Tang San looked at the dog chain on the ground.
He did not hesitate at all.
With trembling hands, he picked up the iron ring and fastened it around his neck on the spot, beneath the utterly contemptuous gazes of the surrounding slave laborers.
"Woof... woof, woof!"
Tang San even barked twice, pressing his head firmly against the middle-aged man's boots, fawning to the utmost.
"Thank you for your reward, master! From now on, this lowly one will be your most loyal dog!"
As long as he could live.
As long as he could cling to his last breath in this Great Thousand World.
What did dignity matter? What did brothers matter?
Meanwhile.
The main training ground of Shrek Academy, Douluo Continent.
Deathly silence.
A suffocating, deathly silence enveloped the entire academy.
Everyone stared at the Sky Screen, stunned as wooden chickens.
"Bleurgh!"
Someone was the first to find it unbearable, bracing against a tree trunk and vomiting violently.
It was not merely physical nausea, but revulsion of the mind as well.
"He incited others to throw their lives away, then turned around and sold them out..."
"To stay alive, he actually put on a dog chain willingly and became someone's watchdog to brutalize his companions?"
"Th-this is the Brother San we've always admired?"
"The pure-as-ice, spotless-as-jade Third Young Master Tang."
"So it was all an act."
"When he hadn't encountered a danger he truly couldn't fight, he could put on a show of righteous resolve."
"Once he faced danger, he was worse than a dog!"
Three months later.
Blackwater Mountain Range, Great Desolation Province.
Piercing screams occasionally rang out from the depths of the dark, damp mine.
Crack!
Clutching a bloodstained leather whip, Tang San lashed it across the back of a slave laborer who had collapsed from