All Means Exhausted, Nowhere to Flee

Hearing that gloomy voice, Luo Zixi inwardly cursed. Things were bad.

Immediately afterward, a tall, sinister figure clad in a tattered black robe silently emerged from behind the bushes not far ahead of him.

The moon was full tonight, scattering fragmented moonlight across the ground. Through the silver glow blanketing the earth, he could still vaguely make out that somewhat familiar old face.

"Why have you been spying on me from the shadows instead of showing yourself? Or are you too afraid?"

Luo Zixi's palms were already drenched in cold sweat. Now, he had truly reached the line between life and death!

"HAHAHAHA!! You little bastard really are sharp. I admit that Little San is inferior to you in both intelligence and emotional intelligence, but I never expected you to discover my presence on the very first day."

Tang Hao slowly stepped out from the cover of the forest. At this point, he seemed to have already decided that Luo Zixi was as good as dead, so he no longer concealed his true voice and removed the strip of black cloth covering his face.

Looking at that familiar, ugly face from so close, Luo Zixi was nervous, but even more than that, he was considering how to break out of this deadlock.

"You don't seem surprised by my appearance. Don't tell me you little bastard had already guessed that I was secretly watching every move you and Little San made?"

The killing intent in Tang Hao's eyes was no longer concealed in the slightest. A bloody aura rushed toward Luo Zixi and enveloped his entire body.

However, his Wood Spirit Body was frantically drawing in the surrounding life force, desperately resisting the other man's killing intent from entering his body.

Neither of them noticed that a small pink figure had quietly arrived at some point and was hiding in the bushes in the distance, feeling that terrifying killing intent.

If one looked closely, they would see that her pale red eyes were filled with fear. However, she quickly forced herself to calm down.

Her hands constantly traced intricate patterns before her chest as she softly chanted words no human could understand.

"@#￥#￥#@#%#￥%#%"

Elsewhere, in the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest, at the Lake of Life.

A colossal monster with the head of a bull and the body of a python burst out of the deep lake water, towering into the sky.

Several thousand meters away, a gigantic ape leaped hundreds of meters into the air and let out an earth-shaking roar.

"Heh, so it really is you—Tang San's drunkard father, Tang Hao. Or rather, the Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Hao."

Since the other party had already laid his cards on the table, there was no point in hiding anything anymore.

No matter how heaven-defying his Wood Spirit Body was, before the absolute gap in strength between a Super Douluo and a level-twenty Soul Master, crushing him would be as easy as crushing an ant.

"Smart. You really are smart. Honestly, if you had been just a little dumber, perhaps I could have let you become Little San's slave and live a while longer."

Though Tang Hao was praising Luo Zixi, his voice was filled with killing intent.

"Heh, the part about watching Tang San and me was probably a lie too, wasn't it?"

Luo Zixi stared fearlessly into Tang Hao's eyes. Upon hearing his words, Tang Hao actually showed a hint of interest.

"Oh? Then tell me, what else do you know?"

After hearing Tang Hao's words, Luo Zixi merely gave a short reply.

"Your target is Xiao Wu, isn't it?"

Hiding amid the dense bushes in the distance, Xiao Wu's heart went cold when she heard Luo Zixi's words. Could it be...!

Just after Luo Zixi finished speaking, the system's voice rang out in his mind once more.

Tang Hao's Favorability -100%. Current: -200%.

"Go on."

The killing intent in Tang Hao's heart grew even stronger. He wanted to know just what else this little bastard Luo Zixi knew.

"As a hundred-thousand-year transformed Soul Beast, it must be hard for a Titled Douluo like you not to be tempted."

BOOM!!!

Xiao Wu's mind exploded. Her eyes were filled with disbelief as memories from the past three months surfaced in her mind like countless framed images.

Tang Hao's expression, meanwhile, turned extremely ugly.

"Don't look at me with those filthy, disgusting eyes. In my heart, Xiao Wu is merely my dear little sister, not a soul ring or soul bone. I'm not a cold-blooded creature like you."

Upon hearing Luo Zixi's words, Xiao Wu, who was hiding in the distant bushes, felt the tension in her heart ease slightly.

At that moment, she recalled everything that had happened before. Past memories played through her mind like a slideshow.

It seemed that Luo Zixi had disliked her from the very beginning. He hadn't even let her sleep on his bed???

But if that was the case, then he must have known her identity from the very start! And he also knew that this Titled Douluo had been nearby all along!

At that thought, disbelief appeared in Xiao Wu's eyes.

Then she recalled what Luo Zixi had just said—if the two of them could both survive.

A bitter smile appeared on Xiao Wu's delicate face. So she was the one who had gotten him involved.

Seeing Tang Hao's flustered expression, Luo Zixi revealed a wicked smile.

"After all, you even dared to scheme against the wife who bore your child. What is there that you wouldn't dare to do?"

Luo Zixi's words were like thunder exploding in the sky. Not only Tang Hao, but even Xiao Wu, hiding in the distance, widened her eyes.

"No! That's impossible! How could you possibly know!"

Luo Zixi's words instantly enraged Tang Hao and brought back memories of his time with Ah Yin.

Scenes from the past flashed through Tang Hao's mind like a revolving lantern.

Meeting, falling in love, loving each other, getting married, having a child.

Everything had been so wonderful, yet he knew deep down that it was only wonderful on the surface.

"Hao, protect our child!"

Ah Yin's final words before her death jolted Tang Hao awake. But when he came to his senses, he found that Luo Zixi was no longer where he had been.

"You damned brat! I'll kill you!!!"

At that moment, Luo Zixi was using the energy he had infused into the tree trunks on his way here to frantically delay Tang Hao's pursuit.

That was right—this had been the worst-case scenario he had anticipated: being discovered by Tang Hao and hunted down by him!

Fortunately, the Wood Spirit Body's abilities had been greatly amplified here.

However, as he frantically unleashed the power of his Wood Spirit Body to make the trees in the forest grow wildly and interfere with Tang Hao's ability to track him, he saw someone who absolutely should not have been here.

"Xiao Wu! Why are you here?! Don't you know it's dangerous here?!"

Luo Zixi did not dare linger. He grabbed her arm and sprinted madly toward the city.

But aside from the initial moment when he had used his Wood Spirit Body to make the trees around Tang Hao grow wildly and throw off his tracking, Tang Hao locked onto Luo Zixi's location again within mere seconds.

What he had not expected, however, was that the hundred-thousand-year transformed Soul Beast was actually with him!

Did that not mean that transformed Soul Beast had heard every word of his conversation with Luo Zixi just now?!

No! Neither of them could be allowed to live! Both had to die!

As terrifying killing intent erupted from Tang Hao's body, Luo Zixi and Xiao Wu, who had already run far away, both shuddered.

"Are you stupid, you little girl?! Why the hell did you sneak out and follow me?! Great, now we're both done for!"

Luo Zixi clutched Xiao Wu as he ran and cursed, while doing everything he could to recover his Soul Power and use the power within him to hold back that mad dog Tang Hao.

But Xiao Wu's attention was not on Luo Zixi's words. She merely stared at him with her pale red eyes.

"When did you find out that I'm a hundred-thousand-year transformed Soul Beast?"

Hearing Xiao Wu's question, Luo Zixi knew this was not the time for explanations, so he kept it brief.

"My constitution is special. I recognized you the moment I saw you. Got it?"

"Then why didn't you kill me for my Soul Bone?"

"You looked like you had a bad life. You seemed pretty pitiful."

Xiao Wu's favorability increased by 10%. Current favorability: 85%