Liu Erlong: It seems Little Gang has taken in an ungrateful wretch.

I didn't know whether Ma Hongjun had noticed a seemingly small, yet actually huge, problem back then.

When Tang San had been weaker than Dai Mubai, he had called him "Dai Boss" every other word. But once Tang San became stronger than Dai Mubai, the way he addressed him changed from "Dai Boss" to "Mubai."

Small matters revealed character.

Based on that alone, it was obvious that Tang San was the sort who treated people according to their worth. His attitude toward outsiders was determined by comparing his own strength with theirs.

At the time, Tang San was already a first-class god who also held half the authority of a God King. His strength had long surpassed the likes of Ma Hongjun.

Perhaps Tang San not attacking Ma Hongjun simply because Ma Hongjun had asked him for a place in the Divine Realm was already the greatest dignity Tang San could grant him.

After all, Tang San had not even brought Yu Xiaogang—the teacher he himself had called "a teacher for one day, a father for life"—to the Divine Realm. What did Ma Hongjun amount to?

Douluo 1 Liu Erlong: "It seems Xiaogang took in an ungrateful wretch."

Douluo 1 Bibi Dong: "Was I wrong to give Tang San to Xiaogang as a disciple back then?"

"Forget it."

"I was only using Tang San in the first place."

"If Tang San won't bring Xiaogang to the Divine Realm, then I'll bring Xiaogang there myself."

"Besides, the diary also said that Tang San would become enemies with Spirit Hall in the future. Based on that alone, there's no need for me to trouble Tang San."

Haha.

I suddenly thought of a joke about Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.

Tang San: "What? Gangzi wants to ascend to the Divine Realm?"

Tang San: "Hmph."

Tang San: "How utterly absurd."

Tang San: "Today he dares ascend to the Divine Realm; tomorrow he'll dare mount Xiao Wu."

Tang San: "Yu Xiaogang, you have chosen the path to death."

Douluo 1 Xiao Wu: "..."

Douluo 2 Xiao Wu: "..."

Really, when all was said and done, Ma Hongjun—or rather, the other six of the Shrek Seven Devils—had simply failed to see Tang San's true nature.

But that wasn't their fault.

I said from the very beginning that, because Tang San was the protagonist of the Douluo 1 era, everything he did had gone smoothly. There had been no need for him to use underhanded means to profit himself, allowing him to conceal his true personality very well.

But greed clouded the mind. Before absolute benefit, one's true nature simply could not be disguised.

So, when Tang San saw the Immortal Herbs in Dugu Bo's Herb Garden, he inevitably revealed his true face.

"Greedy" and "shameless"—at that moment, those two words seemed as though they had been custom-made for Tang San, perfectly explaining everything.

In truth, Tang San had never taken the so-called bond among the Shrek Seven Devils to heart. He did not trust them at all, and his lies were endless.

After Tang San plucked Dugu Bo's Immortal Herbs, he returned to Shrek Academy, gathered all of the Shrek Seven Devils, and gave each of them an Immortal Herb.

At first glance, there seemed to be nothing wrong with that.

Tang San's mistake was that, while distributing the Immortal Herbs, he told the other six Shrek Devils, including Xiao Wu, that each person could only consume one Immortal Herb in their lifetime.

Yet the truth was that a person could absolutely consume multiple Immortal Herbs in a lifetime. While Tang San had still been at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he had already consumed an Infernal Delicate Apricot and an Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.

Then, after returning to Shrek Academy, while the other six Shrek Devils were absorbing their respective Immortal Herbs, he himself absorbed a third Immortal Herb, the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.

Heh heh.

At that point, Tang San no longer said that a person could only consume one Immortal Herb in a lifetime.

Douluo 1 Xiao Wu: "You even lied to me?"

Right.

What I mentioned earlier, about Tang San failing to dodge Ning Rongrong's kiss, also happened around this time.

The reason was that the Aromatic Silk Beauty Ning Rongrong consumed evolved her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul. Overwhelmed with excitement, Ning Rongrong kissed him.

Unfortunately...

Ning Rongrong did not know.

Because of this Immortal Herb, she had nearly dragged the entire Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect into the abyss of destruction.

Douluo 1 Ning Rongrong: "What?"

"How could this happen?"

Ning Rongrong's face went pale with fright.

Douluo 2 Ning Rongrong: "Sigh."

In the end, the sword broke and the bones shattered; Feng Zhi's hair turned white overnight.

Poor Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo—while trying to save Tang San after Bibi Dong had cut him down, they were directly killed in one move by Bibi Dong.

Douluo 1 Ning Rongrong: "No."

"How could this happen? How could this happen?"

"Ba Ba, Sword Grandfather, Bone Grandfather."

"Wuwu..."

Douluo 1 Bibi Dong: "Why did I kill Tang San?"

"He's Xiaogang's disciple. How could I possibly have attacked him?"

"Besides, wasn't he supposed to be an enemy of Spirit Hall?"

"Logically speaking, not only should I not have killed him, I should have secretly helped him instead."

Bibi Dong was utterly confused about what had happened in the future.

Douluo 1 Liu Erlong: "Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo were killed in a single move?"

"Was Bibi Dong really that powerful?"

Liu Erlong was skeptical.

If you asked me, Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo dying just like that was indeed rather unfair.

If it had not been for Ning Rongrong, the Sword Bone Two Douluo would never have stepped in to retrieve Tang San's body.

After all, Tang San still had his father, Tang Hao, as well as all those relatives from the Clear Sky Sect. No matter how one looked at it, it would not have been the Sword Bone Two Douluo's turn to save him.

All of this was because Ning Rongrong trusted Tang San too much.

Moreover, Ning Rongrong had long since been brainwashed by Tang San by then. All she had eyes for was the Tang Sect. Whenever the Tang Sect encountered trouble, she would take the initiative to say that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could step in and resolve it, without considering at all whether doing so would bring danger to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

That was what ultimately led to the tragedy of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Perhaps the descendants of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School harbored resentment toward Ning Rongrong.

Douluo 2 Ning Tian: "Perhaps."

Although Ning Rongrong became a god and transformed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School, even raising the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School's prestige to its highest point in history, the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School, having lost Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, was left with nothing but its reputation from then on. In terms of its influence over Douluo Continent, it was likely less than one-tenth of what it had once been.

Gods could not interfere with the affairs of Douluo Continent. Before Ning Rongrong ascended to the God Realm, others might still have given the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School some respect. But once Ning Rongrong went to the God Realm, the School's status was easy enough to imagine.

At any rate, as far as I knew, by the era of Douluo 2, the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School could only be described as declining.