Whether Tang Hao had truly loved Ah Yin could no longer be known.
But Li Ping'an knew that Tang Hao had left the seed Ah Yin behind in a dark, damp secret chamber inside a mountain cave.
Anyone with common sense knew that plants needed sunlight and rain to grow, yet Tang Hao had treated the seed Ah Yin left behind this way.
If Ah Yin hadn't been the Blue Silver Emperor, an ordinary Blue Silver Grass would have died in that chamber long ago.
Even if he didn't know Ah Yin was still alive, he shouldn't have treated her keepsake that way.
Ah Yin's survival would help the Blue Silver King become an emperor, so the Blue Silver King certainly wouldn't stand by and do nothing.
If Tang Hao had returned Ah Yin's seed to the Blue Silver Forest, she might have been revived long ago with the Blue Silver King's help.
Maybe I'm not making this up after all! Li Ping'an thought.
If I get the chance, I'll send Tang Hao a system, then tell him the truth about Tang San's transmigration!
If the father and son turned against each other and tore into one another, Li Ping'an would be the first to sit back and enjoy the show!
But Tang Hao was too dangerous right now. Li Ping'an didn't dare send him a system.
Who knew if Tang Hao might suddenly go berserk and hammer him into the ground?
I wonder if Tang San has finished his newbie task, Li Ping'an thought.
The reward for Tang San's first task had been customized by Li Ping'an.
He could interfere with the Sub-System's tasks and customize its rewards. The system AI would automatically match the appropriate task or reward.
This time, Li Ping'an had customized Soul Power and a meditation method as the reward. The system had automatically matched the newbie task to the Sub-System's theme.
With the hope of cultivating now within reach, Li Ping'an no longer felt like continuing to weave straw sandals.
He opened the system interface, brought up the Spirit Encyclopedia, and began to study.
Knowledge-based rewards like this could be copied directly; he didn't have to take half of it.
But on Tang San's end, the reward really had been downgraded.
Before long, Li Ping'an was completely absorbed in his studies.
The various Martial Souls and Soul Beasts inside were just like the little picture books he'd read as a child in his previous life. He could never get tired of them.
After an unknown amount of time, a notification that popped up on the system interface jolted Li Ping'an out of his studies.
"Is that Tang San? Did he finish his task?"
[Congratulations, host. Sub-System host Tang San has completed the newbie task. Reward: Martial Soul Meditation Method (Spirit Academy Edition), Soul Power level 1.]
Seeing this, Li Ping'an took the Soul Power without hesitation, then copied the Martial Soul Meditation Method.
"Sorry, Tang San. I need Soul Power right now, so I'll have to make you suffer a little!"
He claimed the system reward and immediately felt a surge of power well up inside him before finally flowing into the place where his Martial Soul resided.
Unfortunately, his Martial Soul hadn't awakened yet, so he couldn't use this level of Soul Power unless he had the Mysterious Heaven Skill too.
Still, with this level of Soul Power, he'd be able to cultivate once his Martial Soul awakened in a couple of days.
"Tang San really came through. He actually dared to tamper with a Titled Douluo's breakfast!"
"In that case, let's give him his next task!"
Li Ping'an opened the system interface and activated the Sub-System belonging to Tang San.
My Martial Soul's about to awaken. Now that I have Soul Power, I can go to Notting Academy, too.
So what I need now is money, and more Soul Power!
Whether he went to school or helped support the family, he'd need money.
He had a system now. He couldn't let his parents in this life keep scraping a living from the fields, could he?
He'd done farm work in his previous life, too. He knew how hard it was to scratch a living from the land.
And his parents' Martial Soul was Blue Silver Grass, not something useful for farm work like a hoe or a sickle.
"System, match Tang San with a task that'll earn him Soul Power and Gold Soul Coins!"
[Searching the task database!] [Based on the current circumstances of Sub-System host Tang San, the maximum Gold Soul Coin reward for a matched task is 100 Gold Soul Coins, and the Soul Power reward is level 1.] [Would you like the system AI to match a task for the Sub-System host?]
Li Ping'an had grown accustomed to the system's restrictions.
The system couldn't very well send a child with only ten levels of Soul Power on an extremely difficult task, could it?
"Yes, match one," Li Ping'an silently replied.
By the riverside, Tang San was washing Tang Hao's clothes.
"Ugh! That's disgusting!"
The smell of the clothes made Tang San gag. He nearly threw up the breakfast he'd just eaten.
He already lived frugally, so he couldn't bear to waste food by vomiting it up. He could only force down the urge to retch.
Tang San hadn't expected the boomerang to come flying back at him.
He'd given Tang Hao a laxative, and Tang Hao had actually fallen for it—and soiled his pants.
That would've been bad enough, but he'd even dumped the clothes on Tang San to wash.
Was my poison really strong enough to poison a Titled Douluo? Tang San wondered.
Tang San circulated the Mysterious Jade Hand as he washed the foul-smelling clothes.
The Mysterious Jade Hand was one of the Tang Sect Secret Arts. It could block many kinds of poison, so naturally it could also keep the filth on Tang Hao's clothes from touching him.
Even so, he was starting to question his grasp on reality. Did Tang Hao really have no sense of shame?
If a normal person soiled his pants, wouldn't he secretly wash his own clothes?
But Tang Hao had actually made his son wash them!
Wait. Did he figure out I was the one who did it and is trying to get back at me like this?
But the laxative he'd used could also be called a detoxifying medicine. In his previous life, some Taoist cultivators used it while fasting in pursuit of the Dao. It wasn't poison at all.
Taken properly, it was even good for the body. It detoxified and beautified the skin, and was part of a Taoist fasting technique.
Just then, he heard the system's notification sound again.
He revered the system as a divine artifact, so he immediately opened it to take a look.
"A new task? The reward's actually 50 Gold Soul Coins, plus 0.5 levels of inner force?"
"That's 50 Gold Soul Coins! Tang Hao's been smithing for six years and hasn't earned that much!"
Although Tang San paid no attention to worldly affairs and devoted himself to cultivation, he still knew the value of a Gold Soul Coin.
"And 0.5 levels of inner force—that's equivalent to two months of hard cultivation!" Tang San calculated silently.
"Let's see what the task is first!"
The reward was so generous that Tang San couldn't wait to start the new task.
[Tang Hao doesn't understand poison, so your revenge hasn't aroused his suspicions!] [You're still nowhere near a match for Tang Hao. Be patient, young man! But you can choose other ways to get back at him!] [Newbie Task 2: Poison Tang Hao three more times!]
Tang San frowned. Wouldn't this task be too dangerous?
He'd always been cautious. What if Tang Hao caught him poisoning him again?
He had no idea just how powerful a Titled Douluo was, but he knew that he was absolutely no match for one right now.
Then he glanced at the reward and felt that it wasn't such a dilemma after all.
That was 50 Gold Soul Coins—just what he needed to forge Tang Sect Hidden Weapons and strengthen himself.
Mother, I'll avenge you!
In Tang San's eyes, treating Tang Hao this way wasn't unfilial. On the contrary, it was true filial piety, because he was avenging his mother.
Besides, these were instructions from the divine artifact called the "system," which amounted to instructions from "the heavens."
Heaven, sovereign, parents, and teachers—in the education he'd received in his previous life, "heaven" came before "parents"!
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