The Helpless Husband, Tang Hao

"Keep detonating!" Feeling the terrifying power of Maximum: Meteor, Tang Hao gritted his teeth and detonated another Soul Ring. At the same time, he coughed up a mouthful of black blood.

After severely injuring Qian Xunji and two other Titled Douluo years ago, he had been left with countless hidden injuries. Using Ring Detonation so relentlessly now placed a crushing strain on his body.

His hammer collided with the enormous Flaming Meteorite. An explosion rang out, and Tang Hao collapsed helplessly to the ground.

Trembling, he watched Jogo deliberately take Ah Yin out of his Soul Tool. "Give Ah Yin back to me!" he roared, his face twisted with rage.

The Blue Silver Grass with Golden Patterns quivered faintly, as if it ached for Tang Hao's injuries.

At that moment, Tang Hao was the very picture of a helpless husband. All he could do was watch Jogo take his wife away.

Jogo had lost interest in fighting. He hadn't used the Infinite Points Card just now. After his panel's third upgrade, his daily Emotion Points cap had risen to 15,000, and he had already filled it.

He had planned to take one of Tang Hao's arms and legs. But Tang San still didn't know his father was Tang Hao. Wouldn't it be better to wait until Tang San learned the truth, then cripple his supposedly invincible father right in front of him?

The Emotion Points would come pouring in then. Heh, heh!

With that thought, Jogo swaggered away with Tang Hao's wife.

Tang Hao watched, his eyes nearly splitting with rage, but he could do nothing. After detonating three Soul Rings in succession, his old injuries had flared up. Even standing was a struggle.

Jogo brought Ah Yin to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Dugu Bo's poisonous mist still surrounded its perimeter.

Tang Hao had planted Ah Yin in that sunless cave partly to protect her, of course. But hadn't he worried it might also harm her chances of survival?

Jogo could plant Ah Yin directly at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Later, he would make a bunch of Clones and move every stalk of Blue Silver Grass in the Blue Silver Forest there. Then the Blue Silver King could slowly draw in the life force of the Blue Silver Grass throughout Sunset Forest. Given enough years, they could pile up enough to restore Ah Yin to 100,000 years of cultivation.

Why revive Ah Yin? To farm Emotion Points, of course, and then absorb her Soul Ring. What else—have a sweet little romance with her?

Everyone knew falling in love on Douluo Continent lowered your intelligence. Liu Erlong, Bibi Dong, Hu Liena, and Qian Renxue were just a few examples. Even fanfiction protagonists weren't immune. Bai Ranmo had no intention of doing something so stupid.

When the time came, he only had to say, "Madam, you wouldn't want anything to happen to Tang Hao and Xiao San..."

Inside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well sat a man and a woman.

The man had a gentle, refined face and looked barely over twenty. He wore a white robe, and powerful Soul Power radiated from him. He was unmistakably a Titled Douluo.

The woman had a graceful figure and a seductive smile. Her eyes seemed to flirt with everyone they met. She stood under 1.6 meters tall, but her chest was remarkably full. Dressed in a provocative style, she had short blood-red hair with a single white streak.

Nine Treasure Douluo, Su Liuchuan. His Martial Soul was the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and he was a level 92 Auxiliary Titled Douluo.

Manjusaka, one of the Seven Shadow Assassins from Scissor Seven. Her Martial Soul was Manjusaka, and she was a level 89 Omni-Type Soul Douluo.

Manjusaka had come from a ten-pull. She had originally been only level 85, but an Immortal Herb and the 70,000-year Shadow Ghost Tiger left leg bone from Bai Ranmo's first draw had pushed her all the way to level 89. Now, absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone would be enough to advance her to Titled Douluo.

Su Liuchuan would sooner die than go out without a Titled Douluo protecting him. Ning Fengzhi was a smiling tiger—kind to his own people and ruthless to outsiders. Su Liuchuan had no doubt that if the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect discovered him and he refused to join, Sword and Bone Douluo would drag him back there to breed!

Then his life would become an endless cycle of waking, eating, breeding, eating, and sleeping. How was he supposed to farm Emotion Points like that?

"So this is the Blue Silver Emperor?" Manjusaka asked in a syrupy voice. She eyed the Blue Silver Grass in Jogo's hand with interest.

Her Manjusaka Martial Soul was plant-type, with both poison and life attributes. The Blue Silver Emperor would make an excellent Ninth Soul Ring for her.

"Unfortunately, unless she absorbs the life energy of all the Blue Silver Grass in Sunset Forest several times over, it'll be a long while before she reaches 100,000 years of cultivation." Jogo shrugged.

Manjusaka pouted and tugged at Su Liuchuan beside her. "Brother Liuchuan, you're so clever. You can surely find a way to turn the Blue Silver Emperor into a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and have her Sacrifice herself to me!"

Su Liuchuan rolled his eyes. Manjusaka was nothing like the robotic Bai Cangyue. She knew they were all Bai Ranmo's Clones, yet she loved acting coy and playing along with him.

Su Liuchuan sometimes chatted with Manjusaka to relieve his boredom. After all, according to the roles they had been given, she was his wife.

But doing anything more was out of the question. You might chat with an AI every day, but that didn't mean you'd fall in love with it.

"Then what should I choose for my Ninth Soul Ring?" Manjusaka asked, looking unhappy. Neither the Sky Azure Bull Python nor the Titan Giant Ape suited her.

Xiao Wu was even less worth considering. The Soft Bone Rabbit bloodline was too poor, and its Soul Ring abilities were unremarkable. Manjusaka wanted no part of it.

It wasn't just Manjusaka. Su Liuchuan also insisted that her Ninth Soul Ring be 100,000 years old. Only then would he feel safe.

With a Titled Douluo wielding the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and another with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, they could at least escape Sword and Bone Douluo.

They would have to wait for the Shop to refresh a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

After planting Ah Yin, Jogo began considering when to visit the Blue Silver Forest and what he should say to fool the Blue Silver King. With his status as a 200,000-year Ferocious Beast, it shouldn't be hard.

That way, the Blue Silver King could keep drawing life force from the Blue Silver Grass in Sunset Forest and passing it to Ah Yin while also guarding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. What was there not to like?

As for Ah Yin speaking ill of Jogo to the Blue Silver King...

Jogo could simply tell the Blue Silver King that Tang Hao had deceived Ah Yin into loving him and tricked her into willingly Sacrificing herself. The idea that their emperor had been maneuvered into Sacrificing herself to a human sounded absurd, and it wasn't terribly believable. But this was Romance Continent, and the culprit was an inherently Evil human. The Blue Silver King would believe at least seventy or eighty percent of it.

Toji arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as well. He took the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone from his Storage Soul Tool and tossed it to Manjusaka.

Manjusaka absorbed the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and successfully advanced to level 90, becoming a Quasi-Titled Douluo.