The Second Mission, Setting Out for Nuoding City

"Playing tricks."

Asno sneered and was just about to make his move when an aged figure appeared silently in front of Ye Ling.

Asno's steps halted. He had not sensed in the slightest how this person had appeared.

"Who are you?"

An ominous premonition rose in Asno's heart, but he still shouted the question aloud.

"You are not worthy of knowing my name."

Kong Deming gave a cold snort, and nine spirit rings—yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red—instantly appeared beneath his feet.

The last spirit ring in particular was shockingly a blood-red 100,000-Year Spirit Ring!

"T-T-Titled Douluo! A 100,000-Year Ninth Ring?"

Asno's eyes went wide. He could hardly believe what he was seeing.

In the world of Douluo I, 100,000-Year Spirit Rings had not yet depreciated in value.

Aside from a few servants of the gods, those currently known to possess 100,000-Year Spirit Rings were only Tang Hao and the Martial Soul Hall Second Worship.

A Titled Douluo with a 100,000-Year Spirit Ring and an ordinary Titled Douluo were on completely different levels of strength.

After seeing the nine spirit rings, Asno dropped to his knees almost instantly, his whole body shaking like chaff in a sieve.

Facing a Titled Douluo who possessed a 100,000-Year Spirit Ring, he could not even muster the slightest thought of resisting.

"Lord Bishop, do you have anything to say?"

Ye Ling propped his chin on one hand and asked Asno with great interest.

"A misunderstanding... This is all a misunderstanding, Young Master Ye!"

Asno's face squeezed out a smile uglier than crying, and he raised a hand to point at Li Pu, who was still standing not far away in a daze.

"It was all him, yes, it was all him!"

"Young Master Ye, everything was planned and carried out by Li Pu. I was bewitched by him too."

"He was the one who came to me and said your parents were nothing but lowly peasants, unworthy of possessing so much wealth, and that only the bishop of Martial Soul Hall was fit to possess it!"

Ye Ling's gaze followed Asno's finger and looked toward Li Pu.

"Bullshit!"

Li Pu, snapping back to his senses, immediately jumped up.

"It was clearly you who coveted our family's property! It was clearly you who told me to tamper with the master and madam's sea ship."

"Everything I did was at your orders!"

"If I deserve to die, then you deserve it even more!"

Ye Ling quietly watched the two of them turn on each other like dogs, his gaze carrying a few more traces of mockery.

"Li Pu, how long did you serve my parents?"

Ye Ling sighed and asked slowly.

"Twenty years."

Li Pu lowered his head and said in a low voice.

"Yes, twenty years. Twenty years."

Ye Ling sighed. After a moment of silence, he took a short blade from his Storage Soul Guiding Device and threw it in front of Li Pu.

"You suffered plenty from him over the years too, didn't you? I'll give you a chance for revenge. Kill this man."

Ye Ling pointed at Asno, who was kneeling on the ground.

"No, I am the bishop of Martial Soul Hall in Vast Sea City! You can't kill me!"

Asno's expression changed drastically when he heard this. The spirit rings beneath him flickered as he instinctively tried to do something.

"Hmph!"

A cold snort exploded by his ear.

The spirit rings on Kong Deming's body pulsed, and the formidable pressure of a Titled Douluo descended viciously on Asno.

Asno's face turned deathly pale. Even his martial soul was forcibly withdrawn back into his body under that pressure.

Li Pu picked up the short blade in a daze and walked step by step to Asno.

"Let me go! I am a mighty Spirit Saint, the bishop of Martial Soul Hall in Vast Sea City!"

"If you dare kill me, Martial Soul Hall will definitely pursue this to the end!"

Asno's body twisted wildly, but under Kong Deming's pressure, he could not move in the slightest.

Seeing Li Pu draw closer and closer, Asno's face grew increasingly pale.

He was indeed a Spirit Saint, but without Martial Soul Possession and without spirit skills, he was merely a little stronger in physique than an ordinary person.

"Li Pu, I am a bishop of Martial Soul Hall. You lowly peasant dare kill me?"

"Lowly peasant? This lowly peasant is killing you!"

Perhaps enraged by Asno calling him a lowly peasant, Li Pu no longer hesitated and swung the blade down hard onto Asno's body.

"Ah!"

Asno screamed miserably, the terror in his eyes impossible to conceal no matter what.

"Stop! Stop!"

Li Pu turned a deaf ear. Blood splashed across his face, making him look like Asura.

The short blade in his hand hacked down onto Asno again and again.

Asno's screams grew weaker and weaker, until at last they fell into silence.

But Li Pu showed no sign of stopping. He kept hacking until Asno's corpse had become somewhat unrecognizable, only then giving up.

Ye Ling did not stop him. He merely watched quietly from the side.

"Thank you, Young Master."

Li Pu stood there in a daze for a long while before bowing to Ye Ling and thanking him.

"Give yourself some dignity. I won't do it myself."

Ye Ling waved a hand and said.

Li Pu nodded calmly. He seemed to have long since expected his ending.

"No matter how you put it, I wronged the master, madam, and young master."

Li Pu wiped the blood from the blade in his hand.

"The family's most precious assets are all in this Storage Soul Guiding Device. Young Master, please keep it safe."

Li Pu took out a ring-type Storage Soul Guiding Device from his robes and placed it on the ground.

"No matter what, with a Titled Douluo protecting Young Master from behind, I imagine you will be safe in the future."

Li Pu sighed, then forcefully drew the blade across his neck.

When a man is near death, his words are kind; when a bird is about to die, its cry is mournful.

Ye Ling sighed and said nothing.

Crimson blood sprayed from Li Pu's neck. He staggered a few steps, then toppled to the ground. After twitching twice, he went completely still.

"My lord, should we clean up the scene next?"

Seeing that the matter was resolved, Kong Deming could not help asking from the side.

Ding! Congratulations to the host for exceeding the mission requirements. Reward obtained: Divine-level Martial Soul!

Reward has been issued. Host, please awaken your martial soul as soon as possible!

Mission: Awaken your martial soul. Host, please proceed to Nuoding City and seek out Blind Douluo Su Yuntao to awaken your martial soul.

Reward: one Super Strongman Summoning Card!

The mechanical voice ringing by his ear kept Ye Ling from immediately answering Kong Deming.

"Pack up all the valuable things. Let's get ready to leave."

"There's nothing here worth lingering over anymore."

Ye Ling walked up to Li Pu and picked up the Storage Soul Guiding Device on the ground.

"Next, we're going to Nuoding City in Fasinuo Province."