Tang San Betrayed by All, Xiao Wu Breaks Down! The Truth Behind the Sacrifice!

The writing faded.

The scene lit up.

Within the encirclement of Spirit Hall's experts, the severely wounded Tang San lay on the ground.

Xiao Wu stood before him, looking back at him resolutely, her eyes filled with love and reluctance that could not be dispelled.

Red flames ignited around her body.

That dazzling Soul Ring was being stripped from her body.

"Brother..."

She called softly. Her soul burned as her body turned into specks of starlight, surging toward the man she loved with her life.

The scene shifted.

The same encirclement, the same desperate situation.

The young Tang Hao lay in a pool of blood.

The beautiful Blue-haired Woman, Ah Yin, looked at him gently, her eyes carrying the same resolve.

Blue light shone from her body.

A blood-red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring slowly rose.

The two scenes, separated by more than a decade, appeared side by side on the Sky Screen.

The same sacrifice, the same tragic grandeur.

In the past, what people saw was love and sacrifice.

But now, under the Sky Screen's merciless exposure, all they saw was a long-planned, meticulously orchestrated hunt spanning two generations of father and son...

The Sky Screen's image finally froze.

It froze on Xiao Wu's clear eyes before her sacrifice—eyes full of love and reluctance, yet unaware that she had long since become a Chess Piece.

Those clear eyes were reflected in the pupils of everyone at Shrek Academy.

Dead Silence.

A silence more Complete than ever before.

If the Sky Screen's earlier revelation of Tang San's schemes against Yu Xiaogang had brought shock and anger—

Then this long-planned "hunt" targeting Xiao Wu brought a chill that seeped into their bones.

"No..."

A dreamlike murmur slipped from Vermilion Lips.

Xiao Wu's body trembled slightly.

Her pretty face, usually filled with lively smiles, had now drained of all color, white as paper.

She looked at her own face on the Sky Screen, at those eyes brimming with love and reluctance.

Sincerity...

What she had received in return was not sincerity.

It was calculation.

From beginning to end, it had all been calculation!

So he had known her identity long ago.

So the so-called sibling bond, the so-called desperate protection, had all been for that final, magnificent... sacrifice.

Just as Tang Hao had treated Ah Yin.

So in his eyes, she was no different from his mother Ah Yin—a mere tool to obtain a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone...

"No... that's not it..."

Tang San finally snapped out of his brief daze, forcing a smile uglier than crying onto his face.

He panicked.

This time, he was truly panicking.

When the Sky Screen exposed his schemes against Yu Xiaogang, he could ignore it. He could even use it to establish his authority and display the Strong's heart of "talent above all else."

Because Yu Xiaogang was trash, a burden. Discarding him would only make Tang San's future path smoother.

But Xiao Wu was different!

He still needed her. He needed her willing sacrifice!

How could the Sky Screen publicly expose the plan buried deepest in his heart, a plan even he himself had not fully sorted out?!

"Don't believe it, everyone!"

Tang San's voice carried a faint tremor that was difficult to detect as he urgently looked toward his companions.

"This is slander! The Sky Screen is deliberately smearing me!"

"How could I possibly think such a thing? Xiao Wu is my sister, the person I swore to protect with my life!"

"..."

He turned to Dai Mubai, his gaze earnest.

"Mubai, you're our boss. Tell everyone—you know best how I've treated Xiao Wu!"

Dai Mubai's lips moved, but he could not say a single word.

He looked at Tang San, then at the devastated Xiao Wu. For the first time, confusion and... fear appeared in his evil eyes.

Tang San's heart sank, and he immediately turned to Oscar.

"Little Ao! We're brothers! Say something!"

Oscar instinctively took half a step back, even forgetting to hand over the Recovery Big Sausage in his hand.

He remembered back in the Star Dou Great Forest, when Tang San had risked himself to protect Xiao Wu and fought against the Titan Giant Ape.

That scene had once moved him immensely.

But now...

What if all of it had merely been to better "raise her in captivity"?

The moment that thought surfaced, Oscar felt cold all over.

Seeing this, Tang San grew even more anxious and finally turned his gaze to Ning Rongrong.

"Rongrong, you..."

"Stop talking."

Ning Rongrong interrupted him. Her voice no longer held its usual playful charm, leaving only a distant aloofness that kept people at arm's length.

"My father just sent word. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is severing all ties with you, Tang San."

She looked at Tang San and spoke each word deliberately.

"I trust my father's judgment."

Everyone fell silent.

No one spoke for him.

Every person's silence was like an invisible sledgehammer, smashing viciously into Tang San's heart—and into Xiao Wu's heart, already on the verge of Shattering.

Tang Hao had set the precedent.

Through Ah Yin's sacrifice, he had become the youngest Titled Douluo on the Douluo Continent.

A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone...

What immense benefits those were!

Enough to drive any Spirit Master mad.

Especially when this was a "heaven-blessed genius" who had just been proven capable of repeatedly harboring murderous intent toward his own teacher.

He could betray his teacher and ancestors.

What did it matter if he schemed against a Spirit Beast?

Before his reincarnation, he had been the Tang Sect's ungrateful wretch.

After his reincarnation, he had been Yu Xiaogang's ungrateful wretch.

At this moment, Tang San's credibility had Completely fallen to zero in everyone's hearts.

"Brother..."

Xiao Wu finally raised her head. Tears blurred her vision and silently streamed down her pale cheeks.

Her voice was broken beyond recognition.

"Was what the Sky Screen said... true?"

How she wished he could act like a man. Even if he only lied to her.

As long as he denied it, as long as he was still willing to deceive her, perhaps... she could still find some reason to go on living.

Tang San looked into her despairing eyes. He opened his mouth, but every excuse caught in his throat.

He knew that everything was over.

Once trust collapsed, it could never be rebuilt.

"Waaah—!"

Not receiving an answer was itself the cruelest answer.

Xiao Wu could no longer hold herself together. Covering her face, she crouched on the ground and broke down sobbing.

Her cries were shrill and despairing, like a small beast whose heart had been utterly wounded, wailing and weeping blood.

She could not understand.

All those years of being together, every bit of his meticulous care—had it all been fake?

All her sincerity, all her love, all her devotion—had it all been nothing more than a joke?

In a distant valley, beside the Lake of Life.

Ah Yin silently watched everything unfolding on the Sky Screen, her expression calm.

Yet deep within those Azure Eyes was a complicated, inscrutable light.

When she saw the scene of her sacrifice appear beside Xiao Wu's sacrifice, her beautiful brows furrowed slightly.