"Come out! Get the hell out here!!!"
Gu Chen had utterly shattered Tang Hao's composure, and he smashed everything around him to pieces with his hammer. Even so, the fire of rage in his heart refused to die down.
As the saying went, lies didn't hurt people; the truth was the sharpest blade!
If someone could send another person into a frenzy with a single sentence, it could only mean their words had stabbed straight into that person's heart.
What Gu Chen had just said was exactly that. Like a knife, it had plunged deep into Tang Hao's heart, leaving him choked up and humiliated at having his disguise stripped away. In his shame and fury, he had attacked Gu Chen without a thought for the consequences.
But once he had calmed down afterward,
regret came sweeping over him.
If only he had known.
He should have killed that little bastard Gu Chen long ago. Otherwise, how could things have come to this? Or, after failing a few days ago, he should have killed Xiao Wu immediately. Though that would have wasted a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, at least he would have had a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone!
Unlike now, when he had lost both the Soul Ring and the Soul Bone.
"I... regret it!!!"
Tang Hao slapped his thighs in regret.
This wasn't a matter of losing one or two Gold Soul Coins, but a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast. In the current age, hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was difficult without sending out two or three Titled Douluo.
That alone showed just how precious a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was.
And yet,
a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast had once been right in front of him, and he hadn't cherished her. Only after losing her did he regret it beyond all hope. There was no greater pain in life than this!
Tang Hao was mad with rage and heartbroken with regret.
Meanwhile,
on a main road leading straight to the Star Dou Great Forest,
a carriage was speeding along. Two figures suddenly appeared in its previously empty compartment: Gu Chen and Xiao Wu. The latter's frightened, dazed expression changed in an instant, and she became that familiar silly rabbit again.
"This..."
Xiao Wu blinked, her brain's processor struggling to cache everything before her eyes.
"Let go. We're safe now!"
Gu Chen pinched Xiao Wu's slightly chubby cheek. It felt pretty nice.
"What did you do? Weren't we just..."
Xiao Wu let go, but the jolting of the carriage had no effect on her. Or rather, she was more concerned about what had just happened. What on earth had happened?
"I've been favored by a 'god,' so isn't it only reasonable that I've mastered a little spatial ability?"
Gu Chen spread his little hands, indicating that she was simply too inexperienced.
At that,
Xiao Wu nodded, thinking he was quite right. He was someone favored by a god, so it was perfectly reasonable for him to have mastered a little spatial ability!
"Then who was that person just now?"
But compared with that, Xiao Wu was more concerned about the black-robed man who had appeared afterward.
"Back then, there was another Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast just like you who fell in love with a human. They spent many years together, and their mutual affection brought them together. But the good times didn't last. She became pregnant, and Spirit Hall discovered her identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast. Spirit Hall hunted them down, and on the very day she was about to give birth, its people found them. Her husband, a Level 90 Quasi-Titled Douluo, was captured by Spirit Hall in an instant. She had just given birth to their child, and in her despair, she sacrificed herself to her husband, helping him become the youngest Titled Douluo! With that, he defeated Spirit Hall and escaped with the child! From then on, there was no trace of him!"
Gu Chen told the story with a smile.
"The youngest Titled Douluo in your story was that black-robed man just now!"
Xiao Wu instantly understood what Gu Chen meant by telling the story.
"That's right! He's the Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Hao, and his son is Tang San. He attacked me a few days ago, but his skills weren't up to scratch. He failed to kill me and even let me get away."
Gu Chen nodded, taking the opportunity to explain why he had been nowhere to be seen these past few days.
"What? He actually attacked you! And he calls himself a Titled Douluo? How shameless, a grown man bullying someone so much younger!!!"
Xiao Wu looked at Gu Chen with concern. A Titled Douluo had attacked him, and Gu Chen wasn't even a One-Ring Soul Master. But seeing that he was completely unharmed, she was terribly envious. As expected of someone favored by a god-even a Titled Douluo couldn't do anything to him personally!
She wanted so badly to be favored by a god too!
"Xiao Wu, let me ask you: what did you learn from that story?"
Gu Chen asked.
"They were too stupid. They actually let Spirit Hall find them! If it were me, I'd have gone straight back to the Star Dou Great Forest. Want to find me? Maybe in your next life!"
Xiao Wu thought her intelligence utterly crushed theirs.
"Oh? Even an idiot like you could think of the stupid idea of hiding in the Star Dou Great Forest, so why do you think they couldn't?"
Gu Chen asked in return.
"Stop calling me an idiot. I'm very smart! They couldn't think of it, of course, because..."
Xiao Wu pouted angrily, her face full of displeasure. But before she could finish, her words came to an abrupt halt. She had guessed at a possibility, and her face instantly turned deathly pale.
"You've guessed it, haven't you? That's why an idiot like you had better use her brain more when she's out and about. Otherwise, you wouldn't even know if someone sold you off."
Gu Chen patted Xiao Wu on the head. With how silly she was, he could trick her thirteen times with bowls of malatang costing six yuan each.
"So this is the human world? It's too scary!"
Xiao Wu withdrew into herself.
Society was so complicated. She wanted to go home!
A long while later,
"Gu Chen, do you think Tang Hao really was so despicable and shameless that he deceived a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast who bore him a child?"
Xiao Wu asked.
"I don't know. But it's true that they fell in love and had a child, true that her identity as a transformed Soul Beast was discovered while she was pregnant, true that she was giving birth when her pursuers arrived, and equally true that his wife sacrificed herself to him."
Gu Chen didn't give an answer.
But there were too many suspicious points in this matter. One thing was certain: Tang Hao had reaped all the benefits. If Bibi Dong hadn't killed Qian Xunji, Tang Hao would definitely have been the biggest winner. He had become the youngest Titled Douluo and gained a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and a son. With those gains, he could even have returned to the Clear Sky Sect in glory.
If Qian Xunji's death hadn't set everything off, Tang Hao would definitely have been the ultimate winner.
And just now,
his words had provoked Tang Hao into attacking in a rage. Perhaps he really had hit the mark.
"This..."
Xiao Wu was at a loss for words for a moment.
They sounded like coincidences, but there were far too many of them. When there were that many coincidences, they no longer looked much like coincidences, but more like a careful arrangement!
"Don't think too much about it. It has nothing to do with you. At least I wouldn't go so far as to attack you over a mere Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone!"
As Gu Chen spoke, he gave her a rap on the forehead.
Xiao Wu rubbed her aching forehead. Although his words were a little dismissive of her status as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, at least he hadn't approached her for her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone. Thinking about it made her a little happy.
"By the way, where are we going now?"
Only then did Xiao Wu ask.
"Your home, the Star Dou Great Forest!"
Gu Chen glanced at her as he spoke.
If he could still swallow it after being bullied like that by Tang Hao, he'd be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
Endure it for a moment and all will be calm; take a step back and the more you think about it, the angrier you'll get!
So,
he had come to the Star Dou Great Forest to find someone to lie in wait for Tang Hao.
Tang Hao, so what if you're a Titled Douluo?
I'm going to find two top-tier Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to lie in wait for you. If you've got the guts, just you wait after school!!!