Tang Hao: Full-Scale Demolition Mode

"Damn it!"

Tang Hao roared and began clawing frantically at the hollow. But even after smashing a large hole in the rocks beneath it, he still found no trace of the Blue Silver Emperor. Only the stalk of Blue Silver Grass in his hand, fit for a cold salad, waved about, as though mocking him.

He flung the Blue Silver Grass to the ground, then hurried over to the hidden compartment where the Soul Bone had been kept.

He picked up the box and felt that its weight was much the same as before, and he breathed a small sigh of relief. But when he opened it, there was only a stone inside. Where was the Soul Bone?

He froze, countless feelings surging into his heart in an instant.

Surprise, rage, guilt, self-reproach, worry, despair, even fear...

The emotions nearly suffocated him.

At last, he let out a shrill roar of fury.

"Aah!!!!"

A terrifying presence erupted from him. In almost the blink of an eye, he summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and smashed it against the stone wall beside him.

"Boom-"

In his rage, he held nothing back. The blow punched straight through the stone chamber, reaching the waterfall outside.

Water spray rushed in, soaking everything in the chamber.

But Tang Hao was oblivious. His eyes were bloodshot as he panted like an ox and stared at his final red Soul Ring.

As though sensing its master's fury, the Clear Sky Hammer began to tremble, and its ninth Soul Ring began to pulse along with it.

Tang Hao instinctively thought back to the day of the Soul Hunt, to those few inexplicable tears that had fallen.

"Ah Yin, so it was you warning me that day. Someone was trying to harm you again, but what did I do..."

"I, I actually..."

"Once again, I failed to protect you and left you in danger like that..."

As that terrifying possibility surged into his mind, Tang Hao's eyes grew even redder, almost dripping blood. The last string in his mind, the one called reason, snapped completely.

He swung the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand, attacking everything in sight like a madman, whether rocks, trees, or anything else.

In an instant, trees fell one after another, rocks were smashed to pieces, and even the earth and mountainside were left crisscrossed with cracks.

He was like a maddened tyrant dragon, charging recklessly in every direction. Not a blade of grass survived in his wake.

"Damn thief, come out! I'll carve you into a thousand pieces!"

Tang Hao roared as he destroyed everything around him. His Titled Douluo-level pressure frightened every living creature within a dozen li into fleeing.

But unfortunately, even if he smashed everything around him, it would do no good.

The true culprit was still in the Soul Hunting Forest at that moment, searching for his own Soul Ring.

But even if Tang Hao found Lin Qingchen, he couldn't give her back. The faint trace of Ah Yin's consciousness had long since been scattered by the Power of Fortune used to create the wondrous item.

Though perhaps, after Tang Hao became a god, he might be able to resurrect Ah Yin through the faint trace of consciousness in the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring?

Of course, all of this was nothing more than Tang Hao's ultimate Tang fantasy.

After a full day and night of smashing and destruction, Tang Hao finally calmed down. He dragged his exhausted body back to the ruined stone chamber and lay down beside the spot where the Blue Silver Emperor had once grown.

"Ah Yin, I'm sorry. It seems I failed to protect you. Now, all I can do is protect our son and wait for him to avenge you."

"I'm useless... useless..."

Meanwhile, Lin Qingchen naturally had no idea that Tang Hao had gone stark raving mad in the mountains during the few days he had spent hunting for a Soul Ring.

Though if he had to say, he could actually guess a little. After all, the [Tang Syndrome] and [Family Hero] entries in the Book of Talents were no joke.

He just hadn't expected Tang Hao to go so far.

Lin Qingchen thought it over and decided that once he broke through to level 30, he would ask Dean Lei Nuo for permission to graduate early, then hunt for his third Soul Ring. As for what came after that, he would have to decide when the time came.

Unlike Tang San, he wasn't driven by hatred. At present, he had neither father nor mother and had little to tie him down. Naturally, he did whatever he pleased, which made him quite free.

Just then, class happened to let out, and Lin Qingchen happened to run into Xiao Wu and the others head-on.

"Yo, Lin Qingchen, you suddenly disappeared for days. Why did you suddenly come back now? You look pretty happy, too."

Lin Qingchen glanced at Tang San, who was trailing behind Xiao Wu like a little lackey, and smiled. "Yeah, I suddenly thought of something happy, so I'm in a good mood."

"Ohh, I see."

Lin Qingchen shook his head. "Come on, since we ran into each other, how about I treat you all to spicy rabbit heads on the second floor of the cafeteria?"

"S-spicy rabbit heads?" Xiao Wu froze.

Before she could answer, the other work-study students behind her burst into cheers.

"All right!"

Although they had never eaten spicy rabbit heads, the mere mention of the cafeteria's second floor convinced them it had to be a delicacy fit for heaven. After all, that was a place they couldn't go.

Boss really is worthy of being boss. He can actually take us out for a feast. We really did pick the right person to follow.

It wasn't just the work-study students. Even Tang San instinctively swallowed.

Heaven and earth were his witnesses: as a member of the Bashu Tang Sect in his previous life, how could he not have eaten spicy rabbit heads?

He had loved them in his previous life, but ever since transmigrating into this one, he hadn't had a chance to eat them.

Not only had he grown up drinking something that didn't even qualify as rice broth—and Tang Hao drank eighty or ninety percent of even that little bit—his family was so poor that a thief would have had to leave something behind.

As a result, he had no idea what was sold on the second floor. He usually made do with food on the first floor. The taste was barely acceptable, and more importantly, the portions were big enough to fill him up.

Even after he became a Soul Master and received a stipend, he still couldn't bear to eat on the second floor.

It couldn't be helped. He was a child from an ordinary family, with no experience of the wider world. He was poor!

He'd had enough of being poor!

With those Gold Soul Coins in his hands, he didn't dare spend a single one...

So when he heard that Lin Qingchen was going to treat him to a meal, and that it was spicy rabbit heads, he instinctively swallowed.

Sensing the commotion behind her, Xiao Wu immediately grew anxious.

"Wait! Little San, what's the meaning of this? Your Sister Xiao Wu hasn't even agreed yet. How can you be tempted already?"

She condemned Lin Qingchen's conscience. "Besides, rabbits are so cute. How can you eat them? Can your conscience bear it?"

With that, she stepped forward, fixed her gaze on Lin Qingchen, and said word by word, "I'm telling you, Lin Qingchen, even if I starve to death! Die right here! Jump off the teaching building! I, Xiao Wu, won't eat a single bite of your food!"