Tang San, Your Mom Is Gone

Tang San grabbed the Blue Silver Grass and pulled hard, but the small tree didn't budge at all.

Instead, the Blue Silver Grass snapped cleanly in half with a crack.

Tang San: "..."

Was this what Teacher meant by toughness?

A Hundred-Year Soul Skill shouldn't be this useless. Could his soul ring really have mutated and degraded into a ten-year soul ring?

The scene before him struck like a thunderbolt, leaving Tang San scorched and shaken.

"What's going on? Why did it become... like this..."

Tang San muttered to himself, his expression indescribably dejected.

For a moment, he seemed utterly deflated.

"It seems Teacher's theory is wrong—plant-type martial souls can't absorb animal soul rings..."

After thinking it over, Tang San finally reached this conclusion.

Besides Tang San, there was another person whose mood was far from pleasant.

That was Tang Hao.

Seeing Tang San's white soul ring, Tang Hao was also stunned speechless. He couldn't understand how a perfectly good Hundred-Year Soul Ring had turned white.

With his eyesight, he could tell at a glance that Tang San's was a genuine ten-year soul ring! It wasn't just a simple color change.

Could some kind of mutation have really occurred?

As for the idea that plant martial souls couldn't absorb animal soul rings, that was pure nonsense. Countless people had absorbed animal soul rings. He had no idea why Yu Xiaogang had come up with such a baffling theory.

Tang Hao's gaze fell on Yu Xiaogang, and he couldn't help cursing under his breath. This useless waste had the nerve to be Xiao San's teacher, yet in the end, Xiao San had to protect him. Damn it.

Little did Tang Hao know, something unpleasant was brewing. Someone had set their sights on his wife—or more precisely, on his wife's legacy.

Lin Ye and his group raced forward without pause.

The next day.

"Is this the place you're looking for?" Bing Di asked Lin Ye, who was studying a map beside her.

Before them stretched a range of towering, cloud-piercing mountains.

The cliffs were extremely steep, almost perpendicular to the ground.

Lin Ye put away the map, looked up at the high peaks ahead, and his eyes gleamed with the joy of an impending harvest.

"No doubt about it. This is it. Let's keep going deeper."

Xue Di said nothing, simply grabbing Lin Ye's arm.

The next moment, the two shot into the sky, piercing through the clouds and flying into the continuous mountain range.

Bing Di followed with Xiao Wu and Lin Qiu'er close behind.

As time passed, the group flew over one peak after another, steadily advancing deeper into this rarely trodden mountain range.

Half an hour later, Lin Ye spotted their destination.

What lay before them could truly be described as picturesque scenery.

A waterfall over twenty meters wide cascaded down, its waters crashing against the cliff face and the pool below with a thunderous roar.

Beneath the waterfall was a clear, bottomless pool, tranquil and deep. Viewed from above, it looked like a clean sapphire.

The waterfall plunged into the pool, sending up splashes that, under the sunlight, revealed a faint, shimmering rainbow, adding an extra touch of beauty.

Surrounding trees were lush and green, the ground covered in Blue Silver Grass that swayed gently in the breeze, full of vitality.

"What a great place!"

Lin Ye exclaimed. The scene before him carried a hint of the poetic imagery of "a silver river cascading three thousand feet, as if the Milky Way had fallen from the heavens."

"Xue Nu, take a look for me. Is there a cave behind the waterfall?" Lin Ye pointed at the cascading water and said to Xue Di.

Xue Di released a sliver of Mental Power and instantly surveyed everything around her with perfect clarity.

Just as Lin Ye had said, there was a cave on the cliff face behind the waterfall, and the things inside it were far from ordinary.

When Lin Ye indicated he wanted to go inside, Bing Di got to work.

A flash of Green Light bathed the entire sky in emerald.

In an instant, the temperature plummeted. The waterfall froze into ice, and the twenty-meter-wide cascade was turned into a giant Ice Lolly in the blink of an eye.

The sight was visually striking.

"Nice!"

Lin Ye gave Bing Di a thumbs-up. She crossed her arms, looking quite proud.

But why did you have to make such a big scene?

And now that you've frozen it, how are we supposed to get in?

As the saying goes, the one who tied the knot must untie it.

"Bing'er, clear the way ahead."

Hearing this, Bing Di's eyes widened. She was about to retort, "Why should I listen to you?" when Lin Ye tossed her a small pouch first.

Opening it, she found Gold Soul Coins inside, several dozen of them.

The usually haughty Bing Di instantly beamed with delight, as if thinking of something delicious, and unconsciously licked her lips.

"Stop dawdling, get moving." Lin Ye urged, thinking to himself how this woman was becoming more and more like a little money-grubber—hadn't he always given her enough to eat and drink before?

Bing Di happily stuffed the Gold Soul Coins into her pocket, patted the little pouch, and listened to the clinking of coins, her mood soaring.

With her Little Money secured, Bing Di wasted no more time. She flashed to the front of the waterfall, raised a hand, and punched the cascade.

Crack... Boom...

The waterfall, frozen into a giant Ice Lolly, instantly split apart, shattering into countless chunks of ice that crashed down with a clatter.

As ice shards flew, the mountain wall behind the waterfall was revealed.

The wall was uneven, and overall, it looked unremarkable—at least Lin Ye couldn't see anything off.

But just because he couldn't see it didn't mean Bing Di couldn't.

Bing Di raised her hand again and punched another spot on the mountain wall.

Boom! Another thunderous crash. Rocks flew as the boulder before Bing Di shattered into pieces, revealing a doorway.

"Gulp!"

Witnessing all this, Lin Ye's Adam's apple bobbed.

Bing Di—she looked like a tiny little loli, but this loli could smash boulders with her bare hands...

Lin Ye wondered, if he took a punch like that, wouldn't he end up black and blue?

No, no—more like scattered here and there.

Shaking his head to toss aside those random thoughts, Lin Ye refocused on the cave, a gleam of eagerness in his eyes.

Tang Hao, your wife is gone!

Passing through the stone door, Lin Ye entered a cave three meters high and two meters wide. Because of the waterfall, the interior was very damp.

The cave stretched inward; near the entrance, there was still some light, but deeper in, it was pitch black.

Following the cave, they walked all the way to the end.

The group arrived at a Stone Room of about ten square meters, where a faint glimmer of light finally appeared.

At the top of the Stone Room was a hole, through which the light streamed in.

Directly beneath the hole was a small mound of earth, and on that mound grew a slender Blue Silver Grass. Unlike ordinary Blue Silver Grass, the leaves of this one bore fine golden patterns.

"Blue Silver Emperor, planted in this godforsaken place—it's a wonder you've survived."

Lin Ye couldn't help but feel a sense of irony. Tang Hao talked about how much he loved Ah Yin, yet he planted her in this wretched spot.

Plants need photosynthesis. This Stone Room was sunless, damp, and cold. The hole above only let in a sliver of sunlight at high noon.

Even a village farmer tending vegetables knows to keep the light sufficient—did Tang Hao lack even that basic common sense?

Lin Ye had reason to suspect that Tang Hao's move was meant to let the Blue Silver Emperor wither and die on its own.