"Then let's all go together tonight..."
After Wang Dong'er spoke, Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan looked at each other for a moment and reached a silent understanding.
Rather than waste this precious nighttime arguing, they might as well split the time in half.
Xiao Wu was helpless. She didn't want to put Wang Dong'er in a difficult position.
Dugu Yan was different. She didn't mind how many there were—the more, the more exciting.
In the dead of night.
Hearing the sounds coming from the room next door, Ye Lingling tossed and turned, unable to sleep. She couldn't shake the feeling that she'd been left out.
Wang Dong'er and the other two hadn't really done anything. When good friends lay together in one bed, they naturally played around.
There was almost no entertainment on Douluo Continent, so Wang Dong'er had brought the other two into a few rather primitive games.
For example, poker. Ahem, don't get the wrong idea—it was just an ordinary little card game.
The punishment was simple: whoever lost had to take off one piece of clothing.
Of course, she hadn't come up with the punishment. That had been Dugu Yan.
Wang Dong'er had initially objected, not because she was worried about losing, but because she was worried about Xiao Wu.
Xiao Wu was... sigh.
But for some reason, Xiao Wu had agreed. That left Wang Dong'er out of luck. To keep Xiao Wu from losing the game, she could only make a small sacrifice herself.
One of their reasons for coming to Suotuo City had already been taken care of. All that remained was to beat Tang San to the External Soul Bone.
Wang Dong'er didn't want to pass up this great opportunity. But there was still plenty of time, and she didn't want to waste it. Once the other two were sound asleep, she found Dugu Bo and explained the situation, then set off alone in a carriage toward Holy Soul Village.
If Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan found out, they would definitely fight over who got to go with her.
The carriage moved quickly. By the time dawn was breaking, it had reached Fasinuo Province.
During the summer holidays at Notting Academy, Wang Dong'er and Xiao Wu had gone to Holy Soul Village with Tang San several times, so she knew the way well. She followed the main road built by the empire north for about thirty li before reaching her destination.
At the village entrance stood a stone stele engraved with the words "Holy Soul Village."
From far away, Wang Dong'er saw an old figure emerge from an iron workshop.
It was Old Jack. The workshop was Tang San's home, and though Tang San had been gone for so long, the yard was free of fallen leaves and clutter. It was clear that Old Jack came by to clean regularly.
Wang Dong'er parked the carriage at the back of the village, then stepped down. The sky was already growing light, and a pale streak of dawn flashed briefly in the distant east.
She moved with lightness, darting a few times before reaching the foot of a waterfall in the hills behind the village.
Holding her breath, she crossed the curtain of water in one go and entered a pitch-black stone cave.
Wang Dong'er raised a hand and tapped the spot between her brows. The Sea God Trident mark appeared, and the Sea God's Light illuminated the dark cave. Its divine aura woke a half-meter-tall Blue Silver Grass in the corner.
Unlike the Blue Silver Grass commonly found among the flowers, this one brimmed with an exceptionally rich aura of life. Golden patterns adorned its vines, making it strikingly unusual.
It was the Seed of Life left behind after the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin, had sacrificed herself.
By seniority, Wang Dong'er ought to call her Grandma...
Thinking Tang Hao had come to visit, the Seed of Life swayed excitedly for a moment, and one of its vines slowly reached toward Wang Dong'er.
Just as it was about to touch her, the vine abruptly stopped.
Though the Seed of Life couldn't see, it was highly sensitive to auras. Wang Dong'er's aura was completely different from Tang Hao's. She was undoubtedly an outsider who had intruded by accident.
What puzzled her was that Wang Dong'er's aura stirred a faint resonance in her Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline.
Who was this girl?
Was she her little San's child?
Otherwise, why would her Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline react?
The Seed of Life could only explain it that way.
But... this granddaughter was far too grown-up.
She could vaguely sense a figure about 1.7 meters tall—that was Wang Dong'er.
Her little San was only twelve this year. If this really was his descendant, then she was much too old.
The bloodline's reaction couldn't lie, yet the facts were simply absurd. The Seed of Life swayed in confusion, and several leaves at its crown fell like strands of hair...
Wang Dong'er could also sense that peculiar bloodline resonance. Taking advantage of the Seed of Life's moment of distraction, she stepped forward and touched one of its vines with her index finger.
In an instant, it was as though an electric current ran through her. Wang Dong'er's pupils contracted sharply into two points of light. The exceedingly faint Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline within her grew excited and began to stir.
The Seed of Life felt the same. She could be certain: this was undoubtedly her descendant.
She no longer felt wary. A vine gently curled around Wang Dong'er's finger, and a gentle aura enveloped her palm like the tender hand of a loving elder.
"It's a pity you can't speak."
Wang Dong'er gently touched the Seed of Life as she spoke.
"Tsk. Why did Tang Hao raise you in a place like this? He's so irresponsible. When I came here years ago, I wanted to take you away, but I didn't get the chance."
As she spoke, Wang Dong'er bent down, dug Ah Yin out of the ground, and carried her out of the cave. She temporarily planted her in the soil near the waterfall.
The Seed of Life hadn't breathed fresh air for more than a decade.
A ray of sunlight slowly rose in the east. The Seed of Life basked in it, and in just a moment, several tender shoots sprouted from her vines.
Then the Seed of Life began swaying several mature vines. She was trying to express something, but unfortunately, Wang Dong'er wasn't Tang Hao and couldn't understand her at all.
Wang Dong'er assumed Ah Yin was making excuses for Tang Hao, saying he hadn't done it on purpose and had planted her here to keep others from finding her.
"Wait here for a while. In a few days, I'll take you somewhere nice."
After speaking, Wang Dong'er returned to the cave. She felt along the stone wall for a while and found a mechanism. When she lightly pressed it, an iron box dropped from above.
She opened the box, revealing the 100,000-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone. On closer inspection, Wang Dong'er could sense a dense energy with a life attribute. It was incredibly gentle, just like Ah Yin's kind nature. Absorbing it would surely go smoothly.
"Since my bloodline resonates with the Seed of Life, can I awaken the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline?"
Wang Dong'er wondered, but she didn't think she could. After all, she didn't have a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, and the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline within her was exceedingly faint, nowhere near as strong as Tang San's. Unless... she could transfer Tang San's and the Seed of Life's Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline into herself. Perhaps then she could awaken her bloodline.
Whatever the case, she would try at the Blue Silver Forest. If she awakened it, that would be a happy outcome for everyone; if she didn't, she wouldn't lose anything.
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