At this moment, Xiao Wu was already bathed in tears, her hands clutching tightly at her clothes as her rabbit ears drooped against her shoulders, and that pretty face was pale without a shred of color.
She looked in terror and despair at Tang San, and those pink pupils were brimming with sorrow and helplessness after being exposed, as if waiting for the final judgment.
No soul master could resist the temptation brought by a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone.
Yet, after merely a few moments of dullness.
The shock in Tang San's eyes was thoroughly replaced by monstrous tenderness and obstinate protectiveness.
He strode forward in a few steps, pulling the shivering Xiao Wu tightly into his embrace in one go, leaving the girl's icy tears to soak his lapels.
"I don't care whether Xiao Wu is human or a hundred-thousand-year soul beast!"
Tang San grit his teeth fiercely, roaring out with bloodshot eyes; although his voice was low, it carried an unyielding stubbornness:
"In this world, she is my younger sister, the closest kin whom I have sworn a poisonous oath to protect with my life for all my life!
Whoever wishes to harm her and plot against her must step over my corpse first!"
"San Ge..."
Hearing Tang San's hesitation-free vow, the terror and grievance pent up at the bottom of Xiao Wu's heart burst overwhelmingly, and she buried herself in Tang San's shoulder and wept bitterly.
Watching this scene of life-and-death attachment before him, Tang Hao, leaning against the rock wall, suddenly turned dazed.
Once upon a time, amidst the heavy encirclement of the three peak powerhouses of Spirit Hall, Ah Yin had also relied on him with such unhesitating devotion...
That unforgettable shade of blue silver was a pain that would never heal for the rest of his life.
"Vows of eternal love... before an absolute gap in strength, they are as fragile as a piece of waste paper, Little San."
Tang Hao closed his eyes, forcefully suppressing the dull ache in his heart, and coldly broke the warmth inside the cave:
"That mysterious young man is unfathomable in strength.
When father was exchanging blows with him, I sensed that the soul fluctuation within his body was bizarre to the extreme; nine times out of ten, he is just like you, blessed with twin martial souls!
Even... his second martial soul has already broken convention, beginning to absorb extremely high-tier soul rings."
"To that kind of supreme genius, a solitary, transforming, and not-yet-fully-mature hundred-thousand-year soul beast represents a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and a guaranteed soul bone-supreme treasures capable of driving the entire Douluo Continent crazy!"
Saying this, Tang Hao's expression turned solemn to the extreme, his words leaking dense urgency:
"Little San, you are far too weak right now, unable to endure even the slightest ripple casually cast aside by that person.
Starting today, you must put away all slackness and stake everything to grow stronger!
Only when you truly stand at the summit of the continent can you protect the people you want to protect in this cruel soul master world!"
Tang San pulled Xiao Wu tighter into his embrace, a sharp cold glint bursting from the depths of his eyes as he made a vow word by word:
"Father, I understand!
To protect you, to safeguard Xiao Wu, I will definitely cultivate desperately at all costs!
When the day of success arrives, I will surely personally tear that scoundrel who destroyed my academy, harmed my father, and coveted Xiao Wu into pieces, stripping his soul and refining his bones!"
Seeing that his son had not had his backbone crushed by a formidable enemy, but instead had his unprecedented ruthlessness and fighting spirit ignited, Tang Hao finally felt a trace of gratification flash in his eyes.
"Good, truly my Tang Hao's flesh and blood, possessing this kind of mettle..."
Tang Hao nodded, about to continue speaking to instruct them on their subsequent refuge.
However, before he finished speaking, his body abruptly stiffened!
Tang Hao's originally turbid and exhausted eyes widened into saucers in a split second, and blood vessels instantly covered his entire eye sockets!
His entire face twisted and twitched violently, looking so deathly pale that he resembled someone who had seen a ghost.
"Pfft-!"
Under a devastating blow to his mind and spirit, a mouthful of scalding, turbid tainted blood spewed wildly from Tang Hao's mouth,
and his entire body actually bounced straight up from the ground, the violent and chaotic soul power around him even fracturing the hard stone wall into countless spider-web-like cracks!
"Father?! What's wrong?!" Startled pale by this sudden turn of events, Tang San hurriedly reached out wanting to support him.
"No... Impossible!! How could this be!!"
Tang Hao completely disregarded the backlash pain inside his body that was practically tearing his internal organs to shreds, clutching his chest tightly like a useless husband.
"The Titled Douluo Seal I laid down behind the waterfall in Holy Soul Village... has been forcefully torn apart!!"
"Ah Yin... and Ah Yin's soul bone... they're all gone! They've all been snatched away by someone!!"
That Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone was the supreme treasure left behind after Ah Yin's sacrifice.
It was an invaluable item into which Tang Hao had poured all his efforts, intending to keep it for Tang San to fuse as his core trump card when breaking through to Titled Douluo!
Moreover, the innate seedling left behind by Ah Yin was his only spiritual sustenance for surviving until now!
He had thought that the secret stone room behind the waterfall's water curtain was untraceable, and with the Titled Douluo Seal he laid down masking the aura, besides himself, absolutely no second person could possibly know.
Yet now... not only was Ah Yin uprooted, but even that hundred-thousand-year soul bone was plundered clean!
This was digging up his roots and pulling out his soul!
"Who on earth is it?! Who the hell did this?!"
Tang Hao's eyes split open with rage, blood-red and breathing like an ox.
His entire body trembled violently due to extreme fury, emitting a hoarse, heavy panting from the depths of his throat like a dying beast.
The rampaging killing intent even plummeted the temperature of the entire cave to freezing point, condensing patches of dark red ice crystals on the rock walls.
Had his meridians not been broken inch by inch, making even standing extremely difficult, he would have flattened the entire Heaven Dou Empire right now to tear that audacious thief into pieces and grind his bones to dust!
"Pfft-" Another mouthful of black blood spewed onto the rock; this once-continent-shaking Clear Sky Douluo swayed abruptly under the successive heavy blows, his vision went black, and he collapsed heavily to the ground.
"Father, Father, what's wrong with you!"
Heaven Dou City, deep within Dugu Bo's residence.
Long before Tang Hao was lingering on his last breaths in the barren mountain cave due to the backlash,
An Jing had already carried Ah Yin's physical body of Blue Silver Grass and that crystal-clear Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, returning quietly back inside the residence.
Just as he stepped into the courtyard, the entire void abruptly rippled with a visible ink-green wave.
Boom-!
Accompanied by a low dragon roar that shook the firmaments, the miserable green poisonous miasma previously pervading the sky above the entire residence collapsed inward, transforming into a brilliant ink-green pillar of light that shot straight into the sky.
The heavy stone doors of the secluded meditation room exploded into fragments, and a tall figure with emerald hair and beard, yet posture straight as a pine, strode out through the air in large strides.
"Hahahaha! This old man has succeeded! I've finally succeeded!"
Dugu Bo looked up and laughed long, his carefree and unbridled laughter mixed with a majestic tidal wave of soul power, instantly echoing through the entire residence:
"Starting today, on this continent, who still dares to contemptuously call this old man the 'weakest Titled Douluo'?!"
At this moment, his previously withered and withered visage had long since recovered its ruddy vitality, and his sunken eye sockets no longer emanated a bizarre grey aura of death, making him look twenty years younger.
Even more startlingly, upon the vague martial soul phantom looming behind him,
the original Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor actually grew two vigorous and towering dragon horns, with dragon claws covering its underbelly, having evidently undergone a complete rebirth and transformed into a Jade Phosphorous Poison Dragon emanating monstrous pressure!
"Old Poison, finished your seclusion? It seems the harvest is good; I happen to have something to entrust you with."
An Jing stood with his hands behind his back beneath the corridor, his expression calm and unruffled as he interrupted Dugu Bo's wild laughter with an indifferent tone.
Hearing this familiar voice, Dugu Bo's figure flickered, landing before An Jing in the blink of an eye with a gust of wind.
His emerald pupils were brimming with uncontainable excitement and gratitude as he patted his chest and laughed boldly:
"Haha! Kid An, you've come just at the right time!
Speak, who do you want to go kill?
Even the Elder Hall of Spirit Hall, this old man dares to storm right now!
Thanks to you, not only have the three generations of accumulated snake venom ailments in the bodies of both myself and Yanyan been completely eradicated, but after absorbing the immortal herb, my martial soul has further transformed into a true poison dragon, condensing an innate poison core in my belly!"
Dugu Bo raised his head proudly, nine dazzling and brilliant soul rings suddenly fluctuating and rising around his body, and an asphyxiatingly terrifying pressure swept the surroundings:
"Now, not only is my soul power completely stabilized, but I've broken through to rank 93 in one breath!
My physical meridians have been tempered by the immortal herb to be as unyielding as rock, and even if that old horned dragon Yu Yuanzhen were still alive and standing before me today, in a direct head-on clash, he might not necessarily be my match!"
Reborn and with his cultivation skyrocketing, Dugu Bo was currently full of spirit and vitality, his self-confidence expanding unprecedentedly.
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