Xiao Wu crouched on the ground, her two rabbit ears standing indignantly in a V.
"If the boss's story wasn't watered down, then Tang Hao is the biggest scumbag on the Douluo Continent!"
"Putting the facts aside, he even schemed against his own wife. Is that any way for a human to behave? Ugh, disgusting!"
Xiao Wu hadn't taken after Tang San in the brains department. Her intelligence was clearly on another level.
What a fine example of "putting the facts aside."
Su Chen looked at Xiao Wu in surprise. That punch had been perfectly on target.
"Wait, boss. You said Ah Yin gave birth to who?"
A bolt of lightning flashed through Xiao Wu's mind.
"Tang San!"
"The Tang San we know?"
Su Chen was at a loss for words. "Who else would it be?"
When Xiao Wu heard the answer, her intelligence once again reached new heights.
Tang San was Tang Hao's son, and Tang Hao had discovered her long ago. Didn't that mean she'd practically delivered herself to him as a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone?
The thought made Xiao Wu's scalp prickle.
Thank goodness she had Su Chen's protection now. Otherwise, she wouldn't even have known how she died!
Xiao Wu patted her perfectly ordinary little beanpole body.
Su Chen ignored the startled rabbit and went over to the wall, knocking here and pressing there.
"Boss, what are you looking for? Sister Xiao Wu can help you find it!"
Xiao Wu came scampering over to help, without noticing the problem with what she'd just said.
"Hmm?"
Su Chen narrowed his eyes. This rabbit really was trying to overthrow the natural order.
Was she really going to ride on his head?
Xiao Wu froze for a moment, then quickly realized her mistake. She said awkwardly, "Ahem, boss, Xiao Wu will help you look."
Stupid mouth. Why did it say what I was thinking?
Hmph!
Su Chen snorted and added this to the list.
When they got back, he'd have to gnaw on a few spicy rabbit heads.
The two of them searched the wall together, knocking and tapping.
Before long, they found a mechanism.
"Click—"
As a protruding rock was pressed down, a hidden compartment slowly opened in the stone wall.
A heavy black lead box sat quietly inside.
Su Chen lifted the lid, and a vast, pure aura of life instantly filled the stone chamber.
A crystal-clear right leg bone, glowing with a deep blue light, came into view: a Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone.
He might not care for a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, but he couldn't leave it for Haozi and Little Scumbag.
To take things to the extreme, even if Tang Hao didn't give it to Tang San, he might use it himself to save his manhood. He could cut off one of his own legs, then absorb this Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone anew.
Wouldn't that make his lower half grow back?
Then wouldn't Su Chen have castrated Tang Hao for nothing?
If they crossed paths again later, he'd have to castrate him all over again. That would be far too cruel.
Su Chen was a thoroughly good person. He simply couldn't bring himself to do something so wicked.
With the item found, Su Chen crouched beside Ah Yin again.
"I'm taking this Soul Bone. As payment, I'll bring you with me. One day, I'll return you to the Blue Silver Forest, or take you to a treasure land where you can grow ten times faster."
"If you don't say anything, I'll take that as a yes."
Before Ah Yin could respond,
Su Chen simply yanked her out by the roots and put her into the living-things Storage Soul Tool he'd just bought.
The Soul Tool he'd bought was high-end. It could not only store living things, but also let its owner see and hear the outside world from within.
That hurts!
When she was pulled out, Ah Yin felt a sharp pain in her body.
She did want to leave this godforsaken place.
But he could at least have given her a moment to hesitate!
And just because it wasn't your body, did that mean you could yank as hard as you wanted?
That really hurt!
"Done and dusted." Su Chen patted the dirt off his hands.
The seeds of doubt had already been planted in Ah Yin's heart.
If she still couldn't figure things out later, he'd have no choice but to use his ultimate move.
"Madam, surely you wouldn't want to..."
Heh heh heh!
Even he felt a little wicked laughing like that.
At the wall by the mound of earth where Ah Yin had been, Su Chen flicked his wrist, and his Martial Soul appeared as a sword.
He walked up to the smooth stone wall. Turning his wrist, he carved two lines of large characters into the hard rock with the tip of his sword.
"Your wife, I'll take care of her."
"Rest easy."
"Signed: Cao Cao."
The calligraphy flowed like a dragon and a phoenix, carrying the spirit of Jian'an and the legacy of Emperor Wu.
Su Chen studied his handiwork and nodded with satisfaction.
He pictured some future day.
Tang Hao, deprived of his tool for wrongdoing, dragged his broken body back to this dark, sunless cave, full of hope that he might find a little comfort in his wife.
Then he looked down. His wife was gone.
He looked up. Those eight characters were carved into the wall.
Just imagining the scene was enough to make his brain reach climax.
Haozi would probably be so furious that his last two kidneys would explode.
Xiao Wu looked at the writing on the wall and blinked her big eyes. "Boss, is your real name Cao Cao?"
She had brains, just not many.
Su Chen rolled his eyes. "I'm also called Li Feiyu."
He put away his Martial Soul and walked to the edge of the cave. Spreading his arms, he crooked his chin at Xiao Wu. "Come here."
Xiao Wu froze where she stood, two blushes creeping onto her fair cheeks.
She twisted the hem of her clothes in her hands, shuffling over with the bashful air of a newlywed bride.
When she reached Su Chen, she closed her eyes, steeled herself, and threw herself into his arms. She wrapped both arms tightly around his waist and buried her face against his chest.
Su Chen rolled his eyes.
What was wrong with this silly rabbit?
He'd told her to come over because they were about to take off. What was she doing, acting out a romance drama?
Forget it.
Su Chen didn't have time to correct her pose. He wrapped an arm around her shoulders and held her securely in place.
Then he restarted the Flying Soul Guidance Device.
"Hold on tight. This veteran driver's taking off!"
Metal wings unfurled.
The two of them shot forward like an arrow loosed from a bow, smashing through the curtain of water and into the wide-open sky.
Sunlight pierced the mist, leaving a brilliant rainbow behind them.
Su Chen adjusted his Soul Power and leisurely flew beneath the clouds.
Xiao Wu clung to his neck and poked her head out to look down.
The wind sent her hair into a wild frenzy.
"Boss, fly slower! You've messed up my hair! I just braided my scorpion braid this morning!" Xiao Wu shouted in complaint.
Su Chen ignored her protests and soon landed at the entrance to Holy Soul Village.
"Boss, we're not going back to the academy? Why'd we come all the way to this village?"
Xiao Wu tidied her disheveled scorpion braid, looking puzzled.
"You have to be a decent person. I'm providing after-sales service."
Su Chen arrived at an earthen house with a courtyard.
In the yard, an old man with a head of white hair was bent over, spreading dried radishes evenly across a bamboo tray.
"Old sir, are these dried radishes guaranteed to be ripe?"
The old man looked up and saw two children standing at his gate.
He recognized them. They'd only parted ways a short while ago.
After all, he was the guide who'd taken a single Copper Soul Coin.
Su Chen couldn't help but grin.
An old acquaintance!
It was good to know people. Things were easier with acquaintances.
It was thanks to the guide standing right in front of him that he'd managed to get everything sorted out so quickly.
"Old sir, I wanted to ask where the village chief of Holy Soul Village, Grandpa Jack, lives."
Old Jack froze. Those two children had just asked him about the back mountain, and now they were asking for him.
"I'm the one you're looking for. Is there something else you need?"
Su Chen grinned from ear to ear.
The guide was Old Jack? This really was like looking everywhere for something only to find it without any effort at all.