Returning Home in Glory Is Like Walking at Night in Fine Clothes

"My fourth soul skill—Self-Sacrifice. I lock onto the target with Spiritual Power, concentrating my Soul Power, blood and vital energy, and Spiritual Power into a single point at the tip of my spear, instantly boosting my attack power by 200%. Then I charge at high speed and deliver a fatal strike. During this process, I can ignore 90% of physical and energy damage. I can also throw it."

"Y-you... your fourth soul skill can kill a Soul Emperor?" Dugu Bo asked, his face full of surprise and his voice trembling slightly.

Liu Yanyang shook his head. "Not just that. My first three soul skills are enhancement-type skills. Even a defense-type Soul Sage wouldn't be able to withstand this spear strike of mine."

"It just consumes too much. After using it, I'll enter a period of weakness, and one of my Soul Rings will be sealed for two hours."

"That's still normal!" Dugu Bo said. If there were no restrictions, then once the little monster reached Soul Douluo, wouldn't Titled Douluo fall one after another before him?

Liu Yanyang put away his External Soul Bone and gave it a name—Golden Scale Wings.

"Let's go. We're heading back," Dugu Bo said.

The three of them then returned together to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Within the valley, Liu Yanyang gazed at the immortal herbs and top-grade medicinal plants scattered across the ground and sighed inwardly. "Level 43 at twelve years old, and with the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well too... the future truly looks promising!"

He then picked the Aromatic Silk Beauty and placed it into a prepared Jade Box. After looking around some more, he ultimately chose the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and placed it in the Jade Box as well.

He turned and headed toward the cave. Only Dugu Bo remained inside, while Dugu Yan had returned to her room to rest.

"Old Poison, interested in going to Dragon Rising City to find Old Monster?" Liu Yanyang asked after sitting down.

"Yang Wudi? Sure. This old man is finally free of burdens now and doesn't have to worry about the Jade Scale Snake Poison backfiring. I can go exchange some insights on poison with Yang Wudi," Dugu Bo said comfortably.

"Then take these two immortal herbs to him." As he spoke, Liu Yanyang handed the two Jade Boxes to Dugu Bo.

"Where are you going?" Dugu Bo asked doubtfully. He had thought the little monster would be going to Dragon Rising City with him.

Liu Yanyang got up and walked out of the cave, laughing as he went.

"Returning home without wealth and status is like walking at night in fine clothes!"

Time flew by, and a month later.

Outside Skywater City, a carriage slowly came to a stop.

"Sir, we've arrived at Skywater City!" the coachman called out.

After tossing a bag of Gold Soul Coins to the coachman, Liu Yanyang stepped out of the carriage alone and headed toward the outskirts of Skywater City.

Within the Ice Crystal Forest, it was once again the season when flowers bloomed in full splendor. Liu Yanyang walked slowly along the path.

His mood shifted constantly between joy and sorrow, but when he arrived before the grave marker, only deep longing remained.

He dropped to both knees, bowed three times, then leaned against the tombstone and murmured to himself.

"Father, Mother, your son has come back to see you."

"Your son is already a level 43 Soul Ancestor. There's probably no one else who could achieve so much at this age. Aren't you proud of your son?" There was a trace of smug pride in his voice.

Then he stood up and summoned the Golden Scale Wings, saying proudly.

"This is the first Soul Bone your son has obtained. It's even an External Soul Bone, ranked second among the Soul Bones all Soul Masters dream of."

As he spoke, Liu Yanyang spun around in place several times, as though letting someone admire them.

"What do you think? Isn't your son amazing? I haven't let down your expectations, I haven't..."

As he continued, his eyes gradually reddened, and his voice began to choke.

"Your son isn't crying. I just... just miss you a little. In a few years, once I reach Soul Emperor, I'll uproot the City Lord's Manor of Extreme North City and leave none alive, to comfort your spirits in heaven."

As he spoke, Liu Yanyang immediately knelt down and knocked his head against the ground three times.

Then he rose to his feet, gave the tombstone one final look, and turned to leave.

Inside Skywater City, at a teahouse by the city gate.

"Have you heard?"

"What happened?"

Two people were talking inside the teahouse.

"Salide, the grandson of Salqi, the City Lord of Extreme North City, snatched a Skywater Academy student off the street to make her his concubine!"

"What! The Skywater Academy Dean is a veteran Soul Sage. Even if Salide's grandfather is also a Soul Sage, does Salide really dare act so lawlessly?"

One of the men looked around. Seeing that no one was paying attention to them, he lowered his voice.

"I heard Spirit Hall is behind this little scheme. Their goal is to test Skywater Academy, and the Skywater Academy Dean just happens to be away from the academy at the moment."

"If Blazing Fire Academy hadn't stepped in while they were here for the Five Elements Academy tournament, there would definitely have been chaos."

The other man sighed. "These are troubled times! Looks like we can't stay here much longer either. The friction between the major top-tier forces is getting worse and worse!"

"Heh." After learning of this through his Spiritual Power, Liu Yanyang, seated in the corner, couldn't help letting out a cold laugh.

"Looks like I can collect a little interest first!"

He still remembered that the Extreme North City City Lord's Manor had seized the Ten-Thousand-Year Dragon Ganoderma for the sake of this Salide.

Among Salqi's many grandsons, the most talented one had Innate Soul Power at rank 7 and inherited the family's Snow Dragon Martial Soul.

After learning that his family possessed the Ten-Thousand-Year Dragon Ganoderma, he had planned to use it to create the Sal Clan's first Titled Douluo.

He wondered what Salqi would feel upon learning of his beloved grandson's death.

Liu Yanyang put on the White Mask, activated "Cheng Ying" on his finger, and silently left the teahouse.

Skywater City Grand Hotel, within a luxurious suite on the top floor.

"Vile wench, worthless trash!" A plump young man with shifty eyes was crazily lashing the maid on the floor with a whip.

Even though the maid had already stopped breathing and was covered in wounds, her flesh split open, he did not stop.

Knock, knock, knock! The sound of knocking rang out.

"Come in." A middle-aged man entered the suite and respectfully bowed to the young man.

"Young Master, Skywater Academy has already gone into lockdown. Students are not allowed to leave. Everything will have to wait until their Dean returns."

This shifty-eyed man was none other than Salide. He roared furiously.

"Damn Huo Guihe! If it weren't for him, I would have succeeded long ago."

Then he ordered the middle-aged man.

"I don't care what method you use. Even if you have to snatch one, bring one back to me."

"It wasn't easy to learn that the Papal Palace intends to test the attitudes of the three water, fire, and wind Elemental Academies."

"We must provoke conflict between the three Elemental Academies and the Heaven Dou Empire's royal family, driving a wedge between them."

"This is the Sal Clan's token of allegiance. We will forever be loyal to the Papal Palace and to His Holiness the Pope. Then I, too, can earn the appreciation of the Papal Palace's higher-ups. Only then can the Sal Clan flourish."

"The Heaven Dou Empire's royal family is already weak beyond saving. Continuing to follow them is a dead end."

"So no matter what you do, I want to see someone today. It must be one of their core members."

The middle-aged man could only agree through gritted teeth. After bowing, he left the room.

Salide was just about to rest for a while. Whipping the maid had tired him out.

"Have you ever experienced death?!"

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