Survival from Desperation, Part 2

But only Ye Wen knew just how much courage it had taken to take this step.

The only solution Ye Wen had thought of that night was to use himself as bait. If Tang Hao's target was Xiao Wu, then he would bring Xiao Wu along as well.

There had been far too many coincidences surrounding Tang Hao and Ah Yin back then, all of them pointing to Tang Hao coveting Ah Yin's Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

But if Tang Hao loved neither Ah Yin nor Tang San, why had he not simply hunted Ah Yin while she was pregnant?

The answer was simple. Every Soul Master who had absorbed a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring knew how dangerous the Soul Shock within it was. And Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings had not appeared for far too long; even the Clear Sky Sect had only left behind a few scattered records.

Tang Hao might appear bold and magnanimous, but in truth, he was more cowardly, timid, and afraid of death than anyone else. He had not dared to hunt Ah Yin outright, especially while she was pregnant, because he feared that her intact soul, carrying boundless resentment, would turn on him and kill him while he absorbed the Soul Ring. That was why he could only deceive Ah Yin into sacrificing herself.

When those stories and speculations were applied to Xiao Wu, everything became reasonable as well.

Father and son—one had just reached level 90, the other level 60. Both were at stages where they could receive a Sacrifice. What a clever scheme.

Although Tang San in the original story had indeed been willing to give up all of the Blue Silver Emperor's Soul Rings for Xiao Wu, looking at it from another perspective, Tang San's martial soul had not been crippled after