When they emerged from the public security office!
Qian Renxue already had a temporary residence permit in her hand, valid for three months.
Xiao Ran looked thoughtful. This amnesia act only bought us three months of breathing room after all.
If I want to sort out an ID card for good, I'll have to find another way.
Ha! No point overthinking it. When the cart reaches the mountain, a road will appear. I've awakened my true dragon bloodline and obtained the Ancestral Dragon Breathing Art. Who knows? I might be an immortal three months from now. Sorting out an ID card will only take a few minutes then.
Then he looked at Qian Renxue.
He immediately found himself torn between laughter and tears.
Ever since he had bought Qian Renxue a phone, this girl who had never encountered the internet had rapidly fallen under its spell and developed a serious internet addiction.
"Damn! Xiao Ran, this Tang San wasn't even originally from our Douluo Continent! He came from the Bashu Tang Sect. His Mysterious Heaven Skill, Mysterious Jade Hand, Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, Purple Demon Eye, and Hundred Hidden Weapon Solutions weren't self-created soul skills. They were secret arts he stole from the Tang Sect."
"How could this Tang San be so rotten?"
"He jumped off a cliff at twenty-nine to prove his resolve, and he spent twenty years researching the Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus. Disgusting, absolutely disgusting! That means he was already this rotten at nine. Since he wasn't allowed to study the Tang Sect's Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, he went and stole it himself."
"What resolve was he proving? His resolve to steal?!"
The accounts of Tang San's misdeeds compiled online had made Qian Renxue laugh in sheer anger.
Someone like him actually had the nerve to proclaim himself pure as ice and immaculate as jade.
If Tang San was pure as ice and immaculate as jade, then none of those people in Slaughter City could be considered beyond forgiveness.
Right, Tang San had destroyed Slaughter City, too. He had ruined a perfectly good prison and released the criminals inside.
Xiao Ran shook his head with a chuckle and was about to say that Tang San's misdeeds went far beyond that.
Suddenly, a ding rang out beside his ear:
[Ding! A major deviation in the Douluo Continent storyline has been detected. Two of the Shrek Seven Devils, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, have died at the hands of Spirit Hall's Sixth Consecrated Elder and Seventh Consecrated Elder. Reward: one Cultivation Empowerment.]
In an instant, pure energy coalesced out of the void and poured straight into Xiao Ran's body, circulating according to the Ancestral Dragon Breathing Art. His spiritual strength, blood vitality, and magical power all soared.
Qi refining first layer!
Qi refining second layer!
Qi refining third layer!
Qi refining fourth layer!
Qi refining fifth layer!
Qi refining sixth layer!
With Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing dead, Xiao Ran's cultivation shot straight up to the qi refining sixth layer, and his spiritual strength, blood vitality, and magical power rose in tandem.
Xiao Ran felt like a superhero now!
Even without knowing a single spell, he could kill wild beasts with his bare hands.
[Ding! A major deviation in the Douluo Continent storyline has been detected. The Star Luo Emperor and Empress have died at the hands of Spirit Hall's Qian Daoliu. Reward: one minor Cultivation Empowerment.]
The next moment, another surge of pure energy coalesced out of the void. Though it was less immense than the previous surge, it still gave Xiao Ran a tremendous boost.
Qi refining seventh layer!
Qi refining eighth layer!
Qi refining ninth layer!
Xiao Ran's eyes shone with excitement. In this tiny span of time, he had gone from an ordinary person to a superhero among ordinary people.
Keep at it, Spirit Hall! Stir the Douluo Continent storyline into a complete mess. The more chaos you cause, the better my rewards will be.
Hopefully, the next reward for a major storyline deviation will give me some spells or magical artifacts to improve my combat abilities.
Cultivation is great and can strengthen my body, but it won't let me tank missiles with my flesh.
Haha... Now that my cultivation is higher and my lifespan is longer, I just need to find an opportunity to get some Gold Soul Coins from Qian Renxue. I can sell them for a fortune and enjoy life in comfort.
Just thinking about that life feels fantastic.
"Xiao Ran, what happened to you just now? I feel like your aura has changed."
Qian Renxue had noticed the strange change in Xiao Ran. Ever since his true dragon bloodline had awakened, she had felt a dragon's might emanating from him.
Now, that elusive dragon's might seemed to have gained a foundation, something to support it. Its divine majesty was as oppressive as a prison, making her look up to Xiao Ran with a measure of reverence despite herself.
Xiao Ran took a moment to adjust to the sudden surge in his cultivation realm, then spoke with breezy composure:
"I happened to gain a little insight, and my cultivation improved a bit."
"Don't worry about that. Let's get back to what we were discussing."
"You're right to curse him. Tang San wasn't a good person even before he transmigrated. The Tang Sect took him in and trained him, but because he wasn't an inner sect disciple, they wouldn't let him study their Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record. So he stole it. That behavior really was shameful."
"After arriving on your Douluo Continent, he could still rein in his temper while he was weak. Once he became God King Tang, he stopped hiding it altogether."
"He took whatever he wanted from the Douluo Continent. Even after going to the Divine Realm, he kept interfering with its development, having Shrek Academy spread his name as the Sea God. To make that publicity more effective, Shrek Academy also took on the task of exterminating evil soul masters. The result? The more they exterminated, the more there were."
"What do we call that? Here, we call it nurturing bandits to bolster your own importance. As long as evil soul masters run rampant, the people of the Douluo Continent can only rely on Shrek Academy and believe in the Sea God, providing Tang San with an endless stream of faith power. That let him cultivate his sea god godhood to the God King level as well."
"The evil soul masters even had their own sect ten thousand years later, the Holy Spirit Cult. In your Spirit Hall's era, evil soul masters were always rats hiding in the gutters. In Shrek Academy's era, they had grown into one of the most powerful forces on the Douluo Continent."
Sure enough, Qian Renxue's attention was diverted. As she listened to Xiao Ran, her full chest heaved violently with anger:
"Even evil soul masters have their own sect now! That bastard Tang San! That damned Shrek Academy! Nurturing bandits to bolster their own importance-for their own cultivation, for the people's faith power, they stooped so low and stopped at nothing! Tang San really is evil by nature!"
Xiao Ran took Qian Renxue's hand and led her off to hail a taxi, ready to head to the airport.
"Search online for Peerless Tang Sect yourself. It tells the story of your Douluo Continent ten thousand years later."
"Ten thousand years later, the Douluo Continent gave birth to a Child of Destiny. To seize the Douluo Continent's destiny for himself, Tang San set his sights on that Child of Destiny early on."
"In the end, he put that Child of Destiny on a dog's leash. Just read it. It'll definitely send your blood pressure through the roof."
Qian Renxue stole a glance at Xiao Ran's hand holding hers. Her reason told her she should refuse, but her subconscious told her it was all right.
In the end, she could only let him be.
"All right, Peerless Tang Sect. I'll look for it."
While Qian Renxue searched online for Peerless Tang Sect, Xiao Ran took her to the airport and bought two plane tickets to the Capital.
Fortunately, it was neither the New Year nor a holiday, so plane tickets weren't in such short supply. There happened to be seats available when they arrived.
After waiting for a while, they boarded the plane without any trouble.
Xiao Ran reminded her quietly, "When the plane starts up, remember to put your phone in airplane mode."
Qian Renxue looked utterly innocent. "Your technology is amazing. Even this tiny phone can fly."
Xiao Ran did not know whether to laugh or cry. "Of course the phone can't fly. Airplane mode cuts off its signals to avoid interfering with the plane's communication and navigation systems."
Qian Renxue blushed a little. "Oh, oh. I understand."
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