Chapter 19: Chapter 19: Departure. Ah Yin.
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Tang Zhen's Soul Skills:
1st: Three Thousand Thunder Movement (Purple)
2nd: Tesla Prison (Purple)
3rd: Thunder Emperor's Armor (Black)
4th: Heaven's Shockwave (Black)
5th: Thunder Emperor Lance. (Black)
6th: ?
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It's been two weeks since Tang Zhen and the girls got back from the competition and stayed at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan.
During that time, Tang Zhen spent a few days secluded alone. When he finally came out, he spent time with the girls.
Tang Zhen finally fulfilled his promise for a date with Ye Lingling. They spent some time eating, taking a walk, and finally went to visit her family. Ye Lingling told Tang Zhen that the Ye family was not a clan but a family of healers.
Upon arriving, Tang Zhen and Ye Lingling were greeted by her family. After a pleasant dinner, they all sat in the family living room. After some tea, the real issue came out to light.
Ye Lingling's mother was the other holder of the Nine Heart Begonia and although Tang Zhen knew the issue with the martial soul, he let them express their concerns.
"Tang Zhen, Lingling told me that you both are in a relationship. I can see that she is happy, but there is something you need to know before I will allow this to go further." Ye Lingling's mother said.
"Please auntie, tell me." Tang Zhen replied.
"While the Nine Heart Begonia is one of the top auxiliary martial souls, if not the top. There is only one major flaw. There can only be two Nine Heart Begonia soul masters alive at the same time. That means as long as I am alive, any children you and Lingling have, will not inherit the Nine Heart Begonia. Knowing this, do you still want to be with her?" Ye Lingling heard her mother talk about children and she turned a bright red color.
"Does that mean he wants to have children with me?" Ye Lingling thought with a red face and swirling eyes.
"Auntie, that doesn't matter. Regardless of whether or not our children become soul masters or remain normal civilians, I will love them anyways because they are children born from Lingling." Tang Zhen said resolutely.
Ye Lingling blushed even harder after not hearing Tang Zhen deny the idea of having children with her causing her to start steaming. Tang Zhen found her extremely cute so he pat her head and rubbed the top with affection.
Her mother seeing their interaction and satisfied with Tang Zhen's answer, gave them her blessing.
While all this was going on, Ye Lingling's father was sitting on the chair with a twitching eyebrow before he could no longer take it anymore. He got up and unsheathed a sword.
"YOU BASTARD! YOU THINK THAT I WILL LET YOU HAVE MY LITTLE LING'ER? MY PRINCESS IS TOO GOOD FOR THE LIKES OF YOU!" He started swinging his sword breaking the chair he was sitting on and started swinging wildly destroying everything in his path between him and this scum who was trying to take his little princess away from him.
Not soon after, Ye Lingling's mother slammed her fist down on his head effectively knocking him out. Lingling and Tang Zhen both had massive sweat drops.
On the way back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan, they stopped by a clearing in the forest on their way that was illuminated by the moonlight. They spent the rest of the night sitting on a tree branch just talking and laughing with Ye Lingling leaning against Tang Zhen. Soon, he pulled out a rose, but it wasn't any rose, it was a mix of different colors. It had bits of yellow, blue, green, and red making it look exceptionally exotic.
"Tang Zhen, this rose is so beautiful, where did you find it?" Ye Lingling asked in surprise.
"I made this, and it reminds me of you. The rose itself is a symbol of elegance, much like you. But the blend of colors reflects how, in addition to your graceful appearance on the outside, it's the combination of both your strengths and weaknesses that make you the Lingling that I love." Tang Zhen said
sincerely.
Ye Lingling stared at the flower and she loved it. She then leaned and kissed Tang Zhen which he returned. The scene was magical.
The next day Tang Zhen gathered all the girls, Ning Fengzhi, Bone and Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo together for an important annoucement.
"I have to tell you all something important. This trip to Spirit City and the attack along the way has really opened my eyes." Tang Zhen with some reluctance.
"Big Brother Tang Zhen, what is it?" Zhu Zhuqing asked warily. They all had a bad feeling in their hearts.
"I have decided that I will leave and travel to Slaughter City in order to gain the Death God Domain."
Silence filled the room. While the girls were only focused on the fact that he would be leaving, the elders were deeply troubled. Slaughter City was a dangerous place where even Titled Douluo might not return from. After a while Ning Rongrong noticing the looks on the faces of the elders asked her father.
"Papa, what is Slaughter City and why do you, Grandpa Bone, Grandpa Sword, and Grandpa Dugu have that look on your faces?" She asked.
After being together for so long, all the Titled Douluos became like grandfathers to the other girls which they didn't mind. Bone Douluo even regarded Liu Erlong as his daughter now.
Hearing Ning Rongrong's question and noticing their uneasy expressions themselves, they paid attention. Finally Ning Fengzhi asked Sword Douluo to explain.
"Slaughter City is the place where Martial Soul Hall send all the criminals they catch such even the Evil Soul Masters are sent there. It is a place of lawlessness where murder, torture, rape and any other crime is allowed. What makes it even worse is that once inside, all soul master abilities are ineffective so you have to rely on your own strength. Even after thousands of years that have been less than 10 people to sucessfully escape with the Death God Domain." Sword Douluo said solemnly.
Shocked by the revelation, they all stared at Tang Zhen like he was crazy.
"Tang Zhen, knowing you, you must have given this a lot of thought. Can you tell us why you have made this decision?" Ning Fengzhi asked.
"Yes Uncle Ning, after the fight with Ju Douluo during the ambush on the way to Spirit City, I was powerless to stop him. If you never showed up, we may have all perished. That feeling of helplessness, I don't want to feel it again, I have to get stronger." Tang Zhen replied, his fists clenching.
He noticed that he was getting to complacent with the girls. He felt happy with them for sure. But even after knowing the story, merging with Sasuke's, in his words, defective template, there was still a massive gap in power.
While he was 100% positive that if he went all out, he could defeat anyone under level 80, anyone above that was still out of his reach. He needed to reach level 70 as soon as possible and hunt for that 100,000 year evil soul beast. It would definitely be a tough fight but by that time, he should have the fully evolved Susanoo which he would have to use.
"Uncle Ning, during this time, you must reach out to the Defense Clan and use the time to reinforce the clan. I have a bad feeling that the Martial Soul Hall is planning something and it's better to be prepared. Also, try to make a deal with Gengxin City and see if they can send some master smiths over to improve the shuriken and kunai launchers." Tang Zhen said seriously.
"Tang Zhen….are you thinking that the Martial Soul Hall would attack our clan?" Ning Fengzhi asked warily.
"Not just the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan but I wouldn't put it past them to attack others as well. They know that I am with you and I am a target to them now. While not as big as Tang San and Tang Hao, it still is a possibility and it is better to be ready for it." Tang Zhen stated.
After pondering, Ning Fengzhi could see it. They had no idea exactly how many Titled Douluo the Soul Hall had. Even with Bone, Sword, and Poison Douluo, they would still be outnumbered.
Soon Ning Fengzhi agreed and asked Bone and Sword Douluo to create a new plan for patrols towards the outskirts of the clan boundaries.
While the men were discussing things, none of it was heard by the girls who were having a hard time. Tang Zhen would be going to a dangerous place that might even put Titled Douluos in danger. I mean it was even named Slaughter City.
Seeing their state, Tang Zhen turned and adressed them.
"Listen girls, although I will be gone, I promise you that I will return to you. In the mean time, you all must train diligently as well."
After receiving a promise from the Titled Douluos that they would take turns teaching the girls, Tang Zhen felt more relieved. After many tears and curses, they all retired for the night.
The next morning came and they all stood at the entrance to the clan grounds. Wrapped in a black outfit and cloak, Tang Zhen donned a mask that covered the lower part of his face.
It was a Kakashi style mask which puzzled everyone.
"Tang Zhen what's with the mask?" Dugu Yan asked.
"Well I will only show my face to my girls. After all it does add to the mystery of it all right?" Tang Zhen replied with the eye smile.
"Tang Zhen, a lot of people have already seen your face…." Oddly enough it was a quiet Ye Lingling that spoke up.
"*Ahem* Well I mean while I'm away heheh." Tang Zhen awkwardly laughed causing everyone to sigh outloud.
"Well I'm off, please take care of yourselves. I will be back in a few years."
Shui Bing'er surprisingly ran up to him standing on her toes, she leaned up and kissed him.
"You better come back Tang Zhen. You better come back to us." She said with tears in her eyes.
"I will." He said as he gave her another kiss. The other girls took their turn before Tang Zhen turned and flew away.
Tang Zhen turned to look at the people who have become a part of him, who meant the world to him.
He was too weak, he knew he would change during this journey. He needed to mentally prepare himself for Slaughter City.
After this journey was over, he needed to be able to to fight Tang Hao and hold his own at the very least. Right now, he needed to break through to level 70 and hope that the system gives him a reward to stop Tang San's evolution and to save Ah Yin.
He knew that right now, Tang Hao is probably teaching Tang San the secret techniques of the Haotian Hammer and would take about a year to complete his training. If Tang Zhen was lucky, Tang San might take even longer since he is weaker now. Maybe they will take longer to increase his strength. After all Tang San was a Soul King when he went to Slaughter City but he was far from it at this point in time.
The first stop he had to make was the Moon Pavilion in Heaven Dou City to see Tang Yueha. Could she be an ally? He didn't want to really take her as a wife if possible. She was stuck at level 9 due to her Martial Soul mutation but she was also the only source of information that the Haotian Clan had for the outside world.
Tang Zhen needed to see if she was implicated in the death of his father and if she was, he would burn her with the Black Flames of Amaterasu….or so he thought.
After trying to summon the black flames, he noticed that instead of black flames, he was able to summon a destructive black Thunder. So it would be safe to say he would just obliterate her into nothing.
Heading over to the Moon Pavilion and controlling his soul power to reduce his presence as much as possible, he used landed on the roof, after putting a servant under an illusion, he found where Tang Yueha's room was.
As he peered into the window, he was stunned by what he saw. But what it was what she was saying that truly made him speechless.
On her bed, Tang Yueha was naked and masturbating but using the Sharingan, he could read her lips and it sent a chill down his spine. She was beautiful but after knowing this he firmly would not take her as his wife.
She was calling out for her own brother Tang Hao. After composing himself, he quietly slipped into her room.
Tang Yueha lost in her own fantasy didn't notice the figure that snuck into her room until she felt a presence near her.
Frozen, she slowly opened her eyes and saw a figure in black with red eyes staring at her. Before she could scream, she was already placed in an illusion and she spilled everyting.
Tang Zhen was utterly shocked and disgusted with the Haotian Clan and decided firmly that they would be destroyed.
With that he left to train after erasing the fact that someone was there.
Using the last of the benefits from the Immortal herbs and the constant tempering of his body using the Thunder Body Tempering Technique, it took Tang Zhen about 9 months to reach level 70. An unprecedented event for anyone.
"Notice. Congratulations host for reaching level 70. Rewarding Care Package. Green Fungus Pill, Body Transformation Pill, Soul Cleansing Pill x2, Teleportation of Storage Soul Guidance Rings for Host's Partners. 24 Hour Tsukuyomi Use Card. +5000 years to sixth soul ring."
"Finally hit level 70 and just in time too. This is at least a few months before Tang San transforms into the new Blue Silver Emperor." Tang Zhen thought.
"System. What does the Green Fungus Pill and Soul Cleansing Pill do? Also, What does teleportation of Storage Soul Guidance Rings mean?"
"Notice. The Green Fungus Pill allows someone of high cultivation to regain their peak strength. The Soul Cleansing Pill will cleanse the body of all foreign soul power that have a negative affect on the body. Lastly, the Storage Rings will be delivered to your partners."
"Will the Soul Cleansing Pill affect the Death God Domain's power?"
"Notice. No….Distribution of care package comeplete. Goodbye Host."
"....."
"….Goodbye Host."
"OH COME ON!" Tang Zhen tried to cheat the system a bit.
With the pills provided by the system he was convinced that the benefits of power ups was minimal but more targetted towards the women.
Meanwhile, each of the girls woke up and on their tables in their rooms, a small gift box with a letter from "Tang Zhen" was there. Opening it, they found a ring making them blush like crazy and reading the letter they were happy he got them something like that.
Back with Tang Zhen, he set out to the Holy Spirit Village. Using his Sharingan, he followed the footprint of soul power to a waterfall. It seems that Tang Hao was here recently and just left. Perhaps to go pick up Tang San. Crossing through it, he came upon a cave. It was dark all over except for one spot.
Walking up a hill he ended up at the top and found what he was looking for. There was a Blue Silver Grass with gold veins. There was only a small hold cracked at the top of the cave.
Sensing a foreign presence outside of the cave, Ah Yin was starting to worry. When it came closer to where she was, she started to panic.
The grass started to sway back and forth as if to try and ward the danger away.
"I won't hurt you Ah Yin. I am here to help you. Although you may have no reason to trust me, I promise on my martial soul that I will help you with your resurrection." The mysterious figure said.
Ah Yin shocked that this person could help resurrect her, she was skeptical still until she heard him swear on his martial soul.
Soon Tang Zhen carefully scooped her out of the ground and travelled to a secluded spot far away from there. He did not want to be around if Tang Hao came back.
Soon they were at the Ice and Fire Yin Tang Well. It was a nice secluded area and hard for people to get into.
He first planted her on the ground to help her get a feel for the area and to make her feel comfortable. From the look of the leaves swaying she might be.
Ah Yin was incredibly happy. The place that she was in now could help her cultivate 1000 times faster with how great the area is.
Tang Zhen then pulled out a strange pill.
"Ah Yin this is a Body Transformation Pill. It can help a soul beast achieve human form."
Hearing this she couldn't help but be stunned. Was there really such a pill?
Tang Zhen then took the pill and buried it near her roots so that she could absorb it.
Although it took a while to absorb because she is currently a literal plant, she finally succeeded. Soon the grass grew and grew until it was the size of a full human before a blinding light erupted.
Through the light an elegant figure with blue hair and wearing a blue dress emerged. She was utterly stunning. Tang Zhen could see how the Tang Hao and Tang Xiao could've fallen for her at first sight.
All of a sudden she glared at him with a fierce look.
"Speak human. Who are you? How did you find me? What do you want?"
"Well I'm Tang Zhen, I won't tell you how I found you. What matters is that I did and I just helped you. As for what I want from you, nothing but a moment of your time for now." Tang Zhen calmly.
Seeing that he wasn't lying she agreed to hear him out.
"I will be straightforward with you. Your husband Tang Hao is not the person you think he is."
Ah Yin was furious but also confused.
"What do you mean? Speak clearly." Ah Yin said harshly.
"Geez, I thought she was supposed to be a kind person with a calm temperament." He thought to himself.
"It might be better if I show you. Just look into my eyes." Tang Zhen, using his Tsukuyomi card, activated his Sharingan placing her in an illusion and showed her everything he found from Tang Yueha.
Ah Yin found herself in a place filled with stone walls and she saw familiar faces. It was Tang Xiao, Tang Yueha and the elders of the Haotian Clan, her husband's clan.
They were discussing Tang Hao and her.
"It looks like the genius of our clan succeeded. As expected." The Second elder said.
"Indeed elder, my brother will not fail." Tang Xiao said.
"We have been pressured by the Martial Soul Hall for long enough. Our true clan leader is gone and we can no longer compete with Qian Daoliu." Another elder said.
As the conversations continued, Ah Yin grew increasingly horrified. When Tang Hao sent a message back to the clan that they had found a 100,000 year soul beast, they saw an opportunity. Although a 100,000 soul ring was great, they had to think of the long term in the event something like Tang Chen happens where the person disappears.
They all came up with a plan to have Ah Yin fall in love with either Tang Hao or Tang Xiao. From there, they would have children together and then they would intentionally leak her identity and position to the Soul Hall.
The main goal though was to play with her maternal instinct and have her sacrifice herself to Tang Hao for her 100,000 year soul ring.
Once Tang San was brought to the clan and was of age, they would make him marry multiple women in the clan depending on his martial soul being the hammer or maybe if they were lucky, they would have twin martial souls.
Then the number of members in the Haotian Clan with twin martial souls could eventually unite the Douluo Continent.
Back to the present with Ah Yin and Tang Zhen, Ah Yin started to sweat profusely and was in complete denial.
"No….No. No. That isn't real. Hao'er loves me, he wouldn't do that. Martial Soul Hall finding us was just a coincidence." Ah Yin said.
"I guess it was a real coincidence that he wanted to bring you out of the safety of the clan and wander around the continent when you were about to give birth too huh?" Tang Zhen said unconvinced.
Ah Yin was silent thinking about it. He was right, why did Tang Hao bring her outside of the clan?
"If that doesn't convince you still, maybe this next part will." Tang Zhen activated the Sharingan again.
This time, they were transported to Moon Pavilion. The image distorted until they were in a room and there, sounds of clapping flesh, moans and grunts were heard.
"OH! BROTHER HAO DON'T STOP!"
Ah Yin stood for a moment before having to throw up. On the bed was Tang Hao and his little sister Tang Yueha having sex on her bed. After they finished, Ah Yin had a dead look in her eyes. Tang Yueha turned to look at Tang Hao and asked him a quesiton.
"Brother Hao, why must it be you who seduces that beast?"
"Yueha, you know that it was either our brother or myself. She chose me." Tang Hao said smugly.
"Do you love her?" Yueha asked scared of his answer. She did not deny that Ah Yin was beautiful.
"No, she is just a beast and a tool for our clan to be able to come out on top. She better give me a son. I don't think I can stomach being inside of that thing more than once." He said with a face filled with disgust.
Happy with his answer, Tang Yueha rolled back on top of him for another round.
Coming back to reality, Ah Yin stood there dizzy, sad, horrified, disgusted, but most of all betrayed.
"Do you believe me now?" Tang Zhen asked.
Perhaps it was her trying to hold onto the last sliver of hope that it was all fake.
"How do I know that was real?" She asked shakily.
"Because I used my special eyes to extract those memories from her. If you still have doubts, we can go see her right now and she will confirm everything, against her will of course." Tang Zhen said.
While not a 100% true he was determined to use a little lie and created the illusion in the Tsukuyomi world to simulate what Tang Yueha told him while under his control.
Ah Yin seeing that this man helped her attain her body again, believed he had no reason to lie. It hurt knowing that she sacrificed everything for Tang Hao only to know that he was an incestous bastard that just used her.
She felt unclean. She looked at Tang Zhen.
Ah Yin burst into tears. Tang Zhen approached her and hugged her telling her to let it all out and that it would be okay.
"Please…Kill me. I have nothing left to live for. I am unclean, dirtied by Tang Hao and my son is gone." Ah Yin said with a broken voice.
"Then help me." Tang Zhen said softly but resolutely.
She looked at him confused.
He then explained his life and what the Haotian Clan and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan did to his parents.
Ah Yin sympathized with him. After all she was very gentle by nature. Throughout his story, she got lost in his eyes for a brief moment. She couldn't think about anything else except how blue they were.
Tang Zhen told her that technically her purity was still intact as the Body Transformation Pill give her a new body from her new Blue Silver Emperor state. She was a little happy at that but she soon came to realize her cultivation level was basically non existent.
Suddenly Tang Zhen pulled out a wooden box and gave it to her. As she opened it, she was surprised to see the leg bone she had dropped when she had sacrificed herself.
"Where did you get this?" She asked in amazement.
"Hahaha Tang Hao must've really been drunk, he left it up on that tree that was near the hill with you. Maybe he just didn't want to look at it and be reminded of you." Tang Zhen said.
Then he pulled out another pill.
"Absorb the soul bone with this Green Fungus Pill. It should meld with your original soul bone and using the aura from it, your body should resonate and the pill should allow you to regain your previous cultivation." He said.
Ah Yin had tears forming in her eyes.
"Why are you doing all this for me?" She asked.
"Ah Yin, I did this after hearing of another person's fate similar to mine who was involved in the schemes of the Haotian Clan and I wanted to help you." Tang Zhen said. Of course that was a fucking lie. He wanted Ah Yin as his wife.
"Although, your stunning beauty does play a part in it along with your kind heart. I know you have no reason to trust me, I have many other women but if you will allow me, will you allow me to court you? I promise if you don't want to or you want to leave I wont force you. I swear it on my martial soul." Tang Zhen said with conviction.
Ah Yin hearing that he had other women was sad at first but from travelling the world with Tang Hao, he knows that powerful men have multiple wives. She heard the emperors of both empires had at least 20 wives.
Still Ah Yin, seeing and hearing his sincerity agreed to allow him to at least court her. Resulting in his picking her up and spinning her around. Making her laugh.
Soon she started the absorption process and aided by the energies of the surrounding Blue Silver Grass plants, she completed it but was surprised to find that she was at level 81.
Tang Zhen sensing her surge in power walked over and congratulated her.
Ah Yin gave Tang Zhen a hug and as she was about to pull away, Tang Zhen grabbed her hand.
"Ah Yin. Thank you for giving me a chance. I promise you won't regret it."
Ah Yin looked into his eyes and believed his words and she felt touched.
"So what do you say we go into a small town and get something to eat?"
"Mhm okay I haven't seen the ouside world in a very long time." Ah Yin said excitedly.
"Well before we go, I have to let you know that I am sorry, we have to hide your beautiful hair and face so that we don't draw attention to ourselves." Tang Zhen said.
"Speaking of which, I don't even know what you look like." Ah Yin said curious about his appearance.
"Well I promised my girls that I would only show my face to them, my future wives, but since you are allowing me to try and make you my wife as well, I don't see the harm." He said with the eye smiles.
Ah Yin blushed when she heard "my wife" from him but was eager to see his face.
"You better not say anything stupid like there's another mask behind that one." Ah Yin said in a joking but not so joking manner.
"HOW DID SHE KNOW I WAS ABOUT TO DO THAT!" Tang Zhen said with massive amounts of sweat. He heard that tone before and wouldn't push it.
"Wouldn't dream of it. Heheheh…."
Under Ah Yin's expectant gaze, he lowered his mask slowly.
As his face became more exposed, Ah Yin's face grew a brighter shade of red.
"Maybe dating him won't be so bad afterall. Could he truly make me happy?" Ah Yin thought.
Soon both of them left the forest to go and explore the outside.