Meanwhile, in the small earthen pit beside them, Ah Yin's vines trembled violently as well. Clearly, this long-buried past had also struck the most vulnerable place deep within her heart.
Xue Bingchen did not pause, continuing to peel back the layers of that cruel truth:
"Later, your mother became pregnant with you."
"And at that time, Tang Hao's cultivation had just reached the bottleneck of rank ninety. He was only one final step away from becoming a Title Douluo! In other words... he was only missing one Spirit Ring!"
"At such an extremely sensitive time, Tang Hao made an extremely abnormal move."
Xue Bingchen stared fixedly into Tang San's eyes and spoke each word with deliberate emphasis:
"Instead of taking his wife, who was about to give birth, somewhere secluded to hide and wait for delivery, he took your mother wandering all over Douluo Continent!"
"And their route just so happened to take them close to Spirit Hall's headquarters—Spirit City!"
"What kind of place was Spirit Hall? It was where the most Title Douluo on the entire continent gathered! It was the faction that most coveted Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts!"
"An eighty-ninth-rank Spirit Douluo, taking a pregnant Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had undergone Transformation to wander around near Spirit City? How was that any different from a slab of meat walking itself to the entrance of a wolf den?!"
"The final outcome was without suspense."
"Your mother's identity was discovered by Spirit Hall's Pope, Qian Xunji. Spirit Hall dispatched multiple powerful experts and launched a brutal pursuit against them!"
"With nowhere left to go, in order to protect you, who had just been born, and to save Tang Hao's life."
"Your mother chose the most brutal way to die—sacrifice!"
"She sacrificed her soul, her life, and all her cultivation to Tang