Chapter 23: Your Son is Already Dead!
[Ah Yin (coldly): Hao Ge, this will be the last time I call you that. That's right, the Clear Sky Sect might indeed help our son in the future, but does that mean we should turn a blind eye to everything else?]
[Ah Yin: You keep saying it's for our son, but as his mother, I will not allow him to seek help from the Clear Sky Sect, because the Clear Sky Sect is the one that killed his mother!]
[Ah Yin: Tang Hao, since you are only willing to believe in the Clear Sky Sect, there is nothing left for us to discuss. We are done. I have already repaid you with my life, and now we owe each other nothing!]
What!!!
Behind the waterfall on the back mountain of Holy Soul Village, upon seeing Ah Yin's final words on the livestream's illusory screen, Tang Hao couldn't help but tremble, urgently turning around in panic to look.
"Ah Yin!!"
But when Tang Hao turned to look at Ah Yin, who had been behind him, he found that the thick Blue Silver Grass vine was already gone.
Although Ah Yin had lost all her soul power due to the sacrifice, her 100,000-year Blue Silver Emperor heritage remained, and over the years, she had accumulated some cultivation.
Perhaps this cultivation was not enough to fully transform into a human form, but it was enough to escape by burrowing into the earth to another place.
When Tang Hao realized that his wife Ah Yin had fled, he was struck as though by lightning, almost going mad as he searched frantically in the valley, but found nothing.
This left Tang Hao kneeling by the waterfall, clutching his head in agony.
"Ah Yin, don't leave me!"
"I know, it's the Clear Sky Sect's fault, but you must also think about me and our son. We've already come to this point, and everything is irreversible. What's the point of dragging the Clear Sky Sect down further and ruining their reputation?!"
Originally, when Tang Hao uttered those words, a patch of dark blue grass had involuntarily emerged from the ground behind him.
But when Tang Hao spoke the next sentence, the patch of grass immediately froze and, without turning back, retracted into the ground.
Beneath the earth, seeing that Tang Hao still refused to acknowledge his mistake, Ah Yin was thoroughly disappointed. She no longer wanted to deal with him, so she focused all her consciousness on the livestream.
At that moment, Ah Yin suddenly noticed that someone was @ing her.
Lin Yu had sent a message on the illusory screen.
[Lin Yu: Ah Yin, do you really think the person living with Tang Hao is your son?]
Seeing this message, Ah Yin froze for a moment.
[Ah Yin: What do you mean by that? He's my son! How could he not be my son?]
Ah Yin furrowed her brows in confusion.
Meanwhile, in the house in Windmill Village, Lin Yu couldn't help but smile mysteriously.
[Lin Yu: Physically, yes, but spiritually, it's a different matter!]
What! This person, Lin Yu, does he know that I'm not from this world?!
In the blacksmith shop in Holy Soul Village, when Tang San saw Lin Yu's message, his heart was struck with shock.
[Lin Yu: Ah Yin, haven't you noticed that your son is a bit strange? Compared to other children his age, he seems overly mature, and he's always doing odd things that look like cultivation, but no one's teaching him. Don't you suspect that?]
[Lin Yu: And you might not have noticed from the previous livestream, but when you and Tang Hao were escaping and your son was born, facing the attack from Qian Xunji and the others, you were no match for them. A newborn baby, could he really handle all that? I noticed that during the escape, the baby in your arms had already stopped breathing!]
[Lin Yu: But somehow, he came back to life later on. He grew up to be unnaturally mature and had cultivation methods that didn't match his status. Are you sure the soul in your son's body is the original one?]
Lin Yu couldn't help but sneer as he continued.
In fact, there had been much debate online in his previous life about whether Tang San had crossed over and taken over someone's body or whether he was reincarnated. Lin Yu leaned towards the former.
Because Lin Yu clearly remembered that at the start of the original story, Tang San had said that when he was born, all he remembered hearing was Tang Hao crying out: "Third Sister, don't leave me!"
However, the process of Tang Hao and Ah Yin being chased was intense, and there was definitely a lot of fighting!
If Tang San had been reincarnated, and could still sense what was happening around him, he should have remembered more than just that one sentence.
The reason he only remembered that one sentence could be because Tang San had crossed over at that moment, and then due to the soul needing to adapt to the new body, he fell into a deep slumber.
Only this could explain the situation.
Moreover, there was another point: Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor bloodline had to be activated with external help, which made Lin Yu think that if it were the original soul, perhaps he would have awakened naturally.
Because in later books in the Douluo series, other descendants of the Tang family who fused with soul beasts didn't face the same situation as Tang San.
Of course, maybe the Blue Silver Grass bloodline was special, but that too was something worth doubting, wasn't it?
But the most important point was what Lin Yu had said earlier: how could a newborn baby survive in such a dangerous situation, when Tang Hao and Ah Yin were being chased?
It should be noted that Tang Hao and Ah Yin were the ones being hunted, basically only able to passively endure!
And what proved Lin Yu's point was what he clearly saw in the livestream.
When Ah Yin was holding Tang San while fleeing from the chase, the baby had been crying loudly at first, but then stopped.
That wasn't right!
[Ah Yin (in disbelief): You... do you mean to say that my son actually died back then, but his body was later taken over by another soul, and the person I see now is not my son at all?!]
At this point, Ah Yin felt a dizzying sensation, and her heart twisted in disgust.
Because if what Lin Yu said was true, the person she had been caring for all these years was not even her son, but an unfamiliar stranger whose body had been usurped!
And this stranger was even pretending to be her son in front of her husband—Ah Yin felt repulsed beyond words.
As a woman, she simply couldn't accept this situation.
Her beloved son, taken over by the soul of some old man.
It was unbearable!
[Tang Hao (angry): You're talking nonsense! Lin Yu, what grudge do you have against me? You've already sowed discord between me and the Clear Sky Sect, ruining my relationship with Ah Yin, and now you want to destroy the bond between Ah Yin and our son? I know my son, he's definitely my son, he can't be anyone else!]
Tang Hao, recovering from the pain of losing Ah Yin, entered the livestream room.
When he saw Lin Yu talking nonsense again, he became furious.
[Lin Yu (disdainful): Heh, you say I'm wrong, but show me where I'm wrong! Isn't your son's behavior abnormal? He was never taught how to cultivate, so how does he know how to do it? Tell me!]
[Lin Yu: And the most important evidence is that your son died back then. I'm going to prove it to you now. Can the livestream replay that moment?]
(END CHAPTER)
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