Tang Hao Comes Up Empty-Handed Again

His mouth was suddenly covered.

Jiang Nanchen looked at Qian Renxue and saw that she seemed rather nervous.

"What nonsense are you spouting, brat? It's not like I was really going to hit you. There are people everywhere nearby!"

Qian Renxue glared at Jiang Nanchen.

What a disobedient little brat. He was driving her mad.

"You promise you won't shout? I'll let go."

Jiang Nanchen nodded frantically.

Qian Renxue released him, and Jiang Nanchen quickly returned to his original spot.

"What a scare. Your Highness, you really are a thoroughgoing villain!" Jiang Nanchen said with a face full of disdain.

Qian Renxue snorted and raised a brow with a smile. "Oh? Just now, you kept calling me Crown Prince Brother, but now it's Your Highness? You little brat, you change your face pretty fast."

"I can't be bothered explaining. Once you're full, come back with me. You ate quite a lot this meal."

Qian Renxue stopped bickering with Jiang Nanchen, got up, and pulled him away.

After leaving Gathering Immortals Tower.

"You're not paying?"

Jiang Nanchen looked utterly bewildered.

"Pay for what? I invested in this Gathering Immortals Tower. I'm the boss behind it."

Qian Renxue declared proudly.

He finally asked!

She had been waiting for Jiang Nanchen to ask so she could show off properly.

I, Qian Renxue, am incredibly rich—richer than you could ever imagine.

She had thought Jiang Nanchen would be delighted and admire her, making her feel a little secretly pleased.

But when she looked at Jiang Nanchen, his lips had curled into a smile—a smile that meant he had come up with a bad idea.

"Hey, what are you thinking?"

Qian Renxue gently poked Jiang Nanchen's shoulder.

Jiang Nanchen came back to himself with a grin. "Naturally, I'm thinking of frequenting that restaurant in the future. You know, I never had enough to eat growing up, and now I have a particularly big appetite. I can save quite a bit of money too."

"How can you say that so matter-of-factly?" Qian Renxue was dumbfounded.

"What's yours is mine, and what's mine is still mine. Nothing wrong with that!"

Jiang Nanchen raised a brow and smiled, sounding entirely justified.

Veins bulged on Qian Renxue's forehead. Why did she feel like she had been tricked? It was like raising a son.

No, no—what son? He was clearly just a foodie little brother.

Sigh, forget it. Having one more person was still much better than before.

Qian Renxue continued holding Jiang Nanchen's hand as they walked onward. Rather than scolding him, she lectured him about the great principles of life along the way.

Jiang Nanchen merely let it go in one ear and out the other, not taking any of it to heart.

Meanwhile, at Holy Soul Village.

Tang Hao left the home where he had lived for six years and entered a stone chamber.

The stone chamber was dark and damp. A robust Blue Silver Emperor grew in the center, its vines coiling across the ground while its leaves gave off a faint blue glow.

Tang Hao wore a cloak, his face covered in stubble. Squatting before the plant, his rough fingertips brushed across its cool leaves.

"Ah Yin, I saw a child in Holy Soul Village who awakened an angel martial soul." Tang Hao's voice was hoarse, and an irrepressible hatred churned in his eyes. "That brat ran off early and went to Nording Academy. Don't worry, I'll definitely find him and kill him with my own hands. Everyone in this world with an angel martial soul should be buried with you."

The Blue Silver Emperor's leaves suddenly shook, rustling loudly. Its soft vines gently wound around his wrist, their strength tender, as though shaking their head in dissuasion.

Seeing this, Tang Hao clenched his fist instead.

"Don't worry. A mere Nording Academy can't stop me. Even Qian Xunji died beneath my hammer back then. A six-year-old child can't stir up any trouble."

The leaves shook even more fiercely, and the entire Blue Silver Emperor trembled faintly. Its blue light flickered brightly and dimly, so anxious it seemed ready to speak.

But Tang Hao was immersed in his own emotions and completely failed to understand her meaning, only assuming that Ah Yin was worried for his safety.

"Once I deal with him, I'll continue with my work." Tang Hao rose and left.

The stone door slowly closed behind him. The chamber returned to silence, the Blue Silver Emperor's leaves drooping weakly as its blue glow dimmed somewhat.

Tang Hao hurried all the way toward Nording City, soul power surging around him and carrying undisguised killing intent.

By the time he arrived at top speed, it was already late at night. He searched around Nording City and found no trace of Tang San, nor any trace of Jiang Nanchen.

Tang Hao immediately went to the academy office.

The moment he landed, he startled the sleeping dean awake. The dean had just been about to curse, but upon seeing someone with such terrifying aura, he immediately shuddered in fright.

"Senior, what can I do for you?"

The dean asked with a trembling, ingratiating smile.

"I'm asking you!"

"Where did Jiang Nanchen from your academy go?" Tang Hao asked coldly.

"Jiang Nanchen! Porcupinefish Douluo took him away."

The dean answered, deeply curious about the man before him as well.

What?

He had actually been taken away!

Tang Hao froze, clearly not expecting Porcupinefish Douluo's side to move so quickly.

Forget it. He was merely someone of impure bloodline, nowhere near a Six-Winged Angel. If they met again next time, it would not be too late to kill him then.

He immediately flashed away.

The dean let out a sigh of relief. "What kind of people are these? Each one is more outrageous than the last."

After leaving, Tang Hao stood atop the highest point in Nording City again, waiting for Tang San and Yu Xiaogang to return.

He took a Pope's Token from his robes, one that recorded the various martial souls. Under the bright moonlight, the token glimmered with a faint radiance.

Elsewhere, Jiang Nanchen returned to the Crown Prince's Residence and lay down on a large, comfortable bed.

"This is so comfortable—far more comfortable than where I lived in Holy Soul Village and Nording Academy."

Jiang Nanchen remarked with great satisfaction.

"It should be comfortable. This Crown Prince won't mistreat you. Tomorrow, after we register, I'll take you to the auction house and see whether there's anything suitable for you. Maybe we'll find a treasure useful for your martial soul."

Qian Renxue had no intention of letting this bargain little brother suffer.

He looked so much like her. If he was wronged and cried, her heart would ache.

"Crown Prince Brother, you're such a good person!"

Jiang Nanchen rolled back and forth across the bed.

"Remember to wake me tomorrow."

Qian Renxue smiled helplessly, rose, shut the door, and left. She made her way back to the study.

By then, Porcupinefish Douluo had already been waiting in the study for quite some time.

"Young Mistress, that boy looks so much like you?"

After Porcupinefish Douluo spoke, it seemed he had left half of what he wanted to say unsaid.

Qian Renxue naturally understood what he meant.

"I know what you mean. I've been undercover all this time—how would I have the mind to find a man? And do you think any man in Heaven Dou City is worthy of me?"

"Even if there really were one, would I leave the child in some backwater like Holy Soul Village and Nording Academy?"

Qian Renxue's words made it very clear.

She had no man.

Porcupinefish Douluo secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Young Mistress, I understand. But what about this child? His identity will eventually be exposed."

Qian Renxue did not care. "Then let it be exposed. By the day it is exposed, I reckon he will already be grown up and capable of handling matters on his own."

Her meaning was very clear.

Jiang Nanchen's talent was not weak. In six years, he would certainly be able to break through to the Soul Elder realm.

By then, he would be fully capable of standing on his own.

As the intermediary, she would naturally have to take good care of him.