"Xiaotao..."
Hearing Ma Xiaotao lay bare her feelings,
Luo Feng felt a surge of excitement too.
Despite the carefree manner this leading woman of Shrek Academy's inner court usually wore,
as though she had no room for romance and cared only about cultivating,
that was merely a protective shell she had put on.
What woman under heaven did not want a lifelong companion?
In this time and place on the Douluo Continent,
there was no strict rule that a powerful man could have only one woman by his side.
Since fate had already brought the two of them together,
they might as well follow this path to its end.
At her core,
Ma Xiaotao was a woman first and a powerful Soul Master second.
Now that they had pierced the final paper window between them,
what more was there to say?
"A Feng, I... I want to give myself to you completely before I go home with you!"
Those were Ma Xiaotao's true feelings.
Since she had decided to leave with Luo Feng,
and live under the same roof as him in the Earth Dragon Sect,
she could hardly enter that home with her maidenhood intact!
People would point fingers and gossip behind her back.
"Xiaotao... you mean here? There isn't even a decent bed. Wouldn't I be treating a beauty like you discourteously?"
Her words had truly stunned Luo Feng.
He had never expected Ma Xiaotao to be even more impatient than he was.
Still, he could understand.
Whatever the era, a girl getting married would want her status to be proper and legitimate.
"Do you think it's dirty?"
"We could find somewhere clean, like a cave or beside a stream..."
Seeing Ma Xiaotao's timid manner,
and her little face flushed red,
Luo Feng felt positively elated.
The contrast was simply too great!
"No, let's stay right here!"
"The sky will be our blanket, and the earth our bed. We..."
The next instant, Luo Feng's breathing quickened too.
He swept Ma Xiaotao into his arms in a bridal carry.
She gave a soft "Ah!" before blushing and wrapping both arms around his neck.
She let him carry her toward the small grove nearby.
What happened next could not be described...
But the grass and bushes over there suffered for it.
A whole swath was flattened, with scorch marks left behind as well.
Meanwhile,
Ye Xishui refused to give up.
She insisted on dragging Long Xiaoyao along to search for hundreds of miles.
Yet they never found any trace of the pair.
Long Xiaoyao had opposed this whole affair from the beginning.
So he secretly used a few tricks,
leading the crazed woman in the opposite direction!
Instead, he helped the two young lovers have their way.
"Damn it!"
"Long Xiaoyao, don't you have the Dragon Clan's senses? Hurry up and find them!"
"If word gets out that two Limit Douluos couldn't even find one wretched brat..."
She seemed beside herself with rage.
But only Long Xiaoyao understood what Ye Xishui was feeling.
It was her obsession with winning.
Ever since this woman had become an Evil Soul Master,
she had seemed intent on clutching everything under heaven in her hands.
It was a sickness.
Yet Long Xiaoyao was powerless to save her.
All he could do was quietly nurture the younger generation, hoping that someone would one day destroy the Holy Spirit Cult.
Originally, Long Xiaoyao had placed all his hopes in Huo Yuhao.
But now there was Luo Feng as well.
And this lad seemed even better suited to the task!
"Bzz!"
"Mother, Uncle Long!"
Just as the crazed woman was seething with frustration,
Zhongli Wu suddenly appeared.
He wore a strange expression, tinged with excitement.
"What are you doing here?"
Seeing her disappointing son appear,
Ye Xishui finally managed to rein in her crazed expression.
"The Sun Moon Empire has undergone a change of rulers!"
"Xu Tianran has officially ascended the throne!"
"Although a few people escaped, we have all the other elites from the Three Great Empires under our control!"
Sure enough, what was coming had come.
Although the people from Shrek and the Earth Dragon Sect had escaped,
Xu Tianran had still claimed the throne, just as he had in the original story.
And he had detained all the elites from the Three Great Empires.
They were the fresh blood that would shape those empires' futures!
Just like that, they had become hostages of the Sun Moon Empire.
"Excellent!"
"Xu Tianran really is ruthless enough. He hasn't disappointed us!"
"Forget those two little brats for now. Our real business comes first!"
These people from the Holy Spirit Cult were no angel investors.
Everything they did demanded a return.
The reason they supported Xu Tianran so strongly
was that the man was already a lunatic.
Only that brat named Xu could rekindle the flames of war across the entire Douluo Continent.
And war meant deaths. Vast numbers of wronged souls would become the foundation of the Holy Spirit Cult.
Not only would they nourish Ye Xishui,
they would also allow the cult to cultivate more, stronger Evil Soul Masters.
"Mother, Xu Tianran has already appointed me to lead the vanguard. He wants us to deal with Heaven Dou and the Dou Ling Empire first!"
"As for the Star Luo Empire, it's a little troublesome! We'll leave it until last!"
Hearing Zhongli Wu's words,
Long Xiaoyao could not stop the corner of his mouth from twitching.
He, too, was from the Heaven Dou Empire.
Yet now he stood in the enemy camp.
It seemed a great war was inevitable!
"Excellent. Isn't that brat named Luo Feng from the Heaven Dou Empire?"
"The monk may flee, but his temple cannot!"
"I'd like to see where he can hide when the Sun Moon Empire's million-strong army stands beneath his city walls!"
At that thought,
Ye Xishui's frustration at losing their trail vanished in an instant!
Beside her, Zhongli Wu was also gritting his teeth with hatred!
"You're right, Mother. If we don't eliminate that brat named Luo, he'll become a thorn in the heart of our Holy Spirit Cult!"
With matters having reached this point,
Zhongli Wu had long since abandoned the idea of recruiting Luo Feng!
What he wanted to see was the entire Heaven Dou Empire and the Earth Dragon Sect reduced to ashes.
Elsewhere,
Luo Feng and Ma Xiaotao, finally husband and wife, took a long, roundabout route and returned to their homeland.
Everyone from the Earth Dragon Sect, including Nan Qiuqiu and his mother-in-law, was safe and sound!
But when he returned with Ma Xiaotao,
the mother and daughter were nowhere to be seen.
Upon seeing Luo Feng, the gatekeeper hurried forward to salute him.
"Senior Brother Luo, you're finally back!"
"The sect leader and young sect leader have both been summoned to the Imperial Palace. They say the Sun Moon Empire is about to move against us!"
"Even the important figures from the Body Sect are all discussing countermeasures there right now!"
He had not expected it to happen so quickly.
Xu Tianran was no easy opponent either.
His own father had yet to draw his last breath,
yet he had already usurped the throne on his own authority.
He had even assembled a great army,
madly intent on attacking the entire Douluo Continent.
"Xiaotao, go get some rest first!"
"I'll go to the Imperial Palace and see what's happening!"
"No, I'm staying with you. In life or death, we won't be parted!"
Why did Ma Xiaotao have to make it sound so grave?
Still, the way she nestled close to him like a little bird
truly made the fellow disciples nearby green with envy!
"What's all this talk of death?"
"Don't worry! If fighting really breaks out, I'll make sure that, as the Dragon King, I send them all on a one-way trip!"
Although everything had happened suddenly,
even earlier than he had imagined,
Luo Feng was excited.
Because the Sun Moon Empire had prepared for this war in haste,
its results certainly would not be as good as in the original story.
Besides, as a transmigrator, Luo Feng knew exactly where Xu Tianran's fatal weakness lay!
With just a gentle stir of the winds and clouds, the Douluo Continent's future would surely become even more spectacular!
"Mm, I'll do as my husband says!"
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