Soul Land V: Rebirth of Tang San

"A little girl asked me to give this to you. She's also human. Very pretty." Elder Mao handed the object in his hand to Tang San.

Tang San received it. It was a cup, a cup still containing warm milk tea. Or rather, it was a cup of milk tea from the Pretty Girl Milk Tea Shop.

This was the cup that Asura couldn't get yesterday, and today, it was right in front of Tang San, in his hand.

In that instant, his heart was filled with overwhelming happiness, and in that instant, a night's wandering and repression were completely swept away.

Tang San smiled, although the smile was tearful, yet at that moment, everything before him seemed to be bathed in sunshine.

Little Beauty, Xiaowu, thank you.

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"Today, with my blood, I vow. Throughout my life, whether in prosperity or adversity, whether strong or weak, young or old, no matter the path ahead. I will always stand by Pretty Girl's side. I will never harm her, will always accompany her, never betray. If I break this vow, may heaven and earth abandon me, may five thunders strike me down."

Before she could ask, Tang San continued: "Focus, use your Spiritual Power to guide the Holy Flame Knife, then let a tear fall on the blade."

Pretty Girl's face showed a trace of peculiar expression, "What if I can't cry?"

Tang San helplessly said, "Just imagine, we're being besieged, I'm gravely injured, about to die."

"Don't talk nonsense." Pretty Girl immediately raised her hand, covering Tang San's mouth, but in the next moment, her face flushed, and she withdrew her hand.

"I, I really can't cry!" Pretty Girl said with a distressed expression.

Tang San pondered for a moment, then said, "Let me tell you a story."

"What story?" Pretty Girl looked at him in surprise.

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"You must take care of yourself." Tang San's voice sounded in her ear.

Pretty Girl suddenly felt that his voice seemed to have changed somewhat, a bit familiar yet strange.

Familiar because it seemed to have been heard before, strange because it seemed it didn't belong to Asura.

Tang San's eyes slightly closed, with a faint smile, muttering to himself: "The sword is a sacrifice!"

"No—" She wanted to scream, but in Space Teleportation she couldn't make a sound.

He never turned to look at her, because he feared that if he did, he couldn't bear to part from her.

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With tearful eyes, Pretty Girl stood by the window, murmuring the same words, "Brother, you haven't taken off my mask yet, how can you leave me like this?"

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"Asura is Tang San, Tang San is Asura, I'm not dead. Tang San never disappeared, in fact, I've always been by your side."

"But, but, why are you so good to me? Why do you treat me so well without any hesitation?" Pretty Girl asked. She had finally begun to sort out her thoughts and grasped the crux of the matter.

Tang San was silent for a moment, then said, "What I'm about to say might be incredible. But this is the only explanation for the unbelievable things that have happened to me. Little Beauty, do you believe in previous life's fate? Or rather, do you believe in reincarnation and rebirth?"

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"So, you, you were my husband in the past life?" Pretty Girl murmured.

"Mm." Tang San nodded.

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Pretty Girl gently stroked Tang San's hand, now carbonized, with a dreamy look in her eyes, "The first time I met you, you came to buy milk tea, and you were always looking at me then I saw you seemed to shed tears, if we really had a previous life's fate, you must have recognized me then. Back then, you were still very weak."

"Later, I kept seeing you, in the milk tea shop, in the academy, your figure would always appear in front of me. With you, I've always had a strange sense of closeness, my heart seemed never to guard against you. Thinking about it now, if what you said about previous life's fate is true, then everything can be explained, it was the ties from our past life that made me always enjoy being with you."

"Later, you put on the mask and transformed into Asura. You're right, if back then Tang San had shown the abilities of Asura later, I would have thought you were a monster. So, you hid your identity. But it was perhaps because of the wonderful feeling I had for Tang San that I always had a gap with Asura, naturally unwilling to get close to him, even though Asura was always helping me. Until this time, when I participated in the Ancestral Court elite competition with Asura, I gradually understood him, and gradually felt his selfless kindness towards me, but even so, I never thought of us as a couple, I just wanted to see him as a brother. Perhaps, it's because Tang San's face was always branded in my mind. Do you know, after closing myself off and being unable to find you, how anxious I was?"

"Actually, you're right. If you came to me again as Tang San, it would undoubtedly be better than telling me you're Asura, given my affection for Tang San, I would eventually accept you by my side. But you couldn't bear my distress and told me the truth. Indeed, at that time my heart was really chaotic, I often wondered if there really is such a thing as previous life's fate? Until this time, crossing the Tribulation, when you stood behind me holding my hand, all my hesitations and uncertainties disappeared. Whether you are Tang San or Asura, you are the one guarding my side. I don't know how we were together in the past life, but you gave up the position of Godking and were reborn for me, I can already understand how much we loved each other. You get well soon, I will try to be with you in this life, to experience our love. During my transformation from Tribulation, I seemed to see scenes from the past life, I'm willing, in this life I also want to be with you. As long as you get better. You promised me, to always be my patron saint, to keep your word!"

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Pretty Girl lowered her head, buried her whole head in his arms, "You, you..., as long as you come back alive, I will, will be your girlfriend. The official kind."

"The kind that can kiss?" Tang San's mouth curved in a smile.

"Mm-hmm."

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Pretty Girl said, "In the future, do we have to leave this plane? Go back to the previous one?"

Tang San gently nodded and said, "Now, you might have no concept of it. But as your cultivation base increases, especially when in the future you achieve the status of Emperor, your past life's memories should gradually recover, overlapping with those of this life. Then, you will surely miss our home, miss our children."

Hearing him mention our children, Pretty Girl's face couldn't help but flush again, "But I'm not the same as before now, will they accept me?"

Tang San smiled, "They definitely will, and actually, what you don't know is, you're gradually becoming more like your previous self. After all, you were considered a half Godking before, even if truly reincarnated, you still carry the mark of your past life. As your power grows, the two versions of you will gradually merge together."

Pretty Girl lightly nodded, proactively holding his hand, "Thank you for coming to find me."

Tang San gripped her hand tightly, "As long as you don't despise this version of me in this life, we will always be together."

"I don't despise you." Pretty Girl gently shook her head, "I won't despise you in this life, and in the next life, I won't despise you either."

Tang San said, "I'll work hard, hopefully, there won't be a next life."

Pretty Girl was taken aback, "Won't want me in the next life?"

Tang San shook his head, "How could that be? I want to hold on to you in this life, while in this life, I want us to truly become undying and immortal, to live together with the universe."

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Pretty Girl softly said, "You said we are previous life's fate, so after I achieve the rank of Emperor, will I recover my past life's memories?"

Tang San looked at her deeply, "That depends on whether you want to or not."

Pretty Girl nodded, "I want to because I want to know how we were together in the past life. That must be a very beautiful memory. Actually, there has always been something I wanted to say to you these days."

Tang San smiled, "What is it?"

Pretty Girl lifted her head, gazing at him with deep eyes, "Thank you for coming to find me."

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Those scenes were so clear, and all the memories from past and present lives gradually overlapped.

When her vision returned to the sea of purple Thunder, her face was already full of tears.

"Third brother!" She suddenly shouted and then rushed into Tang San's arms, tightly embracing his body.

Yes, she returned, Xiaowu returned. All of Xiaowu and Pretty Girl's memories were completely merged.

The once-promised lifetimes, he really found her second life, really allowed them to reunite.

Tang San found Xiaowu, Xiaowu also waited for her Tang San.