A Stray Dog by the Road Was a Titled Douluo?

Lin Yan escorted Ning Rongrong to the door, then seemed to remember something. He had almost forgotten the most important matter.

"Miss Ning, today's service was only basic custom cultivation. Once you've paid off everything you owe, you can unlock access to this shop's subsequent packages."

Ning Rongrong paused at his words. A complicated look flickered in her eyes as she turned toward him.

"There are other packages?"

"Of course."

Lin Yan's expression did not change at all as he said calmly,

"This shop offers more than just custom bloodline cultivation. There's also the rapid cultivation package, the rapid growth package, and the parent-child bond package, at various prices. Each one also has multiple tiers to suit different cultivation needs and financial means."

Ning Rongrong immediately rolled her eyes. Wasn't he a profiteer through and through?

The initial cultivation already cost an astronomical sum, and there were follow-up packages to go with it. He certainly knew how to earn his money.

She had no objections, though. The cultivation alone was already so heaven-defying that the follow-up nurturing probably would not be much worse.

It would cost a fortune, but money was a trivial matter.

This fellow did not swindle the poor; he only fleeced the rich. You got what you paid for!

"I understand.

"Once I've paid everything off, I'll look into your follow-up packages."

With that, she took her well-behaved daughter by the hand and prepared to leave.

But just as Lin Yan opened the door and let Ning Rongrong step outside-

The air across Suotuo City's bustling Commercial Street instantly froze. Without warning, a terrifying pressure like a mountain erupted from the clouds, making every Soul Master struggle to breathe as their legs went weak.

All the nearby Soul Masters, hunting parties, roadside vendors, and pedestrians turned deathly pale, their bodies trembling uncontrollably. This was the pressure of a top-tier powerhouse.

Suotuo City was only a small city. The strongest people stationed here were at most Soul Saints, and no one could withstand this terrifying pressure.

Soon, a burst of crazed laughter rang through the entire street.

"Hahahahaha! To think something so heaven-defying truly exists in this world, something that can even custom-create peerless prodigies!

"I never imagined that a trip to Star Dou Great Forest today would bring me such a fortuitous encounter."

The sound waves quickly parted the crowd. Then a middle-aged man in an ink-black robe, his face gloomy, slowly emerged from among them.

He looked to be in his forties or fifties and stood tall and straight. His Soul Power was exceptionally dense and condensed, and nine dazzling Soul Rings circled his body: two yellow, two purple, and five black. With that perfect Soul Ring configuration, he was unmistakably a genuine Titled Douluo.

There were quite a few top-tier powerhouses on the Douluo Continent, but most were gathered in Spirit Hall, the Upper Three Sects, the Lower Four Sects, and the two great empires.

Still, the continent was vast and had many Soul Masters. There were also plenty of veteran Titled Douluos who, like Dugu Bo, had joined no faction, or who belonged to hidden clans.

Greed shone in the middle-aged Titled Douluo's eyes as he fixed his gaze on the six-year-old girl in Ning Rongrong's arms, his eyes filled with the desire to possess her.

"How can such a heaven-defying cultivation method be exposed on the street and reduced to a means of making sales?

"One faction should possess it exclusively, monopolizing and controlling it to cultivate geniuses.

"And this child-a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, twin dragon and pagoda Martial Souls, a mutated Martial Soul, innate full Soul Power, destined fortune, and a flawless foundation.

"With careful nurturing, she will certainly become a Limit Douluo in the future.

"Even without nurturing her, she could serve as a mother to breed powerful, gifted offspring."

This Titled Douluo spoke without any attempt at concealment. Clearly, he had no intention of leaving anyone here alive.

After all, Titled Douluos already stood at the pinnacle of this world's combat power. Destroying a small city would truly be effortless.

Besides, he only wanted to destroy this Commercial Street and kill the people here, which would be even easier.

Everyone now came to their senses. This powerhouse had come with ill intent. He actually intended to seize exclusive control of the Cultivation Room's heaven-defying methods by force and take Ning Rongrong's peerless daughter as well.

At the shop entrance, however, Lin Yan looked at the Titled Douluo before him without the slightest panic in his eyes. He had long been mentally prepared. After all, his bloodline cultivation that custom-created geniuses was simply too heaven-defying.

Once it was verified, others would inevitably covet it. Who would not want sole possession of a way to produce peerless prodigies wholesale?

He had not held out any hope originally. After all, Suotuo City was merely a small city, and its strongest cultivators were Soul Saints. Where would a Titled Douluo-level powerhouse come from?

If he had opened his shop in Spirit City, Spirit Hall's consecrators might have come pounding on his door that very day, all probing and trying to seize it.

The Titled Douluo before him could be considered both lucky and unlucky. If he truly had the strength, he might have been able to claim this opportunity for himself. Unfortunately, his luck was bad.

Lin Yan was not without means. Since the system had let him open a shop so brazenly, it naturally had measures in place.

Lin Yan immediately opened the system interface.

[Two modes were already marked above, one yellow and one red.

Yellow was shop protection mode, while red was ultimate debt collection mode.]

Protection mode focused on comprehensive defense and slaying intruders. Its Martial Soul leaned toward absolute defense, ensuring that the Cultivation Room remained completely secure and guaranteeing the absolute safety of distinguished guests and customers.

Debt collection mode focused on overwhelming offense and lethal suppression, crushing all enemies and dealing specifically with anyone who breached agreements, plundered, or provoked him.

Only the Martial Souls differed between the two modes; everything else was the same. Both provided a system-controlled fighter on his behalf. After he selected a Martial Soul and fused with it for the proxy combat, he would automatically possess the full combat power of a Limit Douluo and could leave the shop at will to fight freely.

Of course, these two modes would only activate if the system judged that the shop was under threat, or that someone was maliciously refusing to pay a debt or provoking him.

If he tried any crooked tricks to experience these modes long-term, such as deliberately hiring someone to provoke him at the door or deliberately arranging for someone to maliciously withhold payment, the system would never activate. In short, he could only experience it; he still had to work hard at cultivating himself.

Today, someone who did not know what was good for him had happened to turn up. Lin Yan clenched his fists. At last, he could properly experience the exhilarating pleasure of a Limit Douluo crushing a Titled Douluo.

"Thank you, stranger!"

But just as he was about to activate the system possession, the system's alert mode actually disappeared. No matter how he clicked, it would not respond.

What was going on?

The fire was already singeing his eyebrows-why had it disappeared?

System, this is a Titled Douluo! You expect me to use Martial Soul Possession and fight him?

Yet, in the next instant-

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Dozens of sharp, agile figures in matching uniforms suddenly appeared like phantoms from every direction in the streets and alleys, surrounding the entrance.

These people-

Every one of them wore a solemn expression and carried an imposing air. At the same time, they raised glazed tile tokens bearing the emblem of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and roared in unison,

"The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is conducting business!"