[As for the current timeline, the All-Continent Spirit Master Elite Tournament had yet to begin. I wondered whether Tang San had gotten any Immortal Herbs from that big sucker Dugu Bo.]
[Dugu Bo, the benefactor who invested in Tang San early on, could only be said to have made the same mistake as Ning Fengzhi: they had invested in the wrong person. Tang San never even saw them as people.]
[The Icefire Yin Yang Well was a supreme treasure land nurtured by heaven and earth, covered in peerless Immortal Herbs. Any one of them, if taken out, would be enough to drive Soul Masters across the continent into a frenzied slaughter.]
[Yet Tang San never intended to leave even a fraction of that opportunity for you, old poison.]
[Among the Immortal Herbs there, any random one could have cured the Jade Purple Serpent Poison that had plagued Dugu Yan for years, completely eliminating the Martial Soul defect and even allowing her Martial Soul to evolve!]
[Even for Dugu Bo himself, not to mention anything else, raising his Soul Power by several ranks and becoming a Super Douluo would have been effortless.]
[Tang San possessed the entire treasury of Immortal Herbs, yet kept them all for himself, unwilling to share even the slightest benefit with Dugu Bo and his granddaughter.]
[Still, he treated his own people rather well. Every one of the Shrek Seven Monsters received a top-grade Immortal Herb, and even his useless teacher Yu Xiaogang got one. His Martial Soul defect was resolved on the spot, and his Soul Power broke through Rank 30!]
[It was no exaggeration to say that without the Immortal Herbs, whether the other six members of Shrek could become gods was still an unknown.]
Soul Land I Dugu Yan: Damn Tang San! I knew you had bad intentions!
Dugu Yan stared at the diary floating before her, trembling with rage. Her pretty face flushed crimson as she gritted her teeth.
"No, I have to tell Grandpa about this!" Dugu Yan said indignantly, clenching her fists.
She had already made up her mind. At daybreak tomorrow, she would immediately wake her grandfather Dugu Bo, who was in seclusion recovering, and demand an explanation from Tang San, exposing his hypocritical true face!
However, the diary's next entries nearly made her lose it...
[But come to think of it, it feels rather unreasonable that Tang San could have been kidnapped by Dugu Bo and taken to Sunset Forest.]
[Hadn't Tang Hao always been by Tang San's side? Yet Dugu Bo was somehow able to take Tang San away so easily?]
[Then again, with Tang Hao's personality, the only explanation was probably that he had gone drinking...]
[Worthy of being the protagonist's father. He could slack off and watch over his son at the same time, with style!]
[Tang San had been missing for more than a month, yet Tang Hao never asked about him from beginning to end. Unless he had been following Tang San the whole time?]
Dugu Yan: ...
Tang Hao?
That man who had shaken the entire Douluo Continent—the youngest Title Douluo in history, the one who had severely wounded the former Spirit Hall Pope with a single hammer strike, one of the Clear Sky Twin Stars, His Majesty the Clear Sky Douluo?
Could it be that throughout Grandpa's abduction of Tang San, that Top Killing God had been hidden in the shadows, watching all along!
The more she thought about it, the more terrifying it became!
At the thought that a Title Douluo might have been watching her from the shadows every moment, Dugu Yan went completely numb, cold sweat instantly covering her back.
Dugu Yan silently withdrew her impulse to demand an explanation from Tang San.
She was not admitting defeat. She was merely following her heart...
The Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor was powerful, and Dugu Bo's poison arts were unmatched beneath the heavens, but she did not know whether her grandfather could withstand the wrathful Clear Sky Hammer.
But Dugu Yan knew that her tiny body definitely could not withstand a single strike from the Clear Sky Douluo...
[What a pity. Qian Renxue was still hiding in the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, playing house. She had even taken a liking to Tang San's talent and planned to recruit him...]
[All I can say is... that was pretty something.]
[Qian Renxue, the future Angel God, was very strong, right?]
Soul Land I Qian Renxue: Yes, I was obviously that strong!
Deep within the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, Qian Renxue's eyes shifted slightly as curiosity and pride arose in her heart.
She had been a favored daughter of heaven since birth, with talent unrivaled beneath the heavens. In the future, she would ascend to the Divine Position and become the supreme being who wielded the Angel God's authority.
Since she had become the Angel God, there was no way she would simply watch Tang San rise to power, right?
Qian Renxue's eyes were filled with curiosity as she eagerly anticipated what future secrets this transmigrator named Qin Moyu knew.
However, the diary's next entries nearly shattered her composure...
[In the later stages of Soul Land I, Tang San had not yet become a god and possessed only the cultivation of a Title Douluo, yet he nearly slew the Angel God on the spot with nothing but Tang Sect's top-tier Hidden Weapons!]
[Qian Renxue's greatest failure in life had never been a lack of talent, but her soft heart and arrogance.]
[After ascending to the Angel God's Divine Position, Qian Renxue still wanted to recruit Tang San, who was her enemy. In the end, she was defeated by her own arrogance.]
[That was something I had to remember: no matter when, never give an enemy an opportunity.]
[Weakness and ignorance had never been obstacles to a civilization's survival. Arrogance was!]
[Even more absurdly, Qian Renxue had actually developed some feelings for Tang San and showed mercy time and again. That explained why she was willing to give Tang San opportunities, ultimately ending in defeat and death, with her Divine Position shattered...]
Soul Land I Qian Renxue: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Soul Land I Bibi Dong: "Hidden Weapons? Mere Hidden Weapons could actually slay a god?"
Soul Land I Ning Rongrong: "So Tang Sect Hidden Weapons were that powerful. Should I tell Father and have him ask Third Brother... ask Tang San to sell us a blueprint?"
Soul Land II Tang Ya: "..."
If Hidden Weapons were really that powerful, how had she never noticed?
[To be fair, if mere Tang Sect Hidden Weapons could slay gods, all I could say was that Douluo Continent truly deserved its reputation as the bottom floor of fantasy worlds.]
[Not to mention anything else—even on Earth in my previous life, an ordinary world without Martial Souls or even supernatural powers, where humans had an average lifespan of only seventy years, any developing country could easily crush the entire Douluo Continent.]
[There would not even be any need to deploy an ultimate weapon like Nuclear Weapons. Douluo Continent's upper limit of combat power did not deserve it.]
[I admit that your Martial Soul was indeed powerful, but my marksmanship was no weaker!]
[Marksmanship was also a path, and ballistics were also a Dao; different roads led to the same destination, and the Dao followed nature!]
Soul Land I Qian Renxue: "A gun? What kind of spear could slay gods like Hidden Weapons?"
Soul Land I Bibi Dong: "No need for Martial Souls, no need for cultivation—one could dominate heaven and earth with Nuclear Weapons alone? Could technology truly develop such terrifying power?"
Soul Land II Xu Jiujiu: "That is true. After Soul Guidance Thermal Weapons emerged, the living space of soul beasts was indeed continuously compressed."
Soul Land III Bi Ji: "Sigh..."
Soul Land IV Bai Xiuxiu: "This... was indeed true."
[I had to admit, Qian Renxue infiltrating Heaven Dou while fixating on recruiting Tang San was the most absurd operation I had ever seen, bar none.]
[Using the identity of Heaven Dou's Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, she went to great lengths and lowered herself to recruit Tang San. I just wanted to ask: was she recruiting an enemy for Spirit Hall?]
Soul Land I Qian Renxue: "..."
Soul Land I Xue Ke: "???"
[Speaking of undercover missions, I was genuinely curious: who exactly approved this mission?]
[Douluo Continent was already a world where strength reigned supreme and the strong were respected, yet they sent the greatest genius in ten thousand years, born with Rank 20 Innate Soul Power and possessing the ultimate Angel God Bloodline, to infiltrate the Heaven Dou Imperial Family?]
[How was that any different from making a lofty holy land's saintess lower herself to infiltrate some minor family faction?]
[The daughter of the world's richest man going undercover in a rural village chief's home just to inherit the village chief position?]
[Just do not let her get stuffed into a delicious cream puff by then ლ(´ڡ`ლ)]
[Culture, faith, and family ideals were undoubtedly the things that tested human nature most. Sending one's most talented descendant to be raised in someone else's home—were they not afraid that, over time, she would develop feelings she should not have?]
[And Qian Renxue was not the only one. Wasn't Xiao Xun'er from Battle Through the Heavens the same? She went undercover in the declining Xiao Clan, only to fall for Xiao Yan in the end.]
[The dignified daughter of the Gu Clan's patriarch among the Eight Ancient Clans, the beloved jewel of peak Dou Sheng Gu Yuan, a favored daughter of heaven who wielded the fourth-ranked Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame on the Heavenly Flame Ranking and possessed the Gu Clan God-Grade Dou Di Bloodline, went undercover in the Xiao Clan of Wutan City, a backwater among backwaters, where the strongest only had the cultivation of a Da Dou Shi...]
[But then again, Xiao Xun'er had at least invested in the right person. She ate well and withdrew with millions.]
[Dou Di was only the beginning. Later, she crossed worlds and ascended to become the Great Ruler, becoming the mistress of the Endless Fire Territory in the Great Thousand World.]
Battle Through the Heavens' female leads: "..."
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