It Really Is Hard to Guess!

After hearing the Heavenly Curtain's words, Tang Hao, who had been laughing just a moment ago, froze completely.

"W-what?"

He hadn't seen wrong. The scene the Heavenly Curtain had just shown was of him falling into complete madness after learning that Ah Yin had sacrificed herself for him.

It hadn't shown any dark history about him, Tang Hao.

So why had the Heavenly Curtain suddenly called him a heartless scumbag?

Th-this had to be a mistake, right?

But before Tang Hao could react, the Heavenly Curtain spoke again.

"Everyone might be wondering: Ah Yin was forced by that beast, Qian Xunji, to sacrifice herself to Tang Hao, and Tang Hao had no choice but to accept her sacrifice. He was determined to kill Qian Xunji and avenge his wife."

"Does Tang Hao look anything like the heartless scumbag I described?"

"But don't panic. Listen to me, and I'll explain."

"Actually, everything that happened was caused by that beast in human skin, Tang Hao."

Those words instantly stirred up a storm in the hearts of people across the Douluo Continent.

"It was all Tang Hao's plan? What's going on?"

At that moment, in the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Xiao's eyes were bloodshot. He clenched his fists tightly and muttered in disbelief,

"Impossible. Impossible. This can't be true!!"

"Brother Hao loves Ah Yin so much. How could he have lured those people from the Spirit Hall into killing her?"

"Besides, the Spirit Hall and our Clear Sky Sect have always been at odds. Brother Hao didn't even know Qian Xunji, the Spirit Hall's former pope. How could the two of them have conspired to kill Ah Yin?"

"And Ah Yin was Brother Hao's wife. She even bore him a son. What could Brother Hao possibly have stood to gain by killing her?"

As he spoke, Tang Xiao's voice abruptly cut off, and an expression of disbelief appeared on his face.

Could it be that... Tang Hao's whole purpose had been to make Ah Yin sacrifice herself to him?

The thought flashed through Tang Xiao's mind. He immediately shook his head frantically, trying to banish the absurd idea.

Impossible. Absolutely impossible. Knowing Tang Hao, he should... probably wouldn't do something like that, right?

Although Tang Hao loved Ah Yin deeply, Tang Xiao knew his genius younger brother well.

Tang Hao had an even greater desire for power.

At that thought, Tang Xiao was overcome with pain and confusion.

If the Heavenly Curtain was telling the truth, what was he supposed to do?

Meanwhile, Tang Hao stared wide-eyed at the scene on the Heavenly Curtain.

No. Please, don't expose him!

Tang Hao felt like a student returning to school after vacation, hoping the teacher wouldn't check their homework.

But the more Tang Hao dreaded something, the more likely the Heavenly Curtain was to say it.

"Actually, Ah Yin didn't sacrifice herself to Tang Hao willingly. Tang Hao forced her to sacrifice herself to him."

"Don't argue just yet. Let me explain a few of the biggest questions surrounding this."

"First, the question that's puzzled me the most is this."

"Why didn't Qian Xunji of the Spirit Hall discover earlier that Ah Yin, who was by Tang Hao's side, was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast? Why did he discover it precisely when our Tang Hao was at level eighty-nine?"

"That's because Tang Hao hadn't reached level eighty-nine before then, so he couldn't absorb the Soul Ring of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast like Ah Yin."

"And if it had happened later, Tang Hao would already have his ninth Soul Ring. Who could Ah Yin have sacrificed herself to then?"

"Qian Xunji discovered Ah Yin's true identity just as Tang Hao was about to absorb his ninth Soul Ring. Isn't that an awfully convenient coincidence?"

After pausing briefly to give everyone a moment to process this, the Heavenly Curtain continued:

"After hearing my first question, some of you might say, 'Couldn't Tang Hao have just happened to run into him?'"

"Fine, then let me raise a second question. Why did Qian Xunji discover Ah Yin's true identity at that particular time?"

"For all those years, no one from the Spirit Hall had discovered Ah Yin. They hadn't discovered her even after she'd been with Tang Hao for so long. Yet they found out precisely when Tang Hao was at level eighty-nine."

"Some of you might say that, as the most outstanding genius of the Clear Sky Sect's younger generation, Tang Hao would naturally have attracted the Spirit Hall's attention. So, isn't it normal that the Spirit Hall discovered Ah Yin was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast through its surveillance of Tang Hao?"

At that moment, in Moonlight Pavilion in the Heaven Dou Empire,

a dignified, elegant woman glared coldly at the Heavenly Curtain.

She was Tang Hao's younger sister, Tang Yuehua.

As someone who had always idolized Tang Hao, Tang Yuehua was furious when she heard the Heavenly Curtain "slander" her brother.

"Exactly! You know my brother, as a genius of the Clear Sky Sect, would be watched by the Spirit Hall. So why are you slandering him? What are you up to?"

Tang Yuehua kept condemning the Heavenly Curtain for what it had said about Tang Hao:

"My brother lost Ah Yin, and even the child he raised with so much 'care' wasn't his. He's already suffered so much, and you're still slandering him!"

"Heavenly Curtain, have you no heart?"

But fate had its way of working. It was as if the Heavenly Curtain could hear Tang Yuehua's accusations.

After a few seconds of silence, its voice suddenly rose, ringing clearly in Tang Yuehua's ears:

"Wrong! Completely wrong!!"

"To anyone who thinks that, all I can say is that you've been deceived by the scumbag Tang Hao."

"First, I'm not denying that the Spirit Hall did have spies keeping an eye on Tang Hao."

"But you need to understand that Tang Hao and Ah Yin had been together for quite a long time!"

"They met when Tang Xiao and Tang Hao went down the mountain. After meeting Ah Yin, the two brothers even fought over her."

"In the end, Ah Yin chose Tang Hao, that beast in human skin. Tang Xiao knew how things stood, so he made room for his younger brother and voluntarily withdrew, returning to the Clear Sky Sect."

"Now, let's work through this together. Qian Xunji came to capture Ah Yin and Tang Hao shortly after Tang San was born."

"In my opinion, Tang Hao and Ah Yin must have conceived Tang San after Tang Xiao left. Otherwise, Tang Xiao was no weaker than Tang Hao."

"If they'd conceived Tang San before Tang Xiao left, he would definitely have heard them loud and clear."

"Or maybe Tang Xiao heard Tang Hao and Ah Yin making Tang San in the middle of the night, and that was why he couldn't stand the humiliation and returned to the Clear Sky Sect. That's possible too."

Hearing that, Tang Xiao, back in the Clear Sky Sect, blushed.

"Rubbish! That's utter nonsense!!!"

But just as Tang Xiao was growing furious, he suddenly realized something.

The evidence the Heavenly Curtain had shown was all real?

So, not daring to let up for a moment, Tang Xiao pricked up his ears and listened closely to the evidence the Heavenly Curtain presented.

"However you look at it, even using the shortest possible timeline, Ah Yin must have gone at least two and a half years without being discovered by the Spirit Hall—from the time she conceived Tang San to the time he was born."

"She went undiscovered for all that time, only to be found after Tang San was born, just when Tang Hao happened to need his ninth Soul Ring."

"What could the reason possibly be? It really is hard to guess!"