Ah Yin's Soul Accepts a Master, an Accident During the Fusion of a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone
"Ah Yin?!"
"Ah Yin! Is it really you, Ah Yin?!"
Tang Hao's aged face was flushed with excitement, and his eyes brimmed with tears.
Lying on the ground, he tried to get up and go to Ah Yin, but with only one arm and one leg, he struggled several times without managing to stand.
He looked utterly wretched.
But Lin Yan felt no pity for him, and even Ah Yin, facing him, showed no softening of her heart. She continued to demand in a loud voice:
"Tang Hao, you beast!"
"I trusted you so much back then and revealed my identity to you, only for you to set a trap and trick me into sacrificing myself to give you a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring?"
"How could you do that to me? Are you even human?"
"Even as I died, all I could think about was how to help you escape, and now you're telling me you planned the whole thing?"
"Do you know I'm the emperor of the Blue Silver Grass Clan? Now that I'm dead, what will happen to my people?"
Ah Yin's voice was full of despair and sorrow. She looked utterly heartbroken after having been deceived.
But Lin Yan noticed that the woman had actually mentioned the Blue Silver Grass Soul Beasts far away in the Blue Silver Forest.
It seemed she had also come to understand a great deal over the past six years and had not devoted all her thoughts to Tang Hao.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"
"I'm a beast. Ah Yin, I know I was wrong. I regretted it from the moment you sacrificed yourself..."
"Please give me another chance. I really do know I was wrong."
"I'd rather give up this Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, as long as you can forgive me."
Ah Yin gave a self-mocking laugh.
"Heh heh~"
"You've already got the Soul Ring and Soul Bone. What good is saying all this now?"
"I can only blame myself for being so naive back then, believing all those sweet nothings of yours!"
"No! That's not how it was..."
The two went back and forth in the empty cave, one explaining, the other mocking.
Their bickering irritated Lin Yan, who was watching from the sidelines.
"Shut up!"
"Both of you, shut your mouths!"
He had come for the Soul Bone today, not to watch gossip unfold.
The Limit Douluo Experience Card lasted only twenty-four hours. Lin Yan had no time to sort out the two of them' grievances here.
He slashed out with the Thunderclap Sword. Arcs of lightning, shrieking like a thousand birds, tore Tang Hao's body to pieces.
Tang Hao did not even have time to resist. As a level 79 Soul Saint, he was more fragile than paper before the level 99 Lin Yan.
In the blink of an eye, the renowned youngest Titled Douluo on the continent, the son of the previous Clear Sky Sect master, was reduced to a pile of ash.
The other four Soul Bones he had carried gave off a faint glow among the blackened remains, becoming the only light in the cave.
Tang Hao was dead!
Finally...
Silence returned to the cave. Lin Yan dug at his ears and let out a stale breath.
"You!"
"What exactly is going on with you now? Why can you still speak?"
Lin Yan looked at Ah Yin, his eyes still brimming with killing intent.
But Ah Yin seemed to have become indifferent to life and death. Calmly, though forlornly, she explained:
"This is my innate skill as the Blue Silver Emperor: Wildfire cannot burn it all away; the spring breeze brings it back to life!"
"Although I lost my hundred thousand years of cultivation, my Soul Ring, and my Soul Bone after sacrificing myself, my soul was preserved intact, and my true body was reborn as a grass seed."
"In short, I now have the cultivation of a Ten-Year Soul Beast, but the soul power of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast."
Ah Yin knew how to read the situation. She did not put on an air of defiance and say, "You might as well kill me."
In a few concise sentences, she explained her current situation clearly.
Lin Yan was silent for a while as he sorted out his thoughts. At last, he cast a cold glance at Ah Yin and said:
"I'll give you two choices!"
"First: acknowledge me as your master. If I find a way to resurrect you in the future, I can bring you back to life."
"Second: be eaten by the Soul Beast I keep, and have it all end once and for all."
"I'll give you time to think, but don't waste words. Tang Hao has already irritated me enough!"
Lin Yan's thinking was this:
In any case, Ah Yin's true body was of no use to him now. If the woman knew what was good for her, he could give her a chance to live.
After all, she had lived in the Star Dou Great Forest for tens of thousands of years, and her knowledge of all kinds of Soul Beasts was comparable to an encyclopedia.
If he kept her by his side, he could use her as a storehouse of knowledge in the future.
Wasn't that far better than the books in Spirit Hall's collection, or "Yu Xiaogang's invincible theories"?
Of course, if the woman did not know what was good for her and was determined to die, he would show her no mercy.
As it happened, he now kept a Soul Beast, so he could simply leave her to the Sky-Hunting Eagle as nourishment for its bloodline evolution.
The cave fell silent.
Ah Yin thought for a long time, seemingly weighing the advantages and disadvantages, and also seemingly trying to judge Lin Yan's character.
Finally...
After about two or three minutes, a trace of resolve flashed through Ah Yin's eyes, and she said without hesitation:
"I am willing to acknowledge you as my master."
"Ah Yin greets Master~"
With that, the illusory figure of Ah Yin's soul knelt before Lin Yan and bowed respectfully.
Seeing this, Lin Yan nodded in satisfaction.
"All right!"
"Remember your place. You're no longer the Blue Silver Emperor who once stood high above everyone else. Understand?"
"Ah Yin understands."
Ah Yin looked exceptionally obedient, her eyes lowered meekly. She had already adapted to her new position without any training.
The furrow between Lin Yan's brows, drawn tight by the earlier noise, eased somewhat.
"Very good. You're a smart woman."
With that, he walked up to Ah Yin's true body and wrapped his hand around the grass stem, intending to pull it out by the roots. But before doing so, Lin Yan asked:
"Is it all right if I take you out like this?"
"Yes, Master. You just need to transplant me back into the soil afterward."
A short while later...
Using the flight speed of a Limit Douluo, Lin Yan soon found a cave with no signs of life in the surrounding area.
"While the various boosts from the Limit Douluo Experience Card are still active, I'll fuse with the Soul Bone first."
Inside the cave, Lin Yan opened the heavy lead box containing the Soul Bone. A surge of concentrated life energy immediately poured out, filling the entire cave with specks of blue-gold light.
The extraordinary sight made it seem as though he were standing in a galaxy.
"The Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone—this concentrated life energy truly lives up to its reputation!"
Joy and excitement flashed in Lin Yan's eyes. Without hesitating any longer, he immediately pressed the Soul Bone against his right leg.
With the Limit Douluo Experience Card, he was not at all worried about an accident occurring during the fusion.
However... just as he relaxed and prepared to undergo his transformation,
a coquettish female voice suddenly rang out from nowhere within his mind.
"Hee hee~"
"What an interesting little fellow you are~"
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