"Tang San!?"
Yue Guan looked utterly astonished, his mouth dropping into an O.
Gui Mei's expression, meanwhile, was frighteningly dark.
Tang San was an enemy of Spirit Hall.
Everyone knew that.
With Tang San arriving now, he naturally would not look kindly on him as a member of Spirit Hall.
"Dugu Yan, Scorpion Woman killed my teacher's father, the clan leader of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. As a member of Shrek, I absolutely cannot allow such a murderous fiend to exist in this world!"
Tang San raised his head.
His eyes shone brightly.
Then he turned and fixed his gaze on Scorpion Woman.
He pointed at her and began his verbal denunciation. "Scorpion Woman, you rely on your immense strength to slaughter as you please, disregarding whether others live or die. Don't you think your methods are far too cruel!?"
Far too cruel!?
Scorpion Woman looked at this youth, whose strength was merely that of a rank 59 Soul King.
He actually dared to point at her, questioning and berating her.
She felt like scoffing.
"Tang San? The champion of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament?"
"You have five Soul Rings. Every single one represents the life of a Soul Beast."
"A human stained with the blood of countless Soul Beasts actually has the nerve to call my methods cruel?"
Whoosh!
"What?"
Tang San had originally thought he held the moral high ground.
He would leave Scorpion Woman speechless.
But he had never expected this she-devil to have such a sharp tongue.
For a moment, he actually found himself unable to refute her?
"Tang San, oh, Tang San, you keep calling me cruel. Then weren't those Soul Beasts that died at your hands innocent?"
"Or are Soul Beasts simply born deserving to die!"
As she spoke,
Scorpion Woman's tone grew increasingly forceful.
Her piercing gaze instantly locked onto Tang San.
It left Tang San unable to move.
An immense pressure enveloped his entire body.
"You!"
Tang San was instantly drenched in sweat.
He gritted his teeth. "How can those possibly be the same!"
Tang San waved his hand and continued his sophistry. "The ones I killed were all Soul Beasts guilty of countless evil deeds. I absolutely never slaughtered the innocent!"
"Countless evil deeds? How dare you assume they committed countless evil deeds? Or did you decide whether they lived or died solely according to your own will?"
Hearing Tang San claim that all the Soul Beasts he had killed were evil,
Scorpion Woman's lips curled upward, and she laughed outright.
"They harmed their own kind and even attacked me first. Naturally, they were all evil Soul Beasts!"
Tang San snorted coldly.
He saw nothing wrong with judging according to his own will.
"Oh?"
At his words, Scorpion Woman immediately looked intrigued. "Then there was nothing wrong with me killing the people of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, either."
"Utter nonsense!"
Tang San flew into a rage. "Senior Yu Yuanzhen was the clan leader of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. He never provoked your Underworld, yet you brazenly invaded someone else's territory and carried out a massacre!"
"You committed an act that enraged heaven and man alike, and you still claim there was nothing wrong with it!?"
Looking at the furious young Tang San,
Scorpion Woman's lips curved into a mocking smile.
"Who told you... that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan never provoked me?"
"Hm?"
As Scorpion Woman's tone grew colder,
Tang San's heart lurched, and he did not understand what she meant.
Scorpion Woman continued, "A debt of blood must be paid in blood."
"Explain yourself! I don't believe the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan ever wronged you in any way. All I see is you twisting black into white to find an excuse for your slaughter!"
Tang San said.
A smile appeared on Scorpion Woman's lips.
She flexed her fingers, her fingertips dancing. "The extermination of my clan is a grudge that cannot share the same sky."
"Your clan was exterminated!?" Tang San froze for a moment.
Then he snorted coldly. "As far as I can see, that's merely your side of the story. Even if you had a grudge against Senior Yu Yuanzhen, couldn't you have taken a step back? Why did you have to wipe them out to the last person!"
"Your cruel methods are far too vicious. Even the Heavenly Dao cannot permit them!"
Tang San spoke with righteous conviction, his voice growing more powerful as he continued.
He felt that after he said this, Scorpion Woman should have no grounds to refute him.
After all, no one had ever been a match for him, Tang San, in a war of words.
"Exactly. That's how you should strike back at her! As expected of my disciple!"
Elsewhere.
Yu Xiaogang sat on a war chariot amid the marching Heaven Dou army, watching the scene on the Heavenly Screen.
He clenched his fists, his face flushed with excitement.
"Tang San's eloquence is as powerful as ever."
Xue Qinghe sat on a golden war chariot, looking up at Tang San's performance on the Heavenly Screen.
He nodded.
This time, he had personally led a large Heaven Dou force to surround the Thunder Mountain Range.
First, it was for Spirit Hall's grand ambition of supremacy.
Second, it was to eradicate the Underworld's forces.
The Thunder Mountain Range.
Tang San was very satisfied with what he had just said!
Exactly.
Even if there was hatred, she ought to stop!
However.
When those words reached Scorpion Woman's ears,
Tang San had undoubtedly offered up his own face to be slapped.
Scorpion Woman spoke. "Oh? You mean I should let go of my hatred?"
"Exactly! You've already killed the clan leader of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. What more do you want!?"
Tang San looked at the mocking expression on Scorpion Woman's face.
His expression was solemn, and he saw nothing wrong with his words.
She was only looking at him like that because she refused to accept it.
However.
Scorpion Woman's next words made him completely crack.
"Since you're saying I should abandon the hatred in my heart, can you let go of your hatred for Spirit Hall?"
Whoosh!
Those words stabbed into Tang San's heart.
Tang San's expression changed drastically, and he cracked. "Scorpion Woman, shut your mouth! How could your grudge against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan possibly compare to my hatred for Spirit Hall!?"
He pointed at Scorpion Woman.
He spoke with a face full of grief and indignation.
Although he did not know what grudge this she-devil had against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan,
His hatred for Spirit Hall would not end until one side was dead.
The two could not be mentioned in the same breath.
Seeing that this youth had cracked outright when he could not win the argument, Scorpion Woman slowly spoke. "Tang San, you keep urging others to be magnanimous, but when it comes to your own affairs, you lose your temper; you keep calling me cruel, but when you persecute Soul Beasts, you don't show the slightest mercy."
"And... you've been coveting the person beside you all along, haven't you?"
"What do you mean?"
Tang San's entire body was already swaying, on the verge of collapse.
He realized that, for the first time, he was at an absolute disadvantage in a war of words.
Tang San gritted his teeth.
He felt humiliated.
"Your Xiao Wu's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring-are you saying you don't want it at all?"
Boom!
A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring!
Xiao Wu!
If the earlier words had merely made Tang San crack,
Then those last two key terms,
Were enough to make him jump in fury on the spot.