That Mysterious Person was Tang Hao.
For the past few months, he had been continuously investigating Li Minghong's identity, but besides knowing he was an orphan, he could find almost no other information.
It was too much of a coincidence.
He was the same age as Tang San, happened to have the aura of A Yin's Blue Silver Grass, and happened to be an orphan with no traceable origin.
Tang Hao had already basically concluded in his heart that Li Minghong was his son.
Watching Li Minghong go out alone to hunt Soul Beasts, he felt very uneasy and followed him. He saw his child absorb a Soul Ring beyond his level and saw him escape from a two-thousand-year-old Soul Beast all by himself.
His heart swelled with pride. He truly was his son.
Even though his innate spirit power was only level one, it seemed that after awakening his Martial Soul, he awakened A Yin's Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline, causing Little Hong's spirit power to skyrocket.
"A Yin, did you see? Both of our children are so outstanding. Xiao San has innate full spirit power with twin Martial Souls, and Little Hong is a genius who absorbs Soul Rings beyond his level. Their futures are limitless."
"A Yin, in the future, our children will surely avenge you!"
Tang Hao guzzled down the low-quality liquor, tears streaming uncontrollably down his cheeks.
On the other side, Li Minghong couldn't figure out who that person was for a long time, so he stopped thinking about it.
Looking at the spatial storage Soul Tool in his hand, Li Minghong infused spirit power into it.
A space also appeared in Li Minghong's mind.
"A full fifty cubic meters, that's awesome!"
Seeing the size of this Soul Tool's space, Li Minghong couldn't help but feel a surge of joy.
He stopped infusing spirit power and tucked the Soul Tool into his pocket. Li Minghong was afraid that some people might covet it if they saw it was a spatial storage Soul Tool. He knew that his current strength wasn't strong, so it was better to keep a low profile.
Outside the Hunting Soul Forest, he found a coachman, gave him two silver Soul Coins, and asked him to take him back to Nuo Ding City.
On the way, Li Minghong looked at the Blue Silver Grass in his hand and thought,
'At first, I didn't think Soul Entity was that useful, but now I realize it's simply a divine skill!'
'It doesn't require too much mental effort; I just need to give a command in my mind, and the Blue Silver Grass's own consciousness can execute it for me.'
Li Minghong stroked his chin, very satisfied.
Nuo Ding City, Notting Academy.
"Finally, I'm back!"
This journey had been thrilling enough to make Li Minghong increasingly fond of peaceful days.
"Little Hong, you're back."
Following the sound, the person who came was Tang San. For some reason, Tang San felt that Li Minghong's aura made him instinctively want to get closer to him.
Li Minghong nodded slightly, as a greeting.
'I currently have a young Tang San instance and a young Xiao Wu instance, neither of which I can clear for now. In a while, I need to go to Soto City to see if I can come into contact with the other Shrek Seven Devils and unlock new instances.'
He thought to himself as he walked towards the dormitory.
And when Tang San saw Li Minghong's cold attitude towards him, a hint of cold light appeared in his eyes.
'Hmph, why bother with a mere nobody.'
Tang San comforted himself in his heart and turned to Yu Xiaogang's office.
Upon reaching the dormitory.
'My current physical fitness is already capable of absorbing a thousand-year Soul Ring, let alone when I break through to level twenty.'
Thinking of this, Li Minghong actually felt a sense of worry in his heart.
'For a commoner like me, without power or influence, if my second Soul Ring is a thousand-year one, it will definitely endanger my life if others see it.'
'Especially those major and minor Sects, they might very well capture me for research. Even if I die, who would care about the life or death of a commoner?'
'But I also don't want to suppress the age of my second Soul Ring. A thousand-year Soul Ring is vastly different from a hundred-year Soul Ring!'
Li Minghong crossed his arms over his chest, leaned back onto the bed, his eyes melancholic.
Unable to think of any solution, he sought help from the instance space to see if it could provide a solution.
[Sensing host's desire, Open Challenge Instance.]
[Challenge Instance can be activated once for every major level breakthrough. It may drop an item that aligns with the host's reasonable desire. After level thirty, Challenge Instance will close.]
[Based on the host's current desire, a cultivation method that completely conceals the host's Soul Ring age, spirit power level, and reduces self-aura may be dropped. Confirm desire?]
'What? It's real! This is too amazing!'
Li Minghong's heart swelled with joy when he heard what the instance space in his mind said, and at the same time, he began to ponder.
'Is this cultivation method the maximum possible desire within the scope of reasonable desires?'
[Yes, any higher request would be an unreasonable desire.]
He was silent for a moment. This was, after all, what he needed most right now, so he no longer hesitated.
'Confirm desire.'
[Desire confirmed, Challenge Instance activated.]
Whoosh!
Inside the instance, Li Minghong observed his surroundings and found that this instance didn't seem to be cleared by killing instance characters.
[The current instance is a parkour instance. All of the host's physical strength will be cleared, retaining the physical fitness of a normal adult male.]
"This instance doesn't seem difficult."
Ahead, mist swirled, and several towering mountains stood around, while in the very center, there was a small floating island suspended in the air.
There were many floating islands, extending downwards and forwards, with the largest one at the very bottom.
[Reach the largest floating island to clear the instance.]
"Haha! Isn't this easy? The height and distance between each small floating island won't take much effort to jump. And even if my strength is stripped, I still have skills like Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track!"
"You're so considerate! I love you, instance space!"
With a wide smile on his face, he directly jumped onto the first small floating island.
Just as he was about to land on the floating island, suddenly, the small floating island changed its position.
"Hmm?"
Li Minghong fell directly into the abyss.
"Damn it!"
Li Minghong suddenly sat up from the bed, panting heavily.
"Instance space! You're heartless! You're not a good thing!"
[Today's challenge attempts: 2/3]
"You like to squander my goodwill, do you! Again!"
[Instance activated]
With the experience from the first attempt, Li Minghong first tested it with his foot and found that the floating island didn't move at all.
"It only moves when I jump?"
His eyes darted around a few times, and an idea formed in his mind.
Li Minghong jumped directly, and sure enough, the floating island changed its position.
Just as he was about to fall, Li Minghong immediately grabbed the edge of the cliff with his hand, then pulled himself up and jumped onto the floating island.
"Hmph hmph! What can you do to me?"
Li Minghong felt he had found the trick.
Just as he was about to use the same method for the second one, the moment Li Minghong grabbed the edge of the first floating island, the first floating island changed its position again.
Li Minghong fell into the abyss again, waking up on the bed once more.
"Alright, alright! You want me to stack lives, huh! I'm not in a hurry anyway! For the next few months, I'll slowly wear you down!"