When he saw the words "Ah Yin" appear on the sky screen, Tang Hao's hazy, clouded eyes instantly went wide.
"No!"
Tang Hao let out a roar, then abruptly stood up.
In an instant, the terrifying Soul Power of a level ninety-five Titled Douluo erupted.
An enormous Clear Sky Hammer appeared directly in his hand.
He wanted to use that weapon Martial Soul, the greatest in the world, to block the mighty power of heaven and earth about to descend.
Yet it was all futile.
Whoosh!
Before long, a golden pillar of light descended from the sky, completely ignoring the valley's rock walls and Tang Hao's Clear Sky Hammer.
Then it enveloped the Blue Silver Emperor struggling to grow.
The light merely flashed.
The Blue Silver Grass on the bluestone vanished completely into thin air, leaving not even a trace of the scent of soil.
"Ah Yin!!!"
Tang Hao fell to his knees, frantically clawing at the soil with both hands, tears streaming down his aged face as he wailed without end.
Meanwhile, the image on the sky screen twisted.
It then switched to Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin's first-person perspective.
After a flicker in the image, everyone on the Douluo Continent saw a vast, boundless land appear before them, breathtakingly beautiful.
It was a mountain range that reached into the heavens, so enormous that its end could not be seen with the naked eye.
There were no weeds on the mountains, nor any ordinary trees.
There was only an endless expanse of peerless spiritual plants, radiating hazy Immortal Light of every color, with limitless laws of the Great Dao flowing through them!
This was the heart of power on the Western Heaven Continent.
The private garden of the Western Heaven War Emperor, one of the titans of the Great Thousand World!
On the sky screen, that vast garden radiating endless Immortal Light instantly drew the eyes of everyone on the Douluo Continent.
On the grounds of Shrek Academy.
When that Blue Silver Grass appeared on the sky screen, swaying in the wind with faint blue-gold markings.
Tang San, standing among the crowd, suddenly felt his heart give a violent, uncontrollable beat.
Thump!
The sudden palpitation made Tang San clutch his chest, his expression changing slightly.
He instinctively opened his right hand, and the Blue Silver Grass he had always considered a trash Martial Soul emerged involuntarily from his palm.
Moreover, this Blue Silver Grass was not trembling as it had when confronted with the oppressive might of powerful beings before.
Instead, it radiated joy, excitement, and even an intense resonance from deep within his bloodline!
"How strange..."
Tang San knitted his brows, staring unblinkingly at the frail Blue Silver Grass on the sky screen.
"Why do I feel such an indescribable closeness when I look at this grass?"
"That feeling... it's as though she's the most important part of my life. Even my blood is boiling for her."
Tang San murmured to himself, his eyes full of confusion.
Of course, he did not know that the plant swaying in the wind on the sky screen was the mother who had borne and raised him, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor.
He could only attribute this peculiar sense of closeness to the fact that his Martial Soul was also Blue Silver Grass.
"Perhaps it's because our Martial Souls share the same origin."
Tang San took a deep breath, suppressed the throbbing in his heart, and continued looking up at the sky screen.
Meanwhile, in the Great Thousand World.
In the Imperial Garden deep within the War Emperor Palace on the Western Heaven Continent.
Ah Yin felt the world spin around her. When she regained consciousness, she discovered that she had arrived in an utterly unfamiliar world.
As a plant, her perception of her environment and its energy was far sharper than a human's.
The moment she landed, Ah Yin was nearly burst apart by the outrageously dense energy around her!
The soil in which she had taken root was no ordinary dirt.
It was divine soil painstakingly cultivated by mixing the purest five-colored breath soil in the Great Thousand World with high-grade supreme spirit liquid.
Here, even a grain of sand from the bottommost layer would have Titled Douluos fighting until their heads split if placed on the Douluo Continent.
Somewhat frightened, Ah Yin extended her spiritual sense and examined her surroundings.
Beside her stood a divine tree a hundred zhang tall, its entire body as crystalline and translucent as red agate.
The divine tree was laden with vermilion fruit giving off an unusual fragrance, and faint Dragon Phoenix phantoms even circled and coiled around each fruit.
In a nearby pool, several golden lotuses the size of washbasins were blooming. As their petals opened and closed, chants of the Great Dao actually echoed through the air.
In this boundless royal garden, any spiritual plant chosen at random gave off fluctuations of power far surpassing the so-called gods of the Douluo Continent.
Compared with these peerless divine herbs that casually drew in and exhaled the power of the sun, moon, and stars.
Ah Yin, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor who had once stood high above others on the Douluo Continent, now resembled a little quail that had wandered into a phoenix's nest.
Weak, pitiful, and finding even breathing somewhat difficult.
"Where... exactly is this?"
At that moment, even Ah Yin's soul was trembling.
She did not even dare absorb the energy in the surrounding soil, afraid that her fragile meridians would instantly be burst to pieces.
Yet in the Great Thousand World, opportunities often refused to follow reason.
Just as Ah Yin cowered trembling in a corner.
A gentle breeze swept through the sky.
A crystalline, translucent leaf on the hundred-zhang-tall Agate Divine Tree beside her swayed slightly.
Plip.
A drop of dew that had gathered the divine tree's essence, thick as amber, slipped from the leaf and landed squarely on Ah Yin's leaf, which glowed with a blue-gold halo.
Boom!
The instant that drop of dew touched Ah Yin.
An oceanlike surge of vast, pure life energy exploded within her!
"Mmh..."
Ah Yin let out a moan of pain and pleasure.
The energy was too immense, so immense that she could not resist it at all.
She did not even need to refine it; the energy began cleansing her true body on its own.
On the Douluo Continent, a Soul Beast seeking human form had to undergo a hundred thousand years of bitter cultivation and evade terrifying heavenly tribulations.
Even after successfully taking human form, they had to cultivate anew as humans, starting from scratch.
But in the Great Thousand World, within the Western Heaven War Emperor's god-level garden.
It took only a single drop of dew sliding from a high-grade divine tree!
Ah Yin's true body began growing wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The Blue Silver Grass, originally only a few inches tall, grew to half a person's height in the blink of an eye, blue-gold light flowing over its leaves as though tangible.
Then, wrapped in that dazzling mass of blue-gold light.
Ah Yin's plant body slowly began to fade away.
A pair of long, slender legs, flawless as white jade, stepped out of the light first.
Then came a waist slender enough to encircle with a hand, and those proud, perfect curves.
Long blue hair cascaded like a waterfall to her ankles, and a gentle, dignified face of breathtaking beauty slowly appeared between heaven and earth.
This was precisely Ah Yin's human form!
However, after being cleansed by the dew of this divine tree from the Great Thousand World.
Not only was Ah Yin's appearance now more ethereal and holy than it had been on the Douluo Continent, but the very level of her existence had completely escaped the shackles of a Soul Beast.
She had become an incomparably pure wood-attribute plant spirit.
"I... I actually took human form again?"
Ah Yin stared blankly at her hands, white as jade, her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief.
There was no heavenly tribulation, no period of weakness from cultivating anew.
Just like that, with effortless ease, merely because of a single drop of dew, she had crossed the gulf that every Soul Beast on the Douluo Continent dreamed of crossing!
Meanwhile, beyond the sky screen.
The people of the Douluo Continent watched the stunning woman emerge from the blue-gold light, each of them so astonished that their mouths hung open.
In the abyss beneath the waterfall.
Looking at the beautiful figure he yearned for day and night on the sky screen, Tang Hao dropped to his knees with a thud.
"Ah Yin, it really is my Ah Yin..."
This man of iron wept like a child.
And at Shrek Academy.
As Tang San looked at the stunning woman on the sky screen, his heart throbbed even more violently.
An urge to cry welled up in his heart without warning.
"Who... exactly is she?"
Just as everyone on the Douluo Continent was shaken by Ah Yin's transformation and awed by the Great Thousand World's profound reserves, capable of casually transforming all things.
Within the Imperial Garden on the Western Heaven Continent shown on the sky screen.
A sudden change occurred.
Hum!
Violent spatial ripples suddenly spread through the sky above the once peaceful, tranquil garden.
Then golden light poured down across the sky like the blazing sun.
An overbearing, supreme imperial might that looked down upon the world and seemed capable of making all things submit instantly enveloped the entire garden.
Before this imperial might.
Those once lofty divine trees and immortal lotuses all bent their branches and leaves in unison, as though respectfully welcoming their master.
Ah Yin, who had just successfully taken human form, bore the brunt of it.
Her legs went weak, and she involuntarily collapsed onto the five-colored breath soil, unable even to raise her head.
Then, amid the golden light filling the sky, a tall, handsome man dressed in golden imperial robes, radiating boundless sovereign dominance, slowly stepped out of empty space.
One of the titans of the Great Thousand World, an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
The Western Heaven War Emperor!
He stood with his hands behind his back, looking down from above.
He had originally sensed a trace of impure energy that did not belong to the Great Thousand World in his private garden and intended to erase it with a casual gesture.
But when his gaze fell upon Ah Yin, seated on the ground.
An almost imperceptible glimmer flashed through this Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign's eyes.
That gentle, dignified bearing, that graceful figure like a ripe honey peach, and that incomparably pure, feminine plant aura.
Each made the Western Heaven War Emperor, who had seen countless beauties, inwardly marvel.
But as a supreme titan ruling over a domain, he naturally would not behave as lustfully as those despicable lackeys.
In fact, to better nurture this perfect "cultivation furnace" in the future, he did not release even the slightest trace of malice.
"Oh?"
The War Emperor raised his brows slightly, and a smile as gentle as a spring breeze bringing rain slowly appeared on his handsome, majestic face.
Not only did he withdraw his terrifying pressure, but he quietly regarded Ah Yin with a compassionate gaze, like an elder looking upon a junior.
"A plant spirit from a lower plane actually managed to reconstruct her true body using the Dragon-Mark Jade Dew in my garden?"
"To take human form in this forbidden ground of mine, you could indeed be said to share a destined connection with me."
As she felt the terrifying pressure around her recede like the tide.
Ah Yin's heart, which had been lodged in her throat, finally settled a little.
She gathered her courage and raised her head, meeting the Western Heaven War Emperor's jade-gentle gaze.
In the eyes of this emperor, handsome as a god, she saw no greed, none of the murderous intent and covetousness with which the human Soul Masters of the Douluo Continent looked upon Soul Beasts.
There was only a lofty tolerance.
"You won't kill me?" Ah Yin's voice trembled slightly, like a startled fawn.
"Kill you?"
The Western Heaven War Emperor laughed heartily, as though he had heard a joke.
"I am the Western Heaven War Emperor, ruler of this vast Western Heaven Continent."
"You are a pure, flawless plant spirit, untainted by even a trace of fiendish energy. Why would I kill you?"
With that, the War Emperor slowly floated down from the air and came before Ah Yin.
With a sweep of his broad sleeve, a gentle current of spiritual energy softly lifted Ah Yin from where she sat on the ground.
"Though this Great Thousand World is vast, a wood-attribute spiritual body with an origin as pure as yours is rare indeed."
"Since we share a destined connection, from this day onward, remain in my War Emperor Palace and cultivate with peace of mind."
The War Emperor stood with his hands behind his back, his voice carrying a generosity and magnanimity that could not be refused.
"You may freely use all the heavenly treasures and earthly precious materials, spiritual springs, and immortal dew in this garden."
"Not only that, I will also send someone to teach you the cultivation methods of the Great Thousand World, helping you shed your mortal body from the lower world as soon as possible."
"When you have attained success in your cultivation, I will come see you again."
After saying this, the Western Heaven War Emperor gave Ah Yin a deep look.
Then he turned, stepped into empty space, and vanished from the garden, leaving only a visibly moved Ah Yin at a loss in this garden that resembled an immortal realm.
With the Western Heaven War Emperor's departure.
Beyond the Sky Screen, the entire Douluo Continent erupted into an uproar.
Only this time, it was not out of fear, but envy.
On the Douluo Continent, in a remote, secluded valley with a waterfall.
"Rumble..."
An immense torrent crashed down from a hundred-meter-high cliff, sending crystalline spray flying everywhere.
And amid that vast veil of mist.
A burly man in gray, his face covered in stubble, looking like a down-and-out farmer, knelt heavily on both knees upon mud-covered bluestone slabs.
He was none other than the world-renowned Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Hao.
"Clang."
The Clear Sky Hammer, the world's foremost tool Martial Soul, which had once struck terror into countless Spirit Hall powerhouses at the mere mention of its name, was now like a useless lump of scrap iron, carelessly tossed by him into a muddy pool nearby, where it smashed out a deep crater.
Tang Hao paid no attention whatsoever to his Martial Soul.
His bloodshot eyes were fixed unblinkingly on the Sky Screen in midair.
He watched Ah Yin emerge from the blue-gold light in the scene, even more beautiful and more holy than she had been back then.
He watched the Western Heaven War Emperor, who radiated boundless imperial majesty yet was as gentle as jade.
He listened to the promises that supreme titan of the Great Thousand World made to Ah Yin, promises that could be called heaven-defying.
Tears had long since streamed down Tang Hao's weather-beaten face.
"Ah Yin, my Ah Yin..."
Tang Hao's lips trembled violently, and two trails of murky tears slid down his rough cheeks, dripping into the muddy water beneath him.
He raised his large hands, thick with calluses from years of forging iron, trembling as he tried to touch that graceful figure on the Sky Screen who haunted his soul and dreams, only to grasp empty air.
"This is wonderful, truly wonderful..."
"Not only have you come back to life, you've also met such a great benefactor with heaven-reaching powers."
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