Douluo Continent: The Great Summoner Huo Yuhao

The blue silver grass wrapped around Huo Yuhao's waist, forcefully pulling him towards itself.

"Are you alright?" Tang Ya shielded Huo Yuhao behind her while nervously watching the assassin.

"Young lady, I advise you to mind your own business. Someone wants his life. I'm just doing this for money and I don't like excessive killing."

The assassin looked at Tang Ya with apprehension. Just moments before, when the girl made her move, he had clearly seen three spirit rings.

Although both of them are in the third ring road, his life will end there if he doesn't have other opportunities, but for the girl in front of him, life is just beginning.

At this age, having already achieved the third ring, regardless of the other party's background, in every sense, he, an insignificant nobody, cannot afford to offend them.

"Oh? That's interesting. A three-ring Soul Master is going to kill a boy with no Soul Power. Judging from your tone, you're also acting on orders. How about we take a gamble and kill me too, and see if the big shot behind you can smooth things over?"

Tang Ya tried her best to appear calm and collected.

In the Douluo Continent, Soul Masters, as extraordinary beings with special privileges, can kill an ordinary person without consequence. Even if they are caught, they will not be sentenced to death; at most, they will have to pay compensation.

However, when it involves outstanding young talents or key trainees from a particular academy or sect, things often become incredibly complicated.

Simply put, all factions need to recruit and cultivate talent.

If a student or disciple who is still developing is murdered, it is almost certain that their teachers or mentors will be implicated.

Even if an ordinary disciple's master cannot resolve the issue, a higher-level representative will step in to thoroughly investigate.

Internal competition may be fierce on ordinary days, but when it comes to external matters, they will protect each other layer by layer. That's how reputation is built up little by little over generations.

The assassin was very wary of what kind of forces might be involved behind Tang Ya, whether it was an academy or a sect. They would certainly not stand by and watch him kill this young genius girl who already had the cultivation of the third ring.

"How about it? Or maybe you want to fight me? Whether you can beat me is another story!"

Tang Ya noticed the assassin's hesitation and immediately provoked him, showing no fear of angering him.

She had attended Shrek Academy after all, and she didn't even consider these roadside three-ring Soul Masters a threat.

"No..." The assassin shook his head, then chose another direction and ran off.

Anyway, the master sent more than just him, and he wasn't the only one who failed.

At times like this, just pretend you never saw that so-called masked boy.

It's a pity that I originally thought I could receive a reward and live happily for a while, but now it seems that when I report back, I will inevitably be scolded along with everyone else.

Tang Ya breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the assassin leave.

"That scared me to death. Luckily, the other side valued their lives. Otherwise, even if we had repelled this wave, they might have sent even stronger ones later."

She then looked at Huo Yuhao and asked, "And you? What's your name? Are you some kind of illegitimate child, and your brothers are orchestrating your accidental death?"

Huo Yuhao shook his head. He naturally recognized Tang Ya. He remembered that this girl had once bought his grilled fish, but the two were not familiar with each other, and he didn't even know the girl's name.

However, the owner of that secret realm said that he could not reveal his identity, nor could he ask others for help.

I don't know if it's against the rules for others to help him now.

"How stingy! I saved you, and you didn't even say a word. Or are you actually mute? Can you read? Have you ever been to school?"

Tang Ya took out paper and pen and handed them to Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao didn't accept it, but bowed to Tang Ya to express his gratitude, then pointed to the road to the side, clasped his hands in farewell to Tang Ya.

Tang Ya was stunned for a moment as she watched Huo Yuhao turn and leave.

Is she really that aloof?

"Aren't you afraid of running into those people who want to kill you again? And you're all alone, where are your family?"

Huo Yuhao ignored Tang Ya and continued on his way in silence.

Seeing that Huo Yuhao remained silent, Tang Ya felt as if she had encountered a strange person.

"Then I'm off, little mute. Have a safe journey ahead."

After saying that, Tang Ya turned around and walked onto another road leading towards Tian Dou City.

However, just a few minutes later, Tang Ya followed him again, as if possessed.

"I said, little mute, where do you want to go? Should I give you a ride? Or do you really have nowhere to go in your current state?"

She was really worried about the little mute boy...

Or rather, seeing Huo Yuhao now reminds Tang Ya of her past self.

At that time, the Tang Clan had just suffered a massacre, and she barely survived on her own.

At first, she placed her hopes on her old friends and partners from the Tang Clan, but she only received countless rejections.

In the end, she remained silent, all alone, lost and dejected, wandering the world like a walking corpse.

Fortunately, Shrek Academy, mindful of its past relationship with the Tang Sect, provided her with a place to stay.

The two of them walked one after the other.

Huo Yuhao noticed that Tang Ya was following him, so he sped up, trying to shake her off.

But how could he possibly shake off a three-ring Soul Master now?

Tang Ya felt both annoyed and amused when she noticed Huo Yuhao speeding up.

"You're such a stubborn mule, little mute! Why don't you ask me for help? Have you already given up on the world?"

And so, the two chased each other for almost a month before Huo Yuhao finally arrived at his destination.

Standing before his mother's grave once more, he realized he had been gone for almost a year.

Because no one takes care of my mother's grave, it has been weathered by wind and rain and is almost unrecognizable. Now, not only is the small wooden plaque he erected barely visible, but even the small mound of earth that once stood there is almost unrecognizable.

Seeing Huo Yuhao stop, and then kneel straight down on the ground.

Tang Ya was stunned.

Although Huo Yuhao didn't say anything from beginning to end, she fully understood what the current situation meant.

"Are your loved ones buried here...?"

Tang Ya also knelt down, her voice punctuated by sobs.

After her parents were killed, she secretly observed her enemies' every move. The group casually dumped her parents' bodies outside the city.

The bodies were left to rot in the wilderness, but Tang Ya couldn't even bring herself to collect them, because she knew her enemies were secretly waiting for her to take the bait.

For the sake of revenge, she could not die; she could only watch from afar until the beasts began to devour her parents' corpses…

That night, she chased after the wolf like a madwoman, and the Dark Blue Silver Grass absorbed its essence, turning it into a dried corpse, which also allowed her soul power to break through to the threshold of level ten.

In the end, Tang Ya only obtained some undigested fragments of her parents' bones. Later, when she arrived at Shrek Academy, she burned those fragments into ashes and stored them in her personal storage soul tool.

Tang Ya didn't know when the little mute boy's relatives died, but if no one helped him bury them, and the little mute boy buried them himself...

Perhaps his family members have already been devoured by wild animals in the vicinity...