Farewell

At the crack of dawn the next day, Tang Yin watched Third Sister Xiao Wu depart before slowly closing the front door.

"It seems you are already prepared," a hoarse voice came from behind him.

Tang Yin didn't need to guess to know it was Tang Hao. He didn't even turn his head, mocking, "You're certainly well-informed. I haven't even been at level twenty for a week and you're already here."

"Come back to Holy Soul Village with me. I am taking you to see a... person," Tang Hao said, hesitating on the word "person," as Ah Yin was hardly a person in her current state.

Tang Yin was stunned upon hearing this. The only person in Holy Soul Village still worth Tang Hao taking him to see was likely his mother in this life, Ah Yin. Thinking of this, he nodded slightly.

Two years ago, during that trip to Holy Soul Village, he had searched for her briefly while ensuring Tang Hao wasn't around. However, the original work's descriptions were too vague, so he had given up after a while.

In truth, he didn't really have any feelings for Ah Yin. He couldn't understand those "god-like" characters who would burst into tears and wail for parents they had never met the moment they saw them. That search had merely been a whim born of curiosity.

Besides, if she were truly that easy to find, Tang Hao would never have felt at ease leaving Holy Soul Village.

"Fine," Tang Yin nodded. It was indeed time to see her.

Since neither of them were ordinary people, Tang Hao and Tang Yin reached Holy Soul Village quickly. Under Tang Hao's lead, they arrived at a cave with an open top where sunlight shone directly down.

Directly beneath the opening, a bluish plant, somewhat similar to Third Sister's Blue Silver Grass martial soul, swayed slightly in the sunlight.

It was the Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin—in her juvenile form.

Tang Yin remembered someone in a fan group from his past life joking: "Do you think Ah Yin will still be... after she's resurrected?"

In the end, everyone mocked them, saying, "Don't make your 'Mother Yin' laugh; she's already been molded into Tang Hao's shape long ago."

But when everyone calmed down, the group fell into a silence, followed by a screen full of "666"s.

Thinking of this, Tang Yin coughed slightly, cursing himself as a piece of trash. This was his mother, after all; even without feelings, he shouldn't be making jokes about her in his head.

"Kneel down. This is your mother!"

As soon as Tang Hao entered the cave, his usual cold expression turned into one of deep affection, and even his tone softened, making Tang Yin, who was busy with his own wild thoughts, shudder.

Seeing a slovenly man squatting before a small blade of grass acting this way made it hard for even him, who knew the plot, to keep a straight face. Still, the act had to continue.

"Mother? You're telling me this blade of Blue Silver Grass is my mother? Have you gone senile?" Tang Yin deliberately put on an "are you stupid?" expression, taking the opportunity to insult Tang Hao.

Tang Hao's eye twitched violently, but looking at Ah Yin, he didn't want to argue with Tang Yin here, so he could only take a deep breath to calm his emotions.

"This is your mother, named Ah Yin. She is a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, the Blue Silver Emperor, who took human form."

Tang Hao's eyes were filled with nostalgia before his tone turned cold: "As for why she became like this, you aren't qualified to know yet. All you need to do is properly support your Third Sister in the future."

"So that's how it is. Third Sister and I are actually the children of a soul beast and a human... conceived together!" Tang Yin put on an expression that was thirty percent sentimental and seventy percent shocked, then walked over to Ah Yin and squatted down.

The moment Tang Yin squatted, Ah Yin's leaves suddenly trembled violently. A vine as thick as a chopstick extended from the tip, climbing up his palm and wrapping around Tang Yin's neck until it reached his cheek.

Afterward, the tip of the vine rubbed against Tang Yin's face with extreme gentleness.

Tang Yin's entire body stiffened. He instinctively wanted to pull back, but forced himself to endure it.

He didn't know the durability of the Blue Silver Emperor in this state; if he pulled back and accidentally snapped her, wouldn't that be a disaster?

The Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin, naturally didn't know about Tang Yin's peculiar train of thought. At this moment, the entire plant seemed to radiate vitality, and one could feel her joy.

Feeling the touch of the vine caressing his face, Tang Yin's expression went blank.

He couldn't understand this feeling and even subconsciously wanted to avoid it.

The sensation was very strange. He felt as if he were being enveloped by a soft, intimate aura, causing his previously tense heart to relax involuntarily.

Feeling his emotions being soothed, the blank-faced Tang Yin's eyes flickered, and a hint of darkness flashed through them inadvertently.

"Ah Yin, you really do still have consciousness. Ah Yin, my Ah Yin," Tang Hao said, once again putting on a wailing, pathetic display.

From this, one could see that Tang Hao was truly not a decent man.

Although Tang Hao didn't know Ah Yin could be resurrected, having spent so much time with her, it was impossible for him not to have guessed that she still had some perception of the outside world.

Yet, even knowing this, he had never thought to bring their children to keep Ah Yin company over the years, leaving her planted in a secluded cave with only a single ray of sunlight.

Half a day later, Tang Hao and Tang Yin left the cave in silence. It wasn't until they returned to Holy Soul Village that Tang Hao resumed his cold expression and tone.

"I have already had Grandmaster take my letter to inform Third Sister. Now, we shall proceed as agreed to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for your soul ring."

"Fine." Seeing that they were discussing serious business, Tang Yin snapped out of his inexplicable mood and nodded.

He had long since planned which soul beast to hunt for his second soul ring: the Shadow Gale Wolf pack that inhabited the outer reaches of the Star Dou Great Forest.

This wolf pack was very special; the males were called Gale Wolves, while the females were Shadow Wolves.

They were highly sought after by many agility-type soul masters because their soul rings usually provided two skills: Gale and Shadow. As the names implied, one was for acceleration, and the other for concealment.

Whether male or female, they provided the soul skills that agility-type soul masters needed.

But since bird-type soul beasts, which were famous for their speed, were truly more suitable for him, why did he choose the Shadow Gale Wolf pack?

If it were just ordinary Shadow or Gale Wolves, Tang Yin naturally wouldn't look twice at them, nor would he need Tang Hao to intervene.

He intended to hunt the leader of the Shadow Gale Wolf pack: the Shadow Gale Wolf King.

The Shadow Gale Wolf King was not only stronger than the ordinary wolves but also possessed high intelligence and cunning. Coupled with the pack acting as lookouts, it was very difficult for ordinary soul masters to find and kill it.

However, once the Shadow Gale Wolf King was killed, the resulting soul skill would naturally be more powerful than those from the ordinary pack, with both the amplification degree and duration being a cut above the rest.

"The Shadow Gale Wolf King, is it?" Tang Hao mused, then nodded. He had also heard of the reputation of the Shadow Gale Wolves.

Although they were merely spirit beasts from the outer perimeter of the Star Dou Great Forest, they were the nightmare of low-level spirit masters; especially when a pack was led by a wolf king, they were known as the killers of novice spirit masters.

Back in Nuoding City, Xiao Wu finished her usual day as the big sister of the academy before skipping back to the rented courtyard with a cheerful gait.

"Brother, your sister is home! Hurry up and serve the food!" Xiao Wu kicked the gate open, but there was no response as there usually was. Instead, Third Sister was standing with her back to her, head bowed, staring blankly at a piece of paper in her hands.

"Third Sister, you're here too? Where's Brother?" Xiao Wu walked up behind Third Sister and tapped her on the shoulder, but she was met with a face full of helplessness and tears.

"Brother, Brother has left~"