Who would do something so shameless and inhuman? Even if Yu Tianheng, that cowardly, womanizing scumbag, could do it, how could his Xiao Wu possibly do such a thing?
One month later, the entire Heaven Dou Empire team finally arrived in Spirit City.
Due to the special regulations of Spirit City, the five hundred royal guards responsible for protection were stationed outside Spirit City, while the sixteen Soul Master teams, led by Xue Haicang, entered Spirit City.
Led by a Cardinal from Spirit City, the group of over two hundred people was settled in a hotel on the west side of Spirit City. The Star Luo Empire's participating team also arrived at the same time and was arranged on the east side. The two teams were thus intentionally separated.
According to the message from the Spirit Hall, the competition will officially begin in three days. After nearly a month of arduous travel, these three days of rest will be enough for the participating teams from each academy to recuperate.
"You're back."
Hu Liena stepped down from the carriage at the hotel arranged for the Heaven Dou Empire team, her brows furrowed with the weariness and irritability of a month-long journey.
Instead of immediately going to the hotel to prepare for the Elite Advanced Soul Master Academy Competition three days later, she walked onto the streets of Spirit City, her gaze sweeping over the buildings.
The architecture of Spirit City remained unchanged. If there was any subtle difference, it was that the buildings had lost much of their age, and the city seemed to have been renovated.
Hu Liena walked down the streets of Spirit City with her head down and a somewhat dejected expression. Her mind unconsciously recalled her memories of growing up in the Spirit City orphanage, and then she thought of the changes in strength between Bai Chenxiang and Ning Rongrong of Martial Soul Second Team in the Elite Advanced Soul Master Academy Competition. Her brother, whose talent should not have been as good as hers, was far stronger than her. The regret in her heart for leaving Spirit City with Bibi Dong grew stronger.
"Nana..."
Hidden in the shadows, Bibi Dong, who had also arrived in Spirit City with the group from the Heaven Dou Empire, keenly noticed Hu Liena's expression. A pang of pain shot through her heart. She knew that Hu Liena was probably blaming herself for taking Hu Liena away from Spirit City because Xie Yue, Ning Rongrong, Bai Chenxiang, and others had greatly improved their talents and cultivation, surpassing hers.
Bibi Dong was heartbroken. She had taken Hu Liena as her disciple since she was six years old, and fifteen years had passed since then. To her, Hu Liena was not only her disciple, but also her acknowledged daughter. But now Hu Liena was blaming herself and siding with the Spirit Hall, the dirty and disgusting force that she wanted to Destruction and ruin her life.
Bibi Dong didn't know how to comfort Hu Liena. Any words seemed pale and powerless in the face of facts. The only effective thing was probably to tell Hu Liena what had happened to her—which was also the real reason she took Hu Liena away from the Spirit Hall. Should she tell Hu Liena the most shameful and unbearable thing in her heart? She had kept this matter a secret from Yu Xiaogang until now.
The day after most of the Heaven Dou Empire arrived in Spirit City, Tang Xiao and Tang San also arrived in Spirit City after obtaining the Soul Ring for the Clear Sky Hammer from the Star Dou Great Forest.
Tang Xiao and Tang San did not go to the hotel where the Heaven Dou Second Team was staying immediately, but went to the Moonlight Pavilion to find Tang Yuehua.
To prevent the Spirit Hall from discovering them, Tang Xiao sent only Tang San to the Moonlight Pavilion while he himself hid in the shadows to observe. However, in reality, the moment Bibi Dong and Tang Xiao stepped into Spirit City, they were already discovered by Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji.
Spirit City is the territory of the Angel Clan. How could two level 95 Titled Douluo possibly hide under the nose of the Angel God's Grand Pontiff?
After Tang San entered Moonlight Pavilion, he found the receptionist and revealed his Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul. Not long after, a woman dressed in a silver palace dress, who looked to be around thirty-six or thirty-seven years old, with several wrinkles on her face, fair skin, and still charming, walked down the stairs.
"Aunt."
Tang San exclaimed, his eyes widening as he stared at Tang Yuehua, unable to believe that Tang Yuehua had aged so much. In his previous life, five years later when he met Tang Yuehua, and even ten years later when the Clear Sky Sect re-emerged, Tang Yuehua's appearance remained around 30 years old, with only a level nine Soul Power. She was better maintained than some Soul Emperor and Soul Master Soul Saint of the same age.
Tang Xiao secretly saw his obedient and sensible younger sister aging. He was unaware of the image of Tang Yuehua five years later, in her tenth grade, in Tang San's mind. The joy of seeing his sister again and knowing that she was still alive outweighed his anger, because in terms of age, Tang Yuehua was almost fifty years old. Tang Yuehua was not Soul Master, so it was normal for her to age.
Even Titled Douluo like him has aged, hasn't he?
"You call me aunt? Are you the eldest brother's son, or Brother Hao's son?"
Tang Yuehua came to Tang San's side and gently rubbed his face, her face full of joy—fourteen years had passed, and she had finally seen her family again, and it was her own nephew who had come.
Tang San said, "My father's name is Tang Hao."
"You are Brother Hao and her son." Tang Yuehua's eyes, which were full of joy, flashed with a complicated expression. She added, "You look just like Brother Hao, especially your eyes."
The fifth floor of the Moonlight Pavilion is Tang Yuehua's private space.
Tang Yuehua asked, "Third Sister, how is the Clear Sky Sect doing?"
Tang San lowered his head and said, "Aunt, the Clear Sky Sect has long been Destruction."
"What? When?! The Spirit Hall hasn't made any major moves in years, who could possibly destroy our Clear Sky Sect!?"
Tang Yuehua was shocked. She had been able to hold on in Spirit City until now because she hoped that her father, Tang Zhen, would succeed in his plan: that Tang Hao would break through to the 99th level of Titled Douluo, and that Tang Xiao Clear Sky Sect, along with six elders and a total of seven Title Douluos, would emerge powerfully, shake the continent, attack the Spirit Hall, flatten it, and bring her back.
"Aunt, not long after the Spirit Hall captured you, they used despicable means to wipe out the entire Clear Sky Sect Spirit Hall. The only survivors of the Clear Sky Sect are me, you, Dad, Uncle, and my Great-Grandfather has never returned..."
"Spirit Hall — Spirit Hall — Spirit Hall —you beasts—what a vicious heart you have—"
"Clear Sky Sect, Father, Yue Hua is unfilial, Yue Hua is unfilial! Only now do I learn that you have been murdered by the Spirit Hall!!!"
Tang Yuehua knelt helplessly on the ground, tears streaming down her face, heartbroken and devastated. She had been completely tricked and deceived by the Spirit Hall. For fourteen years, she had clung to the illusion that the Clear Sky Sect Spirit Hall was still accumulating strength and protecting the Clear Sky Sect, working for the Spirit Hall for nothing, earning countless small goals' worth of Gold Soul Coin for the Spirit Hall, and strengthening the power of this mortal enemy.