"Poke a Hole Through Douluo Continent!"

Wu Changkong looked back.

He saw a burly man and a young child.

The child was wearing a mask, sizing him up with brilliant, lava-like eyes, while also giving off faint spiritual fluctuations.

As if noticing him look over, a trace of astonishment flashed through the child's eyes, and he hurriedly lowered his head.

"Interesting little guy..." Wu Changkong shook his head, turned around, and quickened his pace as he left.

Gu You truly had not expected that in Tiandou City, he would actually run into the famous East Sea Little Changkong from the original work.

He had seen that face in the Dragon King comic—handsome features, sharp eyes, paired with long blue hair, giving off an icy feeling.

Perhaps this was fate.

By the time they returned to Tiandou Hotel, it was already quite late.

After using his Martial Soul True Body, Bai Haoze was in a weakened state and would not recover without a month or two, so he had gone back to his room to rest long ago.

Gu You also returned to Heaven No. 1 Room in a daze. After setting down Seven Deadly Sins and the other items, he casually tossed aside the mask he had taken off on the road, climbed onto the bed, and sat down to meditate.

He had consumed quite a bit during the battle and needed to recover as soon as possible.

He really did not want to run into this kind of thing again in the future. Someone bent on death was simply insane.

And what was this so-called god's blessing? Could it really bring new life to someone whose lifespan was nearly exhausted?

The best result would be the secret of the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon, but what use was knowing that secret?

Some secrets could only be known by those destined to know them. If you forcibly reached out to touch them, the only thing waiting for you would be backlash.

Sneering inwardly, Gu You did not know whether he should feel pity for Evil Soul Elder or mock him.

He was merely someone doomed to die. There was no point talking about him.

There was no doubt that this trip to Tiandou had brought enormous gains. Now the Sky Crystal Barrier was in his hands, and so was the ancient map. Tomorrow, he could ask Leng Yaozhu whether they could return to the Heavenly Spirit Pagoda headquarters.

After going back, he could use the Spirit Transmission Pagoda to unravel the secrets on the ancient map, then ask his teacher for a storage Soul Guidance Device and a Soul Guidance Baby Bottle, storing enough soul power to activate the Sky Crystal Barrier.

That way, he would have no worries about life-saving measures. Unless someone possessed Titled Douluo-level strength, they could not kill him.

One day earlier, at Heavenly Spirit Pagoda.

"Tower Master Leng, is what you said true?"

Inside the Spirit Transmission Conference Hall, another meeting had begun, and one of the members questioned Leng Yaozhu.

Leng Yaozhu looked rather unconcerned at the moment. "Didn't you all not trust that child? I'm having him join the Spirit Transmission Hall. What's the problem?"

At those words, the people present looked at one another.

What was the Spirit Transmission Hall? It was the Spirit Transmission Pagoda's counterpart to the Tang Sect Soul Fighting Hall.

Once one joined the Spirit Transmission Hall, one bore the responsibility of safeguarding the continent's peace. Most of the Spirit Transmission Pagoda's dangerous missions would be issued there for members to carry out.

Every time, it could practically be called a mission with ten deaths and no life.

Douluo Continent might look peaceful now, but in truth, countless hidden crises lay beneath the surface.

"But Tower Master Leng, can you really bear to let your disciple take part in that?"

One of the members said with a half-smile.

"Oh? What's there to bear or not bear? Isn't the Spirit Transmission Hall the path every generation of elites in my Spirit Transmission Pagoda must walk? Back in the day, entering the Spirit Transmission Hall was an honor, not something for all of you to sit here and call a matter of whether I can bear to let my disciple join."

Leng Yaozhu felt there was no need to keep talking with these sanctimonious people.

"I believe in my student. He will be the best disciple I have ever had. Just wait and see. Let my finest student pierce straight through the crises facing Douluo Continent!"

Early the next morning, the sunlight was perfect.

Gu You woke from meditation. His Golden Pupils flickered faintly in the morning light, then returned to normal.

He moved his limbs on the bed, and the bones throughout his body gave a series of faint cracks.

After getting out of bed and washing up, Gu You wiped his face, and the Soul Guidance Communicator on the bed rang.

He went over, picked it up, and saw that it was a video call, and from Leng Yaozhu at that.

He answered, and a screen of light unfolded before him.

Leaning sideways against her office desk, Leng Yaozhu was wearing a dark red long dress today. Her fiery red hair was pinned up with a jade hairpin, and though her face looked somewhat tired, she seemed to be in a good mood.

"Teacher, good morning!"

Gu You greeted her with a smile.

"Mm, good morning." The corners of Leng Yaozhu's lips lifted slightly. "The auction is over, and the commotion you caused wasn't small. I saw the news this morning. A battle at the Soul Sage level or above broke out in the parking lot near Tiandou Auction House."

"A large area was destroyed, resulting in one death. Tell me, what happened? Bai Haoze isn't answering the communicator either. His younger sister did answer, but she didn't know. Sigh, those two sisters."

Leng Yaozhu sighed. In the middle of speaking, she had actually exposed the two sisters' gender.

Maybe she knew she could not hide it from Gu You. Her face might not have shown her gender, but inside, she was definitely exasperated.

"It's a long story, but the matter itself is actually simple. I bid on an item, and someone else wanted it too, so when we went out, they tried to seize the treasure and we fought. I hadn't expected the other party to be an Evil Soul Master—and a lunatic at that."

Gu You considered his words before speaking.

"The more we fought, the crazier they got. Bai Haoze had to use his Martial Soul True Body before she could hold them off and deal with them. She's in her weakened period right now, so she should be resting, which is probably why she didn't answer your call. As for her younger sister, she didn't go with us. Something came up on the road and she left on her own, so it's normal that she doesn't know."

He gave a brief account of what had happened.

"Those two girls really are too carefree. They still dared to split up. If anything happened to you, I'd never let them off. But since it was an accident, it's understandable. Still, Evil Soul Masters at the Soul Sage level are showing up now..."

In the light screen, Leng Yaozhu rested her chin on her hand and fell silent. After a while, she continued, "What did you buy at this auction? What kind of treasure could make a Soul Sage Evil Soul Master risk their life to take it?"

"I bought a ninth-grade defensive Soul Guidance Device, the Sky Crystal Barrier, and also an ancient map. That Evil Soul Master came for the ancient map."

In the room, Gu You took out the Sky Crystal Barrier and the ancient map, setting them out for Leng Yaozhu to look at.

"The Sky Crystal Barrier?" Leng Yaozhu nodded. "I know of it. An old friend mentioned it to me before. It's a Soul Guidance Device with extremely powerful defenses. I didn't expect you to run into it this time. As for this ancient map, did the auction house give any explanation?"

Compared with the Sky Crystal Barrier, Leng Yaozhu was more curious about the ancient map. For now, the price did not matter.

Could something a high-ranking Evil Soul Master would risk their life to obtain possibly be anything ordinary?

Even if it really was a piece of scrap paper, there had to be some hidden mystery to it.

Because no one would give up their life fighting over something without value.

"The people from the auction house said this thing was unearthed from an imperial mausoleum of the Sun Moon Empire, with a history of over ten thousand years. I suspect it has something to do with the Sun-Moon Xu Family."

Gu You lowered his voice.

"Unearthed from an imperial mausoleum?"

The more Leng Yaozhu listened, the more something felt wrong. She remembered that there had never been a precedent of antiques being unearthed from the Sun-Moon Imperial Mausoleum. The Federation had always protected the imperial mausoleum very well.

So why were cultural relics suddenly being unearthed?

Was it a normal excavation?

Leng Yaozhu realized the severity of the matter. The Sun-Moon Imperial Mausoleum had probably already been robbed, and the Xu Family might not even know yet.