Ning Rongrong Betrays Tang San Already?

This made Gu Yuan instinctively yank his hand back like lightning.

It was true that he intended to play along with Ning Rongrong.

But he had no intention of dragging innocent people into it.

Everyone knew that Wu Feng liked girls. The only reason she was acting like this had to be because Ning Rongrong forced her to.

Ning Rongrong had embraced nothing but air with both hands, yet she was not discouraged. She merely assumed that a Child of Destiny was not someone so easily won over.

Wu Feng's cheeks, meanwhile, were practically dripping blood.

Seriously, why had she instinctively grabbed his hand just now?

Was it because of the young mistress's order?

Mm, yes, that had to be it.

The person in charge of the second round was an elderly teacher. Ning Rongrong whispered a few words into his ear, then pointed at Gu Yuan.

The elderly teacher nodded. "Fine. Take him to the fourth test. If he passes it, he can enter the Elite Class directly."

Ning Rongrong returned to Gu Yuan and Wu Feng's side and was about to lead them toward another area of Shrek Academy.

But the candidates standing in line were not having it.

A burly male candidate asked, "Teacher, what's going on here? Why can he skip straight to the fourth test while we have to pass every stage one by one? That's not fair."

The elderly teacher replied calmly, "If your Soul Power exceeds Rank 25, or if you possess Twin Martial Souls, you can go directly as well."

The burly candidate fell silent.

However, a boy standing behind him, with center-parted hair, double pupils, and a face full of hostility and arrogance, stepped forward at that moment and snorted coldly.

"If you can't do it yourself, don't assume others can't either. Zhu Lu, show him our Soul Power."

As he spoke, he stepped forward and picked up the Soul Power testing crystal ball from the elderly teacher's desk.

This Soul Power testing crystal ball was different from the one used by the students on duty outside.

It could test Soul Power up to Rank 50.

The instant the boy picked up the crystal ball, it blazed with light, revealing Soul Power at around Rank 31.

Then, with exaggerated attentiveness, he handed the crystal ball to a girl behind him with heterochromatic eyes and an extremely curvaceous figure.

The girl's expression was utterly cold, and her attitude toward him was even more indifferent. Disappointment and helplessness seeped from her very bones.

After taking the crystal ball, bright light flared again. Though not as intense as before, it still reached Rank 27.

Gu Yuan looked at the girl thoughtfully. From the way that man had addressed her earlier, it was not difficult to guess their identities.

Huo Yuhao's lifelong enemy in the fanfiction—the second young master of the current White Tiger Duke Mansion, Dai Huabin.

The girl was Dai Huabin's fiancée, Zhu Lu, the direct daughter of the Zhu family of the Nether Duke Mansion.

In the original work, Zhu Lu had clearly been the weaker party in their relationship. Faced with Dai Huabin's infatuation with Wang Qiu'er, she could only suffer in silence, not daring to say another word.

But looking at things now, it seemed more like the situation was reversed.

Or rather, Zhu Lu had never had any feelings for Dai Huabin at all.

Instead, she gave off the impression of an elder looking at a junior, frustrated that he could not live up to expectations.

Could this woman be Zhu Zhuqing?

Gu Yuan immediately had this suspicion.

Seeing Gu Yuan stare at Zhu Zhuqing so intently, Ning Rongrong's sense of crisis surged. In a sugary yet pointed tone, she introduced them, "That man looks like he should be from the White Tiger Duke Mansion. That woman's surname is Zhu, so she should be from the Nether Duke Mansion. I heard their two families have intermarried for generations, so they should be engaged."

"He is not my fiancé. Nor does the Nether Duke Mansion need to marry into any family."

Zhu Zhuqing flashed forward and appeared before Gu Yuan's group. After coldly speaking to Ning Rongrong, she handed the crystal ball to Gu Yuan.

Ning Rongrong was both furious and alarmed.

But in order to avoid leaving a bad impression on Gu Yuan, she ultimately did not lose her temper.

Dai Huabin was equally furious and alarmed.

His hostility was directed at Gu Yuan.

To him, anyone who tried to get close to "Zhu Lu"—to the woman who could help him inherit the White Tiger Duke Mansion—was an enemy.

Even if "Zhu Lu" was the one approaching them first.

Most importantly, he had no intention of being as tolerant as Ning Rongrong.

But before he could act, brilliant light erupted once more, completely preventing Dai Huabin from making any move. The way he looked at Gu Yuan also became strange.

Rank 46. At eleven years old, he had already reached Rank 46. Was that even a level a human could attain?

Not even any one of the original Shrek Seven Devils, who had already become gods, had been this monstrous, right?

However, Gu Yuan was clearly not the only one who shocked Dai Huabin.

A crisp voice rang out. "Teacher, I think I can go directly to the fourth test as well."

The one who spoke was a cute, petite little girl with two dark green braids.

Rather than testing her Soul Power, she raised both hands. Black and green light surged from her palms respectively, and a palm-sized black cauldron and a foot-long jade flute appeared in her hands.

Ning Rongrong could not help but cry out, "Twin Martial Souls."

Just as the little girl was about to ask the older teacher whether she could proceed to the fourth trial, a pink-and-blue-haired youth with beautiful butterfly wings on her back descended from the sky.

"I'm not the only one with Twin Martial Souls. I have them too."

She folded away her wings, and a dreamlike butterfly phantom appeared behind her. At the same time, a small black hammer appeared in her hand.

"The Light Goddess Butterfly, and the Clear Sky Hammer."

Ning Rongrong's heart went completely numb.

She had already guessed the identity of the person before her: Wang Dong'er, one-third of Tang Wutong, the split soul responsible for suffering in the lower realm in her stead.

She was Brother San's tool specifically meant to gather Children of Destiny.

With Brother San backing her, could she truly marry a Child of Destiny and return to the God Realm?

In an instant, extreme unwillingness filled Ning Rongrong's heart.

She knew exactly what kind of person Tang San was.

Once someone tried to take something he had set his sights on, their inevitable fate was to be reckoned with.

But if she simply waited for death, she could only grow old and die on Douluo Continent.

As for revealing her identity to Brother San, setting aside whether he would believe her, even if he did, he likely would not go out of his way to obtain another divine position for her.

That was something Brother San would only reserve for his and Xiao Wu's children, or for people useful to him.

The reason the other five monsters had been able to become gods back then was because Brother San had only just ascended to the God Realm. Isolated and without support, he had urgently needed to build up his own faction.

Now, Brother San's wings had long since fully grown, and he had completely secured his position as the God of Law Enforcement.

He could stand on equal footing with Destruction.

He was no longer the Brother San from back then. Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun, all three of them, feared him.

Ning Rongrong was the same now.

When someone suddenly fell from the clouds into a muddy pit, they would instinctively begin to doubt everything around them.

At this very moment, Ning Rongrong seriously suspected that her "rebirth" had been Brother San's doing.

There was no other reason.

Other than him, no one had both the ability and motive to do such a thing.

Moreover, she knew far too many of his secrets.

She had also helped him do far too many unspeakable things.

If he learned that she had not only failed to die, but had instead been "reborn" as Ning Tian, it would likely bring immediate disaster upon her.

In an instant, fear filled Ning Rongrong's heart. Beneath her teal dress, her camisole and hot pants had somehow already been soaked through with sweat.

Ning Rongrong did not want to die. She neither wanted to be killed by Brother San nor to die old and pathetic.

The longer she lived, the more she wanted to keep living.

"Gu Yuan possesses talent even greater than Tang San's. If he can break Tang San's schemes..."

"With Gu Yuan's talent, coupled with the heaven-defying opportunities of a Child of Destiny, he may not necessarily be unable to surpass Tang San."

"Brother San—no, Tang San. Since you have been heartless, don't blame me for being ruthless."

At that moment, Ning Rongrong had already made up her mind.