Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone, Here I Come!

Yun Chen strolled alone along a country path, a foxtail grass stem hanging from his mouth as he hummed a little tune. He was clearly in an exceptionally good mood.

"You little runt, I love you~ Hurry and hand over your mom's soul bone~ In my left hand, stir-fried Blue Silver Emperor~ In my right hand, braised Xiao Wu rabbit~ So delicious~ So delicious~"

In truth, Yun Chen's singing was rather terrible. After all, he was tone-deaf, and the song had no melody to speak of—it was entirely something he had forcibly pieced together.

"Hiss... Stone Family Village... Two kilometers farther south is Holy Soul Village..."

Yun Chen took out his map and carefully studied his current location. He had only one purpose for this trip: to head to the back mountain behind Holy Soul Village and find Ah Yin's soul bone.

As for why Yun Chen dared to come so openly to Holy Soul Village in search of the soul bone, it was naturally because Tang Hao was already dead.

Yes, dead.

Three years ago, after Yun Chen proposed that plan, Spirit Hall had indeed begun taking action. But Tang Hao was no pushover either. When he realized that Spirit Hall was gathering information on soul masters on a massive scale—

Tang Hao flew into a rage. So their Tang Hammer took his giant hammer and smashed up Spirit Hall's branch in Notting City. Such a commotion naturally caught the attention of Spirit Hall's upper ranks—and Qian Renxue's as well.

Yun Chen truly did not know whether their Tang Hammer was genuinely stupid or only pretending to be. Once he discovered the problem, couldn't he have simply taken Tang San and fled? Why did he insist on smashing up the Spirit Hall branch? Wasn't that just putting everyone's attention directly on himself?

It was precisely because of Tang Hammer's actions that Qian Renxue deployed several worshippers to investigate the matter. Tang Hammer had indeed regarded Tang San as his true hope. The moment the worshippers arrived in Notting City, Tang Hao revealed himself and led them away.

Of course, Lion Douluo and Golden Crocodile Douluo had both acted on behalf of the Hall of Worship this time. With Tang Hammer's half-crippled body, he was no match for them at all. The three worshippers joined forces and easily drove him into a desperate corner within a canyon.

Just as Tang Hammer was about to die, a dazzling red light blocked the fatal blow for him and instantly inflicted heavy injuries on Golden Crocodile Douluo.

Unfortunately, Qian Daoliu had been hiding in the shadows, quietly watching the scene unfold. The instant that red light appeared, Qian Daoliu revealed himself and directly invoked the Angel God's divine power.

"God of the Upper Realm! How dare you interfere in mortal affairs?"

That red light seemed to hesitate, perhaps considering whether to kill Qian Daoliu as well. In the end, it abandoned that decision. Likewise, it abandoned Tang Hao.

The Angel Holy Sword descended, and the peerless prodigy Tang Hao died before his time.

As for Tang San... no one pursued the matter further. Or rather, the Hall of Worship's attention had been thoroughly drawn to the bizarre red light that had appeared on Tang Hao's body. According to Qian Daoliu's own account, that red light had absolutely been genuine god-level power.

When Yun Chen learned of this, he fell silent for a long time.

At that moment, he had only one thought in his mind.

You conspiracy theorists can go ahead and make up conspiracies all you want! How did it turn into the real thing? Did the Shura God really back Tang San?

Still, Yun Chen was not particularly panicked. After all, no matter what, he had now obtained a ticket to godhood.

He had already activated the Sea God's inheritance token. With Yun Chen's talent, coupled with the Sea God's eagerness to leave, inheriting the Sea God's divine position should be effortless, shouldn't it?

But the one Yun Chen would eventually have to face was Tang San, who might possess the Shura God's inheritance. That called for caution—caution upon caution. The Sea God alone was not enough to cure Yun Chen's fear of insufficient firepower.

I've heard that the power of faith can elevate a divine position's rank? Could I... give it a try...

Or perhaps, like Tang San in the original work, become one body with two gods. But where would I find the second divine position...?

Of course, no matter how he thought about it, his primary task now was to get the soul bone first.

After all, although Shura was currently the strongest law-enforcement god, he was still subject to the supervision of the other four. He was nothing like Tang San in the later parts of the original work, who truly had the power to cover the sky with one hand.

The Shura God probably would not make any obvious moves. Even if he did, he would have to be exceedingly careful. After all, Qian Daoliu's appearance alone had been enough to "scare him off."

It was not that Qian Daoliu truly possessed the strength to frighten off the Shura God, but because, as the direct divine envoy of a first-class god—especially the envoy of a deceased first-class god—his name was recorded in the God Realm's central authority. After all, he was meant to select an inheritor for the deceased first-class god's divine position.

Even if the divine envoy himself did not know it.

But if the Shura God truly acted and killed that divine envoy, he would inevitably face impeachment from the God Realm's central authority and trigger a God King-level conference.

By then, some things would no longer be concealable.

Moreover, oversight of the lower realms rotated among the God Kings.

If you made little moves on Soul Land today, there was no guarantee someone else would not find out tomorrow.

When that happened, Destruction and the others would not pass up such an opportunity.

"Mm, this should be the place..."

Yun Chen climbed up a cliff and looked at the towering waterfall before him. He then took out the map for a simple comparison, and after comparing it slightly with his memories of the original work, he could basically confirm it.

After all, the most famous thing about this place in the original work was Tang San practicing the Clear Sky Hammer Technique here. He had used this very waterfall at the time.

"Let me see where the hidden mechanism is..."

Yun Chen's aura suddenly changed. Those dazzling golden eyes shone once more, and in the next instant, the flow of all soul power in the surrounding area appeared before his eyes, as though he had gained x-ray vision.

This was Yun Chen's second soul skill, Insight Eye.

This soul skill came from a roughly three-thousand-year-old One-Eyed Golden-Eyed Beast. Its effect was to use spiritual power to launch a spiritual ray, while also granting insight that allowed him to see details and the flow of soul power.

It was a rare spiritual attack method.

Yun Chen quietly swept his gaze across every corner of the waterfall. Suddenly, in a cliff face at the lower right of the waterfall, a strange soul power node appeared in his vision.

"Found you..."

Yun Chen curled his lips into a smile. He lightly stepped against the rock wall, and his figure flashed. After several leaps, he had arrived before that steep cliff face. He took a deep breath.

Terrifying golden soul power gathered around his right fist, and five golden claws sprang out.

"Dark Gold Terrorclaw! Break!"

The terrifying force instantly shattered the already hollow rock wall before him. Dust billowed, and broken stones flew everywhere.

As the dust settled, the scene inside the cave gradually came into Yun Chen's view. The most eye-catching sight was a blue-gold seedling on the ground, wilted and swaying from side to side.

When it sensed someone had entered, its first reaction was to stretch out a vine, wanting to touch that person.

But the moment it touched Yun Chen, it quickly recoiled. The entire plant trembled, clearly having mistaken Yun Chen for a bad person.

Then again, Yun Chen was not a good person to begin with.

"What a pitiful sight..."

"The mighty Blue Silver Emperor had actually fallen so low, becoming something as lowly as roadside weeds."

"Have some water first."

The Blue Silver Emperor was still of great use to Yun Chen, so naturally, he could not just watch it die like this. A stream of clear water slowly poured from the waterskin in Yun Chen's hand.

At first, the Blue Silver Emperor did not want to accept it, but perhaps because it had been thirsty for far too long, it still used its tiny leaves to curl around the droplets one by one and absorb them.

Sorry, Brother Hao...

His water was just too plentiful, too delicious. I really couldn't resist... Ohhh... it felt so good... I'm completely full!

Ahem. It was just that Yun Chen had poured too much water. He had emptied an entire waterskin over the Blue Silver Emperor.