[Douluo Continent - Star Dou Great Forest Sky Azure Bull Python]:
"Adoptive Father, it's me, little snake!!"
[Douluo Continent - Star Dou Great Forest Titan Giant Ape]:
"Adoptive Father, it's me, monkey! It's truly wonderful that you didn't die! Big Brother and I are both one hundred thousand years old now, Adoptive Father!"
Above the Sky Screen, two barrage messages were sent out, and Wu Tianque's gaze instantly brightened.
Able to call him adoptive father, and being a snake and a monkey-besides those two little fellows who used to play in the mud with Xiao Wu back then, it could be no one else!
His heart stirred; both of these brothers were already one hundred thousand years old, so Xiao Wu and her mother...
Seeing the two familiar barrage messages, Wu Tianque's body shook slightly, his gentle eyes instantly surging with ultimate eagerness and anticipation. His voice carried a tremor suppressed for tens of thousands of years as he anxiously pursued the questioning:
"Hahaha, you two little ones, you can be considered to have made something of yourselves now! Hahaha!"
"You know what I want... what I want to know most..."
"Are they... are they currently... safe?!"
For hundreds of thousands of years of drifting, through thousands of hardships that he had gritted his teeth to endure, the only things in his heart were those two.
They were his sole obsession that had helped him through that darkest period of time.
Meanwhile, before the Sky Screen, at Shrek Academy.
Xiao Wu had already hidden away into the woods by herself, watching her father in the Sky Screen recount that past of his, even though it was glossed over in just a single sentence.
However, being hunted down by Xiong Jun and requiring ten thousand years of time to recuperate and recover-just how badly must he have been injured?
Alone in a foreign land, exactly how much pain and hardship had her father gone through?!
She hid in the woods, tears gushing out.
Crying like a little calico cat, she wept bitterly at the top of her lungs.
There was both the touching surprise of learning her father was still safe and sound, and the heartache over her father's past bitterness; of course, even more so, it reminded her of her mother who had already died.
Now that her father was not dead, if her mother were still alive, then their family could reunite once again.
But alas, her mother was someone she had seen die with her own eyes.
Unlike her father, of whom there was no news, her mother had truly already departed.
She watched her father on the Sky Screen, whose expression was anxious, yearning to receive good news yet terrified of hearing bad news while filled with inner conflict. Her throat choked up, and countless times she wanted to send out a barrage message, crying out that word of a father delayed by one hundred thousand years.
Yet reason firmly held her back.
Now she was in Heaven Dou Imperial City, where Titled Douluos within the city were not few in number, and every single one of them eyed her covetously. Once her identity as a Soul Beast was exposed, she would almost certainly die without a doubt!
She could only watch her father's projection with her own eyes yet dared not acknowledge him, having no choice but to let her tears surge down while her heart ached with unbearable pain.
Before the Sky Screen, the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape remained silent for a long time, never issuing a second barrage message.
Within Wu Tianque's anxious gaze, a trace of dimness uncontrollably appeared. He breathed heavily, pink Soul Power beginning to boil behind him, and the sea tides surged inexplicably, stirring up a gale of huge waves.
"Speak, who made the move?!"
"The two of them, mother and daughter, right now..."
"Are they... dead or alive?!"
In the Star Dou Great Forest, the two former overlord-tier Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts looked at each other in dismay. Ultimately, Da Ming still spoke, carrying a trace of grief as he recounted the events of back then.
[Douluo Continent - Star Dou Great Forest Sky Azure Bull Python]:
"Auntie, she died in battle, transforming into a human Soul Master's Soul Ring."
BOOM--!
Ultimate grief and blinding fury instantly engulfed all of Wu Tianque's heart and mind!
His gentle red pupils instantly turned as scarlet as blood, and the pure white, gentle Soul Power around his body suddenly burst forth violently. The terrifying ferocity of a six-hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beast seemed to unseal at this moment!
A line of bloody tears flowed from his red pupils, instantly vaporized by the scarlet Soul Power.
The original refined and transcendent aura vanished without a trace, replaced by an ice-cold, bone-piercing killing intent that froze ten thousand miles. It was a blood feud etched into his very bones!
"Then... then Li-"
Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the barrage.
[Douluo Continent - Star Dou Great Forest Titan Giant Ape]:
"Big Sister, she didn't die. She is living very well right now. When Uncle Wu returns to Douluo Continent, we will tell you in detail."
Wu Tianque let out a sigh of relief; however, the fierce aura on his body still did not dissipate.
"Tell me, who killed my wife!"
[Douluo Continent - Star Dou Great Forest Titan Giant Ape]:
"It is Spirit Hall, currently the most powerful force on Douluo Continent, Spirit Hall!"
"Spirit Hall..."
Wu Tianque growled in a low voice, his voice hoarse and broken. He raised his head, his scarlet eyes staring fixedly at the Sky Screen as if he were looking at the people on the opposite side through it, and his words carried monstrous hatred:
"I know you are watching the Sky Screen. Spirit Hall, just you wait. When I return, I will make you completely perish!"
"I abandoned my home and land, wandering alone in a foreign land and suffering all kinds of hardships, all just to protect the safety of her and her daughter!"
"I thought I could exchange it for their peace, but in the end...!"
"Hehehehe, hahahaha!!
You killed my beloved, this hatred is irreconcilable!"
Monstrous killing intent traversed the firmament, and the suppressed ferocity erupted completely. Even the wind and waves on the sea surface churned violently because of it, and everyone before the Sky Screen held their breath in absolute terror.
Within the Shrek faction, Xiao Wu was already bathed in tears, trembling all over with a heart breaking like a knife-edge.
She bit her teeth hard, clenched her fists tight, let her tears run wild, and forcefully suppressed all impulses to acknowledge her family, silently watching her grieving and furious father above the Sky Screen.
Meanwhile, inside Shrek Academy, some sensitive people had already perceived the clues.
The surname Wu, and being a Soft Bone Rabbit.
Could this... could this have anything to do with Xiao Wu?
Yu Xiaogang turned his head to look around and found that Xiao Wu's figure was nowhere to be seen. He looked toward Tang Said at his side and spoke:
"Where has Xiao Wu gone?"
At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Bone and Sword Douluos gathered together with Ning Fengzhi. Almost simultaneously, they thought of that Shrek student whose Martial Soul was a Soft Bone Rabbit.
The three of them looked at each other in dismay, and amidst their intersecting gazes, certain calculations were finalized.
At the Heaven Dou Saint Palace of Spirit Hall, Platinum Bishop Salas's gaze turned cold as he picked up the list of Shrek Academy team members on the desk, his eyes closely fixed on the little girl with pink hair and red pupils in the picture.
A classified dispatch left Heaven Dou, heading straight for the Pope's Palace in Spirit City!
There were only six words upon it!
"Soul Beast Transformation, come quickly!"
Meanwhile, hidden in a dark corner, a stalwart man draped in a cloak watched that classified dispatch leave Heaven Dou without obstructing it in the slightest.
A trace of a cold smile hung at the corner of his mouth.
"There are some circumstances outside the plan, but fortunately, we will just bring everything forward."
"Little San, I have already prepared your fifth Soul Ring of the hundred-thousand-year tier!"
"Hah, so what if he is a Limit Douluo? He definitely cannot arrive at Douluo Continent in a short time. When you arrive, watch how my father and son hoodwink you into a free thug!"
"Come on, Spirit Hall, hurry up and come!"
"I can't wait any longer; let this storm come even more violently!!"