Soul Land V: Rebirth of Tang San

Once he had left, only Tang San and the town leader remained inside the log cabin.

The town leader watched him with a calm gaze, and Tang San returned the look with an equally calm one.

"Do you want to live or die?" the town leader suddenly asked.

Tang San was startled. The next moment, he felt the hair on the back of his neck stand up. A tangible and potent killing intent burst forth from the town leader, who was seated on his chair. The terrifying killing intent turned the surrounding air icy, and even the light inside the log cabin dimmed in an instant. It was as if, in that split second, they had been transported from the original log cabin to another place altogether.

Subconsciously, Tang San took a half step back as the Mysterious Heaven Method in his body circulated rapidly. Although he did not know why the other party had suddenly developed a murderous intent toward him, self-preservation was, without a doubt, of utmost importance at this time.

The next instant, the town leader moved. He reached out with his right hand as if grasping the void, and at the same time, a deep roar suddenly echoed beside Tang San\'s ears.

The roar was so sudden that Tang San felt his brain go dizzy with the sound.

But at that very moment, under the reflex action of his keen spirit rhinoceros eyes, a faint golden light appeared in his pupils, enabling him to regain some semblance of clarity. The Mysterious Heaven Method operated at high speed, and the Heavy Armor Technique was unleashed promptly.

Facing a life-or-death situation, he dared not hold back in the slightest. Relying entirely on his senses, his hands drew half circles in front of him.

The gentle force of the Mysterious Heaven Method redirected the sharp energy to one side. Meanwhile, Tang San\'s body moved like lightning, executing the Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and heading straight for the window.

He aimed for the window rather than the door because the window was closer.

"Huh!" the town leader uttered a light exclamation of surprise.

The very next moment, Tang San felt the air around him become searingly hot. Under the gaze of his keen spirit eyes, he was shocked to find that the air inside the log cabin was now completely filled with fire elements, expelling all other elements. A formidable presence was barreling towards him, its heat causing his clothes to dry up instantly.

The Mysterious Heaven Method operated as a body protection layer, overlapping with the Heavy Armor Technique, a layer of white light emerged on the surface of his skin like armor, fending off that scorching energy. Simultaneously, Tang San\'s figure flashed, executing the Leopard Flash, and he reached the window almost instantly.

"You can\'t escape," came a low voice by his ear. The next moment, the surrounding fire elements suddenly vanished, and with them the heat, but what followed was an intense, irresistible suction force that forcibly pulled him back through the air.

It was then that Tang San gave up resistance, his face filled with helplessness.

He couldn\'t resist; it was an overwhelming gulf in power levels. Even with all his skills, they were futile against such disparity.

The town leader had already stood up. In front of his former seat, within the palm of his right hand, there was a ball of dark red light, from which the enormous suction force was bursting, dragging Tang San\'s body towards it, making it impossible for him to break free.

"Not a Fourth Stage but a young Fifth Stage, huh? That\'s unexpected," the town leader said, looking at the child before him. While Tang San was surprised by his own level of cultivation, the town leader was even more astounded.

A nine-year-old child at the Fourth Stage was already exceptionally impressive. Even more so since it wasn\'t just the Fourth Stage, but a higher level.

The town leader withdrew his hand, and Tang San was now standing in front of him, looking somewhat pale, his eyes still showing traces of fear.

The terror was, of course, feigned. When he knew resistance was futile, Tang San actually had some suspicions in his heart. He also felt some annoyance.

If his speculation was correct, then he shouldn\'t have responded the way he did just then; he had revealed far too much. At this moment, his thoughts raced as he pondered how to handle the current situation.

"You\'re really not simple," the mayor observed Tang San with a penetrating stare, but deep in his eyes lay a full measure of shock.

Indeed, Tang San\'s guess was right. The mayor had suddenly attacked him mostly as a test because, with the mayor\'s cultivation base, from the very first glance at Tang San, he had sensed Tang San\'s level though Tang San had been trying hard to suppress it. Still, the vast disparity in levels and fluctuations in his qi and blood were not completely concealable—not for Tang San at the moment, at least.

Therefore, the mayor had released his killing intent and made his move to probe. But this careless probe, in the face of a life-or-death crisis, unexpectedly revealed the potential and abilities Tang San held, which genuinely astonished the mayor.

Tang San simply lowered his head and stayed silent.

He sighed in his heart, lamenting that since his rebirth, he had indeed been influenced by the frailty of his new body, and his judgment had dulled. In the past, how could he not have sensed that the other party was merely probing?

The Heavy Armor Technique was exposed, the Leopard Flash was exposed, and he didn\'t even know if the Spirit Rhino\'s Eye had been revealed as well. For all these abilities to appear in one person completely contradicted the principles of the Demon God Transformation!

The mayor\'s originally calm gaze clearly had a few unusual traces, and the reason for it couldn\'t have been more obvious.

"Talk, what\'s going on?" the mayor said indifferently, "Why can you possess the abilities of several clans at the same time?"

Tang San still kept his head lowered, not speaking.

The mayor sat back down, which allowed him to see Tang San\'s face.

"I just sensed that your cultivation had reached the Fifth Stage and thus made a move to test you; I had no other intent. Your human identity can\'t be changed. We have also investigated your origins, and everything is clean. However, your abilities are completely beyond the scope of our investigation," he said.

Tang San slowly lifted his head and looked at the mayor. By this time, he had a plan in mind.

The worst outcome would be the mayor coveting his Mysterious Heaven Method and subjecting him to extreme interrogation. His final move would naturally be to trigger that sliver of divine consciousness and unleash his full power—not to destroy the place but certainly enough to escape without an issue. He could even kill the mayor, whose level was clearly much higher than his, with an outburst of divine consciousness.

However, if he did that, establishing himself in Jiali City would become exceedingly difficult; this was his worst-case scenario.

But now that his abilities had been discovered, it remained a troublesome matter; some things would just have to be revealed.

"Mayor, I wasn\'t intentionally hiding them. It\'s just that...," Tang San faltered, "my ability seems different from the ordinary Demon God Transformation. I\'m afraid..." At times like these, he had no choice but to act.

The mayor spoke sternly, "Does Wang Yanfeng know about this?"

Tang San quickly shook his head, "You\'re the first to know."

The mayor seemed slightly more relaxed, "All right, tell me. How did you come by these abilities?"

Tang San said, "When I was young, I was playing in the woods one day and then I met a gravely injured human. At that time, he was being pursued by Monsters from the Wind Wolf Tribe. I saw them fighting and was so scared that I hid behind a tree. Afterwards, I saw him fight valiantly to kill the several Wind Wolves chasing him. But he, too, was grievously wounded and could not rise."

The mayor nodded, having been informed by Zhang Tianxiao about Tang San\'s encounter with a master in his youth, with the information originally coming from Wang Yanfeng.