The Mastermind Ye Qing: An Unstoppable Storm of Public Opinion
Inside the main hall of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect School.
The air distorted slightly.
A gap was torn open in the pitch-black space.
Gu Rong stepped out, his face as black as if he had washed soot from the bottom of a pot.
"Bone, why did you come back alone?"
Chen Xin raised the Seven Kill Sword, its blade gleaming with a sharp, cold light.
"What about that 100,000-year-old rabbit?"
Gu Rong spat out a mouthful of saliva, the sound of it being spat out being particularly loud.
"Don't even mention it, we messed up."
Ning Fengzhi's hand holding the celadon teacup trembled slightly.
"You messed up?"
"Blue Tyrant Academy is just an ordinary high-level Soul Master Academy; it doesn't even have a Titled Douluo."
"Uncle Bone, with your level 95 cultivation, capturing a Transformation Soul Beast is a piece of cake, isn't it?"
Gu Rong wiped the cold sweat from his face, still shaken.
"My bone claw was originally only three feet away from that little rabbit."
"Who would have thought a madman would suddenly appear out of nowhere?"
"A large black hammer smashed my bone claws into pieces."
Chen Xin's eyebrows were furrowed into a tight knot.
"A big black hammer?"
"Could it be... the Clear Sky Hammer?"
"That's right! It's the Clear Sky Hammer!"
Gu Rong's voice rose three digits, his eyes filled with fear. "And he also possesses Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring!"
"Besides Tang Hao, the Haotian Douluo who has been missing for many years, who else in the world could it be?"
Ning Fengzhi the white jade teacup on the table, shattering it in two with a crash.
"Tang Hao?"
"He's been hiding his identity and infiltrating Heaven Dou City all this time?"
Gu Rong pulled over a rosewood chair and sat down, panting heavily.
"You do not say."
"I watched helplessly as he carried away the little rabbit and that brat named Tang San, one on each side."
"The way they protected their own was exactly like protecting their own child."
Chen Xin's eyes shot out two sharp sword beams.
"It's understandable that Tang Hao would go to great lengths to protect a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast."
"But why did he even save that brat named Tang San?"
"It couldn't have been something you picked up while passing by, could it?"
Ning Fengzhi stood up and paced back and forth in the center of the hall, his gaze growing increasingly deep.
"Tang San... Tang Hao..."
He suddenly gasped, "I understand!"
"That Tang San is probably Tang Hao's biological son!"
Chen Xin's expression was serious, and his tone was cold. "Feng Zhi, things are getting complicated now."
"That anonymous letter clearly intended to use our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as a pawn."
"Not only did we fail to seize the Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, we also stepped into the quagmire of being enemies with Tang Hao."
Damn it!
Ning Fengzhi's face was so gloomy it looked like it was about to drip water.
"This tactic of testing the waters is extremely malicious; it puts us in a very difficult position."
"Tang Hao has probably had his eye on Xiao Wu for a long time. Given his hot-tempered and protective nature, he will definitely fight our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to the death."
Gu Rong sighed, "So what do we do now?"
"Should we send someone to hunt down Tang Hao?"
"Absolutely not."
Ning Fengzhi waved his hand, decisively refusing.
"With a 100,000-year-old red Soul Ring, Tang Hao's combat power is incomparably ferocious."
"A hasty break with them would only result in heavy losses for our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect."
"The most urgent task now is to immediately block the news; we absolutely cannot let anyone else know about this."
The back mountain of the Blue Tyrant Academy in Heaven Dou City.
The once picturesque courtyard has long since been reduced to ruins.
The rubble was littered with broken walls and ruins, and emitted a pungent smell of smoke and dust.
Dai Mubai stuck his hands into the soil, his eyes bloodshot as if they were about to spit fire.
"Why?"
"Why is that?!"
Ma Hongjun collapsed onto the muddy ground, sobbing uncontrollably with snot and tears streaming down his face.
"Dean Flender has gone missing."
"Teacher Erlong and the Grandmaster are now completely paralyzed, clinging to life only by expensive medicines."
"Now even Xiao Wu and Third Brother have been forcibly taken away by an unknown powerful figure."
"Is God deliberately making things difficult for Shrek?!"
Oscar sat on a rock, clutching several tattered wooden boxes filled with healing pills, his eyes glazed over.
"That old man, whose entire body was just bones, pinned us all to the ground and rendered us immobile with a single move."
"For an expert of that level, killing us is easier than crushing an ant."
Why did he kidnap Xiao Wu?
Zhu Zhuqing leaned against a half-broken tree, her pretty face as cold as ice.
"The man in black who intervened later was equally terrifying."
"When that hammer fell, it was as if the entire sky had cracked open."
"If he hadn't repelled the skeletal powerhouse, we probably wouldn't have survived."
Dai Mubai slammed his fist into the ground, the impact causing his hand to bleed profusely and his bones to ache terribly.
"But why did he take his Little San and Xiao Wu away?"
Ma Hongjun sobbed, wiping away tears from the corners of his eyes, his voice filled with despair. "Boss Dai, what do we do now?"
"The academy is completely gone, the signboard is shattered, and the teachers are seriously injured and unconscious."
"How about we go our separate ways?"
"Scattered? Where can they scatter to?"
Oscar gave a bitter laugh, utterly disheartened.
"The Star Luo Empire? The Spirit Hall? Or should I become a wandering Soul Master?"
"We have neither money nor resources right now, and even daily cultivation has become a major problem."
Zhu Zhuqing coldly uttered, "Only Tang San's Strange Gate Prescription can cure the injuries of Teacher Erlong and Grandmaster."
Dai Mubai gritted his teeth and took a deep breath.
"Zhu Zhuqing is right."
"The Little San understands medicine, toxicology, and even those strange and unusual healing methods."
"As long as the Little San is still alive, he will definitely find a way to get her back."
"Everyone, clean up the rubble and carry Grandmaster and Erlong to a safe cave."
"We'll stay here and wait for the Little San to return!"
Several people, dragging their battered and bruised bodies, silently cleaned up the mess in the ruins.
Ning Fengzhi's idea of blocking the information was ultimately just a pipe dream.
Before the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could even begin its public relations campaign,
An invisible storm of public opinion has rapidly erupted in Heaven Dou City.
Half a day.
In just half a day.
Two explosive pieces of news spread like wildfire throughout the streets and alleys of Heaven Dou City.
Inside teahouses, outside auction houses, and even near imperial guard posts, all the Soul Master were buzzing with the news.
Have you heard?
"Tang Hao, the Haotian Douluo, who once brutally beat up the former Pope, is lurking in our Heaven Dou City!"
"Not only that, he secretly harbored a Soul Master named Xiao Wu, who was actually a 100,000-year- Transformation Soft Bone Rabbit!"
"Oh My God!"
"There's something even more exciting!"
"The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect School coveted Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and Soul Bone. Bone Douluo personally went to the Blue Tyrant Academy to snatch the rabbit, but ended up fighting with Tang Hao."
"I heard that the entire back mountain was smashed to pieces by the Clear Sky Hammer."
The news caused an uproar throughout Heaven Dou City.
The major powers were shocked and excited.
That's a supreme treasure— Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
Undercurrents were swirling throughout Heaven Dou City.
A window seat on the second floor of the largest restaurant in Heaven Dou City.
Ye Qing listened to the extremely noisy discussion downstairs, a playful smile curving his lips.
In fact,
Ye Qing himself did not expect that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would take such decisive action against Xiao Wu after receiving his letter.
However, this was absolutely the best news for him.
He personally arranged for these messages to be spread.
Once the message is completely spread, the conflict between the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Tang Hao and Tang San will escalate further, possibly to the point of no return—which is exactly what he wants.