Blue Silver Emperor

Heaven Dou City.

The matter of Dugu Aotian's death was gradually and quietly suppressed by the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.

After all, it was a disgrace.

Whether for Poison Douluo's prestige or the Clear Sky Sect, it was no good thing.

If it even provoked hostility between Poison Douluo and the Clear Sky Sect, it would weaken their strength against Spirit Hall.

Thus, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family naturally did not want this disgrace blown out of proportion and leave everyone unable to save face.

They quietly suppressed the news, controlling it so tightly that even the nobles within Heaven Dou City knew nothing about it.

Instead, a bit of trouble arose among the students of Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Because Dugu Aotian had once relied on a Transmigrator's advanced knowledge to win over quite a few noble students at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Those students insisted on seeing Captain Dugu, or else they would withdraw from the team.

It made it impossible for the Imperial Fighting Team to continue operating.

However, after Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan returned to the Imperial Fighting Team, Meng Shenji and the others joined forces to suppress the matter.

It was merely the fuss of some ordinary noble students.

If you refused to fight, there were plenty of others who wanted to.

Not to mention that Dugu Yan, strengthened by Immortal Herbs, was no weakling herself.

Joining the Imperial Fighting Team alongside Yu Tianheng, the two of them could fully make up for Dugu Aotian's absence.

Thus, before long, the matter of Tang Hao forcibly killing Dugu Aotian not far from the entrance of Heaven Dou Royal Academy quietly passed.

No one mentioned it.

Three days later.

Sunset Forest, daytime.

Tang Hao did not know that the Heaven Dou Imperial Family was quietly cleaning up after him and concealing the news.

Once all his soul rings had returned and he could use Explode Ring again, he immediately rose and hurried to Sunset Forest over several days.

Sunset Forest was where soul masters from most of the cities surrounding Heaven Dou City came to hunt soul beasts.

Therefore, when Tang Hao arrived, he only needed to sense the area slightly to detect the vast, chaotic auras of soul beasts.

There were countless numbers and species.

Lush temperate plants spread everywhere, swaying freely in Tang Hao's eyes like a sea of colorful flowers.

It was as though he had stepped from civilization into the wilderness, and interest appeared in Tang Hao's eyes.

Back when he had finished work, he had loved watching videos of such beautiful scenery.

Especially landscapes like this, filled with a wild and primitive atmosphere.

Perhaps having been confined in a jungle of steel for too long was why he yearned for such untamed sights.

"But if I really went back to the past, I wouldn't want to come to a forest like this."

"In a place without civilization, you can't even get a decent meal."

Tang Hao chuckled. With a light tap of his toe against the tops of the forest canopy, he shot toward the depths of the soul beast forest like a great roc.

He had just looked out from above. The core region was likely to the east.

As long as he kept heading in that direction, he would find the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

However, Sunset Forest was vast, even broader than the forest behind Holy Soul Village where he had once stayed.

Finding the precise location of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in such an enormous forest would probably keep him busy for quite a while.

Thus, two days later.

Night.

The outskirts of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Dressed in a gray robe, Tang Hao looked at the area shrouded in emerald-green poisonous mist before him. He let out a long breath and smiled.

After two days of searching, he had finally found the place.

Still smiling, Tang Hao raised his head to look at the small mountain standing five hundred meters tall. His figure flashed, turning into a gray shadow as he flew directly toward its summit.

As for the poisonous mist surrounding the mountain, enough to kill any soul master below Rank 70, it was forcefully shoved aside the moment it touched Tang Hao's body!

At the level of a Titled Douluo, ordinary poison was completely useless against them.

Even Dugu Bo's poison was no exception.

Unless he could cultivate natal poison like that Thousand Poison Flood Dragon, capable of easily corroding an entire small mountain.

But with the foundations of Douluo Continent, it would be difficult to nurture such a poison cultivator.

That was also why Dugu Bo was considered weak by all Titled Douluo, who believed him to be the weakest Titled Douluo on the continent.

Passing through layers upon layers of poisonous mist, Tang Hao arrived at the mountaintop.

Soul Power glimmered in his eyes as he forcefully pushed away the fog covering the peak and looked inside.

Cold moonlight streamed down through the passage Tang Hao had cleared in the mist, illuminating the scenery within the valley.

Steam rose throughout the valley, and the first thing that entered his sight was a hot spring sharply divided between milky white and vermilion red.

Heat and cold coexisted within that single spring, causing a trace of surprise to flash through Tang Hao's eyes as he saw it for the first time.

A treasure ground in a fantasy world truly was extraordinary.

Just as it had been depicted in the anime, the surrounding area was filled with an astonishing array of precious medicinal herbs.

Snow Silkworm, Cinnabar Lotus, Blood Lotus Essence... all kinds of treasures worthy of being called rare medicinal materials were everywhere here.

Even though Tang Hao possessed decades of sect education and knew far more than ordinary Titled Douluo, the knowledge he had mastered was still insufficient to identify all the precious herbs here.

However...

"The Immortal Herbs really are all gone."

Looking at the bare patches of earth surrounding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Tang Hao shook his head slightly and abandoned the hope in his heart.

That was where the Immortal Herbs capable of allowing an ordinary soul master to Become a God should have been.

The entire planted area should have been filled with them.

Unfortunately, someone had gotten there first, plucking and consuming them.

His gaze swept across the corners of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with slight regret. Just as he was about to withdraw it, a plant radiating crystalline blue light suddenly caught his attention.

Tang Hao froze, staring at the Blue Silver Grass with pale golden veins that grew alone in a corner of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

"Ah Yin?"

His figure flashed abruptly. Tang Hao descended from the mountaintop into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, his expression complicated as he looked at that familiar form of the Blue Silver Emperor.

He had not expected Dugu Aotian's words before his death to be true. He truly had not killed the Blue Silver Emperor.

But...

When Tang Hao extended his rough fingers and touched the delicate leaves of that golden-veined Blue Silver Grass, he fell silent.

There was none of the familiarity from his former memories, nor the familiar response he used to receive whenever he touched the Blue Silver Emperor's leaves.

There was only a Blue Silver Emperor without intelligence, growing alone by the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, an insentient plant doing its utmost to accumulate vitality.

"Of course. After encountering someone from a cultivation world, how could the soul possibly have remained?"

Tang Hao's expression was complicated. There was regret, but also a sense of relief.

He possessed all of the original Tang Hao's memories, but to say he loved the Blue Silver Emperor so deeply that, upon seeing her, he would be as unwaveringly devoted to her as the former Tang Hao had been—

That was absolutely impossible.

So he truly did not know how he should face this Ah Yin.

But now, both the original Tang Hao and the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Ah Yin were dead.

He no longer needed to worry about it.

Brushing the Blue Silver Emperor's delicate leaves with his fingers, Tang Hao sensed a very special kind of breathing from it.

It was as though it drew all the spiritual energy of heaven and earth around it toward itself, strengthening its own body.

"A cultivation method for demon cultivators from a cultivation world?"