To My Silly Son!

After hearing Yu Bai's words, Dugu Bo was stunned for a moment, then laughed and scolded good-naturedly, "Who would've thought that all of this was part of your scheme, brat? Looks like I should call you Little Fox from now on! You're truly too cunning! Hahaha..."

His ensuing laughter clearly showed Dugu Bo's approval of Yu Bai's assessment of him, and he was quite pleased with himself as well!

After rolling his eyes at the laughing Dugu Bo, Yu Bai lay listlessly across the table inside the carriage.

Yet the moment he lowered his head, a flicker of azure flame flashed through Yu Bai's eyes and vanished!

The carriage soon arrived at Yu Bai's front gate.

Yu Bai and Little Fatty got out of the carriage one after the other, then each headed toward their own homes, intending to invite their parents to relocate with them to Sunset Forest. They would cultivate and live there for a while, then move out again once the fuss died down—or once everyone across Douluo Continent had shifted their attention to the next, or even the one after that, Exposer.

As for Dugu Bo, he rather proudly chose to remain in the carriage without coming out!

Yu Bai did not mind much. After all, Old Poison was a Titled Douluo. Other than those he acknowledged, people were always the ones who came to pay a visit to Poison Douluo. When had Poison Douluo ever gone to visit others, especially people weaker than him?!

Taking two steps at a time, Yu Bai quickly reached the gate and pushed it open!

"Old man, Mom, get out here! I need to talk to you!"

As he shouted, Yu Bai headed toward the inner courtyard!

"Tap, tap, tap..."

Several dozen seconds passed. Aside from Yu Bai's footsteps, not another sound came from the entire courtyard!

It was terrifyingly quiet!

As though he had realized something, Yu Bai's face suddenly turned pale. His steps toward the inner courtyard immediately turned into a sprint, and he kept muttering, "It's fine! It has to be fine!"

"With that old man's utterly sneaky personality, he wouldn't let anyone catch him, much less let anyone catch Mom!"

"Those two old geezers must be secretly making me a little brother or sister. Yeah, that has to be it!"

"..."

Though he said those words aloud, Yu Bai's heart began pounding violently. Bloodshot veins faintly surfaced in his pupils, brimming with dense killing intent and death!

In only a few breaths, Yu Bai had already rushed into the main hall of the inner courtyard!

He gave the hall a quick glance and found that nearly everything looked exactly the same as when he had left yesterday. Even the wooden chair with a broken leg still lay where he had sat yesterday!

At that sight, the unease in Yu Bai's heart grew even fiercer!

With Luo Ling's obsessive love for cleanliness and order, she always carefully put everything away after every meal, whether at noon or in the evening. Never had she left the tables, chairs, bowls, and chopsticks from yesterday's meal scattered about like this!

At that instant, Yu Bai clenched his fists and ground his teeth. At some point, an azure fire lotus had appeared in his pupils, gradually transforming into other shapes and colors—

A curtain like the deep sea; a fire python the color of red earth; a snow lotus like a snowy mountain; a starry sky like the boundless universe...

At the same time, the power within Yu Bai's eyes grew increasingly terrifying. If even a trace of its aura leaked out, it might instantly reduce everything around him to nothingness!

However, just as Yu Bai clung to his last sliver of hope and prepared to head toward Yu Fan and Luo Ling's room behind the hall, his gaze casually swept over the chair where Yu Fan had sat last night. An envelope lay quietly atop it.

Yu Bai's eyes lit up at once, and the flames in his pupils immediately dissipated.

He hurried to the chair, snatched up the envelope, tore it open, and began reading at once.

"To my foolish son, Brat, your old man guesses that your nose is red right now and your eyes are full of tears. Your old man was right, wasn't he?

How embarrassing! Absolutely embarrassing! The reincarnation of the Flame Emperor? This is it? This?!"

Yu Bai froze when he read this, and the weight in his heart finally lifted.

From the look of it, the old man and the others had not been captured. Otherwise, he would not have mocked Yu Bai in the letter!

But immediately afterward, embarrassment turned into fury, and Yu Bai viciously thought, "Old man, you should be thankful we're in the world of Douluo Continent right now. If this were my previous life, just wait until you got old and landed in the hospital—I'd pull your oxygen tube right out!"

As he thought this, Yu Bai rubbed his eyes. Once he had returned to normal, he continued reading the letter.

"Also, solve the trouble you caused yourself. And stop trying to run from the romantic debts you incurred in your past life. You're a grown man now. It's time to take responsibility for your actions!

"Oh, and remember to keep looking after Shi Zheng. Don't let anyone bully that kid!

"As for your mother and me, along with Uncle Shi and Aunt Xie, the four of us are already traveling around. You don't need to worry about our safety! With a lineup of one Soul Saint and three Soul Emperors, we're not people just any stray cat or dog can provoke!

"On top of that, we tried cultivating with the cultivation technique you gave us, and the results were pretty good. We estimate that in five years, your old man, your mother, and the others will all become Titled Douluo. We'll come back then!

"Don't worry about us! Go out and make your mark on the Douluo Continent that belongs to your generation!

"Oh, and I left you a Storage Soul Tool in your room. I put some Gold Soul Coins and daily necessities inside. Remember to go get it!

"From your old man!"

After reading the entire letter, Yu Bai put it away with a laugh of mixed amusement and exasperation, finally completely relieved!

"What a pair of irresponsible parents!"

Just as Yu Bai cursed inwardly, he saw Little Fatty rushing over from the corridor on the other side, panting heavily and holding a sheet of letter paper in his hand as well!

Seeing Little Fatty come specifically through the small door connecting the backyards of the two houses, and noticing the letter in his hand, Yu Bai guessed that Uncle Shi and Aunt Jie next door had indeed slipped away too!

After the two met up and talked for a while, they finally confirmed that their dads and moms had really abandoned them in this perilous situation and run off together on a trip!

Yu Bai and Little Fatty stared at each other, both utterly speechless!

"Oh, right!" Little Fatty suddenly seemed to remember something. Reaching beneath his collar, he tugged out a small chain made of some unknown material.

"Little Bai, before my old man and the others left, they gave me a Storage Soul Tool. It's this necklace."

"I checked it just now—there are ten thousand Gold Soul Coins inside! Fatty had never seen so many Gold Soul Coins at once in his entire life!"

"What about you? With how much Aunt Ling dotes on you, you should have quite a lot too, right? If so, maybe we really can build an actual sect!"