Tang San's Mother Was Dug Up!

Xiao Xiao stepped out of a shop, her face flushed.

"Little Lu, I know Whale Rubber can improve a Soul Master's physical condition, but they don't know that..."

Xiao Xiao was an unmarried young woman. Remembering the shopkeeper's knowing look, she felt as if her head were hot enough to boil water.

Lu Ming found the look on her face rather funny.

So this is what Xiao Xiao looks like when she's embarrassed. Seeing it in person is even better than in the comics!

"Is there something on my face?"

Lu Ming cleared his throat and said there wasn't.

"Ow!"

A sharp pinch at his waist made Lu Ming cry out.

"You're getting naughty, Little Lu. You won't even tell me the truth."

"Xiao Xiao, nobody followed us, right?"

"No!"

Xiao Xiao looked puzzled.

"Little Lu, why did you bring me somewhere so remote?"

"Now that you've absorbed the Whale Rubber, shouldn't we go to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Soul Beast?"

The corner of Lu Ming's mouth lifted in a faint smile.

"There's a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone beneath this village!"

"A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone!"

Xiao Xiao jolted in astonishment.

Even at rank ninety-eight as a Super Douluo, she possessed only one Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

That was how precious such a bone was.

"Who hid it here without absorbing it?"

Xiao Xiao did not doubt Lu Ming. Little Lu had always been well-behaved and never lied.

"It belongs to that scruffy man who fought you before. He's Tang San's father, Clear Sky Douluo—Tang Hao!"

"The Soul Bone came from his wife, a hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor!"

Lu Ming asked Xiao Xiao cautiously.

"Xiao Xiao, is it wrong of me to do this?"

Xiao Xiao fell silent.

Lu Ming grew uneasy. He wanted it badly, but if Xiao Xiao objected, he would leave at once.

"No!"

Xiao Xiao's answer was firm.

"Soul Rings and Soul Bones have always gone to those capable of claiming them. He wasn't strong enough back then, yet he took a Soul Beast that hadn't fully become human wandering all over the world."

"He should have known this day might come. He brought it on himself."

Xiao Xiao paused, her hand unconsciously curling into a fist.

"Besides, the way he looked at me made me sick!"

So Xiao Xiao noticed!

Then all those little thoughts I've had...

Blushing, Lu Ming buried his face against her.

Xiao Xiao smiled faintly. To her, Lu Ming was just a child who needed looking after.

How could she possibly have any other thoughts about him?

Lu Ming recalled that Tang Hao had planted the Blue Silver Emperor in a cave that supposedly did not even have a "skylight"!

It was no better than a rat hole.

Lu Ming and Xiao Xiao rode the Nine-Phoenix Ceremonial Xiao Martial Soul through the sky, searching carefully for the place.

At last, their efforts paid off.

"Xiao Xiao, there!"

Xiao Xiao gently drew Lu Ming into her arms and jumped down with him.

"I'll keep watch outside. Come out as soon as you can!"

"Okay!"

Lu Ming nodded and trotted into the cave.

It was pitch-black inside. He could not see his hand in front of his face. Just as he had heard, there was not even a "skylight."

Lu Ming felt Ah Yin deserved far better.

Holding a torch, Lu Ming felt his way through the cave and found a stalk of Blue Silver Grass at its deepest point.

That must be the Blue Silver Emperor!

He brought the torch closer and saw that the Blue Silver Grass grown from the seed Ah Yin had left behind was even frailer than the grass in a farm field.

It looked ready to wither at any moment.

Tang Hao, are you even human? A burial plot would be better than this!

Unable to bear it, Lu Ming dug up the Blue Silver Emperor with the soil around her.

The Blue Silver Emperor's leaves swayed gently, as if she were resisting.

"What a foolish Soul Beast. Still thinking about your husband? He's already taken a fancy to my Xiao Xiao."

Seeing that Ah Yin was still thinking of Tang Hao, Lu Ming could not help saying it aloud.

The Blue Silver Emperor's leaves went still, then drooped even lower.

Lu Ming paid her no mind. After packing her away, he began searching for the Blue Silver Emperor Spirit Bone.

He felt along the surrounding stone walls until he found a Hidden Compartment. When he pressed it lightly, the stone gave a little.

A rectangular Wooden Box appeared. Its lid opened to reveal a Soul Bone radiating abundant life force.

Delighted, Lu Ming scampered back out.

"Xiao Xiao!"

"Did you get it?"

Lu Ming nodded. Then he dug up a stalk of Blue Silver Grass from a patch of grass, ran back into the cave, and planted it there.

Only after doing all that did Lu Ming leave with Xiao Xiao.

"Xiao Xiao!"

Lu Ming handed the Wooden Box to Xiao Xiao, leaving her momentarily stunned.

"It's for me?"

"Of course! You don't have a full set of Soul Bones, do you?"

Lu Ming grinned.

"This Soul Bone grants flight and healing. It can even regenerate, like grass growing back after a wildfire."

"I don't need it. Keep it to increase your Soul Power! It'll give you another way to survive when you're in danger."

Warmth spread through Xiao Xiao's heart. Sometimes, an offhand gesture could leave someone with an unforgettable memory.

She waved it away.

But Lu Ming insisted on giving it to her. He still had the system's "External Soul Bone: Wind-Thunder Wings" to absorb.

Wind on the left and lightning on the right, both moving at his will!

The Blue Silver Emperor's Right Leg Bone did not suit him anyway. Xiao Xiao would make better use of it.

Later, he could get her an Immortal Herb from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Then her breakthrough to Peerless Douluo would only be a matter of time.

Unable to change Lu Ming's mind, Xiao Xiao accepted it.

They found a quiet clearing.

Xiao Xiao set up a barrier, and she and Lu Ming began absorbing their Soul Bones.

Xiao Xiao guided the Blue Silver Emperor Spirit Bone onto her right leg. At rank ninety-eight, and with the bone coming from a plant-type Soul Beast,

she had completely absorbed it in the time it took to drink a cup of tea!

Lu Ming, meanwhile, absorbed the External Soul Bone: Flying Thunder Wings!

The richly colored wings, threaded with the power of lightning, looked vivid and lifelike on Lu Ming's back.

Will Little Lu turn into a thunderbird?

Xiao Xiao's imagination began to run wild.

Time passed. As the sun was about to rise, Lu Ming finally finished merging with the wings.

Now, with a single thought, he could travel dozens of miles in an instant. As his cultivation rose, he would only get faster.

Thanks to his Golden Dragon King bloodline, his Golden Dragon King Martial Soul did not require him to hunt Soul Beasts. Suitable Soul Rings and Soul Skills would appear automatically.

With the help of this absorption and Meditation, his cultivation broke through to rank fifteen in one leap.

Xiao Xiao, who had been resting her head on her knees, seemed to sense something.

She suddenly opened her eyes and met a pair of large black eyes.

"Little Lu!"

Xiao Xiao gave his bottom a light smack.

"Why didn't you wake me when you got up? You even poked my eyelashes. How naughty!"

Lu Ming pleaded, "I'm sorry, Xiao Xiao! Let's go hunt Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest!"

With his Golden Dragon King bloodline, it did not matter whether all the Soul Rings for his second Martial Soul were Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.

What mattered was having plenty of skills flashy enough to dazzle everyone.

Besides, once he became a god, the age of his Soul Rings would no longer matter. Why wait until later to add Soul Rings to the Heavenly Frost Sword?

Wouldn't it be great to use it to put Tang San in his place early on?!

After all, when it came to the number of skills, who in the original story had more than that Buddha Tang?