Peerless Dragon Snake: Swords Drawn and Crossbows Bent

Good grief.

"Mmm~ mmm~"

Ning Rongrong pondered as she continued to devour her.

She had never imagined that her unexpected reward this time would be so great.

The minimum age of all her Soul Rings was fixed at sixty thousand years.

In other words, whether it was the three Soul Rings she had already obtained or the ones she would obtain in the future, their true ages would never be less than sixty thousand years.

What kind of level was that?

At the very least, that meant an all-black Soul Ring setup, didn't it?

Better yet, she might even end up with nothing but Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.

She was only level thirty right now.

Yet she had gained so much!

Could kissing Zhu Zhuqing once really have earned her a far greater reward than struggling for so many days?

Oh... my... god...

It was too incredible to believe.

And yet it had really happened.

Without hesitation, Ning Rongrong kissed Zhu Zhuqing hard, partly for the reward and partly to express her feelings.

But there were no more rewards...

All right, then. I'll kiss her a little longer and stop the next time Zhu Zhuqing runs out of breath.

That was what Ning Rongrong thought.

After all, she was enjoying it too.

But then, all of a sudden-

A commotion broke out in the nearby bushes, and someone even rolled out of them, crying "Ow, ow" the whole time.

It startled Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing into immediately stopping what they had planned to do next.

"Ow... ow... Grandpa, Grandma, even if you couldn't hold back anymore, you didn't have to push me out... Am I still your own granddaughter or not...? Ow~"

The person who had rolled out of the bushes was none other than Meng Yiran. Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing had met her once before, but they had never expected her to make an entrance like this the second time they met.

Even Ning Rongrong, who had read the original Douluo Continent hundreds of times, had not expected it.

Could it be that history had changed from this point on simply because she had chosen to leave the battle with the Titan Giant Ape?

The two elders who rolled out after Meng Yiran also looked embarrassed.

One of them, an old woman, was familiar to Ning Rongrong: the Snake Granny of the Peerless Dragon Snake, Chao Tianxiang.

She had met her after hunting the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent for its Soul Ring.

But Zhao Wuji had been the one to speak with her then, and Ning Rongrong herself had not exchanged a word with her.

The other was an old man about the same age as Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang. He was presumably the Dragon Duke of the Peerless Dragon Snake.

All three of them had rolled out.

"Alas, these tangled bushes wouldn't even spare an old man like me!" Dragon Duke sighed.

"..."

Snake Granny shook the leaves off herself, then pulled Meng Yiran, who had rolled out with them, to her feet. "Haven't we met somewhere before? You're from that academy Zhao Wuji was leading, aren't you?"

Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang stared straight at Ning Rongrong. She had always felt there was something extraordinary about this girl.

After all, she had seen the whole unbelievable feat just now: some Immortal Herb raising Soul Power Level by four levels, a level-thirty Soul Master using a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring directly, and then some other herb raising Soul Power Level by another nine levels.

Besides, from the first time she had seen Ning Rongrong, she had felt that the girl was different from ordinary people. It was only because the rice was already cooked-Oscar had already absorbed the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent's Soul Ring—that she had not stayed any longer.

But now they had met again, and with Zhao Wuji absent and only these two children before her, her tone was much sharper when she asked.

That was because she felt perfectly capable of killing the two little girls before her in an instant.

The superiority of someone above others left her in high spirits.

"Peeping isn't a nice thing to do, is it?" Hmph. Ning Rongrong reacted at once, shielding Zhu Zhuqing behind her as she watched the three "rolling balls" suddenly roll out.

Dragon Duke was the most ridiculous of the bunch, with several stalks of straw still sticking out of his hair.

But she could not laugh now.

After all, Ning Rongrong knew from the original story how strong the Peerless Dragon Snake couple were. Even Zhao Wuji was wary of them; they were far beyond what she could handle right now.

"Oh? You dare speak to me like that?" Relying on her Soul Power Level, Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang stared at Ning Rongrong in disbelief.

She had not expected Ning Rongrong and the little girl with her, with their Soul Power Levels both below forty, to dare confront her head-on.

Of course, she was bluffing. After all, she, her husband, and their granddaughter were the ones who had been peeping, so they had no grounds to stand on.

It was all for the sake of saving face.

The sense of superiority of someone above others.

But before Ning Rongrong could decide what to do next,

Zhu Zhuqing's heart suddenly tightened at those words. Instead, she rushed in front of Ning Rongrong, shielding her behind her, and said coldly, "Lady Snake Granny, Rongrong and I weren't bothering you here, were we? You're the ones who suddenly appeared, and you're acting so high and mighty. Why is that?"

Does this little girl think that just because her Soul Power Level is thirty-nine, she can take on the Peerless Dragon Snake head-on?

Or is she simply thinking of me?

Ning Rongrong was somewhat moved. She had no intention of stopping Zhu Zhuqing, but quietly released her Martial Soul, the Ten Treasures Glazed Sword, ready to strike.

"Ah, well... ah, well..." Seeing the two sides suddenly facing off with swords drawn and crossbows bent, Meng Yiran grew anxious and hurriedly explained, "Grandpa, Grandma, don't scare the two of them! They both look younger than me, but they're already level-thirty Soul Elders. I'm so envious. Besides, weren't we hiding in the bushes just fine? We only rolled out because Grandpa slipped, didn't we?? It had nothing to do with them."

Snake Granny: "..."

Dragon Duke: "..."

Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing: "..."

Dragon Duke coughed awkwardly. "Don't worry, we never said we were going to do anything to the two of them. We just happened to run into them, that's all."

Hearing her granddaughter start to expose their shortcomings, Snake Granny hurriedly nodded too. "It's not as if we're troublemakers who stir up trouble wherever we go. Since we've met, it must be fate. Fate..."

The two sides briefly introduced themselves.

Dragon Duke Meng Shu, Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran.

But when Ning Rongrong introduced herself, Dragon Duke and Snake Granny were taken aback. "Your surname is Ning? Could you be from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect? At your age, could you be Sect Master Ning Fengzhi's daughter?"

Ning Rongrong nodded.

That nod gave the two elders quite a fright.

Although they belonged to no sect or faction and did not have to act according to other sects' wishes, suddenly encountering the daughter of the sect master of one of the Upper Three Sects still made them somewhat wary.

Fortunately, they had not made a move just now.

Otherwise, no matter how things ended, the two elders and their granddaughter would probably have had more than they could handle.

They might even have ended up wanted by the Heaven Dou Empire or the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

In that case, they could forget about ever leaving the Star Dou Great Forest.

"I just didn't expect Sect Master Ning's daughter to come to a place like this. He really was willing to let her go," Dragon Duke Meng Shu said thoughtfully.

Meng Yiran, on the other hand, was delighted and kept asking what there was to do for fun in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, leaving the two elders at a loss.

Oh well, oh well. If their granddaughter could get to know some people from a sect, perhaps it would help her development in the future.

And just as the two sides were enjoying their conversation,

Suddenly,

A strange sound caught everyone's attention...