Angela

"Make way, make way."

In front of the bulletin board at the Nuoding City branch of Wuhun Hall, a black-haired girl was struggling to carve a path through the crowd.

Seeing that it was just a cute little girl pushing through, the crowd did their best to make space. Because of her petite frame, she quickly reached the front of the crowd and managed to get a glimpse of the notices.

The notices that had attracted so many people today.

The moment she saw the headers of the two notices, the girl's pupils constricted. She had to admit, she was shocked.

The Haotian Sect was actually full of Evil Soul Masters!

This girl was none other than Angela, the person mentioned in the two reports from the Nuoding City branch that were currently sitting on the desk of Bibi Dong.

As a transmigrator, she naturally understood what the Haotian Sect was, but she never expected that one of the sources of the late-stage plot armor for Tang God King would turn out to be a sect entirely composed of Evil Soul Masters!

Angela was clearly aware of what Evil Soul Masters were; they were the designated villains in the later installments of the original work from her past life.

After arriving in this world and starting school at Nuoding Academy, Angela understood even better why there were no obviously active Evil Soul Masters during the timeline of the first Douluo story.

Aside from the pure and flawless Tang God King, who clearly utilized the methods of an Evil Soul Master himself.

In addition to teaching students about spirit masters, Nuoding Academy also taught a bit of history, though it wasn't as detailed as the records kept at the Wuhun City headquarters.

Even if it was just a little history, it still mentioned the group known as Evil Soul Masters, who had been a scourge to the continent thousands of years ago, and also mentioned in passing that they had vanished due to the suppression by Wuhun Hall.

When Angela learned this at the time, her first thought was that her determination to defect to Wuhun Hall had only grown stronger!

Wuhun Hall, which had suppressed the scourge of Evil Soul Masters into obscurity, versus Shrek, which shouted about maintaining peace on the continent while allowing Evil Soul Masters to pop up all over the place.

When you put these two together, the difference in quality was immediately obvious, wasn't it!

Angela had never given up on the idea of defecting to Wuhun Hall. She had even looked for opportunities several times, but since she couldn't make the move yet, she could only wait and hope that Wuhun City would take notice of her!

Of course, how to defect to Wuhun Hall was a matter for later; she would always find a chance. For now, she turned her attention back to the notices.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk."

Angela sighed. The fact that the Haotian Sect was a group of long-vanished Evil Soul Masters was indeed shocking, but when she thought about the actions of Tang God King, it made sense—the student had surpassed the master, after all.

Perhaps it was precisely because the Haotian Sect was full of Evil Soul Masters that Tang God King intentionally allowed them to develop freely after he became a god.

After all, in the grand scheme of things, they were all family!

Then Angela saw that the Haotian Sect had been wiped out. She didn't find this strange at all; it would have been the real surprise if they hadn't been destroyed.

Looking at it from a logical development perspective, the Haotian Sect's behavior of mocking Wuhun Hall to their faces before they sealed the sect—did they really think sealing the sect would be the end of it? Dream on.

Once they had voluntarily retreated into the mountain wilderness, as long as Wuhun Hall wasn't stupid, they could have guessed that the Haotian Sect's backer, Tang Chen, was gone.

Furthermore, given the overall strength of Wuhun Hall, wiping out the Haotian Sect would have been easy. The idea from the original novel that they were afraid of Tang Chen and didn't dare to act was an insult to the intelligence of Wuhun Hall's leadership.

And regardless of the reason, Wuhun Hall had let the Haotian Sect off the hook, yet Tang Hao was still out there jumping in Wuhun Hall's face, smashing their branch halls with such glee.

As long as the higher-ups at Wuhun Hall weren't idiots, they would have gone to the Haotian Sect to demand an explanation. It wasn't as if Wuhun Hall didn't know where the sect was hidden.

Oh, Tang Hao had left the sect, so his actions had nothing to do with them? Don't be silly. The Haotian Hammer in your hand isn't a fake, is it? You can't just say you've left the sect and expect it to count!

If you can do that, then the ninety-eighth-rank Tian'e could just shout on the spot, "I quit Wuhun Hall."

Then he could happily wipe out the Haotian Sect and rejoin Wuhun Hall afterward.

Of course, given the somewhat face-conscious style of Wuhun Hall in the original work, they might not have done that. They couldn't compare to the Haotian Sect, who had no shame and were thick-skinned to boot.

Now that they had to add the fact that the Haotian Sect were all Evil Soul Masters, they definitely had to be wiped out!

Pulling her wandering thoughts back, Angela looked at the second notice.

Oh, so that was it. As for how Tang Hao's wife actually died and how a transformed spirit beast that had already reached the Spirit Sage level was discovered, Angela had already guessed as much in her past life.

Now it was just confirmed. Still, it was quite interesting to see the collapse of Tang Hao's persona as a man who valued love and righteousness and sacrificed himself for love.

Since she had finished reading the notices, Angela prepared to turn around and head back to Nuoding Academy to cultivate.

She had gone out today because Tang God King and his beloved Xiao Wu were being all lovey-dovey at the academy, and Angela couldn't stand it, so she came out for some fresh air.

If it were just two normal children acting like that, she would have just considered them childhood sweethearts.

But Angela knew the truth. When she looked at those two things that weren't human, she did so with a filter.

One was likely a middle-aged man reborn after tens of thousands of years, and the other was a rabbit spirit at least one hundred thousand years old. It was disgusting, wasn't it!

Yes, a reborn person. Tang San's oddities had long been noticed by Angela. She had discovered it the moment she entered the academy. Xiao Wu, that rabbit spirit, hadn't brought any bedding, and before the rabbit spirit could even say anything, Tang San had already put on an impatient, lecherous look and suggested they sleep together.

The most shocking part was that the rabbit spirit had agreed—she actually agreed!

Of course, it was none of Angela's business if the rabbit spirit had no shame, but she began to pay attention to Tang San's strangeness. In the days that followed, Tang San didn't act like a normal person—no, he had never been a normal person. His behavior often didn't align with the original work. He knew too much about many things, not at all like a so-called Tang Sect transmigrator; his understanding of Douluo was no less than that of a native.

He would even occasionally and accidentally let slip knowledge that wouldn't appear until the later installments of the Douluo series.

Tang San probably thought he looked cool knowing so much, but Angela realized that this Tang San might not be the original version. Later, Angela tested him a few times, only to find that this Tang San was ignorant of many things that were common knowledge in modern society.

From then on, an alarm went off in Angela's heart. He wasn't the original, he wasn't a transmigrator from Blue Star, yet he knew information that would only appear in the later Douluo books. The only possibility was that he was a reborn person from the future of the Douluo world.

As for what time period in the future he was reborn from, or who he was, Angela didn't know.

She didn't want to test him anymore.

Based on Angela's understanding of this Tang San over the past three years, she could only say that in her eyes, he was nothing more than a brain-damaged psychopath.

It was normal for him to resort to violence the moment someone said something he didn't like, and he would often beat people to the brink of death. He would shout about his Xiao Wu, yet in the blink of an eye, other girls were nothing more than accessories in his eyes, treated with an attitude of "it's an honor for you that I'm even looking for you."

In fact, the way Tang San looked at the rabbit spirit wasn't so much out of love or affection, but rather a pathological possessiveness that viewed her as his personal property.

When Wang Sheng, as a roommate, failed to hang his towel properly and the rabbit spirit tripped—without even falling!—Tang San, who usually called him "brother" this and "brother" that, immediately lunged at him with every means at his disposal. If Angela hadn't stepped in to stop him and fought him off, Wang Sheng might have lost his life that very day.

In the days that followed, the Tang God King, who had previously been all "An'er this" and "An'er that," looked at Angela as if she were an enemy. It was only later, after Yu Xiaogang said something to him, that he started calling her An'er again.

Therefore, she would not risk her own life to test the Tang God King. Using her modern social perceptions to probe him inadvertently had already been a brain-dead, extremely risky move. To test him further using things that Tang San might already know would truly be treating her life as worthless.

Although she had to stay by the Tang God King's side for unavoidable reasons, a modern person's normal values and perceptions could never coexist with Tang San's values, which would be considered bizarre even in a feudal society. They could never be friends; the conflicts between them would only grow.

Thus, the relationship between Angela, Tang San, and the rabbit spirit could hardly be called close; it was more like they were together in appearance but divided at heart. Angela didn't even dare to reveal her full strength, forced to play the role of a sidekick and a wallflower.

This was also why, despite hovering around Tang San for three years, Angela became increasingly determined to defect to Wuhun Hall.

Otherwise, given that she had no other choice, sticking with Shrek would have at least guaranteed her a godhood, which was decent enough.

But compared to the inner torment and the loss of freedom, a godhood really didn't amount to much.