You're the One Being Unreasonable

Tang Hao silently raised his head and looked at the sky.

Ah, this little ancestor was really hard to deal with.

"Fine, you win."

"What does that have to do with you lying to me?" If you don't give me an explanation, I'm not letting this go, you bastard!

"I just wanted to see your reaction—"

"So you lied to me?"

"...To see whether you'd lose your mind because of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast—"

"So you lied to me?"

Tang Hao: "..."

Was he even allowed to speak properly anymore?!

With an exasperated expression, he said, "Don't be unreasonable!"

"You're the one who's heartless, unjust, and unreason—" Tang Liu reflexively retorted, but his voice caught before he could finish. His cheeks immediately flushed red.

He warily glanced at Tang Hao, then tossed out, "I don't want to talk to you!"

Right after that, he used Hao-Lan Teleport and took the unconscious Jade Spirit Fox away with him, disappearing to who knew where.

Tang Hao: "???"

Good grief, what was this brat up to again?!

At that moment, Tang Hao finally understood the hardships of being a parent.

Raising a child was exhausting!

But there was nothing he could do. He was his own flesh and blood, so no matter how tiring it was, he had to grit his teeth and keep raising him.

Though he had no idea what had happened, he felt that he ought to go soothe his son now.

With a flash, he followed Tang Liu's aura.

Tang Liu's aura appeared a hundred meters from the house, then headed intermittently toward a distant small hill.

It was still that small hill where Tang San came every morning to train.

Tang Liu had first teleported from home to the limit of one hundred meters away with the Jade Spirit Fox. Then, after having the Jade Spirit Fox teleport another hundred meters, he teleported to its side himself. In this way, they eventually arrived atop the small hill.

Hao-Lan Teleport only allowed Tang Liu himself to teleport within five meters of a marked target, but marked targets had no such restriction and could teleport freely. Thus, Tang Liu had come up with this method of continuous teleportation.

On the small hill, Tang Liu first had the Hao-Lan Mark in the Jade Spirit Fox's mind return to its heart, then quietly waited for it to awaken.

After all, it was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, so the Jade Spirit Fox woke up quickly.

Once he saw clarity return to the Jade Spirit Fox's eyes, Tang Liu said, "I'm sure you felt it too. With a single thought, I can control whether you live or die. So don't try anything strange, all right?"

After all, it was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and he could not afford to be careless. Tang Liu therefore kept his Third Martial Soul released the entire time, ready to activate Teleportation and flee at any moment.

But the Jade Spirit Fox had no intention of resisting and merely nodded lightly.

While unconscious, it had been able to sense the existence of that incomparably mysterious power. It understood that this little fellow before it truly possessed the ability to decide its life or death with a single thought.

"Next, I'm going to draw out a bit of your power. Don't worry, though, it won't cause you any harm," Tang Liu continued after seeing that the Jade Spirit Fox was indeed behaving itself.

The Jade Spirit Fox nodded again without speaking.

"Good. Then I'll begin."

Tang Liu also breathed a sigh of relief. He then began using the power of the mark to slowly draw out the power belonging to the Jade Spirit Fox's soul skill.

The Soul Power within his body rapidly diminished, while a mass of black energy gathered in his right palm.

This was a method Tang Liu had come up with for obtaining Soul Rings: Ring Borrowing.

Since the Hao-Lan Mark could absorb everything from a marked target, could a Soul Beast's soul skills also be extracted and turned into Soul Rings for Soul Masters to absorb?

Tang Liu had decided to give the third Soul Ring of his Ethereal Blue Silver Emperor a damage-reduction soul skill. Yet at present, there was no Soul Beast on the Douluo Continent that possessed such a soul skill.

In the end, based on the information provided by the system, Tang Liu chose the Jade Spirit Fox, which could barely be considered related to damage reduction.

The Jade Spirit Fox was indeed a purely support-type Soul Beast. Its support only amplified the power of soul skills and did not enhance the Soul Beast itself.

On the surface, this had nothing whatsoever to do with damage reduction. But in Tang Liu's view, damage reduction was essentially weakening the effect that the opponent's skill should originally have produced.

So, under the Jade Spirit Fox's effect of amplifying soul skills, what if Tang Liu could reverse that effect? Perhaps he could fuse a damage-reduction soul skill!

After all, Soul Rings produced by Soul Beasts would undergo a certain degree of mutation after fusing with Soul Masters, making the soul skills better suited to the Soul Masters themselves.

For example, Huo Yuhao's fourth Soul Ring came from a Ten-Thousand-Year Silver Moon Wolf King that was only barely related to Mental Power. Yet after fusing with his Spirit Eye Martial Soul, it directly gave him an incomparably powerful single-target control skill: Spirit Confusion. That was an excellent example.

However, directly fusing Soul Rings like this still involved an element of luck. Thus, in order to obtain the soul skill he wanted with absolute certainty, Tang Liu thought of using the Hao-Lan Mark to perform "Ring Borrowing."

While extracting a Soul Beast's soul skill, he would modify it to a certain extent and ultimately turn it into a Soul Ring containing the soul skill desired by the Soul Master.

However, this method of "Ring Borrowing" had one drawback: the age of the Soul Ring.

For instance, if one wanted a fifteen-thousand-year Soul Ring, then the Soul Beast used for Ring Borrowing had to have a cultivation exceeding fifteen thousand years, right?

In truth, Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings could only be borrowed from Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. This was also why the system had led Tang Liu to search for a Hundred-Thousand-Year Jade Spirit Fox.

If Tang Liu had merely captured a fifteen-thousand-year Jade Spirit Fox, then he could only borrow a thousand-year-level Soul Ring from it.

Fortunately, whether through luck or some other reason, Tang Liu had encountered this Jade Spirit Fox beside him, which had only recently entered the hundred-thousand-year level and was still in its weakened period. Only then could he put his idea of "Ring Borrowing" into practice.

The black energy continued accumulating in Tang Liu's right palm before slowly taking the shape of a Soul Ring.

Since the Jade Spirit Fox beside him was a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, Tang Liu could freely shape the age of this Soul Ring. Anything from one year to ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years was possible.

Therefore, he directly shaped the Soul Ring according to his current maximum limit: fifteen thousand four hundred and eighty-six years.

Around half an hour later, Tang Liu successfully "borrowed" the Soul Ring. Throughout the entire process, the Jade Spirit Fox did not feel the slightest discomfort. It only felt as though the Soul Power in its body had decreased a little.

The instant Tang Liu finished "borrowing the ring," the expended Soul Power recovered.