Ah Yin: Child, You're Here! The Blue Silver Emperor's Tears!

Ah Yin had far too many questions she wanted to ask.

What exactly had happened back then?

How had he survived?

And how had he spent all these years?

"Mother, I already know roughly what happened back then."

Tang Chen seemed to have seen through her thoughts and spoke first.

"I only want to ask one thing."

"Why didn't you come looking for me back then?"

At that question, the light projection Ah Yin had condensed trembled violently, filled with pain and regret.

"I wanted to... I always wanted to..."

"But Tang Hao... he wouldn't allow it."

"He said you had already... already died, and told me not to cling to any fantasies, to peacefully become his Spirit Ring..."

"I was too foolish, too naive. I actually believed his lies!"

"I'm sorry, child... Mother has wronged you!"

By the end, Ah Yin's consciousness was already sobbing incoherently.

Upon hearing the name "Tang Hao," the gentle Life Aura around Tang Chen suddenly rippled almost imperceptibly.

Good.

What he had feared most had not happened.

His mother had nothing but regret left for that man, with none of her old feelings remaining.

That was enough.

"Where is that man now?" Tang Chen asked.

"I don't know..." Ah Yin's consciousness was somewhat lost. "Ever since I was placed here, I rarely saw him. Perhaps... perhaps he is with the people from the sect."

Tang Chen's divine sense had long since swept across the entire Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

There was no trace of Tang Hao's aura.

A flicker of disappointment flashed through his heart.

The killing intent directed at Tang Hao churned endlessly within him.

If he had not possessed the system and defied fate at the Lake of Life, he would likely have long since become a pile of yellow earth.

And his mother's sacrifice would have become completely meaningless!

The culprit behind all of this was Tang Hao!

This hatred could not exist under the same sky!

"Mother, don't worry."

Tang Chen calmed himself, and his voice became gentle once more.

"I will personally settle everything from the past."

"From now on, no one will ever be able to bully our mother and son again."

He slowly withdrew the Blue Silver Emperor Main Body and returned to Human Form.

The vast domain of life dissipated with it, yet the vitality inside the Secret Chamber became a hundred times richer than before.

Ah Yin's soul had recovered seven or eight tenths during that brief time. The humanoid light projection she had condensed also became much clearer, vaguely revealing the outline of an incomparably beautiful woman.

"Let's go, Mother."

Tang Chen extended his hand, and a gentle force lifted Ah Yin's Blue Silver Grass main body.

"I'll take you home."

He turned, pushed open the stone door, and walked out step by step without looking back at the devastated sect even once.

At the same time, within the ruins of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's main hall.

When that terrifying aura that lorded over heaven and earth vanished, Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong, who had collapsed on the ground, finally felt the billions of mountains pressing upon their souls being lifted away. At last, they could draw a breath.

The relief of surviving a disaster and the bewilderment of shattered Dao Hearts intertwined across their faces.

"Cough, cough..."

Chen Xin struggled to sit up, tugging at his injuries and coughing up a mouthful of blood. His face was as pale as gold paper.

He looked at his right arm, then at the Seven Kill Sword on the ground, broken into several pieces, his gaze hollow.

"We... survived?"

Gu Rong was in slightly better condition, but the origin of his martial soul had also suffered severe damage, and his aura was weak to the extreme.

Ning Fengzhi supported himself against a broken stone pillar and barely rose to his feet. He looked toward the Back Mountain, his expression incomparably complicated.

"He's gone."

"From the looks of it, his target was that Blue Silver Emperor on the Back Mountain."

Chen Xin and Gu Rong exchanged glances, each seeing the shock in the other's eyes.

For that Blue Silver Emperor?

Just for a mere Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, he had turned their world-renowned Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect upside down and trampled the dignity of their two Titled Douluo beneath his feet at will?

"Sect Master, who exactly is this person?" Gu Rong asked in a hoarse voice. "His strength is simply unheard of!"

"Should we... inform Tang San about this?" Chen Xin hesitantly asked.

After all, the Blue Silver Emperor on the Back Mountain was nominally Tang San's mother.

Yet Ning Fengzhi slowly shook his head upon hearing this.

"No."

His answer was decisive and resolute.

Chen Xin and Gu Rong both revealed puzzled expressions.

Ning Fengzhi gave a bitter smile and explained, "Uncle Jian, Uncle Gu, you only felt the strength of his power. Did you sense the nature of his power?"

"Its nature?" The two were taken aback.

Ning Fengzhi took a deep breath, a trace of reverence appearing in his eyes.

"It was life."

"Life Force so pure it reached the ultimate extreme, so vast it reached the ultimate extreme."

"As a Support Spirit Master, I could sense that although his power was tyrannical, its essence was creation rather than destruction."

"If he wanted to kill us, he would not have needed to act at all. That aura from just now alone would have been enough to completely crush our souls."

"But he didn't."

Ning Fengzhi paused before continuing, "This proves that he is not an evil fiend who kills innocents indiscriminately, nor is he one of Spirit Hall."

"As for his purpose, there is no need for us to speculate."

"And what would telling Tang San accomplish?"

"Would we have Tang San make an enemy of such an existence? That would only bring a catastrophe of annihilation upon Tang San and our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect!"

His words plunged Chen Xin and Gu Rong into silence.

That was right.

Before such absolute power, every scheme and struggle seemed utterly laughable.

They were not even qualified to make the other party take them seriously.

"Then... are we just letting this go?" Chen Xin said unwillingly.

"What else can we do?"

Ning Fengzhi asked in return, then turned his gaze toward the heavens, as though he wished to see through the sky that had once been sealed off by the Chaos Domain.

"Let nature take its course."

"Such an existence beyond all reason has suddenly appeared on the continent. The Great Dao Golden Ranking cannot possibly remain without a reaction."

"We need do nothing. We only need to wait quietly."

"And wait to see what rank his name will appear at on the Golden Ranking."

Ning Fengzhi let out a long sigh and slid down against the broken stone pillar to sit on the ground.

He had once believed Tang San to be the Son of Destiny of this era. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had staked everything on him, which meant staking everything on the future.

As long as Tang San became a God, the sect would remain immortal for generations to come.

But only now did he understand that there was always a higher heaven beyond heaven, and someone greater beyond another.

Before that youth named Tang Chen, everything they had been proud of was as fragile as paper.

Thinking of the other party's bearing as he lorded over all realms and treated all beings as straw dogs, an uncontrollable thought arose in Ning Fengzhi's heart.

Perhaps... the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect should not have only one path to take.

"If not for the Great Dao Golden Ranking's reward..."

Chen Xin stroked his regrown right arm, feeling the Soul Power inside the body that was several times more surging than at his peak, as well as the Seven Kill Sword floating within his sea of consciousness, which had already transformed into a divine artifact. Fear still lingered in his heart.