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"Looks like you pieces of trash know exactly what you've done."

Having returned to the seven Title Douluo of the Clear Sky Sect, Qian Chongling saw the marks on their faces and understood that they had attempted suicide.

"Your Excellency, please consider the friendship between our ancestor Tang Chen and the Angel Your Excellency, and the former prestige of the Clear Sky Sect. Please do not spread what you saw today.

"At the same time, grant us the dignity of Title Douluo. We ask only for a swift death."

With his hands bound behind his back and shoeprints still on his face, Tang Xiao suddenly slammed his head into the ground and paid Qian Chongling a grand salute. The remaining Title Douluo of the Clear Sky Sect followed suit, repeatedly smashing their foreheads against the ground.

They still clung to one final shred of hope.

Qian Ningshuang finally could not hold back any longer. She rushed over and kicked Tang Xiao in the face.

"You still know what shame is?! You still want dignity?!

"Go ask those corpses behind the mountain whether they are willing to give you face, whether they are willing to grant you dignity!

"Friendship?! Prestige?! Title Douluo?!

"When you committed all those atrocities that outraged both man and god, why didn't you think about saving face?!

"A bunch of scum who should have been sliced alive long ago, and you still deserve face and dignity?!"

Seeing that Tang Xiao had already been beaten to the point where he was taking more breaths out than in, Gu Yuena hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Qian Ningshuang back. "Shuang'er, calm down. Calm down."

Gu Yuena did not particularly care if Qian Ningshuang beat Tang Xiao to death on the spot, but how would they ask about the Xuantian Sect afterward if he died?

At the same time, Gu Yuena gave Qian Chongling a meaningful look. If he wanted to ask questions, he should hurry up.

Qian Chongling understood Gu Yuena's meaning. He walked over to Tang Jin, the Second Elder of the Clear Sky Sect, and placed a hand on Tang Jin's head.

Tang Xiao's head was already covered in blood. Qian Chongling did not want to touch him; he found him filthy.

"Soul Destruction Technique!"

The Soul Destruction Technique completely destroyed a person's mind, turning them into an idiot who answered whatever they were asked. It was a perfect tool for interrogation.

This was a method belonging to Evil Soul Masters, because anyone subjected to it would be an idiot for the rest of their life.

Qian Chongling knew the Soul Destruction Technique because he had once studied Evil Soul Masters in depth. He knew some of their methods, though he normally had little desire to use them.

But that did not mean Qian Chongling would never use them. In certain special circumstances, he would employ the methods of Evil Soul Masters, such as now.

As red light flickered from Qian Chongling's hand on Tang Jin's head, the former Second Elder of the Clear Sky Sect began rolling his eyes upward. Saliva dribbled from his mouth as it hung open.

"What exactly is the relationship between your Clear Sky Sect and the Xuantian Sect?"

"Our Clear Sky Sect's ancestor once obtained an incomplete Xuantian Sect inheritance."

"What was in that inheritance?"

"Self-Created Soul Skills such as Ring Detonation, the Xuantian Nine Absolutes, and the Great Sumeru Strike, as well as a method for rapidly raising Soul Power Level and concealing the aura of an Evil Soul Master—Yin-Yang Supplementation."

"When did you obtain it?"

"About nine hundred years ago."

"How did you obtain it?"

"Our ancestor Gou Lai was originally a merchant. Later, because he misjudged a person, he befriended a gambler and became addicted to gambling, causing his family to fall into ruin. He later became a bandit to survive and obtained it in a small village."

Having calmed down, Qian Ningshuang could not help asking a question.

"Aren't you surnamed Tang? Why was your ancestor surnamed Gou?"

"Because later generations learned from that incomplete Xuantian Sect inheritance that no matter one's surname before joining the Xuantian Sect, once one entered it, one had to change their surname to Tang. Thus, one ancestor who considered himself an inheritor of the Xuantian Sect changed his surname."

Qian Chongling glanced at Qian Ningshuang. She always had doubts in the strangest places. Still, some of her questions had proven immensely useful. For example, her question about the Xuantian Sect in Star Dou had made him think of certain things before coming to the Clear Sky Sect. Her question about Soul Cores had raised the Spirit Hall's overall combat strength by far more than one level.

Since that was the case, "Shuang'er, you ask the next questions." Qian Chongling stepped away from Tang Jin. The Soul Destruction Technique only needed to be used once; there was no need to maintain it continuously.

Qian Ningshuang did not stand on ceremony and immediately began asking.

"Why are the Self-Created Soul Skills your Clear Sky Sect obtained different from the signature techniques of your Clear Sky Sect?"

"Because Uncle Tang Chen improved them, making them more suitable for our Clear Sky Hammer."

"Do you know what Evil Soul Masters represent?"

"Yes. Evil Spirit Masters whom everyone on the continent has the right to kill."

"Do you know what the Xuantian Sect represents?"

"Yes. After our ancestor obtained the inheritance, we never dared to use anything related to the Xuantian Sect in front of others."

"Then why did you suddenly dare to use it several decades ago?"

"Because Uncle Tang Chen improved it. Moreover, our Clear Sky Sect repeatedly confirmed over nearly a thousand years that no one or force on the continent knew of the Xuantian Sect. We even joined the Spirit Hall before. There were no records of the Xuantian Sect either."

"Has your Clear Sky Sect always used the methods of Evil Soul Masters to increase Soul Power?"

"We have not always used them. Over nearly a thousand years, only a handful of people have used them."

"Did Tang Chen and Tang Hao use them?"

"No. Although Uncle Tang Chen believed power was simply power and should not be divided into good and evil, he disdained using other people's lives to strengthen himself. As for Hao, aside from the Self-Created Soul Skills, we never told him anything about the Xuantian Sect."

"Why didn't you tell him?"

"Hao, whom ancestor Tang Chen favored, did not need those things in our eyes."

"Why are you now using methods to raise Soul Power that Evil Soul Masters use on such a large scale?"

"Because the Spirit Hall forced us to seal the sect. We needed the power for revenge. Up on this mountain, we need not fear outsiders seeing us."

At this point, Qian Ningshuang took a deep breath. A detail she had overlooked while reading Douluo in her previous life began to surface, and it also gave her an answer.

Why was Tang San so compatible with the Clear Sky Sect's series of Self-Created Soul Skills? Because they had originally been skills from the same sect, merely divided into two parts.

Ring Detonation easily harmed the body? The Mysterious Heaven Skill was endlessly regenerative, allowing it to be used with almost no injury.

The Haotian Nine Absolutes were too powerful and difficult to control? Dragon Capturing and Crane Controlling and the Mysterious Jade Hand ensured easy control.

The Great Sumeru Hammer could easily miss if no one took it head-on? The Purple Demon Eye and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track were waiting for that.

Of course, as always, no matter how powerful a skill was, once Blue Silver Entanglement was added, the atmosphere became cheerful.

Qian Ningshuang then turned to another issue, one that readers had endlessly debated in her previous life.

"Do you know who Tang Hao's wife was?"

"Yes. A Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor. Hao and Xiao told us."

"Did you know that Tang Hao and his wife were being pursued by the Spirit Hall back then?"

"Yes. We designed it together with the Spirit Hall, and we discussed it with Hao beforehand. The Spirit Hall would take the Spirit Bone, while our Clear Sky Sect would take the Spirit Ring."

"That was Tang Hao's wife, Tang Xiao's dream lover. You could actually bring yourselves to do it?"

"That was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, something one could only encounter by chance. A wife could always be replaced, but once a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was gone, it could never be found again."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk."

Having received her answer, Qian Ningshuang could only click her tongue a few times. As expected of the love so extravagantly praised by Douluo fans in her previous life. It was truly "earth-shaking." As she thought, where could there be so many fools who treated love as their entire lives?

Seeing that the questioning had ended, Qian Chongling looked at Qian Ningshuang. He wanted to say that she could have found the answer to that question just by asking any High Priest, but after some thought, he let it go. He would simply let Qian Ningshuang be.

Then Qian Chongling raised his head toward the sky, as if gazing at the illusory God Realm.

Heh. A bandit robs a small village and happens to pick up an incomplete inheritance of the former Xuantian Sect. What an easy inheritance to pick up. My Spirit Hall has existed on the continent for ten thousand years and has penetrated every village on the continent. How come we never picked one up?

Still as disgusting as ever. Just wait, gods of the God Realm!