Tang San: What do you want to do to Xiao Wu!

Although Bear Lord and Red King both wanted to stay, under Huang Long's repeated insistence, they had no choice but to agree.

The next morning, Di Tian repeatedly reminded Xiao Wu that she had to take good care of Lord Dragon God and absolutely could not allow anything to go wrong.

Xiao Wu nodded solemnly, thumping her chest with loud pats.

"Don't worry, Lord Di Tian! I'll definitely take good care of Lord Dragon God!"

Di Tian nodded slightly, then turned to Sea Dragon Douluo and Sea Maiden Douluo, seeming to want to say something but stopping himself.

Seeing this, Sea Dragon Douluo could guess what he wanted to say.

"No one on Sea God Island can bully our Holy Son."

"Good."

Only then did Di Tian feel at ease. He then left with Bear Lord and Red King.

"They finally left!"

After seeing Di Tian and the others finally depart, Sea Maiden Douluo excitedly stretched.

With Di Tian, Bear Lord, and the others around before, she had always felt like the unnecessary extra.

Now that this group of soul beasts had finally gone, even the air felt fresher!

No, there was still one left!

Sea Maiden Douluo secretly glanced at Xiao Wu, then leaned close to Sea Dragon and whispered, "Holy Son, now that those soul beasts are gone, how about we slip away first?"

Xiao Wu's ears twitched slightly. She turned around with a resentful look on her face. "Big sister, I heard all of that."

"So what if you did?"

Sea Maiden Douluo placed her hands on her hips and gave a soft snort. "If you dare stop us, be careful or I'll hang you up and spank you!"

Xiao Wu's expression changed drastically. She hurriedly covered her backside and retreated several steps.

"Y-You can't do that!"

"You think I won't just because you say so?"

Rubbing her wrists, Sea Maiden Douluo approached with a wicked grin.

Huang Long and Sea Dragon Douluo exchanged helpless, amused glances.

Sea Maiden was already so old, yet she was actually squabbling with a little girl.

Uh... that didn't seem right either.

If they were being serious about it, this little girl was older than all of them combined.

Just as Huang Long was about to step forward and stop them, a sharp shout suddenly came from outside the courtyard.

"Stop! What are you trying to do to Xiao Wu?!"

Everyone froze and turned, only to see an ordinary-looking, dark-skinned youth with blue hair suddenly rush into the courtyard.

Sea Maiden Douluo was briefly stunned when she saw the youth enter.

But in that instant of hesitation, the youth raised his right hand.

With a sharp whoosh, a bloodthirsty cold gleam flashed out from his sleeve, shooting straight toward Sea Maiden Douluo's throat!

It happened too quickly, leaving everyone stunned.

In that split second, Huang Long reached out and grabbed through the air. The object changed direction and flew into his hand.

Sea Dragon Douluo was even faster. He lunged forward, seized the youth by the neck, and slammed him onto the ground.

With a crisp bang, the youth was smashed heavily against the ground, feeling as though every bone in his body was about to break.

His throat was also being gripped, leaving him unable to breathe. He could only struggle desperately.

When Xiao Wu came back to her senses and saw the youth pinned to the ground by Sea Dragon, her heart immediately jolted.

"Lord Dragon God, please don't make a move yet!"

"He's a classmate I met at Notting Academy. His name is Tang San."

Sea Dragon Douluo narrowed his eyes and coldly stared at the youth, whose eyes had reddened from being choked.

"A classmate?"

"Tang San?"

Huang Long, meanwhile, frowned slightly and lowered his head to look at the object he had just drawn over.

It was actually an arrow no bigger than a palm!

The arrowhead was coated in a black liquid with no smell at all.

Combined with the young man's earlier motion of raising his hand, Huang Long became even more certain.

This was the Tang Sect's hidden weapon, the Sleeve Arrow.

And the liquid on the arrowhead was most likely the Tang Sect's deadly poison.

Just as expected of the Tang Sect's style.

When words failed, they went straight for hidden weapons, huh?

The look Huang Long gave Tang San also turned cold.

Although the Sleeve Arrow could not do much damage to a Titled Douluo, even the slightest scratch would allow the poison to enter the body through the wound.

And no one here understood poison.

If Sea Maiden Douluo was poisoned, no one knew what the consequences would be.

Huang Long took a deep breath and waved his hand. "Uncle Sea Dragon, let him go first."

Sea Dragon Douluo nodded lightly before releasing Tang San's neck.

Tang San took a deep breath, clutching his throat as he coughed violently. Still, he finally felt as though he had come back to life.

He staggered to his feet and dropped to one knee, his eyes fixed coldly on Huang Long and the other two.

Sea Maiden Douluo frowned slightly and turned to ask, "Xiao Wu, is this person really your classmate?"

"Yeah, he is."

Xiao Wu nodded. "It's just that he's a work-study student, so we didn't meet often. I don't know why he came here either."

Come to think of it, her first meeting with Tang San had been rather dramatic.

Back then, Tang San had been a work-study student, while she had entered Notting Academy normally with Di Tian and the others helping her.

On the first day of school, she had come across a group of work-study students being cornered on the second floor of the cafeteria by some older students.

She could not stand seeing those older students bully others by throwing their weight around, so she stepped in and taught them a lesson.

Then, for some reason, Tang San had come over and befriended her.

Xiao Wu had originally thought that she did not have a single friend in the human world, so she agreed.

But they were only friends. Nothing had ever crossed the line.

What annoyed her, however, was that Tang San seemed to have mistaken friendship for something else. He kept clinging to her and refusing to leave her alone.

He had even said that he wanted to acknowledge her as his little sister, and that anyone who wanted to hurt her would have to step over his corpse first.

At the time, Xiao Wu had simply thought something was wrong with Tang San's head.

With Lord Di Tian, Lord Bear Lord, and Lord Red King by her side, did she need his protection?

She had been so angry that she broke off all ties with Tang San on the spot and ignored him for more than half a year.

Yet Tang San was like a stubborn plaster—impossible to shake off no matter what!

And now he had barged straight into her home and even attacked Sea Maiden. She simply could not take it anymore.

Xiao Wu looked at Tang San, planting her hands on her hips as she snapped, "Tang San, are you sick?!"

"Why did you suddenly barge into my house and nearly hurt my friend?!"

"Friend?"

Tang San was stunned as well.

He had been standing outside the courtyard just now and had seen Xiao Wu being forced into a corner by that woman. He had thought she was about to hurt Xiao Wu, which was why he had acted.

Who would have thought they were friends?

"Sorry, Xiao Wu. I thought... I thought they were going to hurt you."

Xiao Wu was utterly speechless.

"Tang San, can't you tell the difference between joking around and actually hurting someone?"

"Uncle Sea Dragon and Sister Sea Maiden are both Titled Douluos. If they wanted to hurt me, would they have waited for you to see it?"

Tang San's face immediately went pale.

"What? Titled Douluos?!"

He was no longer the child who had just left Holy Soul Village.

Through six years of study at Notting Academy and his teacher's guidance, he had learned that the pinnacle of soul masters was the Titled Douluo.

But Titled Douluos were exceedingly rare. Even the lord of Notting City was only a Soul Elder.

Yet today, he had encountered two real Titled Douluos!

"Now you know to be afraid, huh?"

Xiao Wu snorted at Tang San, then turned and walked over to Huang Long. "Lord Dragon God, he probably didn't do it on purpose. How about letting him go?"

Huang Long glanced at her and said solemnly, "I know he didn't do it on purpose, but his methods were far too vicious."

As he spoke, he raised the arrowhead in his hand.

"Take a look. This arrowhead is coated in poison—deadly poison that kills the moment it draws blood."

"What?!"

Sea Dragon Douluo and Sea Maiden Douluo's pupils contracted sharply.