"Hmph! Tang Hao really is a complete and utter scumbag!"
Ning Rongrong smiled disdainfully. Hearing Old Jack's words thrilled her. If word got out later, wouldn't Tang Hao's reputation be dragged through the mud first?
"No... impossible. Brother... Brother Hao, how could he treat my Little San like that!"
Heartbroken by what she heard, Ah Yin hurried into the village.
The Blue Silver Emperor's presence spread outward.
The Blue Silver Grass throughout the village glowed blue, and the information it knew poured into her mind in great waves.
She sifted out everything the villagers had thought of Tang Hao over the years.
The more she saw, the more her heart hurt.
She could not believe that was Tang Hao.
Tracing backward through time, she saw Tang Hao as well.
Tang Hao was exactly as Old Jack had described: lazy, slovenly, a drunkard who ordered Tang San around.
"Pfft..."
Ah Yin spat out a mouthful of blood.
Hatred gradually surfaced in her eyes as well.
She believed Xiao Wu's account more and more.
Tang Hao did not love her at all. What he loved were her Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
Tang Hao had succeeded in the end. Because of her sacrifice, not only had his Soul Power finally risen to Level 90, but he had also obtained the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring that Soul Masters craved most.
How despicable! How had she been so stupid that she failed to see Tang Hao's wicked heart!
"Ah Yin? Are you all right?" Xiao Yexuan hurried over and helped Ah Yin up, concern written all over his face.
Looking utterly dejected, Ah Yin shook her head. "I... I'm fine."
Beside them, Tang Yuehua's gaze was complicated.
She, too, found it hard to believe what she had just heard.
But she still clung to a shred of hope, thinking Old Jack was deceiving her.
She did not possess Ah Yin's heaven-reaching abilities, so she visited other people and began asking about Tang Hao.
With her years of experience, she could still easily judge whether those people were lying.
"I saw it... I saw everything... Tang Hao! I hate you!"
Ah Yin clenched her fists tightly, looking ready to explode.
"Sigh... the human heart is hard to fathom. Ah Yin, don't be sad. Think of this as your new beginning. You shouldn't let the past hold you back."
Xiao Yexuan gently comforted her.
"Soul Beasts cannot become gods... I began cultivating anew as a human to pursue that elusive immortality. Benefactor, you're right. I shouldn't let the past hold me back. Now, I must continue pursuing my path to immortality. And repay your kindness!"
As Ah Yin spoke, she looked firmly at Xiao Yexuan. As though she had made some decision, she dropped to both knees and bowed.
"Master! You gave me a new life and helped me tear away Tang Hao's false mask. I, Ah Yin, am willing to serve at your side for the rest of my life and clear every obstacle from your path!"
Ah Yin's state of mind changed very quickly, too.
As the Blue Silver Emperor cultivating anew as a human, she primarily cultivated the path of life. Unlike ordinary humans, she could live for a very long time.
With her aptitude, she would certainly reach the threshold of godhood eventually.
Gentle and kind, she could eventually take up a profession such as a physician in the human world, treating countless people and collecting only the power of faith.
She could also condense a divine position herself.
Moreover, given the Divine Realm's circumstances at this time,
quite a few gods wanted to relinquish their divine positions and venture into the universe.
Becoming a god would still have been very easy for the Blue Silver Emperor.
Yet because she was love-brained, she had sacrificed herself to Tang Hao.
As for Tang San?
Her child?
No, no, no! That was not her child.
With her Blue Silver Domain, she could see everything that had happened here, all recorded by the Blue Silver Grass.
She also knew perfectly well what Tang San had done on the mountain behind the village as a child.
She was no fool. Tang San's behavior back then was simply not something a child could have displayed.
Even though Tang San had hidden himself deeply, Blue Silver Grass was everywhere. He still could not escape Ah Yin's eyes.
Her child had died long ago. The current Tang San had been possessed.
Thus, she no longer felt any lingering attachment to Tang Hao and his son.
"Huh? Ah Yin, you..."
Seeing Ah Yin kneel and submit to Xiao Yexuan, Xiao Wu was the first to be unhappy.
Ah Yin belonged to her Soul Beast Clan and should have been her subordinate.
As long as she nurtured Ah Yin, she would soon regain the strength of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
Then she could make Ah Yin a guard at Maple Forest Evening, just like Da Ming and Er Ming.
That would earn her another hundred consecutive draws every month.
Now that Ah Yin had become Xiao Yexuan's person, her hundred consecutive draws had gone down the drain!
But she could hardly say anything.
She could only feel bitter regret inwardly.
Compete with Xiao Yexuan for someone? She had enough self-awareness for that.
Suddenly, she thought of another method.
There were so many powerful Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest. Rather than nurturing Ah Yin, she might as well nurture those Soul Beasts.
Helping them become Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, with Da Ming and Er Ming and the pills she had obtained from Xiao Yexuan, still seemed very easy to her.
Da Ming and Er Ming had one day off each week.
She could put her plan into action then.
Xiao Yexuan was somewhat surprised as well that Ah Yin had submitted to him just like that.
She was clever indeed.
Then Xiao Yexuan hurried forward to help Ah Yin up, shaking his head as he refused.
"Ah Yin, you don't need to be so polite. Saving you was just a casual effort for us. The person who truly helped you see Tang Hao clearly was actually Xiao Wu."
Although he said that, Ah Yin remained adamant.
In the end, Xiao Yexuan had no choice. He could not let her keep kneeling, could he?
He could only let her stay with him as a maid forever.
If Tang Hao found out, wouldn't he explode with rage!
Tang Yuehua returned then as well, her expression gloomy.
She had visited almost every villager's home in Holy Soul Village.
The answers she received had been the same from beginning to end.
Tang Hao truly treated his own child abominably.
If he treated his child so badly, he surely could not have treated his wife much better.
For a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, playing the part of a good husband would have been very easy for Tang Hao.
Then this time, for the pills and the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, was he also playing the part of a good older brother before her?
The more Tang Yuehua thought about it, the more terrified she became!
After provoking Spirit Hall, Tang Hao had simply walked away.
The Clear Sky Sect had then faced Spirit Hall's frenzied retaliation.
That Tang Hao had caused the previous Spirit Hall Supreme Pontiff's death was an ironclad fact.
No matter how great its losses, the Clear Sky Sect had only dared to hide.
And she, as Tang Hao's younger sister,
should have been living comfortably in the Clear Sky Sect.
Yet because the Clear Sky Sect had suffered devastating losses and countless casualties because of Tang Hao,
the clansmen, unable to find Tang Hao, had ostracized Tang Yuehua instead.
This had forced Tang Yuehua to leave the Clear Sky Sect, leave her home, and go live in Heaven Dou City.
At first, her life had been far from easy. Tang Hao had never appeared to give her a sense of security.
Now he had sought her out, but it was because of pills and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone?
His purpose was all too straightforward.
But back then, ruled by her love-addled mind, she had thought only of helping Tang Hao as quickly as possible.
Now that she saw reality clearly, she was utterly disappointed in Tang Hao.
Her hatred was even stronger than Ah Yin's.
Tang Hao was her brother, but the Clear Sky Sect was her home!
Her father had been angered to death by Tang Hao, and many of her nephews, relatives, and friends had died as well.
The four subordinate sects basically all carried the Clear Sky Sect's bloodline.
Their bonds ran deep.
How many more people had died over these years?
Tang Hao had caused trouble and hidden away to live his own carefree life, yet left the Clear Sky Sect to bear the consequences?
And now he wanted to turn around and exploit her?
You want pills? How about a pile of dog shit instead!