Set Out! Nuoding City

"According to the information your grandfather gave us, Li Yuanba is an extremely evil, vicious criminal. Five years ago, in a city within the Star Luo Empire, he slaughtered over a hundred innocent civilians in the street and violated multiple women. For these crimes, he was wanted by the empire and our Spirit Hall."

"At the time, the Martial Soul Branch Hall in that city immediately sent soul masters to arrest him, but because they were only ordinary branch-hall-level soul masters, their strength was not great. They were quickly and brutally murdered by Li Yuanba, who had the strength of a Spirit Emperor. Some were even tortured to death alive!"

"When the Star Luo Empire's army arrived, Li Yuanba had long since fled without a trace. So, Xue'er, scum like this deserves to die! He must be killed! When the time comes, we absolutely cannot show even the slightest mercy. We must hold firm to our conviction and act decisively!" Chu Ye was incomparably serious.

"I understand." Young Master Qian Renxue drew in a breath. Inwardly, she was affected by Chu Ye's words, and she also deeply remembered them.

Soon, they were already approaching the city gate.

"We're finally about to leave the city," Young Master Qian Renxue said.

"Yeah! This is my first time leaving Spirit City." Looking at the city gate they were about to reach, Chu Ye was still filled with anticipation.

After all, he had never personally seen what the world outside was like.

And when Chu Ye had just learned that their destination this time was Nuoding City, he had been surprised.

Because apart from Spirit City, Nuoding City might be the city he was most familiar with, and there were also people he knew of there!

For example, in Holy Soul Village, a village near Nuoding City, the dispirited Tang Hao was living in seclusion there, making a living by running a blacksmith shop and forging iron.

Tang San was definitely still in Holy Soul Village. Counting the time, Tang San should currently be under three years old.

Aside from the Tang Family Father and Son, Nuoding City also had the famous Blind Douluo Su Yuntao, as well as a certain Yu someone who was the most detestable of all—Yu Xiaogang.

If he was not mistaken, Yu Xiaogang was currently staying in Nuoding Academy, freeloading food and drink, right?

On this trip, I probably won't run into Tang San. As for Yu Xiaogang... he'd better not let me meet him. Otherwise, if I see that face begging to be punched, I really can't say for sure whether I'll do something out of line. Chu Ye thought to himself.

The carriage also drove out of Spirit City at this moment. On top of the city gate's high wall, Chrysanthemum Douluo silently watched the carriage recede into the distance, and in the next second, followed after it.

This time, the person secretly protecting Chu Ye and Young Master Qian Renxue while they went out to carry out their mission was Chrysanthemum Douluo. However, unless a life-threatening situation appeared, he would not show himself.

Nuoding City was actually not that far from Spirit City, but it still required several days of travel.

Using the several days on the road, the two of them cultivated while discussing battle strategies, and how to deal with Li Yuanba, the level 65 Spirit Emperor.

Their journey involved stopping and starting, passing through several small towns and villages, but no sudden incidents occurred.

Chu Ye also personally saw the world outside Spirit City for the first time. He discovered that most of the land on the Douluo Continent was deserted wilderness, barren mountains and wild ridges, with mountains everywhere.

Most humans gathered in cities, as well as in the towns and villages built around those cities.

Once one left the area surrounding the cities, there were very few places where humans lived and settled. They were extremely remote, the living conditions were rather poor, and most importantly, public order was also very bad.

Once something happened in such a place, rescue forces would be unable to arrive immediately. In Chu Ye's view, as long as one left the area around a city, it all counted as lawless territory.

It could be imagined that things like robbery, theft, or murder should often exist.

This world did not seem as wonderful as Chu Ye had initially imagined. Especially for ordinary people who could not become soul masters, even taking a long trip might be a small luxury.

After several days of travel, the two of them were finally about to arrive at Nuoding City. Chu Ye and Young Master Qian Renxue looked ahead through the carriage window and immediately saw a city surrounded by high walls. Three large characters were carved on the city wall: Nuoding City.

"Young Master Qian Renxue, Young Master Chu Ye, we'll arrive at Nuoding City very soon."

The coachman spoke at this moment.

"Mm, drive straight to the Martial Soul Branch Hall here," Chu Ye said.

"Alright~!"

"Hyah!"

The carriage drove directly into Nuoding City.

Nuoding City was actually only a small city, but because its geographical position was on the border of the Heaven Dou Empire and extremely close to the edge of the Star Luo Empire, it belonged to the junction of the Two Great Empires. Merchants often came and went here, so it also drove a certain degree of economic growth, making the people living in this small city a little wealthier.

Young Master Qian Renxue was curious about an unfamiliar city. She suddenly suggested, "Chu Ye, why don't we get off and walk to the branch hall? We can take a stroll along the way. What do you think?"

"Sure!"

In any case, there was plenty of time for this mission and they were not in a hurry, so Chu Ye did not mind.

"Driver, stop the carriage. You go to the branch hall first. We'll walk around and head there ourselves."

"Alright then, this lowly one will go ahead first."

The coachman nodded and left first.

Chu Ye and Young Master Qian Renxue strolled while heading toward the Martial Soul Branch Hall.

Young Master Qian Renxue admired the scenery and buildings along the way, while Chu Ye observed the surrounding terrain, layout, and routes.

After all, Li Yuanba was in the city. When the time came to make a move, it was very likely to be within Nuoding City, so it was very necessary to observe the terrain in advance.

As the two walked, they unexpectedly arrived near Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy.

"So this is Nuoding Academy, the starting point of Tang San's path as a soul master." Chu Ye stopped and looked at it a couple more times.

"What's wrong, Chu Ye?" Young Master Qian Renxue asked in puzzlement.

"Nothing. Let's keep going." Chu Ye shook his head.

The two continued forward and soon arrived at a three-way intersection. Straight ahead was the direction of the Martial Soul Branch Hall, while to the right was precisely the main entrance of Nuoding Academy.

Chu Ye stood in the center of the three-way intersection and turned his head to glance in the direction of Nuoding Academy's gate.

Unexpectedly, he discovered that a Nuoding student was currently taking someone as his teacher. The person the student was apprenticing to was a man dressed in black, holding a book in his hands, around forty years old.

And this man was none other than Yu Xiaogang!

"Oh? I really did run into this trash." A hint of disgust flashed through Chu Ye's eyes.

Chu Ye, who already hated Yu Xiaogang, found him even more detestable at first sight.

After seeing him with his own eyes, Chu Ye only felt extremely baffled. This trash had no looks and no strength. A piece of garbage with half a level of Innate Soul Power, he had cultivated until he was around forty now and had not even reached level 30.

He was so ordinary, so useless. How had Bibi Dong fallen in love with such trash back then?

The key was, this Yu Xiaogang was also a complete scumbag: hypocritical, with a revolting character.

Who knew what despicable methods he had used to deceive Bibi Dong when she was still a young girl, so naive, pure, and kind.

Then, using Bibi Dong's identity and connections, he had obtained an elder seat in Spirit Hall and plagiarized a large amount of Spirit Hall's soul master theoretical knowledge.