Discussing the Blue Silver Emperor

Dugu Bo stammered out the words, then stared at Xiao Wu, who was hiding behind Gu Ping'an, for a long while before letting out a long breath.

"Gu brat, if you hadn't brought her here, I wouldn't have been able to stop myself from striking."

Dugu Bo was still breathing heavily as he spoke.

That alone showed just how much Xiao Wu had shocked him.

The moment Xiao Wu heard Gu Ping'an mention a Titled Douluo, her rabbit ears had stood straight up. Now that she realized Dugu Bo had seen through her identity, she was trembling behind Gu Ping'an.

"Gu brat, which Titled Douluo did you snatch her from? Did he notice you?" Dugu Bo asked cautiously after calming himself a little.

"Relax. I grabbed her and left. There's no way he could have noticed.

As for who it was, I think you've heard of him too. Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Hao."

"Tang Hao?" Dugu Bo's hands, hanging at his sides, trembled involuntarily.

Tang Hao was a ruthless man who had hammered the Pope of Spirit Hall to death just after becoming a Titled Douluo. Dugu Bo knew he was no match for him.

"You really didn't leave any trace?" Dugu Bo asked again, worried.

He could hardly be blamed for worrying. Tang Hao's battle record spoke for itself.

"I really didn't. If he'd noticed, he would've chased after me. Besides, I wasn't even using my real appearance."

"That's a relief!"

Once he was certain nothing had been exposed, Dugu Bo let out a long sigh of relief.

"Wait, are you saying I've been living right under a Titled Douluo's nose all this time?" Now that Xiao Wu realized Dugu Bo wasn't going to attack, she finally dared to speak timidly.

"You finally caught on?"

Gu Ping'an looked at Xiao Wu hiding behind him. He and Dugu Bo had been discussing it for a while before she finally realized.

"The moment you set foot in Nuoding City, you were right under Tang Hao's nose.

If Tang San weren't still incapable of absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, you'd have died long ago.

Still, I think he probably wants Tang San to follow the same path he once took."

"Follow Tang Hao's old path? What path?" Since it involved Tang Hao, Dugu Bo's interest was piqued too.

Seeing Dugu Bo lean closer, Gu Ping'an revealed an inscrutable smile.

"Since you want to hear it, I'll tell you."

"Everyone knows the Blue Silver Emperor and Tang Hao fell in love, so I'll skip that. I'll tell you about the suspicious parts."

"First, the Blue Silver Emperor was already pregnant at the time. Instead of taking her somewhere she could rest peacefully through her pregnancy, Tang Hao took her wandering around right under Spirit Hall's nose."

"Second, immediately after Tang San was born, Tang Hao broke through to level 90. At the peak of Soul Douluo, he was only one step away from becoming a Titled Douluo. Why didn't he take Ah Yin somewhere to focus on his breakthrough, then go obtain his ninth Soul Ring?

He was already a Soul Douluo. Surely he could sense an approaching breakthrough?"

"Third, Tang Hao fled into the forest with Ah Yin. He could have held off Qian Xunji and the others and let Ah Yin escape.

As for himself, he was Tang Chen's grandson. Could Qian Xunji really have killed him?"

"Fourth, do you know where I found the Seed of Life the Blue Silver Emperor left behind after her sacrifice?"

At this point, a faint smile crept onto Gu Ping'an's lips.

"In a dark, lightless cave completely unsuitable for plants to survive in. If Tang Hao had simply taken the Blue Silver Emperor's Seed of Life back to the Blue Silver Forest, she could have revived very quickly.

Even without taking her back to the Blue Silver Forest, planting her among blue silver grass would have let her revive through the power of her Blue Silver Emperor bloodline. It would merely have taken a little longer."

"You found Auntie Blue Silver?" Xiao Wu tugged gently on Gu Ping'an's sleeve and looked at him sorrowfully.

"Then where is Auntie Blue Silver?"

"Auntie Blue Silver? So you knew her?"

Gu Ping'an gave a wicked smile, summoned his blue silver grass Martial Soul, and showed it to Xiao Wu.

"Look. What's this?"

"Isn't that just your Martial Soul?" Xiao Wu didn't understand at all.

Beside them, Dugu Bo's pupils contracted slightly.

"That's right! My Martial Soul." Gu Ping'an's voice lowered a little.

"I swallowed the Blue Silver Emperor in one gulp, and my Martial Soul evolved from mutated blue silver grass into a mutated blue silver emperor."

Swallowed the Blue Silver Emperor in one gulp? Xiao Wu felt as though she had plunged into an ice cavern. Her entire body went cold, and she began trembling uncontrollably.

"What was the point of keeping such a stupid plant around? Don't you agree, Xiao Wu?"

Naturally, Gu Ping'an wasn't so bored he had nothing better to do than tell the Blue Silver Emperor's story.

His main purpose was to warn Xiao Wu so she wouldn't dare do anything stupid, while also ruining her image of Tang San and Tang Hao.

"I thought Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao was a real man, at least. Who knew he was such a sinister little villain?"

Dugu Bo tilted his head toward the sky, his face full of emotion.

Gu Ping'an's account had completely shattered his old impression of Tang Hao.

"Heh! That's not even the worst of it! Do you know how Tang Hao treated Tang San, his son with the Blue Silver Emperor?"

"Oh? There's more?" Dugu Bo's eyes widened, his expression eager for gossip.

"Of course there is."

Gu Ping'an glanced imperceptibly at Xiao Wu beside him and continued:

"After Ah Yin died, Tang Hao spent every day drinking himself into a stupor. He paid no attention to Tang San at all and simply..."

"Wait! Wait!" Sensing something wrong halfway through, Dugu Bo hurriedly interrupted.

"You said Tang Hao spent every day drinking himself into a stupor after the Blue Silver Emperor died? Doesn't that mean he genuinely loved her? That contradicts what you said earlier!"

Dugu Bo looked as though he was asking whether Gu Ping'an was making a fool of him.

From the first half of the story, Tang Hao hadn't loved the Blue Silver Emperor at all. Why would he spend every day drowning himself in drink after her death?

(I searched for ages. Chapter 640 on Q Reading confirms that Tang Hao's father only died of anger after the Blue Silver Emperor's sacrifice.)

Gu Ping'an looked at Dugu Bo and smiled mysteriously.

"Think about it. What else happened around the time the Blue Silver Emperor died?"

Dugu Bo pondered briefly, then looked up in astonishment.

"Tang Hao's father died of anger, Tang Hao was expelled from the Clear Sky Sect, and the Clear Sky Sect sealed off its mountain."

"Exactly!" Gu Ping'an snapped his fingers.

"What happened afterward is enough to prove Tang Hao never loved Ah Yin at all. He spent every day drinking because his scheme had spun out of control.

He'd dragged the Clear Sky Sect into disaster and become a sinner against his own sect."

"After Tang Hao brought Tang San to Holy Soul Village, he paid no attention to him at all. Whenever someone's sow had piglets, he'd toss Tang San in with them and let him lie in the pigsty drinking pig's milk. As long as Tang San didn't die, that was enough."

"This... this... this..." Dugu Bo stammered for ages without managing to get anything else out.

"Once Tang San could move around on his own, he prepared all three of Tang Hao's daily meals."

"Later, when Tang San awakened blue silver grass with innate full soul power, Tang Hao even wanted to keep him from attending the Soul Master Academy. He wanted Tang San to remain an ordinary person and serve him forever."

"But once Tang San said he'd also awakened the Clear Sky Hammer, Tang Hao immediately started treating him as his precious son and stayed by his side to protect him."

After hearing Gu Ping'an out, Dugu Bo remained silent for a long time.

Was this even a human being?

Outsiders called Dugu Bo a withdrawn, eccentric madman who acted entirely according to his whims.

But compared with him, Tang Hao was nothing short of a beast!

Why was Tang Hao's reputation so much better than his?

He even had a whole crowd of adoring fanboys and fangirls.

It made no sense!

No sense at all!