Using You as a Talisman Is Perfectly Reasonable, Right?

Ning Rongrong ran back to her room in tears, cheeks puffed up in anger.

Back home, as long as she shed a couple of tears, what could she not get done?

Why had it stopped working now?

Jiang Yunzhou was helpless too.

He was about to do something bad. Was stealing someone else's things anything to be proud of?

That sort of business was hardly suitable for two "pure" young ladies. What if he led them astray?

"Zhu Zhuqing, keep an eye on Rongrong. Don't let her make trouble."

"Don't worry, Teacher. I will." Zhu Zhuqing sighed softly and nodded.

After giving his instructions, Jiang Yunzhou flashed away from the academy like a gust of wind.

He hurried along, asking for directions as he traveled.

With his speed, he reached the legendary Holy Soul Village in just one day.

He took a stroll around the village and saw Village Chief Old Jack, the man who had personally sent a God King off to school.

Still, this place seemed pretty ordinary.

"This is supposed to be a place with great feng shui? A God King came from here? Doesn't look like much..."

Muttering to himself, he quickly found the blacksmith shop in the village.

He had thought he might run into Tang Hao here and catch him while waiting by the stump.

But Tang Hao was nowhere to be seen. Weeds had overgrown both the front and back of the house.

Clearly, no one had returned for quite some time.

But that was fine. Tang Hao was not his primary target on this trip. He was here to take Ah Yin away!

That was the method he had thought up after an entire night.

The troublesome part was that he had no idea where Ah Yin had been planted.

He only knew that before she had been transplanted to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Tang Hao had kept her by his side.

So she was most likely in Holy Soul Village, though she could also be somewhere in the Star Dou Great Forest.

"This is going to be tough..." Jiang Yunzhou scratched his head.

Since he was already here, he could not very well return empty-handed.

He had no special detection methods, so he could only rely on his senses and carefully search every stalk of Blue Silver Grass for fluctuations of Soul Power.

Thus, the villagers of Holy Soul Village saw a strange outsider wandering around the village that day. He paid particular attention to places where Blue Silver Grass grew and would occasionally mutter to a clump of grass.

"Strange. The village is this small. Where could she be hiding?"

"With Tang Hao's personality, he definitely wouldn't plant her too far away. He'd need to conveniently 'look at the grass and think of the person'..."

With that in mind, he began another carpet search centered on Tang San's blacksmith shop.

At last, at the end of a stream at the foot of the mountain behind the house, behind the curtain of a waterfall, he discovered a hidden cave.

Naturally, the plant was not growing inside the cave. After all, it needed sunlight for photosynthesis.

What he discovered was a stalk of Blue Silver Grass beside the cave entrance. It looked casually placed, yet the weeds around it had been carefully cleared away.

There was plenty of water and sunlight here, yet only a single stalk of Blue Silver Grass grew in the area. That was highly abnormal.

Moreover, this spot happened to have a distant view of Tang San's home, and the same was true in reverse.

With a Soul Master's eyesight, the Blue Silver Grass could be clearly seen from his house at this distance.

That could not be a coincidence.

The moment Jiang Yunzhou drew a little closer, he sensed an extremely faint fluctuation of Soul Power from it.

Delighted, he thought that this had to be it.

He slowly approached, intending to test it, and began his performance.

He gently stroked the blades of grass. "Ah Yin, you're Ah Yin, right? You know Tang Hao, don't you?"

"He's quite something now. The mighty Haotian Douluo, spending every day surrounded by women and showing off some Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring he swindled from who knows where. Tsk, tsk, he's overflowing with swagger, using a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring to pick up girls!"

He made up nonsense specifically to mess with its head.

What? Didn't believe him? Then refute him yourself!

At first, the Blue Silver Grass beneath his feet showed no reaction.

But as his claims grew more outrageous, he felt a blade of grass lightly brush against his ankle.

There was a breeze, but that touch was definitely not natural!

Jiang Yunzhou grinned, finally revealing his dagger. "You think I can't recognize you just because you're playing dead? Let me tell you, your son Tang San is dead! I came here specifically to take you to see him!"

Those words struck like thunder. The Blue Silver Grass could no longer keep up its disguise. Its leaves swayed wildly, even wrapping around his ankle of their own accord with a force filled with grief and fury, as though questioning him and begging him at the same time.

"Hehe, now there's no denying it!"

Jiang Yunzhou laughed smugly and took out a flowerpot he had prepared in advance. "I lied to you just now. Didn't expect you to be so easy to trick. But now, you can't run away."

As he transplanted it, he kept muttering, "Your ex-husband is incredibly annoying. I'm afraid he'll try something underhanded, so using you as a talisman is perfectly reasonable, right?"

"Well, if you don't say anything, I'll take that as agreement."

After successfully transplanting Ah Yin into the flowerpot, he was in high spirits. As he prepared to leave, though, he felt as if he had forgotten something.

He pondered for a while, then slapped his forehead. "I almost forgot. There seems to be something good in this cave too."

Excited, he entered the cave and began searching everywhere...

Before long, he found a box containing something that gave off Soul Power fluctuations.

"Hahaha~~ Ah Yin, this is your soul bone, right? Since you don't live here anymore, I'll help you keep it safe for now."

"Well, you're not saying anything, so I'll take that as agreement."

After gathering his things, he headed straight out of the cave, in a mood so good it was beyond words.

Ah Yin was actually very weak right now and could not withstand being tossed around. The entire stalk of Blue Silver Grass had wilted...

Just as Jiang Yunzhou successfully stole the grass and the soul bone, Supreme Academy welcomed two uninvited guests.

One was a refined middle-aged man with an elegant bearing. The other was exceptionally tall, clad in heavy black armor. His aura was deep and solemn, inspiring fear at a glance.

They were Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo Gu Rong, who had rushed here day and night after receiving that urgent letter.

The two stood before the academy gates, looking at the somewhat rundown little courtyard.

"This is Supreme Academy?" Ning Fengzhi frowned slightly.

"There's no mistake. I can sense Rongrong's aura. She's inside." Gu Rong confirmed.

It was not that Ning Fengzhi did not believe him. He merely felt that the surroundings were rather too shabby.

He raised his hand and knocked on the door with restraint.

The two girls inside, who were practicing yoga, were both startled by the sound.

Ning Rongrong tilted her head. "Is Teacher back?"

"He shouldn't be back this soon..."

Zhu Zhuqing was calmer. "Teacher said it would take at least two or three days."

Ning Rongrong could not be bothered to guess. Wouldn't she know just by taking a look?

She ran over excitedly to open the door.

The moment the door opened, her vision went black.

That was right. She had run face-first into a piece of glossy black armor—Gu Rong.

"Grandpa Bone?"

Surprised, she asked, "Why are you here?"

Seeing her drenched in fragrant sweat and with her hair slightly disheveled, Bone Douluo's heart immediately ached. "Rongrong! How did you end up like this? Who bullied you? Tell Grandpa Bone, and I'll deal with them!"

"No, Grandpa Bone!"

Ning Rongrong hurriedly waved her hands. "I was training! How did you find this place?"

Ning Fengzhi coughed lightly and stepped out from behind Gu Rong.

His expression appeared calm, but his eyes had already swept over his daughter from head to toe several times.

Only then did she notice Ning Fengzhi behind Bone Douluo.

"Ah! Dad, why are you here too?"