"Junior Yuhao?"
Tang Ya stared blankly at Huo Yuhao, who had appeared out of thin air, then asked coldly, "How did you get here?"
Huo Yuhao did not answer. Instead, he asked his own question. "Sister Xiao Ya, four rings should be enough to graduate from Shrek Academy's Outer Court. You probably didn't fail the academy's assessment. If you withdrew, then you must have chosen to leave, right?"
Tang Ya nodded silently.
Huo Yuhao continued, "Sister Xiao Ya, you said before that your parents were killed by Soul Beasts, but from what you just said, that doesn't seem to be the case, does it?"
Seeing that she could no longer hide it, Tang Ya simply told him the truth. "Yes. Both my parents were murdered, and the people who killed them are right here in Heaven Dou City."
"Five years ago, they not only murdered my mother and father, but also seized the Tang Sect's property. Otherwise, how could our ten-thousand-year-old Tang Sect have been reduced to existing in name alone?"
"That was my home! But now it bears the Iron Blood Sect's plaque. What a humiliation!"
"I'm going to make them pay!"
Tang Ya gritted her teeth. Her emotions grew increasingly uncontrollable, and her voice rose louder and louder until she was practically screaming hysterically.
After that outburst, Tang Ya wiped the tears from her face, her eyes filled with resolve and a razor-sharp edge.
Huo Yuhao fell silent for a moment. He recalled the Iron Blood Sect he had seen on the street that day. He had never imagined that such a blood feud lay between them and the Tang Sect.
He said, "I heard that the Iron Blood Sect has a Soul Emperor."
Tang Ya said, "I'm not afraid!"
Huo Yuhao thought for a moment, then added,