"…"
Hearing Rayne's question, Tang Hao didn't know how to answer. He couldn't bring himself to admit that he is doubting his son.
And he also had a hidden agenda when he asked this. Tang Hao had a cunning light flickering in his eyes for a brief moment.
Rayne saw this, but simply ignored it and continued talking.
"I am not stealing body or anything of the sort, although I am more than capable of doing so."
"I am what you call, a reincarnation. To put simply, I was born again with the memories of my past lives."
Tang Hao's eyes suddenly had a bit of light and he even looked relieved.
"So Xiao San is…"
Before he could be completely relieved, Rayne's next words poured cold water into his fire called belief.
Rayne: "Your son Tang San is not like me. He is not a reincarnation. Or rather, other than me or high level gods, reincarnation is impossible for anyone else."
Tang Hao: "He.."
Rayne: "Don't bother man. He was not a God in his past life. In the first place, this world doesn't have a realm of afterlife that manages the cycle of reincarnation."
"Because the original Realm of Afterlife was in the way of the Divine Realm, since they were of the same nature, both being higher dimensional realms governing the lower realm. So Dragon God and other God Kings destroyed the Realm of Afterlife and assimilated it into the Divine Realm. So, the cycle of reincarnation was completely broken more than a million years ago."
Tang Hao: "What are you..?"
Rayne: "I'm just feeling a bit talkative, don't worry about it. In this world, I'm the only one with the power of reincarnation. Even the so-called reincarnation of Gods are complete sham. They simply seal their power and memories within themselves, and incarnate in the lower worlds to live their fake lives. Reincarnation comes only after true death."
"What I'm trying to say is, your son Tang San isn't a reincarnation, but a soul that managed to occupy your son's body."
The mental fluctuations from the Blue Silver Grass was very chaotic at this point. Rayne knew that, he had already completed one half of the elite quest.
Tang Hao's face suddenly turned ugly. Despite having some vague guess, his heart was filled with anger and sorrow. At the same time, he felt immense anger and killing intent towards Tang San. Even, it seemed too deliberate, as if he wanted Rayne to see it.
Rayne saw this and scoffed in disdain.
"What are you getting angry for? Just so you know, Tang San didn't forcibly occupy your son's body. What he occupied was an already dead body."
"What?!" Tang Hao's emotions were greatly stirred, and he started to cough because of the sudden movement of his dying body.
At the same time, Rayne could also feel the slight chaotic mental waves from the nearby Blue Silver Grass.
"I don't like Tang San. And I'll definitely make his life worse in the future. But that doesn't mean you, Tang Hao, has any qualifications to despise him."
"To be honest, Tang San doesn't owe you anything. He is still under the impression that he is really your son."
"Tang Hao, don't tell me that you don't remember how you raised him?" Rayne asked with a mocking smile.
Tang Hao: "…what do… you mean? He took over my.. son's body…!"
Rayne: "Playing the role of ignorance, I see. You didn't feed him properly, made him look after you at the age of less than three. You didn't even provide him proper guidance. If not for the fact that Tang San had Mysterious Heaven Skill, he would've been dead because of your careless raising."
"You didn't even care about him before his awakening of twin martial souls. I'll say it once again. If it was your original child instead of Tang San, it's fate is death, without a doubt."
Tang Hao: "Tang San… he's not my son… my son is already dead."
Rayne continued: "What were you even expecting? You were having a death match with three Titled Douluo and multiple Soul Douluo with a newborn baby in your hand. Are you really delusional enough to think a newborn child can survive in a battle like that?"
Tang Hao was shocked and speechless. At the same time, he had an expression that showed intense guilt.
"Actually, why did you even insist on fighting them, instead of just running to a forest with that Blue Silver Empress?"
"Blue Silver Grass may look like a low tier trash species, but within it contains great potential. As the only monarch-type of the race, Blue Silver Empress has even greater abilities. Even in the records of Spirit Hall, your actions during that time was quite suspicious. Even the routes you took during your escape, by coincidence or on purpose, avoided the places with large plant life gatherings like forests."
"Obviously, with Blue Silver Empress' ability, escape is guaranteed if you go to a forest. Unless it's me that's chasing you."
Rayne asked with a sneer.
"…" Tang Hao didn't say anything. His eyes flickered with unknown emotions. At the same time, he felt uneasy. Things are not going the way he wanted.
"You're pretending, aren't you?" Rayne suddenly said, shocking Tang Hao. But he hid his shock discretely.
Rayne continued with a disdainful smile: "The amount of time I've lived is hundreds of times greater than you. Do you really think your trash-like acting can deceive me?"
"You had already known about your son's abnormality long ago, haven't you? But now you are acting like you just knew it and is full of hatred towards him."
"Now you were trying to make it seem like you can't stand Tang San's existence, just to make me lose interest in him? Haha, I guess your act makes sense. After all, who in their right mind would help their enemy kill someone, the enemy hate."
"But you forgot one thing. You don't have the qualifications to be identified as my enemy. You're like a mosquito to me. You don't just kill one mosquito and leave the other one alone. You kill all the mosquitoes annoying you."
"…" Tang Hao gritted his teeth and glared at Rayne with the last of his life.
In fact, he had already sensed the mental detection of Blue Silver Empress Ah Yin, because of the resonance of his ninth soul ring.
Tang Hao has always been able to detect Ah Yin's presence. All these six years since that event, Ah Yin had never tried to look for him, because she is currently too weak.
But this time, Ah Yin decided to pay attention because of Tang Hao's use of his ninth soul skill, which alerted her. Most likely thinking that Tang Hao had encountered a life and death crisis.
Tang Hao also detected Ah Yin's spying not long ago. He decided to act like this because, he wanted Ah Yin to expend some effort to support Tang San after his death. Even if for the sake of vengeance.
Obviously he doesn't truly understand a mother's mindset. Ah Yin obviously won't overlook the fact that her only son is dead, and even his body is being possessed by some unknown man, who could possibly be an old evil demon.
Ignorant of this, Tang Hao believes that the obedient and innocent Ah Yin will act just like he wants, as long as he convinces her.
But he never expected Rayne to directly expose Tang San and also his pathetic way of raising his son. Not only that, but also bring up the incident of Ah Yin's sacrifice.
"Don't look at me like that. I won't kill him anytime soon." Rayne smiled disdainfully.
Rayne continued: "You acknowledged Tang San, despite his abnormalities, as your son after he awakened his twin martial souls. Why? Isn't it because you saw the hope of revenge against Spirit Hall in Tang San?"
Tang Hao glared at Rayne and asked with a deep frown, "Why do… you know all this? Are you really… a God?"
"You don't need to know about that. Rather, I want to hear from you, the truth about Blue Silver Empress' sacrifice. Go on and confess. At least you can die with a lighter heart if you confess everything." Rayne said.
"The Spirit Hall was responsible for it. I can't rest in peace without avenging Ah Yin." Tang Hao, of course, was unwilling to say anything substantial. This was the greatest blackspot in his life so far.
[Ding! The quest has been completed. The rewards have been stored in your Gate of Ashburn.]
'Hm? That's it? System, are you sure you're not giving me free rewards? Isn't this too easy for an elite quest?'
Rayne was perplexed by the sudden system notification, that signified the completion of the quest.
[System notice: Please be aware that, it is originally not an easy task to get Tang Hao to talk about that incident. And the true elite part of this quest is Ah Yin's part.]
'Is that so?'
Rayne saw this and came to the conclusion that, it was about time he put an end to this dying man.
"Do you know? There are many unique and powerful ways to use spiritual power." Rayne whispered.
He put his hand with black energy on Tang Hao's head at a speed beyond reaction.
"Ahhh!"
Tang Hao's entire self was set ablaze by dark silver flames. These dark silver flames generated from the black energy didn't hurt Tang Hao's body at all.
But Tang Hao started screaming, as he felt soul tearing pain. A kind of pain he had never felt before, even when attacked by the deadliest of spiritual soul skills.
Tang Hao's eyes dimmed as any trace of life in him disappeared.
Rayne watched indifferently with his Six Eyes martial soul, as Tang Hao's soul was obliterated and only a ball of spiritual power containing his memories remained.
After looking through the memories, Rayne sent a part of it to Ah Yin forcibly.
After seeing these memories, Rayne is quite curious if this will increase his chances of getting Ah Yin to his side.
…
He looked through the memories and was surprised. Rayne even wonders what sort of brain circuit this guy had to come up with all this.
Basically, all of this started after Tang Hao got the Death God Domain when he was a Soul Saint.
Later on, Tang Hao and his brother Tang Xiao met Ah Yin. After they had discovered Ah Yin's identity, the two brothers had different reactions.
Tang Xiao was in love with Ah Yin, regardless of her identity. But he couldn't let go of his sect's reputation.
Tang Hao, on the other hand, had the intention of directly capturing her, and kill her when he reached level 90.
But some 'intrusive' thoughts that came from nowhere, changed his mind. Even going as far as to seduce the soul beast incarnation Ah Yin, which he had absolutely loathed.
Later, he even 'came up' with the plan to make Ah Yin sacrifice voluntarily, to get the maximum benefits and inherit the position of Clear Sky Douluo.
And after carrying out the plan, and after Ah Yin's sacrifice, he actually felt guilty and felt genuine love towards Ah Yin for the first time.
Is this what is called 'You only realize the value of something when you lose it.' ?
And later on…
After hearing of his father's demise and the sect's downfall, plus being beaten unilaterally by Qian Daoliu… Tang Hao's spirit broke. Basically, he became a coward who can only run away from his problems, drink to numb his senses etc.,
Of course, Rayne can see that the intrusive thoughts in this memories are quite suspicious. It might not seem odd to anyone else seeing this memories, including Tang Hao himself. But Rayne can notice the subtle manipulation of Tang Hao's mind.
Obviously, that rule breaking trash Asura God is behind this union of Tang Hao and Ah Yin. No, even the meeting of Ah Yin and Tang Hao was very odd.
To do so much for Tang San… Rayne even wonders if Tang San is Asura God's biological son.