"If you wish, my lord, I can show you what Tang Hao and Tang San are doing right now."
Chen Ci raised an eyebrow. He had never expected Ah Yin to have such an ability.
He agreed at once.
The Blue Silver Grass around them glimmered, its light gathering into an image that broadcast Tang San and Tang Hao's situation to Chen Ci in real time.
In the image, Tang Hao still had his head buried in that little hole in the dirt, greedily breathing in the last traces of Ah Yin's scent.
He looked exactly like some obsessed creep.
Chen Ci had never imagined that the renowned Clear Sky Douluo would look like this in private.
Ah Yin frowned as well. She had never expected Tang Hao to become like this.
After a while, Tang Hao lifted his head, his eyes brimming with madness. Gripping Tang San's shoulders, he said solemnly:
"Little San, your mother isn't dead!
"She's still alive. Someone has simply bewitched her, and she's gone off with that so-called master of hers!
"You have twin martial souls. Your potential is a hundred times greater than mine. One day, you must kill... 'Ah Yin's' master and bring Ah Yin back!"
Frightened by Tang Hao's appearance, Tang San stammered:
"I will, Dad.
"I'll bring Mom back. I'll find that master of hers and kill him with my own hands, then bring her home."
Hearing this, Chen Ci turned to Ah Yin and asked:
"Ah Yin, did you really come with me because I bewitched you?"
Ah Yin shook her head firmly:
"My lord, I sensed your presence and came to you of my own accord."
Chen Ci nodded and said:
"Good. But this precious son of yours seems intent on killing me with his own hands someday. What should we do about that?"
Ah Yin's answer remained firm, and utterly heartless, as though Tang San were not her son:
"My lord, if Tang San ever truly stands against you, I will punish him myself, even kill him."
"But isn't he your son?"
Ah Yin laughed disdainfully:
"We soul beasts live such long lives. Naturally, we have borne quite a few offspring.
"Besides, the time I spent with humans amounted to no more than a few brief decades in my long life.
"What makes them think those few decades together would make me devote my entire being to them?"
Chen Ci said no more. They were already close to the Star Dou Great Forest, and continued on their way.
Under the influence of the Golden Dragon King bloodline and the Silver Dragon King bloodline, Ah Yin gradually regained her clarity and was no longer blinded by love.
She even began regretting her sacrifice to Tang Hao. Otherwise, she could now have bestowed a hundred-thousand-year soul ring upon her master.
Before long, Chen Ci entered the Star Dou Great Forest.
For a rank-ten Soul Scholar, entering the Star Dou Great Forest was undoubtedly dangerous.
But Chen Ci's martial soul had already evolved into the Blue Silver Emperor, the absolute sovereign of Blue Silver Grass.
Wherever he went, all the Blue Silver Grass would serve him. Every blade of Blue Silver Grass was effectively one of Chen Ci's eyes.
They could warn Chen Ci in advance of danger and any creatures nearby.
Moreover, Chen Ci possessed both the Golden Dragon King bloodline and the Silver Dragon King bloodline, giving him an innate bloodline suppression over all soul beasts.
Entering the Star Dou Great Forest was practically like coming home for Chen Ci.
I've absorbed the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone, and I have the Blue Silver Emperor martial soul, along with the Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King bloodlines.
Absorbing a thousand-year soul ring now shouldn't be a problem, right?
Chen Ci strolled through the Star Dou Great Forest, searching through the Blue Silver Grass for a suitable dragon-type soul beast.
With the Blue Silver Grass serving as his eyes, Chen Ci found a suitable soul beast in less than a day.
It was a dragon-type soul beast whose wings had completely degenerated, trading its ability to fly for absolute strength in ground combat.
It was also clad in heavy scales formed from rock, with short, powerful limbs and clearly defined muscles.
When Chen Ci found it, it had just hunted down an ordinary fifteen-hundred-year soul beast and was feeding.
Ah Yin manifested once more and said beside Chen Ci:
"My lord, this is an eleven-hundred-year Shatterrock Heavy Armor Dragon. It has no elemental attacks or any means of attacking from a distance.
"It's a dragon-type soul beast that relies primarily on physical strength."
Excellent. This is my target.
This soul beast was practically born for the golden-patterned Blue Silver Grass. It has a dragon bloodline, with no flashy elements, only the purest physical strength.
Chen Ci leaped down from the cliff, landing precisely in front of the Shatterrock Heavy Armor Dragon.
The soul beast's rock armor was exceptionally thick, its formidable defenses obvious at a glance.
Even an ordinary Soul Grandmaster might not have been able to break through its defenses.
But Chen Ci possessed a divine weapon like the Golden Dragon Spear. Breaking through the Shatterrock Heavy Armor Dragon's defenses was no different from slicing through tofu.
Fierce battle intent filled Chen Ci's eyes. The Golden Dragon King bloodline in his body boiled, and the Power of Destruction erupted.
The Shatterrock Heavy Armor Dragon stopped eating as well. Looking at the human youth before it, even its limited intelligence told it that this human was not to be trifled with.
Abandoning the prey at its mouth, the Shatterrock Heavy Armor Dragon opened its gaping, fang-filled maw and let out a deep roar.
Its thick foreclaw slammed straight toward Chen Ci, as though intending either to pound him into the earth or smash him to pieces.
Faced with such a strike from a thousand-year dragon-type soul beast, Chen Ci did not dare take it head-on, even with the Dragon Kings' origin power and the Blue Silver Emperor's vitality.
Although his potential was tremendous, his soul power was currently only rank ten, insufficient to turn that potential into combat strength.
Chen Ci activated the flight soul skill granted by the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone and flew straight out of the dragon claw's range.
At the same time, he raised the Golden Dragon Spear in his right hand and, without the slightest effort, carved a wound deep enough to expose bone into the Shatterrock Heavy Armor Dragon's body.
Thanks to the Golden Dragon Spear's ability to absorb vitality, the soul power and stamina Chen Ci had just expended were replenished in an instant, leaving him still in peak condition.
Both the human and the dragon had the strength to kill the other. But Chen Ci was small and could fly, so the Shatterrock Heavy Armor Dragon could not touch him at all. Chen Ci also had no need to worry about exhaustion, as the Golden Dragon Spear could devour the Shatterrock Heavy Armor Dragon's vitality and feed it back to its wielder.
The Shatterrock Heavy Armor Dragon could only be worn down to death by Chen Ci without landing a single blow.
Half an hour later, the Shatterrock Heavy Armor Dragon let out a mournful cry and collapsed helplessly to the ground. Its breathing grew weaker and weaker until it died.
A pale purple soul ring also emerged above the Shatterrock Heavy Armor Dragon's body.
Looking at that soul ring, Chen Ci felt excitement stir in his heart.
His first soul ring was finally within reach.
Chen Ci sat cross-legged on the ground and summoned the Gold-Patterned Blue Silver Emperor. Drawn by its blue-gold light, the thousand-year soul ring gradually approached the Gold-Patterned Blue Silver Emperor.
An immense surge of power poured into the Gold-Patterned Blue Silver Emperor and entered Chen Ci's body.
But Chen Ci felt no discomfort at all. On the contrary, it felt wonderful.
A short while later, he successfully obtained his first soul skill, Golden Dragon Body, further unlocking the Golden Dragon King bloodline.
At the same time, deep within the Star Dou Great Forest, a terrifying being who had slumbered in the Lake of Life for countless years quietly opened her purple eyes...
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