After Ye Lingtian told Su Mingyue what he had just discovered.
Su Mingyue had the same idea as Ye Lingtian, but since she did not know what use a half-demon had, she could only make a note of it for now.
"What a pity. We went to so much trouble, and even the sect master intervened, but we still couldn't keep him here." Su Mingyue sighed helplessly.
"It wasn't a complete waste of effort." Ye Lingtian smiled. "At least we know this person means a great deal to Baihuaxiang. We can have the disciples keep an eye out and resume the search if they find anything."
After a pause, Ye Lingtian comforted her. "Besides, we dealt with a Nascent Soul great demon in this battle. We should think about how to explain it when we get back to the sect."
Su Mingyue nodded.
The two delayed no longer. After packing up and waking the disciples Baihuaxiang had knocked unconscious earlier, they led them toward the sect.
Meanwhile, beneath the ground a hundred li away from the two, Baihuaxiang, reduced to just her Nascent Soul, sensed that their presence had completely disappeared. She slowly rose from the ground with Tang San.
Even now, Baihuaxiang's heart still trembled with lingering fear. Facing Daoist Qingxu just now had been the greatest nightmare of her life; she had been dealt with without even the slightest room to resist.
She did not know why Daoist Qingxu had not continued hunting down her Nascent Soul, but no matter what, she had survived the battle.
It was just a pity about the Nascent Soul cultivation she had gained through a thousand years of arduous cultivation.
"It's all your fault, you little bastard!"
At the thought, anger surged in her heart. A wisp of spiritual light from her Nascent Soul lashed Tang San hard across the face, drawing a muffled groan from him and jolting him awake.
The moment Tang San regained consciousness, a tearing pain from between his legs swept through his entire body. He instinctively reached down and felt around. His face instantly went deathly pale, and he let out a bloodcurdling scream!
"My manhood! My thing is gone! Ye Lingtian, I'll kill you! I'll tear you to pieces!"
Weeping, he frantically felt between his legs. Blood was spilling all over the ground, but there was nothing there. The vital part had been cut clean off by the sword Qi, leaving no possibility of recovery.
It had plainly become nothing but an absurdity.
As a Tang Sect genius who had lived two lives, he had never imagined he would end up becoming a eunuch. All his past ambitions were crushed to pieces by this sudden, devastating news.
Baihuaxiang impatiently gagged him with spiritual light and shot him a look of disgust. "What are you making such a racket for? If I, Granny, didn't still have a use for you, I'd throw you to the venomous bugs in the mountains right now."
If she had not had her eye on Tang San's half-demon physique, she would never have offended the Primordial Sect.
Yet even with his mouth sealed, Tang San did not care at all what Baihuaxiang was saying. His mind was filled with the cruel fact that he had become a eunuch.
At the same time, everyone on the Douluo Continent could clearly see the image on the heavenly screen of Tang San bleeding between his legs and sobbing in despair. The entire continent instantly erupted.
In the Star Dou Great Forest, Xiao Wu's vision went black at the sight, and she fainted dead away.
Yu Xiaogang trembled all over with rage. Pointing at the heavenly screen, he launched into a torrent of curses, cursing Ye Lingtian, Su Mingyue, and even eighteen generations of everyone in the Primordial Sect.
"That Ye Lingtian has such a vicious heart! He actually did that to Little San's manhood... He's utterly inhuman! How is he supposed to live the rest of his life?!"
Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun both felt a chill between their legs as they looked at the miserable Tang San on the heavenly screen, their faces full of pity.
Somewhere on the continent, Tang Hao's knuckles creaked as he clenched his fists at the sight, his bloodshot eyes crimson. But when he thought of the earlier scene.
All his rage instantly turned into helplessness that penetrated to the bone. He did not even have the right to avenge Tang San.
Qian Daoliu and the others, meanwhile, were beaming. They had not expected the aftermath of Ye Lingtian's attack to strike that particular part of Tang San so coincidentally.
Baihuaxiang stopped paying attention to Tang San's reaction and began examining his condition.
A metal-wood spiritual root. His spiritual root aptitude was quite good, though unfortunately it was not a pure wood spiritual root. But Tang San's half-demon body made up for that.
Baihuaxiang had only seen accounts of the half-demon body in ancient texts. It combined the strengths of humans and demons, possessing human comprehension and allowing its owner to cultivate much faster than demons.
It also possessed the powerful bloodline talents of demons, though in Baihuaxiang's eyes, Tang San's current cultivation was outrageously low.
Although he appeared to be at the third layer of Qi refining, his magic power was full of impurities, as though he had sprung from some place barren of spiritual Qi.
Only in a place barren of spiritual Qi could such impure magic power appear.
The people of the Douluo Continent looked first at Tang San, who was bleeding all over the ground and had lost himself in despair, then at Baihuaxiang's undisguised gaze. A chill ran up all their spines.
"Wait... that look in her eyes!" Ning Fengzhi was the first to react, his face full of confusion. "She went to such trouble to save him from Ye Lingtian and the others. Why does she have such a terrifying look in her eyes?"
"Could she be going to eat Little San?!" Flender guessed, cold sweat pouring down his face. It had been said before that demons were Soul Beasts. When a Soul Beast saw a human, what else could it do but eat them?
"Damn it, Little San's half-demon physique must be very powerful. Otherwise, why would this person go to such lengths to snatch him away?" Yu Xiaogang's face darkened.
He felt betrayed.
"And here I thought she'd come to help Little San!"
Qian Daoliu and the others also frowned as they looked at the heavenly screen. They could all see that Baihuaxiang's covetous interest in Tang San was more than mere curiosity; she must have other intentions.
But since they did not live in that world, they knew nothing of body possession.
At that moment, Baihuaxiang's Nascent Soul did not hesitate in the slightest. It turned into a streak of light and darted into Tang San's body.
"W-what is she doing?!" Everyone was dumbfounded by Baihuaxiang's actions.
She had not eaten Tang San, but entered his body instead.
At that moment, Ning Fengzhi seemed to realize something and spoke quickly. "I know! She's going to become Little San!"
"What does that mean?" Even Chen Xin and the others could not understand his words, let alone those who were unfamiliar with Ning Fengzhi.
"As everyone knows, when a Soul Ring reaches ten thousand years of age, a Soul Master absorbing it will face the remnant soul of the Soul Beast within it." Seeing this, Ning Fengzhi began to explain.
"If the Soul Master cannot withstand the remnant soul's attack, the absorption will fail, and the Soul Master's body will explode, killing them."
"And that is only a Soul Beast's incomplete soul. What if it were a complete soul?" Ning Fengzhi's words struck everyone's minds like a bolt of lightning.
That was right. What if a Soul Beast's complete spirit sea entered the sea of consciousness?
"No, impossible." Yu Xiaogang opened his mouth to object in disbelief. "Soul Beasts are just animals. How could they have complete souls? There's nothing like that in the books!"