Haotian Elders Driven Mad! Ah Yin Revived, Tang Hao Ecstatic! Tang San Fell Silent (Please Keep Reading!)

Tang Hao raised his head in disbelief, staring fixedly at the Blue Silver Grass before him as it blazed with brilliant light.

His entire body trembled violently with overwhelming excitement.

"Ah Yin... is coming back to life?

Ah Yin is really coming back to life?!"

Tang Hao crawled toward the Blue Silver Grass on his hands and knees, his trembling hands wanting to touch it.

Yet he feared disturbing that sacred blue-gold radiance.

"Yes... as long as Ah Yin can come back to life!

As long as I can see you again, even if I, Tang Hao, bear the scorn of ten thousand generations, even if I am expelled from the sect and cut off from the world, so what?!

Father, your son has let you down, but your son will never regret it!"

Listening to the numbers on the Ranking Screen steadily decrease, Tang Hao's breathing grew incomparably heavy. His face was filled with near-mad ecstasy and anticipation.

"Faster!

A little faster!

Ah Yin, my Ah Yin... come back to my side!"

Clear Sky Sect, main hall plaza.

They watched Tang Hao on the Ranking Screen, who had been weeping bitterly only moments ago,

yet had turned ecstatic and nearly insane the instant he heard that the Soul Beast was about to be revived.

The Clear Sky Sect elders trembled with rage, their faces turning livid.

"Shameless!

Utterly shameless!"

The Second Elder pointed at the Ranking Screen and cursed furiously.

"One moment, he was putting on an act and crying about how sorry he was to the old sect master. The next, he heard that Soul Beast was coming back to life and was grinning like a lunatic!

Did the old sect master ever hold even the slightest place in his heart?!"

"This was one of the twin stars of our Clear Sky Sect?

This was the Haotian Douluo renowned across the continent?!"

The Third Elder stomped a bluestone slab beneath his foot into pieces, his fury reaching the heavens.

"Bah!

He is just a shameless beast bewitched by beauty!

The old sect master was truly blind to have placed such high hopes on him!"

The First Elder took a deep breath, the killing intent in his eyes nearly solidifying into substance.

He suddenly turned and looked at the grief-stricken Tang Xiao, his voice icy.

"Tang Xiao!

How much longer are you going to protect him?!

As long as this child lives, our Clear Sky Sect will never be able to hold its head high again!

Even the old sect master's spirit in heaven will never rest in peace!"

Tang Xiao shut his eyes in pain. His hands clenched into fists so tightly that his nails dug deep into his palms, yet he could not say a word.

The First Elder swept his gaze over the elders, slammed his cane down, and shouted sternly.

"I propose that the Clear Sky Sect immediately form a party and leave the mountain!

Following the live image on the Ranking Screen, we will kill Tang Hao and that Soul Beast once and for all, and cleanse our sect!"

At those words, the other elders' eyes immediately lit up, and they all voiced their agreement.

"The First Elder is right!

We must kill those two wretches and use their blood to honor the old sect master!"

The First Elder looked at Tang Xiao, his voice cold and confident.

"Tang Xiao, all five of us elders have now broken through and reached the realm of Title Douluo above rank 90.

Including you, the sect master whose strength is no weaker than Tang Hao's, our Clear Sky Sect has a full six Title Douluo!

So long as we find their hiding place, the combined strength of the six of us will absolutely be enough to kill them completely!

Do you agree or not?!"

Tang Xiao opened his eyes and looked at Tang Hao on the Ranking Screen, deliriously overjoyed as he cast aside filial piety for the sake of a Soul Beast.

The last trace of warmth in his eyes finally went out completely.

Tang Xiao gave a miserable smile and rasped out a single word.

"Kill."

[Revival countdown: three...]

[two...]

[One! Revival begins!]

The cold, majestic voice on the Ranking Screen fell silent.

In an instant, the Blue Silver Grass inside the stone cave at the back of Holy Soul Village erupted with unprecedented, dazzling blue-gold light.

Within that light, countless phantom images of Blue Silver Grass intertwined, gradually gathering into a peerlessly beautiful blue figure, gentle as water.

"Ah Yin!

My Ah Yin!

You really came back to life!"

Tang Hao was utterly overcome with ecstasy.

Tang Hao rushed forward like a madman and pulled that figure, which had only just condensed into solid form, tightly into his arms.

Ah Yin was somewhat at a loss from the sudden embrace. Feeling the scorching warmth against her chest, her eyes were full of confusion.

Ah Yin slowly raised her hands and cupped Tang Hao's face, covered in stubble, weathered by hardship, and stained with blood and tears. Her voice trembled as she spoke.

"Brother Hao... is it really you?

How did you... become so old, so haggard?

Didn't I already sacrifice myself for you and die?

Why am I here now?"

Seeing the pure, flawless concern in his wife's eyes, Tang Hao's heart suddenly ached, and profound guilt and unease surged within him.

He absolutely did not dare tell Ah Yin that between her life and that of his father, Tang Tian,

he had unhesitatingly abandoned his father in exchange for her revival.

Tang Hao took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the panic in his eyes as he pulled out an ugly smile.

"Ah Yin, listen to me.

It was the Ranking Screen. A divine miracle descended!

The Ranking Screen ranked me tenth among the 'Ten Peak Soul Masters of the Douluo Continent.' This was the reward it granted me!

It revived you without any side effects!"

"Tenth among the Ten Peak Soul Masters?

A reward?"

Ah Yin froze slightly. Though she did not understand what the Ranking Screen was,

when she saw the man before her, who had become so unkempt and aged for her sake, her heart instantly melted.

"Brother Hao, I don't care about any Ranking Screen or any reward..."

Ah Yin wrapped her arms tightly around Tang Hao in return and pressed her head to his chest as tears poured from her eyes.

"This is wonderful... I thought I would never see you again, never see our child again.

As long as I can be with you and return to your side, anything is fine.

Brother Hao, I missed you so much..."

"I missed you too, Ah Yin. We will never be apart again!"

Tang Hao excitedly kissed Ah Yin's forehead. The two held each other tightly in the stone cave, sharing a tender, intimate reunion.

Yet they had no idea that this exceptionally heartwarming reunion scene

was currently being broadcast through the Ranking Screen in high definition, without a single blind spot, to everyone across the Douluo Continent.

Shrek Academy.

On the training field, they watched Tang Hao and Ah Yin embrace deeply and pour out their feelings on the Ranking Screen, yet the atmosphere was so oppressive it was suffocating.

Tang San stared fixedly at the Ranking Screen as though struck by lightning, his face drained of every trace of color.

"Xiao San..."

Xiao Wu tugged worriedly at Tang San's sleeve, but she did not know what to say.

Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and the others exchanged looks.

All of them maintained an eerie silence, even deliberately softening their breathing.

Tang Hao's words that he would "never regret it," along with his act of abandoning his biological father for a Soul Beast,

had completely overturned their understanding of the Haotian Douluo.

And now, seeing Tang Hao hide the truth from his revived wife and deceive her under the Ranking Screen's broadcast,

made them feel an indescribable sense of absurdity and awkwardness.

"That... is my mother..."

Tang San's voice was terribly hoarse, and his clenched fists cracked loudly.

Master Yu Xiaogang looked at his grief-stricken disciple, let out a deep sigh, and patted Tang San's shoulder, but ultimately said nothing.

Under the gazes of countless people across the continent—some contemptuous, some mocking, some conflicted—

the people of Shrek Academy fell completely into a deathly silence.