Gu Luoyi joins

"What?!"

"Help!"

"Someone save me! I don't want to die!"

A beautiful, captivating woman, like a pitch-black phoenix, rushed over. In an instant, all the human traffickers were set ablaze, then burned to ashes.

The Xue Family noble still wanted to resist, but his opponent revealed nine Soul Rings, frightening him senseless. This was the symbol of a Titled Douluo. Only Titled Douluo, who had reached the pinnacle of Soul Masters, could possess nine Soul Rings, and a Titled Douluo had the strength to contend with an army of a million.

"May I ask, Your Eminence, just how have I offended you? Why are you attacking us? I've never even met you!"

He was utterly bewildered. He had no idea why he was being attacked, and he had never seen the woman before him.

"I have no need to waste words on you. You aren't worthy of hearing them!"

Then a mass of pitch-black flames burned him to death. Just like that, this noble related by blood to the Heaven Dou Empire's royal family died.

"All right, you lot, hurry up and leave. Don't stay here, or you'll be captured again. You'd best go to Spirit Hall and ask the deacons there for help. You should be able to get assistance."

After hearing the Titled Douluo say this, the trafficked children fled as fast as they could, heading off to find Spirit Hall and ask for help.

Although Spirit Hall was essentially a religious organization, and there was indeed corruption within it, it was already far better than most of the forces on the continent. At the very least, it could trounce over ninety percent of them.

So if these trafficked children needed to ask someone for help, only Spirit Hall could help them. They could only turn to Spirit Hall, and you were under no obligation to help them either.

Just then, one little girl stayed behind. That little girl was Gu Luoyi.

"Aren't you going to leave? Aren't you going with those children to seek Spirit Hall's help?"

"..." Gu Luoyi said nothing.

"Is there something you want to do? Or is there something you want to ask of me?"

"I want to become your disciple..."

"...Why do you want to become my disciple?"

"I want revenge, but I have no strength. Please, I beg you, let me be your disciple. Even if you make me a servant who serves tea and pours water, I'm willing. As long as you can teach me and make me stronger, I'll do anything."

Gu Luoyi immediately knelt and kowtowed.

"...What's your name?"

"Gu Luoyi."

"My name is Leng Yulai. I'm a rank 97 Titled Douluo, titled Dark Phoenix. Let me tell you, if you want to join us, you'll have to endure hardship. And I'll have to speak to my... elder sister and the others. You must demonstrate your worth before you can join us."

"I will demonstrate my worth," Gu Luoyi said firmly.

"All right, then. But I can't be one hundred percent certain you'll be able to join. You need to prepare yourself for that."

"Understood."

"Before that, I'll gather all the spoils here."

"But could this noble have been connected to the Heaven Dou Empire's royal family? There are actually so many Gold Soul Coins, and so many medicinal herbs and so much whale rubber.

"Now we won't have to spend money buying any. We can just use what's here. There's even ten-thousand-year whale glue. He really was sitting on a pile of treasures without knowing it."

Soon, news spread throughout the Heaven Dou Empire that a noble of royal blood had been wiped out by a mysterious force.

It was judged possible that a powerful Soul Douluo had been responsible. Furthermore, investigations found that every valuable treasure belonging to this noble connected to the royal family-anything worth money-had vanished.

Furious, Xue Ye sent people to investigate, demanding that they uncover the truth.

Meanwhile, elsewhere, some Spirit Hall Branches in the Heaven Dou Empire received requests from a large group of children who had awakened their Martial Souls. The children asked Spirit Hall for help, explaining that they had been abducted by human traffickers and now hoped to receive Spirit Hall's assistance.

After learning this, most of the deacons and relevant personnel at these Spirit Hall Branches helped send them home.

Nuoding City.

After thoroughly looting the place, Leng Yulai brought Gu Luoyi back to Kai's residence.

"My lord, I've gathered everything we needed to collect. And this cabinet really was valuable. I've collected all the valuable ten-thousand-year whale glue, so now we won't have to spend money buying any."

"Also, this child has innate full soul power. Her Martial Soul is called the Light Dragon Butterfly, and her name is Gu Luoyi. That noble originally obtained her from slave traders, seemingly intending to use her to propagate his bloodline.

"After I killed that noble, she wanted to follow me and join us. I didn't know what to do, so I wanted to ask for your instructions."

Gu Luoyi looked at Kai before her. Although she said nothing, there should have been disbelief in her eyes too. This child, who was about her age, was actually the lord of the Titled Douluo she admired. It was simply unbelievable, but she said nothing.

"Why do you want to join us? Shouldn't you return to your family? Wouldn't your parents be sad?"

Kai looked curiously at Gu Luoyi before him, not quite understanding why a child would want to follow them.

A child her age should have been with her parents. Didn't she care about her parents at all? Wasn't she afraid they would worry?

"My parents are already gone... The reason I want to join you is so I can receive your guidance and become stronger. I want to avenge my parents...! As long as I can get revenge, I'll do anything."

After Gu Luoyi said this, Kai slapped himself, feeling that he really deserved to die for bringing up her painful memories.

He had actually told a child whose parents were already gone to return to them. Wasn't that poking at her sore spot?

"All right, I understand. I welcome you to join us."

Looking at this pitiful girl, Kai also understood that she probably no longer had a home and had nowhere to return to. He recalled his own deceased parents, too, and how Su Yuntao had looked after him.

Without the care of this friend of his mother's, Kai probably could not have lived to the age of six, awakened his Martial Soul, or encountered the system.

There was a saying: having been drenched in the rain yourself, you wanted to hold an umbrella for someone else.

Kai did not consider himself a good person, but he treated his own people and friends very well. He would not mistreat his friends or good people.

At the very least, this was his principle and his bottom line as a person.

This was the principle for conducting himself that his teacher in his previous life had taught him. Everyone had different principles for how they lived.

But the thing was, one's principles and bottom line at least had to meet normal standards.

His principle was to treat his friends and his own people well.