The Theory About Tang San! Running into Familiar Faces Again, Guang Yu: It's Actually Them!!

Guang Yu hesitated for a moment before replying, "Since we're passing by, let's go into the city and take a look. Let's see whether the Spirit Hall Branch Hall here has any criminal Soul Masters it can't punish."

"Alright, let's go." Qian Renxue shrugged indifferently.

The two headed toward Nuoding City.

At this point in the timeline, Tang San was only four years old and still in Holy Spirit Village. However, that Yu Xiaogang fellow was in Nuoding City.

Guang Yu had once placed great importance on Tang San. After all, he had been the protagonist of the original world and surely possessed some measure of destiny on his side.

But now that Guang Yu controlled the Immortal Herb resources, Tang San definitely would not obtain the Immortal Herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in this life. Furthermore, Qian Renxue had returned early to cultivate, so her timeline for becoming a god could be brought forward by at least ten years.

If nothing unexpected happened, Qian Renxue would become the Angel God before the age of twenty-five.

By then, Tang San would only be sixteen and would not even have reached the Soul Emperor realm.

What kind of waves could a Tang San who was not even a mere Soul Emperor stir up? He would pose no threat to Spirit Hall at all.

From that perspective alone, Tang San was no longer worth worrying about.

However, there was one highly widespread theory concerning Tang San. Guang Yu was not sure whether it was true, but if it was, Tang San would likely be difficult to kill. (Author: Some readers probably know what theory this is. There is some basis for it.)

Tang San definitely had to be eliminated, but now was not the best time!

For the time being, they should not interfere with Tang San's early life trajectory. Only then would Tang San remain under Guang Yu's control, allowing him to keep following that useless Yu Xiaogang during his early years.

Tang San's Blue Silver Grass carried the bloodline of the top-tier Blue Silver Emperor, possessing incredibly powerful vitality and recovery abilities.

Yet Yu Xiaogang had forcibly trained Tang San's Blue Silver Grass into trash that could only bind and control.

On the stage of the Soul Master Tournament, Tang San had been beaten so badly that he even doubted whether Blue Silver Grass was useless and wanted to switch to cultivating the Clear Sky Hammer.

If not for Tang San's mastery of the Tang Sect's Six Great Secret Arts, along with the boost from the Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone, he had no idea what kind of sorry state he would have been beaten into with Blue Silver Grass alone.

He should have focused fully on developing along the life-element path, because binding and control were abilities Blue Silver Grass already possessed!

As his Soul Rings increased, its binding, control, and toughness would all grow stronger!

If he fully developed the life-element path to its ultimate limit, Blue Silver Grass with the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline might possess inexhaustible restorative power, perhaps even the ability to bring back the dead.

Wildfires cannot burn it all away; when the spring breeze blows, it grows anew.

If that theory was true, then if they moved too early to eliminate Tang San but failed to kill him—

Tang San would slip free of the framework of their control. Without Yu Xiaogang's guidance, he would be highly likely to grow even stronger.

Therefore, Guang Yu planned to set up an inescapable net when Tang San went to the Pope's Palace to participate in the tournament, then capture Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Tang Hao all in one sweep!

That would be the best time.

Guang Yu withdrew his thoughts.

He and Qian Renxue had already entered Nuoding City, and the two headed straight for the Spirit Hall Branch Hall within the city.

They arrived in just over ten minutes.

The guarding knight stopped Guang Yu and Qian Renxue from entering the hall. With a stern expression, he said, "Halt. There isn't a single Soul Master in the hall today. Please come back another day."

"Not a single Soul Master is here? What's going on?" Qian Renxue frowned.

"That is not something you need to know. Leave."

Qian Renxue directly produced an Elder Token, her expression imposing as she said, "Speak! What happened!"

"Th-This is!"

The guard knight immediately panicked at the sight of it and dropped to one knee. "Reporting to you, my lord! A massacre occurred twenty li northwest of Nuoding City. Dozens of men in a small village were slaughtered, while the women in the village have gone missing!"

"It was most likely the work of a group of bandit Soul Masters. All the Lord Soul Masters in the hall have already set out, leading a hundred knights to wipe them out, which is why none of them are in the Branch Hall."

Guang Yu and Qian Renxue's expressions both changed upon hearing this.

"Xue'er, in a lowest-tier Spirit Hall Branch Hall like Nuoding City's, the strongest Soul Master should only be a Soul Elder, right?" Guang Yu asked.

"Mm. And there is most likely only one Soul Elder stationed there. The rest are White-Robed Grand Deacons at the two-ring Soul Grandmaster level," Qian Renxue replied.

Guang Yu pondered deeply. "For them to dare massacre a village near the city, this criminal group is probably not easy to deal with. With the strength of Nuoding City's Spirit Hall Branch Hall, they might not be able to handle it."

The two exchanged glances.

Then, in perfect unspoken understanding, they said the same word: "Go!"

There was work to do!

The two raced at full speed toward the northwest outside Nuoding City.

After a long while.

They finally reached the small village that had been massacred.

Yet they could not see a single intact corpse—only bones, scattered internal organs, and blood everywhere. Clearly, the dead had been eaten!

But what had eaten them remained unknown.

A nauseating stench of blood hung in the air.

It was Guang Yu's first time seeing such a scene. To be honest, he was a little unaccustomed to it, but he did not feel as disgusted or nauseated as he had imagined.

Instead, he was able to maintain his basic composure.

The observant Qian Renxue quickly noticed something unusual among the traces of battle nearby. Pointing at a damaged tree, she frowned deeply. "Something's wrong. Humans don't eat humans. And Guang Yu, look."

Guang Yu carefully examined the tree and said, "These marks look like claw strikes from some kind of wolf, tiger, or bear. Could this have been the work of Soul Beasts rather than Soul Masters?"

"But if they were Soul Beasts, why would they kill only the men while abducting the women?"

Guang Yu found it extremely strange.

Qian Renxue seemed to have already guessed the answer, and her expression suddenly darkened. "Oh no, Guang Yu. This was probably the work of Wolf Bandits!"

"What! Wolf Bandits!?"

Guang Yu's expression instantly darkened as well.

If they were Wolf Bandits, then everything made sense.

Wolf Bandits could be considered human, or they could be considered Soul Beasts—or perhaps neither!

They were hybrids born from humans and a type of Soul Beast known as the Gale Demon Wolf.

They were half-human, half-wolf monsters. Bloodthirsty by nature, they killed humans for food. As for women, they would temporarily keep them in hidden chambers. Those who did not become pregnant would likewise become their food.

Therefore, only Wolf Bandits would eat people and abduct women!

And if they truly were Wolf Bandits, then the Soul Masters from Nuoding City's Spirit Hall Branch Hall were likely in trouble.

Because every Wolf Bandit possessed strength no weaker than a Soul Master at level twenty or thirty!

At that moment!

Screams rang out from the official road in the distance.

"Arghhhh—"

"Xue'er, hurry!"

Guang Yu immediately released his Ice Wings, while Qian Renxue released her angel wings. The two rushed toward the sound at top speed to provide support.

Not long after, he saw them.

More than thirty Wolf Bandits were surrounding and slaughtering the Soul Masters and knights from Nuoding City's Spirit Hall Branch Hall.

There were also several Soul Masters besides the Spirit Hall personnel!

A total of fourteen Soul Masters and over fifty ordinary knight soldiers were being surrounded and slaughtered by more than thirty Wolf Bandits!

The White-Robed Grand Deacon Su Yuntao was among them.

Guang Yu suddenly spotted four others who looked extremely familiar. They all had distinctive personal styles, and most importantly, their martial souls allowed Guang Yu to recognize them at a glance. "It's actually them!!"

"Good heavens, we've run into familiar faces again!!"