"What is that?"
Dugu Bo's hair stood on end all over his body, and the teacup in his hand instantly turned to dust.
He raised his head in terror, only to see a tear open in the dark clouds above.
A gigantic Clear Sky Hammer came smashing down from afar to near.
In midair, an angry roar rang out:
"Dugu Bo! Hand over my niece! Otherwise, I'll smash you into meat paste today!"
Watching this scene, Dugu Bo's eyeballs nearly popped out of his head, and he blurted out,
"What the hell! The Clear Sky Hammer?"
Before this giant hammer had fully descended, the mere wind of the hammer had already blown away a good seventy or eighty percent of the Poison Formation at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
No one could underestimate the angry strike of a ninety-seventh-level Howling Sky Douluo.
"Seventh Soul Skill: Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Avatar!"
Dugu Bo had no time at all to explain, instantly transforming into a massive serpent in an attempt to boost his own courage a little.
Tang Xiao was holding back his strength, so the Clear Sky Hammer didn't actually smash all the way down, merely blanketing the greater half of the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
"Dugu Bo, stop playing dead for me, and hand over my child! If she loses even a single hair, I'll skin you alive and grind your bones to ashes today!"
The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor's colossal body coiled in a heap, trembling.
Dugu Bo used his Martial Soul Avatar purely to pump himself up, but feeling that ninety-seventh-level oppressive pressure from the other party, his gall bladder was practically scared to the point of splitting.
He hastily withdrew his Martial Soul Avatar and shouted,
"What child? Who grabbed your child? I've lived a solitary life all these years and don't even know what your child looks like. You've got the wrong person, damn it!"
"You still dare to quibble!"
Tang Xiao widened his eyes, his face full of murderous intent, utterly disbelieving him.
"I made it crystal clear through my inquiries-it was you who snatched my family's child! Where is she? Exactly where is she?"
Dugu Bo was on the verge of tears.
How many years had it been since he had even seen a Soul Master with a Clear Sky Hammer?
Let alone captured the other party's kin.
"I didn't capture anyone here. If I saw a Clear Sky Hammer, how could I possibly take the initiative to capture the other party? Who doesn't know the sheer weight of your number-one sect in the world!"
Tang Xiao let out a cold snort, his eyes spewing fire.
"Stop playing the fool with me. You took a young girl and a boy away at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Where are they now?"
"Wait!"
Dugu Bo paused, finally connecting the pieces, but...
"You're talking about that hair-pulling girl? But her Martial Soul is Blue Silver Grass! Blue Silver Grass! Where on earth is the Clear Sky Hammer in that? What kind of nonsense are you spouting here at my place!"
"Blue Silver Grass?"
Tang Xiao's pupils constricted.
Blue Silver Grass...
Ah Yin...
Back then, he and his brother Tang Hao traveled across the mainland together and got to know that gentle-as-water woman.
Tang Xiao had seen early on that Ah Yin's heart belonged to his second brother, Tang Hao. To let them find happiness, he returned to the sect.
Later, Ah Yin sacrificed herself, and his second brother was severely wounded and went missing.
These two matters became the greatest regrets of his entire life.
Tang Yuehua had only said that his second brother's daughter had been taken away by Dugu Bo.
Tang Xiao had stayed in the sect for many years, his mind solely occupied by the thought that Tang Hao's child must have inherited the Clear Sky Hammer, while forgetting that the child flowed with half of Ah Yin's blood.
What she awakened... could it actually be Ah Yin's Blue Silver Grass?
Tang Xiao's eyes grew sour and, taking a deep breath, he said,
"Blue Silver Grass... She really is Ah Yin's child..."
Seeing that the other party had calmed down slightly, Dugu Bo hurried to explain,
"I really didn't lay a single finger on her! That girl is fierce as hell, claiming to be some kind of chief maid of the Tang Sect and repeatedly insisting on serving her senior brother."
Hearing these words, Tang Xiao felt a sudden sense of absurdity.
What kind of person was Ah Yin?
She was the gentlest Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor in the world!
What kind of person was his second brother, Tang Hao?
He was the youngest Titled Douluo on the mainland, the Clear Sky Douluo!
The precious pearl left behind at the cost of their lives, the eldest young miss of the Clear Sky Sect, was a maid?
Making up stories didn't even come close to being this ridiculous.
"Dugu Bo!"
Tang Xiao was furious, and the consequences were grave.
"I spared you because of your advanced age, yet you actually use such words to hoodwink me!"
Dugu Bo was breaking down too.
How could this guy simply refuse to believe him no matter what was said?
Damn it! Did people from the Clear Sky Sect have something wrong with their heads?
"Everything old man here said is true!"
Dugu Bo roared, feeling utterly wronged.
"I'm a Titled Douluo myself, after all. Why would I lie to you about something like this?"
Tang Xiao took a deep breath. After all, his primary mission was to rescue someone; he had to get the person out first before discussing anything else.
"Even if Ah Yin's flesh and blood awakened the Blue Silver Grass, she is still my second brother Tang Hao's only biological flesh and blood! Are you implying that my second brother let his own biological daughter go be a maid for some wild brat?"
Tang Xiao glared fiercely at him, saying in a stern voice,
"Confess honestly! Where on earth have you hidden her? Take me to see her! Otherwise, I'll finish you off!"
"..."
Dugu Bo's mouth twitched. He deeply doubted whether the other party understood human speech, and immediately pointed around himself in a roar,
"Open your eyes wide and take a good look! My place is only this tiny bit big-where could I possibly hide someone? She left with her senior brother right after she finished harvesting the herbs!"
Hearing this, Tang Xiao swept his spiritual sense across the entire valley.
There truly was no other aura.
Yet when his gaze swept over those pitted and uneven grounds all around, his entire body tightened a bit more.
You call this harvesting herbs?
No matter how one looked at it, this completely resembled the aftermath of a major battle.
With bulging eyes glaring in fury, Tang Xiao looked at Dugu Bo.
"Dugu Bo! You still dare to stubbornly talk back? If she really left right after harvesting the herbs as you claimed, how could this valley end up like this? This clearly shows that you, this shameless old man, made a move! Did you force her to submit and then hide her somewhere?"
In Tang Xiao's view, a Soul Elder facing the Poison Douluo possessed zero room to fight back; there was no second possibility other than being cruelly murdered.
Thinking of this, his eyes turned red.
"Hand the person over, or take me to find her!"
Soul power surged over Tang Xiao's body, and the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand added a few more points of might.
"I'll count to three. If you spit out even half a lie again, I'll smash your four limbs to pieces!"
"One!"
Dugu Bo was already in despair.
The master of the Clear Sky Sect had something wrong with his brain.
He simply couldn't take in human words!
"She really left! The mess here happened because she plucked a few too many Immortal Herbs, and I'm actually the victim here!"
Dugu Bo attempted one last struggle.
"Incorrigible! Two!"
Tang Xiao wouldn't listen.
It was over.
Dugu Bo closed his eyes in despair.
Having just gotten rid of the harassment from the deadly poison, his good days were finally about to begin, only to end up finished just like this.
"Three!"
With eyes splitting from fury, Tang Xiao let out a sharp roar and, gripping the Clear Sky Hammer with both hands, brought it smashing down.
"Big Brother! Stop!"
A remarkably loud voice came from the edge of the horizon.
Immediately afterward, another Clear Sky Hammer flew in from the side, colliding against the flank of Tang Xiao's hammer and forcibly deflecting it by a wide margin.
Tang Xiao's Clear Sky Hammer smashed half of the neighboring cliffside to collapse, sending gravel flying in all directions.
"Who dares stop me... Younger Brother?"
Tang Xiao jerked his head around and, looking at the panting person who had landed on the ground, froze completely.
Tang Hao hastily wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and shouted at his own older brother,
"Big Brother, don't hit him! Dugu Bo didn't lie, my daughter really is a chief maid!"
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