The Blue Silver Emperor, spacetime energy revived

"Grandpa Jack, I'll go register first."

Gu Ping'an left those words behind, darted around Yu Xiaogang, and ran off.

"Ah! That boy... he's usually very polite."

Old Jack sighed, unsure what to say.

Meanwhile, after leaving, Gu Ping'an began wandering around the academy.

If anyone asked, he would say he was a new student who had gotten lost on his way to register.

Halfway through his stroll, Gu Ping'an stopped.

Something suddenly occurred to him.

Yu Xiaogang was useless.

The "ten core competencies of martial soul" Yu Xiaogang had published were garbage.

But his book collection wasn't!

With the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and Spirit Hall behind him, his collection was bound to be extremely valuable.

The Spirit Hall in Nuoding City was ultimately only a small city's branch, and its books covered only the basics.

I need to wait until Tang San goes Soul Hunting, Gu Ping'an told himself.

Once Tang San went Soul Hunting, the books, the Soul Bone, and the Blue Silver Emperor would all be his.

He wandered a little longer, then, judging that Old Jack and Tang San's group had left the area near the academy entrance, turned and headed toward the gates of Nuoding Academy.

"Teacher, may I ask whether a boy named Gu Ping'an came to register just now?"

In the Nuoding Academy office, Old Jack, who had not seen Gu Ping'an anywhere along the way, cautiously questioned the teacher handling registration.

"Gu Ping'an?"

"No. You're the first work-study students to register this year." The teacher gently shook his head.

"Ah!"

Old Jack let out a long sigh. He had suspected it along the way, but he had never expected Gu Ping'an really not to have come to register.

"Hmph! So young, yet already thinking so highly of himself. Without a renowned teacher's guidance, even the finest talent will eventually fade into the crowd."

Yu Xiaogang snorted contemptuously.

Gu Ping'an had ignored him and run straight off, so naturally he resented it.

"The boy's grown up. He has his own ideas now," Old Jack said with a sigh.

He could see it now: Gu Ping'an had never intended to enroll at Nuoding Academy.

At the gates of Nuoding Academy.

Still here?

Through the perception of the blue silver grass, Gu Ping'an could clearly sense Tang Hao still hiding in a corner.

Always skulking about in hiding. No wonder he was called a rat.

Gu Ping'an pretended not to notice and walked straight away.

The next day, Yu Xiaogang and Tang San emerged from Nuoding Academy's gates one after the other.

A figure hidden in the shadows quietly followed them.

In the distance, the corners of Gu Ping'an's mouth lifted slightly.

To be safe, Gu Ping'an waited another half day.

Tang Hao did not reappear. He really had left with Tang San and Yu Xiaogang.

Reaching a secluded corner not far from Nuoding Academy, Gu Ping'an vanished in an instant. When he reappeared, he was already inside Yu Xiaogang's room.

That was one advantage of blue silver grass.

It was everywhere, and using it to perceive his surroundings was unlikely to get him discovered, because the blue silver grass did the sensing. He merely received the information it perceived.

Last night, he had used the blue silver grass to sense Yu Xiaogang's timing.

"This is..."

While searching, he unearthed an antique-looking ring.

He poured Soul Power into it, and a space the size of a small room appeared in his perception.

"A Storage Soul Tool!"

"Excellent, excellent, excellent!"

Gu Ping'an was overjoyed.

This was a completely unexpected windfall.

He had originally planned to take only a few books useful to him. With this Storage Soul Tool, he could take them all, useful or not.

He quickly packed away the books, and his figure vanished again.

Outside Nuoding City, Gu Ping'an raced at full speed toward the waterfall where Tang Hao had hidden the blue silver grass Soul Bone.

He had lived in Holy Soul Village for six years.

He knew exactly where the nearby mountains and waters were.

Had Tang Hao merely hidden the Blue Silver Emperor on a mountain, Gu Ping'an really would not have known which mountain to search.

A waterfall made things much clearer.

Even among twenty mountains, there might not be a single waterfall.

As it happened, he knew of one that could conceal a cave.

Half a day later, before sunset.

A long silver river cascading down from a high mountain appeared before Gu Ping'an.

"It really can hide it?"

Staring at the silver waterfall, Gu Ping'an frowned slightly. He could not make out what lay behind it.

He raised his hand and summoned his blue silver grass martial soul.

Vines grew, climbing and spreading toward the mountain peak.

"Hm?"

Before the blue silver grass had finished climbing behind the waterfall, a mysterious connection reached him from beyond it.

An exalted presence that looked down upon all blue silver grass.

The Blue Silver Emperor!

"There!"

Gu Ping'an gazed at the upper half of the waterfall and smiled faintly.

He had found him.

Activating Teleportation, Gu Ping'an followed that faint, mysterious connection in his heart and appeared inside the cave behind the waterfall.

"The Blue Silver Emperor! What a pity!"

A single emerald-green stalk of blue silver grass grew all alone in the cave.

Gu Ping'an approached the Blue Silver Emperor and sensed his own blue silver grass martial soul growing limp and powerless in his presence.

It was being suppressed by rank.

"Don't blame me. I have no other choice."

Gu Ping'an reached out and gently seized the Blue Silver Emperor. Sensing something was wrong, the Blue Silver Emperor frantically twisted his branches and leaves, but unfortunately, he was far too weak now.

He pulled hard!

Yanked him out in one go!

Stuffed him into his mouth, chewed, and swallowed!

A god!

He wanted to try becoming one too!

It was not as though he had never considered getting on good terms with Tang San.

At first, he had indeed always avoided contact with Tang San's family.

When they were three, Tang San had been withdrawn and cold, with poor relations with everyone in the village.

Only Old Jack regularly helped Tang San and his father, Tang Hao.

Tang San had never had enough to eat or warm enough clothes, yet he still had to cook three meals a day for Tang Hao.

Gu Ping'an had witnessed every hardship of Tang San's childhood.

He had begun trying to approach Tang San.

He shared some of the food he found with him.

Tang San accepted all the food.

Friendship? Not a shred.

It was as though sharing food with him, Tang San, was only natural.

After several encounters, Gu Ping'an saw everything clearly. Hypocrisy and double standards were Tang San's true nature.

From then on, he returned to avoiding all contact with Tang San and his father.

In the days that followed, he could even faintly sense Tang San's dislike of him.

Because he had not kept sharing his food with Tang San.

That was when he knew he and Tang San would inevitably be enemies.

If he wanted to become a god rather than a dog, he would inevitably stand against Tang San.

After he swallowed the Blue Silver Emperor, streams of warmth spread from his abdomen throughout his body.

His silvery-white blue silver grass martial soul emerged involuntarily.

Fine golden threads spread upward from the roots of his blue silver grass martial soul, gradually covering it entirely.

Silvery-white leaves, golden patterns.

A mutated Blue Silver Emperor!

Noble!

Majestic!

Inviolable!

Not only was his martial soul changing, but Gu Ping'an himself was transforming along with it.

His short black hair rapidly grew into flowing, silvery-white locks interspersed with strands of gold.

His black eyes turned silvery white and gold.

His body grew a little taller again.

A faint imperial aura emanated from his still somewhat childlike frame.

The transformation stabilized completely.

"Hahahaha!"

Feeling the changes in his body, Gu Ping'an could not help laughing aloud.

His blue silver grass martial soul had awakened into the Blue Silver Emperor.

The spacetime power brought by his transmigration had been activated, no longer deathly still as before.

Previously, he could at most teleport from one side of Nuoding City to the other.

Now, his teleportation range had increased dozens of times over.

Even with Tang Hao standing right before him, he could teleport away.

Six years!

After living in fear for six years, he finally had the power to protect himself in this world.

Boom!

Gu Ping'an shattered the rock wall concealing the Blue Silver Emperor's Soul Bone with a single palm strike, revealing the box containing it.

"A Soul Bone!"

"Next, it's time to plan how to get the immortal herbs!"

Gu Ping'an grabbed the Soul Bone and vanished from the cave in an instant.

P.S. I really don't understand why some transmigrators insist on provoking Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and Tang Hao when they're clearly so weak.

Wouldn't they be in a bind the moment Yu Xiaogang wrote Bibi Dong a letter?

Wouldn't one swing of Tang Hao's hammer blast them to pieces?

Surely they don't think Tang Hao would refuse to bully someone weaker than himself? Surely not? Surely not?