Ah Yin

Afterward, Gu Yue'er helped Huang Tian test his Innate Soul Power. Without a doubt, it was the full level of ten.

Exceeding level ten required a divine gift, meaning there was someone in the heavens.

By the time they finished, it was already bright daylight. Whether it was because both new martial souls consumed a lot of energy, his stomach quickly grew hungry, and the hunger was several times more intense than usual.

Huang Tian steamed a large pot of rice and stir-fried several dishes. Gu Yue'er only tasted a few bites, and the rest was all devoured by him, finally feeling his energy restored.

Seeing her disciple and husband had eaten his fill, his master and wife immediately stood up and said impatiently:

"Is there anything here particularly worth your attention? Pack it up, and we'll go hunt for soul rings. We won't be coming back after this. We'll stay in Notting City for a few months, then go live in Heaven Dou City."

The reason for waiting in Notting City for a few months was to take Xiao Wu with them.

As for going to Heaven Dou City, Huang Tian needed a database with sufficient quality and quantity of information to research the formula for the limit of soul rings. Only the Martial Soul Hall could provide it, where a fake crown prince disguised as a man was hiding.

Huang Tian shook his head.

"There's nothing worth my attention, but I need to visit my parents' graves and tell them I'm about to become a Soul Master."

His parents' graves were in the back mountain, less than a kilometer away. It wasn't very suitable for farming there, so the villagers buried their deceased there.

Huang Tian didn't disown his parents in this life because of his memories from his previous life, nor did he feel he owed them little gratitude for dying at the age of four.

Regardless, this body was given to him by them. Their poverty and illness were not their wish, they were just unfortunate souls.

He kowtowed respectfully, prayed according to local customs, and told them about his martial soul awakening and his impending departure.

On the way out, Huang Tian was about to go and greet the village chief, so he wouldn't worry about his sudden disappearance.

From a distance, he saw and heard Wang Defa holding the back of his head, saying speechlessly to his father:

"The village's martial soul awakening needs to be postponed for a few days. I set off from Notting City before dawn, but halfway here, I was attacked by some scoundrel. The martial soul awakening stone and the crystal ball for testing soul power were both lost."

The village chief was shocked.

"Are you injured? Did you see what the attacker looked like?"

"I didn't see them, I didn't even sense how they got close, but I'm sure they must be a support-type. I took a hard hit to the back of my head and fainted on the spot. When I woke up, the bloodstain on the stick was still wet, but there was no wound on my head and I felt no pain. They must have felt guilty after hitting me and healed me too."

Huang Tian silently lowered his head.

"Who could be such a heinous yet kind-hearted criminal? It's so hard to guess, damn it, I can't guess at all."

"There aren't many martial souls with healing abilities. For a support-type to instantly defeat a combat-type, they need to be at least two major realms higher. They couldn't even get close without being sensed. Two rings, or even more. Knowing Wang Defa is a Soul Elder, exceeding him by more than two realms means he's a Soul Emperor or above. Plus, the Heaven Dou Empire, and not being a member of the Martial Soul Hall. Then, there's only one truth: Ning Fengzhi, are you going to confess? To avoid suspicion, they deliberately ran to a remote border area and disguised themselves as a black hand from the Star Luo Empire. What a deep scheme."

"Teacher, do you have any money?"

"No, why?"

Huang Tian didn't press why a dignified Title Douluo would be unable to produce a single coin. He decided that once they reached Notting City, he would pick a few wealthy and unscrupulous wealth custodians and borrow some to give to the villagers. The villagers hadn't helped him much, but they had helped him with small favors constantly. Just not being exploited was worth his gratitude.

Gu Yue'er casually found an excuse, telling the village chief that she had seen Huang Tian training while flying overhead and was curious about the child. After helping him awaken his martial soul, she discovered he had good talent and decided to take him as a disciple and teach him wholeheartedly.

After bidding farewell to the village, Huang Tian was held in her arms as they flew towards the depths of the mountain range. This place served as the border between the two countries because it was covered in continuous mountains and ridges, making it extremely difficult to defend. It wouldn't be easy for anyone to break through.

Along the way, his wife and teacher occasionally explained some of the precautions for Soul Master cultivation. Her husband and disciple listened very attentively, committing every word to memory. Receiving cultivation experience personally taught by a God King was a treatment not everyone could have.

After about half an hour, they saw a small hill surrounded by mountains, about two to three hundred meters high. Facing them was a cliff, with a waterfall cascading down from the top. The surroundings were lush green, and beneath their feet was a tranquil lake as blue as a sapphire.

Huang Tian felt the terrain was very familiar at first glance. When he realized where it was, his heart immediately rejoiced. For the first soul ring of the Blue Silver Saint Emperor, there was indeed no better choice than the one before him.

Even though the Silver Dragon King suppressed her realm to Title Douluo, her mental power coverage and detection accuracy were astonishing. Although it was her first time here, she navigated as if she were familiar with it.

With a wave of her arm, the water surged upward. With another wave, she violently destroyed the stone mechanism, revealing a deep, hidden passage behind it, and flew in with Huang Tian.

The end of the passage was exactly as described in the original work: a small stone room about ten square meters. A finger-thick hole was drilled in the ceiling, leading outside. The morning sun was not shining directly into the opening, so only a faint light could be seen, making the space very dim. The stone room was empty, with no furnishings. In the center sat a small mound of earth, less than fifty centimeters high. A small blue grass, with a third resemblance to his martial soul and adorned with gold and silver patterns, grew on the mound.

"What a sin!" Even though he had seen it in the book and countless fanfiction authors had heavily criticized it.

Huang Tian couldn't help but shake his head, a sigh escaping him.

According to Tang Hao's description, Ah Yin could revive within forty-nine days no matter how severe her injuries, and as long as the Blue Silver Emperor was in the forest, she was invincible, able to devour the life force of other plants to restore herself.

Yet, he turned around and placed his wife in this sunless cave, where, as a plant, she couldn't see sunlight and lacked sufficient soil and moisture below.

Her most powerful life and devouring attributes were rendered useless due to her inability to access other plants.

Some fanfiction authors suspected Tang Hao knew there could only be one Blue Silver Grass Emperor and intended to wait for his son to grow up before attempting to seize that position.

Fearing his wife would die completely and give birth to a new Emperor, yet also fearing she would quickly recover and reclaim the throne, keeping her in a state between life and death was the best option.

He couldn't be sure before, but now it seemed this wasn't just baseless speculation.

That rat's schemes were not ordinary, and his acting skills were also exceptional.

Gu Yue'er, however, didn't indulge in melancholy. She gently patted the wall beside her, triggering a mechanism, and a two-meter-long, heavy lead box immediately dropped down.

She then grabbed Ah Yin's torso and uprooted her, not even bothering to clean up the scene, and brazenly flew away again.

(Note: Ah Yin served as the protagonist's Soul Ring in the early stages, later transformed into a Soul Spirit, and will be resurrected in the later stages. She is also one of the heroines.)