Suppressing Xiao Wu (Five Updates! Ten Thousand Words Today!)

Xiao Wu instantly fainted and lost consciousness!

When Zhuang Xingyu entered Nuoding City, he had used the Chaos Bead to conceal the aura within several dozen meters around him. A mere mastermind behind the scenes could not possibly detect it.

Zhuang Xingyu immediately sealed her Soul Power, then put handcuffs and shackles forged from refined steel on her. Only then did he grab Xiao Wu by her braid, drag her upside down, and stuff her into a wire-reinforced sack.

Everything happened like lightning, and no one noticed.

Afterward, Zhuang Xingyu left behind a note he had prepared earlier, intending to provoke Tang San.

He placed it somewhere relatively hidden nearby, ensuring Tang San would see it when he came looking for Xiao Wu later. (The note, ink, handwriting—all were imitated based on Xiao Wu's authentic writings collected by the shadow guards.)

The note read: "Tang San, you disgust me! You're not even a man—you eunuch, freak, ape! You inject yourself with that stuff from apes every day. No wonder you look more and more like an ape and let out ape cries from time to time."

"Yesterday, I even discovered you doing shameful things with your teacher, Yu Xiaogang, and you looked like you were enjoying it! Have you no shame? The two of you, master and disciple, are both no good!"

"Whenever I think about how close I used to be with you, I want to vomit. I never want to see you again. I'm leaving. I'm going home. May we never meet again!"

Then he went to "deliver benefits" to Tang San.

Zhuang Xingyu first arrived outside Yu Xiaogang's window, only to witness a horrifying sight. He hurriedly had his grandmother stay away, deciding to handle the matter himself.

Inside the room, Tang San was below, and Yu Xiaogang was above...

While deeply shocked, Zhuang Xingyu was also utterly baffled. Tang San, Tang San, aren't you taking this too far? I thought you liked rabbits. I never expected you to like this kind instead.

It turned out that ever since Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had performed the "Porridge Duke Ritual," Tang San seemed to have awakened some strange trait. It became uncontrollable. He could not even wait half a month—on average, every day, he would strike Yu Xiaogang's sleep acupoint, inject him with that ape stuff, and then...

Yet Yu Xiaogang was special. He had resistance to that substance and remained conscious every time. Perhaps he had previous experience with such things.

After a while, Yu Xiaogang could no longer endure it and laid everything out to Tang San.

Who would have thought Tang San would simply say, "Teacher, you wouldn't want your theories to remain unrealized, would you?"

Xiao Gang could only be forced to agree to Tang San's demands.

Zhuang Xingyu had Zhuang Shushen seal off the perceptions in the vicinity. Soul Power pressure blanketed the area, instantly knocking Tang San and Yu Xiaogang unconscious. Nothing unusual could be seen outside Yu Xiaogang's room.

Zhuang Xingyu entered the room and began to act!

At this moment, Tang Hao was in the cave behind that waterfall, confessing his sins to "fake Ah Yin."

"Ah Yin! You must hate me very much, but you have to believe me—I truly loved you."

"But what else could I have done? A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and a Spirit Bone were right before my eyes. What Soul Master in the world could withstand such a test?"

"I was deeply conflicted at the time. I couldn't bear to lay hands on you myself, so I thought of having a soul beast sacrifice itself willingly."

"So I deliberately spread the news that you were a Shapeshifting Soul Beast to Spirit Hall. I deliberately refused to let you return to Blue Silver Forest, refused to let you return to the Clear Sky Sect, and refused even more to let you live in seclusion."

"I deliberately took you, pregnant as you were, wandering near Spirit City. Because I knew how much you cared about the child in your belly, and I understood your personality very well. When you had nowhere to turn, when enemies surrounded you, and when I was the only one by your side, you would choose to sacrifice yourself to me."

"Therefore, I didn't kill you. You willingly sacrificed yourself. It was all Spirit Hall's fault. Yes! That's right! It was all Spirit Hall's fault! It had nothing to do with me, Tang Hao. I am the person who loved you most in this world!"

As he spoke, Tang Hao began to laugh maniacally, guzzling wine jar after jar.

"Actually, when you had only just become pregnant, I was already a level 89 Soul Douluo. When I saw you were pregnant, a bold idea arose in my heart. I deliberately concealed my Soul Power at around level 80 in order to ease your concerns. The facts proved that I succeeded!"

"You really did obediently follow me to wander around near Spirit City. During that period, I also made it look as though my Soul Power was rapidly rising, preparing for your sacrifice. But I never expected Spirit Hall to dispatch three Titled Douluo merely to deal with a Soul Douluo and a Soul Saint. I miscalculated, and that was why I was severely injured."

"Actually, I regretted it too. These past years, every time I dreamed, I dreamed of you—of you covered in blood, cursing me, beating me, crying as you sought revenge against me."

"I was terrified of seeing you again. That was why I never took your seed back to your birthplace, Blue Silver Forest, even though I knew that place was more suited to your growth."

"I deliberately placed you in this cave, where you only received a single beam of sunlight each day and the soil was pitifully scarce, enough only to sustain your most basic needs for survival."

"Actually, I also knew quite a few ways to rapidly increase a soul beast's cultivation years, such as certain Precious Medicines and soul beast corpses. But how could I dare use them on you?"

Tang Hao gradually became crazed, revealing the truest thoughts in his heart. "But was all of this really my fault? Ah Yin, since you knew I wanted a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, why didn't you offer to sacrifice yourself to me earlier? You forced me to rack my brains plotting, and even made the sect go into seclusion. If you truly loved me, why did you make me take the initiative to scheme?"

"Therefore! You never loved me. But I loved you. I was the one who gave everything, and it was only right for you to sacrifice yourself to me!" Tang Hao's eyes turned crimson as he grew increasingly violent, his true face finally exposed.

"Oh, right, Ah Yin. Our son died long ago. Back then, when I held him while fighting Qian Xunji and the other two, who knew how many shockwaves struck him?"

"After I escaped, I examined his body and discovered that every cell in his body had already died. He was completely dead, not merely in suspended animation. Just as I was about to bury him, a humanoid ball of energy suddenly drifted over. I didn't know what it was, nor did I see it clearly, but I truly sensed its existence."

"The humanoid energy ball drifted onto our son's corpse, and before long, the corpse came back to life. Later, that child behaved very strangely, acting unlike an ordinary infant.

"A father's instincts told me that he was not our child! I never cared for him and simply let him fend for himself. But he was rather useful, always taking care of my daily needs, so I raised him as a nanny."

"Later, he awakened his martial souls. To my surprise, he possessed both Blue Silver Grass and the Clear Sky Hammer, rather than the Blue Silver Emperor. Later, I thought of the Blue Silver King and planned to scheme against them to help Tang San obtain the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline."

"I saw hope of resisting Spirit Hall in him, so I acknowledged him as my son."

Ten thousand words today! All five updates are complete.

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