Zhao Wuji Hunted Down, a Rank 93 Poison Douluo Attacks!
On the Douluo Continent of the original timeline, Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong had all fallen silent.
(PS: From here on, to distinguish the same people in the original and alternate timelines, everyone from the original timeline will have "Original" added before their name.)
"So, judging by what I said in that timeline, Qian Xunji in that world definitely wasn't simple.
You could even say he was the root cause of the differences between the Douluo Continent in that timeline and the one in ours!"
Original Flender coughed. Watching Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong silently release their embrace, he spoke to break the awkward silence.
"From what the other me said in that screen of light in the sky,
Erlong in that world admired Qian Xunji because he had saved her many times. She was grateful, and that was why she felt that way.
But don't worry, Xiaogang. No matter how good Qian Xunji is, he's still an outsider!"
Looking at Original Yu Xiaogang's livid face, Original Flender thought for a moment and finally found a way to comfort him.
"After all, you, Erlong, and I have mastered the Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Golden Sacred Dragon.
No matter how good Qian Xunji is, he isn't one of the three of us. Erlong definitely wouldn't choose him as her partner!"
Only after Original Flender finished speaking did Original Yu Xiaogang's expression improve slightly.
Of everything Original Flender had said, it was the Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill that restored Original Yu Xiaogang's confidence as a "theory grandmaster."
"Ahem!"
Original Yu Xiaogang surveyed the room, glancing at Original Xue Beng, who seemed to be holding back laughter, and then at Original Liu Erlong, who looked as though she wanted to speak but stopped herself. He smiled confidently:
"Flender is right. When a man and a woman possess a Martial Soul Fusion Skill and share an extraordinary rapport, they're bound to end up together.
The same goes for a Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill!
And Qian Xunji on that world's Douluo Continent must be the same as that fellow who died many years ago in our world: a sanctimonious hypocrite.
On the surface, he goes around saving people, but in truth, he has ulterior motives.
He might even deliberately put people in danger, then step forward himself to save them from fire and flood.
All for the sake of gaining fame, with no regard for the danger he brings upon others!"
"The Grandmaster is right!
Spirit Hall is full of scheming, sanctimonious hypocrites!
How could they possibly do anything so open and honorable?"
Original Xue Xing shouted his approval, then stood up and applauded Original Yu Xiaogang.
"Well said!"
The room immediately came alive, once again filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
Meanwhile, on the sky screen, after bidding farewell to Flender and the other two, Qian Renxue decided to head to Spirit City first. She would find Qian Xunji and tell him she had come from nineteen years in the future.
"Flender and the others aren't members of Spirit Hall, after all. They don't know much about what goes on inside it.
I wonder how my mother is doing in this timeline."
Qian Renxue summoned her Six-Winged Angel for possession. Her three pairs of broad, snowy-white wings beat gently as she flew toward the nearest city.
At the thought of Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue's gaze grew complicated.
In her memories, Bibi Dong had treated her very badly, as though she were looking at something repulsive.
When Qian Renxue was nine, her father, Qian Xunji, died, and Bibi Dong became the new Pope.
She assigned Qian Renxue a mission:
Go undercover in the Heaven Dou Empire and steal the entire empire without spilling a drop of blood.
Qian Renxue had lost her father and wanted only for her mother to acknowledge her.
But after she went undercover in the Heaven Dou Empire, Bibi Dong had never sent her a single message.
Even the letters she had sent, one after another, full of hope, had vanished like stones sinking into the sea.
Little by little, Qian Renxue lost hope that Bibi Dong would ever love her again. In her heart, her grandfather, Qian Daoliu, was her only family.
And Qian Renxue had never understood why Bibi Dong hated her so much.
Now she had truly come nineteen years into the past, and she had the chance!
In the original timeline, Original Bibi Dong saw Qian Renxue murmuring to herself on the sky screen. Her gaze also grew slightly complicated, and she couldn't help clenching her fists.
"My Xiao Xue, if your father weren't that beast Qian Xunji, how good could our relationship as mother and child have been?
But of all things, you had to be that beast's daughter."
At that thought, Original Bibi Dong couldn't help closing her eyes in pain.
It was precisely because of the relationship between Qian Xunji and Qian Renxue that Bibi Dong had never been able to face her.
She could only take Hu Liena as her disciple and raise her as though she were her own daughter.
Just as Qian Renxue was approaching the city ahead, she heard a thunderous shout from far away.
"Zhao Wuji, where do you think you're running?!"
Qian Renxue turned to look and saw a group of Soul Masters displaying Soul Rings of various colors as they pursued a Soul Master possessed by a bear-type martial soul.
"Zhao Wuji? Is that the vice dean of Shrek Academy?"
Her curiosity piqued, Qian Renxue flew over, ready to watch the show.
"I remember that in the original world, Zhao Wuji really was hunted by my Spirit Hall in his early years.
But it came to nothing in the end. Even after Zhao Wuji became Shrek Academy's vice dean and went with them to Spirit City, nothing happened to him."
In the original timeline, Original Zhao Wuji had been laughing and chatting with everyone when he saw the scene on the sky screen. His old face immediately darkened.
Why was it showing his embarrassing past?
"If I remember correctly, Teacher Zhao, you first offended Tai Tan of the Defense Clan, and he hunted you down.
You finally managed to escape, only to offend Spirit Hall's people and end up hunted by sixteen bishops working together. But you still got away.
That's how you earned the title 'Immovable Wisdom King,' Teacher Zhao.
Hehe, am I remembering right?"
Ning Rongrong chuckled.
(PS: Ning Rongrong and the others haven't been born yet in the alternate timeline, so there's no "Original" before their names.)
"Ahem, you're not wrong!"
Original Zhao Wuji's old face reddened, but he still tried his best to defend himself:
"If those Spirit Hall fellows hadn't bullied me because I had no money and snatched something I had my eye on,
why would I have resorted to underhanded means to snatch it back?"
"Tsk, tsk!"
Flender merely curled his lip at that.
Before Old Zhao joined forces with him to establish Shrek Academy, his reputation in the Soul Master World had been largely negative.
In the alternate timeline, as Qian Renxue watched, she noticed that although the dozen or so bishops pursuing Zhao Wuji shouted fiercely,
they didn't seem to be in any hurry to beat him into a state where he could no longer fight.
They were merely driving Zhao Wuji in one direction.
Were they waiting for someone?
I'd better wait and see. The Douluo Continent in this world is very different from the one I remember! Qian Renxue thought.
She could pretend to be from a collateral branch of the Qian Family in front of Flender and the others.
But in front of Spirit Hall's bishops, it would be very easy for her cover to be blown.
In the end, Zhao Wuji was trapped in a valley, unable to advance or retreat.
"You Spirit Hall scum, all I did was snatch one Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone from you and kill a few of your people. Do you really have to chase me like this?"
The young Zhao Wuji's face was full of viciousness as he watched the people in the sky warily.
"Zhao Wuji, you've committed countless evil deeds. Today, we'll punish evil and uphold good by capturing you and sending you to be imprisoned in Slaughter City!"
a bishop called out.
"Heh, you think you can do that?"
Zhao Wuji said disdainfully.
"What if you add me to the mix?"
In the distance, a gigantic emerald-green serpent came hurtling toward them!
"I am Dugu Bo, titled Poison, an elder of Spirit Hall and a rank 93 Titled Douluo!"