Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, Get! A Mountain Could Explode and Tang Hao Still Wouldn't Wake Up-His Sleep Quality, I-

[Doulou Planet's Will]: Back then, he knew full well that Ah Yin was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast, and that after conceiving Tang San, her strength had plummeted, making her Soul Beast aura easier to detect.

[Doulou Planet's Will]: Any normal person would know that was the time to hide away in some remote mountain forest and rest until the baby was born, right?

[Doulou Planet's Will]: And what did Tang Hao do? He took his pregnant wife, Ah Yin, all over the human world, even wandering into Spirit City, where Titled Douluo gathered in droves.

[Doulou Planet's Will]: Do you know what going there was like? It was like strolling through a pack of wolves with a hunk of meat!

[Doulou Planet's Will]: And then disaster struck. Qian Xunji, the previous pope of Spirit Hall, showed up with two Titled Douluo and cornered them.

[Doulou Planet's Will]: To save him and the Tang San in her belly, Ah Yin sacrificed herself to Tang Hao on the spot. (ᯣ_ᯣ)

[God of Destruction]: Tang Hao, what a cunning plan.

[God of Destruction]: He knew his wife's identity was unusual, yet took no precautions. When disaster struck, he had his wife sacrifice herself to save his life, then soared to new heights with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

[God of Destruction]: I've seen this sort of thing far too many times.

[Goddess of Life]: Perhaps the earlier events could still be explained as "youthful arrogance and poor judgment"... but I simply cannot understand why he kept his wife's reincarnated seedling in a lightless cave like this for over a decade.

[Goddess of Life]: How is that any different from imprisonment?

[God of Destruction]: Heh. Looks like being despicable isn't Tang San's exclusive trait. It's the same blood running through the Tang family's veins.

Xiao Chenyu looked at the wilted Blue Silver Grass, then at the stone box before him. Suddenly, it all struck him as rather ironic.

Tang Hao had locked his dead wife's reincarnated seedling away in a lightless valley for over a decade.

Years later, for his grand plan spanning ten thousand years, Tang San would split his own daughter's soul into three without even blinking.

Genetics really were a curious thing.

Like father, like son. The ancients hadn't lied.

"Enough. I should get down to business."

Xiao Chenyu looked away and focused on the stone box.

He tried to pry it open with his hands.

It didn't budge.

He tried harder. Still, it didn't budge.

Tang Hao had certainly sealed the box well. Xiao Chenyu wasn't sure what kind of mechanism he'd used—or if it was simply the weight of the stone.

"Fine. Guess I'll have to use force."

He raised his right hand as Soul Power surged.

External Soul Bone: Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear Right Palm Bone.

"Whoosh—"

Five dark-gold claws shot from his fingertips, each gleaming with a chilling, fearsome edge.

In the gloomy valley, the five streaks of dark-gold light stood out all the more.

"Open up!"

Five claw-shaped streaks of dark-gold light slashed down in a cross, striking the stone box with brutal force.

"Boom!"

The stone box was ripped in half.

Stone fragments flew, and dust billowed.

"Rumble—"

The entire valley trembled, and loose stones rained from overhead.

Xiao Chenyu nearly lost his balance from the shock. He hurriedly braced himself against the nearby rock wall.

"...That's some power. I'll have to take it easy when I'm fighting."

He looked down at his dark-gold-glinting right hand, then at the stone box split in two, feeling a little guilty.

"It wouldn't be easy to explain if I split someone into six pieces."

He'd only given it a light swing. He hadn't expected such a racket.

The Dark Gold Terrorclaw was even more destructive than he'd imagined.

"Crack—"

The moment the stone box split open, a soft blue light shone through the crack.

Inside lay a complete right leg bone.

It was as translucent as jade, and pale-blue light rippled across its surface, like a thin layer of water flowing slowly over the bone.

A dense aura of life radiated from the Soul Bone, filling the entire shadowy valley.

Then, a miracle occurred.

Wherever the blue light from the Soul Bone fell, the moss on the ground visibly turned a deeper green.

A few withered weeds in the corner slowly straightened their leaves beneath its glow.

Even Ah Yin's wilted reincarnated seedling trembled faintly when the light touched it. A glimmer of vitality flashed at the tip of its gray-blue leaf.

The 100,000-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone!

Xiao Chenyu held his breath, his eyes shining in the blue light.

[Doulou Planet's Will]: Avenger, hurry, hurry, hurry! Fuse with it now! Tang Hao's sleeping like a dead pig—this is a gift from heaven! ┌(￣▽￣)┘

[Xiao Chenyu]: Fuse with it here? What if Tang Hao suddenly comes charging over...?

[Doulou Planet's Will]: Relax, relax! The Concealment Mark blocks Tang Hao's attention and hostility toward you and anything happening around you. This isn't invisibility—it's concealment on the level of causality.

[Doulou Planet's Will]: Even if you blew up this mountain, he wouldn't think anything was wrong. He'd just roll over and go back to sleep. Trust me! (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

[Man Faced Demon Spider]: Fuse! Fuse! Soul Bone! Soul Bone!

Looking at all these godlike teammates in the chat, Xiao Chenyu's lips curved slightly upward.

"Then... let's do it!"

He sat cross-legged and held the right leg bone, its surface shimmering with blue light.

It felt warm and smooth in his hand, more like a fine piece of jade than a bone.

He closed his eyes and slowly sent his Soul Power into the Soul Bone.

Buzz—

The Soul Bone trembled.

Countless blue-gold specks of light streamed from its surface, spreading up his lower leg like tiny vines.

A warm, vast vitality flooded into his body like a tide, washing over every meridian and every inch of bone.

[Goddess of Life]: Chen Yu's Life God Spider Emperor is evolving. The Blue Silver Emperor's primal life force is resonating deeply with his Martial Soul.

[God of Destruction]: Looks like we'll gain even more from this Soul Bone than we expected. The kid's lucky.

At the same time.

Holy Soul Village, Tang Family Blacksmith Shop.

Tang Hao, who had been snoring away in bed, suddenly opened his eyes.

Had he heard something?

It had come from the direction of the back mountain!

The sound had been faint, so faint that an ordinary person wouldn't have noticed it.

But he was a Titled Douluo. Even after years of drinking, his Titled Douluo-level perception was still there.

Tang Hao sat up, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes.

In that instant, he was no longer the disheveled, dispirited old drunkard. He was the Clear Sky Douluo who had once stunned the pope of Spirit Hall with a single hammer blow.

"Ah Yin!"

He threw off the covers and got out of bed, about to act.

Suddenly, a faint golden light appeared in his pupils.

It was a "Forbidden Passage" symbol, profound and imposing. It flashed once, then vanished.

The next moment, the sharpness in Tang Hao's eyes disappeared completely.

It was as if someone had pressed the delete key in his brain.

"...Huh?"

He blinked in confusion and scratched his hair, which was as messy as a bird's nest.

"What was I about to do again?"

He looked around.

The shabby wooden table, the crooked chair, the empty wine jars scattered across the floor.

Everything was normal.

Nothing seemed... wrong?

Never mind.

If nothing was wrong, he'd go back to sleep.

Tang Hao flopped back onto the bed and rolled over. Less than three seconds later, he was snoring again.

The smell of booze mingled with his snores, filling the ramshackle little house.