Ah Yin

Spirit Hall, Pope's Palace rear garden.

This was the place with the richest life force in all of Spirit City. Not only was it filled with strange flora rarely seen across the continent, there were even immortal herbs picked from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Yet, in the most eye-catching spot amid the blooming flowers stood a white jade flowerpot.

Inside the pot grew a seemingly delicate Blue Silver Grass, its leaves covered in golden patterns.

Buzz!

A pure and mighty wave of Soul Power, carrying a trace of primordial, ancient pressure, erupted from Ye Yuan, who sat cross-legged before the flowerpot.

Although this Soul Power fluctuation was only at level forty, the pressure within it made the surrounding strange flora bend slightly.

Only the Blue Silver Emperor in the white jade flowerpot trembled faintly when it sensed that pressure. Its golden leaves quivered, and its aura radiated a human-like resentment and venom.

"Phew..."

Ye Yuan slowly opened his eyes, a faint shadow of a bell flashing through them.

He let out a long breath, rose to his feet, and clenched his fist. Feeling the surging strength within his body, he smiled in satisfaction.

"Eighteen years old, twin god-grade martial souls, and I reached level forty Soul Ancestor less than half a month after awakening. I wonder if this lousy sword and lousy bell would count as trash martial souls in that blind Douluo's eyes."

Ye Yuan chuckled and turned to look at the trembling Blue Silver Grass in the white jade flowerpot.

"Aunt Ah Yin, you watched your son win the God War before Jialing Pass. Your family was about to ascend to the God Realm, but I brought you back with my martial soul, leaving you to be an ornamental plant in a flowerpot. Are you getting used to that gap yet?"

At the words Jialing Pass and God War, the Blue Silver Grass in the pot suddenly stiffened.

As a reincarnator who had likewise retained memories of her past life, how could Ah Yin not hate the man before her?

In her previous life, her son had clearly already won, and their family had been about to welcome its happiest moment.

Yet this worthless man with no Soul Power had rung that lousy bell and completely shattered the happiness that had been within her grasp.

Not only that, this devil had struck first in this life. He had crippled her husband in Holy Spirit Village, seized her Soul Bone, and planted her here like a trophy.

As if sensing the unwillingness in Ah Yin's mental fluctuations, Ye Yuan's lips curved into a smile.

"Looks like you're still hoping that your good son, who reincarnated with his memories, can save you just like he did in your previous life?"

"Unfortunately, I came today to give you some good news for free."

"A few days ago, Tang Xiao, the Clear Sky Sect's sect master, went to Heaven Dou City to rescue someone. He got beaten like a dead dog and could only carry the half-dead Tang Hao back to the Clear Sky Sect."

"Besides, I've already sent the forces of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to seal off the Clear Sky Sect's gates. Tell me, can the Clear Sky Sect's pitiful reserves withstand several sects bleeding them dry at their doorstep every day?"

The Blue Silver Grass's leaves began shaking wildly, as if it were screaming soundlessly.

"Don't rush. That was only the appetizer."

Ye Yuan extended a slender finger and flicked the gold-veined leaf, making the Blue Silver Grass curl up in pain. "Unfortunately, I came today to give you some good news for free."

"Clear Sky Sect Master Tang Xiao fled back to the Clear Sky Sect like a dead dog after being beaten while trying to save your husband. Now, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect forces I sent have sealed off the Clear Sky Sect's gates. They're tearing each other apart like dogs now."

The Blue Silver Grass's leaves began shaking violently, radiating waves of anxious and furious mental ripples, as though it were screaming without a sound.

"As for your son Tang San, in whom you placed such high hopes... regrettably, he won't have the chance to grow up in this life."

Ye Yuan lowered his voice and whispered like a devil.

"Nana severed the tendons in both his feet and turned him into blood feed for monsters. She carried him back into the sewers of the Capital of Slaughter to slowly cultivate poison insects."

Buzzzzzz!!!

Upon hearing this, the Blue Silver Grass in the white jade flowerpot instantly fell into madness!

Unable to attack, she could only shake her frail branches and leaves desperately. The golden patterns flickered erratically, while the waves of mental fluctuations she emitted were filled with despairing questions and grief!

The Capital of Slaughter!

What kind of fate awaited a five-year-old child whose martial soul had not even awakened and whose foot tendons had been severed, once he fell into the hands of that man-eating Bat King?!

"Does it hurt? Do you feel like the sacrifices you made across two lives were all for nothing?"

Ye Yuan looked at the Blue Silver Grass raging helplessly in the flowerpot and slowly bent down.

"Actually, you don't need to be so sad. Because what I'm about to tell you is something you never knew, even when you watched him slaughter his enemies at Jialing Pass in your previous life."

"The infant you desperately protected by sacrificing your Hundred Thousand Years of Cultivation when Spirit Hall hunted you down had actually died the moment he was born."

"The real Tang San died young long ago. The one occupying that body now is merely the soul of an old ghost from another world, carrying memories from his past life and far older than your husband."

Rustle!

At that instant, all movement from the Blue Silver Grass came to an abrupt halt.

Its leaves froze stiffly in midair, and the mental fluctuations it released were filled with utter rejection and disbelief!

This had to be a lie fabricated by this demon to torment her!

Her son had clearly called her Mother. He had clearly inherited her Blue Silver Emperor martial soul!

"Don't believe me?"

Ye Yuan's eyes were filled with pity and mockery.

"Then let me ask you. Between you and your husband Tang Hao, who taught him that strange footwork, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track?"

"And who taught him the Mysterious Heaven Skill and Mysterious Jade Hand, techniques completely different from the Soul Power system yet capable of rendering one immune to all poisons?"

"Could it be that the inheritance of the Clear Sky Sect or a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast also included how to make sinister hidden weapons like the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and Yama's Invitation?"

Every word Ye Yuan spoke was like a heavy iron hammer smashing fiercely against Ah Yin's soul.

"Think carefully about your previous life. Why did a newborn infant never cry or fuss? Why was his mind so mature at such a young age, like an old hand who had experienced countless battles?"

"Did you really think he was a genius nurtured by your Hundred Thousand Years of Cultivation?"

If Ah Yin had been in human form right then, she would surely have been clutching her ears and rolling on the ground in agony.

The evidence Ye Yuan threw at her was like venomous thorns, piercing precisely into the inconsistencies from her previous life that she had always ignored, yet that had truly existed.

"What you traded your life for was not your own flesh and blood at all, but a parasite that stole someone else's nest!"

Ye Yuan stood up and pronounced his final judgment from above.

"In his eyes, you were nothing more than a breeding vessel that provided top-grade bloodline. You and your husband spent two lifetimes acting as cheap parents for an old ghost who stole your son's corpse. Truly... pitiful and laughable."