Chapter 23: Your Son Is Already Dead!

[A Yin (coldly): "Hao, this is the last time I'll call you that. The Clear Sky Clan might indeed help our son in the future, but does that justify distorting the truth?"]

[A 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 Clan, the very force responsible for his mother's death!"]

[A Yin: "Tang Hao, since you're only willing to trust the Clear Sky Clan, there's nothing more to discuss. From now on, we are done. I have paid for my feelings towards you with my life; we owe each other nothing now!"]

What!!!

At the waterfall beneath the back mountain of Holy Soul Village, upon seeing A Yin's final message on the illusory screen of the live broadcast, Tang Hao was immediately struck with a violent jolt. He hurriedly looked back in a panic.

"A Yin!!"

But when Tang Hao turned to look at A Yin, who had been behind him, he found that the thick Blue Silver Grass was already gone.

Although A Yin had lost all her cultivation due to the sacrifice, the foundation of the 100,000-year-old Blue Silver Emperor still existed, and she had accumulated some power over the years. Maybe this small amount of power wasn't enough to maintain her human form, but escaping into the earth to hide elsewhere was still possible.

Realizing that his wife, A Yin, had fled, Tang Hao felt as though he had been struck by lightning. He frantically searched the valley for A Yin but found nothing.

Despairing, Tang Hao finally collapsed in front of the waterfall, clutching his head in agony.

"A Yin, don't leave me!"

"I know the Clear Sky Clan has wronged you, but you need to think about me and our son. We're in this dire situation now; nothing can be changed. What's the point in dragging the Clear Sky Clan down with us and destroying its reputation?"

Originally, upon hearing Tang Hao's first plea, the blue grass behind him had emerged slightly from the ground.

But upon hearing Tang Hao's subsequent words, the grass stiffened and then retreated into the earth without looking back.

Seeing that Tang Hao still refused to acknowledge his mistakes, A Yin was utterly disillusioned. She chose to focus entirely on the live broadcast.

At that moment, A Yin suddenly noticed that someone was @ing her.

On the illusory screen, Lin Yu had posted a new message.

[Lin Yu: "A Yin, do you believe that the child living with Tang Hao is your son?"]

A Yin was momentarily stunned upon reading this.

[A Yin: "What do you mean by that? He is my biological child. How could he not be my son?"]

A Yin frowned in confusion.

Seeing her reaction, Lin Yu in the Windmill Village chuckled enigmatically.

[Lin Yu: "Physically, yes, but what about the soul?"]

What! Could this Lin Yu know that I'm not from this world?!

In the blacksmith shop of Holy Soul Village, upon reading Lin Yu's words, Tang San was shocked.

[Lin Yu: "A Yin, haven't you noticed anything strange about your son? Compared to children his age, he is unusually mature and often engages in strange activities that seem like training. No one taught him these things. Don't you find it suspicious?"]

[Lin Yu: "Moreover, you might not have noticed from the previous broadcast, but during the time you gave birth and fled with Tang Hao, when you were attacked by Qian Xunji and others, you were clearly not a match. How could a newborn baby endure such turmoil? I observed that during the escape, the child you were carrying had stopped breathing!"]

[Lin Yu: "Yet, despite dying during the escape, he later came back to life, grew up excessively mature, and practiced cultivation techniques not fitting his background. Are you sure the soul inside your son's body is original?"]

Lin Yu sneered as he spoke.

There was much debate online about whether Tang San was a soul transmigration or reincarnation. Lin Yu leaned towards the former.

Lin Yu remembered that at the beginning of the original story, Tang San said he only remembered hearing Tang Hao's desperate cry: "Sister, don't leave me!"

Given the intense pursuit and numerous battles during Tang Hao and A Yin's escape, if Tang San was indeed a reincarnation and could sense the outside world, he would have remembered more than just that single cry.

The reason he only remembered that cry could be that Tang San had transmigrated at that time, and his soul had gone into a dormant state to adapt to the new body.

This could explain the situation.

Additionally, Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor bloodline required external activation to awaken, which Lin Yu found odd. In later parts of the series, other descendants of the Tang family who combined with soul beasts did not face such issues.

Of course, it might also be due to the special nature of the Blue Silver Grass bloodline, but it was worth questioning.

The most crucial point was Lin Yu's earlier observation: how could a newborn survive the fierce battles faced by Tang Hao and A Yin, who were being hunted and forced to fight passively?

Lin Yu had seen during the broadcast that the baby in A Yin's arms had stopped crying and making noise during their flight, which was unusual!

[A Yin (in disbelief): "You... you mean to say my son died back then, and later his body was possessed by another soul? So now, the person I see isn't my son at all?!"]

A Yin felt a wave of dizziness and nausea upon hearing this.

If Lin Yu's claims were true, the child she had cared for and nurtured all these years was, in reality, a complete stranger.

And this stranger had possessed and desecrated her son's body!

Just imagining this stranger pretending to be her son, A Yin felt intensely sickened.

As a mother, she could not accept such a reality.

Her beloved child had been taken over by a soul that was possibly an old man's!

This was too unbearable!

[Tang Hao (angrily): "You're talking nonsense! Lin Yu, what grudge do you have against me? You've already caused a rift between me and the Clear Sky Clan, destroying my relationship with A Yin. Now, you're trying to ruin A Yin's feelings for our son. How could my son not be my son? I know he's my child; he can't be anyone else!"]

Recovering from his grief over losing A Yin, Tang Hao entered the live broadcast room.

Seeing Lin Yu's continued provocations, Tang Hao was enraged.

[Lin Yu (disdainfully): "Haha, you say I'm wrong, but can you refute any specific errors in my claims? Isn't it true that your son's behavior is abnormal? From birth, no one taught him how to cultivate, so how did he learn? Tell me!"]

[Lin Yu: "And the most crucial piece of evidence is that your son died back then. I will now prove it. Can the broadcast be replayed?"]