Gu Yue Na stood beside Lin Qing, her purple eyes shifting slightly as they caught the subtle changes in his aura.
She asked in confusion, "You know them?"
The corners of Lin Qing's lips split into a grin, revealing a row of stark white teeth.
Amusement reached his brows, his expression filled with mockery.
"Of course I know them."
"Especially that one-armed Tang Hao. You could say he's an old friend of mine."
"That right arm of his was crippled by my own hand back then."
Gu Yue Na's purple eyes narrowed slightly, and her brows lifted faintly.
"You crippled his arm?"
"I sensed that his original cultivation should have reached the Titled Douluo realm."
"Yet his cultivation has fallen, leaving him only at the level of a Soul Douluo. So this was why."
Snow Empress spoke up. "It wasn't just his severed arm. More than half of his foundation has already been destroyed."
"Many of his meridians have ruptured, and his Soul Power circulation is sluggish. The fact that he has retained the cultivation of a Soul Douluo at all speaks to his exceptional will."
"There is also residual foreign energy within him, constantly eroding his five viscera and six bowels."
"I assume that was your handiwork as well."
Lin Qing nodded.
"That's right."
"When I crippled his right arm, I crushed his Soul Bone along with it. I originally intended to end his life outright."
"But something unexpected happened, and he got away."
Lowering his gaze, Lin Qing swept his eyes over Tang San below, whose body was tense amid the forest. His fingers paused slightly.
He had not expected this.
In the original work, Tang San should only have come to the Blue Silver Forest under Tang Hao's lead after the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite