I Bet Haozi Planted You in a Cave

Qian Xunyi ignored the woman and looked instead at the dead infant in the cradle.

"Brother Yi, is this the vessel you were looking for?" Tian Meng asked.

"Correct." Qian Xunyi nodded.

"What is this vessel for?" Tian Meng asked.

"You know what happened here, right? Use your spiritual power to capture the lingering traces in the surroundings." Qian Xunyi picked up the dead infant from the cradle and spoke to Tian Meng.

Tian Meng closed his eyes and sensed everything around him.

In this ordinary household, his spiritual sense caught a trace of the Clear Sky Hammer's aura.

After some deduction, he understood the whole sequence of events.

It turned out that after defeating Qian Xunji, Tang Hao had also suffered severe injuries. With Qian Daoliu's pursuit still awaiting him, Tang Hao desperately needed a place to rest and recover in preparation for the Worship Hall's coming hunt.

He did not dare take the main roads, so he could only travel along smaller paths.

That was how he found this household.

Gravely wounded and in urgent need of rest, Tang Hao had been taken in by this family and allowed to recuperate here for several days.

A few days later, Tang Hao prepared to leave. But when he considered that Qian Xunji would soon die and Spirit Hall would hunt him across the continent, he feared this family might reveal his whereabouts. So, Tang Hao decided to go all the way.

Thus came the tragedy before them.

"So that's what happened." Tian Meng clicked his tongue. "Rat was certainly decisive. He did not even spare an infant. He was just short of scrambling the eggs and splitting every earthworm here lengthwise."

Qian Xunyi had already begun to act, channeling the power of the Zhe Character Secret into the dead infant's body.

The baby's bluish body regained its rosy color within a few breaths. Its eyes remained peacefully closed, as though it were simply asleep.

But Qian Xunyi knew that the infant had not been revived.

Its soul had already departed. The Zhe Character Secret had merely restored the body's condition. Without a soul, it remained dead.

But a restored body was enough.

He took the sleeping Otherworld Tang San and placed him into that body.

As soul and body fused together, the infant began breathing again.

With a look of compassion, Qian Xunyi said, "This poor child was burdened with a blood feud from the moment he was born. His enemy is the Clear Sky Douluo."

"Yes, poor child." Tian Meng looked at the child with pity.

"Tian Meng, we should let this child know everything that happened here," Qian Xunyi said.

"Ah, yes, yes, yes..." Tian Meng said.

"The Luo Family took in a Rat with nowhere else to go and let Rat recuperate for several days. But they never imagined that, when Rat left, he would repay kindness with enmity to prevent his trail from being exposed, slaughtering the entire Luo Family." Qian Xunyi spoke mournfully.

"What a disaster. How utterly deranged." Tian Meng wiped away a crocodile tear.

"A few hours after the Luo Family was exterminated, we followed Rat's trail to the Luo Family's ruins and discovered a hidden infant beneath the rubble."

"Uh..." Tian Meng was dumbfounded. "Th-this is a little different from reality."

In reality, Tang Hao had left no roots behind. He killed the mother, strangled the baby, and left no room for mercy at all.

"If it's different, can't you just change it?" Qian Xunyi rolled his eyes at Tian Meng.

"Then... how should I change it?" Tian Meng tilted his innocent little head.

"The child's mother watched in terror as everything unfolded outside the room. Her husband, father-in-law, and mother-in-law died one after another at Rat's hands. Desperate, she thought of her newborn child and hurriedly hid her in a floor cabinet.

"Just after she hid the infant, Rat burst into the room and stabbed the child's mother through the heart, killing her."

Afterward, Rat remembered that there was still an infant in the family. He turned the place upside down in search of the child, but perhaps he had not expected there to be a floor cabinet. Before leaving, he simply summoned the Clear Sky Hammer and smashed the house into rubble."

"And the infant in the floor cabinet saw all of it clearly."

"A few hours later, we of Spirit Hall arrived and found this barely breathing infant amid the ruins." After saying that, Qian Xunyi looked at Tian Meng with an expression that plainly said, The rest is up to you.

"Brother Yi, leave it to me." Tian Meng hurriedly began fabricating the story according to Qian Xunyi's script.

After making it up, he presented it to Qian Xunyi with a fawning smile. "Brother Yi, please review it."

Qian Xunyi took a look and said, "Not bad. But this part, this part, and this part still need revision."

"Sure thing."

A little while later.

"Brother Yi, please review it."

"Not bad. It's a little better than the previous one, but there are still a few minor flaws."

After several rounds of revisions, Qian Xunyi was finally satisfied. He then implanted the memories into Otherworld Tang San's Mental Sea.

After finishing all that, Qian Xunyi said to the sleeping Tang San, "Actually, this does not count as deceiving you. It's merely a tiny, well-intentioned alteration. After all, the truth is that you died the moment you were born, isn't it?"

Otherworld Tang San had possessed Tang San, thus taking on Tang San's karmic ties, inheriting his father's hatred, and launching a magnificent revenge against Spirit Hall.

Now, Otherworld Tang San had possessed a surviving descendant of the Luo Family.

It did not really count as possession. It should be called going public through a borrowed shell; the original owner's soul had long since vanished.

That meant he had inherited the Luo Family's karmic ties as well, did it not? Go launch a magnificent revenge against Rat, A-San.

"From now on, this child is my adopted godson. Take him back and raise him properly." Qian Xunyi handed the infant to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

However, Tang San's biological father in this life had a wooden stick as his Martial Soul, while his mother's Martial Soul was a sickle. They were utterly useless Martial Souls from every conceivable angle, the kind that did not even possess Soul Power. Tang San would most likely inherit one of these two ordinary Martial Souls in this life.

Those two Martial Souls would not be enough for him to launch a magnificent revenge against Rat, let alone when Rat had God King Tang San's precious son.

Qian Xunyi stroked his chin and pondered, Forget it. I'll consider the Martial Soul issue later. Perhaps once I become Pope, the problem will resolve itself.

After doing all this, Qian Xunyi gave the dead in the house a proper burial. Then he left with the still-sleeping Qian Renshan and returned to the Body Camp.

After returning to the Body Camp, Qian Xunyi immediately assembled his forces and set out toward Spirit City.

"Next, it is finally my turn to take the stage." Qian Xunyi stared intensely toward Spirit City. "I hope Sister-in-law won't disappoint me. For the sake of the coming show, I have held back for so many years, leaving the stage specifically for you to perform on."