Tang Hao's eyes were bloodshot, his entire body radiating violent killing intent as he glared viciously at Ah Yin, his words making no attempt to conceal their threat.
He tried to use his past tyranny to force Ah Yin into silence.
Sure enough, upon feeling Tang Hao's familiar, savage gaze, Ah Yin's body trembled uncontrollably, and bone-deep fear surfaced on her face.
It was an instinctive reaction formed through years of torment.
"Ah Yin, don't be afraid!"
Seeing this, Ye Lingling hurriedly stepped forward, shielding Ah Yin behind her as she glared angrily at Tang Hao.
She softly comforted Ah Yin while voicing the greatest doubt in her heart.
"Y-your son, Tang San... Did he just stand by and watch you be treated like this without doing anything?"
The moment this question was raised, everyone pricked up their ears.
That was right. Even a ferocious tiger would not eat its cubs; mother and child were bound by heart.
Tang San was the Sea God's inheritor, a future Deity. Could he truly remain indifferent to his mother's tragic plight?
At the mention of Tang San's name, Ah Yin's tears, which had only just stopped, burst forth again.
She shook her head painfully, tears mixed with endless sorrow sliding down her pale cheeks.
"H-he... Why would he care about me...?"
"What?"
Ye Lingling's eyes widened abruptly.
"He's your biological son! How could you say something like that?"
The others in the hall were equally bewildered.
Seeing his mother imprisoned, abused, and covered in wounds, shouldn't a son fly into a rage and avenge her?
How could he ignore it?
Was he even human?
Ah Yin's crying grew ever more mournful. Choking back sobs, she revealed an even crueler truth in broken fragments.
"In the eyes of that father and son... Soul Beasts will always be Soul Beasts."
"Those not of our kind must have different hearts!"
"No matter how good I was to Tang San, no matter how much I gave for him, he believed it was all ulterior motives, all an attempt to use him!"
"My son, Tang San... He... he has always been ashamed of being the son of a Soul Beast!"
"He said it made him a bastard, that it tarnished his noble status and made him lose face!"
The entire hall was shocked!
Everyone felt their scalps go numb.
A son was ashamed because his mother was a Soul Beast?
He had even used a venomous word like "bastard" to describe his own bloodline?
How cold-hearted! How utterly deranged!
Ah Yin's tears flowed even harder as though she had fallen into her most painful memories.
"I once knelt and begged him. I told him that I was his mother..."
"I pleaded with him to let me go for the sake of our bond as mother and son, to let me return to the Star Dou Great Forest..."
"But he pointed at my nose and loudly refuted me, saying..."
Ah Yin's voice trembled beyond recognition, every word seeming to drain all her strength.
"He said I wasn't worthy of being his mother!"
Boom!
Those words exploded in everyone's minds like a thunderclap from the heavens.
Not worthy of being his mother?
Was that something a son could say to his birth mother?!
"That's not all..." Ah Yin's eyes were hollow and filled with despair.
"There was another little girl like me, a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast named Xiao Wu. I knew Tang San wanted her to sacrifice herself too, to become a stepping stone for his growth."
"I wanted to save Xiao Wu. I didn't want her to follow in my footsteps and repeat my tragedy..."
"But..."
Ah Yin said no more.
Yet everyone understood.
That Soul Beast named Xiao Wu must have sacrificed herself as well.
And because Ah Yin had "meddled," the torment and revenge she received from the Tang father and son would surely become even worse!
"They're simply inhuman!"
"Tang Hao, Tang San! You father and son deserve to be sliced into a thousand pieces and die without a burial place!"
"Tang San is supposedly the Sea God's inheritor, yet his heart is this vicious!"
"Heartless beasts! Venomous monsters!"
The Ye Family could no longer endure it and erupted into furious curses.
The entire hall was filled with rage and condemnation toward the Tang father and son.
Just then, a sudden change occurred!
The sky beyond the estate lit up without warning.
A dazzling golden light tore through the clouds, enveloping the entire Heaven Dou City.
The Heavenly Dao Golden Ranking had updated once again!
Everyone froze and instinctively looked up at the sky.
The original text on the enormous golden Sky Screen gradually faded away, and lines of new, even more majestic characters slowly emerged.
As the words appeared, the phantom of a sword manifested at the center of the Sky Screen.
It was a blood-red long sword, narrow-bladed and ancient in design, yet it radiated a boundless killing intent powerful enough to make even gods and demons tremble!
Merely looking at its phantom made souls shudder, as though billions of living beings were wailing beneath its blade, with rivers of blood and mountains of corpses everywhere!
Scarlet lightning crackled around the sword, seeming ready to tear the entire sky apart!
Beside that blood-red long sword, lines of ancient golden characters appeared clearly before everyone's eyes.
[Douluo Exotic Treasures Ranking, Third Place, Asura Sword!] [Origin: The life-bound weapon of the Asura God. The Asura God is an Enforcer of the God Realm and one of the Five Great Supreme God Kings! This sword has slain countless Deities and personally cut down the Dragon God during the ancient God Battle, bathing in the Dragon God's blood! Endless killing aura that will never dissipate coils around the blade. It is one of the God Realm's greatest killing treasures!] [Later: This sword fell into Tang San's hands and became the Super Divine Artifact under his command!] [Rank: Super Divine Artifact!] [Owner: Tang San!] [Heavenly Dao Reward: Tang San's Soul Power will increase by eight levels! His Asura Domain will receive ultimate enhancement! Super Divine Skill reward: Star-Sucking Great Skill (can forcibly devour the Soul Power, life force, and even soul origins of others for one's own use; incomparably domineering)!]
At the same time, at Jialing Pass.
Upon the towering city walls, the solemn aura of slaughter intertwined with the golden light descending from the heavens, forming a strange yet magnificent scene.
Bibi Dong, dressed in a luxurious purple-gold gown, stood quietly by the battlements.
The gown's slit rose extremely high, perfectly outlining her breathtakingly slender jade legs.
The round, perky curves beneath her skirt appeared and vanished from view, exuding an ultimate allure that intertwined maturity and authority.
Yet at this moment, a heavy shadow covered her peerlessly beautiful, flawless face.
Her gaze was fixed firmly on the phantom of the blood-red divine sword in the sky. Shock, jealousy, and an indescribable irritation churned within her violet eyes.
"Asura Sword..."
Bibi Dong parted her red lips, her voice carrying a faint, imperceptible tremor.
"Another of Tang San's Divine Weapons."
"This Tang San truly has an enormous presence! The third and fifth places on the Exotic Treasures Ranking are both his!"
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