Gazing at the sudden crimson glow appearing on Xiao Wu, Tang Hao's eyes flashed with a sharp glint, and his face showed an uncontrollable surge of wild joy!
"Is she preparing to sacrifice?!"
"Excellent! This is the day I've been waiting for!"
He knew deeply what the sacrifice of a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast meant.
It would give birth to a perfect Hundred Thousand Year spirit ring and Soul Bone, and the sacrifice process was almost impossible to interrupt! What an immense Opportunity this would be for his son, Tang San?
It was completely enough to make up for all previous losses, and even allow his strength to undergo a qualitative leap!
However, Tang Hao, somewhat overwhelmed by this sudden surprise, had not yet noticed a crucial detail.
At the center of that crimson light, Xiao Wu's affectionate, resolute, and all-or-nothing gaze was firmly fixed not on Tang San, who lay on the ground.
But on the blood-soaked, dying "Tang San" transformed from Tang Chuan!
The next second, the Soul bridge, connected by the crimson light of the sacrifice, was steadily and slowly constructing and extending towards Tang Chuan's location!
Xiao Wu's sacrifice target, it seemed, was not Tang San from the very beginning!
This fatal misjudgment stemmed from Tang Chuan's exquisitely brilliant and disruptive Simulation Soul Skill!
It successfully deceived the eyes of almost everyone present, including Tang Hao, whose perception was clouded by concern and immense surprise!
While he was still overjoyed that his younger son was about to receive a heaven-sent Opportunity, he didn't know that the ultimate beneficiary of that sacrifice would be his elder son, whom he hated to the bone!
The next second, an incredibly dazzling crimson light, as if condensed from the purest life and Soul energy, burst forth from Xiao Wu's glabella!
This crimson light was not scorching hot.
Yet it carried a majestic energy that could move heaven and earth and alter Laws!
The crimson light was like ink dripping into clear water, or like the rising sun instantly dispelling darkness, then at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, it frantically swept and spread in all directions!
Wherever the crimson light passed, everything around was dyed with a layer of tragic and beautiful crimson.
The sky, the earth, the rocks, the corpses, and even the dust floating in the air... And even more bizarrely, everything enveloped by this crimson light.
Whether it was people, Soul Beasts, or even splashing gravel, or dissipating Soul Skill energy, all of it froze at this moment! The once noisy, chaotic, and murderous canyon, at this moment, fell into a deathly silence!
Xiao Wu's body, within that crimson light, completely transformed into a translucent dark red, as if carved from the purest ruby, emitting a tragic yet sacred glow.
Looking up, in the Void Realm between her and Tang Chuan.
A bridge, entirely constructed of crimson energy, appeared out of thin air, connecting the two of them.
Immediately after, Xiao Wu, who had entered the state of sacrifice, with her consciousness and Soul burning, relying on her last instincts and that unforgettable "love," ran towards Tang Chuan's location, then tightly, with all her strength, embraced him!
In an instant, the crimson light completely enveloped the embracing pair, and the energy of the sacrifice, like a torrent, began to surge madly into Tang Chuan's body!
Gazing at this scene before them, Tang San and Tang Hao were completely dumbfounded?!
Their minds felt as if struck by a heavy hammer, instantly blank, completely unable to comprehend the scene unfolding before their eyes! Xiao Wu... Who was she embracing? And to whom was she sacrificing?!
After a brief daze, Tang San and Tang Hao subconsciously exchanged glances!
At this sight, both were even more thunderstruck!
Only now did they realize that the person they saw in each other's eyes was the hateful face of Ghost Leopard Douluo and Devil Bear Douluo!
"What's going on?! My face?"
A ludicrous and terrifying thought simultaneously arose in their hearts.
Immediately, they fiercely cast their gaze back to Xiao Wu's location, focusing on the "Tang San" tightly embraced by Xiao Wu.
Only at this moment did Tang Hao and Tang San realize that there was another "Tang San" present?
Then, recalling their own appearance in each other's eyes, and the displaced figures around them.
A terrifying truth, like a bolt of lightning, struck their minds!
No, it's an illusion!
It's that damned Tang Chuan's doing!
He used his Soul Skill to distort space, deceiving everyone's perception and vision!
"Damn it! Bastard! Beast!"
Thinking of this, Tang Hao's eyes instantly became bloodshot, and all the wild joy on his face instantly turned into towering rage and extreme humiliation! He felt like a monkey being played with!
His long-awaited Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast sacrifice, his younger son's heaven-sent Opportunity, was actually intercepted by Tang Chuan with such despicable means right under his nose?!
"Rebellious son, oh, rebellious son! I'm going to kill you!" With a furious roar of impotence, Tang Hao immediately panted like an ox, wishing he could rush up and tear Tang Chuan into ten thousand pieces!
Tang San stood somewhat bewildered in place, staring blankly at the figure enveloped in crimson light, especially Xiao Wu's unusual state. At this moment, he didn't know that Xiao Wu was a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast, only sensing a vast and sorrowful energy constantly surging within her.
"Father, Xiao Wu... What exactly is happening to her?"
The next second.
An incredibly sharp, agonizing cry filled with extreme pain, reluctance, and love, suddenly erupted from Xiao Wu's mouth, which had already turned a crystalline crimson!
"Ah — — —"
This sound seemed to pierce the Soul.
Making the entire static crimson canyon tremble violently with it!
Bathed in the crimson flames that rose from Xiao Wu, burning her life and Soul, Tang Chuan only felt a tingling sensation throughout his body, as if countless tiny life energies were drilling into his limbs, flushing his Meridians.
His consciousness seemed to detach from his body, floating in a profound and mysterious state.
Tang Chuan's Soul Power, which was originally somewhat sluggish due to his severe injuries, began to surge and gush like a bursting dam under the infusion of this vast energy!
Rank 53, Rank 54, Rank 56... His Soul Power Rank soared at an unprecedented speed!
Rank 58, Rank 59, Rank 60!
Almost within a few breaths, his Soul Power forcefully broke through the Rank 60 Bottleneck!
And just as Tang Chuan's Soul Power Rank reached Rank 60, a dazzling, terrifyingly powerful crimson spirit ring naturally and with the acknowledgment of the Laws of heaven and earth, slowly formed and coiled around him!
It was indeed the crimson Hundred Thousand Year spirit ring?!
Xiao Wu was speechless at this point, for all her life force and Soul had transformed into fuel for the burning sacrificial crimson flame.
But her beautiful eyes, now completely crimson, still gazed at the person she believed to be "Tang San" with deep affection, as if weeping, silently conveying her love that transcended life and death, fervent and despairing, with her last gaze.
Even to her death, she didn't know that the object of her complete devotion, for whom she even offered her Soul, was not Tang San, whom she constantly thought of, but Tang Chuan, whom she had almost never paid attention to!
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