Tang Hao fell silent.
After a long time, he slowly spoke. "So you admit that you devoured Ah Yin's Seedling and absorbed that Spirit Bone, completing the final evolution of your bloodline?"
Lan Aotian nodded. "That's right."
Tang Hao closed his eyes.
He had imagined the truth behind Ah Yin's Seedling disappearing countless times. He had thought of Spirit Hall, other factions, and even the possibility that a villager from Holy Soul Village had accidentally discovered that cave.
But he had never imagined it would be another Blue Silver Emperor.
That it would be the person standing before him.
"You..." Tang Hao opened his eyes, his gaze filled with complicated emotions. "Did you know Ah Yin?"
Lan Aotian looked at him and said indifferently, "I did. The Blue Silver King of the Blue Silver Forest, eighty-five thousand years old, once served the Old Emperor. Unfortunately, she left the forest, left her clan members, and followed a human away. In the end, she died at human hands."
Tang Hao's body began to tremble violently.
He knew.
He knew everything.
"So..." Tang Hao's voice was so hoarse it was almost inaudible. "Did you come to avenge her? Or to... mock me?"
Lan Aotian shook his head.
"Avenging her? There's no need."
"She chose her own path. She had to kneel and walk it to the end."
"Mock you? I have even less time for that."
He paused and looked Tang Hao straight in the eyes.
"I only want to ask you one question—Tang Hao, when you took Ah Yin everywhere back then, did you truly not know that Spirit Hall was hunting her, or did you... deliberately expose her so you could break through to Title Douluo?"
Those words exploded in Tang Hao's mind like a thunderclap!
His entire body stiffened in