"Has Sister Yue sent you a reply?" Xu Xiaoyan glanced over and asked.
Tang Wulin shook his head. "She hasn't replied."
As he spoke, he put away his soul communicator and smiled. "It's fine! If she hasn't replied, she hasn't replied. She's probably busy."
Though he said that, Tang Wulin couldn't shake the feeling that he and Gu Yue seemed to be drifting farther and farther apart.
While The Twins and their group were staying at Heaven Dou Advanced Soul Master Academy, quite a few other students challenged them. These weren't formal battles, though, just friendly sparring matches.
Basically, the fights were over as soon as The Twins released their Martial Souls! The power of Taiyang and Taiyin countered nearly every element under heaven. Even Martial Souls without an elemental attribute struggled to last long.
By the end of the day, The Twins had become objects of admiration among the academy's first- and second-year students. Quite a few of them had started calling them senior students or teachers.
The next day, Tianlian Douluo personally accompanied The Twins and their group on a tour of Heaven Dou City.
The previous night, he had already contacted Shrek Academy through his soul communicator to confirm their identities! All six members of the group held high status—two were disciples of Sky-Piercing Douluo Yun Ming, and three were granddisciples of Red Dragon Douluo Zhuo Shi.
Even Na'er seemed to be a prodigy from Shrek Academy's inner court!
With a group like this, personally accompanying them was hardly a problem. Building a good relationship with the new generation's leaders from Shrek Academy could only benefit Heaven Dou Advanced Soul Master Academy as a whole.
Heaven Dou City still preserved many ancient buildings, and there weren't many high-rises in the urban area. But the population of the great city kept growing, so its developed area had expanded many times over.
Tianlian Douluo led Yun Qianzhao and the others around Heaven Dou City's various sights.
"Sunset Forest is just ahead. Unfortunately, the forest had already become a forest in name only a thousand years ago. These days, that area is a Tang Sect experimental base." Tianlian Douluo pointed toward the buildings among the distant trees as he explained.
As he spoke, a black-and-gold beam of light erupted from deep within Sunset Forest!
The beam shot straight into the sky, instantly scattering the clouds above as if it had punched a hole through the heavens!
"What's going on?"
Tang Wulin and the others were shocked, staring in disbelief at the scene in the distance.
Jiaojiao and Bajiao's expressions changed almost instantly. They stepped forward, their faces grave.
Tianlian Douluo furrowed his brows as well. "Did something go wrong with one of the Tang Sect's experiments? This aura... It's so powerful. There are at least several Super Douluo-level auras present! No, that's not right!"
After carefully sensing the auras coming from afar, Tianlian Douluo's expression changed.
"This is the aura of a Ferocious Beast!"
The only Ferocious Beasts still left in the entire Douluo Plane were deep in the Extreme North and the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest. Perhaps there were more Ferocious Beasts on the other two continents, but Sunset Forest had been gone for a thousand years!
How could a Ferocious Beast suddenly appear here?
The Tang Sect!
Could this have something to do with the Tang Sect?
Tianlian Douluo knitted his brows tightly and immediately said to The Twins, "You two, return to Heaven Dou City. I'll go check out what's happening!"
With that, he flew toward Sunset Forest.
"Should we go back first?" Xu Xiaoyan asked nervously, looking at the others.
She had clearly heard Tianlian Douluo say "Ferocious Beast" just now!
For a Soul Beast to be called a Ferocious Beast, it had to be at least two hundred thousand years old, right? That was equivalent to a human Super Douluo. They'd better not go running into such a terrifying being.
Jiaojiao and Bajiao looked at The Twins and said, "We'll escort you back."
The Twins' safety mattered most. If The Twins hadn't been here, they would have rushed over already. Though worried sick, Jiaojiao and Bajiao had decided to take the two of them back to Heaven Dou City first.
"No. We're going to take a look," Yun Qianzhao said, shaking his head.
"But... it's a Ferocious Beast!" Xu Xiaoyan looked tense, and when she heard Yun Qianzhao say they wanted to go see, she grew even more flustered.
Yun Qianyue turned to the others and said calmly, "If you're scared, I'll have Bajiao take you back."
"That's Tang Sect territory. Even if a Ferocious Beast is attacking, we shouldn't be in too much danger! Besides, we have two seniors protecting us. You don't get to see a battle at this level every day."
Tang Wulin spoke up, his gaze settling on Yun Qianyue as he smiled. "Uncle-Master Qianyue, I'll go with you."
Though he didn't know Jiaojiao and Bajiao's true forms, he knew they were at least Titled Douluo.
"I'm going with my brother." Na'er looked at Tang Wulin and smiled.
Seeing that they all planned to go, Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan could only nod. "All right! We'll go together! The Shrek Seven Devils, in it together!"
Once they had made up their minds, the group immediately quickened their pace toward Sunset Forest.
The valley near the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well had been completely flattened. Even the Tang Sect buildings nearby had not been spared!
The plant-type Ferocious Beasts, including Aromatic Silk Beauty, had taken human form. Their expressions were grave as they looked up at the sky. Amid the black-and-gold radiance, Di Tian's black hair whipped about, and his cold golden eyes reflected the plant-type Ferocious Beasts below.
The Titled Douluo assigned to guard the area by the Tang Sect swiftly rose into the air and stopped in front of Di Tian. His face solemn, he demanded, "Who are you? How dare you attack the Tang Sect!"
"Silence!"
Di Tian didn't waste words on the Titled Douluo. He simply raised a hand and slapped at him!
The man felt the immense Soul Power, compressed to the extreme, rushing toward him. He immediately donned his Battle Armor. The radiance of his Three-Word Battle Armor blazed, yet it still couldn't withstand Di Tian's strike!
The massive Soul Power hit his body and sent him crashing to the ground, where he smashed out a crater a hundred meters across! The Battle Armor's radiance dimmed as well.
The Titled Douluo was utterly horrified.
"You... are you a Limit Douluo?"
He wasn't a Super Douluo, but with his Three-Word Battle Armor on, even a Level 98 Super Douluo couldn't have hurt him so badly with such a casual strike!
But there were only a handful of Limit Douluo on the continent, and he'd never heard of anyone with an appearance like this man's!
Seeing Tianlian Douluo flying toward him in the distance, Di Tian said coldly, "I am the Dragon King of the Holy Spirit Cult!"
"The Holy Spirit Cult!?"
Tianlian Douluo and the Titled Douluo below both heard him. Gu Yue's power concealed the Soul Beast aura, so they couldn't tell what Di Tian's true form was. Hearing him claim to be with the Holy Spirit Cult only shocked them even more!
When had the Holy Spirit Cult gained another Limit Douluo?
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