"Actually, Tang San is almost exactly like his father. Was the Tang family cursed by their enemies or something? Why do they all love Soul Beasts so much?"
"Tang Hao liked Blue Silver Grass. Then his son came along and liked playing with rabbits. And even Tang San's son, Tang Wulin, ended up playing with the Silver Dragon King."
"As for this whole family, all I can say is that the Tangs are badass!"
As soon as those words rang out, the people who had still been watching froze in shock.
Wait, what was going on?
The people from Shrek Academy gave Tang San a deeply suspicious once-over.
Tang San's father, Tang Hao, liked playing with Blue Silver Grass, while Tang San liked playing with rabbits.
Could it be that Tang San fell for Xiao Wu because her Martial Soul was a rabbit?
Maybe someday he'd meet a real rabbit, and with his beastly instincts, Tang San would turn into Tang Hao and heartlessly abandon Xiao Wu.
By now, most of the people from Shrek had already been convinced.
After all, the Heavenly Curtain had exposed the true nature of Tang Hao and Tang San, father and son.
"Xiao Wu, listen to me! I really will only ever love you!"
Tang San raised his hand high, his expression helpless. He looked like a eunuch who'd been falsely accused of sexual misconduct, utterly powerless to defend himself.
Xiao Wu, meanwhile, hung her head and said nothing. Her face was deathly pale, and her body trembled uncontrollably.
Other people might not know, but as a rabbit herself, how could she not?
She was the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit Tang San would marry.
Now she was terrified that the Heavenly Curtain would keep exposing secrets and reveal that she was a Hundred-Year Soul Beast who had reincarnated as a human.
If that came out, every Soul Master on the Douluo Continent would see her as a prize, and every faction would hunt her down.
Just like Tang San's mother, Ah Yin, she might be hunted and turned into a ninth Soul Ring. Or she might be kept captive until the day someone decided to use her as their ninth Soul Ring.
Either way, she wouldn't escape death.
Even Flender and Zhao Wuji, the two teachers from Shrek, might start having unsavory thoughts about her.
After all, the temptation of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring was simply too great. Even Titled Douluo Tang Hao had tricked his wife into sacrificing herself for one.
Before her mother died, she'd warned Xiao Wu never to underestimate the evil in human nature.
"Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu, please, just listen to me! We've been together for six years. You should know better than anyone what kind of person I am."
"Don't let someone else drive a wedge between us and ruin our relationship!"
Just as Tang San was still desperately trying to explain, the Heavenly Curtain spoke again.
"The reason I brought up Tang Hao tricking his wife into becoming his ninth Soul Ring was to set up the comparison with Tang San."
"Because Tang San was better than his father in every way. The son really did surpass the father."
"Not only did he get Xiao Wu, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, to sacrifice herself for him, he even got her to bring her whole family along. Her two younger brothers, Da Ming and Er Ming, willingly sacrificed themselves to him too."
"I can only call this the greatest scheme in all of Douluo Continent I."
"At Notting College, he traded a single bedroll Grandmaster gave him for three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings."
"Tell me, who else could pull that off besides Sky Dream Ice Silkworm?"
The Heavenly Curtain's voice faded, stirring up an even greater uproar.
Wait, what had Tang San done? He'd gotten three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to willingly sacrifice themselves for him?
And they'd picked up on another detail, too.
Was Tang San's current wife, Xiao Wu, also a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Ning Fengzhi stared at the Heavenly Curtain above, his gaze burning.
He asked urgently, "Uncle Gu, Uncle Jian, from what the Heavenly Curtain just revealed, I know where Tang San and that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast are now."
"What? Fengzhi, you know where Tang San is?" Bone Douluo looked at Ning Fengzhi in confusion.
"Uncle Gu, have you forgotten? Rongrong went to Shrek Academy, and Tang San and Xiao Wu, that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, are there too."
"Then what are we waiting for, Fengzhi? Let's hurry! If we arrive too late, another faction might snatch that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast."
"And Rongrong is there too. She could get hurt."
After hearing Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo grew urgent as well.
First, Ning Rongrong was at Shrek Academy. If another faction came to capture Xiao Wu, they might very well hurt her.
Second, Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and the temptation was simply too great.
Even his and Sword Douluo's ninth Soul Rings weren't a hundred thousand years old. And when a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast died, it was sure to drop a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone as well.
Both were coveted treasures for any faction on the Douluo Continent.
"All right, Uncle Gu, Uncle Jian. There's no time to lose. Let's set out at once."
As Ning Fengzhi and the others assembled a team to capture Xiao Wu...
At Spirit Hall.
Bibi Dong watched the scene on the Heavenly Curtain, her heart churning with turmoil.
No, she had to act immediately.
Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were impossibly rare. Even if she no longer needed one herself, she couldn't leave it for Tang Hao's son.
"Guards! His Holiness the Pope will personally visit Shrek Academy!"
At Shrek Academy.
When Yu Xiaogang, Flender, Zhao Wuji, and the other teachers learned that Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, they froze in place.
They exchanged glances, unsure what to do.
After a long silence, Flender hesitated for a while before finally speaking.
"Xiaogang, did you know about Xiao Wu?"
Yu Xiaogang gave Flender a flat look at that question.
Was Flender's brain broken? A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast reincarnated as a human could only be identified by a Titled Douluo before reaching maturity.
Once it reached maturity, even a Titled Douluo couldn't recognize it.
How was a Soul Grandmaster like him, only level twenty-nine, supposed to recognize Xiao Wu's Soul Beast identity?
What a stupid question.
Noticing Yu Xiaogang roll his eyes at him, Flender realized what a ridiculous thing it was to ask.
"Xiaogang, I mean, how should we treat Xiao Wu now? She's a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who reincarnated as a human."
Now, even Flender felt tempted when he looked at Xiao Wu.
"No, Flender! Don't even think about it. Xiao Wu is a student of Shrek. We have to protect her."
Yu Xiaogang's tone was firm, leaving no room for doubt.
"But we can't protect her, even if we want to. The whole continent knows now."
Zhao Wuji, who had been silent until then, spoke up.
"Don't worry. You're forgetting that Little San's father is Clear Sky Douluo!"
Elsewhere.
"Father, what brings you here?"
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