Zhao Wuji's Survival Instinct! The Mystery of the Seven Treasure Dark Guard's Disappearance?

Ning Rongrong said in a trembling voice, "That Flender is gambling with his students' lives!"

"If he loses... it just means one more lonely grave."

The words in Lin Yuan's diary became increasingly sharp.

[And Flender still dared to brag about how strong his teaching staff was?]

[The first time Tang San and the others went to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Rings, such a dangerous place, and he actually sent only Zhao Wuji to lead them!]

[Where were the other teachers? Li Yusong? Lu Qibin? Shao Xin?]

[What were those Soul Emperors doing? Drinking tea at the academy?]

[All the academy's students went out to hunt soul beasts, yet those teachers did not all go out to protect them?]

[How big were their hearts?!]

[To put it bluntly, Flender was not seriously teaching his students at all.]

[And the reason he sent Zhao Wuji that time was probably because Tang San, Ning Rongrong, and the others had such powerful backgrounds that he did not dare be careless.]

[If it had been those commoner students from before...]

[Heh, he might have casually sent a Soul Emperor, or even let them go by themselves!]

[That is why Shrek's mortality rate is so high!]

[He did not have the skills, yet insisted on taking on the job.]

[The only reason an academy like this had survived without being beaten to death was that most of the students it recruited were commoner orphans without backgrounds!]

[And in the Original Work, the team led by Zhao Wuji really did encounter danger in the Star Dou Great Forest—they ran into the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, the Titan Giant Ape!]

Xiao Wu: ???

The women: ???

Upon seeing the words "Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast," some of the female characters peeking at the screen felt their hearts skip a beat.

They were only hunting soul beasts on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, yet they could still encounter a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?

With Zhao Wuji as the only Soul Sage? Weren't they doomed?

[Of course, the Titan Giant Ape had actually sensed Xiao Wu's aura and specifically came looking for its Sister Xiao Wu. It never truly intended to kill anyone.]

[But Zhao Wuji did not know that at the time!]

[Faced with such a terrifying Giant Beast, what was Zhao Wuji's first reaction?]

[He directly activated his Martial Soul Avatar, charged forward despite himself, and told Tang San and the others to run!]

[In the eyes of many people who watched the anime, this scene was Zhao Wuji's shining moment as a responsible teacher, and it was even quite moving.]

[But if you have read the Original Work's novel and know Zhao Wuji's thoughts at the time, you will realize this was not some eruption of Teacher Ethics.]

[It was pure Survival Instinct!]

[Zhao Wuji was probably cursing in his heart at the time: What the hell are these little ancestors?!]

[If he dared abandon the students and run away by himself, then even if he survived the Titan Giant Ape, he would still definitely die—and probably die even more horribly!]

[Why? Just look at these students' backgrounds!]

[Behind Tang San stood Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao, who had just beaten him up!]

[Xiao Wu was Tang San's sworn younger sister. If she died, would Tang San and Tang Hao let him off?]

[Ning Rongrong was the Little Princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. If she died in his care, Sword Bone Douluo would scatter even his ashes!]

[Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing were the prince and Crown Princess of the Star Luo Empire!]

[If everyone on this boat perished in the Star Dou Great Forest...]

[Even a hundred lives would not be enough for Zhao Wuji to divide among those major powers!]

[So did he dare run? Could he run?]

[He could only force himself to fight! Dying in battle might at least leave him with a good reputation, but if he ran, he would become a wanted criminal across the entire continent and die without a burial place!]

[Especially Tang Hao.]

[On the night of the entrance examination, Tang Hao had just used the Clear Sky Hammer to loosen Zhao Wuji's bones.]

[Zhao Wuji had no way of knowing whether that god of slaughter was still watching from the shadows.]

[If Tang Hao was watching nearby and Zhao Wuji dared show weakness, the Titan Giant Ape might not even have attacked before Tang Hao's hammer came down first!]

Nuoding Academy, Seventh Dormitory.

Xiao Wu looked at the diary, her delicate little face scrunched up, her eyes full of embarrassment.

"So that crisis was caused by me?"

"Er Ming, that idiot! Why was it so reckless?"

"Didn't it know it would scare people to death?"

But on second thought, Xiao Wu secretly glanced at Lin Yuan beside her, who had his eyes closed as he rested, and a sweet smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

"Fortunately, this time I have Lin Yuan, and I know in advance about some of the things that will happen in the future."

"This time, I am not going to Shrek, so Er Ming will not scare anyone either."

However, compared to Xiao Wu's ease, Lin Yuan's next analysis made another "Little Princess" feel a bone-chilling cold.

[But come to think of it, this is strange.]

[Tang Hao had indeed already left at the time, so it was normal that he did not intervene.]

[But what about the people protecting Ning Rongrong?]

[As the only cherished daughter of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Ning Fengzhi's most beloved daughter.]

[How could there possibly have been no one secretly protecting her when she went out to gain experience?]

[Although Sword Bone Douluo had to guard the sect and could not leave.]

[The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was wealthy and powerful. Sending one or two Soul Douluo-level Secret Guards, or a squad of expendable warriors made up of several Soul Sages, should have been standard procedure, right?]

[Although even Soul Douluo could not defeat the Titan Giant Ape.]

[While Zhao Wuji stood in front as a meat shield, those Secret Guards had every chance to take Ning Rongrong away amid the chaos!]

[But!]

[Until the very end, even when Ning Rongrong's Soul Power was exhausted and she nearly fainted, even when Xiao Wu was taken away and everyone fell into despair.]

[Not a single one of those Seven Treasure Dark Guards appeared!]

[That is truly terrifying when you think about it.]

[Where did they go?]

[Did they abandon their posts? Or did they never intend to act at all?]

[Or, an even darker guess.]

[Could the order they received have been... if an "accident" happened, to let Ning Rongrong die outside?]

Boom!

Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Rongrong's boudoir.

Ning Rongrong, who had just been happy that Lin Yuan "understood her," froze where she stood, her heart pounding wildly.

Her entire body stiffened.

"Die... outside?"

Born into a top-tier sect and exposed since childhood to all kinds of power struggles, her mind turned faster than anyone's.

Her father and grandfathers certainly would not harm her.

But what about others?

"If the future me truly is the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's chosen sole heir..."

"Then if I die, who benefits the most?"

Several faces that had always treated her gently and cared for her attentively instantly appeared in Ning Rongrong's mind.

They were her brothers.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect did not have only one descendant. It was simply that she was the only girl, and if nothing unexpected happened, her talent when she underwent Martial Soul Awakening would also be the highest in the future, which was why she was the most favored.

But her brothers had ambitions too!

Once something happened to her, the "first-in-line heir"...

P.S. Request follow-up reading~~