Douluo: The System Arrived Ten Thousand Years Early, and I Crushed Tang San

Xiao Tian did not think much of it. As long as he did not go too far, Tang Hao might even be grateful to him.

Grateful that he had stirred Tang San's fighting spirit and made him train even harder.

So, after beating Tang San around thirty times, Xiao Tian would deliberately reveal an opening, making Tang San think victory was not far away and keeping him hooked.

"Xiao Tian, Xiao Wu, vacation starts tomorrow. Do you have any plans? I'm planning to return to the village to see my father. If you two are free, would you like to come with me?"

Tang San invited them both, but his gaze kept drifting toward Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu said nothing and instead looked at Xiao Tian beside her.

Wherever Xiao Tian went, she would go. Over the past year, her Soul Power had improved the fastest among the three of them, but regrettably, she was still no match for Xiao Tian. She did not even know what level his Soul Power was at.

Then how did she know her cultivation was the highest?

Naturally, Xiao Tian had told her.

Although every defeat at Xiao Tian's hands ended with her getting spanked, she gradually realized that she seemed to be getting used to it. And afterward, she always felt something indescribable, which let her focus even better on cultivation.

Xiao Tian fell silent for a moment before finally nodding in agreement.

Vacation was quite long anyway. He could first follow Tang San to Holy Spirit Village for a look, then return to Jianghun Village to see the village chief grandpa.

Seeing Xiao Wu seek Xiao Tian's opinion made Tang San somewhat unhappy, but he endured it.

After a year, he had finally begun to integrate into Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu's little group. Once the time was right, he should be able to ask Xiao Tian some of those more private questions, right?

Even now, he did not believe Xiao Tian was truly so strong that he could possess multiple sword techniques. And to this day, he still did not know what Xiao Tian's soul skills were. Every time he asked—

Xiao Tian would say,

"I am a Sword Cultivator. I do not place much importance on soul skills, only on the artistic realm of the Sword Path. As long as my Sword Path improves, it will also help increase my Soul Power cultivation."

Xiao Tian was quietly brainwashing Tang San and Xiao Wu.

After all, he could not hide his cultivation for much longer. When it was exposed, he would need a proper and fitting explanation.

I follow another cultivation path. Improving my Sword Intent can accelerate my Soul Power cultivation. Isn't that Hengheli?

I think it's Hengheli!

Hehe.

Come expose me if you dare!

Besides, he had a purpose in coming to Holy Spirit Village this time. If his guess was correct...

Early the next morning, the three set off.

They did not hurry along the way, stopping and starting as they traveled. They did not arrive at Holy Spirit Village until noon on the second day.

The moment they arrived, Tang San could not wait any longer. He rushed straight toward his house and shouted,

"Dad, I'm back!"

The instant he stepped into Holy Spirit Village, just as he had expected, the system's voice exploded in his mind once more!

Ding! Warning! Warning! The Life Core of the Douluo plane, Ah Yin (merged with the Ancient Life Tree), has been discovered in the cave on the back mountain of Holy Spirit Village. Her strength is extremely powerful. Host, please keep a low profile!

After issuing so many warnings, although the system already knew its host was not the low-key sort, it had professional ethics. A warning still had to be given when needed!

A faint smile appeared on Xiao Tian's lips. Just as he had expected, if he took Ah Yin away from Holy Spirit Village and gave her a thorough kneading, could he trigger the system's Critical Strike Reward as well?

Of course, it would be a very proper kneading. His tastes were not that heavy.

And he could also get a Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone for free.

However, if he remembered correctly, Tang Hao had set up an array around that place. If he touched the box containing the Blue Silver Emperor leg bone, Tang Hao would sense it immediately.

No rush, no rush. He had plenty of patience.

Given the current situation, Tang Hao would not give Tang San the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone early unless Tang San reached level forty or fifty.

Hearing the shout, Old Jack walked out of the house. When he saw Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu at the village entrance, he smiled and nodded.

"You two must be Little San's classmates. Come with me. We'll go find Little San together."

Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu nodded and followed him.

This was Xiao Tian's first time meeting Old Jack. He truly was as kind and amiable as in the original story.

Then, naturally, Old Jack gave Tang San the letter Tang Hao had left behind and told him that his father had left to handle some business.

Xiao Tian laughed inwardly. Tang Hao left my ass. He's hiding somewhere nearby!

Tang San looked at the letter and took a deep breath. He had known it—his father must have been hiding something from him.

He guessed that his father might also be a reclusive expert, like those sweeping monks from the sects in his previous life. They appeared unremarkable, but were actually among the strongest people in the sect.

Moreover, after studying theoretical knowledge with his teacher for a year, he naturally knew that martial souls were inherited from one's parents. The stronger the martial soul, the higher one's Innate Soul Power.

His martial souls were Blue Silver Grass and the Clear Sky Hammer. They belonged to his mother and father respectively.

And not only his father—even his teacher had said that he must not reveal the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul unless absolutely necessary.

Could there be serious consequences if he displayed the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul before others?

For example... being hunted down?

Tang San was no ordinary child on the surface. The Tang Sect of his previous life had been an assassin sect, so he understood such matters even better.

Tang San murmured, "Dad, wait for me. I'll cultivate hard. One day, I'll become strong enough to make you tell me the truth yourself!"

However, since his father had already left Holy Spirit Village, there was no need for him to return here in the future.

Tang San wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and calmly thanked Old Jack.

Zero-Frame Opening Move—Should I Leave?

Tang San looked at Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu, then smiled again. "Xiao Tian, Xiao Wu, sorry you had to see that. If you don't mind, stay at my house tonight. I'll show you around the village today."

Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu exchanged a glance, and the same thought surfaced in both their minds.

Tang San changed expressions pretty quickly, huh?

When facing Old Jack just now, he had been completely expressionless.

But when he turned to them, he instantly put on a smile.

After saying goodbye to Old Jack, Tang San led the two around Holy Spirit Village. Before long, he brought them to the back mountain.

Tang San smiled. "Ever since my martial soul awakened, I've been cultivating on this back mountain. It's fairly open, and Blue Silver Grass grows everywhere, so it's quite suitable for my cultivation."

Xiao Tian thought, Bullshit. You've been cultivating on this back mountain ever since you could remember, haven't you?

If Ah Yin could speak, she would definitely have countless questions in her mind.

Why was her son so mature at such a young age? And why had he kept practicing strange things before awakening his martial soul? She could not understand any of it. She only knew that it seemed a little like soul skills.

At that moment, Tang San suddenly turned to Xiao Wu and said, "Xiao Wu, I have no family now. Can you be my little sister?"

Holy shit!

A zero-frame opening move.

Xiao Tian: ???

Tang Hao in the Dark: I only left. I'm not dead!

Tang Hao forcibly suppressed the urge to show himself and beat up his own son.

Xiao Wu was utterly stunned as well.

What the hell, man?

Which eye of yours saw that I desperately wanted you as my big brother?

"No."

Xiao Wu came back to her senses and coldly spat out two words.

Xiao Tian sighed inwardly. Tang San truly deserved to be an assassin in his previous life. He was probably still a virgin when he died, right?

Most likely, he had never even held a woman's hand. Was he really this blunt?

No, that was not even being blunt anymore. He simply had no emotional intelligence at all.

Yet in the original story, Tang San's emotional intelligence was not actually low.

Could it be that after merely a year together, Tang San had fallen for Xiao Wu? Did love make people lose their brains?

Xiao Tian thought that he seemed a little like a lightbulb here right now. Should I leave?

Seeing Tang San get mercilessly rejected by Xiao Wu, he kept a poker face on the surface while desperately holding back his laughter inside. It was so hard to endure.

Hahahahaha!

"Why? Xiao Wu, can you tell me the reason? Didn't you say you were alone too? That works out perfectly. My father is gone now as well, so we can try being siblings. Don't worry. If you become my little sister, whenever danger comes, I'll definitely stand in front of you."

Tang San had not expected to be rejected. Over the past year, the three of them should have become quite close, right?

Well, that was what Tang San believed.

Xiao Tian silently added, Then you can repay me properly with your Soul Rings and Soul Bones. Oh, right—Da Ming Er Ming's Soul Rings and Soul Bones too.

Xiao Tian indulged in a little fantasy and directly supplied Tang San's next line. In his previous life, a blogger on some short-video site had made exactly this kind of altered version.

It had been so realistic that countless people suspected the blogger had somehow seen the real original story.

There had not been the slightest sense of incongruity!

As everyone knew, when someone got along well with you, a large part of the reason was usually that you were their friend's friend, not their friend.

The reason Xiao Wu had interacted so peacefully with Tang San was because she felt that although Xiao Tian beat Tang San up every day, they had at least developed some feelings through all that fighting.

She and Xiao Tian were friends, and Xiao Tian and Tang San were friends, so she could also regard Tang San as a friend. It was that kind of feeling.

But that did not mean she truly considered Tang San her friend!

At the same time, Xiao Wu secretly glanced at Xiao Tian.

Xiao Tian had once said that he was an orphan, adopted by an old village chief named Luke.

If their roles were reversed, and Xiao Tian wanted her to be his little sister, would she agree?

Even she could not clearly explain it herself. She only knew that she really liked the feeling of cultivating together with Xiao Tian.

Even now, whenever she thought about how she had to accept punishment every time she lost to him in a spar, that spot still ached faintly, yet there was also a strange sensation.

Seeing Tang San still asking why, Xiao Tian immediately stepped in to smooth things over.

"Tang San, aren't things good just the way they are? We're all friends, so why do you insist on making Xiao Wu your little sister? Would becoming your little sister bring some extra benefit or something?"

Tang San's expression stiffened at once. In the end, he sighed. "No. It's just that my father suddenly isn't here anymore, so I was feeling a little down and said those things. Sorry."

Seeing his spur-of-the-moment plan fail, Tang San felt somewhat disappointed.

He had originally thought the plan had a seventy or eighty percent chance of success. He had not expected Xiao Wu to reject him so directly.

Xiao Tian thought, Only seventy or eighty percent? Even ninety-eight percent would be no different from courting death!

However, Tang San had also noticed that Xiao Wu had glanced at Xiao Tian for an instant just now.

Tang San wondered whether it was because his strength was inferior to Xiao Tian's. Women were naturally drawn to the strong—perhaps that was simply a girl's instinct.

Unless the other person possessed some qualities that attracted you even more, then you would be willing to grow alongside them and gamble your life with them.

Although he had never dated in his previous life, as an assassin, he had seen and heard plenty about such things. He actually knew quite a lot.

Tang San was deeply conflicted now.

Over the past year, because of Xiao Tian's "oppression," he had worked extremely hard.

Every day, aside from blacksmithing, he either cultivated or sparred. His life followed the same three-point routine.

By now, he had several small Hidden Weapons in his Soul Tool, such as silver needles and a Silent Sleeve Arrow.

Should he reveal them now and let Xiao Wu know that he was actually far stronger than Xiao Tian?

Huff...

"Xiao Tian, it seems we haven't sparred in almost a week. Since this place is so open, how about we spar again today?"