[Ah Yin (Blue Silver Emperor): Toying with someone's true feelings and tricking Soul Beasts into sacrificing themselves-this Tang San is truly despicable!]
[Angel (Can't Send Up): Are you, a little beast who helps a tyrant commit atrocities, any better than Xiao Wu?]
[Back to That Day (Sends Plenty): What? Did this strike a chord with you, a Blue Silver Emperor who also took human form as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?]
[Little Fox (Can't Send): Back to That Day is right!]
Xiao Wu's sacrifice was definitely super effective against Ah Yin, so much so that she finally stopped lurking and spoke in the group for the first time.
Then the Spirit Hall trio joined forces and gave her a vicious beating.
An epic achievement, really.
Looking at the messages in the chat group, Lu Chen couldn't help wondering whether Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong would be sickened beyond belief if they learned each other's identities right now.
[Ah Yin: You... why are you saying this about me?]
Inside a dark, empty stone chamber in a cave, a slender stalk of Blue Silver Grass swayed gently, the fine golden lines on its leaves flickering.
Within her spiritual space, Ah Yin felt terribly wronged. She had merely felt sorry for Xiao Wu, so why had the members of the chat group turned on her en masse?
They had clearly been able to communicate peacefully before.
[Netherworld (Vassal): Ah Yin is also a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?]
[Spirit Cat (Vassal): @Angel, a personal grudge?]
[Little Princess (Little Demoness): What kind of Soul Beast is a Blue Silver Emperor?!]
[Yanzi (Leftover Woman): I smell some juicy gossip.]
Lu Chen: Are you a melon-eating badger or something, smelling juicy gossip...
After observing for a while, Lu Chen had confirmed that, aside from Liu Erlong, who had yet to recover from being shocked numb, every last person in the group loved gathering around to feast on gossip. They simply watched the commotion without caring how big the trouble got.
Had they been like this in the original timeline...?
Or had a bunch of eccentrics coming together sparked a chemical reaction?
While his thoughts kept turning, Lu Chen wasn't idle in reality either. He calmly handed Xiao Wu a fresh spoon and smiled gently at her pretty face, which still hadn't fully recovered from its daze.
"Did you choke? There's plenty of fried rice left. No need to rush. Have some water and eat slowly."
[Lu Chen: She can choke just eating a meal. Is there really something wrong with her intelligence?]
Xiao Wu: ...
Damn you, Lu Chen!
[Lu Chen: I have to say, the Tang family really has a thing when it comes to finding wives.]
[Lu Chen: They won't marry anything but Soul Beasts. Tang Hao married Ah Yin, the Blue Silver Emperor. Their ready-made son Tang San married Xiao Wu, the Soft-Boned Rabbit. Their grandson Tang Wulin married Gu Yuena, the Silver Dragon King. Their great-grandson Tang Xuanyu married Bai Xiuxiu, a Demon Soul Great White Shark.
Four whole generations, spanning tens of thousands of years, covering plants and animals across sea, land, and sky. They really swallowed anything, raw or cold.]
At that moment, every member of the group, including Liu Erlong, was utterly stunned, whether they had known a little beforehand or had never heard any of this.
[Yanzi: I don't know the others, but that Tang Hao...]
[Little Princess: The peerless battle soul hammer, the towering Clear Sky Sect?]
[Angel: That's him. His title is Clear Sky.]
[Back to That Day: Heh, a bunch of rats cowering behind their sect gates. They certainly squeak loudly enough.]
[Little Fox: Well said!]
Bibi Dong glared at Hu Liena, who had become addicted to playing the supporting act, and sneered inwardly. If the time hadn't been wrong, and that old fossil hadn't kept obstructing her from behind the scenes, she would have wiped them out long ago!
A mighty Level 99 Limit Douluo, invincible in the skies, had actually spared his enemies because of a promise?
Simply ridiculous!
[Lu Chen: It's laughable, really. Starting with Tang Hao, the entire Tang family became gods. To outsiders, becoming a daughter-in-law of the Tang family might seem infinitely glorious.]
[Lu Chen: But beneath the history deliberately polished by the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy over tens of thousands of years, who knows how pitiful Ah Yin, Xiao Wu, and the others truly were?]
The Tang Sect, Shrek Academy...
The group members all committed the names of these two organizations to memory, intending to investigate them thoroughly later.
Liu Erlong, however, felt a surge of delight.
She didn't know about the Tang Sect, but wasn't Shrek Academy the academy Boss Fu had founded?
She'd never noticed before-was Boss Fu that good at teaching students?
The academy he founded had actually lasted tens of thousands of years. Didn't that make it a renowned academy with ten millennia of history?
The group members each had their own thoughts, while Lu Chen, because Xiao Wu had suddenly come calling, stopped leaving things on a cliffhanger and continued writing in his notebook:
[Lu Chen: While Ah Yin and Tang Hao were living in seclusion in a cottage, Spirit Hall discovered their whereabouts. Qian Xunji, Spirit Hall's previous Supreme Pontiff, personally led a team to hunt them down.
At the final moment, Ah Yin sacrificed herself, becoming Tang Hao's hundred-thousand-year ninth Soul Ring, leaving behind only the newborn Tang San and a seed.
Having broken through to Titled Douluo, Tang Hao unleashed his might, smashed Qian Xunji with the Clear Sky Sect's secret technique, broke through Spirit Hall's encirclement, and went into hiding with Tang San. He became a blacksmith who did nothing but drink all day, leaving even the cooking to the young Tang San.]
[Little Princess: Why am I suddenly a little moved?]
[Yanzi: They were fugitives, but it really is quite moving. It's just that Tang Hao... wallow all you want, but shouldn't you at least take raising a child seriously?]
[Netherworld: He couldn't shoulder his responsibilities. He wasn't a qualified father.]
[Spirit Cat: So Tang San grew up in an environment like that, without a proper father or mother, and that's why he'll take revenge on everything and try to destroy the Douluo Continent in the future?]
[Ah Yin: Hao... Little San...]
[Xiao Wu: Auntie Ah Yin, don't be sad. At least you're still alive, aren't you? Perhaps one day you'll be able to take human form again, and then you can see each other.]
[Ah Yin: Xiao Wu, you're a good child. Thank you.]
The Spirit Hall trio couldn't stand watching any longer and launched straight into their attacks.
[Back to That Day: Heh~ These fugitives certainly put on quite a show.]
[Angel: Killing law enforcement officers-a heinous crime!]
[Little Fox: Well said, both of you!]
[Self-Cultivation (Horn of Slaughter): You three really are Spirit Hall's running dogs, just like that heartless, ungrateful woman Bibi Dong. The stench is practically spilling out of the screen.]
Liu Erlong had figured it out. Back to That Day, Angel, and Little Fox definitely had close ties to Spirit Hall.
And she certainly wasn't going to show any courtesy to Spirit Hall, where that bitch Bibi Dong belonged.
Holy crap, what a ferocious verbal assault!
Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and the Zhu Family sisters were dumbstruck.
She had actually openly insulted Her Holiness Bibi Dong, Spirit Hall's current Supreme Pontiff, in the chat group.
Whose warrior was this, to be so fearless?
Bang!
The expensive dressing table was reduced completely to dust, and what had shattered it to pieces was a slender, delicate hand, soft as though it had no bones.
Furious, Bibi Dong immediately began attacking Liu Erlong's alias.
[Back to That Day: Better to lack a heart than to have no shame. Yu Erlong, you don't think those sordid affairs of yours are well hidden, do you?]
[Group member Self-Cultivation has changed her group nickname to Liu Erlong. Real-name registration completed. Awarded 500 fortune points.]
[Liu Erlong: My surname isn't Yu! You bastard, you'd better not let me find out who you are!]
[Back to That Day: Heh~]
Her cover had been blown just like that?
Lu Chen kept shaking his head inwardly. First she'd been electrocuted, and now she'd been forced to go online under her real name. He couldn't help feeling that Liu Erlong's online combat prowess wasn't up to much.
[Lu Chen: Ah Yin was one of the more tragic cases among the major Soul Beasts, because she lived amid deception from beginning to end.
To be with the man she loved, she abandoned her responsibilities as leader of the Blue Silver Grass Clan, only for that very man to scheme her into sacrificing herself.
After a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast takes human form and cultivates to level sixty, they begin entering maturity. At that point, Ah Yin was no different from a human. With Tang Hao at over level eighty, if he had truly intended to hide with Ah Yin, would Spirit Hall have discovered them so easily and chased them all over the place?
And the most interesting part was that the day Qian Xunji personally led his team to corner them happened to be the very day Tang Hao broke through to level ninety!
Tang Hao, oh, Tang Hao, what perfect timing for your breakthrough~
And that wasn't all. If Ah Yin knew that the son whose chance at survival she had bought with her own death wasn't her biological son at all, how would she feel?
Luckily, I was curious earlier and looked farther upstream in the river of time. It really cleared up a huge question for me. It turned out that Tang San, like me, wasn't native to the Douluo Continent.
The difference is that I'm a reincarnated being brought here by the spirit of the plane, with neither father nor mother, adopted by Grandpa when I was little.
He, on the other hand, was a soul from another world who destroyed Ah Yin's son's soul after his birth and seized his body!]
[Lu Chen: No wonder he has no regard whatsoever for the homeland that birthed and raised him, and even cooked up some ten-thousand-year plan to draw numerous other planes into attacking the Douluo Continent. Turns out it doesn't hurt to kick something when it isn't yours.]
[Xiao Wu: ...]
[Netherworld: ...]
[Yanzi: ...]
[Little Princess: ...]
[Angel: Was it worth it?]
[Back to That Day: Poor woman.]
[Little Fox: Indeed.]
At that moment, even Qian Renxue, who hated Ah Yin the most, couldn't find anything vicious to say.
Within the Blue Silver Grass's spiritual space, Ah Yin curled up, trembling all over. An immense, unprecedented terror enveloped her, leaving her so distressed she couldn't breathe.
Her feelings drove her to recall everything from the past over and over, hoping to use Tang Hao's tenderness and Little San's swaddled form to refute Lu Chen.
But the more she recalled, the clearer those unreasonable fragments became.
No...
No...
No!
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