Xiao Wu leaned in, her large eyes fixed on the wilted Blue Silver Grass. Driven by the instincts of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, she felt an inexplicable sense of kinship with the plant.
"Boss, is this grass the reason you came here? It looks quite peculiar, though—the leaves even have natural gold edges."
She crouched down and reached out a finger to poke it.
A Yin sensed the unfamiliar presence, and her gold-veined leaves instinctively curled up, attempting to hide.
"This grass smells delicious. I wonder how it would taste stir-fried? Should we pull it up and have it as a snack?" Xiao Wu swallowed hard.
Upon hearing this, A Yin was so terrified she went limp on the spot, pressing all her leaves tightly against the soil and choosing to play dead.
"Huh? It seems this grass has a consciousness of its own," Xiao Wu said, her eyes widening.
Su Chen put away his soul tool, stepped forward, and slapped her hand away with a smack. "Eat, eat, eat! All you ever think about is food. Is there nothing else in that brain of yours?"
He backhanded a carrot from his storage and shoved it into her arms. "Go gnaw on your carrot over there and stop delaying my business."
Xiao Wu pouted, found a rock to sit on, and began nibbling on the carrot.
What's with the attitude!
She was just saying it; she wasn't a rabbit anymore and didn't eat grass.
Still, it really did smell fragrant.
Su Chen circled the mound twice, rubbing his chin as he critiqued it. "This grass is crooked and half-dead; it definitely hasn't been given any farm fertilizer."
He was, after all, a seasoned master of agriculture.
"The art of farming relies thirty percent on planting and seventy percent on fertilizing. This grass is clearly malnourished and in desperate need of a heavy dose."
Xiao Wu looked up, her face full of question marks. "Heavy fertilizer? This cave is barren; where are you going to find fertilizer?"
"Far away, yet right before our eyes."
A wicked smirk curled the corners of Su Chen's mouth.
He placed both hands on his belt, his tone dripping with mock compassion.
"Today, I shall show mercy and personally provide her with some all-natural, pollution-free, fresh 'fertilizer'!"
No sooner had he spoken than he swished his belt open, making a show of pulling down his trousers.
He crouched slightly, stuck his rear end out, and aimed with pinpoint accuracy at the Blue Silver Emperor on the mound!
Although A Yin was currently just a blade of grass, her consciousness remained.
When she felt that human boy sticking his backside toward her, her entire being recoiled in horror.
What is this brat doing?!
He's going to drop a load on my head?!
No! Don't come over here! Back! Back! Back!
A Yin was losing her mind.
Those few weak, withered leaves erupted with unprecedented survival instinct, flailing wildly upward and pushing desperately against Su Chen's descending rear.
Of course, he wasn't actually going to do it.
Su Chen was just a prankster, not a perverted exhibitionist.
Feeling the faint resistance against his backside, he took the opportunity to jump backward and swiftly pulled his pants back up.
Immediately after, he pointed at the Blue Silver Emperor on the ground and cursed, "How bold! To think you'd dare to molest me in broad daylight!"
Xiao Wu, still gnawing on her carrot, was completely stunned. Her mouth hung open, and her brain simply crashed.
She couldn't keep up with her boss's train of thought at all.
Su Chen stood with his hands on his hips, accusing the plant with righteous indignation. "You shameless Blue Silver Emperor! To think that while I was kindly trying to fertilize you, you'd take advantage of me by touching my butt! What crime should you be charged with!"
A Yin froze completely in place, her leaves suspended in mid-air, neither retracting nor relaxing.
If she could grow a mouth right now, she would absolutely spit all over Su Chen's face.
She had seen shameless people before, but never anyone this shameless!
You were the one who ran over and unzipped your pants! I only pushed you to protect myself—how does that make it molestation?!
And touching your butt?
I'm a blade of grass, why would I touch your head!
The next second, her extreme shame and anger turned into a bone-chilling cold.
This human child had just called her the "Blue Silver Emperor"?!
Does he know my true identity?
How is that possible!
I was hidden here by Brother Hao; apart from him, no one in the world knows this secret.
Where could this child, who looked only a few years old, have learned her identity?
[Ding! Detected severe mental contamination of the Blue Silver Emperor. Abstract points gained: 2000.]
Listening to the broadcast in his mind, Su Chen's eyes lit up like two bright lightbulbs.
"Boss, are you saying this blade of grass is the Blue Silver Emperor?"
Xiao Wu's face was full of shock and bewilderment as she quickly ran over.
As a hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Charm Rabbit, she naturally knew of the existence of the Blue Silver Forest, which was home to a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, the Blue Silver Emperor.
But this sickly, withered grass growing here was that very Emperor?
It didn't even look like it had a hundred years of cultivation, did it?
Su Chen nodded and said, "It's the real deal, just regressed after a sacrifice."
"A sacrifice."
Xiao Wu's small face turned pale; to a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, those two words were a death warrant.
Su Chen drew out his tone, "Remember how I mentioned that a Title Douluo has been keeping an eye on you?"
"The one whose manhood you crippled?"
"Exactly. The ninth soul ring he possesses was generously sponsored by the Blue Silver Emperor lying on the ground here."
As soon as these words were spoken, A Yin's leaves began to shake violently.
What had she just heard?
Tang Hao's manhood had been crippled by this brat who hadn't even grown his hair out yet?
Impossible! Absolutely impossible!
Su Chen took the opportunity to squat down, poked a leaf of the Blue Silver Emperor, and said, "That old geezer Tang Hao, he tricked her out of her body and her soul ring, and after he was done, he shoved her seeds into this dark, sunless cave."
"That rat really is a piece of work."
Hearing this, the look in Xiao Wu's eyes as she gazed at the Blue Silver Emperor was instantly filled with sympathy.
"She's so pitiful."
"Pitiful? It's purely self-inflicted; she deserves it for being blind."
A Yin waved her leaves in protest—what did he mean, self-inflicted?
She had charged forward for love.
Xiao Wu's curiosity was thoroughly piqued: "Boss, what is going on? Tell me quickly."
Su Chen shot her a look that said, You're doing great.
She really knew how to keep the conversation going.
He conjured a small stool out of thin air and sat down in front of the Blue Silver Emperor.
"Since I'm in a good mood today, I'll tell you the melodramatic story of how, six years ago, a naive blade of grass was swindled out of her wealth, her virtue, and her soul ring by an old human scumbag."
For the next half hour, Su Chen used a dramatic, rhythmic tone to package the events of the Spirit Hall pursuit back then, embellishing it into a full-blown conspiracy theory.
In any case, netizens from his past life had deduced plenty of conspiracy theories.
The logic was seamless and could withstand scrutiny.
Su Chen didn't care if it was true or not; what he wanted was to plant a seed of doubt in A Yin's heart.
"Wuwuwu, that Tang Hao really is a piece of trash."
After hearing the story, Xiao Wu was already streaming with tears.
A Yin's leaves stood upright, shaking frantically!
Lies! It was all lies! Tang Hao would never scheme against her like that!
Tang Hao wasn't that kind of person!
Su Chen seemed to see exactly what she was thinking.
"A Yin, don't be in such a rush to whitewash him. I'll only ask you a few questions."
He held up one finger.
"First, you told Tang Hao your identity long ago. As a hundred-thousand-year soul beast in human form, your aura is at its most unstable during pregnancy. As the heir to the Clear Sky Sect, didn't he know he should have taken you back to the Clear Sky Sect for proper protection? Instead, he dragged you all over the continent, even wandering right under the nose of Spirit Hall?"
"And, the day you sacrificed yourself happened to be the day you gave birth to Tang San. What a coincidence that Tang Hao also happened to break through to level 90, just in time to need a soul ring."
He held up a second finger.
"Second, don't tell me you never told him about the existence of the Blue Silver Forest. After your sacrifice, if he had just sent your seeds back to the Blue Silver Forest, under the nourishment of the Blue Silver King, you could have returned to your hundred-thousand-year state in no time."
"Even if he didn't send you back to the Blue Silver Forest, planting you in any sunny spot would have been better than this."
"But he specifically planted you in a broken, sunless cave. Was he hoping you'd die sooner, or what?"
These words landed like a thunderbolt.
The Blue Silver Emperor was struck dumb.
The upright leaf could no longer support itself, collapsing limply onto the soil, lifeless and dull.
She could not answer at all.
It wasn't that she hadn't thought about these details back then; she had simply forced herself not to delve into them.
Now, an outsider had laid her scars bare.
Hao, are you truly this kind of person?
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