"In that case, Guang Ling." Qian Daoliu looked at the Fifth Enshrined, Light Feather Douluo, who was toying with an ice bow beside him.
"Take Enshrined Qian Jun and Enshrined Jiang Mo with you to Shrek Academy. Remember, do not disgrace the Worship Hall's mighty reputation."
"Yes, Great Enshrined!" the three Super Douluo above rank ninety-six answered in unison.
With just an introduction on the sky screen, Tang San had become a vast whirlpool, drawing all the top powers of the Douluo Continent into its depths.
The sky screen did not stop for the upheaval among the continent's various powers. A secret past, long sealed away in another world, unfolded before the billions of living beings on the Douluo Continent.
In the image, clouds and mist wreathed a perilous peak above a bottomless drop-Ghost Meets Sorrow, in the Bashu Tang Sect.
Facing the Tang Sect elders' relentless advance, a gray-robed young man resolutely stripped off his clothes, leaving behind three peerless hidden weapons, Buddha's Fury Tang Lotuses.
Then he leaped into the abyss tens of thousands of feet below.
Immediately afterward, the image distorted. An infant's cry rang out. The soul of the young man who had leaped from the cliff had actually crossed time and space, being born on the Douluo Continent as the newborn child of Tang Hao and Ah Yin, the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor.
The images raced onward. While still a small child, Tang San actually took advantage of Tang Hao being drunk as a puddle of mud to sit cross-legged alone and practice the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Purple Demon Eye, and other Tang Sect Secret Arts.
His tender face often revealed a depth and sophistication far beyond that of a young child, and he even secretly crafted all manner of lethal mechanical hidden weapons.
Flender, Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and the others stared at Tang San as though looking at a monster.
"Little San... you-you aren't actually native to our Douluo Continent?" Oscar swallowed, his voice trembling.
"You're a... transmigrator carrying memories of your previous life?"
Tang San went rigid, his fists clenched tight.
His eyes were bloodshot, and he panted like an ox.
His greatest secret, the trump card he depended on to survive, had been stripped completely bare by this inexplicable sky screen.
Sky screen... you dare expose my Tang Sect's greatest secrets and lay bare my background! Tang San roared inwardly. You've already given me cause to kill you! You've already given me cause to kill you!
But the one in greater pain than Tang San, the one who found it even harder to accept, was Tang Hao, hidden in the dense forest.
"How could this happen... how could this happen!" Tang Hao covered his face in anguish.
He had always thought that his son, sensible and well-behaved since childhood, who cooked for him, was the fruit of his and Ah Yin's love.
Yet the images on the sky screen cruelly told him that an adult's soul inhabited his son's body.
Tang Hao's heart felt as though it were being carved by knives.
Was this truly his and Ah Yin's child?
Had his own flesh and blood already been possessed at the moment of birth by an otherworldly soul named "Tang San"?
Before Tang Hao could recover from the devastating blow, the image on the sky screen shifted again.
The scene moved to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy.
With a certificate from Spirit Hall and a torrent of glib talk, Yu Xiaogang got the inexperienced Tang San to kneel and take him as his master.
Afterward, in Dorm Seven, Tang San met that lively, adorable girl with a scorpion braid-Xiao Wu.
The image of their first meeting froze, and a line of large text burst onto the sky screen:
[Special figure identity reveal: Xiao Wu.]
[True identity: a hundred-thousand-year soul beast from the Star Dou Great Forest-a Soft Bone Charming Rabbit in human form!]
Ning Fengzhi's previously gentle gaze became extraordinarily sharp.
Behind him, Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Bone Douluo Gu Rong unleashed terrifying Titled Douluo pressure.
"Sect Master, we were careless." Sword Douluo Chen Xin's eyes held regret.
"Our attention was entirely on Rongrong and the sky screen just now. We actually failed to notice that this little girl's true form was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast."
Bone Douluo Gu Rong also sneered. "A hundred-thousand-year soul beast in human form, daring to come openly into the human world. We could have worn through iron shoes searching in vain, yet here it falls into our hands without any effort."
Sensing the undisguised greed and killing intent of two Titled Douluo above rank ninety-five,
Xiao Wu's pretty face turned deathly pale, and she instinctively shrank behind Tang San.
Under the pressure of the Titled Douluo, Tang San's legs went weak, but he still gritted his teeth and shielded Xiao Wu behind him, roaring with bloodshot eyes:
"Xiao Wu is my little sister! I won't let anyone hurt her!"
Watching Tang San protect her like his own young, Ning Fengzhi narrowed his eyes and gently shook his head at Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo.
"Sect Master?" Sword Douluo asked in confusion.
Ning Fengzhi secretly transmitted his voice. "Uncle Jian, Uncle Gu, be patient."
"None of us three currently needs to absorb a soul ring, and all our soul bone slots are already filled. We have no spare slot to absorb this Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone. Killing her now would be a wanton waste of a precious treasure."
"We might as well wait. Since this Soft Bone Rabbit is staying with Tang San, she won't get away. If we can save this hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone for Rongrong in the future, that would yield the greatest benefit."
Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo silently withdrew their pressure, their auras still locked onto Xiao Wu.
As the pressure abruptly eased, Tang San turned and took Xiao Wu's icy little hand, comforting her gently. "Xiao Wu, don't be afraid. As long as I'm here, I'll keep protecting you, even if I die."
Xiao Wu's eyes reddened, tears brimming in them as she looked at Tang San, moved. "Thank you, Brother..."
In the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest.
"Roar!" An earth-shaking roar tore through the forest's tranquility.
"That damned sky screen! It exposed Sister Xiao Wu's identity. Isn't that forcing the humans of the entire continent to kill her?"
Beside himself with rage, Er Ming drove his enormous legs against the ground, launching his massive body skyward like a cannonball.
He swung a fist powerful enough to shatter mountains, smashing it viciously toward the screen of light in the sky.
The instant his fist touched the screen of light, a brilliant golden light descended.
"Bang!"
With a dull crash, the Titan Giant Ape's enormous body was sent flying and slammed into the earth, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.
"Er Ming, stop!" The Sky Azure Bull Python, Da Ming, gazed solemnly at the sky screen and soothed him in a deep voice:
"The power of this sky screen is unfathomable. Its majesty cannot be challenged. Don't be foolish. Even if we rushed there now, we wouldn't make it in time. We can only pray that Heaven watches over Sister Xiao Wu."
In the deepest part of the Lake of Life, an ethereal, melodious female voice echoed.
"This little rabbit has some nerve, daring to venture into the human world alone."
Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena pondered curiously. "Since this sky screen can take stock of humans, I wonder whether our Soul Beast Clan has a chance of making the list?"
"If I could obtain the sky screen's rewards, perhaps... the time I need to recover from my injuries and restore the Soul Beast Clan could be greatly shortened."
The images on the sky screen continued.
Yu Xiaogang took Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest to search for his first soul ring.
When they encountered a Mandala Snake over four hundred years old, Yu Xiaogang summoned "Luo Sanpao," only to accomplish nothing. Instead, he was bitten by the Mandala Snake, and when the venom took effect, he collapsed, barely clinging to life.
In the end, it was his disciple Tang San who relied on the Tang Sect hidden weapon techniques from his previous life and the Mysterious Heaven Skill to kill the Mandala Snake amid tremendous danger, saving this so-called "Grandmaster."
This scene laid Yu Xiaogang's worthlessness and incompetence utterly bare.
The large golden text on the sky screen delivered its assessment:
[Sky screen's assessment: an abysmally foolish path of martial soul development!]
[Tang San possesses the bloodline of the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor. His martial soul's essence brims with vitality and resilience. Its ideal path should be "life, healing, or control."]
[Yet Yu Xiaogang, with his shallow theories, duped Tang San into absorbing the Mandala Snake's venom and following the inferior path of "poison control."]
[This not only squandered the potential of the Blue Silver Emperor's noble bloodline but also tainted the martial soul with impurities. A wanton waste of a precious treasure, and stupidity in the extreme.]
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