[The little creature spotted the golden markings on the leaves of the grass and was greatly startled. It lifted its left hind leg, determined to fertilize it...]
Luo Mo: "..."
Well, damn!
His little creature had practically pissed right on the emperor's head.
[The little creature felt around here and there, searching for a crack resembling the entrance to a stone door. After a bout of knocking and tapping, a sudden rumble rang out, and an iron box fell from above...]
Luo Mo perked up and hurriedly read on.
[The little creature opened the iron box and looked inside. There lay a glittering blue-gold bone, translucent throughout, with what seemed like starlight twinkling within...]
At this entry in the diary, Luo Mo's eyes instantly lit up.
There was no mistaking it!
This was the right leg bone of the hundred-thousand-year-old Blue Silver Emperor!
Truly, he had "worn through iron shoes searching in vain, only to find it without the slightest effort"!
[The little creature did not know what the bone was, but it looked valuable, so it decided to take it home to its father. However, it was in no hurry to leave and planned to spend the night in the cave behind the waterfall...]
Luo Mo was speechless. This little fellow really had some nerve.
It dared to sleep soundly in a place belonging to a Titled Douluo.
If Tang Chen suddenly returned, wouldn't it be done for?
Suddenly, he recalled Tang San mentioning that his father had gone out early that morning.
Could he have gone to the waterfall?
And so, suppressing his excitement, Luo Mo continued reading the diary.
[The little creature enjoyed a good night's sleep. Upon waking in the morning, it fertilized the grass again, then left the cave behind the waterfall with the bone on its back. The journey was long, so Tang San's Diary simply plucked a lotus leaf, set it on the water, and rode downstream on it.]
Oh!
What an unfortunate hundred-thousand-year soul beast. Tang San's Diary had encountered a truly formidable foe.
Luo Mo wanted to scroll farther down, but found that the diary's entries ended there.
He wondered whether the little creature would return or go somewhere else.
It had better not come back.
If Tang Chen discovered it, neither he nor the little creature would have any hope of surviving.
But wandering around outside with a hundred-thousand-year soul bone was no different from a child carrying gold through a crowded market. It was just as dangerous.
Luo Mo had no way to contact the little creature and could do nothing for the moment. He decided to check the diary every day from now on, keeping constant track of Tang San's Diary's journey.
As he returned to the front courtyard, Luo Mo suddenly noticed a cloud of dust rising above the distant forest.
He gazed toward it from afar. Seeing no danger, he paid it no further attention.
In the mountain forest not far from the valley, a man in black was weaving through the trees.
This man was none other than Tang Chen, who had left early that morning.
After learning that his son possessed twin martial souls, Tang Chen had been filled with joy and wanted to share the news with Ah Yin. But to avoid neglecting the child, he had spent half the day teaching him the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer Method.
Only once Tang San's hammer technique was on the right track had he found time to come out.
Before long, Tang Chen arrived at the valley. He leaped onto a reef beneath the waterfall and passed through its curtain of water, allowing it to drench him.
Yet when he noticed that the stone chamber's door stood wide open, an ominous premonition rose in his heart.
His entire figure flashed into the chamber like a phantom.
Seeing that Ah Yin was still there, he relaxed a little. But then he discovered that the lead box had fallen down, and the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone inside had vanished without a trace.
"Who was it?!"
Tang Chen's eyes instantly blazed with fury, and his aura erupted.
The terrifying pressure of a Titled Douluo wantonly swept across the entire valley. Countless creatures cowered on the ground, and a cloud of dust rose through the woods.
The Blue Silver Emperor grass closest to Tang Chen could withstand it even less.
Its leaves drooped in unison, and its roots were on the verge of snapping.
Noticing this from the corner of his eye, Tang Chen hurriedly restrained his aura. Apologizing as he did so, he stepped forward and cupped Ah Yin in his hands.
His fingers touched the soil around Ah Yin. It felt damp.
He immediately scooped up a little of the wet soil and brought it to his nose.
"Hm? This is... the stink of urine?"
Tang Chen's expression gradually darkened, and his whole body once again showed signs of erupting in fury. But at the sight of the little Ah Yin, he forcibly suppressed his rage.
Confusion filled his heart. Who on earth was it?
Not only had they taken the soul bone, they had even humiliated his Ah Yin.
It was simply unforgivable!
No, how did that person know there was a soul bone here?
Had they been watching for a long time, or had they stumbled in by accident?
Suddenly, Tang Chen realized that the soil had not yet dried, meaning the thief could not have gone far.
He rose, about to hurry outside and search, but abruptly stopped at the doorway.
Now that this place had been exposed, he truly could not rest easy leaving Ah Yin here any longer. Noticing an empty flowerpot nearby, he carefully scooped up Ah Yin along with the surrounding soil and transferred her into it.
After putting away the lead box and leaving the stone chamber, Tang Chen flew into the air above the waterfall.
He unleashed his spiritual power at full strength and began searching the surrounding area.
However, after an entire day of combing the area inch by inch, Tang Chen found no trace of anyone nearby, nor any sign that a powerful soul beast had passed through.
He returned to the stone chamber and searched it once more.
Apart from a few incomplete footprints, there was only the fertilizer left on Ah Yin.
The footprints had been left by a small animal, but he could not determine what kind.
Because the overwhelming pressure he had released earlier had scattered the dust inside the stone chamber, he could no longer collect a complete footprint.
Still, Tang Chen felt that this was unimportant.
Perhaps some small animals had run inside when the stone door was open and left those traces.
Even the smell of urine on Ah Yin might have come from some small animal relieving itself.
Tang Chen stopped bothering with the clues in the stone chamber and instead expanded his search. That soul bone was the keepsake his wife had left for their son.
No matter what, he had to recover it.
"Cock-a-doodle-doo—"
The next day, before dawn had broken, the roosters in the village had yet to crow.
Luo Mo, however, had been awakened by pain.
Somehow, a scorching stream of energy had poured into his body, flowing through every part of him as though it meant to melt him.
Luo Mo had no idea what was happening and suspected someone was trying to harm him.
But he thought it over carefully. As far as he knew, he had not offended anyone in this life.
Surely Tang San hadn't been reborn and come back to strangle me in the cradle?
He struggled to prop himself up in bed and swept his gaze around the room, but found nothing unusual.
He pricked up his ears and listened carefully. Yet everything around him was silent; apart from his own panting and low groans, there was no other sound.
Could the danger be coming from outside?
Unfortunately, excruciating pain wracked Luo Mo's entire body, and he had no strength to stand.
Suddenly, as if something had occurred to him, Luo Mo hurriedly summoned the travel diary.
Its contents had already been updated.
[The little creature followed the stream to the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest and happened upon two wolf-like soul beasts fighting to the death. Both were gravely injured and dying. Tang San's Diary stepped forward and poked at them. The two soul beasts happened to die at that very moment, releasing two yellow soul rings...]
Huh!
At the sight, Luo Mo's eyes widened. He had a bad feeling about this. Could it be...?
He continued reading.
[The little creature was extremely curious about this and poked one of the soul rings. At that moment, the soul ring surged into Tang San's Diary's body in a rush...]
Well, damn. Mystery solved!
So you were the little bastard behind this!
Having learned the cause, Luo Mo inwardly cursed Tang San's Diary for screwing him over.
It had blindly absorbed the soul ring without even finding out how old it was.
You really know how to court death!
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