"Dad, how is Sui Sui?" Tang San, who had caught up from behind, asked with a panicked expression, even forgetting that his father had not exposed his identity.
Hearing Tang San's address, Tang Hao subconsciously replied, "She has already absorbed the spirit ring, not..." Halfway through his sentence, Tang Hao belatedly realized the appellation Tang San had just used. After a moment of silence, he maintained his deliberately lowered, hoarse voice and asked softly,
"What did you just call me?"
Tang San, realizing what he had just called out, also froze.
"Crap, I was too worried and accidentally revealed Dad's painstakingly hidden identity."
The large and small pairs of eyes stared intently at each other, and a silent awkwardness spread through the air.
Finally, it was Tang Hao who broke the silence.
"When did you find out?" Tang Hao gave up his disguised voice, returning to his original deep tone, and stared at his eldest son, who had been very opinionated and steady since childhood.
Tang San raised his hand, his gaze shifted sideways, fixing on the dark ground as if he could stare a flower out of it.
However, Tang Hao's gaze was too obvious. Unaccustomed to being stared at, Tang San unconsciously reached up, gently scratched his cheek with his finger, and said in a small voice, "Just now, when you saved me."
After he finished speaking, there was another silence.
"Aren't you going to ask me why I kept it a secret?"
Tang Hao looked at this son who was so "shy" in front of him, feeling a bit perplexed while a hint of bitterness arose.
After all, Tang San was not so taciturn when he was in front of others.
"I won't ask." Tang San shook his head, his gaze moving from the ground to Tang Sui, his small face tight. "Just like Sui Sui said before, you are our father, and you wouldn't harm us. By the way, Dad, how is Sui Sui now? What was that purple halo just now? Is it harmful to Sui Sui?"
Tang Hao silently swallowed the words that had reached his lips, "He didn't harm you, but he didn't take care of your sibling's lives either." He swallowed the bitterness, exhaled, and answered Tang San's questions one by one:
"She has absorbed the spirit ring now and has become a true spirit master. If nothing unexpected happens, if you test her spirit power again, she should now have over ten levels of spirit power."
A flash of inspiration struck Tang San, "Spirit rings, are they the key to becoming a spirit master?"
"That's right. The purple halo you just saw is the spirit ring. Spirit rings are an energy body produced by spirit beasts, the bloodthirsty magic wolf that attacked you, after their death. It contains the spirit power cultivation of this spirit beast's entire life."
"Spirit beasts are usually divided into five levels: ten-year spirit beasts, hundred-year spirit beasts, thousand-year spirit beasts, and ten-thousand-year spirit beasts. The highest are hundred-thousand-year spirit beasts. They correspond to the colors white, yellow, purple, black, and red, respectively."
At this point, Tang Hao frowned, his tone tinged with doubt, "I observed that the spirit beast just now should have been a hundred-year spirit beast, but for some reason, after being killed by Sui Sui's strange martial soul, it became a thousand-year spirit ring..."
On this continent, he had never seen a spirit master who, just embarking on the path of cultivation, possessed a thousand-year spirit ring.
Although it wasn't impossible to have an initial spirit ring of a thousand years, it was only after reaching level 50 or above and obtaining special opportunities that the spirit ring would undergo a transformation.
Sui Sui was congenitally weak and had just begun her path as a spirit master, how could she also have...
Could it be related to the other bloodline within Sui Sui?
Tang Hao, who did not understand spirit beasts, could only speculate in his heart, attributing everything to the difference in spirit beasts' cultivation methods compared to humans.
---Author's Notes---
System: It's another bloodline, but not a spirit beast bloodline, hehe.
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