By the time the three Education Committee Members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy reached the battlefield, it had fallen completely silent. Chen Ming calmly retrieved all of Tang Hao's Spirit Bones from his remains, then nodded to the three men with a smile.
"Committee Members, I still have a little business to attend to here. Could I trouble you three seniors to seal off the surrounding area?"
"No problem, no problem." What else did the three of them dare say? Faced with a situation like this, what could they possibly say?
Since Chen Ming wanted them to leave, they merely nodded and swiftly withdrew. Taking all the remarks they had prepared with them, they hurried away to gather the teachers and maintain order.
Chen Ming went to the entrance of his Cave Mansion and sat on the ground. His gaze rested gently on the stalk of blue silver grass there, a large portion of which had been torn apart by the shock waves from his battle with Tang Hao.
"Did he never realize you were here, from beginning to end? Did he never realize you were already gone?"
Chen Ming stroked Ah Yin's roots. Like a genuine stalk of mindless blue grass, she showed no response whatsoever, as though she had utterly lost her soul.
Only after a long while did Chen Ming see two vines slowly stir. They retrieved paper and a pen from underground and silently wrote, "Yes."
Ever since taking Ah Yin's original body and Spirit Bone all those years ago, Chen Ming had kept her planted outside his Cave Mansion as an ornamental plant, apart from the few occasions when he put her in a pot and took her with him.
Chen Ming had initially thought Tang Hao had come here for some other reason—at