While such a scene was playing out in the Heaven Dou Empire, Qian Renxue and Tai Yi had also successfully arrived in Notting City.
After arriving, Tai Yi thought of Su Yuntao, the Spirit Hall awakening deacon reputed to have awakened the Martial Souls of the greatest number of powerhouses in the entire universe.
Tai Yi thus planned to visit the Spirit Hall Sub-Hall in Notting City to see this first great Martial Soul awakener who appeared in countless fan novels. More importantly, he wanted to find out whether Tang San had already left Notting City. After all, if Tang San had not left, Tang Hao would still be in Notting City, making it inconvenient for him to go to Holy Soul Village and take Tang San's biological mother's Spirit Bone.
Before long, Qian Renxue and Tai Yi arrived at the Spirit Hall Sub-Hall in Notting City. The guards at the entrance spotted them. Seeing that both Qian Renxue and Tai Yi were dressed luxuriously and clearly not ordinary people, they politely asked:
"May I ask what business you have at Spirit Hall?"
Hearing this, Tai Yi did not waste words. He directly took out a Spirit Hall Elder Token and said to the guard:
"Gather everyone in the sub-hall. We have something to ask."
The instant the guard saw the Elder Token, he bowed and replied:
"This humble one understands. Please enter and wait for a moment, my lord. I will notify them at once."
After saying that, the guard had the other guard lead Qian Renxue and Tai Yi into the reception room within the sub-hall, while he went to notify the rest of Spirit Hall's personnel.
Once Qian Renxue and Tai Yi had taken their seats inside, Qian Renxue finally asked Tai Yi:
"Xiao Yi, weren't we here to find the Spirit Bone you mentioned? Why did we come to this Spirit Hall Sub-Hall?"
Tai Yi answered:
"The opportunity isn't going anywhere. I came here because, back when I was in Spirit City, I looked through awakening records from various regions and found that someone in Notting City had Innate Full Soul Power, yet their Martial Soul was Blue Silver Grass. I was curious, so since we were already here, I thought I'd ask what was going on."
"Blue Silver Grass as a Martial Soul? And Innate Full Soul Power? Could there be some other reason behind this?"
Qian Renxue voiced her doubts. As Spirit Hall's Young Master, she had access to the most complete body of knowledge on Martial Souls and immediately saw the problem.
Qian Renxue then looked at Tai Yi and asked:
"Could this person have Twin Martial Souls?"
Tai Yi nodded at that and said:
"That is exactly why I came to ask."
Having read the original work, Tai Yi had once believed that Yu Xiaogang was truly the only one who could see through Tang San's Twin Martial Souls. However, because Tai Yi had grown up in Spirit City, he knew about the Martial Soul records kept there.
Anyone who had seen those records should have been able to guess that there was something abnormal about Tang San's Martial Souls, yet no one had come to verify it with him.
Moreover, by all rights, someone like Tang San should have drawn attention after arriving in Spirit City. Six years ago, Tai Yi had specifically gone to the archives to review the Martial Soul awakening information. He had also specifically checked Notting City's awakening records and discovered the registered information there.
It stated that Tang San's Martial Soul was Blue Silver Grass and that his Innate Soul Power was level one.
Upon seeing that information, Tai Yi naturally understood that it had been altered. As for who had altered it, he had a guess: Bibi Dong.
After all, as Spirit Hall's Pope, how could she possibly not know that Yu Xiaogang was in Notting City? That was why Tai Yi suspected Bibi Dong had changed it. As for whether Bibi Dong had altered it on her own to help Yu Xiaogang, or whether Yu Xiaogang had sent her a message asking for her help, Tai Yi did not know.
Just then, the reception room's doors slowly opened. Qian Renxue and Tai Yi saw that the guard from before had gathered everyone from the Notting City Spirit Hall, and they had all arrived.
Upon seeing the two of them, the guard stepped forward first, bowed, and called out:
"Elder, all members of the Notting City Spirit Hall are present."
The members of the Spirit Hall Sub-Hall also noticed the Spirit Hall Elder Token Tai Yi was casually playing with in his hand, so they hurriedly bowed and said:
"Greetings, Elder!"
Hearing this, Tai Yi said:
"It is nothing. No need for such formality. We merely traveled here, and because we saw a piece of information in Spirit City back then, we came to this place."
After saying that, Tai Yi swept his gaze over the crowd. In the end, he found that it was quite difficult to identify Su Yuntao based on his memories of the animation from his previous life.
So Tai Yi said:
"We came here looking for a deacon named Su Yuntao. There are some matters we wish to ask him about."
As those words left his mouth, Su Yuntao in the crowd froze for a moment, then instinctively looked toward his beloved Si Si and Ma Xiunuo, with whom he was usually on good terms.
The two reacted differently to Su Yuntao's gaze. Since Tai Yi had directly called out Su Yuntao's name, and Su Yuntao had not recently made any contributions to Spirit Hall, everyone present assumed that Su Yuntao had caused trouble and was now being called to account.
Afraid of being implicated, Si Si slipped behind the others and avoided Su Yuntao's gaze.
Seeing this, Su Yuntao felt indescribably bitter. He had pursued Si Si for so many years, and lately she had finally begun to relent. They had seemed so close to getting together, yet she had reacted like this now. It could not help but make Su Yuntao feel a trace of sadness.
In contrast, Ma Xiunuo stepped forward immediately and cautiously asked Tai Yi:
"May I ask what happened to Su Yuntao, Elder? He should be all right, shouldn't he?"
Hearing this, Tai Yi understood that they had misunderstood something, so he explained:
"We were merely passing through. In addition, we saw materials submitted by Notting City in Spirit City back then and discovered something interesting, so we came to ask about it. If Su Yuntao satisfies me, there may even be good things waiting for him."
After saying that, Tai Yi looked at Ma Xiunuo and the others before saying:
"All right, you may leave now."
Only then did the others follow Tai Yi's instructions and leave the reception room. As Ma Xiunuo departed, he went over to Su Yuntao and quietly said:
"Yuntao, tell the Elder whatever you know about what he asks. Do not conceal anything, and do not make things up."
Su Yuntao nodded gratefully.
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