I absorbed it, everything went smoothly.

How could the absorption fail this time?

The Soul Bone is gone. With only her original body and Soul Ring, can I still resurrect Mother?

Why?

"Father, Mother's Soul Bone is gone."

While Tang San was still in a daze,

He suddenly felt as though his head had struck something.

His entire body flew backward.

He only stopped after crashing into the rock wall.

Coming to his senses, Tang San gritted his teeth against the pain

And looked at Tang Hao.

"Father, why did you hit me?"

"Why?"

"You still have the nerve to ask why?!"

"That was your mother's Soul Bone, and you actually failed to absorb it!"

Tang Hao glared at Tang San, his eyes wide with fury, and roared.

"Father, it was an accident."

Tang San forced himself to hold his body up and explained.

"An accident?"

"You useless piece of trash! I never should have let you cultivate."

As he spoke, Tang Hao walked over to Tang San

And kicked him.

"You useless piece of trash."

"You even managed to fail at absorbing a Soul Bone."

"How did Ah Yin ever give birth to a useless good-for-nothing like you?"

"You unfilial son."

"Father, I was wrong."

"Father, stop hitting me."

"Father, there's still a chance to save Mother."

When Tang San woke again,

Tang Hao was nowhere to be seen in the cave.

Enduring the pain in his body, which felt ready to fall apart, Tang San looked around.

Where the Blue Silver Emperor had been planted,

Only a small hole in the earth remained.

Tang San kept shifting his body, slowly crawling toward the mouth of the cave.

After crawling out,

Tang San lay on the ground, gazing at the sky full of stars, feeling utterly aggrieved.

He always felt as though an invisible hand loomed over him.

"No~~"

"Why~ why~"

As Tang San roared, a mark on his forehead glowed blue.

After returning to Nuoding City,

Su Mu headed straight for Spirit Hall.

Only after seeing Golden Crocodile Douluo did Su Mu breathe a sigh of relief.

"What's wrong, brat?"

"Looking at you, anyone would think you stole someone's wife."

Golden Crocodile Douluo teased the panting Su Mu.

Hearing Golden Crocodile Douluo's words,

Su Mu glanced at his master of convenience. He was in a good mood, so he didn't argue.

He really had stolen someone's wife.

But Su Mu didn't know how to tell the old fellow.

If he wanted to absorb this Soul Bone,

He certainly couldn't keep it from Golden Crocodile Douluo.

After all, the presence a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone gave off—

As soon as he took it out of the system space,

Golden Crocodile Douluo would know immediately.

"Brat, did you really steal someone's wife?"

"That won't do. You're still too young."

Seeing Su Mu like this, Golden Crocodile Douluo grew curious.

Su Mu hadn't even bickered with him, so he simply continued.

"You shameless old man."

"Who'd be like you?"

"Don't think I don't know how often you visit places like that."

"Every time you come back, there's a strange smell on you."

Su Mu grumbled as he looked at Golden Crocodile Douluo.

After thinking for a moment, Su Mu spoke again. "Master, can you seal this place off?"

Hearing Su Mu's words,

Golden Crocodile Douluo's expression grew serious.

This was the first time Su Mu had ever asked him to do this.

After some thought, Golden Crocodile Douluo raised a hand and waved it.

A Soul Power barrier sealed the two of them off.

"Whatever it is, tell me."

After doing all this, Golden Crocodile Douluo spoke.

Su Mu took a deep breath.

From the system space, he took out the 'Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone', which had reached two hundred thousand years after being strengthened.

Su Mu had given this careful thought.

This Soul Bone was different. It contained a powerful life force.

If his master of convenience really took a fancy to it,

He would give it to him and take him away while he was at it.

After Golden Crocodile Douluo absorbed this Soul Bone, with the life force it contained,

He might be able to make an attempt at level 99.

But in that case, the old fellow wouldn't get a share of the Immortal Herbs later.

If he didn't want it,

There was all the more reason to take him away.

Once they obtained Immortal Herbs, perhaps they could improve the quality of his Martial Soul.

Perhaps he could obtain the inheritance of a godhood.

That would count as repayment for how sincerely he had treated Su Mu.

The instant the twenty-year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone appeared,

Golden Crocodile Douluo's pupils instantly contracted.

He hurriedly released his Soul Rings.

Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red.

As the nine Soul Rings appeared, Golden Crocodile Douluo set up a new Soul Power barrier.

The previous Soul Power barrier couldn't conceal this power.

In the brief interval while Golden Crocodile Douluo was setting up the new Soul Power barrier,

The Blue Silver Grass outside Spirit Hall in Nuoding City seemed as though time had sped up around it.

It grew several times larger before the naked eye.