The Twelve-Rank Pure World White Lotus cleansed Bibi Dong's heart.
Her obsessions scattered completely!
What cherished first love?
What unrequited love?
They were nothing but passing clouds!
And Link knew nothing of any of this.
He was racing down the road of life like the wind.
What Link did not know, however, was that in his frantic flight through the night, he had gotten the direction backward.
When dawn broke, Link discovered to his dismay that he had no idea where he was.
The vast stretches ahead and behind offered no way to determine his location.
"I actually got lost!"
"All right, no big deal!"
Link decided to retrace his steps.
Once he reached Spirit City, he would naturally be able to get his bearings.
From now on, he absolutely would not travel at night. What a trap.
No wonder the ancestors always said that great matters called for a calm mind.
He had simply been too anxious, eager to get back and absorb the plane godhood, only to find that more haste meant less speed.
Half a day later.
Link was one hundred percent certain that he was now thoroughly and utterly lost.
Judging by his pace, he should have reached Spirit City long ago. Yet now, he could not see so much as a trace of that enormous city.
"A stumble into a pit, a gain in wisdom. I need to remember this lesson!"
Muttering to himself, Link walked for another hour or so before finally spotting a small town.
People!
That meant he could naturally find someone to ask for directions.
But when Link entered the town, he sensed that something was wrong.
Everyone in the town looked at him with scrutinizing, appraising eyes, as though they were looking at prey.
Moreover, these people felt cold to Link.
In a flash, a possibility sprang into Link's mind.
Could he have accidentally wandered into the town at the entrance to Slaughter City?
At that thought, Link turned straight around.
Whether this was the town at Slaughter City's entrance or not, he had no interest in going farther inside.
Time to retreat!
Although he would have a considerable advantage in Slaughter City, where Soul Ring Soul Skills could not be used, Link felt that he might find an evil place like that a little too much to bear.
"Brat, you think you can leave after coming here? What do you take this place for?"
As Link tried to move away from the town, two middle-aged men with brutish faces swiftly caught up with him and blocked his path.
One had three rings, the other four!
Both had tool Martial Souls!
Without hesitation, Link manifested his Soul Ring and unleashed his first Soul Skill, Blue Silver Cage.
An area control Soul Skill!
With his Soul Ring's twenty-thousand-year age, although this was his first Soul Skill, its power was certainly no weaker than an ordinary Soul Master's fifth Soul Skill.
As for the two before him, one was a Three-Ring Soul Elder and the other a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor, both small fry.
Bound by the Blue Silver Cage, neither could break free.
Link swept up to them like a gust of wind. His Innate Formless Sword Qi pierced their chests in an instant, then tore open their throats.
A killing blow!
Without the slightest dragging of feet.
Before the others in the town even realized what had happened, they saw Link sweep past the two men's blockade and vanish from their sight like a gust of wind.
Only after Link had disappeared completely did the two men who had blocked his way slowly topple to the ground.
"They're dead?"
"Who was that little brat?"
"Too savage!"
"Good thing I was half a beat slow to make my move!"
The Fallen Soul Masters who witnessed this scene were all filled with emotion.
Though they were all vicious people, compared with those who entered Slaughter City, they were more like kindergarten children.
That went for both strength and savagery.
Link's arrival and departure, fleeting as a night-blooming flower, left a brief legend in this town on the outskirts of Slaughter City. The town also gained an unwritten rule: do not provoke those young brats who look as though they have yet to grow up!
This time, Link finally found the right direction.
He also saw Spirit City's magnificent walls!
"No wonder the villains in Slaughter City all stay so obediently inside. Turns out it's this close to Spirit City!"
Spirit Hall had been built on the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest not merely to suppress the countless Soul Beasts within the forest, but also to suppress Slaughter City.
Unfortunately, Tang San had destroyed Slaughter City in the original story, causing Fallen Soul Masters to proliferate into a scourge in later generations, even becoming an Evil Soul Master organization that swept across the entire continent.
Tang San thought he was doing a good deed by destroying an evil place on the Douluo Continent, unaware that he had opened Pandora's box with his own hands and released the demons.
Approaching Spirit City again, Link did not linger. He soon determined the direction of Heaven Dou City and hurried north.
A few days later, Link returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
A Luo was overjoyed to see Link return.
"A Luo, could you prepare some hot water for me? I want a bath!"
"All right, I'll arrange it right away!"
A Luo agreed with a beaming smile.
After she left, Link took out the plane godhood.
He did not know what sort of plane the system had rewarded him with. He would only know after absorbing the godhood.
Something like godhood presumably would not be so easy to absorb.
But Link felt it would not be much of a problem.
He was a genius, after all!
A Luo instructed someone to prepare hot water for Link's bath, then sent someone back to Heaven Dou City to inform Qian Renxue of his return.
Upon receiving word of Link's return, Qian Renxue immediately set aside her work and hurried to Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Snake Lance Douluo and Viper Douluo.
At that moment, Link was still soaking in the bathtub.
Only after A Luo informed him that His Highness the Crown Prince had arrived did Link hurriedly get dressed.
"Greetings, Your Highness!"
Upon seeing Qian Renxue, Link politely bowed in greeting.
"You can speak?!"
"Then have you remembered who you are?"
Qian Renxue was also a little excited.
Previously, she had always thought Link had been born unable to speak.
"Yes!"
"But I still haven't remembered who I am!"
Link continued to lie.
Of course, he had no intention of being a little mute anymore.
After all, being unable to speak really was rather difficult for him!
"It's all right. You'll remember eventually!"
Qian Renxue did not suspect Link of lying.
After all, Link was still a child!
Seeing how easily Qian Renxue trusted others, Link did not know what to say about her. With a disposition like that, she was carrying out an undercover mission to steal a nation?
Link suspected that Qian Renxue might not have killed Xue Ye's sons at all. The one who had actually done it could well have been either Snake Lance or Pufferfish.
"By the way, what did you go out to do this time?"
"Of course, if you don't want to tell me, you don't have to!"
"Immortal herbs!"
Link planned to go to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to get immortal herbs, but going there himself and encountering Dugu Bo would be rather like an old god of longevity hanging himself-asking for death. So Link planned to seek outside help.
Qian Renxue was the outside help Link had chosen.
With two Titled Douluos, Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo, here, even if they encountered Dugu Bo alone, they could defeat him in battle.
Although Poison Douluo was the gatekeeper of the Titled Douluo ranks, the lethality of his poison attacks against anyone below Titled Douluo was downright unreasonable.
During the battle of Jialing Pass in the original story, Poison Douluo had poisoned an entire city single-handedly.
That showed just how formidable Poison Douluo was!
In single combat, Poison Douluo ranked at the bottom, but when it came to the power of mass attacks, if Poison Douluo claimed second place, who could claim first?
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