Enemies

After returning to the office building, Shui Lingfeng and the Lan Xiao Die sisters discussed Ye Liangchen's martial soul cultivation.

"Little Chen! Which martial soul do you plan to cultivate first?"

As teachers of an advanced academy, they also knew the advantages of Twin Martial Souls: cultivate one martial soul first, and once the first martial soul reached level 90, the Second Martial Soul would not need cultivation and could have soul rings added directly. They could even all be Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings. Just thinking about it made it feel incredibly powerful.

"I choose to cultivate the Goddess of Life Spirit first." After Ye Liangchen finished speaking, he summoned the Goddess of Life Spirit.

After his martial soul awakened, Ye Liangchen felt that his physical constitution was several times stronger than before. Now, with one hand, he could lift at least several times his own body weight.

Moreover, his Goddess of Life Spirit had both support and attack abilities, and the soul skills within the martial soul seemed to have already been arranged. This change surprised Ye Liangchen greatly. It seemed they were skills bestowed by that game inside his body. It probably thought that this martial soul being purely healing was too monotonous, so it directly granted several attack skills.

"My Goddess of Life Spirit has both support and attack abilities. And I feel that this martial soul's first skill is an attack skill, while the second is a support skill. The two are combined."

"My Chun Jun Sword martial soul doesn't seem to come with any soul skills."

Ye Liangchen introduced the miraculous aspects of his martial souls to the three women, opening their eyes.

"The Goddess of Life Spirit actually has two functions? And it even comes with its own soul skills? This... this is too unbelievable!"

This was the first time Lan Xiao Die and the others had seen such a martial soul. Previously, they had thought the Goddess of Life Spirit was support-type, but they had never expected it to have dual attributes, and even come with soul skills. It was truly too miraculous.

"It seems that in the future, we'll still have to ask that pope of Spirit Hall about the coexistence issue of Twin Martial Souls. After all, she is the only extraordinary genius in history who has cultivated Twin Martial Souls to level 90!"

"Little Chen, put your martial soul away!"

Lan Xiao Die pondered for a moment. If they guided Ye Liangchen in cultivating a single martial soul, there would be no problem, but when it came to cultivating Twin Martial Souls, they had no experience whatsoever. They had to find a way to consult that empress of Spirit Hall. They just did not know whether that woman would agree.

Ye Liangchen was not worried about the cultivation of Twin Martial Souls. As long as there were Spirit Bones and Divine Power to support him, there would be no problem. Besides, he still had the Cheat System. Maybe he could cultivate to Titled Douluo even without Spirit Bones or Divine Power.

Now that Ye Liangchen knew the Goddess of Life Spirit came with its own soul skills, he could be certain that the Goddess of Life had taken notice of him. That woman could not be planning to pass the Life God King position to him, could she? If that was the case, that would be awesome. With the Life God King, the Destruction God King might follow along too. After all, that guy had always listened to his wife.

"Sis, Little Chen's Second Martial Soul is a sword. Could we let him learn from Sword Douluo?" Lan Xiao Ling thought of Sword Douluo from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. His martial soul was the Seven Kill Sword. In terms of swordsmanship, there probably were not many on Douluo Continent who could compare to him.

"No. Ever since Little Chen's parents were killed, I no longer believe in any so-called righteous people from famous sects. Even someone from that so-called Number One Sect Under Heaven turned out to be that sort of trash. How much better could the other sects be? Don't look at Ning Fengzhi's gentlemanly appearance on the surface. He is an expert at political schemes."

"When Little Chen's parents acted chivalrously and upheld justice, they taught many people a lesson. Some arrogant and domineering people from the major sects were all beaten by Ye Feng, and that included the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Once the little guy's identity is exposed outside, he'll be targeted by people with ulterior motives. He is still young now. We have to protect him until he has the ability to defend himself. Otherwise, how could we have the face to meet Ye Feng and Liu Ru Yan in the afterlife?"

As soon as Lan Xiao Ling brought it up, Shui Lingfeng and Lan Xiao Die immediately opposed it. Among the sects of Douluo Continent, which one did not put profit first? The imperial families, the major sects, and Spirit Hall were all the same. None of them were any better. There were no truly good people.

"Sister, Bibi Dong had a pretty good relationship with Little Chen's parents back then, and even gave them a Token. As for the method of cultivating Little Chen's Twin Martial Souls, we still have to ask her for guidance." After thinking it over, Lan Xiao Ling felt this was the only option.

Lan Xiao Die nodded. "That's true. Six years ago, after Pope Qian Xun Ji died and that woman ascended to the pope's position, I went with Little Chen's parents to attend her coronation ceremony. But I felt that her personality had changed greatly. If I have the chance in the future, I'll pay her a visit and see how things are."

More than twenty years ago, Lan Xiao Die, Ye Feng, and Liu Ru Yan had also met Bibi Dong in Spirit City. At that time, Bibi Dong had only been a pure-hearted woman, in love with Yu Xiaogang. Back then, Ye Feng and Liu Ru Yan did not think highly of their romance, believing they would have no result. A waste and a genius Saintess falling in love were inherently ill-matched, unequal in status and background.

At the time, Liu Ru Yan had even secretly reminded Bibi Dong to keep her eyes open and be careful not to be deceived. But Bibi Dong had been nothing more than a simple girl then, her head muddled by emotion. How could she have listened? Later, when Qian Xun Ji broke them apart and expelled Yu Xiaogang from Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong even wanted to elope with Yu Xiaogang. In a fit of rage, Qian Xun Ji placed Bibi Dong under house arrest. After that, no one knew what happened to Bibi Dong.

That incident had caused an uproar back then, and Lan Xiao Die, Ye Feng, Liu Ru Yan, and the others did not see Bibi Dong for many years. It was not until six years ago, when Qian Xun Ji died and Bibi Dong ascended the throne, that Lan Xiao Die and the Ye Feng Couple saw Bibi Dong again at the pope's coronation ceremony.

At that time, Bibi Dong had even invited the Ye Feng Couple to join Spirit Hall, but Ye Feng did not agree. Bibi Dong did not force him either. Instead, she even gave them a Pope Token.

Bibi Dong had now governed Spirit Hall for six years. Her methods were sharp and decisive in killing. She had also reformed Spirit Hall. Extending the Soul Master Subsidy to Soul Elders was something she had introduced. On one hand, it could uncover soul masters among commoners for Spirit Hall's use; on the other hand, it might have been so Yu Xiaogang could continue collecting money.

Under her rule, Spirit Hall became increasingly powerful, and Bibi Dong was also called the Iron-Blooded Pope by the world, quite possessing the bearing of an empress of her generation.

Ever since Lan Xiao Die saw Bibi Dong that time, she had sensed a powerful ambition from her, as well as a faintly discernible evil power. Lan Xiao Die guessed that something major must have happened to her, causing Bibi Dong's temperament to change drastically.

If Bibi Dong still had the pure personality from before, they could let Ye Liangchen take her as his teacher. But now, she did not dare let Ye Liangchen take that risk. It was safer to keep this little guy by her side.

"We'll take things one step at a time. Matters of the future can be discussed in the future."

Shui Lingfeng pondered for a moment, then exchanged a glance with her two daughters. They understood each other without speaking.

Ye Liangchen quietly listened to these matters, extremely shocked. He had never expected that his parents had also had a friendship with Pope Bibi Dong. It truly surprised him.

In Ye Liangchen's eyes, to put it bluntly, Bibi Dong was just a silly, sweet fool. She had been dealt a good hand and played it to pieces, ruining herself by her own actions. To put it unpleasantly, she was an ungrateful woman who bit the hand that fed her. Spirit Hall had painstakingly nurtured her and helped her grow, yet she rebelliously fell in love with an outsider, and a waste at that. Where was Spirit Hall supposed to put its face?

It was also because she had been pure and inexperienced when she was young. She encountered Yu Xiaogang, who was full of empty talk, and that led to her being deceived. In truth, in Ye Liangchen's view, Bibi Dong was the type who had gotten used to eating rich fish and meat, then saw green vegetables and found them fresh, wanting to give them a try.

If one were to talk about the person in this world Ye Liangchen hated the most, the first would undoubtedly be Yu Xiaogang. He was like those "expert professors" with fake academic qualifications from Ye Liangchen's previous life on Blue Star, only capable of running his mouth.

Yu Xiaogang used Bibi Dong's authority as Saintess to copy a bit of basic soul master knowledge from Spirit Hall, organized it a little, then claimed it was his own theory. He called himself the Invincible Theory Master, even published it, and even said something about the Ten Core Theories of Martial Souls.

That guy went around with his hands behind his back, pretending to be aloof, often saying that his Ten Core Theories of Martial Souls were unmatched.

Pah! Shameless bastard!

The second person Ye Liangchen hated was Tang Hao. This guy was a sect slave who cared desperately about face, and at the same time, he was a sinister, vicious hypocrite and a homicidal maniac.

The third was Prince Xue Xing. That guy was greedy for money and lustful, trafficked slaves, and so on. He treated the commoners at the bottom like grass. In any case, he was no good thing.

As for classmate Tang San, he came from the Tang Sect and spent all day researching how to use poison and Hidden Weapons to kill people, so he was never a good person to begin with. But what made him most hateful was in Douluo 2, when Ye Liangchen saw Tang San tear his own daughter's soul into several pieces and turn her into a stitched-together monster, as well as torture Huo Yuhao half to death. It was simply unbelievable, far too cruel.

But now that he had come, none of these guys would have a good ending.

While Ye Liangchen was thinking, Lan Xiao Die took out a jade pendant-like Soul Tool and placed it around his neck, then introduced how to use the Soul Tool to him.

"Little Chen! This is the jade pendant your parents left you. On the surface, it looks like a jade pendant, but it's actually a Soul Tool. There is a space inside the jade pendant that can be used for storage."

Ye Liangchen took the Soul Tool, then asked Lan Xiao Die about his parents.

"Aunt Lan! How did my parents die? Dean Grandma told me before that the enemy was a black-robed man who wielded a hammer. Who was that person?" Ye Liangchen blinked his big eyes and looked at Lan Xiao Die. Although he had already deduced that the enemy was Tang Hao, he wanted to know the details of what had happened at the time.

"How does Little Chen know about these things?" The Lan Xiao Die sisters exchanged a glance, both feeling that something was wrong.

"When Little Chen was four, he heard several teachers talking about his parents in the dining hall. Later, in the Purple Bamboo Courtyard, he asked me about it, so I could only tell him some things. Don't worry! I've issued a gag order to all the teachers and students in the academy. They won't talk nonsense." Shui Lingfeng gave Lan Xiao Die a reassuring look from the side.

Looking at Ye Liangchen's pitiful expression, Lan Xiao Die's heart ached badly. She immediately pulled him into her arms and burst into tears.

"Wah...! Child! It was my fault. I dragged your parents down. They could have escaped, but to save me, they lost their lives."

"Back then, three months after you were born, your parents' Soul Power reached level 90, while I reached level 80, and your uncle reached level 70. The four of us went together to Star Dou Forest to hunt Spirit Beasts, and I was the first to obtain my eighth Spirit Ring. Just as we continued deeper into Star Dou Forest, we suddenly ran into a Titled Douluo dressed in a black robe. His name was Tang Hao. Your parents and my husband died at his hands."

To confirm his guess, Ye Liangchen asked curiously, "But my parents weren't Tang Hao's enemies. Why would he kill them?"

"Child! You can know a person's face, but not their heart. Back then, very few people knew about Tang Hao's love affair with the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Blue Silver Emperor, but your parents did know. When Tang Hao took his Spirit Beast wife strolling through all the major cities, your parents even said, Tang Hao must have water in his brain."

"Sure enough, later on, Spirit Hall's Pope, Qian Xun Ji, discovered that Tang Hao's wife was the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor. Faced with such temptation, there wasn't a Titled Douluo who wouldn't be moved. So Spirit Hall began hunting the Blue Silver Emperor. We didn't know the exact details after that. We only knew that later, news came from Spirit Hall that Pope Qian Xun Ji had died, while Tang Hao had also advanced to Titled Douluo at that time. I imagine they must have fought. Once Qian Xun Ji died, Spirit Hall's Saintess, Bibi Dong, was appointed to the position of Pope. She pinned the crime directly on Tang Hao and led Spirit Hall into war against Clear Sky Sect. In that battle, Spirit Hall was united from top to bottom and badly damaged Clear Sky Sect's vitality, forcing them into seclusion. They even expelled Tang Hao from the sect. Naturally, Spirit Hall would never let Tang Hao go, so they issued a continent-wide warrant for him, and he hid everywhere across the continent. Until later, when we ran into him in Star Dou Forest. At the time, he was holding a child, about seven or eight months old. We pitied the child and even gave them some food and water. Tang Hao also thanked us."

"The reason Tang Hao tried to kill us was also because of something your father said at the time: Brother Tang Hao, you were far too careless. The Blue Silver Emperor is a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, yet you still took her to Spirit City to wander around. Although a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that undergoes Humanoid Transformation and cultivates again to maturity generally can't be seen through by Titled Douluo, the Blue Silver Emperor was pregnant at the time and couldn't hide it at all. Those super Titled Douluo of Spirit Hall could easily see through her identity as a Spirit Beast. You were simply harming her."

"Just because of those words, Tang Hao flew into a rage on the spot. He was like a madman, his eyes glowing red, blood-red light pouring from his whole body, filled with murderous intent as he ruthlessly attacked us. My husband was a little weaker and couldn't react in time. Tang Hao killed him on the spot. Your parents used a Martial Soul Fusion Skill to fight Tang Hao and didn't fall behind. They could even suppress him. Tang Hao was injured then and was soon unable to hold on, but all of a sudden, an even more powerful red light erupted from Tang Hao's body. Your parents immediately felt that kind of power was not something a mortal possessed, so they sent me away at once, threw me this Soul Tool jade pendant, and then both self-destructed to buy me time to escape."

"Thinking about it now, your father must have seen through Tang Hao's whole string of schemes and said it in front of him, embarrassing him. To protect his own reputation, he tried to kill us."

Lan Xiao Die tearfully told the tragedy of that year, already sobbing too hard to speak clearly.

"Hmph! Someone from the so-called Number One Sect Under Heaven turned out to be this kind of trash? He dared to do it but didn't dare admit it. He was worse than a petty villain. In that case, he deliberately plotted to get the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor killed, and his goal was the 100,000 Year Spirit Ring."

"He paraded his Spirit Beast wife around all the major cities of the continent, even taking her to Spirit City. Wasn't that deliberately exposing the Blue Silver Emperor's identity? When Qian Xun Ji and the others came to kill her, the Blue Silver Emperor fell into despair. For the sake of her child, she could only sacrifice herself to Tang Hao."

"It's said that when Tang Hao was wandering around everywhere with the Blue Silver Emperor, his Soul Power had already reached level 89, yet he stubbornly refused to obtain a Spirit Ring and advance to Titled Douluo. Looking at it now, he was truly sinister."

"Every step was calculated. In the end, by making his Spirit Beast wife sacrifice herself, he obtained a 100,000 Year Spirit Ring. What brilliant scheming! So this is the so-called Clear Sky Douluo?"

Based on these events, Shui Lingfeng deduced that everything Tang Hao had done had been for the sake of a 100,000 Year Spirit Ring, so he could bring glory to his ancestors. Unfortunately, Qian Xun Ji's unexpected death broke Tang Hao's plan, causing Clear Sky Sect to withdraw into seclusion, while Tang Hao himself could only hide everywhere.

Ye Liangchen wasn't surprised that Tang Hao had schemed against his own Spirit Beast wife. After all, in his previous life, he had learned about it from countless fanfictions. On the contrary, after hearing Lan Xiao Die describe how his parents had fought Tang Hao, and how an even more powerful red light erupted from him, that should have been Ring Explosion and Divine Slaughter's Domain. Of course, it was also possible Asura God had been stirring up trouble.

At this time, Tang San still wouldn't have caught Asura God's eye, unless, as many people online said, Tang San had been dragged over from another world by Asura God. But those were only netizens' guesses.

In the original plot, that old bachelor Asura God had clearly said gods couldn't interfere in the affairs of the lower realm. In the end, just like Sea God, he shamelessly revived Tang San. It was truly absurd.

His father back then really had been something too. Since he had seen through Tang Hao's deliberate plot against the Blue Silver Emperor, why say it to his face? Where was Tang Hao supposed to put his dignity? The dignified Clear Sky Douluo was actually a hypocrite who schemed against his Spirit Beast wife. If that got out, Tang Hao and Clear Sky Sect would lose all face. To protect his own reputation and the sect's reputation, of course he would kill.

This was the typical behavior of someone who dared to do something but didn't dare admit it, the conduct of a proper petty villain. Yet he insisted on pretending to be a righteous, awe-inspiring great hero, putting all his hatred on Spirit Hall. It was truly disgusting.

Ye Liangchen gently wiped the tears from Lan Xiao Die's face with his hand and comforted her, "Aunt Lan! Don't cry! I'll definitely kill that hypocrite and avenge my parents and uncle."

"Child! I'm sorry. I made you learn such a cruel truth when you're still so young."

"I only hope you can forget this hatred for now and live happily."

Seeing Ye Liangchen wipe away her tears, looking like a little adult, Lan Xiao Die felt terrible pain in her heart. She held his tiny body tightly, thinking with deep self-blame, He's only a six-year-old child! What if this little one lives in hatred from now on? What should I do?

Shui Lingfeng and Lan Xiao Die also silently shed tears at the side. Yun Han Xing had also died in that disaster, causing Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er to lose their father from a young age too.

Ye Liangchen was also drawn into grief by this sorrowful scene. Besides, he was only a child now. It wasn't as if, after hearing about the deaths of his nominal parents in this world, he could avoid shedding a single tear, right? That would be far too unreasonable.