Especially after learning that Tang Hao and the Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin, seemed to be expecting a child, the news once again sent shockwaves through the entire human world of the Douluo Continent.
"I can't believe that traitor Tang Hao and that Soul Beast are expecting a child! They deserve to die!"
"Could they give birth to some disgusting creature like the Wolf Bandits?"
"No wonder that Soul Beast seduced the genius Tang Hao. She must be trying to create plant-men even more terrifying than the Wolf Bandits!"
The Wolf Bandits were like goblins on the Douluo Continent.
You could say they were human, but you could also say they weren't.
They were the result of humans breeding with a type of Soul Beast known as the Gale Demon Wolf. Gale Demon Wolves could mate with nearly any creature of a similar size, and they especially liked to rape human women. When they mated with human women, they gave birth to the special species known as Wolf Bandits. They were half-wolf, half-human monsters.
Wolf Bandits were born with the physique, speed, and some of the innate abilities of Gale Demon Wolves. They also possessed a certain degree of human intelligence, and were extremely bloodthirsty and lustful. Wherever Wolf Bandits appeared, the people living there were doomed.
They didn't just plunder. They also killed humans and used them as food. They kept the women for a time so they could rape them; those who didn't become pregnant eventually became food as well.
Every Wolf Bandit was at least as strong as a Spirit Master of level twenty or thirty. Five hundred Wolf Bandits could defeat a regular army of ten thousand. They possessed immense strength and could even manipulate the wind to a certain extent, making them akin to low-level Soul Beasts.
Everyone feared that Tang Hao and the Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin, would give birth to a monster like the Wolf Bandits. One was humanity's youngest peerless genius, while the other was a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast. The danger their child might pose was unimaginable. If it came to that, they would all be in danger.
As a result, the forces hunting Tang Hao and the Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin, redoubled their efforts.
They absolutely couldn't let them give birth to that child!
At the same time, they saw it as an opportunity to obtain a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone. How could the various forces let it slip by?
Tang Hao and the Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin, hardly dared show themselves in the human world. For a time, they even went into hiding under assumed names, afraid to reveal their Martial Souls or their strength.
Yet people kept finding them. They would flee, be discovered again, and run once more. They rarely had any time to live in safety and stability.
Tang Hao had already reached level eighty-nine, while the Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin, still hadn't become a Soul Saint or entered the mature stage of her life as a human.
After learning Tang Hao and the Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin's exact whereabouts, Qian Xunji personally came to invite him to join the pursuit.
"Elder Li, Spirit Hall has pinpointed the location of Tang Hao and that Blue Silver Emperor. Would you be interested in coming with us to hunt them down?"
"Gladly. I'd like to see what this man who's made an enemy of the whole world for love is really like."
Li Pu agreed without hesitation.
As the story's evil began, Li Pu didn't refuse. He wanted to witness Tang San's birth, and he also felt a powerful urge inside him to go along.
Li Pu knew that the so-called gods had begun to sway his thoughts.
Then I'll go. If I don't go this time, there'll be another chance. I might as well face it now.
A triumphant smile appeared on Qian Xunji's face. He was thrilled at the thought of finally removing the eyesore, the stain that had been vexing him.
"That's wonderful. With Elder Li there, perhaps we'll achieve an unexpected result."
But deep down, he was impatient to get rid of Li Pu. He had to stop coveting what belonged to Qian Xunji.
And so, Qian Xunji set out to hunt Tang Hao and the Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin, accompanied by the Chrysanthemum and Ghost Duo, several Titled Douluo, a group of high-ranking Soul Douluo, and a little boy barely in his teens who wasn't a Titled Douluo.
No one questioned Li Pu's strength. Though his Soul Power was far below theirs, the God of Slaughter who had fought his way out of the Hell Slaughter Arena in Slaughter City could crush them all when it came to actual combat ability.
As it happened, Bibi Dong was in seclusion at the time, breaking through to the next level. She knew nothing about this. Had she known, she would certainly have stopped them.
By the time she found out, it was already too late.
Meanwhile, in another unknown martial-arts world.
A man in his thirties stood at the edge of a mountain peak. Behind him lay Ghost Sorrow Cliff, the Tang Sect's dead end.
Facing the seventeen elders of his own Tang Sect, he calmly shredded his clothes, baring himself completely.
At his feet lay three Buddha Fury Tang Lotuses, weapons no one in the Tang Sect had crafted in a hundred years.
He proclaimed, with utmost arrogance, that he had stolen the Tang Sect's secret manuals twenty years ago, learned the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, and spent those twenty years making them.
Then he declared that his loyalty to the Tang Sect could be proven only by his death. In a flash, he leaped toward Ghost Sorrow Cliff behind him, ready to begin his life of evil on the Douluo Continent.
The Tang Sect elders were all stunned by this turn of events.
The Tang Sect's sect master's eyes grew moist, and his hands trembled as he picked up the Buddha Fury Tang Lotus Tang San had left behind.
"Tang San, Tang San. What on earth is going on inside that head of yours?"
"You knew perfectly well that the Tang Sect had been in decline for centuries. With the Buddha Fury Tang Lotus, you could have restored the Tang Sect to its place among the foremost sects of the martial world. Did you really think the sect rules would still punish you?"
"Jumping off a cliff? What a fool!"
One elder agreed. "Could Tang San have thought that if he didn't die, the other disciples would follow his example? That if they couldn't learn something, they'd just steal it? That nobody would have to obey the sect rules anymore?"
Another elder disagreed. "He was able to make the Buddha Fury Tang Lotus. Did he really not know he could change his name and keep serving the Tang Sect? I think he was just afraid of our brutal punishments and wanted to run away!"
The other elders all chimed in with their opinions. "Exactly! If he really wanted what was best for the Tang Sect, why run? He must have tried to flee after committing a crime, failed, and then killed himself out of guilt!"
"If he thought he was guilty, why not accept punishment according to the Tang Sect's rules? He acted loyal on the surface, but in reality, he just didn't dare take the chance. He was afraid we'd torture him if we caught him. He was just afraid we'd make him wish he were dead!"
"I remember we have a top-secret record saying there's an entrance to another world beneath Ghost Sorrow Cliff, but no one has ever figured out how to open it. Could Tang San have discovered the way in and planned to take everything from the Tang Sect with him so he could found his own sect?"
"That damn bastard! To think he'd had treacherous intentions all along. Keeping something like that from the sect means he's on the Way of Seeking Death!"
"Obviously! He dared to steal the Tang Sect's secret manuals when he was only nine. That proves he'd had treacherous intentions from the start. He was no good!"
Even the Tang Sect's sect master began to doubt himself. He too thought that Tang San might not have been willing to remain under someone else's command for long and wanted to be the boss. Perhaps he hadn't believed the Tang Sect would treat him well, and had decided to build a Tang Sect of his own in another world instead.
The Tang Sect's sect master declared solemnly, "Regardless, mobilize every Tang Sect disciple to search for Tang San below Ghost Sorrow Cliff. Bring me back the living man or his corpse!"
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