Where Had Tang San's Diary Gone?

"Luo Mo! Hurry! That bastard Fu De is making a move!" Xiao Wu shouted from the middle of the sea.

Luo Mo didn't hesitate for a second. He sprang into action.

He moved the immensely powerful spirit aura he had absorbed from the Azure Cloud Sect's Spirit Aura Stone into Tang San's body.

The next instant, all movement stopped.

The Immortal Herb ceased its trembling, and its aura and spiritual fluctuations vanished without a trace.

The rapid depletion of blood and energy weakened the Azure Cloud Sect's power source. The golden veins on the herb dimmed, and the entire plant drooped.

Fu De had kept quiet, not saying a word.

Seeing this, Tang Chen's pale, grief-stricken face softened. His withered hand slowly and gently lifted the Immortal Herb, while tears streamed down his cheeks. He looked like a child who had been hurt.

He felt as though the Azure Cloud Sect's Spirit Aura Stone had come alive, and its presence was comforting him.

Tang San stood silently, his heart heavy with grief.

But since his father had to endure such pain, he kept his thoughts to himself.

Luo Mo felt a little worried, and sent a telepathic message to the Sky Roc. "What's going on? Is this really Fu De's warning?"

"That's right!" The Sky Roc replied. "A warning that didn't exist before has been carved onto the Azure Cloud Sect's Spirit Aura Stone."

With lingering concern, Luo Mo thought, It seems the Azure Cloud Sect left something behind... Could it be that absorbing the Azure Cloud Sect's Spirit Aura Stone inside Tang San's body damaged the stone's source, which in turn alerted Fu De?

"Fortunately, you moved the power he'd absorbed from the Azure Cloud Sect's Spirit Aura Stone in time, cutting off the warning. Otherwise, you and I might have been done for today."

Luo Mo felt a lingering fear, but he wasn't too worried.

"With the Snake's Home as our backup, if we really run into trouble we can just run."

"True."

The Sky Roc thought of the many pocket spaces and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Don't worry. I'm absorbing it slowly, so I shouldn't trigger another warning, right?"

Luo Mo kept looking at the power he'd taken from the Azure Cloud Sect's Spirit Aura Stone inside Tang San.

"Of course not. Without the Azure Cloud Sect's Spirit Aura Stone, Fu De is just an ordinary Immortal Herb. He can only preserve a portion of his original power and memories."

Hearing the Sky Roc's answer, Luo Mo felt reassured.

He used the Peach-Throwing-and-Plum-Returning technique once more, extracting every last drop of the Azure Cloud Sect's Spirit Aura Stone that Tang San had absorbed. This time, it had truly become a complete soul ring.

And the favor he'd owed Tang San had been almost entirely repaid.

"Perfect."

With the matter settled, Luo Mo quickly set off on his way back to the courtyard.

"Well, I'll be going. I'll come find you and Xiao San again next time."

Whoosh!

Tang Chen and his son didn't say a word, still immersed in their grief.

After a long while, Tang Chen's hoarse voice rang out slowly.

"Xiao San, I'm sorry for keeping you waiting..."

Tang San's knees buckled. He fell to the ground and kowtowed three times.

When he finished, he got back up, then finally voiced the doubt that had been weighing on him.

"Dad, why did the Immortal Herb give off such a powerful wave before you picked it? Why did I suddenly feel so sad?"

Tang Chen looked at his son, unsure whether he should tell him the truth.

"Actually, the Immortal Herb was your soul beast..."

In the end, Tang Chen once again chose to conceal the truth.

"You ended up in a very dangerous place and left behind the Immortal Herb. Its sudden movement may have been because you subconsciously wanted to protect something..."

Tang Chen offered a well-intentioned lie.

"Protect something?" Tang San asked, confused.

But Tang Chen only shook his head, and Tang San felt even more lost.

He suspected that the Azure Cloud Sect might have known his life was coming to an end, and had used that final moment to say something to him and his father...

If the Azure Cloud Sect had known Tang Chen had been able to survive, it would have been terrified.

Unable to make sense of it, Tang San could only bury his doubts deep in his heart. His attention soon shifted to the Immortal Herb.

So it was a soul beast?

How old was it?

Did it have a soul bone?

If he absorbed it, could he improve his spirit power?

If Fu De knew that the son of the Great Elder of the Ghost Hall had such thoughts, he might have been scared to death.

"Dad, Luo Mo just said something. Do you know what he meant?"

It seemed that saying goodbye to his father was quite difficult. Tang San turned the conversation elsewhere.

Tang Chen fell silent for a long while before saying, "There's a saying: three people make a crowd. If you think about it carefully, that saying does make some sense. But unless you can confirm whether it's true or false, it's best to be cautious."

Tang San nodded silently.

To avoid a misunderstanding, he had no intention of asking recklessly.

"Luo Mo may have been joking, but the fact that he shared this with you, whether it was true or not, shows he considers you a friend. You should value that."

Tang San was startled. He hadn't expected his father to tell him to get along with Luo Mo.

He hadn't expected a response so quickly.

He really needed to take a good look at the relationship between the two of them.

Half a month passed.

Old Jack brought Tang San, Luo Mo, and Xiao Wu to Nuoding Elementary Academy.

Perhaps because he was making the trip to Nuoding City, Old Jack had deliberately put on a new outfit, looking much more spry and spirited.

The three children had also put on the best clothes they owned.

But Tang San's outfit was still far inferior to Luo Mo's.

Just as they were about to enter the academy, Tang San took three steps toward the gate and turned around.

"Xiao San, you can't bear to part with the academy, or is it that you can't bear to part with that old geezer?" Old Jack patted Tang San's head and teased him with a smile.

"Both, I guess."

"Bah! You little brat! You're all grown up now and still so attached to your father. Aren't you going to cry your eyes out when you get to the academy?"

Xiao Wu stood nearby, giggling.

Tang San shot her a dark look, then turned toward Luo Mo, who stood on the other side of Xiao Wu. "Luo Mo, keep an eye on your little sister."

Luo Mo's expression darkened. He glared at Xiao Wu, and she immediately fell silent.

But over the past half month, Tang San and Xiao Wu had become much closer. Because Tang San's aura carried traces of Xiao Wu's soul beast aura, Xiao Wu naturally felt a sense of familiarity with him.

And Xiao Wu, who was caught in the middle, had no idea that she was being treated as though she were an ordinary human.

She found it rather entertaining.

After Xiao Wu had played a prank on him, Tang San's family had settled down a little. His curiosity about the outside world began to surface, and he asked Old Jack:

"Grandpa Jack, what kind of place is Nuoding Elementary Academy?"

Xiao Wu was curious too.

For some reason, Luo Mo wasn't very interested in this conversation. He was instead thinking about what he could get out of Nuoding Elementary Academy's teachers.

Aside from Yu Xiaogang, none of them seemed especially remarkable.

Yu Xiaogang's three soul rings were known as the Three-in-One Fusion Technique: the Four-Eyed Owl of Fu De, and the Fire Dragon of Liu Erlong. Those three soul rings fused into a single golden holy dragon.

And as the main soul ring of his third cannon, it contained a trace of the golden holy dragon's soul ring.

"That's worth a try."

He immediately decided to add gathering Light Treasure Stones to his schedule.

At this moment, Old Jack was giving Tang San a detailed explanation of what the academy was like. Luo Mo wasn't paying attention; he was looking through Tang San's diary out of curiosity.

He quickly deciphered it.

After Snake Cliff finished learning basic common speech, he ordered it to stop going to the Star Dou Great Forest and released it.

After observing for a few days, he realized that it was only wandering around and collecting different herbs. Luo Mo finally set his mind at ease.

However, since Snake Cliff hadn't encountered any danger and hadn't brought him much benefit either, he hadn't paid it much attention afterward.

Now that he'd remembered it, he might as well check where it had gone.