Tang San, Your Mother Is Gone

Lin Qingchen left Nuoding Academy before dawn, bought a little food, then rented a carriage and headed straight for Holy Soul Village.

Sitting in the jolting carriage, he took a map out of his Storage Soul Tool.

The Storage Soul Tool was a bracelet he had bought. Its quality was not particularly high, but it had more than enough room for a few everyday items.

As for higher-grade ones, although Lin Qingchen was no longer short of money, those were not things money alone could buy. He would probably have to try his luck at an auction, which he certainly could not do while staying in Nuoding City.

As for the map, he had bought several from shops around the city, but their accuracy and markings varied. He had reconciled the maps himself before finally identifying the most likely location.

A few miles from the village, Lin Qingchen had the carriage stop.

After he got out, the driver drove away.

He had only rented it for a one-way trip. There was no need to have the driver wait there and attract attention; that would only create trouble.

Lin Qingchen glanced at the map and headed in the direction he had planned beforehand.

Tang San was hunting for a soul ring in the Soul Hunting Forest again. The journey there and back would take at least three days, and with a few things happening in between, that meant Lin Qingchen had at least four days. In theory, that was plenty of time.

Even so, Lin Qingchen did not dare delay.

The sun had risen, but it had yet to dispel the morning chill. Lin Qingchen made his way through the forest, letting the dew soak his clothes.

An ordinary person would never have dared let the dew wet their clothes. After all, morning dew was said to chill one to the bone. But Lin Qingchen possessed the Power of the Five Elements, and with the aid of his fire element power, the Qi and blood in his body constantly seethed like fire. Naturally, he had nothing to fear from a little chill.

The mountain woods were dense, with hardly a path a person could walk along normally. Farther on, the slopes grew steeper, and cliffs of varying heights appeared. One careless fall, and the funeral feast could be announced on the spot.

But even that could not stop Lin Qingchen. Whatever the cliff, he only had to use Earth Element Great Escape to cross it as though walking on level ground.

After he had walked for over an hour, the sound of trickling water reached his ears.

Overjoyed, Lin Qingchen immediately followed the sound and found a stream.

He followed it upstream at once. The farther he went, the more turbulent the sound of water became, and the moisture in the air grew thicker.

Before long, a pool came into view.

Its water was clear to the bottom, tranquil and deep, like a giant sapphire.

Of course, the most striking sight was the waterfall, more than twenty meters wide and over two hundred meters high.

Looking at the wondrous sight, Lin Qingchen could not help exclaiming in admiration. Although the waterfall did not carry a great volume of water, this was still his first time standing face-to-face with one over a hundred meters tall.

Sure enough, live long enough and you really could see anything. Although, in this life, he had only lived nine years so far.

According to the original story, the cave was halfway up the waterfall, a full hundred meters above the ground.

Honestly, if he had not possessed Great Water Element Escape, he would not have come at all. He had no idea how those transmigrator seniors had managed to obtain the things in here so easily.

Lin Qingchen leaped into the water and brought his hands together.

"Great Water Element Escape, rise!"

In the blink of an eye, vast quantities of water vapor wrapped around Lin Qingchen's body. He transformed into a stream of water and flowed up the waterfall against the current.

Although the waterfall still had some force behind it, this was much better than standing in it as a person.

It did not take him long to reach the midpoint of the waterfall.

Lin Qingchen steadied his mind and began sensing the earth Qi around him.

The rock face before him was a single solid slab, but somewhere within it, the space around it was hollow. It was like a tiny crack in a flawless piece of jade: minute, yet conspicuous enough.

Lin Qingchen switched directly to Earth Element Great Escape and passed straight through the slab. Beyond it lay a deep, dark passage.

The cave was damp, only three meters high and about two meters wide, just enough for one person to pass through. Lin Qingchen walked straight inside.

A small flame sprang to life at his fingertip, lighting his way through the darkness.

When he reached the innermost part, everything around him brightened.

Looking up, one could see a hole in the ceiling of the stone chamber, which measured about ten square meters.

Light shone down through it.

Lin Qingchen, of course, paid no attention to the hole. All his attention was fixed on the Blue Silver Emperor in the center of the chamber.

There was a small mound of earth, and on it, a slender Blue Silver Grass plant swayed in the breeze.

The Blue Silver Grass looked a little longer than ordinary blades of grass. Most unusual were the fine, dense golden patterns on its leaves.

Lin Qingchen took a deep breath. A delicate fragrance reached his nose; it was the scent of life.

Although the Blue Silver Emperor had already died and Tang Hao had planted her in this half-dead state, the vitality within her was still considerable.

Lin Qingchen had no doubt that if he transplanted her outside and gave her some nutrients, she would be able to grow rapidly.

As for why Tang Hao had planted Ah Yin in such a pitch-dark place, and whether some conspiracy theory was involved, that was not something Lin Qingchen cared about.

Of course, he had no need to care. Whatever the case, after today, the Blue Silver Emperor would surely become nourishment for his own growth.

Whether it was a conspiracy or carelessness, it no longer mattered.

In Lin Qingchen's vision, he could even see the light reflected from the Blue Silver Emperor.

That was the mark of a Wonder Seed.

But there was no rush. There was something else he could get his hands on.

Lin Qingchen used his earth element power to examine the surroundings again and immediately discovered where the mechanism was located.

He pressed a spot on the stone wall, and a small lead box fell to the ground with a clatter.

Lin Qingchen slowly opened the box. Even with only a narrow gap open, he could feel the immense vitality surging out from within. Even the half-dead Blue Silver Emperor behind him perked up considerably, a green light beginning to glow over her.

When the box was fully open, a right leg bone lay inside. It was a crystalline, translucent blue-gold throughout, with what seemed to be specks of starlight twinkling within it.

The Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone!

Although its Soul Skill was a somewhat lackluster flight skill, its vitality was simply too powerful.

That immense vitality alone made it well worth a Soul Bone slot.

Lin Qingchen looked at the Soul Bone but ultimately chose not to fuse with it, even though fusing with a life-type Soul Bone like this posed no danger.

But he was not sure how long it would take to fuse with it at his current cultivation. If it took too long and Tang Hao came rushing back to find him NTRing him right to his face, would Lin Qingchen come out of it well?

He put away the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, placed a stone of roughly the same weight and shape in the box, and returned it to its original position. Only then did Lin Qingchen turn to look at the Blue Silver Emperor.