"Teacher!"
"Teacher, please save the Heaven Dou Empire!"
With a heavy thud, Xue Beng, the Heaven Dou prince, fell at Tang San's feet, his face smeared with blood.
He clutched Tang San's trouser leg and dropped to his knees, weeping and pleading, "Teacher! That bitch Qian Renxue has seized Heaven Dou City and slaughtered the imperial guards!"
"I beg you and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to send troops again and help your student fight his way back into Heaven Dou City, so I can reclaim the throne that belongs to me!"
Hearing Xue Beng's plea, Tang San's expression turned uglier than if he'd swallowed a fly.
Fight their way back into Heaven Dou City?
With what?
That Qian Renxue just now... No, that monster!
She'd killed Yang Wudi, Zhao Wuji, and Flender in succession, instantly healed her wounds, and kept growing stronger!
She'd even fought the two Super Douluo, Sword and Bone, to a draw when they joined forces.
If they could have fought their way back, why would they have fled through a spatial rift like dogs that had lost their homes?
"Xue Beng, get up first."
Tang San's voice was hoarse. His fists clenched with a series of sharp cracks as he forced out a few words, utterly humiliated. "This matter... We can't act rashly just yet."
Ning Fengzhi, standing nearby, drew a deep breath and stepped forward to smooth things over. "Your Highness Xue Beng, Tang San is right."
"The change that came over Qian Renxue is exceedingly strange. That power is beyond anything an ordinary person can understand."
"She can recover instantly and grow stronger by killing people. Unless we're absolutely certain we can kill her, we must not fight her."
Ning Fengzhi rubbed his aching temples and said gravely, "Heaven Dou City has now fallen into Spirit Hall's hands. With only the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and what remains of Shrek, we stand no chance against them."
"We must seek outside aid!"
Tang San abruptly lifted his head, his eyes blazing with desperate hatred. "Sect Master Ning, who else can we turn to?"
"As long as Spirit Hall is destroyed and Qian Renxue is killed, I, Tang San, will gladly be torn to pieces!"
At those words, Tang San's heart bled.
The core of the Tang Sect's fighting strength, the Four Single-Attribute Clans he'd painstakingly cultivated, had all been left behind in Heaven Dou City!
Yang Wudi had died a gruesome death.
The other three clans were likely doomed, too, facing that berserk monster, Qian Renxue!
Twenty years of planning, reduced to nothing overnight! If he didn't avenge this, he'd be no man!
A resolute, commanding glint flashed in Ning Fengzhi's eyes as his voice rang through the entire hall. "The Upper Three Sects stand together."
"The power Qian Renxue of Spirit Hall has revealed has already upset the balance of the continent."
"Spirit Hall's ambitions are plain for all to see!"
"When the lips are gone, the teeth grow cold!"
Ning Fengzhi looked at Tang San and spoke each word distinctly. "We must inform the Clear Sky Sect at once."
"We'll form a Continent-wide Anti-Spirit Hall Alliance!"
"If we aren't strong enough on our own, then we'll add the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the reclusive Clear Sky Sect!"
"And if that still isn't enough..."
A cold light flashed in Ning Fengzhi's eyes. "Then we'll send envoys to the Star Luo Empire, win over its imperial family, and set the two empires at war!"
"We'll gather the strength of the entire continent and stake everything on one battle, wiping Spirit Hall out for good!"
Hearing Ning Fengzhi's grand and chilling plan, Tang San's frozen heart finally began to pound again!
That was right!
He still had the Clear Sky Sect!
And he still had his father, Tang Hao, a Titled Douluo!
"Qian Renxue..."
Tang San fixed his eyes on Heaven Dou City. Poisonous hatred and killing intent practically spilled from his gaze as he let out a silent, anguished roar.
"Just you wait!"
"The day I return with the Upper Three Sects and the Star Luo Empire, with the Clear Sky Sect's elders and my father at my side... will be the day you're cut to pieces, Qian Renxue, and Spirit Hall is wiped off the face of the earth!"
Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, Golden Hall.
This had once been the supreme symbol of the Heaven Dou Empire's power.
Now it was filled with the stench of blood, so thick it seemed impossible to wash away.
Qian Sha Yu lounged in the pure-gold dragon throne that had once belonged to Emperor Xue Ye.
A pair of long, beautiful legs belonging to Qian Renxue rested brazenly on the carved table.
The Slaughter Blood Sword had been casually thrust into the white jade floor beside him.
"Tsk. Done fighting. Time to take a look at this lousy system."
Qian Sha Yu focused his mind and summoned the system interface.
Unfortunately, the interface was exceedingly simple.
Aside from a main panel for the [Demon King Guard], glowing with a shadowy blood-red light, there were hardly any extra features or explanations.
"Rewards for fighting and killing, but not even a beginner's guide. This thing's crude as hell."
Qian Sha Yu shook his head and tried selecting a corner of the panel with his mental power.
He soon discovered that although he was in "stand-in" mode, he could still call up the detailed attribute panel of the body's original owner—Qian Renxue—at any time.
A golden screen of light appeared before him:
[Name: Qian Renxue] [Soul Power: Level 72 Soul Sage] [Martial Soul: Six-Winged Angel] [Domain: Angel Domain] [Soul Rings: Yellow, Yellow, Purple, Purple, Black, Black, Black] [Soul Bones: Angel God Suit: Skull, Right Arm Bone] [Soul Skills: Angel Assault, Angelic Holy Light, Angelic Blessing, Angelic Divine Power, Angelic Holy Sword, Angelic Roar, Angelic True Body]
Looking at this clean, untainted angelic panel, Qian Sha Yu's lips curled into an amused smile.
The original Qian Renxue followed the Divine Light Dao, a path of supreme holiness that purified all things.
But as the Demon King Guard, Qian Sha Yu wielded the Slaughter Demon Dao, a path that ruled over slaughter and blood!
Although they shared the same delicate body,
their physiques, Martial Souls, Soul Rings, and Soul Bones were all completely separate systems, independent of and unaffected by each other.
"An angelic saintess by day, bathing the world in light, and a blood demon king by night, killing without blinking... I like that contrast!"
Qian Sha Yu laughed recklessly.
Then he sent a wisp of mental power deep into the innermost part of the body's Sea of Spirit.
There,
at the center of a vast, pristine golden ocean wrapped in a sea of blood,
a beautiful figure lay curled peacefully inside a cocoon of light.
Qian Renxue's eyes were closed, her breathing steady. She was sunk in an extremely deep sleep.
This was her true soul.
She seemed to know nothing of the upheaval and blood-soaked slaughter that had just swept through the outside world—or of the gruesome sight of Flender being beheaded and Yu Xiaogang being castrated and having his legs broken.
"Hey, little girl, wake up. Get up and watch the show."
Qian Sha Yu tried to touch the golden cocoon with his mental power, hoping to communicate with her.
But before he could reach it, a line of icy, blood-red warning text abruptly flashed through his mind:
[Ding! Current body control: 0% (Demon King stand-in mode forcibly controlling the body)] [Notice: You cannot communicate or interact with the primary soul in any way at present!]
"Tch, body control at 0%? It won't even let me talk to her."
Qian Sha Yu rolled his eyes and withdrew his mental power, feeling rather speechless.
It seemed that until the Demon King's control period ended, Qian Renxue's soul would remain sealed in forced sleep by the system, serving as an ignorant, unconscious "human-shaped accessory."
He glanced at the countdown in the corner of the panel.
[Demon King Guard stand-in time remaining: 20 hours, 45 minutes]
"Another twenty hours. Plenty of time to turn Heaven Dou City upside down."
Qian Sha Yu stretched and looked coldly beyond the hall.
She Long and Ci Xue had already taken men to purge the rebel forces in Heaven Dou City and capture Emperor Xue Ye and the other members of the Heaven Dou Royal Family.
With those two Titled Douluo in charge, the remaining Heaven Dou forces were lambs waiting to be slaughtered. They wouldn't make a ripple.
"But just sitting here and waiting for the results would be too boring."
A trace of amusement and cruelty glimmered in Qian Sha Yu's eyes, as if he'd just thought of something fun.
"That hypocrite Tang San ran off fast enough, but he still has people in Heaven Dou City."
"For example, the so-called number-one noblewoman of Heaven Dou: Tang Yuehua, younger sister of Clear Sky Sect Master Tang Xiao and Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao, and Tang San's biological aunt!"
At the thought, Qian Sha Yu beat his Six-Winged Slaughter Blood Wings and shot out of the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace like a blood-red rainbow!
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