Tang Hao: Xiao San, Your Mother Has Been Taken Away!

The hinterland of the back mountain.

The sound of the 100-meter waterfall was deafening.

The misty spray was blown about by the strong wind.

Tang Hao slapped the waterfall aside, flashed through the water curtain, and entered the dark and damp cave.

The cave remained dark and gloomy.

The air reeked of a nauseating musty smell.

The moment Tang Hao stepped into the cave, the hairs on his body stood on end.

There was no breath.

There was absolutely no familiar life force from the Blue Silver Emperor inside the cave.

Tang Hao's heart clenched violently, and cold sweat poured down his back.

He rushed towards the rock crevice in the center of the cave as fast as he could.

That's where Ah Yin settled down.

It is a seedling reborn after Ah Yin's sacrifice.

This was also the second 100,000-year gift he prepared for Tang San.

But now, the gap is empty!

There were no blades of grass gleaming with gold.

There was no trace of life activity.

All that's left is a pile of scattered, wet mud!

"No... impossible!"

"Where's Ah Yin?!"

Tang Hao lunged forward like a madman, his knees slamming heavily onto the hard rock.

He stretched out his hands and groped aimlessly in the cold cracks of the rocks.

His fingernails were filled with dirt.

The sharp corner of the stone cut his finger, and blood flowed freely. But he couldn't touch anything.

No.

There was nothing there.

Not even a broken blade of grass or a sliver of a root could be found.

The Blue Silver Emperor Sapling that he had kept hidden in the cave for more than ten years simply vanished into thin air.

Tang Hao's breathing became completely disordered.

He suddenly looked up, his gaze fixed on the high part of the side wall.

There was originally a hidden stone box carved out there.

The stone box contains the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, left behind by Ah Yin in her sacrifice.

But at this very moment.

The lid of the stone box had been carelessly pried open, and it lay askew to one side.

The stone box was completely empty.

The Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone that originally emitted a ghostly blue glow has disappeared.

The grass is gone.

The bones are gone too.

Tang Hao remained kneeling in place, his whole body trembling violently.

The bloodthirsty courage he had displayed just moments before, having wiped out an entire patrol, vanished in an instant.

Instead, there was unprecedented fear and despair.

That was his trump card, which he had been planning for over a decade.

That was the most precious treasure he intended to leave to his son, Tang San.

That was his ultimate asset for taking revenge on the Spirit Hall.

Now, it's all gone.

Tang Hao's voice was weak, filled with heart-wrenching despair.

"Ah Yin... where's Ah Yin...?"

"Where is my Soul Bone...?"

"Who... who took my Ah Yin?!"

Anger burned fiercely in his chest, threatening to consume all his reason.

Tang Hao opened his mouth and let out a deafening roar.

"Spirit Hall--!"

The violent sound waves crashed against the stone walls, causing the entire cave to tremble violently.

Countless pebbles fell from the cave ceiling, crashing into the pool and creating ripples.

But after that roar, a chill ran through Tang Hao's heart.

He forced himself to calm down.

If it really was taken by the Spirit Hall.

Given the way those people from the Spirit Hall behave, there's no way they would have cleaned the cave entrance so thoroughly.

The Spirit Hall would simply smash the entire cave in a grand display, and might even leave a group of men there to ambush him.

However, the cave was searched extremely thoroughly, even systematically.

The visitors did not damage a single brick or piece of wood in the cave.

The other party's goal was crystal clear.

They came specifically for Ah Yin's seedlings and that 100,000-year-old right leg bone.

The other party not only knew about this absolutely hidden cave.

We now have a clearer understanding of what's hidden behind the waterfall.

This is no coincidence at all.

This was a precise and deadly sneak attack and betrayal.

Someone cut off his escape route before he could bring Tang San over for the "family reunion and bone extraction."

They uprooted his farm.

Tang Hao slammed his fist heavily into the hard stone wall.

With a deafening roar, the hard rock cracked open with countless terrifying fissures.

Gravel flew out.

His knuckles were a bloody mess, and fresh blood slowly flowed down the stone wall.

But he couldn't feel any pain in his hands.

His heart felt like it was being squeezed tightly by an invisible hand, the pain almost making it hard to breathe.

Tang Hao slowly stood up, his eyes beneath his black robe bloodshot and almost dripping with blood.

A menacing killing intent swirled and intertwined within the deathly silent cave.

Tang Hao gritted his teeth. "No matter who it is... I, Tang Hao, will make you pay the price."

The sky was just beginning to lighten.

The abandoned caves in the barren mountains were cold and damp.

The air was filled with a pungent, muddy smell.

Tang San sat alone on the cold rock.

His eyes were fixed, revealing an emptiness bordering on despair.

He was tightly clutching a pile of hay in both hands.

That was where Xiao Wu had sat before.

The hay seemed to still retain a faint scent of carrots.

But the girl who always jumped around calling him "brother" is now completely gone.

"Xiao Wu..."

Tang San murmured softly, his voice hoarse as if it had been sanded on sandpaper.

His fingernails dug deep into the dry grass, and Sisi of blood seeped from his knuckles.

The Mysterious Heaven Skill circulated wildly within his body, but it was utterly unable to quell the unease in his heart.

Just then...

Heavy footsteps came from the direction of the cave entrance.

Each step felt like walking on sand and gravel, appearing particularly messy and sluggish.

Tang San raised his eyelids and stared straight at the cave entrance.

A tall figure slowly walked into the cave.

It was Tang Hao.

Tang Hao looked extremely disheveled at this moment.

His tattered robe was stained with blackened blood.

His face was ashen, like a piece of cold iron that had sunk to the bottom of the sea for many years.

His entire body reeked of a nauseating, bloody stench.

Tang San swallowed hard, his voice hoarse.

"Dad... Xiao Wu is missing."

Upon hearing this, Tang Hao's face darkened even further.

His fists clenched silently beneath his sleeves.

That 100,000-year-old Soft Bone Rabbit has run away!

What a tremendous loss.

In Tang Hao's original plan, that rabbit was the perfect Soul Ring and Soul Bone he had prepared for Tang San.

If I had known this rabbit was so unruly, I should have killed her myself to get the Soul Bone long ago, and things wouldn't have gotten to this point.

To lose a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone for nothing is simply a waste.

Tang Hao suppressed his anger and heartache.

He did not answer where Xiao Wu had gone.

Seeing that his father remained silent, Tang San couldn't help but ask again.

"Dad, what exactly happened in Holy Soul Village?"

Why did it take you so long to come back?

Tang Hao remained silent.

He dragged his exhausted body into the depths of the cave and casually pulled over a rock to sit down.

He took off the old wine pouch hanging from his waist.

I shook it, but there wasn't a sound of water coming out.

It's empty.

"Oh shit!"

Tang Hao cursed angrily and slammed the wine flask down hard before tossing it aside.

He took a deep breath and looked at Tang San with icy eyes.

"The Little San."

"Your mother... has been taken away."

Tang San froze on the spot.

A piercing buzzing sound came from my brain.

"Mother?"

"Didn't Mom pass away a long time ago?"

"Could she have been staying in Holy Soul Village all this time?"

Tang San had never heard Tang Hao mention anything about his mother.

From childhood to adulthood, in his mind, "mother" was a word that no longer existed.

But now Tang Hao says that his mother was just taken away and is in Holy Soul Village?