Douluo: Ruo Tuo Save Me

But no one knew that while they were called the Eight Great Families, five of them were actually Zhong Family branches!

The other three were the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, the Star Luo Imperial Family, and Spirit Hall!

Why didn't Spirit Hall simply establish its own Soul Fighting Arenas?

It wasn't time to tear off all pretenses yet. They had to leave others a way to survive, didn't they?

Those factions were not weak, and they had even proactively declared that they would not participate in the conflicts across the continent.

What was wrong with giving them something to eat? Setting aside the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires, the other five families—

All possessed Title Douluos! It would not be wrong to call them forces with Soul Fighting Douluos or above!

Those able to attend this meeting were all direct descendants of families at Soul Fighting Douluo level or higher.

In the end, everyone swore on their Martial Souls to keep the meeting's contents strictly confidential and never reveal them.

No one had demanded it, but for Zhong Li to successfully become that kind of existence, it had to be done!

The people secretly protecting Zhong Li increased from one to three!

As for the Gongsun Family, they were true family friends of the Zhong Family, likewise a clan with a history stretching back thousands of years.

That was because they possessed an incredibly powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skill!

Moreover, the two families intermarried, and unlike the Hell White Tiger, they did not draw such a clear distinction between themselves.

Instead, after a child underwent Martial Soul Awakening at six years old, those who awakened the Dragon Gallbladder Spear Martial Soul took the surname Zhong.

Those who awakened the Storm Greatsword Martial Soul took the surname Gongsun.

Of course, their given names had been chosen beforehand...

As for why they opposed Zhong Tian and Gongsun Li being together—

They were each the only child of their generation's family head. Their descendants needed to inherit their respective family Martial Souls!

What if the two of them only had one child, or all their children awakened the other family's Martial Soul? Wouldn't that be ridiculous...

No matter how selfless they were, they still hoped their descendants could inherit their positions.

They opposed it, but they did not stop the two from being together. Otherwise, with their Soul Saint cultivation, they would have long since been dragged back home.

After My Soul Saint Father became wildly popular—

Zhong Li did not merely suffer a social death at the academy. He suffered one across the entire Douluo Continent!

"By universal rationality, I should return to Grassroots Village now and lie low! I'll leave the village after becoming invincible under heaven."

By then, Zhong Li had grown from a handsome youth into a young man even more striking than the Zhong Li who wandered the mortal world in the game.

He stood one meter ninety tall and wore the everyday attire of the Hall of Rebirth.

He was considering whether he should attend Shrek Academy.

Ever since My Soul Saint Father had exploded in popularity across the continent, many people had come looking for Zhong Li.

The major Spirit Master academies, as well as certain Spirit Master factions.

Among them was the Heaven Dou Imperial Family. The one who came was Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, who was Qian Renxue. After Qian Renxue was rejected, she did not pester him relentlessly, instead leaving behind a token...

Then came Ning Fengzhi of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect! No one from Spirit Hall came, perhaps because Qian Renxue had already been there.

Who could refuse an Innate Full Soul Power Spirit Master of the Support Type from joining their faction?

And his father had become a powerful Soul Saint at such a young age!

Sword Douluo Chen Xin had come with Ning Fengzhi. After Zhong Li refused to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect—

Chen Xin uttered, "This child is terrifying. If he cannot be used by us..."

And was nearly beaten to death on the way back... Even with Ning Fengzhi supporting him, he still lost his left arm!

Although Ning Fengzhi wanted to suppress the news, certain interested parties still learned of it.

Once this happened, no one from the major factions dared approach Zhong Li again!

This child was terrifying, and so was his father. Then what about his grandfather?

The major factions were not fools! Chen Xin had level 96 Soul Power, and with Ning Fengzhi by his side, he had still lost an arm!

Without someone at level 98, how could anyone possibly accomplish that?!

Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi suffered in silence, but they did not reveal the truth. The ones who had beaten them into that state were not some level 98 Super Douluo.

It had been caused by a level 94 Title Douluo and a level 92 Title Douluo using a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

And there had been another person who had not made a move! If that person had acted, they might truly never have returned!

Zhong Li's second grandfather: "You did not make a move, so I will not make one this time either. Whether you can leave or not depends on yourselves!"

Those were that man's exact words to them!

Chen Xin had desperately tried to escape with Ning Fengzhi, and the two Title Douluos had been unable to stop him.

Title Douluos were not so easy to kill. If someone could not defeat you and was determined to flee, there was truly nothing you could do. Besides, Chen Xin was a Super Douluo with level 96 strength!

If Chen Xin had been alone, he might have fought to the death, but Ning Fengzhi could not die!

To escape with Ning Fengzhi, he forcibly endured a Martial Soul Fusion Skill! At the cost of his left arm, he escaped with Ning Fengzhi!

Chapter 20: Tang Hao Goes Offline

Chapter 20: Tang Hao Goes Offline

Nuoding Academy had also become famous throughout the Douluo Continent because of Zhong Li.

Some smaller factions and families wanted to send their children to curry favor with Zhong Li, hoping to gain the goodwill of a young Soul Saint.

Perhaps in ten or twenty years, he would break through to become a Title Douluo.

If they could befriend him, or even directly marry their daughters to him, that would be even better!

As a result, Nuoding Academy was flooded with children who had traveled from afar.

But Zhong Li kept a low profile and rarely appeared in public. Thus, those children who had arrived with missions failed to complete the tasks assigned by their families and sects.

After Yu Xiaogang's attempts at persuasion failed, Tang San and Xiao Wu still became sworn siblings. It was just that the part where they slept in the same bed disappeared.

Not long after school began, Xiao Wu was "lucky" enough to "pick up" a Soul Tool capable of concealing a soul beast's aura.

As long as she did not seek death by appearing before a Limit Douluo, even a Super Douluo would be unable to see through her disguise.

She simply thought herself lucky and did not think much of it. Having just arrived in human society, how could she have known how sinister human hearts were...

That was also why Qian Renxue and Ning Fengzhi had both brought Title Douluos with them, yet failed to discover her.

But after Tang Hao, who had been secretly protecting Tang San, returned from visiting Ah Yin, he sensed that something was wrong.

If Xiao Wu had possessed that Soul Tool from the start, why had she not worn it? Soul Tools capable of concealing one's aura were extremely rare.

After observing for some time, he discovered that the child Zhong Li was actually being protected by two Title Douluos!

Even thinking with his butt, he could tell where Xiao Wu's Soul Tool had come from!

And their thoughts were definitely different from his. They were waiting—waiting for Zhong Li to grow up, so they could kill the rabbit and take her Soul Rings and Soul Bones!

Giving Xiao Wu a Soul Tool that concealed her aura was meant to prevent other Title Douluos from discovering her!

Tang Hao was bold due to his skill. In secret, he lured the two Title Douluos out of Nuoding City and into a sparsely populated place.

He intended to use his strength to make the two retreat in the face of difficulty. They were merely level 92 and level 94 Title Douluos.

Tang Hao was level 95 and possessed the Clear Sky Hammer, known as the world's number one Tool Martial Soul!

He believed he had the strength to make those two Title Douluos get lost...

If they were from Spirit Hall, Tang Hao would not mind killing one or two of them. With his Clear Sky Hammer and Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, what did he have to fear!

But he never could have imagined that the child named Zhong Li did not have merely two Title Douluos around him at the time. He had a full five!

Even Tang Hao, who had experienced his wife's Sacrifice, struck down the Pope, and been hunted by a Peerless Douluo, was utterly stunned!

Two level 98 Super Douluos, along with the level 94 and level 92 Title Douluos, surrounded him...

Even when he instantly detonated all nine rings and tried to escape—just as he had escaped from Qian Daoliu back then!

Who could have imagined that two level 98 Super Douluos could actually use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill?!

They directly killed Tang Hao on the spot...

All that could be said was that Tang Hao had chosen the wrong time.

That day, Zhong Li's biological grandfather and maternal grandfather had happened to come see their grandson. They merely watched him from the shadows and did not meet Zhong Li.

The two even sighed that he was indeed their grandson. Not only was he extraordinarily talented, he was also so handsome. Every move he made was...

Gongsun Li's father, Zhong Li's maternal grandfather Gongsun Ce, did not know Zhong Li's precise circumstances.

When his childhood friend invited him to come see their grandson, he followed without a second thought. He had only one daughter, and this maternal grandson was also his grandson!

He had not expected the Zhong Family to care so much about his maternal grandson that they had dispatched two Title Douluos to protect Zhong Li.

He directly ignored Zhong Li's second grandfather, Zhong Daoming, assuming that he, like himself, had merely come to take a look. After all, he had raised that brat Zhong Tian.

What a coincidence. They suddenly discovered a level 95 Super Douluo with a chaotic aura secretly provoking the Elders protecting Zhong Li, intending to lure the two out of the city...

Although the Martial Souls of those two Elders were both Dragon Gallbladder Spears, after their Martial Souls underwent a second awakening, the Dragon Souls they gained were similar and complementary!

The two were biological brothers who had grown up together, and they had miraculously completed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill! At the meeting, they had voluntarily requested to protect Zhong Li, this junior.

Leaving aside the Zhong Daoxian and Zhong Daoming brothers, Gongsun Ce could not tolerate this either!

Zhong Daoxian was Zhong Li's grandfather and Zhong Tian's father. He was a Super Douluo whose Soul Power had reached level 98.

This man harbored intentions of harming his grandson! Together, they followed Tang Hao into the wilderness.

Zhong Li's safety was left to Zhong Daoming...

"Kehehe! What a Clear Sky Sect! You actually dared set your sights on my grandson!"

After Tang Hao revealed his Clear Sky Hammer, Gongsun Ce said to him.

Before Tang Hao could explain, Zhong Daoxian raised his Dragon Gallbladder Spear and moved to capture Tang Hao.

Tang Hao was not the type to submit without resistance. He detonated all nine rings at once, intending to unleash the Great Sumeru Hammer and break through their blockade.

Until the moment he died, he had not expected those two level 98 Title Douluos to use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill without the slightest hesitation!

How could the Storm Greatsword, capable of using a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with the Dragon Gallbladder Spear, be ordinary?

Spirit Masters with the Storm Greatsword not only possessed the wind attribute. After level seventy, their Martial Souls would likewise undergo a second awakening!

They would gain an incomparably terrifying conceptual attribute: silence!

Anyone struck by the Storm Greatsword would be unable to use any Spirit Skills for three seconds. It could even interrupt Spirit Skills already being cast!

Of course, the prerequisite was striking the opponent's body. Hitting their Martial Soul would not trigger the silence effect.

Before reaching level seventy, one could not use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

The Dragon Souls awakened by Dragon Gallbladder Spears differed, so the Martial Soul Fusion Skills they could perform with the Storm Greatsword also differed.

Nor could just anyone fuse. In each generation, usually only two or three pairs could perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

If every clan member could use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, their two families would have conquered the world long ago...

Zhong Daoxian and Gongsun Ce activated the Martial Soul Fusion Skill they possessed together:

"Martial Soul Fusion Skill—Sorrow of Time and Space!"

The Dragon Soul Zhong Daoxian gained through his second awakening was a Space-Time Dragon that controlled space.

His Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Gongsun Ce, Sorrow of Time and Space, could plunge all enemies within a thousand meters into "silence." They would be unable to control their Soul Power, and even their domains would be rendered useless!

Tang Hao, who had detonated his rings, was unsurprisingly struck by the backlash of the immense Soul Power he had gained from the Ring Explosion!

Already seriously wounded and not yet recovered, he was instantly gravely injured once more and cut down by Gongsun Ce's sword...

"Clear Sky Sect, what a Clear Sky Sect. If Tang Chen were still around, we would show him some respect. After all, he was a level 99 Pseudo Demigod. Pah! A piece of trash like you at level 95 actually dared set your sights on my grandson..."

The Zhong Family had once nearly produced a divine-level powerhouse.

The heads of the two families were quite familiar with the classifications for level 99 Peerless Douluos.

(Level 99, Pseudo Demigod, Demigod, Quasi God)