"Could the people secretly protecting me have actually been bought off?"
"Or were they Brother's people from the start?"
The more Ning Rongrong thought about it, the colder she felt all over.
An "accident" on the level of a Titan Giant Ape was simply the perfect excuse!
If she died at the hands of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, who could uncover any flaws? Who could blame the Secret Guards?
At that moment, her desire to go to Nuoding City grew even stronger.
It was not merely to meet that interesting diary owner.
It was also to survive!
Only by staying beside Lin Yuan, who seemed capable of foreseeing and seeing through everything, could she feel even a trace of security!
After all, she could not stay inside the sect forever, and her father and two grandfathers could not protect her for life either.
Only once she became stronger, or had powerful companions at her side, would her brothers not dare do anything excessive!
Meanwhile.
Star Luo Empire, Zhu Family Mansion.
In a quiet courtyard, two grown figures and one small figure sat together.
The youngest looked to be only around five years old. Delicate and adorable, she resembled an exquisite porcelain doll.
Yet in her not-yet-fully-developed eyes was a cool aloofness and maturity that did not match her age.
She was none other than the childhood version of Zhu Zhuqing.
"Sister, do you think what this Lin Yuan said is true?"
Xiao Zhuqing pointed at the Diary Copy floating before her and asked in a childish voice,
"In the future, I'll be Dai Mubai's fiancée?"
"Doesn't that mean that someday, you and I..."
As she spoke, a trace of fear flashed through Xiao Zhuqing's large eyes.
As the Third Miss of the Zhu Family, even though she had yet to awaken her Martial Soul, she had long been taught the family's cruel rules of competition.
The strong survived, the weak were eliminated. The victors lived, while the losers died—or were crippled.
Her relationship with her older sister Zhu Zhuyun was very good now, and her sister doted on her.
She truly did not want the day to come when the two of them would have to fight to the death over that cold Imperial Throne.
Beside her, Zhu Zhuyun, whose figure had already begun to develop and was exceptionally voluptuous, had a complicated look in her eyes as well.
She stared at the diary, her brows tightly furrowed.
"Dai Mubai..."
Zhu Zhuyun sighed and reached out to rub her younger sister's little head.
"I never expected that you would actually have Martial Soul Resonance with that Third Prince in the future."
"What are we supposed to do..."
Zhu Zhuyun had a headache too.
At this point in time, she was still very affectionate toward her younger sister, who had not awakened her Martial Soul.
However, what concerned her even more was another piece of information revealed in the diary.
"Shrek Academy..."
Zhu Zhuyun narrowed her eyes slightly, and a cold light flashed through them.
"If Dai Mubai appears at Shrek in the future, doesn't that mean... he ran away?"
"As a prince, instead of striving to advance in the face of competition, he abandoned his fiancée and fled to another country to scrape out an existence?"
"That Color Tiger is actually this cowardly!"
Zhu Zhuyun's heart was filled with contempt.
Dai Mubai's talent was actually better than that of her fiancé, Dai Weisi, but because he was younger, his chances of winning were not great.
But having low odds was not a reason for him to become a deserter!
"Besides that, who is this woman called Qian Renxue?"
Zhu Zhuyun stared at the name mentioned in the diary.
"What status does she have in Spirit Hall?"
"She can actually casually mobilize Titled Douluo to Nuoding City?"
"Could she be the Former Pope's Illegitimate Daughter? They're both surnamed Qian..."
This question was probably not hers alone. Everyone with a Diary Copy was curious about it.
However, the most pressing matter now was to comfort her younger sister.
"Zhuqing, don't worry."
"Since we have this Diary Copy and can learn about the future in advance, there will definitely be a way to change our fate!"
Seventh Dormitory.
Lin Yuan stopped at that point.
He did not actually know where the Secret Guards protecting Ning Rongrong had gone in the Original Work.
But that did not stop him from stirring up some "Conspiracy Theory" in the diary.
Only by making Ning Rongrong feel a sense of crisis and fear would she desperately seek a new source of support.
And he, Lin Yuan, was that support.
After all, Ning Fengzhi and the Sword Bone Douluo could not protect her for life.
Moreover, those two Titled Douluo still had to spend most of their time with Ning Fengzhi. At most, the ones able to protect Ning Rongrong would only be Soul Douluo.
Besides, there was nothing wrong with what he said.
If Ning Rongrong truly met with an accident, unless Ning Fengzhi had another daughter, one of his sons would definitely be chosen in the end to inherit the position of Sect Master.
"Lin Yuan..."
Xiao Wu's soft, sweet voice came from beside him.
Seeing Lin Yuan open his eyes, she asked nervously,
"Do you think those Titled Douluo who suddenly appeared will come back later?"
Lin Yuan shook his head. "That's hard to say, but I don't think they'll dare come back anytime soon."
"However, if those three are Spirit Hall's Titled Douluo, and they let their target escape, they'll probably remain in Nuoding City for a while."
"What? First Time Seeing Titled Douluo, and you're a little scared?"
Xiao Wu chuckled. "There's nothing we can do about that. The fluctuations from those people fighting in the air were so huge. What if we got caught up in it? We're just tiny Soul Masters."
Lin Yuan chuckled. "That's why we have to cultivate hard. Otherwise, we'll only become Fish on a Chopping Board in the future."
Outside the City.
Tang Hao wore a tattered black robe and held the Clear Sky Hammer. Like a God of Slaughter, he coldly watched the three people surrounding him in a triangular formation.
"I'm actually quite curious."
Tang Hao's voice was hoarse and low, carrying suppressed fury.
"How did you three know I was here? I shouldn't have revealed my whereabouts to anyone."
Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan pinched his fingers in an orchid gesture and smiled softly.
"Giggle giggle giggle, Your Excellency Haotian doesn't know, does he?"
"This is His Holiness the Pope's own intelligence network, the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web. It reaches everywhere."
"We also never expected that the mighty Clear Sky Douluo would hide like a rat in such a godforsaken little city."
At this point, a teasing glint flashed through Yue Guan's eyes.
"What? Could there also be prey you have your eye on in Nuoding City's Spirit Hall Branch?"
"Or is there... some shameful secret hidden here?"
Upon hearing the word "secret," Tang Hao's pupils suddenly constricted.
"Heh, her own intelligence network..."
Tang Hao let out a cold smile. The killing intent in his eyes instantly surged, transforming into tangible white airwaves that swept through the surroundings.
"Bullshit!"
"If Bibi Dong's reach were really that long, she wouldn't have only discovered me now!"
At this moment, Tang Hao was already certain that Yu Xiaogang had exposed his whereabouts!
Yu Xiaogang: ???
He had only met Yu Xiaogang in Nuoding City!
He had just given the token to Yu Xiaogang, and Spirit Hall's Titled Douluo arrived right after?
How could there be such a coincidence in this world?
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