"Master, what's wrong? Why do you look so troubled?"
When Lin Wanwan brought Qian Renxue to the sect's main hall, she found her master, Liu Yiyi, the Palace Master of the Hundred Flowers Palace, wearing a bitter expression.
Liu Yiyi glanced at her most beloved disciple and sighed softly.
"Wanwan, the higher sect, the Star Extremity Sect, just sent word. They want our Hundred Flowers Palace to select twenty female cultivators with the best aptitude and send them to the Star Extremity Sect. They say there is some once-in-a-thousand-years great opportunity."
Lin Wanwan's eyes immediately lit up. She hurriedly raised her hand. "Master, let me go! This is a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity! This disciple wants to go."
Watching her excessively innocent youngest disciple, Liu Yiyi felt a headache coming on.
Would the Star Extremity Sect really be kind enough to share an opportunity with them? That was practically the same as dreaming!
In this world, there was absolutely no one so noble that they would willingly hand over an opportunity!
Whenever something as good as pie falling from the sky appeared, there had to be an enormous pit beneath it. Ninety-nine percent of the time, they wanted to use the Hundred Flowers Palace's disciples as cannon fodder to fill that pit!
She guessed that some secret realm was about to emerge, but the Star Extremity Sect considered it too dangerous. That was why it wanted the Hundred Flowers Palace's disciples to enter as well—so that when danger arose, the Hundred Flowers Palace's disciples could be sent to their deaths, allowing the Star Extremity Sect's disciples to pass through safely.
Such things were hardly uncommon in the Eight Regions.
Of course, calling it an opportunity was not entirely wrong. After all, if one could fight their way out of the secret realm alive, the rewards would certainly be substantial.
It was just that the odds of that were minuscule.
Moreover, although the Star Extremity Sect was the Hundred Flowers Palace's higher sect, if the Hundred Flowers Palace ever found an opportunity, it would definitely drag the Star Extremity Sect down from its position!
That was right. The Hundred Flowers Palace coveted the Star Extremity Sect's position as well. Any sect within the Star Extremity Sect's system wanted to replace it.
After all, that represented an enormous amount of resources!
"No. This matter isn't suitable for you."
Liu Yiyi shook her head and decisively refused Lin Wanwan. Seeing her precious disciple become unhappy, she explained.
"Wanwan, your master would never harm you. Don't think this is some good thing. Based on my understanding of the Star Extremity Sect, there is definitely something wrong with this. So, after discussing it with several elders, I decided to send some outer disciples over to make up the numbers."
"Didn't you send word earlier that you had found a disciple with decent aptitude? That girl by the door, right? I took a moment to look at her just now. Her aptitude is only so-so. Let her go along to fill a spot."
Liu Yiyi did not bother lowering her voice. In an instant, Qian Renxue's face turned deathly pale.
She had originally thought she had found a backer who could protect her through the coming year, but she had never expected it to be a pit of fire instead!
Qian Renxue did not think Lin Wanwan had deceived her. In her eyes, Lin Wanwan was too innocent to hide anything at all, so she definitely had not known about this beforehand. Her original intentions had been entirely kind.
She simply had not expected this so-called Star Extremity Sect to suddenly appear and cause her to be used to make up the numbers.
On Douluo Continent, inside Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong's face turned livid.
She had not expected this outcome either!
Like Qian Renxue, she had initially thought Qian Renxue's coming year would be easier. Who could have imagined such a sudden reversal?
"Damn Hundred Flowers Palace! One day, I will lead Spirit Hall and destroy you all!"
Hearing Bibi Dong's bold declaration, Qian Daoliu's mouth twitched slightly.
Although he also deeply pitied Qian Renxue, he was even more speechless at Bibi Dong's grand words.
Under Bibi Dong's leadership, Spirit Hall had indeed become several times stronger than it had been in the era of his son, Qian Xunji. But this Hundred Flowers Palace was obviously not merely a hundred or a thousand times stronger than Spirit Hall!
Spirit Hall simply could not compare to it at all!
Of course, he could understand why Bibi Dong thought this way. Although Bibi Dong spent all day denying Qian Renxue, Qian Renxue was still her own flesh and blood. How could she not feel heartache?
In the Hundred Flowers Palace's main hall, Liu Yiyi looked coldly at Qian Renxue. Ignoring Lin Wanwan's desperate pleas beside her, she spoke to Qian Renxue indifferently.
"Qian Renxue, right? Although I'm sorry about this, the situation developed too suddenly, and there's nothing we can do. The Star Extremity Sect's Immortal Boat is already outside. Go to the Star Extremity Sect now with the selected outstanding disciples."
"Of course, don't even think about running. This One is at the Array Realm. Crushing you to death would be as easy as crushing an ant."
After saying that, Liu Yiyi gave the disciples outside a look. Without another word, the two disciples gave Qian Renxue no chance to react and directly escorted her toward the Star Extremity Sect's Magic Boat.
"Xiao Xue, wuwuwu, I'm sorry! I'm the one who harmed you, wuwuwu."
Hearing Lin Wanwan's heart-wrenching sobs behind her, all the rage and resentment in Qian Renxue's heart instantly vanished, replaced by endless sighs.
Wanwan had not done it on purpose either.
A short while later, when Qian Renxue saw the Star Extremity Sect's Magic Boat, she was utterly stunned.
It was an incomparably enormous Magic Boat. At a glance, it was at least ten thousand meters long. The entire vessel shimmered with flowing light, and intricate inscriptions circulated across its surface, gleaming brilliantly as it emitted faint pressure.
A cultivator stood every ten meters aboard the Magic Boat. Each one exerted immense pressure on her, even greater than the pressure Lin Wanwan gave her!
Most eye-catching of all was a flag planted atop the Magic Boat.
There was only one dazzling golden character on the flag—"Star"—yet it radiated endless Dao resonance and boundless pressure that filled everyone with terror!
In the Douluo World, countless Soul Masters, especially the powerful ones, all rose to their feet at once and stared fixedly at Qian Renxue's Light Screen.
In the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Yu Yuanzhen stared fixedly at that dazzling golden "Star" flag. Only after a long while did he finally sigh.
"This aura is simply too powerful. It feels like facing an entire heaven and earth crushing down upon me!"
"Just one glance makes me feel as though my soul is about to shatter. Yet in that brief instant, I can feel the Level 96 bottleneck that has plagued me beginning to loosen. It isn't just the Level 96 bottleneck—even Levels 97, 98, and 99 could be broken through naturally and smoothly!"
"What a pity..."
As a Level 95 Assault Type Title Douluo, Yu Yuanzhen was unquestionably among the strongest on Douluo Continent. Ordinary matters could not stir his heart in the slightest, yet at this moment, his heart was already churning like a stormy sea. In the next instant, however, a bitter expression appeared on his face.
"Hehehehe, what would Level 96, 97, 98, or 99—even Hundred Level Godhood—amount to? Before the power of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, the strength of Soul Masters is nothing but a joke. Even gods—what realm of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands would they even compare to...?"
"Would it be the Blood Transporting Realm? Or the Hole Heaven Realm?"
"Hehehehe, that's truly hard to guess..."
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