She had only a sliver of consciousness left.
Would she still allow the Blue Silver King to give Tang San the chance to evolve his Blue Silver Grass bloodline and become the Blue Silver Emperor?
The answer was obviously no!
No mother would tolerate someone else taking over the body of the child she had carried for ten months and given birth to!
And Ah Yin was a Soul Beast Transformation, to boot.
Perfect!
Su Yun thought he could use this opportunity to subtly sound Ah Yin out.
After all, although Tang San was still young, there was already far too much about him that set him apart from everyone else.
For instance, the cultivation techniques he had mastered were completely different from anything on Douluo Continent.
Or the Hidden Weapons he would craft in the future.
And so on.
Su Yun was sure of it.
With Ah Yin's intelligence, it wouldn't be difficult for her to notice how strange "Tang San" was.
With that in mind,
he left the house.
As he greeted the village's uncles and aunties, Su Yun asked after Tang San.
Tang San had begun cultivating the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record when he was very young.
Especially in recent years,
to keep Tang Hao and everyone else from finding out, Tang San usually went up into the mountains to cultivate alone.
He was also extremely secretive about where he went.
That wasn't surprising.
Tang San's previous life had been in the Shu Tang Sect.
Keeping oneself hidden was practically a basic skill for members of the Tang Sect.
Although Su Yun didn't know exactly where Tang San was,
someone among the farmers who got up early to work in the fields would occasionally spot him.
"Oh, if it isn't our village's future Soul Grandmaster, little Su Yun! Good morning."
"You're asking about little Tang San?"
"I think he might be..."
"..."
Before long,
Su Yun had gotten a few key details from some of the farmers.
Then he set off running toward the distant mountain.
Mountain paths were naturally much more rugged than flat ground.
Some stretches were even quite steep.
Su Yun was only six years old.
Unlike Tang San, who cultivated every day without fail,
Su Yun hadn't yet done any proper training.
If Ah Yin hadn't reminded him along the way to release his Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul
and use the surrounding Blue Silver Grass to replenish his strength,
he probably wouldn't have been able to make it.
As he climbed, Su Yun found himself admiring Tang San for the first time.
Leaving aside the latter's character,
just the fact that he had climbed this steep mountain day after day, year after year, in the frail body of a child,
then woken every morning without fail to absorb Morning Purple Qi and cultivate the Purple Demon Eye,
on top of practicing the other techniques in the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record—
when it came to cultivation, Tang San was practically an ascetic.
And...
Floating beside Su Yun, Ah Yin watched him sweat as he searched for "Tang San" on her behalf.
She couldn't help feeling a little more affection for him.
She was many years older than Su Yun and could even be considered his elder.
But, when all was said and done,
in a way,
Su Yun was also her "master."
After all, she had become his Martial Soul.
Yet all she had to do was ask,
and this child was willing to do something for her—
to risk getting hurt
just to find her "child."
How could she not be moved by that?
"Found him!"
"Big Sister, look! Tang San's over there!"
After climbing to a small, level clearing partway up the mountain, Su Yun immediately looked around.
At last, on a distant peak,
a small figure sitting cross-legged beside a cliff came into view.
Although Su Yun hadn't met Tang San many times, he was sure he wouldn't mistake him for someone else.
The reason was simple.
Tang Hao ate almost all the food Tang San cooked at home.
Among the children of the same age in Holy Soul Village, Tang San was the only one with such a small, frail frame.
When Ah Yin saw where "Tang San" was, her wariness of him immediately rose another notch.
She was now all the more convinced that everything in the video was real!
Even a child like Su Yun, who had the Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul, had to expend so much effort to climb the mountain.
So how much more effort would "Tang San" have to put in, when he had once been a frail child with no awakened Martial Soul?
Ah Yin was sure of it.
No child his age would willingly put himself through hardship every day just to reach the mountaintop.
So the question was:
Why was "Tang San" willing to do it?
Ah Yin first tamped down her agitation, then spoke gently to Su Yun:
"Little Su Yun, find somewhere to hide for a bit. I'll be right back."
"Mm-hmm."
Su Yun guessed that Ah Yin didn't want him to see how her emotions might change when she met Tang San, which was why she had asked him to hide.
Su Yun also knew that, seeing her "child" for the first time, it would be difficult for Ah Yin to suspect "Tang San."
So he found a spot hidden by thick Blue Silver Grass and began recovering his strength using the method Ah Yin had taught him.
The straight-line distance between where Su Yun was hiding and the mountaintop was less than a hundred meters.
So in her soul form, Ah Yin rode the wind straight up to the mountaintop.
As it happened,
Tang San had just finished cultivating the Purple Demon Eye and the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
However,
Ah Yin still noticed the strange purple gleam in Tang San's eyes and the faint white breath escaping his mouth.
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