Villagers Go Wild

Ugh!

Ning Chen's father, Ning Sixth Uncle, wore a blank expression!

Ugh!

Old Jack, the village chief of Holy Soul Village, wore the same blank expression!

Ugh!

Every villager of Holy Soul Village present stared at Ning Chen with utterly vacant eyes.

Ning Chen was even a year older than Ning Qiu and Gou Dan. He had awakened his martial soul last year, but unfortunately, he did not possess even a trace of Soul Power. In order to become a Soul Master, Ning Chen had no idea how many times he had lost his temper with his father over the years. The entire village knew about it. Yet now, following Gou Dan, Ning Chen had actually become a glorious Soul Master!

Old Jack was dumbfounded. There were actually three children in the village who could become Soul Masters, and two of them had already become glorious Soul Masters.

"A hundred-year soul ring?"

The little thug named Ling Feng stared in shock at the yellow soul ring around Ning Chen.

First Soul Skill: Iron Broom Whirlwind

Ning Chen swung his martial soul—a broom—in his hand and spun in place, forming a small tornado.

Bang

Under Ling Feng's horrified gaze, Ning Chen's attack had already landed on him. With a single sweep of the broom, Ning Chen sent him flying six meters away. He crashed heavily onto the ground and could not even crawl back up.

"Who else?"

Ning Chen roared domineeringly as he swept his gaze over the thugs who had gone too far. "Who else wants to fight? Come at me!"

Ugh!

The thugs who had come to collect protection money were all left gaping. Holy Soul Village was just a small village, yet it had two Soul Masters. Moreover, both of them possessed hundred-year soul rings as their first soul rings.

"Xiao Chenyu, you go!" the leading thug ordered.

"Boss!" Xiao Chenyu's face showed hesitation.

"If I tell you to go, then go. After you graduate, do you still want to join my Black Wolf Gang?" asked the scar-faced thug at the head of the group coldly.

Xiao Chenyu?

Graduate?

Ning Qiu froze for a moment before suddenly understanding. No wonder these names had sounded so familiar. These people were actually students from Notting Academy. They were the bad students from the original storyline who had gone looking for trouble with the work-study students of Seventh Dormitory, only to be taught a lesson by Tang San in the end.

"Xiao Chenyu and Ling Feng want to join a gang?"

Ning Qiu was deeply puzzled. Perhaps because of his interference, the storyline related to Douluo Continent had already begun to undergo unexpected changes.

"Xiao Chenyu, Level Eleven, one-ring Battle Soul Master. Martial soul: Wolf!" Xiao Chenyu introduced himself.

"Xiao Wu, you go!" Ning Qiu instructed.

"Okay." Xiao Wu stepped forward.

"You?" Xiao Chenyu stared at Xiao Wu in astonishment.

"That's right, me." Xiao Wu smiled.

"A little girl?" Xiao Chenyu questioned her in the same contemptuous tone.

"What's wrong with a little girl? Don't look down on little girls." Xiao Wu planted her hands on her hips. With a thought, a yellow soul ring lit up around her.

"A hundred-year soul ring!" Xiao Chenyu, who had been mocking Xiao Wu just moments ago, went completely still the next second.

"Boss, all three of their first soul rings are hundred-year soul rings. Could they be reinforcements Holy Soul Village hired?" Xiao Chenyu cautiously asked Scarface.

Scarface said nothing. The soul rings of the three children before him had also piqued his curiosity. He, too, was wondering whether these children might be descendants of some great family, whether they had backgrounds he could not afford to offend.

"They are, of course, villagers of Holy Soul Village. Our Holy Soul Village values harmony and prosperity. If you are willing to leave now, it is not too late." Old Jack stepped forward and voiced the answer to the doubts in Xiao Chenyu and the others' hearts.

"You aren't scared, are you?"

"If you're scared, then get the hell out of here!"

"Yeah, get out already! Save yourselves from making fools of yourselves here!"

After their shock passed, the villagers of Holy Soul Village all broke into delighted smiles and mocked the thugs who had come looking for trouble.

"Damn it!"

Scarface, the leader of the Black Wolf Gang, flew into a rage. He shouted, "Xiao Chenyu, get up there already! And the rest of you, get up there too! I refuse to believe that I, Scarface, would be afraid of these country bumpkins today!"

At Scarface's command, six people stepped out from behind him. They all revealed their martial souls, each with a soul ring around them. Every one of them was the lowest-grade, ten-year soul ring.

"A group fight?" Xiao Wu smiled, utterly fearless. She stepped forward and attacked Xiao Chenyu first.

First Soul Skill: Wolf Claw

Facing Xiao Wu, Xiao Chenyu did not dare let his guard down in the slightest. He swung his wolf claws, which could split stone, at Xiao Wu.

With a tap of her toes, Xiao Wu leaped up to a height taller than a person. Not only did she evade Xiao Chenyu's attack, but she also closed in above his head.

Xiao Chenyu immediately became flustered. He tried to swing his claws at Xiao Wu, but Xiao Wu evaded every strike.

At last, Xiao Wu grabbed both of Xiao Chenyu's hands and viciously kicked him in the abdomen.

With a bang, Xiao Wu was stunned by her own strength.

Xiao Chenyu, who had been struck by Xiao Wu's attack, was sent flying and crashed heavily to the ground more than ten meters away.

"My strength has grown stronger!"

Xiao Wu was overjoyed. Clever as she was, she knew this was the effect of the Body Tempering Spirit Liquid over the past few months.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Before long, Xiao Wu, Ning Chen, and Gou Dan had defeated all the Soul Masters who had followed Scarface's earlier orders.

"Do you still want to continue?" Xiao Wu asked contemptuously, smiling at Scarface, the leader of the Black Wolf Gang.

Uh!

Scarface, the leader of the Black Wolf Gang, stared blankly and incredulously at the three children before him, especially Xiao Wu, whose combat strength was off the charts.

Facing Xiao Wu's provocation, Scarface said coldly, "Don't think that having a hundred-year soul ring makes you invincible. You're not the only ones with hundred-year soul rings."

Thud!

Scarface stomped his foot, and two soul rings appeared beneath him, one white and one yellow. Black Soul Power condensed behind him into the phantom of a wolf-headed, human-bodied figure. That was his martial soul, the Black Wolf.

"A Soul Grandmaster?"

Old Jack frowned.

The gap between a Soul Master and a Soul Grandmaster was not merely the difference in the number of soul rings, but also the difference in Soul Power. Xiao Wu, Ning Chen, and Gou Dan were already exceptionally talented, but against Scarface, who had reached the Soul Grandmaster realm, they were no match for him.

"Don't think villagers are so easy to bully!" Ning Qiu said.

Ning Qiu stomped his foot, and a yellow soul ring lit up around him. The number of patterns on the ring differed from Xiao Wu's and the others'. It had a full nine, and even the tenth pattern showed faint signs of taking shape.

Golden Soul Power condensed behind Ning Qiu into a phantom covered in golden scales. It was neither quite a dragon nor quite an elephant. It was his martial soul, the Primordial Dragon Elephant.

"Th-This... what is that?"

Scarface's legs trembled as he stared in horror at the phantom behind Ning Qiu. Ever since Ning Qiu's martial soul had appeared, a terrifying pressure had filled the surroundings, bearing down on him.

Not only Scarface—even Xiao Wu, whose true form was a hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit, felt a trace of palpitations from Ning Qiu's martial soul. That feeling of dread seemed to arise from the very depths of her soul.