Angela

"Make way, make way."

In front of the notice board at Nuoding City's Martial Soul Branch Hall, a black-haired girl was trying her best to squeeze through the crowd.

Seeing that it was a cute little girl pushing her way through, the crowd did their best to make room for her. Thanks to her petite frame, she quickly reached the front and got a look at the notices.

These were the notices that had drawn so many people today.

The moment she saw the opening lines of the two notices, the girl's pupils contracted. She had to admit it—she was shocked.

The Clear Sky Sect was actually full of Evil Soul Masters!

This girl was Angela, the person mentioned in the two reports from the Nuoding City Branch Hall that had been placed on Bibi Dong's desk.

As a transmigrator, she naturally knew what the Clear Sky Sect was. But she had never expected that one of God King Tang's late-stage sources of plot armor, the Clear Sky Sect, would turn out to be an entire sect of Evil Soul Masters!

Of course Angela knew what Evil Soul Masters were. In the original work from her previous life, they served as the villains in the later installments of Douluo.

After coming to this world and beginning her studies at Nuoding Academy, Angela understood even more clearly why there had been no obvious Evil Soul Master activity during the era of Douluo I.

Other than the supposedly pure and spotless God King Tang, who was clearly using Evil Soul Master methods.

Besides teaching Spirit Master knowledge, Nuoding Academy also taught a little history, though naturally not with the exhaustive detail found in the Spirit City headquarters' records.

Though it was only a little history, it still mentioned Evil Soul Masters, a group that had been a scourge upon the continent thousands of years ago. It also mentioned in passing how they had vanished under Spirit Hall's suppression.

When Angela had learned this, her first thought had been that her determination to join Spirit Hall had only grown firmer!

Spirit Hall had suppressed the scourge of Evil Soul Masters until they vanished from sight, while Shrek shouted about maintaining peace across the continent yet allowed Evil Soul Masters to crop up everywhere.

Put the two together, and the difference was obvious, wasn't it?

Angela had never given up on the idea of joining Spirit Hall. She had even looked for several opportunities, but she simply could not manage it, so she could only wait and hope that Spirit City would notice her someday.

Of course, how to join Spirit Hall was something for later. She would find an opportunity eventually. For now, she turned her attention back to the notices.

"Tut, tut, tut."

Angela sighed. The fact that the Clear Sky Sect had been a group of Evil Soul Masters long vanished from history was indeed shocking, but when she considered God King Tang's actions, it made sense. The student had surpassed the master.

Perhaps it was precisely because the Clear Sky Sect had all been Evil Soul Masters that God King Tang had deliberately allowed Evil Soul Masters to develop freely after becoming a god.

After all, rounding things up, they were all family!

Then Angela saw that the Clear Sky Sect had been wiped out. That did not surprise her at all. It would have been strange if the Clear Sky Sect had not been destroyed.

By normal logic, after the Clear Sky Sect had ridden on Spirit Hall's face and mocked it before sealing itself away, did it think simply closing its sect was enough to end the matter? Dream on.

Once it had voluntarily retreated into some mountain backwater, as long as Spirit Hall was not stupid, it could guess that the Clear Sky Sect's backer, Tang Chen, was gone.

And with Spirit Hall's overall strength, wiping out the Clear Sky Sect would have been effortless. The original novel's claim that Spirit Hall had feared Tang Chen and thus dared not act was basically saying that every high-ranking member of Spirit Hall had had their brains chopped into mush.

Then, regardless of the reason, Spirit Hall had spared the Clear Sky Sect, yet Tang Hao had still run around wildly provoking Spirit Hall, smashing Martial Soul Branch Halls with great delight.

As long as Spirit Hall's higher-ups were not idiots, they would demand an explanation from the Clear Sky Sect. And Spirit Hall could not possibly have been unaware of where the Clear Sky Sect had sealed itself away.

Oh, Tang Hao had left the sect, so his actions had nothing to do with the Clear Sky Sect? Don't be stupid. The Clear Sky Hammer in his hand was not fake, was it? Did he think he could leave the sect just by saying so?

If he could do that, then level ninety-eight Tian'e could also shout on the spot that he was leaving Spirit Hall.

Then he could happily wipe out the Clear Sky Sect before rejoining Spirit Hall.

Of course, given Spirit Hall's relatively reputation-conscious style in the original work, it might not have been able to do something like that. It could not compare to the Clear Sky Sect, which had no shame on one side and thick skin on the other.

And now there was the added fact that the Clear Sky Sect had been full of Evil Soul Masters. That made it even more necessary to destroy them!

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

Oh, so that was all. As for how Tang Hao's wife had died, and how a transformed Spirit Beast that had already reached Spirit Saint rank had been discovered, Angela had already had her suspicions in her previous life.

Now it had merely been confirmed. Still, it was quite amusing to see Tang Hao's devoted, righteous, self-sacrificing-for-love persona collapse.

Having finished reading the notices, Angela prepared to turn around and return to Nuoding Academy to continue cultivating.

She had left the academy today because God King Tang and his beloved Xiao Wu had been all lovey-dovey there, and Angela could not stand it any longer. She had come out for some air.

If they had merely been two normal children acting affectionate, she could have treated them as childhood sweethearts.

But Angela knew that when she looked at those two nonhuman things, she came with built-in filters.

One was possibly a reincarnated old man tens of thousands of years old, and the other was a Rabbit Spirit guaranteed to be at least a hundred thousand years old. It was disgusting, okay?

Yes, a reincarnator. Angela had long noticed that something was off about Tang San. She had discovered it as soon as they entered the academy. Xiao Wu, that Rabbit Spirit, had not brought bedding. Before the Rabbit Spirit could even say anything, Tang San had eagerly suggested, with the lecherous expression of a pig-headed man, that they could sleep together.

Most shocking of all, the Rabbit Spirit had agreed. She had agreed!

Of course, it was none of Angela's business whether the Rabbit Spirit had any shame, but Angela had begun paying attention to what was wrong with Tang San. In the days that followed, Tang San often displayed behavior that did not fit a normal person—no, he had never been normal. It did not fit the original work either. He understood far too many things and did not resemble a so-called Tang Sect transmigrator at all. His understanding of Douluo was no less than that of a native.

He would even occasionally let slip knowledge that should only have appeared in the later installments of Douluo.

Tang San might have thought that knowing so much made him look cool, but Angela realized that this Tang San might not be the original version. Afterward, she casually tested him a few times and discovered that Tang San knew nothing about many concepts from modern society that people took for granted.

From then on, alarm bells rang in Angela's mind. He was neither the original version nor a transmigrator from Blue Star, yet he knew information from the later installments of Douluo. That meant he could only be a reincarnator from Douluo's future.

As for what point in Douluo's future he had reincarnated from, or who exactly had reincarnated, Angela did not know.

She no longer wanted to test him.

Based on Angela's understanding of Tang San over the past three years, all she could say was that, in her eyes, he was a brain-dead lunatic.

If someone said even the slightest wrong thing, it was normal for him to attack immediately. He would even beat people half to death at the drop of a hat. He shouted about "my Xiao Wu," yet in the next moment, other girls were nothing but accessories in his eyes, as if approaching them was already doing them a favor.

Even the way Tang San looked at the Rabbit Spirit was less like affection or love and more like a sick possessiveness that had long regarded her as his property.

Wang Sheng, as their roommate, had failed to arrange a towel properly, and the Rabbit Spirit had tripped over it without even falling down! The Tang San who had been calling Wang Sheng brother this and brother that immediately rushed over and used every method he had. If Angela had not stepped in and fought him, Wang Sheng might have lost his life that very day.

In the following days, God King Tang, who had once constantly called her An'er, looked at Angela as though she were his enemy. Later, though, for some reason after Yu Xiaogang spoke to him, he started calling her An'er again.

So she would not use her own life to test God King Tang. Casually probing him with concepts from modern society had already been a moment of madness, an extremely risky act. If she tested him again with things this Tang San might already know, then she truly would not be treating her life as a life.

Although she had no choice but to remain by God King Tang's side for the time being, the normal values and worldview of a modern person could never make friends with Tang San's worldview, which would have been bizarre even in a feudal society. Their conflicts would only grow greater and greater.

Therefore, Angela's relationship with Tang San and the Rabbit Spirit could not exactly be called inseparable. It could only be described as outwardly harmonious but inwardly estranged. Angela did not even dare reveal all of her strength, and could only pretend to be a follower and background character.

This was also why, despite lingering around Tang San for three years, Angela had only grown more determined to seek refuge with Spirit Hall.

Otherwise, with no other choice, following Shrek would at least guarantee her a god position, which was not bad at all.

But compared with the torment in her heart and her freedom, a god position truly meant nothing.