That revelation was far more shocking than Tang Hao revealing his own identity moments earlier.
Xiao Wu wasn't human?
She was a hundred-thousand-year transformed soul beast?
Countless fragments of memories surged wildly through Tang San's mind.
Xiao Wu's unusual affection and sympathy for soul beasts.
How she had inexplicably survived her encounter with the Titan Giant Ape while obtaining her third soul ring, and somehow even become a Soul Elder on her own.
Those strange things she had said to him while he combed her hair.
Every suspicious detail suddenly fell into place.
"That... that's impossible..."
Tang San's lips went dry, and he instinctively stumbled back two steps.
The sweet girl who had spent six years at his side, the Xiao Wu who clung to him every day and called him "Brother San," was actually a soul beast who had lived for a hundred thousand years and taken human form?
Tang Hao's voice interrupted Tang San's chaotic thoughts.
"There's nothing impossible about it."
"Back then, I couldn't believe such a coincidence could exist either. But your mother was a transformed soul beast."
"When a soul beast reaches a hundred thousand years of cultivation, it has only two paths: be reduced to ash by a heavenly tribulation, or risk almost certain death to take human form and begin cultivating anew."
"As long as a transformed soul beast in her juvenile stage doesn't encounter a Soul Douluo or a Titled Douluo, no one can see through her disguise."
Tang San steadied his shaky legs, his thoughts gradually settling.
If Xiao Wu was a transformed soul beast, then her current situation...
Tang San abruptly raised his head, a sheen of cold sweat forming on his forehead.
"Father, there are several Soul Douluos and Titled Douluos in Heaven Dou City!"
Tang Hao slammed a