Thousands of miles away, in Holy Soul Village.
As night fell, Tang San sat alone on the cold threshold, clutching a letter tightly in his hand, his eyes filled with disappointment.
This morning, as usual, he returned from cultivating the Purple Demon Eye in the Rear Mountain. But when he got home, Tang Hao was no longer on the wooden bed. All that was left was a letter with messy handwriting and a tattered copy of the < Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer >.
The letter contained only a few words:
" Little San, I have important business to attend to and must leave for a while. Go to the Nuoding Academy and find Yu Xiaogang. He will teach you. Cultivate diligently and do not come looking for me. When you are strong enough, we, father and son, will meet again."
The letter ended with four dried-up words written in blood.
Never forget the blood feud!
He sat on the doorstep from dawn till dusk, gazing at the winding path at the village entrance, watching the bustling crowds come and go until it was deserted. Only when night completely enveloped the village did he finally have to admit that his father was truly gone.
"Dad, don't worry." Tang San slowly tucked the letter away from his body, the confusion in his eyes completely gone. "I will definitely become stronger, I definitely will!"
He got up and returned to the blacksmith's shop, quickly packed his bags, carefully put the remaining half of the Thousand-Year Ginseng into the deepest part of his pack, took one last look at the blacksmith's shop where he had lived for six years, closed the door, turned and disappeared into the deep night, striding towards Nuoding City.
Walking along the quiet country road, Tang San subconsciously touched the ginseng in his bundle. The image of the gentle Doctor Luo from Luo's Herb Shop flashed through his mind, and a sense of guilt arose in his heart.
These days, the news has spread throughout the neighboring villages and towns that the Thousand-Year Ginseng ginseng at Luo's Herb Shop has been stolen. The shopkeeper believes that Doctor Luo, who was on duty, stole it and has already taken him back to the main store. I heard that he will be severely interrogated according to the sect's rules, and he probably won't have a good ending.
But this guilt only lingered in his heart for a moment before being suppressed by a deeper obsession.
To exact revenge and make the Spirit Hall pay for its blood debt, he needed to possess sufficient power. There were things he had to obtain; and there were prices he had to pay.
He shook his head and quickened his pace.
Meanwhile, a thousand miles away in Spirit City, at the Pope Palace.
Bibi Dong sat on the Pope throne, her exquisitely beautiful face filled with a sinister aura.
She held a secret letter between her fingers. The letter had just been delivered by a secret agent of the Spirit Hall to Salas, the Platinum Bishop of the Heaven Dou City Temple.
The letter stated: At the border between Fasinuo Province and the Balak Kingdom, traces of a battle between what appeared to be Super Douluo- level powerhouses were discovered. The residual energy fluctuations at the scene were terrifying, and even after half a month, the spatial rifts in the central area had not yet healed.
Prior to this, the shocking case of the massacre of hundreds of thousands of people on the border between the Tiandou and Star Luo Empire has yet to yield any clues about the perpetrators.
The combination of these two events caused Bibi Dong to feel a strong sense of unease.
An unknown powerful figure means there may be an unknown force. She has been lying low for so many years and finally managed to firmly grasp the power of the Spirit Hall. Her grand plan cannot tolerate the slightest accident!
" Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo!"
Bibi Dong spoke slowly, her voice echoing in the empty hall.
Two figures instantly emerged from the shadows of the hall, kneeling on one knee. "Your subordinates are here!"
Bibi Dong casually tossed the secret letter aside and said coldly, "You two will personally lead a team to the Fasinuo Province to investigate the origin of those battle traces. Also, thoroughly investigate Nuoding City and all surrounding areas to see if there are any signs of unfamiliar Spirit Master or unknown forces."
"Yes! Your subordinate obeys!" Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo bowed and accepted the secret letter. They exchanged a glance, both seeing solemnity in each other's eyes, and then slowly withdrew from the main hall.
Bibi Dong leaned back slowly against the cold back of the throne, her gaze piercing through the dome and looking up at the night sky. Her fingertips lightly tapped the armrests of the throne, the rhythm sometimes fast and sometimes slow.
She doesn't care what kind of monsters or demons are involved in these two matters. Anyone who dares to stand in her way or disrupt her long-planned schemes will be crushed by her own hands!
In the dead of night, all was quiet.
The Fate Defying Valley was shrouded in silence. Inside the Wooden House, Qian Renxue and Ju Zi had long since fallen into a deep sleep, exhausted from their fierce battle. Luo Can quietly got out of bed, slipped out of the Wooden House, and came to the Fate-Defying Lake.
A silver fishing rod materialized in his hand, the hook slicing through the calm lake surface and sinking into the water, beginning tonight's Fishing.
Time passed slowly, and he cast and retrieved fishing hooks one after another. Most of what he caught were ordinary ores, herbs, pills, and Soul Tool. Occasionally, he would catch one or two Black Level items, but none of them were what he wanted.
On the forty-second cast, the hook sank into the water. After waiting for a full twenty-five minutes, the fishing line, which had been motionless, suddenly began to bob violently up and down, stretching the entire fishing rod into a full moon shape!
"Here it comes!" Luo Can's eyes lit up, and he suddenly exerted force on his wrist, flicking it upwards!
The calm lake surface suddenly erupted into a huge splash, accompanied by a bone-chilling cold, as he pulled a Crystal scorpion, its entire body emerald green, out of the water.
It wasn't very big, only 1.5 meters tall, but its body was a mix of turquoise and ice, as if it were carved from the most translucent ice crystals. As soon as it emerged from the water, a terrifying chill instantly spread out, forming a thick layer of frost on the surface of Fate-Defying Lake.
The soul power emanating from it was a vibrant red.
Luo Can immediately cast an Appraisal Technique on it.
[ Spirit Beast: Ice Jade Scorpion ( Hundred Thousand Years )]
[Brief Introduction: One of the three top-tier soul Beast Clan in the Far North, possessing Ultimate Ice attributes and a cultivation level of up to Hundred Thousand Years, it is a top powerhouse in the clan, second only to its patriarch Ice Jade Empress Scorpion. Currently, it is on the verge of its lifespan ending and facing an impending Heavenly Tribulation.]
"Humans!"
Ice Jade Scorpion turned around, her pair of icy blue compound eyes fixed on Luo Can. She uttered a clear yet chilling loli-like voice, her tone full of wariness. "You... you brought me here, what do you want to do with me?!"
It was originally in an ice cave in the Far North, struggling to suppress the surging power within its body in preparation for the impending Heavenly Tribulation, when suddenly, it was pulled to this unfamiliar place by an inexplicable force.
"Don't be nervous." Luo Can waved his hand with a smile, his tone calm. "My name is Luo Can, and I am the master of this Fate Defying Valley. I have no interest in your Spirit Ring or Spirit Bone."
"Really?" The Ice Jade Scorpion clearly didn't believe it. To human Spirit Master, Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was a walking treasure, and it didn't believe that any human would be uninterested in it.
Seeing this, Luo Can didn't explain further, but simply clapped his hands at the lake and said, " Xiong Da, come out and say hi!"
The next moment, with a splash, a huge Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear emerged from the lake, looking at Luo Can with a puzzled expression. Its gaze swept across the ice surface of the water and then instantly settled on the Ice Jade Scorpion.
"Huh? Ice Jade Scorpion?"
" Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear!"
Although they had never met, they had both lived for Ten Thousand Years and had long heard of each other's races from their respective clan leaders. After all, the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Ice Empress and the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear King Bear Xiong Jun were both renowned Ferocious Beast kings on the continent.
The atmosphere became somewhat awkward for a moment.
Luo Can looked at the wary Ice Jade Scorpion and slowly spoke:
" Little Scorpion, I have a question for you—"
"Do you want to... survive the Heavenly Tribulation?"