Confrontation: Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin

The former Blue Tyrant Academy, now Shrek Academy.

At this moment, dark clouds seemed to hang over the academy, and the atmosphere was oppressive to the extreme.

Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong lay on three beds lined up side by side.

Shao Xin, the candy bean Soul Master, anxiously treated the three of them alongside several healing Soul Masters.

Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong were the core of Shrek Academy. Once they fell, Shrek Academy would lose its backbone as well.

Outside!

Tang San leaned against the wall, his head lowered and his eyes vacant.

Everything he had experienced during this period felt like a nightmare.

All of his Tang Sect secret arts had been taken away, and his soul power had fallen from level 29 to level 21.

Xiao Wu had now become a level 30 Soul Grandmaster, while he was still stuck at the Great Soul Master stage.

From Yu Xiaogang, he had learned that his father, Tang Hao, was no ordinary blacksmith, but the Clear Sky Douluo.

He had not even had time to feel proud of it.

Before he heard that his father, Tang Hao, had been captured by Spirit Hall.

By the traditional filial piety of this feudal world, Tang San should have sworn an oath to never coexist under the same sky as Spirit Hall.

But as a mere Great Soul Master facing the colossal Spirit Hall, he truly had the impulse to sever his father-son relationship with Tang Hao.

As long as they no longer had a father-son relationship, he would not have to bear the responsibility of avenging his father.

Tang San gritted his teeth and thought to himself.

Sorry, Father. I don't have the ability to avenge you right now, so I'll temporarily sever our father-son relationship.

If one day I, Tang San, gain the strength to avenge you, then I'll restore our father-son relationship.

Tang San decided to bow his head for now. He only wanted to find a place to hide and cultivate peacefully for several years.

Just like in those novels and storybooks from his previous life, the protagonists only emerged to take revenge after gaining enough strength.

And in a corner nearby!

Dai Mubai... no, Eunuch Dai now curled up there, his face ashen.

Having his martial soul stolen was already miserable enough.

Who would have thought something even worse would happen? He could no longer feel anything below the waist. He would never again be able to hire ladies at inns.

Eunuch Dai only felt that his life had turned completely bleak. There would never be any happiness again.

At that moment, a chubby hand patted his shoulder.

It was Ma Hongjun!

"Boss Dai, look on the bright side. You're still alive. As long as you're alive, there's hope."

Eunuch Dai felt warmth rise in his heart. His martial soul had been crippled, and then his lower half had been crippled too. He was at his most despairing.

Yet Ma Hongjun was still willing to comfort him. Looking at Ma Hongjun's plump face now, he somehow found it much more pleasing to the eye.

"Hongjun, you're so kind. Thank you."

A chill ran down Ma Hongjun's back when he heard that.

Eunuch Dai had always called him Fatty before, yet he had suddenly become so affectionate.

The more Ma Hongjun thought about it, the more wrong it felt.

He clenched his buttocks, withdrew his hand with an awkward smile, and desperately wanted to wash that hand ten times over.

Could Boss Dai have changed his sexual orientation? Looks like I need to stay farther away from him in the future!

Heaven Dou City, Spirit Hall Temple!

After absorbing a large number of soul power light clusters, Qiangu Aoshi brought Zhu Zhuqing here to rest and recuperate.

As a member of Spirit Hall, he could only feel at ease on Spirit Hall territory.

After cultivating for a day, he refined every soul power light cluster, causing his soul power to advance by leaps and bounds. He had already reached the bottleneck of level 80 soul power.

As long as he absorbed an eighth soul ring, he would become a Soul Douluo.

A twelve-year-old Soul Douluo!

At that moment, an explosive shout suddenly came from the sky.

"Qiangu Aoshi, get the hell out here!"

Outside, Salas, the Platinum Bishop, immediately leaped onto the roof.

"Sword Douluo, Ning Fengzhi, this is Spirit Hall Temple, not a place where your Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect can run wild. Retreat at once."

That furious shout had come from Sword Douluo.

Sword Douluo held the Seven Kill Sword. His beard and hair bristled, his eyes were wide, and nine soul rings—two yellow, two purple, and five black—rose and fell around him.

The terrifying aura of a Titled Douluo swept outward like ocean waves.

Sword Douluo was truly enraged.

He had watched Ning Rongrong grow up and already regarded her as his own granddaughter.

Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo had opposed letting Ning Rongrong go out to train on her own from the beginning.

Ning Fengzhi had been the one to calm them down, saying that as the heir of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Rongrong had to go out and broaden her horizons eventually.

And what happened?

She went out once, only to have even her martial soul stolen!

Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Ning Fengzhi were both heartbroken and furious. As for Qiangu Aoshi, the culprit, they hated him so much their teeth itched.

Previously, Qiangu Aoshi had remained inside Spirit Hall, so they truly had no good options. They could not exactly storm Spirit Hall itself.

But now Qiangu Aoshi had come out on his own and even arrived in Heaven Dou City. No matter what, they had to demand justice.

Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo had nearly fought over the chance to come.

It was Ning Fengzhi who stepped in, bringing the stronger Sword Douluo while leaving Bone Douluo behind to guard the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Thus, this scene came to be!

The usual gentle, refined expression on Ning Fengzhi's handsome face had vanished.

His expression was as cold as ice.

"Bishop Salas, our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and your Heaven Dou City Spirit Hall Temple have always minded our own business."

"We did not come here this time to become enemies with Spirit Hall Temple."

"As long as you hand over Qiangu Aoshi, we will leave immediately. Otherwise... I fear today's matter cannot be settled peacefully."

Salas frowned deeply. He was only a Soul Douluo, already no match for Sword Douluo. If Sword Douluo received Ning Fengzhi's personal augmentation, he could crush Salas outright.

But could he back down?

He could not!

He was the Platinum Bishop of Heaven Dou City Spirit Hall Temple, the face of Spirit Hall in Heaven Dou City.

If he backed down, Spirit Hall would lose all face in Heaven Dou City, and his position as Platinum Bishop would be finished.

Not to mention that Qiangu Aoshi was Spirit Hall's Holy Son, the child of the Sixth and Seventh Consecration Hall Elders, with the entire Consecration Hall standing behind him.

If Salas dared hand him over, the Sixth and Seventh Consecration Hall Elders could tear him to pieces.

He sighed inwardly.

This little ancestor could have played anywhere. Why did he have to come to Heaven Dou City?

Salas tensed his body, already prepared to strike. His words were equally forceful, without the slightest sign of weakness.

"Sect Master Ning, Sword Douluo, Qiangu Aoshi is the Holy Son of our Spirit Hall and the descendant of the Sixth and Seventh Consecration Hall Elders. Does your Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect intend to go to war with Spirit Hall?"

"You actually dare demand that we hand over our Holy Son!"

Ning Fengzhi's expression changed slightly. If not for his wariness of Spirit Hall, he would have led people to their doorstep the instant he learned Ning Rongrong's martial soul had been stolen.

He clenched his teeth and suppressed the anger in his heart, unwilling and humiliated, but he absolutely would not leave just like this.

"Bishop Salas, you jest. As the sacred land in the hearts of all Soul Masters in the soul master world, I have always deeply admired Spirit Hall."

"How could I possibly have any intention of going to war with Spirit Hall? We merely learned that Spirit Hall's Holy Son had arrived in Heaven Dou City and came to invite Holy Son Qian Gu to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect."

"Sword Douluo and I came personally to extend this invitation, which should be enough to show our sincerity. We... absolutely will not harm Holy Son Qian Gu."