Chapter 79 – The Father and Son of the Tang Family in the Sacred Soul Village: Slave to the Sect and Slave to the Father! (2)
The Sacred Soul Village, located on the border of Fanos Province in the Dou Heavenly Empire, is an ordinary village living in peace with the world.
After leaving the Heavenly Dou Imperial City, Su Mo took Ah Yin and used his spiritual power to travel swiftly. It only took him a few days to arrive at the Sacred Soul Village.
"Dear Sister Ah Yin, this is the village where Tang Hao and his adopted son live. His adopted son is named Tang San. It seems Tang Hao named him in your memory. It looks like he has a good relationship with you."
"But I wonder, compared to his father and his family, does he care more about you or about them?"
Standing on a cliff behind the Sacred Soul Village, with an endless green forest at his feet and looking out at the village in the distance, Su Mo couldn't help but communicate with Ah Yin through his spiritual power, wearing a faint smile.
"Su Mo, stop trying to sow discord. I won't fall for your tricks. I'm sure Brother Hao and Xiao San are alive. I won't make things difficult for Brother Hao!" Ah Yin exclaimed angrily inside the Blue Silver Emperor's body.
"Really?" Su Mo smiled amusingly at Ah Yin's words.
Ah Yin said she wouldn't make things difficult for Tang Hao, and Su Mo believed her.
But once Ah Yin found out that Tang San wasn't her son...
Once she knew that Tang Zhen had killed her child, Su Mo didn't believe Ah Yin would be able to control her emotions!
For a mother, a child is everything! No matter how sweet and gentle she is, if she learns that someone murdered her child, she'll go insane in an instant.
And the more she endured before, the crazier she'd become after the explosion!
Su Mo looked forward to Ah Yin's performance in the future.
After reaching the mountain behind the Sacred Soul Village, Su Mo didn't take Ah Yin there directly.
Instead, he found a hidden place deep in the vast mountain and planted Ah Yin.
"What do you think? Can your ability affect the Blue Silver Grass near the Sacred Soul Village and perceive the outside world through it?"
After planting Ah Yin in the forest beside a waterfall under a cliff, Su Mo communicated with her using his mental power.
He brought her there so she could discover Tang San's true identity through the Blue Silver Grass's perception ability.
But Ah Yin's ability was also limited and couldn't reach too far from the Sacred Soul Village.
"...I can sense it!"
After being planted, Ah Yin used all her strength, and upon discovering that she could affect the Blue Silver Grass in the Sacred Soul Village, she responded softly.
She didn't resist Su Mo's idea, as she deeply wished to see her husband Tang Hao and her son Tang San, from whom she had been separated for so long.
"Good, then let's stay here!"
"Don't you really want to see your son? Then use your ability to perceive the outside world through the Blue Silver Grass to observe him carefully and see what's going on with him!"
Since Ah Yin could affect the Blue Silver Grass in the Sacred Soul Village, Su Mo naturally had no intention of moving elsewhere and spoke with amusement.
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After planting Ah Yin in the forest behind the Sacred Soul Village, Su Mo temporarily went into seclusion on the mountain and built a wooden house there.
Aside from daily cultivation and purifying soul power, Su Mo spent the rest of his time fishing or hunting, living a rather comfortable life.
But living alone still felt meaningless.
Ah Yin focused her attention daily on Tang Hao and his son, who lived in the Sacred Soul Village.
This made Su Mo suddenly feel a mischievous impulse one day—he wanted to go to the Sacred Soul Village and see how Tang Hao and his son were doing.
It had been more than a year since he stole Ah Yin. He figured Tang Hao should've realized by now that his wife was gone.
Su Mo suddenly felt an evil interest.
For Su Mo, monitoring someone was far too easy!
Thanks to his Martial Soul—the Scythe of Death—he could perfectly share the five senses of souls conquered by it.
Of course, distance was limited.
But with his current strength, simply sending a conquered soul into the Sacred Soul Village was no problem!
And since the surveillance would be done through a soul occupying a common animal's body, it would be even less noticeable.
So, after Su Mo summoned a soul, he didn't send it directly into the Sacred Soul Village. Instead, he controlled it to enter the body of a sparrow.
Then, controlling this common sparrow, he flapped its wings and flew toward the Sacred Soul Village.
Soon, under Su Mo's control, the sparrow flew to the Sacred Soul Village and found the blacksmith shop where Tang Hao was. It landed on a tree nearby.
From there, Su Mo could clearly see everything happening in the blacksmith shop through the sparrow he controlled.
To Su Mo, Tang Hao, inside the shop, was sitting in a chair with a jug of wine in his hand, drunkenly pouring it into his mouth.
On the side, Tang San, in ragged clothes, walked around the room, occasionally jumping, as if he was exercising.
In fact, it must've been exercise.
Su Mo believed it.
Since Tang San was only two years old, Tang Hao wouldn't let him go outside.
And under Tang Hao's watchful eye, Tang San couldn't practice Xuantian Gong or the Tang Sect's unique techniques.
So he could only exercise his thin arms and legs. If he could learn to run and jump earlier, maybe he could escape Tang Hao's watch and practice the Tang Sect's techniques.
Under Su Mo's close observation, by noon, Tang Hao was still drinking.
Until Tang San started crying, saying he was hungry.
Tang Hao staggered to his feet, tossed a handful of rice into the pot, then a scoop of water, lit the fire, and boiled it into porridge.
"Eat... hic... eat..."
After the rice turned into porridge, Tang Hao burped, took out a dirty, black-stained bowl, scooped in some soft rice gruel, and threw it in front of Tang San, speaking in a drunken voice:
"This is just too cruel."
Looking at everything before him, Su Mo curled his lip.
It was unclear whether Tang Hao had always raised Tang San like this or whether it was because Su Mo had stolen Ah Yin, causing Tang Hao to completely give up on himself.
In any case, raising Tang San was like raising a pig!
No! Worse than raising a pig!
At least those who raise pigs know how to clean up the filth.
But according to Su Mo's observation, Tang Hao had been drunk nearly all day, and Tang San took care of the hygiene in the entire house while jumping around doing exercises.
Su Mo admired Tang San for this.
If he had traveled through time and ended up with such an irresponsible father who just drank all day, he wouldn't be like Tang San and still treat Tang Hao as a father.
In his view, if a father is like Tang Hao, it's basically like having no father at all!
He always believed that the grace of raising someone is greater than the grace of giving birth.
Tang Hao treated Tang San this way, raising him like a pig until he could move freely, then left him to manage the whole house.
Tang San truly respected Tang Hao, even worrying that he'd go hungry when he left for Notting College.
If Tang Hao is a slave to the sect and family, then Tang San is a filial slave, suffering from a deep lack of love.
(End of Chapter)