Tang San, I'll Take Your Mom Away First!

Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin?!

Tang San's mom?

Damn it, how had I forgotten about her?!

Her being his mom wasn't important. What mattered was that there was treasure beside her right now!

Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone—the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone!

For a moment, Xiao Yin's thoughts raced.

"The mission itself isn't difficult. The hard part is that Tang Hao bastard is troublesome to deal with right now!

But since the mission says Ah Yin possesses such a powerful obsession with loneliness, doesn't that mean Tang Hao hasn't been there in a long time?

Or perhaps that bastard isn't even in the Heaven Dou Empire right now?!"

The lonely lament revealed by the mission involuntarily reminded him of the helplessness he had felt when the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had thrown him out...

Fellow wanderers at the ends of the earth...

"System, location!"

Xiao Yin's voice was low and decisive, a trace of resolve flashing through his eyes.

Fortune was found amid danger!

As long as he moved quickly enough and stayed hidden enough!

No matter how powerful Tang Hao was, he was too far away to do anything now!

[Ding! The target location has been marked on the host's mental map!]

A clear mental map instantly appeared in Xiao Yin's mind, with a flashing point marked to the northwest.

He did not linger. His figure became a gust of wind as he raced toward the target at full speed.

Five hours later, Xiao Yin's position was about to overlap with the location marked on the map.

Before him was a raging river. The roaring water plunged from a cliff, forming a waterfall that was not particularly large.

Mist filled the air, obscuring his vision.

The marker on the mental map was behind this waterfall!

Xiao Yin took a deep breath, circulated Soul Power to protect his entire body, and plunged into the waterfall!

Passing through the curtain of water and reaching the deepest part of the cave, he found only a crude stone chamber.

A faint aura of life filled the room... along with an inescapable loneliness and sorrow.

There was nothing else in the stone chamber, only a small mound of earth with a strange Blue Silver Grass growing quietly atop it.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Yin honestly had never been able to understand it.

Tang Hao clearly knew of the Blue Silver King and knew that the Blue Silver King's sacrifice could accelerate Ah Yin's recovery, yet he had insisted on hiding Ah Yin away—and fucking hidden her in a cave, at that!

Planting a plant seed in a cave was absolutely insane when one thought about it!

Xiao Yin crouched down and observed it carefully.

It was completely different from ordinary Blue Silver Grass.

Its blades were broad and thick, an elegant blue-gold color like warm jade, radiating a gentle yet noble presence.

Yet beneath that nobility, Xiao Yin's powerful spiritual power clearly "heard" its silent wail—

Coldness, darkness, boundless loneliness... they spread from the grass like a tide, nearly drowning the entire cave.

"Light... so cold... so dark... Hao... where are you..."

A faint soul whisper, carrying heart-wrenching despair, echoed directly through Xiao Yin's sea of consciousness.

This was Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin!

A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had taken human form and sacrificed everything for her husband, Tang Hao!

Yet now, only a wisp of her remnant soul remained, entrusted to this fragile imperial grass, enduring loneliness as she waited for the husband who might never return.

Xiao Yin's heartstrings were fiercely tugged.

"What a Tang Hao! To revive his wife, he actually made her endure such pain? How selfish could this so-called devotion be!"

But he quickly suppressed that ill-timed pity and resentment.

The mission had to be completed!

He carefully approached, afraid of disturbing the fragile soul.

His powerful spiritual power was like the most precise scanner, instantly enveloping the entire Blue Silver Emperor.

"Blue Silver Emperor," Xiao Yin attempted to communicate with his spiritual power, his voice gentle yet firm and carrying a soothing strength.

"I've come to take you away from here, away from this eternal loneliness."

The pervasive wail seemed to pause for an instant.

The Blue Silver Emperor's leaves swayed gently without wind, as if searching in confusion.

A weak but clear thought was conveyed:

"Who... are you? Leave...?... Hao... will be angry... he... will find me..."

"Me? I'm here to save you. I... am like you..."

Xiao Yin revealed Taotie's ferocious Soul Beast aura.

He suddenly realized that having the identity of a Soul Beast in human form seemed quite useful!

Later, he would see whether the system shop had an item that could make the false identity Xiao Wu had arranged for him real!

"As for Tang Hao?"

Xiao Yin's spiritual power carried a deliberately guiding sigh and coldness.

"I've heard of him. If he truly cared about you, how could he bear to imprison you alone in this lightless cage, making you endure endless loneliness and coldness?

You sacrificed yourself for him and gave him a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, yet all he gave you was waiting and pain.

Think carefully. How long has it been since he came to see you? Is such 'protection,' such 'deep affection,' worth waiting for?

Is it worth it?"

Xiao Yin's words were like a cold chisel, striking fiercely against the already fragile defenses of Ah Yin's remnant soul.

Yes... endless darkness, bone-piercing cold, eternal loneliness... Hao, where were you?

Why had he left her here alone?

Was his love truly just locking her in darkness?

Or had he... already forgotten her!

The grievance and pain she had deliberately suppressed surged forth like floodwaters bursting through a dam under Xiao Yin's spiritual guidance!

The remnant soul's thoughts fluctuated violently, filled with struggle.

Under immense pain and Xiao Yin's bewitchment, Ah Yin's remnant soul erupted with a dazzling blue light!

It was a yearning for freedom, a plea for release!

The blue light lasted for several seconds, then... went out...

Xiao Yin felt as though she had... gone offline?

"Hey, wake up. Hey, hey, are you alright?"

Ah Yin: ...

If his spiritual power had not still been able to sense Ah Yin's remnant soul, Xiao Yin might have thought she had been provoked to death by his words!

Seeing that she seemed to have fallen asleep, Xiao Yin helplessly shrugged.

He then used his spiritual power to sense the surrounding stone walls before suddenly striking a protruding spot with his palm!

Boom—!

A black box fell from the top of the cave wall!

"It really is here!"

Xiao Yin carefully opened the lead box before him. The instant it opened, an incomparably dense force of life rushed toward him!

A crystalline blue-gold Spirit Bone emerged!

Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone—the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone!

After examining it for a few moments, Xiao Yin suppressed his desire and placed it back in the box, storing it in his Soul Tool.

Not only was this place unsuitable, but Xiao Yin also intended to obtain his second soul ring and break through to level 20 before absorbing it.

Otherwise, wouldn't the energy within this Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone be wasted!

"Looks like I need to hurry to the Star Dou Forest. Being stuck at this level is way too frustrating..."

With that, Xiao Yin transplanted Ah Yin into a flowerpot he casually fashioned.

Then he planted an ordinary Blue Silver Grass, randomly picked from the roadside on his way here, in the original spot before turning to leave.

A necessary precaution.

Oh, right. Before leaving, he scattered that packet of Shadow Stealth Powder along the route.

It was better to be conservative and cautious. There was no harm in it!

[Ding! Mission "Take Her Away from the Eternal Prison" completed!]

[Mission rewards issued: Wish Value +500 (Current: 500); [Blue Silver Emperor Source Dew] ×1; passive skill [Vegetation Affinity] comprehended; Ah Yin's remnant soul's eternal gratitude (Status: asleep/extremely weak).]

"500 Wish Value! Hahaha, I'm finally rich!"