Tang San looked at Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu, a smile returning to his face. "Xiao Tian, Xiao Wu, sorry you had to see that. If you don't mind, stay at my place tonight. I'll show you around the village today."
Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu exchanged a glance, the same thought surfacing in both their minds.
Tang San sure changed faces quickly, huh?
He had been expressionless when facing Old Jack just now.
Yet the moment he faced them, he immediately put on a smile.
After bidding Old Jack farewell, 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 here on the back mountain. It's fairly open, and Blue Silver Grass grows everywhere. It's quite suitable for my cultivation."
Xiao Tian: Bullshit. You'd been cultivating on this back mountain ever since you could remember, hadn't you?
Ah Yin simply could not speak. Otherwise, she would surely have had countless questions in her mind.
Why was her son so mature at such a young age? And why had he been practicing all sorts of things before awakening his martial soul? She could not understand any of it, only knowing that it seemed somewhat like soul skills.
At that moment, Tang San suddenly turned to Xiao Wu. "Xiao Wu, I have no family left 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 forcefully suppressed the urge to show himself and beat his own son up.
Xiao Wu was equally thunderstruck.
What the hell, bro?
Which eye of yours saw that I desperately wanted you to be my big brother?
"No."
Xiao Wu came back to her senses and coldly spat out two words.
Xiao Tian sighed inwardly. As expected of a killer in his previous life—Tang San would probably still be a virgin when he died, wouldn't he?
He had probably never even held a woman's hand. Was he really this dense?
No, that was not merely being dense anymore. He had absolutely no emotional intelligence.
Yet in the original story, Tang San's emotional intelligence had not actually been low.
Could it be that after merely living together for a year, Tang San had already fallen for Xiao Wu? Did love make people lose their brains?
Xiao Tian thought to himself, I feel a little like a light bulb here. Should I just leave?
Seeing Xiao Wu mercilessly reject Tang San, Xiao Tian kept a poker face on the surface while desperately holding back laughter inside. It was hard work.
Hahahaha!
"Why? Xiao Wu, can you tell me the reason? Didn't you say you were alone too? That works out perfectly. My father isn't here anymore either. The two of us could 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 grown quite close, right?
Well, at least that was what Tang San believed.
Xiao Tian silently added, And then you can repay me properly with your Soul Rings and Soul Bones. Oh, right, I want Da Ming Er Ming's Soul Rings and Soul Bones too.
Xiao Tian indulged in a bit of fantasy and directly supplied Tang San's next line. In his previous life, a creator on some short-video site had made precisely this kind of parody.
It had been so realistic that countless people suspected the creator had somehow seen the real original story.
There had not been even 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 own friend.
And the reason Xiao Wu had gotten along so peacefully with Tang San was that she felt that although Xiao Tian beat Tang San up every day, they had probably developed feelings through all that fighting.
She was friends with Xiao Tian, and Xiao Tian was friends with Tang San, so she could regard Tang San as a friend too. That was roughly how it felt.
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, raised 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 quite explain it herself. She only knew that she liked the feeling of cultivating alongside Xiao Tian.
Even now, when she thought of how she had to accept punishment every time she lost a spar to him, that place still faintly ached—yet there was also a strange sensation mixed in.
Seeing that Tang San was still asking why, Xiao Tian immediately tried to smooth things over.
"Tang San, aren't things fine the way they are now? We're all friends, so why insist on having Xiao Wu become your little sister? Would becoming your little sister give her some extra benefit or something?"
Tang San's expression immediately stiffened. In the end, he sighed. "No. My father suddenly isn't around anymore, so I was in a bad mood and said those things. Sorry."
Seeing his spur-of-the-moment plan fail, Tang San felt somewhat dejected.
He had originally thought there was a seventy to eighty percent chance of success. He had not expected Xiao Wu to reject him so directly.
Xiao Tian: Only seventy to eighty percent? Even if it were ninety-eight percent, it would still be no different from courting death!
However, Tang San had also noticed that Xiao Wu's gaze had flickered toward Xiao Tian for an instant just now.
Tang San wondered whether it was because he was weaker than Xiao Tian. Women were naturally drawn to strength; perhaps that was simply their nature.
Unless the other person truly possessed some quality that attracted you even more, you would choose to grow with them and gamble your life alongside them.
Although he had never dated in his previous life, he had seen and heard plenty of such things as a killer. He actually knew quite a lot.
Tang San felt extremely conflicted now.
Over the past year, under Xiao Tian's "oppression," he had worked desperately hard.
Every day, aside from blacksmithing, he cultivated and sparred. His life revolved around those three things.
By now, his Soul Tool already contained several small Hidden Weapons, such as silver needles and Silent Sleeve Arrows.
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 for nearly a week. Since it's so open here today, how about we have another spar?"
Tang San smiled at Xiao Tian.
He had made up his mind. So be it if he exposed them. He could already make all the Hidden Weapons he was proficient with. The next one would be the Godly Zhuge Crossbow, but he had not found suitable ore, so he could only put that aside for now.
He had also thought long and hard about exposing the Hidden Weapons. This world did not have the concept of Hidden Weapons.
If Xiao Tian truly had memories of a previous life like him, and had also come from a world of martial arts, then he would definitely recognize Hidden Weapons. He might even blurt the term out instinctively.
Even if Xiao Tian held it back, as long as there was the slightest abnormality, Tang San's Purple Demon Eye would definitely notice something was wrong.
This was Tang San's test!
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