319: Reincarnate in Another World, Tang San
Just then, he heard a sound coming from outside the cave.
First came a woman's piercing scream, "Brother Hao!"
The sound was sharp and piercing, crashing into Tang San's ears.
Then came the sounds of fighting and explosions, followed by a woman's heart-wrenching cries and pleas.
Tang San couldn't hear the specific words, but the despair and sorrow in the voice were understandable without words.
Something happened.
Tang San's heart leaped into his throat.
Who had the accident?
My parents?
Or someone else?
As he pondered, the sounds outside gradually subsided.
After a dozen minutes of silence, footsteps came from the direction of the cave entrance.
Tang San turned his head to the side and looked in the direction from which the footsteps were coming.
A man emerged from the light and shadow at the cave entrance.
He was tall with long, flowing blond hair that cascaded over his shoulders, and his features were deep and hard.
He wore a white robe with gold trim, his face expressionless, his gaze fixed on Tang San, as calm as if he were looking at an inanimate object.
Tang San's heart clenched suddenly.
Who is this man?
His father?
No! If it's the father, why is his expression so cold?
Why is there not a trace of joy in your eyes at seeing your own flesh and blood?
But if he wasn't his father, why would he be in this cave?
Qian Xunji bent down, reached out and lifted him up from the Blue Silver Grass vines.
His arms were very steady, supporting Tang San's head and back; his movements were even considered quite proper.
It's a technique that only someone who has held a baby before would know.
But his eyes remained devoid of warmth.
"Tang San, you shouldn't have been born here."
Tang San's heart skipped a beat. He called me Tang San.
He told me I shouldn't have been born here. What did he mean?
He is not my father; no father would speak to his son like that.
He knows me, but he is not my father.
Who is he?
Why did he say "I shouldn't have been born here"?
Before he could think any further, Qian Xunji picked him up and turned to walk out of the cave.
Sunlight pierced Tang San's eyes, and he instinctively closed them for a moment.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw the scene outside the cave.
The scene was devastated, with cracked ground and rubble everywhere.
Two people, a man and a woman, lay on the open ground near the cave entrance, their bodies intertwined.
The man had a deep sword wound running through his chest, and the woman also had a bloody hole in her chest.
Those might be his parents.
At this moment, Tang San was absolutely certain.
Although he had never met them, his intuition told him that these two people were his biological father and mother.
They had just died at the hands of the man who was holding him.
Tang San's mind went blank.
Qian Xunji carried him to the open space outside the cave entrance.
At this moment, Bibi Dong's gaze fell on the baby in Qian Xunji's arms, and her brows furrowed.
"Xunji, this child..."
"I'll send this child to an orphanage for adoption."
"You stay here and absorb the Soul Ring."
Bibi Dong was silent for a moment. Her gaze lingered on the baby's face for a few seconds, and she inexplicably felt that those eyes overlapped with a scene from deep within her memory.
Another Bibi Dong: the last scene before her death.
The figure wielding the Sea God Trident, the man who ended everything for her.
"May I take a look?" Bibi Dong asked.
"There's nothing to see here. Just stay here and absorb the Soul Ring. Leave the rest to me."
"Hmm, is his name Tang San?"
"Right."
Bibi Dong nodded. With just a thought, all future troubles could be nipped in the bud today.
She knew what Qian Xunji was going to do, but her husband didn't want her to bear that burden, so he never intended for her to get involved from the beginning.
"Okay, go ahead."
Qian Xunji nodded.
He turned around with Tang San in his arms, released his Angel Six Wings, and then took off into the air, flying towards the high places in the mountains and forests.
Yue Guan and Gui Mei stood there, looking at each other in bewilderment.
From Nuoding City to the mountains, from chasing Tang Hao to killing Ah Yin, from Bibi Dong's hesitation to Qian Xunji taking the child away.
Something about this whole thing is off.
They had followed Qian Xunji for many years and had never seen him act like this before, but no one asked him anything.
Qian Xunji carried Tang San and flew over three mountains before finally landing on the edge of a cliff.
The cliff is several thousand meters high, with steep, knife-cut walls.
Qian Xunji placed Tang San on a flat rock at the edge of the cliff, then stepped back and looked down at him.
Tang San lay on the cold stone, using all his consciousness to suppress his fear.
He was frantically thinking of ways to escape; he was making a desperate discovery.
I can't do anything right now, I can't even turn over in bed.
He had already guessed that this person wanted to kill him.
I don't want to die.
Tang San screamed in his heart, his voice breaking with anguish.
I was given a second chance at life, but I haven't had a chance to cultivate the Mysterious Heaven Skill, I haven't had a chance to become a powerful figure, and I haven't had a chance to avenge those two people outside.
I don't want to die. Someone please save me. Anyone will do. Please, someone save me.
But what's the use of shouting in your heart?
Now he is powerless, and no one will come to his rescue; no one will hear his cries for help.
Qian Xunji stood on the edge of the cliff, looking down at Tang San, who was crying loudly on the rock, with a calm gaze.
He knew that the body of this baby housed the soul of an adult.
He knew this soul came from another world.
He also knew what would happen if the baby were allowed to live and grow up.
"Reincarnate in another world, Tang San."
Seconds later, an object fell from the sky below the cliff.
When Qian Xunji returned to the cave, it was already nearly dusk.
Bibi Dong sat cross-legged on the open ground at the entrance of the cave, her eyes closed, her body surrounded by fluctuations of Soul Power.
Ah Yin lay not far in front of her, a blood-red Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring slowly peeling off her body and falling towards Bibi Dong's Martial Soul.
Yue Guan and Gui Mei stood guard on either side, and bowed as Qian Xunji descended from the sky.
"Your Dean, Dean."
"Okay." Qian Xunji nodded. "You guys go back first. I'll guard this place."
Yue Guan and Gui Mei exchanged a glance, then said without asking further questions, "Yes."
Two figures rose into the air one after the other, heading towards Spirit City, and soon disappeared into the distance.
Qian Xunji withdrew his gaze and looked down at the two corpses on the ground.
He was silent for a moment, then bent down, grabbed Tang Hao by the collar, and dragged him to a low-lying area with soft soil on the side of the cave.
They went back and dragged Ah Yin over as well, placed them side by side, and used their Soul Power to smash a large crater in the crater.
He made no attempt to destroy the evidence, because there was no need to.
The chase that just took place above Nuoding City, with four Titled Douluo hovering above the city, was witnessed by hundreds of thousands of eyes.
The news that the second young master of the Clear Sky Sect was in Nuoding City with his wife to rest and prepare for childbirth was known to dozens of servants in the City Lord's Mansion.
It cannot be hidden, nor is it necessary to hide it.
Moreover, with the Spirit Hall currently possessing four Peak Douluo, even if the Clear Sky Sect knew who killed the person, so what?
He filled the soil back in, tamped it down, and stood in front of the mound for a moment.
"It's finally completely over."
After saying that, he turned around and walked to a spot not far from Bibi Dong, found a clean rock to sit on, and began to protect her.