Battlefield

Hearing Bibi Dong call herself sister and also call Xiaoyuan brother, Qian Renxue felt her plump chest heave violently.

Bibi Dong is clearly settling a personal score here!

What righteous mother, what escort, seeing that Xiaoyuan has grown into an eighteen-year-old hunk, she has thrown away even her papal pride!

Caught right between the two of them, Ye Yuan only felt his scalp tingle.

How do these two manage to trigger a battlefield out of nowhere?

Besides, Bibi Dong said she wants to personally take me to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a soul ring? Isn't this treatment a bit too high? Even back then, Qian Renxue didn't get this treatment, right?

"Um... Sister Dong'er, Sister Xue'er, actually I can go by myself."

Ye Yuan raised his hand and spoke weakly.

"No!"

Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue refused in unison, both pairs of beautiful eyes glaring over in sync.

Ye Yuan shrank his neck and quietly shut his mouth.

"Xiaoyuan, you just awakened. Although the soul power in your body is vast, it isn't stable yet. Rest in the Pope's Palace today, and tomorrow morning, sister will take you to the Star Dou Great Forest."

Bibi Dong gently stroked Ye Yuan's head, her tone doting.

Afterward, she looked coldly outside the hall: "Guimei!"

A streak of black smoke twisted in the void, and Ghost Douluo instantly dropped to one knee: "Subordinate is here."

"Pass down the order: double the holy war offensive against the Heaven Dou Empire! Showers of cleansing for any sects and nobles who dare resist! Also, continue dispatching personnel; even if we have to dig three feet into the continent, we must find Tang San and Tang Hao!"

Bibi Dong commanded coldly.

"Yes!" Ghost Douluo acknowledged and withdrew.

Watching the swift, decisive, and ruthless Bibi Dong, Ye Yuan clicked his tongue inwardly.

Too ruthless. This is definitely a full-respawn hell-difficulty setting. Tang San, oh Tang San, being driven into a dead end at five years old, tsk tsk, you really are going to have a great time in this life, comparable to being born in a vocational school toilet.

Meanwhile.

Inside a dark, damp, barren mountain cave on the border of the Fasino Province and the Barack Kingdom.

"Cough, cough... Ptui!"

Tang Hao leaned against the cold rock wall, coughing up large mouthfuls of black blood.

His right arm was already gone from the root, the wound firmly adhered to by a faint layer of Golden Crocodile King soul power, constantly devouring his vitality.

With nine rings detonated, coupled with a severed arm and heavy injuries, Tang Hao's strength had dropped to rock bottom at this moment, making him inferior even to an ordinary Soul Ancestor.

"Dad... Are you alright?"

Nearby, five-year-old Tang San had an extremely pale face, fractures in multiple parts of his body, and used his trembling little hands to try and wipe the blood from the corners of Tang Hao's mouth.

In Tang San's youthful eyes, earth-shaking malice and fury burned intensely.

"Dammit... How could this happen? Why did Spirit Hall launch an all-out attack at this time? Why did they know that Dad and I were living in seclusion in Holy Spirit Village?"

Tang San roared frantically in his heart, his fingernails digging deeply into his flesh.

In his past life, as the Sea God and Asura Dual Gods, he stood high above; when had he ever suffered such humiliation?

Now, despite a head full of foresight and Hidden Weapons Hundred Solutions, because his body was only five years old and he had virtually no soul power, he was as humble as an ant before the might of Spirit Hall!

"L-Little San..." Tang Hao weakly opened his eyes, using his remaining left hand to tremblingly stroke Tang San's face, his eyes full of a will to die.

"This time... Spirit Hall came for us. The Heaven Dou Empire imperial family... I'm afraid is already finished... They want to exterminate us completely..."

"Dad, where can we go? What about the Clear Sky School? Let's go find Uncle!"

Tang San said through clenched teeth.

"We can't go to the Clear Sky School... If they find out, it will implicate the sect." Tang Hao smiled bitterly, his eyes filled with despair.

"Little San, Dad's afraid he won't last much longer. After Dad dies, conceal your identity, and please... please never seek revenge on Spirit Hall..."

"No! I don't believe it! My fate is up to me, not the heavens!"

Tang San clenched his fists tightly, the Purple Demon Eye flashing frantically:

"As long as I awaken my spirit, as long as I awaken my Twin Spirits! With my talent and memories, within ten years, I will definitely kill my way back to Spirit City and slice Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue into a thousand pieces!"

Watching Tang San's impotent rage, only two desperate gasps remained in the dim cave.

He had no idea that Spirit Hall at this moment had no intention of giving him ten years.

Within a couple of minutes, Tang Hao suddenly widened his eyes and exclaimed.

"Holy shit! Little San! I left your mom behind in Holy Spirit Village!"

In the cave, the originally desolate and desperate atmosphere of vengeance instantly froze.

Five-year-old Tang San froze in place, even the tears hanging at the corners of his eyes shrinking back.

He widened his large eyes, staring fixedly at Tang Hao, whose face was written all over with holy shit, his head buzzing.

"Dad... W-What did you just say?"

Tang San's voice trembled violently.

That was his mother.

Yet now, Tang Hao actually said... he left a person behind in Holy Spirit Village!

"Little San..."

Tang Hao covered his face with his remaining left hand, his single arm trembling slightly, his old face full of utter shame and remorse.

"The situation was too critical before. That Golden Crocodile Old Dog suddenly rushed out with four Titled Douluo, and to save my life, Dad had to use the Great Sumeru Hammer to detonate rings. Under that kind of offensive, Dad's right arm was ripped apart raw, and my mind went completely blank at the time, only thinking about taking you and running..."

"In that run, Dad forgot... the body of your mom hidden in the cave behind the waterfall!"

As he spoke, Tang Hao slammed a fist heavily into the stone wall, his tiger eyes filled with tears of regret:

"A Yin! I've failed you! How could I have forgotten you!"

Watching Tang Hao engage in impotent rage and weep while holding his head, Tang San had already cursed this biological father thousands of times in his heart.

You kept claiming you love my mom, and even made an enemy of Spirit Hall for her!

Yet when running away, you couldn't even take a single blade of grass with you!

Five Titled Douluo from Spirit Hall carried out a dimensional strike on Holy Spirit Village; how could they possibly spare the waterfall cave? It's over, my mom has definitely been turned into the shape of Spirit Hall!

Why didn't you forget yourself instead!

Tang San was so angry he almost vomited blood on the spot, but his current body was only five years old and hadn't even awakened its spirit, leaving him completely powerless.

He could only forcefully suppress the raging fire in his heart, gritting his teeth to comfort him:

"Dad... stop crying, while there's life there's hope. Our top priority is to survive first."

Heaven Dou Empire, Imperial City, Heaven Dou Main Hall.

Although the smoke of war had yet to completely permeate this ancient city, the atmosphere inside the hall was heavy to the extreme.

Emperor Xue Ye sat on the dragon throne with a livid expression. Below him, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School Master Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, Bone Douluo Gu Rong, and Poison Douluo Dugu Bo were impressively present.

"Those bastard dogs from Spirit Hall have no martial virtue whatsoever!"

Poison Douluo Dugu Bo shattered the jade tea table beside him with a single slap, his pair of emerald-green eyes filled with shock, anger, and murderous intent:

"Attacking without a declaration, directly dispatching the Temple Knights and multiple Titled Douluo! If old man Sword and old man Bone hadn't rushed to the border in time, Heaven Dou's first line of defense would have been torn apart raw by them!"