Tang Yuehua

Douluo Continent, Heaven Dou Empire, roughly three hundred li from Heaven Dou Imperial City.

A carriage rolled slowly through the densely wooded forest.

"Waa, waa, waa." A baby's cries caught the attention of the carriage's occupant.

"Steward Ode, stop the carriage." The soft, melodious, elegant voice made the man driving the carriage stop without thinking.

The carriage came to a steady halt by the roadside.

The curtain was drawn aside.

A woman wore a pale yellow palace gown, her light blue hair styled into an elaborate coiffure and pinned up with a jade hairpin.

Her bright eyes shimmered like autumn waters.

Her features were as exquisite as though painted.

Her skin was white as snow. Though she might have been somewhat older, she still looked like a girl of sixteen.

"Third Miss, there's a child over there." When the man driving the carriage saw its mistress step out, he immediately reported.

"Mm, I'll go take a look. Where would a child come from in this wilderness?"

The woman in the pale yellow palace gown descended from the carriage with graceful poise and slowly followed the sound of the baby's cries.

The woman looked around but found no one, so she hurried beneath a tree and picked up the baby.

Strangely, the instant the baby was held in her arms, it stopped crying and instead fell asleep against her warm embrace.

"Good thing there aren't any wild beasts nearby. Otherwise, this little fellow might have been eaten." Looking at the child wrapped tightly in swaddling clothes in her arms, the woman murmured to herself.

"Since you met me, we must be fated. From now on, you can stay with me."

Seeing the abandoned child, the woman found him adorable, and her maternal instincts immediately surged forth.

She carried the child back to the carriage.

"Steward Ode, let's go. This child was probably abandoned. I'll adopt him from now on." Looking at the sleeping little boy in her arms, the woman spoke to the driver.

"But what about the sect, Miss? What should we do? We're about to arrive at the sect, and if those old fossils refuse to let this go..."

Steward Ode stopped there and said no more.

"The sect can't control me. Besides, when have they ever cared about me? Ignore them." Inside the carriage, the woman reached out with her slender jade-like fingers and stroked the little boy's face.

"Yes, Third Miss." Steward Ode smiled faintly and shook his head. He had followed the woman in the carriage so that he could better guard and protect her. Though his cultivation was not particularly high, it was decent enough.

Yet his heart was still filled with unease.

He was a trusted confidant of the woman in the pale yellow palace gown and knew her circumstances exceptionally well.

The Clear Sky Sect, foremost among the Upper Three Sects of Douluo Continent. Its Third Miss, Tang Yuehua. She possessed only Rank Nine Soul Power and was incapable of cultivation.

Yet beauty, gentleness, kindness—all virtues seemed to have been bestowed upon this woman. Unfortunately, it was as though Heaven envied her.

Born with Rank Nine Soul Power and incapable of cultivation, yet she possessed an Innate Domain!

On Douluo Continent, Domains were precious things. Unlike soul skills, they could not be obtained simply by hunting soul beasts.

Someone like Tang Yuehua, born with Rank Nine Soul Power and an innate Domain, seemed never to have appeared on Douluo Continent before.

Yet through her own abilities, she had forcibly established a Moonlight Pavilion within Heaven Dou Imperial City, earning the admiration of Heaven Dou Empire's nobles!

Haotian Douluo Tang Chen had once been known as Land Invincible.

His glory had been boundless, and he had been the object of countless people's envy.

But this return to the sect was different. It was because the current Clear Sky Sect Master had fallen ill.

The reason he had fallen ill was laughable—his own son had angered him into it.

The carriage slowly made its way toward the Clear Sky Sect.

A towering mountain stood ahead, wreathed in clouds and mist.

But when the carriage reached the sect entrance, it was stopped by disciples guarding the mountain gate.

Steward Ode took out a token and showed it to the Clear Sky Sect's Outer Sect Disciples.

"So it's Third Miss returning. Please come in, please come in."

The disciples guarding the mountain gate were polite on the surface, but their eyes were full of mockery.

"Isn't she just a Rank Nine waste? If she weren't somewhat pretty and the elders didn't want to use her for a marriage alliance, she would have been thrown out of the Clear Sky Sect long ago."

As the carriage entered the sect, Steward Ode heard the Clear Sky Sect's Outer Sect Disciples discussing his mistress like this, and anger immediately rose within him.

"Steward Ode, there is no need for this. I really am just a waste. They aren't entirely wrong." The woman inside the carriage spoke calmly as she held the sleeping little boy. Yet there was also a faint sadness in her heart. How could she not wish to possess great strength herself?

At the same time, she released her unique Domain, soothing the anger in Steward Ode's heart.

The current Clear Sky Sect could be described as exceptionally powerful.

There were already two Titled Douluo within the sect: Tang Zhen, the father of Tang Hao and Tang Xiao, as well as Tang Xiao himself. There were also more than ten Soul Douluo.

Yet beneath the sect's calm exterior lurked a grave hidden danger: Tang Hao, still a Soul Douluo, was not currently within the sect.

Holding the little boy in her arms, Tang Yuehua quickly stepped down from the carriage.

Steward Ode was not a member of the Clear Sky Sect. Tang Yuehua had once saved his life, so he had no right to enter the Clear Sky Sect's inner sect, much less its main hall.

Tang Yuehua soon met her father.

But at that moment, everyone stared blankly at the child in Tang Yuehua's arms, finding it unbelievable.

Several elders were so angry that they trembled.

The Clear Sky Sect's Seventh Elder slammed his hand on the table.

"Tang Yuehua, where did that little bastard come from?"

"My son. What about it? What's it to you?" Tang Yuehua snapped back without the slightest courtesy.

At the same time, her slender jade-like finger carefully poked the little boy's smooth, rosy, chubby cheek.

"Little cutie." Tang Yuehua felt as though the sleeping little fellow in her arms was melting her heart.

"Bastard! Don't you know you're supposed to enter a marriage alliance with the Star Luo Empire?" The Seventh Elder's anger instantly flared.

Tang Yuehua no longer paid him any attention. She simply played with the little boy in her arms, feeling that nothing else mattered.

Everyone else knew that the child Tang Yuehua held could not possibly be her son. Tang Yuehua had returned to the sect only two months ago.

There had been no sign of pregnancy at all, so how could she possibly have a son? Therefore, he certainly could not be her child.

Only the Seventh Elder was too slow-witted to realize it.

"Yue Hua, what exactly is going on?" Tang Xiao did not want to make things difficult for his Younger Sister. After all, they were related by blood.

"Big Brother, I found him on my way back to the sect. I've already decided to adopt him." Tang Yuehua raised her head to glance at Tang Xiao, then lowered it again and continued looking at the little boy in her arms.

"You... sigh..." Hearing Tang Yuehua say this, Tang Xiao did not know what else to say.

He knew Tang Yuehua's personality well. Once she set her mind on something, no one could pull her back.

"Tang Yuehua, you wretched woman! Don't you know you're supposed to enter a marriage alliance with the Star Luo Empire?" The Seventh Elder was so furious that smoke nearly poured from all seven orifices.

Tang Yuehua's beauty was considered peerless in both the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire. Her refined and sensible demeanor, along with her dignified and elegant looks, made countless young nobles flock to her.

Yet no one dared to make a move against her.

"A marriage alliance? Why should there be one? The mighty Clear Sky Sect, the number one sect under Heaven, actually needs to rely on a mere woman like me. Don't you find that shameful?"

Tang Yuehua was furious.

Those in the Meeting Room were all individuals with exceptionally high cultivation.

Upon hearing Tang Yuehua's words, every one of them, including Tang Xiao, was angered beyond measure.

But aside from the slow-witted Seventh Elder, everyone else calmed down and carefully considered what Tang Yuehua had said.

"Although you make sense, Yue Hua, you still must enter the marriage alliance. For the sake of the sect's strength, joining forces with the Star Luo Empire to oppose Spirit Hall will give us better odds, won't it?"

The one who spoke was a broad, muscular middle-aged man, likely in his fifties. He was the Clear Sky Sect's Second Elder.

"Second Elder, do you think the Star Luo Empire will agree to a marriage alliance with me if I bring a child along?" Tang Yuehua did not even glance at the Clear Sky Sect's Second Elder as she spoke calmly.

"That's a small matter. Just leave him in the Clear Sky Sect to be raised. He's only a child and won't eat much anyway." The Second Elder meant that the child in Tang Yuehua's arms should be left in the Clear Sky Sect to fend for himself.

But from the moment Tang Yuehua had found this child, she had decided that she would keep him by her side and take good care of him.

"Impossible. Unless I die, I will never abandon this little fellow." Tang Yuehua's loveliness, beauty, and kindness were beyond question. Otherwise, she would not have become one of Douluo Continent's goddesses.

Suddenly,

A pressure that Tang Yuehua could not withstand instantly descended upon her.

Pfft! A mouthful of blood sprayed from Tang Yuehua's lips.

This was the pressure a high-level Soul Master exerted upon a low-level Soul Master.

Tang Yuehua had only Rank Nine Soul Power and did not even possess a soul ring. How could she possibly endure such immense pressure?

"Seventh, stop!" Tang Xiao immediately shouted to stop him.

The Seventh Elder's original intention had been to release Soul Pressure against both Tang Yuehua and the child in her arms.

Yet the child in Tang Yuehua's arms was completely unharmed, while Tang Yuehua herself had been injured.

At that moment, the little boy in Tang Yuehua's arms opened his eyes.

His bright eyes looked at the woman holding him, and he sank into thought.

Did I fucking transmigrate? System, system, system? Cheat? Old grandpa? Somebody save me! The little boy in her arms was extremely anxious. These fucking bastards were actually bullying a weak woman.

They were simply inhuman.

At that moment, the Seventh Elder had no choice but to stop in the face of Tang Xiao's stern rebuke.

The others all looked in astonishment at the child in Tang Yuehua's arms. He was completely unharmed.

Tang Yuehua looked at the little fellow in her arms as he opened his eyes, his large adorable eyes gazing at her in confusion.

At that moment, there was only one thought in Tang Yuehua's heart: From now on, I'll protect you!

"Why would you attack a child? He's still a baby!" Tang Yuehua felt terrible beneath the anger and helplessness in her heart.

She wanted to protect the little fellow in her arms, but she was powerless to do so.

"It is all for the sect. Yue Hua, please forgive him. Seventh was only impulsive for a moment." The others casually echoed the sentiment.

Even Tang Xiao felt that the child should be dealt with.

"The sect, the sect—everything is for the sect. You make it sound so noble. Hahahaha! This is the Clear Sky Sect, the illustrious number one sect under Heaven? You would actually use such despicable means against a child." Blood still stained the corner of Tang Yuehua's lips.

At that moment, she had already thought it through. At worst, she would die. She might not be able to protect the little boy in her arms, but if he died, she would not go on living either.

She laughed wildly.

Tang Yuehua slowly rose from her chair.

"The Battle Soul Hammer stands supreme, the Clear Sky Sect towers high? Today, I, Tang Yuehua, withdraw from the Clear Sky Sect."

"This is the Gold Soul Coin card containing everything I have earned over the years—five million in total. It is enough to cover the Clear Sky Sect's expenses for several years. And this is the sect token."

As Tang Yuehua spoke, she took out a red Gold Soul Coin storage card and a black iron token, then tossed them onto the table.

She turned and walked out of the Meeting Room.

The Meeting Room was deathly silent. The elders and Tang Xiao all stared incredulously at the token Tang Yuehua had produced.

"She... she... How dare she? How dare she?" The Seventh Elder, Tang Lieyang, was beside himself with rage, trembling all over.

Everyone in the Clear Sky Sect's Meeting Room knew that Tang Yuehua had a fierce temperament.

Though she appeared gentle and virtuous on the surface, once Tang Yuehua made up her mind, no one could stop her.

"Sigh, forget it." Tang Xiao let out a sigh.

"Forget it? Bullshit! If I can't deal with Tang Yuehua, can't I still kill that little bastard?" Tang Lieyang felt that his dignity as a Soul Douluo had been challenged.

As the Clear Sky Sect's Seventh Elder, his dignity was not something a Soul Scholar born incapable of cultivation could provoke.