"A Soul Master killing a Soul Beast is only right and proper!"
"You, Tang Hao, defied all human decency and consorted with a Soul Beast. You killed two Titled Douluo from Spirit Hall, and even my son died indirectly by your hand!"
"You truly are a traitor to humankind!"
Qian Daoliu gritted his teeth.
Some Unknown Forest (The original really does call it the "Unknown Forest," okay!)
An aged face formed on the trunk of the Blue Silver King.
Staring at the Sky Screen, he immediately burst into tears.
"Your Majesty! Where on earth have you gone?!"
The Blue Silver King let out a wail and began to sob.
Just then, the Sky Screen's narration turned low and oppressive, and the scene grew dim.
[Paper could never keep the truth hidden forever.
When word reached the mighty Spirit Hall that a Titled Douluo had fallen in love with a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, a catastrophe that would sweep across the continent was already inevitable.]
The scene suddenly changed!
Several powerful figures streaked across the sky. At their head was a man dressed in an ornate papal robe, holding the Angel Holy Sword. His face was handsome, but his expression carried a hint of greed and arrogance.
It was none other than Qian Xunji, the former Pope of Spirit Hall!
Behind him were two Titled Douluo, along with several elders of Spirit Hall.
Their target was the pair desperately fleeing in the distance.
Tang Hao and... Ah Yin, who was already heavily pregnant and struggling to move!
"Boom—!"
The entire continent erupted at the sight!
"Spirit Hall! Spirit Hall again!"
"What are they doing?
Hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?
That Ah Yin is a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?!"
"My god! They're attacking a pregnant woman!"
"Are you an idiot? What else are Soul Masters supposed to kill if not Soul Beasts?
And Tang Hao's a traitor on top of that, consorting with a Soul Beast? That makes me sick. He went and fucked a blade of grass?"
In the scene, Qian Xunji's lofty voice rang across the sky:
"Tang Hao!
Hand over that Soul Beast. For the sake of the Clear Sky Sect, I may spare your life!
A mere Soul Beast is fated to be killed!"
"Tang Hao, I'm truly ashamed of you.
I feel sorry for the Clear Sky Sect!"
Faced with Qian Xunji's taunts and threats, the sharpness in Tang Hao's eyes turned into pure murderous intent.
Yet the Sky Screen's narration mercilessly revealed the cruel truth.
[At this point, Tang Hao was already at the peak of Soul Douluo, but he had yet to absorb his ninth Soul Ring. He was still no match for a Titled Douluo.
Facing him were Pope Qian Xunji and two other genuine Titled Douluo, with a host of Spirit Hall Soul Douluo and Soul Saint experts behind them.]
[This was a battle with no chance of victory.]
Tang Hao wasted no words. He answered Qian Xunji with action.
He shielded Ah Yin behind him and motioned for her to retreat into the cave. Then, like an iron tower, he planted himself in their path, hammer in hand.
The battle was about to erupt!
But at that tense moment, a baby's clear, piercing cry suddenly rang out from inside the cave.
The sound brought the bloodthirsty battlefield to a standstill.
Tang Hao shuddered and looked back toward the cave, joy and worry flickering in his eyes.
Qian Xunji furrowed his brow. His greedy gaze swept past Tang Hao and into the cave.
"A child? A Soul Beast's child?
Good. We'll deal with it too!"
Before the words had even left his mouth, he transformed into a streak of golden light and thrust the Angel Holy Sword at Tang Hao!
The battle erupted in an instant!
Tang Hao roared and swung his hammer to meet him.
But one pair of fists couldn't fend off four hands. The other two Titled Douluo flanked him, and the light of countless Soul Skills completely swallowed his figure.
Just as everyone thought Tang Hao was about to meet his end, a gentle yet dazzling red light shot skyward from the cave, instantly enveloping the entire battlefield.
In the scene, Ah Yin emerged slowly, holding a swaddled baby.
Her face was pale and her breathing weak, but her gaze was unwavering.
She gently placed the child in Tang Hao's arms, tenderly caressed the baby's cheek, then looked deeply at Tang Hao, who was covered in wounds.
"Hao, take our child and live..."
Before she had even finished speaking, Ah Yin turned resolutely to face Qian Xunji and the others, spreading her arms wide.
"No—!"
Tang Hao's eyes bulged with anguish as he let out a heart-rending roar.
Qian Xunji and the others turned pale too, crying out in alarm:
"It's a sacrifice!
She's going to sacrifice herself!
Stop her!"
But it was too late.
[The most overbearing ability of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was not an attack, but a sacrifice.
It offered its life, cultivation, and soul without reservation to the one it loved most.
Once it began, not even the gods could stop it.]
Beyond the Sky Screen, at Shrek Academy.
Tang San watched the scene on the Sky Screen, his body trembling violently.
Tang San gazed at the gentle woman on the Sky Screen, watched her walk resolutely toward death to protect his father and the infant version of himself.
His mind went blank, and his heart felt as if it had been torn apart.
Was this... why I had no mother?
So my birth came with my mother's death!
And the culprit... was Spirit Hall!
Tang San's eyes reddened in an instant, and tears spilled uncontrollably down his face.
Tang San instinctively clenched his pocket.
Inside were the Gold Soul Coins he had collected from the Spirit Hall Branch that very morning. Their icy touch now felt scorching hot, like a branding iron, searing his soul.
He gripped the Gold Soul Coin that represented Spirit Hall. His knuckles whitened with the force of his grip as he swore, word by word, a blood-red oath in his heart.
[Spirit Hall... I, Tang San, will never rest until you and I are at war!]
On the Sky Screen, the light of the sacrifice reached its peak.
Ah Yin's figure slowly faded in the red glow, transforming into pure energy that surged into Tang Hao's body.
Tang Hao's Soul Power bottleneck shattered in an instant!
Level 90!
Level 91!
A dazzling, scarlet-red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring formed beneath his feet with a thunderous boom!
As the light faded, Ah Yin's figure vanished completely, leaving only a translucent blue leg bone and a Blue Silver Grass seed glimmering faintly as they floated in the air.
Tang Hao reached out and caught the seed and Soul Bone. There was no sorrow left in his eyes, only a towering rage and killing intent powerful enough to burn the Eight Desolations to ashes.
Tang Hao lowered his head and glanced at the son in his arms, who had fallen asleep amid the immense surge of energy. Then he raised his head, his blood-red eyes locking onto Qian Xunji and the others, who stared back in utter horror.
"You... will all die!"
Before he had even finished speaking, Tang Hao held Tang San in one arm and raised the Clear Sky Hammer high with the other!
The nine Soul Rings behind him flared to life, especially the final blood-red ring, which erupted in a blinding light!
[Great Sumeru Hammer's secret art—Ring Detonation!]
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A series of explosions rang out as the Soul Rings behind Tang Hao detonated one after another with unprecedented fury, transforming into overwhelming power that poured into the Clear Sky Hammer!
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