Shrek Academy.
Dead silence.
A silence even deeper than before.
"Ah—!"
A shriek so piercing it scarcely sounded human tore through the dead silence.
Xiao Wu's eyes instantly turned blood-red.
If Tang San's previous schemes against her had shattered her heart,
then this vicious plot targeting Great Ming and Second Ming tore her soul completely to pieces!
"Tang San!!"
Xiao Wu's voice was hoarse, stained with bloody tears.
"You hurt me... Fine, hurt me if you want! I was blind, I accept that!"
"But Great Ming and Second Ming... They're the family I grew up with!!"
"How could you! How could you scheme against even them!!"
Violent Soul Power erupted from Xiao Wu's body as she charged at Tang San like a madwoman, wanting to tear the demon before her apart.
Yet her heart had long since begun to bleed.
The immense grief and despair instantly threw the Soul Power within her body into disarray. Her footsteps faltered, and she nearly collapsed to the ground.
She had no ability to fight at all.
All her strength was spent enduring that boundless pain.
"Get out..."
Xiao Wu slumped to the ground as tears burst forth. She did not even dare look at Tang San again, merely repeating herself over and over.
"Get out!"
"Stay away from me... Get out!!"
Inside Spirit Hall.
"Crack..."
The armrest of Bibi Dong's Pope's Throne, fashioned from Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Jade, was crushed into powder by her bare hand.
Her body trembled faintly.
Not from fear, but from overwhelming fury.
"Good... Good... What a fine Tang San!"
She said "good" three times in a row, her chest rising and falling violently.
"The student surpasses the master indeed!"
"His father, Tang Hao, merely used my Spirit Hall to cheat Ah Yin!"
"But you, Tang San... You've really outdone him!"
Bibi Dong stared fixedly at the Sky Screen, her gaze seeming ready to devour Tang San within the image alive.
"Xiao Wu!"
"The Titan Giant Ape!"
"The Sky Azure Bull Python!"
"Three whole Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts!!"
"You planned to use me, Bibi Dong, and my entire Spirit Hall to make a wedding dress for you alone?!"
Three of them!
Those were three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts!
Three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings!
Three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones!
That brat intended to seize every advantage and leave nothing behind!
Bibi Dong felt a rush of blood surge straight to her head.
She had schemed her entire life and considered herself one of the cleverest women in the world.
Yet in the eyes of this Otherworldly Soul, she had merely been a... tool used three times?!
"Tang—San—!"
Her furious roar resounded throughout the Papal Palace. The Killing Intent within it made the temperature of the entire hall plummet by several degrees.
Deep within the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.
Ripples spread across the lake as a graceful silver-haired figure slowly emerged.
Gu Yue Na had awakened at some point. She floated above the lake, her violet eyes calmly watching the scene in the Sky Vault.
Behind her, an incomparably massive Giant Bear radiating a terrifying Aura lay prostrate upon the ground. It was none other than the Fierce Beast Xiong Jun.
"Master!"
Xiong Jun's voice rumbled like muffled Thunder, brimming with brutality and murderous intent.
"This human named Tang San is a scum despised by both humans and Gods!"
"He not only deceived the feelings of Spirit Beasts, but also intends to hunt Great Ming and Second Ming!"
"Please allow me to go at once, tear this wretch into ten thousand pieces, and purge this traitor from our Soul Beast Clan!"
Gu Yue Na slowly raised her jade-like hand, stopping Xiong Jun from volunteering for battle.
Her expression remained calm, yet silver lightning flickered in the depths of her violet eyes.
"No rush."
She spoke lightly, her voice clear yet carrying unquestionable authority.
"Wait until this Golden Ranking finishes revealing its contents."
Gu Yue Na's gaze fell upon the four faintly visible words at the top of the Sky Screen: "God-Bestowed Golden Ranking."
"Though the Soul Beast Clan cannot be listed."
A cold smile touched her lips, freezing the very air around her.
"This time, every reward belonging to those on the ranking..."
"Our Soul Beast Clan will take them all!"
The moment Gu Yue Na finished speaking, a pair of golden eyes that seemed forged from lava abruptly opened beneath the lake.
They belonged to Di Tian, sleeping at the bottom of the lake.
He did not reveal himself, but the pressure of Rule the World already made the entire Lake of Life boil.
"This child cannot be allowed to live!"
Di Tian's low voice rang out in the Depths of the Soul of every Fierce Beast.
"One Tang Hao stole the fortune of our Soul Beast Clan and became a Titled Douluo."
"Now his son actually wants to use the lives of three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts from the Star Dou as stepping stones to forge his Path to Godhood?"
"Wishful thinking!"
"He's simply courting death!"
Xiong Jun, the Ten Thousand Demon King, and the other Fierce Beasts were all aflame with rage, their Killing Intent awe-inspiring.
"Convey my order."
Gu Yue Na's voice sounded again. This time, she addressed the several Spirit Beast kings by the lakeside.
"Zi Ji, personally make a trip to the human world and bring back the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit named Xiao Wu to the Star Dou."
"The royalty of our Soul Beast Clan must never again remain outside, subjected to the bullying and schemes of others."
"Yes!"
A bewitching purple figure accepted the order and silently vanished into the depths of the forest.
"As for that Tang San..."
Gu Yue Na's voice carried bone-chilling killing intent.
"Let him live for now."
"This Seat would like to see just how many more filthy deeds this so-called Sky Screen can expose."
"Once the Golden Ranking matter is over, uproot him and everything behind him!"
"The blood of our Soul Beast Clan cannot be spilled in vain!"
Shrek Academy.
Tang San had completely given up on explaining himself, and he had given up resisting as well.
He simply stood there quietly, allowing countless gazes of contempt, resentment, and disappointment to fall upon him.
There was not much anger or despair on his face.
Only a trace of numbness.
And more than that, an arrogance and indifference buried deep in his bones.
So what if he had been exposed?
So what if the world misunderstood him?
So what if master and disciple severed ties, friends turned against one another?
The corner of Tang San's mouth even curled into a cold smile that no one noticed.
You Ordinary Mortals simply do not understand.
You do not understand the potential of my Twin Martial Souls.
You do not understand the power of my Tang Sect arts.
And you understand even less the advantage I possess as a transmigrator.
Today's humiliation is merely an insignificant stumbling block on my future road to godhood.
Just wait.
When I, Tang San, Rule the World and attain a God Position, everything you have done today will become a joke.
He even thought that perhaps this was an opportunity.
An opportunity to see clearly who was a fool and who truly possessed vision.
There would always be intelligent people in this world.
They would see through appearances to the truth and recognize the limitless potential and value within Tang San.
They would choose to invest in him now, offering help when he needed it most.
And in the future, he would surely repay them a hundredfold, a thousandfold.
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