What Does Your Swearing Have to Do with Me?

"Xiao San? You're back?"

Tang San dropped his broom and looked at Old Jack standing in the doorway. "Grandpa Jack, what brings you here?"

"Come in and have a seat."

Old Jack smiled. "No need. You two carry on with your work. Oh, right, your father left this letter for you before he departed."

Handing the letter to Tang San, Old Jack could not help complaining, "Your father really is an irresponsible man. Talking about going to reclaim what belongs to him... sigh—"

"Xiao San, Grandpa's leaving."

To Old Jack, who did not know Tang Hao's true identity, Tang Hao was simply an irresponsible man. Did someone like that deserve to be a father?

"Take care, Grandpa Jack."

After seeing Old Jack off, Tang San sat alone by the door, staring at the yellowed paper before him and the letter Tang Hao had written before leaving.

For a time, Tang San fell silent...

Ye Hao sat on a small stool nearby. He knew perfectly well what Tang Hao had written in that letter. Why bother with it?

He could not follow the protagonist's path. Once he graduated from Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, Ye Hao would also set out on his own.

At night, the Back Mountain behind Holy Spirit Village resembled a beautiful garden. All kinds of flowers bloomed beneath the night sky, clustered in vibrant profusion and brimming with life.

Ye Hao lay amid the flowerbeds, breathing in their fragrance, and his mood immediately brightened.

Turning his gaze toward Tang San and Xiao Wu, who were swearing oaths beneath the moon overhead, Ye Hao had no interest in watching this. It was nothing more than the usual "I'm willing to be your sister, but one day many people will want to kill me, and none of them are people you can defeat" sort of thing.

"Then they'll have to step over my corpse first."

Tang San swore this to Xiao Wu.

Watching Tang San and Xiao Wu beneath the flowers and moonlight, an inexplicable loneliness rose in Ye Hao's heart. He had come alone to Douluo Continent, with no family or friends anywhere. That damned system...

Ye Hao silently cursed the system for its inaction. With the two of them shamelessly flaunting their affection in front of him, he could not help but shudder. A single dog could not stay here any longer.

He simply went down the mountain, and Ye Hao's figure vanished completely into the depths of the night...

Five years later...

Heaven Dou Empire, Heaven Dou City, Sunset Forest outside the city...

Several young men and women dressed in Heaven Dou Royal Academy uniforms were surrounding and attacking a Purple Winged Demonic Spider. Leading them was a Green-haired Green-eyed Woman. Her legs had transformed into a Green Snake Tail as she frantically pursued the Purple Winged Demonic Spider from behind.

Beside her stood an equally handsome young man. His right hand had been replaced by a Blue Dragon Claw, with swift lightning coiling around it as he continuously launched attacks at the Purple Winged Demonic Spider fleeing wildly ahead.

"That Purple Winged Demonic Spider is fast, Tian Heng!"

The green-haired woman nodded at the man. He understood at once, and three Soul Rings slowly rose beneath his feet. Behind him appeared a Blue Winding Dragon, dense lightning covering its body and making him seem like a god descended to earth.

Two yellow and one purple Soul Rings.

"First Soul Skill, Thunder Dragon Claw."

Lightning instantly coiled around Yu Tian Heng's right hand. A dragon claw formed from lightning suddenly lunged at the Purple Winged Demonic Spider. As the heir of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, one of the Top Three Sects of Douluo Continent, his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon was the number one beast Martial Soul in the world.

The Purple Winged Demonic Spider flashed aside, and Yu Tian Heng's Thunder Dragon Claw instinctively struck empty air.

Yu Tian Heng paused slightly, surprised by the Purple Winged Demonic Spider's speed, then looked up into the air.

"Yu Feng!"

Above Sunset Forest, a student with wings on his back, also dressed in the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team uniform, hovered in the air. His Martial Soul was the Wind Spirit Bird.

Yu Feng nodded. Three Soul Rings identical to Yu Tian Heng's abruptly lit up beneath his feet. He gently flapped his wings, and a hurricane suddenly swept through the silent forest. The Purple Winged Demonic Spider flashed past without being affected.

This sight left Yu Tian Heng and Yu Feng both slightly stunned.

The Purple Winged Demonic Spider was the only flying Soul Beast among all Demon Spider types, so they could understand its great speed. But the one before them was only a Purple Winged Demonic Spider that had just passed a thousand years. It should not have been this fast.

The forest was tangled and complex, with lush trees everywhere. Chasing a Thousand Year Soul Beast was difficult enough, not to mention that this one could fly—and flew even faster than Yu Feng.

Just as the Purple Winged Demonic Spider secretly rejoiced, a young man appeared among the trees. He stood one meter seventy-five tall, with handsome features, eight spider spears spread behind his back, Black Armor covering his body, and a pair of Scarlet Eyes fixed on the flying Purple Winged Demonic Spider.

He too wore a Heaven Dou Royal Academy school uniform. One yellow and one purple Soul Ring lit up beneath his feet, and he raced through the forest as though the wind carried him. The massive tree trunks did nothing to impede his steps.

"Second Soul Skill, Spider Web."

The man muttered softly. The second Thousand Year Soul Ring beneath his feet instantly lit up. His hands swiftly turned black, and two black spider webs carrying lethal spider venom shot forth.

The Purple Winged Demonic Spider fled desperately. At the spot it had just occupied, the man's spider webs rapidly corroded the tree trunks away completely.

The Purple Winged Demonic Spider was horrified and instinctively tried to flee, but the next moment, the man suddenly appeared directly in front of it.

The man's hands transformed into two enormous spider spears. Carrying chilling killing intent, the spider spears swept down. With a squelch, they easily pierced the Purple Winged Demonic Spider's body, and its form began plummeting rapidly.

With a boom, its body smashed a deep crater into the solid ground. The man's spider spears had pierced through the Purple Winged Demonic Spider, and the lethal Death Spider Emperor Poison continuously flowed into its body.

In an instant, the Purple Winged Demonic Spider trembled madly beneath the man's feet. Its entire body became distorted, its eyes seeming ready to burst. After convulsing for a long while, the Demon Spider finally calmed down.

Seeing this, the man withdrew his spider spears and dispelled his Martial Soul Possession, revealing his original handsome appearance.

Five years. A full five years had passed...

Ye Hao raised his head toward the clear blue sky and let out a deep breath.

"By now, Tang San and Xiao Wu should have gone to Shrek Academy."

This person was Ye Hao. After parting ways in Holy Spirit Village, Ye Hao had returned to Nuoding City and completed his studies at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy a few years later.

At that time, Grandmaster had approached Ye Hao alone, wanting him to enroll in an "advanced Soul Master Academy" called Shrek Academy.

He went on and on about how wonderful Shrek Academy was and how complete its facilities were. After successfully persuading Tang San and Xiao Wu, however, Ye Hao alone refused to yield, no matter how Grandmaster tried to persuade him.

In Grandmaster's eyes, Ye Hao was undoubtedly a genius. Back then, Ye Hao, Tang San, and Xiao Wu had all broken through to level twenty at nearly the same time.

At the time, the entire Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy was shaken. Who had ever seen someone break through to level twenty at such a young age?

Immediately, led by Grandmaster and several school administrators, the three returned to the Soul Hunting Forest after a long absence. Their Soul Power had reached a bottleneck, so they naturally needed to obtain the corresponding Soul Rings.