You're the unreasonable one

Tang Hao silently raised his head to look at the sky.

Ah, this little ancestor is not easy to serve.

"Fine, I'm afraid of you."

"What does this have to do with you lying to me?" If you don't give me an explanation, I won't let this go, you jerk!

"I just wanted to see your reaction—"

"So you lied to me?"

"...To see if you would lose your sense of self because of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast—"

"So you lied to me?"

Tang Hao: "..."

How is one supposed to have a proper conversation like this!

He spoke with a pained expression, "Don't be unreasonable!"

"You're the one who is heartless, unrighteous, and unreason—" Tang Liu blurted out instinctively, but before he could finish, his voice choked, and his cheeks instantly flushed red.

He cast a wary glance at Tang Hao and then threw out a parting shot, "I don't want to talk to you!"

Immediately after, he used Hao-Lan Teleport to vanish with the unconscious Jade Spirit Fox, leaving no trace of where he had gone.

Tang Hao: "???"

Oh my, what kind of trick is he playing now!

At this moment, Tang Hao finally understood the bitterness of being a parent.

Raising a child is so exhausting!

But there was no help for it; he was his own flesh and blood, so no matter how tired he was, he had to grit his teeth and keep going.

Although he didn't know what was wrong, he felt he should go and coax his son now.

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

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

It was the same hill where Tang San came to practice every morning.

Tang Liu had brought the Jade Spirit Fox, first teleporting a hundred meters away from home, then letting the Jade Spirit Fox teleport a hundred meters at a time while he followed to its side, finally arriving at the hill.

For Tang Liu, Hao-Lan Teleport could only transport him within a five-meter radius of a marked target, but there was no such restriction for the marked target itself—it could teleport freely. Thus, Tang Liu had devised this method of continuous teleportation.

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

Being a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, the Jade Spirit Fox woke up quickly.

Seeing the clarity return to the Jade Spirit Fox's eyes, Tang Liu spoke, "I believe you can feel it too; I can control your life and death with a single thought. So, don't think about making any sudden moves, alright?"

As it was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, he couldn't be careless, so Tang Liu kept his Third Martial Soul released, ready to activate a teleport and escape at any moment.

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

While unconscious, it had sensed the presence of that incredibly mysterious power. It understood that the little guy before it truly had the ability to end its life with a single thought.

"Next, I am going to extract a bit of power from your body. Don't worry, it won't cause you any harm." Seeing that the Jade Spirit Fox was indeed behaving, Tang Liu continued.

The Jade Spirit Fox nodded again but remained silent.

"Alright, then I'll begin."

Tang Liu breathed a sigh of relief and began to use the power of the mark to slowly draw out the energy belonging to the soul skill from within the Jade Spirit Fox.

The soul power within its body dropped rapidly, while a mass of black energy gathered in the palm of Tang Liu's right hand.

This was a method of obtaining a soul ring that Tang Liu had conceived: "Ring Borrowing."

Since the Hao-Lan Mark could absorb everything from a marked target, could a soul beast's soul skill also be absorbed and transformed into a soul ring for a soul master to absorb?

Tang Liu had decided to add a damage-mitigation soul skill to the third soul ring of his Ethereal Blue Silver Emperor, but currently, there was no soul beast on the Douluo Continent that possessed such a skill.

In the end, based on the data provided by the system, Tang Liu chose the Jade Spirit Fox, which could barely be associated with damage mitigation.

The Jade Spirit Fox was indeed a pure support-type soul beast, and their support only amplified the power of soul skills, not the soul beast itself.

On the surface, this had nothing to do with damage mitigation, but in Tang Liu's view, damage mitigation was essentially weakening the effect that an opponent's skill should have had.

So, if he could reverse the effect of the Jade Spirit Fox's skill amplification, perhaps he could fuse it into a damage-mitigation soul skill!

After all, soul rings produced by soul beasts often undergo a certain degree of mutation after fusing with a soul master, making the soul skill more suitable for the soul master themselves.

For example, Huo Yuhao's fourth soul ring came from a ten-thousand-year Silver Moon Wolf King that barely touched upon mental power, but after fusing with his Spirit Eye martial soul, it granted him an incredibly powerful single-target control skill: Mental Confusion. This was a perfect example.

However, this direct method of fusing soul rings still involved a degree of luck. Therefore, to ensure he obtained the exact soul skill he wanted, Tang Liu thought of using the Hao-Lan Mark to perform "Ring Borrowing."

While extracting the soul beast's soul skill, he would modify it to a certain extent, eventually turning it into a soul ring that carried the specific soul skill the soul master desired.

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

For instance, if you wanted a fifteen-thousand-year soul ring, the soul beast you were borrowing the ring from had to have a cultivation level exceeding fifteen thousand years, right?

In fact, only from a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast could one borrow a ten-thousand-year soul ring; this was the reason the system had brought 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, he would only have been able to borrow a thousand-year-level soul ring from it.

Fortunately, whether by luck or some other reason, Tang Liu had encountered this very Jade Spirit Fox beside him, which had just entered the hundred-thousand-year threshold and was still in a weakened state, allowing him to put his "Ring Borrowing" theory into practice.

Black energy accumulated more and more above the palm of Tang Liu's right hand, then began to slowly take the shape of a soul ring.

Because the Jade Spirit Fox beside him was a hundred-thousand-year beast, Tang Liu could shape the age of this soul ring himself, anywhere from one year to ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years.

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

About 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, merely sensing that the soul power within its body had decreased by a tiny fraction.

Once Tang Liu finished "Ring Borrowing," that consumed soul power was restored in an instant.