"Fine!"
"I agree to your terms."
"However, I want to see my son once, even if it's from a distance."
"Is that possible?"
Ah Yin responded using her mental force.
Although what the person before her said made a lot of sense,
no matter how logical it was, it was still just his side of the story.
There was no guarantee it wasn't a lie specifically fabricated to trick her out of her 100,000-year spirit bone.
She could only believe it after verifying it for herself.
She wouldn't mention Tang Hao's matters; after all, the man was already dead.
There was simply no way to investigate the truth.
But her son Tang San was still alive.
As long as she could verify whether Tang San's body had been seized, she would know if this person was telling the truth.
Faced with Ah Yin's request,
Golden Crown thought for a moment.
He nodded in agreement: "A small matter, I agree."
The reason he didn't just kill Ah Yin directly to take the Spirit Bone
and instead agreed to her terms
wasn't because he was overflowing with saintly compassion.
He had other plans.
Because although Tang San's body had been seized, the blood of the Blue Silver Emperor still flowed within him.
It just hadn't awakened yet.
In the original story, after Tang San's Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul awakened into the Blue Silver Emperor,
both his strength and appearance were greatly enhanced.
All of that happened because the Blue Silver King sensed that Tang San was a descendant of the Blue Silver Emperor,
and thus helped him awaken the bloodline in his body.
But now, as long as he could make Ah Yin believe that her son Tang San's body had been seized,
in the future, even if Tang San wanted to awaken the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline,
Ah Yin likely wouldn't allow it.
In this way, Tang San's fortuitous encounter would be cut off once again.
Ye Lingling saw Golden Crown and this Blue Silver Emperor whispering secretly about who-knows-what.
Curious, she leaned in and asked, "What are you two chatting about?"
"Nothing much, just talking about some other matters."
Then, he took out an ordinary flowerpot filled with soil.
"Alright, since you've made up your mind."
"I'll transplant you into this flowerpot first, then take you to see the person you want to see."
Ah Yin nodded.
Seeing this, Golden Crown used his spirit power to uproot Ah Yin.
In an instant,
having left the soil, Ah Yin's life force began to drain rapidly.
He hurriedly planted her into the flowerpot
and placed it inside a storage soul tool.
Once finished,
Golden Crown looked at Ye Lingling and said, "We need to make a trip back to Suotuo City."
...A few days later.
Golden Crown's group arrived in Suotuo City once again.
As for why their young master had suddenly turned back,
Iron Sword and Ling Xi were full of doubt and curiosity,
but they didn't ask much.
After all, the young master must have his reasons for doing so.
They soon arrived at Shrek Academy.
However, this time their movements were covert, and they weren't discovered by anyone.
At that moment, the six members of Tang San's group were each carrying a basket full of stones, sweating profusely as they ran with all their might.
It turned out that after their crushing defeat in the Martial Soul Fight match last time,
they had begun special training under Yu Xiaogang.
The purpose of the special training was to participate in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament in a year and a half.
In order to make a splash at the tournament,
Yu Xiaogang had completely emptied Flender's coffers.
Every day, they not only ate and drank well, but they also had to take medicinal baths after training.
This broke the heart of the money-grubbing Flender.
Every day he saw Yu Xiaogang, he would choose to take a detour, fearing the other would ask him for money.
But Yu Xiaogang didn't care about any of that.
All he thought about now was training the six of them to their peak.
When the time came, they would shine at the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
He would let everyone see
that his title of Grandmaster was not undeserved.
Regarding this,
Golden Crown didn't care.
He took Ah Yin out of the spirit tool.
As for why he didn't put her in the system space?
It was because there were too many things stored in the system space; if he put Ah Yin in there
and things were stolen, it would be more loss than gain for him.
Over the past few days,
Golden Crown had placed Ah Yin in the sunlight every day.
He also watered and fertilized her.
This caused the originally weak Ah Yin to recover quite a bit.
Then, he pointed at Tang San's figure and said, "He is your son Tang San, or more accurately, the Tang San after his body was seized."
At the same time,
Tang San, who was training, suddenly felt a very close sensation.
Just as he wanted to investigate, he was interrupted by the Grandmaster: "Little San, why have you stopped? You must concentrate during training! Have you forgotten everything I taught you?"
Facing the Grandmaster's sharp criticism, Tang San quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, Teacher, it won't happen again."
And so, he focused back on his training.
After performing a bloodline sensing, Ah Yin was certain that this youth was indeed her son.
Immediately after,
she used her mental force to probe Tang San's soul to see if it had been seized.
Relying on her mental force as a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast,
Ah Yin quickly and silently entered Tang San's Sea of Consciousness.
Since Tang San was currently concentrating fully on his training,
he didn't notice anything unusual at all.
The scene that followed
shattered the last sliver of hope in Ah Yin's heart.
She saw that Tang San's soul, which should have looked the same as his physical body,
was currently a middle-aged man in his thirties.
At this moment, she completely believed Golden Crown's words.
It turned out her son's body really had been seized by another.
Unfortunately, her current power was extremely weak.
She couldn't do anything at all.
She could only release a sense of helpless anger and resentment.
Even using her mental force to probe had relied on the meager power she had recovered over the last few days.
Otherwise,
she would have definitely crushed this fellow, who had come from who-knows-where to occupy her son's body, into powder!
After withdrawing from Tang San's Sea of Consciousness,
Ah Yin, as a whole plant, became listless and dejected.
Seeing this situation, Golden Crown felt certain that his plan had succeeded.
But he still feigned curiosity and asked, "How was it? Is it as I said, that your son's body has been seized by someone else?"
Ah Yin controlled her leaves and tapped them gently a few times.
Then, a vine extended from behind her, slowly opening to reveal the 100,000-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone inside.
Golden Crown didn't stand on ceremony.
He took the Spirit Bone directly and placed it into his space.
Ah Yin said with her mental force, "I hope you will not break your word."
"I am a man of my word."
"Alright, now that you've finished your verification, shall we head back?"
Golden Crown asked with a smile.
Obtaining a 100,000-year spirit bone without lifting a finger—
if word of this got out, it would likely make many people green with envy.
Ah Yin didn't speak; a drop of water fell from her leaf.
Golden Crown glanced at Tang San, who was training in the distance, and thought to himself: "Tang San, just keep training slowly. I'll be taking your mother away without any reservations."
Then, he put Ah Yin back into the storage soul tool.
He left the place together with Ye Lingling and the other two...
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