Writing Novels in Douluo Dalu: Tang San's Title 'Pure Bamboo'
Chapter 22

Tang Hao, Worse Than a Beast to His Own Son, Tang San Possesses the Child, Blue Silver Emperor A Yin Blackens

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Although he had given Yu Xiaogang his parting instructions, Tang Hao did not leave immediately. It was only after Tang San had fused his first Lone Bamboo spirit ring and confirmed that his life at the academy would be worry-free that he departed without a sound.

Tang Hao nodded inwardly. This approach was quite appropriate. If that Yu Xiaogang dared to mistreat his son, he would not care whether the man belonged to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect or the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Insect family.

At this moment Xiao Wuji had not yet written himself into confusion. He remembered that the son of Nuoding City's city lord, Xiao Chenyu, still had scenes to play, and since those scenes connected to Tang Hao, he naturally could not let the man leave just yet.

Seeing that Tang Hao showed no unusual reaction, Xiao Wuji paused for a moment, quickly finished writing a new opening, and then sent it to A Yin.

After the Sacrifice, A Yin had been planted by Tang Hao inside a hidden mountain cave. By rough count, six years had already passed; she was now an even weaker spirit beast than the ten-year Lone Bamboo.

After A Yin's Sacrifice, she had relied on the highest profundity of the Blue Silver Domain. Her human body was destroyed and her cultivation crippled, yet she had not died.

Originally, if the seed she left behind had been planted among the Blue Silver clan, then, drawing on the experience of transforming from beast to human, she would never have ended up in such a state.

But without any power to protect herself, being planted in that hidden cave was extremely safe; each choice carried its own advantages and disadvantages.

Inside the roughly ten-square-meter stone chamber, a slender stalk of Blue Silver Grass swayed in the wind atop a small mound of earth. The grass looked longer than ordinary blades, and the most peculiar feature was the fine golden lines running across its leaves. This was none other than the Blue Silver Emperor, A Yin.

Suddenly, a blue light flashed through the quiet stone chamber. A beam of radiance descended from above and sank straight into the Blue Silver Emperor's body.

A Yin spent her days in the stone chamber with nothing to do, her heart constantly worrying about her husband and son. When a foreign object abruptly pierced her soul, she jolted violently.

Revenge of the Blue Silver Emperor was delivered. Immediately afterward, the image of reader A Yin appeared before Xiao Wuji.

Her true body was merely a young Blue Silver Emperor, yet her soul form was that of a mature, beautiful woman.

A blue-and-gold long skirt covered her entire figure. An air of nobility and elegance accentuated her otherworldly, delicate features. Her deep-blue eyes were flawless like blue crystals, radiating a refined beauty that seemed to embody the spirit of heaven and earth.

"Revenge of the Blue Silver Emperor?!" A Yin exclaimed in both shock and delight upon seeing the title of the book that had appeared within her soul.

"The Spirit Hall forced me to perform the Sacrifice shortly after giving birth. This grudge must be repaid, whether it takes a thousand years or ten thousand." A Yin's voice was extremely firm. Suddenly she sighed. "Alas, by then Ah Hao was already gone..."

Xiao Wuji watched with a secret smile. The contents were certain to give her a tremendous shock.

[Tang Hao was worse than a beast as a father; his child had been possessed by Tang San of the Tang Sect. Upon learning this information, the Blue Silver Emperor A Yin burned with rage and resolved to seek revenge at any cost. During this process of vengeance her strength grew ever greater, until she finally cultivated into a god.]

"What?!" A Yin was greatly shaken. She felt both shock and disbelief at the contents of the book. "How could this be... how could it be like this..."

She wanted to disbelieve it completely, yet she had no way to verify that it was false. This cave had been silent for many years; if someone had done this, it was impossible that there would be no trace at all. Moreover, the method had been applied directly to her soul. If it was a divine miracle, then it made a certain amount of sense.

A Yin hesitated for a moment. She had nothing else to do here. The things written in the book were terrifying to hear. If she did not read the rest and find out the details, it would truly be unbearable.

[Chapter 1: Bad News for A Yin]

[Footsteps echoed through the silent cave. A youth walked in slowly. He looked around the stone chamber behind the waterfall in surprise, his gaze drawn to the only blade of grass inside. "This Blue Silver Grass grows quite peculiarly," the youth clicked his tongue and shook his head. "So even a Blue Silver Grass spirit can possess innate full spirit power nowadays. Truly, the world is vast and full of wonders."]

"Ah, that's my son!" A Yin cried out in shock.

If she had been the one to awaken her son's spirit, she could have directly awakened the Blue Silver Emperor spirit for him. Ordinary human spirit masters lacked this ability, so the result would appear as the trash spirit Blue Silver Grass, yet the talent would still manifest as the peak innate full spirit power.

After her initial shock, A Yin suddenly realized that six years had already passed. Her son had not died at the hands of the Spirit Hall and had already awakened his spirit.

This should have been wonderful news, but combined with the terrible synopsis at the beginning, A Yin's heart kept sinking lower and lower.

A Yin continued reading. Her heart plunged straight into the abyss.

From the youth's words she could roughly guess what had happened after her Sacrifice.

Tang Hao had taken the child and escaped the Spirit Hall's pursuit, hiding in Holy Soul Village and working as a blacksmith. As one of the three great divine craftsmen of the present age and possessing the Clear Sky Hammer spirit most suited for blacksmithing, working as a village blacksmith was originally quite fitting.

Yet according to the youth, Tang Hao had become a chronic drunkard. If not for the village elder Old Jack's help, Tang San would have starved to death long ago. Moreover, from the age of four, Tang San had been cooking for Tang Hao—an utterly beastly father.

Up to this point, A Yin could still understand.

Tang Hao's father had been angered to death because of their affairs, the Clear Sky Sect had been denounced by the Spirit Hall, and on the very day their child was born, his wife had performed the Sacrifice. The successive blows had simply been too much.

But when she heard the youth say that Tang San had fused a ten-year Lone Bamboo spirit ring, A Yin's psychological defenses were directly shattered.

Spirit rings were of utmost importance to a spirit master; they concerned an entire lifetime.

With Tang Hao's strength, killing thousand-year or even ten-thousand-year spirit beasts went without saying. Even a few words of spirit insight would have benefited the child for life.

"How could he do this!" A Yin trembled with rage. If she had known it would turn out like this, it would have been cleaner to die together with the Spirit Hall back then.

Xiao Wuji smiled faintly. "Eighteen Lone Bamboo spirit rings to save wife and mother—that ought to be a moving story."

A Yin fumed for quite a while before continuing to read.

[The youth had no idea that every word he spoke had been heard clearly by A Yin, who had actually performed the Sacrifice and was now regenerating. Her heart was filled with extreme fury. After sitting for a while, the youth stood up to leave. Unintentionally, he triggered a mechanism on the stone wall, and a black box dropped from above. With a loud bang that startled the youth, he stepped forward and opened it. To his delight, the box contained a spirit bone whose quality was clearly extraordinary. He immediately began fusing it.]

[During the youth's fusion of the spirit bone, A Yin learned of Tang Hao and the child's situation—especially the bad news. She could no longer remain here. After repeated deliberation, she decided to guide the youth toward the Blue Silver King. With the Blue Silver King's help, she could obtain more information. If the book's contents were false, she could conveniently eliminate this Spirit Hall lackey and retrieve the spirit bone. If they were true, the youth could still gain power and become her greatest tool for revenge.]

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