"Once you've rested enough, get back to training."
The instructor's casual remark brought the children to their senses at once. They returned to their respective training spots, leaving the best area empty without a word.
As for the unfortunate Wang Li, the instructor called an assistant over to help carry him to the infirmary. At that moment, the instructor looked at Dong'er with a feverish gleam in his eyes.
He had just sensed Dong'er's strength: at least level fourteen in Soul Power. Though she was still inexperienced in battle, her talent was plain to see.
Such a genius would undoubtedly achieve great things in the future. Being able to teach her was a stroke of incredible luck. Once Dong'er's cultivation grew, even a little reward slipping through her fingers would be enough to send this level-fifty instructor soaring to success.
Ye Tian spent a few days with Dong'er at the academy. On the last day, he exchanged Fate Points for 500 Foundation Strengthening Pills.
"Dong'er, keep these Foundation Strengthening Pills safe. How you use them is up to you."
"Yue Guan and Gui Mei are devoted to you, but their strength doesn't rank among the best in Spirit Hall. Don't let your two masters in on certain secrets."
"Also, train hard. When I visit next time, you mustn't cry."
"Mm!"
Dong'er nodded firmly and stepped forward, squeezing herself into Brother Ye Tian's embrace. The parting she hated most had come around again. How wonderful it would be if Brother Ye Tian didn't have to leave.
Once she became the greatest person on this continent, she would never let Brother Ye Tian leave again!
Watching Ye Tian disappear, six-year-old Bibi Dong made up her mind.
When Ye Tian's consciousness returned to his body, dawn had just broken outside. The wards he had set up around the room remained unchanged; the night had passed peacefully.
Then came the system's settlement.
"Host, based on calculations, your visit to the dream greatly altered Bibi Dong's fate. You are rewarded with one divine artifact, the Breath-Concealing Bead, and 20,000 Fate Points."
Including the Fate Points settled over the previous few days, Ye Tian had accumulated more than 50,000.
He drew a crystal-clear bead from the system's inventory. Countless colors shimmered across its surface. It was the divine artifact he had been rewarded: the Breath-Concealing Bead.
Ye Tian used his blood to bind it to himself. As he sensed the connection between himself and the bead, a torrent of information surged out of it.
After a good while, Ye Tian put the bead away, his face pale and a smile tugging at his lips.
Now that he had bound it, he fully understood what the Breath-Concealing Bead could do. As long as he activated it, no one in the world would be able to find any trace he left behind.
With the Breath-Concealing Bead, he could go almost anywhere on this continent.
Ye Tian quickly thought of a good place. Ah Yin and her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone were still in Holy Soul Village. Tang Hao, that hypocrite, claimed to miss his wife, yet had buried the Blue Silver Emperor in a sunless cave.
After leaving, Ye Tian made a quick trip to Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy. Tang San wasn't there. He spent a few Soul Coins asking around and learned that the Grandmaster had taken Tang San to the Soul Beast Forest two days earlier.
The Clear Sky Douluo would surely be close by while his precious son hunted a Soul Beast for the first time.
The opportunity in Holy Soul Village ought to be his.
Without wasting another moment, Ye Tian set off for Holy Soul Village.
An hour later, Ye Tian arrived at a waterfall roaring outside Holy Soul Village. The detector in his hand was flashing with a golden point, which indicated a spot directly behind the waterfall before him.
Ye Tian inspected it carefully and soon spotted a cave entrance behind the falling water. He activated the Breath-Concealing Bead, plunged straight through the waterfall, and entered a dark, damp cave.
Following the cave to its deepest point, he saw sunlight falling through a hole in the ceiling about the size of a fist. On the ground, a Blue Silver Grass no bigger than his palm greedily soaked up the ray.
Ye Tian glanced at the ceiling and couldn't help thinking that their Clear Sky Douluo loved his wife with a truly profound devotion.
That single ray of sunlight could fall on the Blue Silver Grass for at most one hour a day. Tang Hao was probably afraid that Ah Yin would absorb too much sunlight and recover her strength.
By Ye Tian's estimation, the frail Blue Silver Grass before him hadn't even cultivated for ten years. He circled it, and soon sensed something strange near a mound of soil.
One punch sent the dirt exploding outward, revealing a translucent, pale-blue Soul Bone buried beneath it. It radiated a rich aura of life. Just standing near it, Ye Tian could feel every cell in his body crying out with longing.
As expected of a Soul Bone from a Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor. Just absorbing this right leg bone might add a hundred years to his lifespan out of nowhere.
Ye Tian put the Soul Bone away, then looked at the Blue Silver Grass that was Ah Yin and spoke to her as if negotiating.
"Ah Yin, I'm rescuing you from this hellhole today. This right leg bone will be my payment. If you don't say anything, I'll take that as your agreement."
The cave remained silent.
Ye Tian's smile grew. "Ah Yin, you made the best choice."
Ye Tian happily browsed the System Mall for flowerpots and soil suited to Plant-type Soul Beasts. Soon, he found two items he liked.
[Severely Depleted Origin Soil: The soil's Origin Soil is extremely depleted, but it can still greatly nourish Soul Beasts under ten thousand years old.]
[Spirit-Nurturing Pot: Can slowly absorb Soul Beast blood and produce nutrients.]
The two items cost 5,000 Fate Points in total. Ye Tian bought them at once.
The next moment, a palm-sized flowerpot appeared in Ye Tian's hand, filled with rich, oily black soil.
He carried it toward the Blue Silver Grass. Starved for six years, the Blue Silver Grass sensed the flowerpot's irresistible allure. Its two leaves began swaying of their own accord, stretching eagerly toward the pot.
"Tang Hao, Ah Yin chose this herself."
Hundreds of miles away in the Soul Beast Forest, Tang Hao was guarding his precious son when an inexplicable pang of unease suddenly struck him. He hurriedly looked toward his son. Little San was focused on absorbing his Soul Ring, and by all appearances, it was going smoothly.
The unease passed in a flash, as if it had been nothing but his imagination.
"Ah Yin, can you see? Our child has already begun to grow."
"It won't be long before Little San and I destroy Spirit Hall and avenge you!"
Shabby-looking Tang Hao muttered to himself in the shadows. The deep devotion on his lips was exactly like that of the future God King Tang. If Ye Tian had seen this scene, he would have understood what it meant for the rotten upper beam to make the lower one crooked.
"Do you want to come inside?"
"It's very comfortable in here."
In the cave, Ye Tian was in a playful mood. He teased Ah Yin, whose instincts were all that remained, watching as she stretched her leaves toward the soil.
If Ah Yin's body could move, she would have pulled herself out of the soil already. But Ye Tian refused to let her have her way. Every time her leaves stretched toward him, he immediately moved the pot farther away.
If Ah Yin had been conscious, she would have been furious enough to curse him out.
But now she had only the instincts of a plant and could only let Ye Tian tease her.
"Clear Sky Douluo, I'll gladly accept this generous gift of yours, Ah Yin."
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