Gu Rong's words were crude, but they got his meaning across.
They would target Tang San and rob him of the Sea God Inheritance.
After all, even a Peerless Douluo like Lin Yi, who had mastered a heaven-defying technique like Seal the Game and Return to Play, could only retreat and avoid him.
If their own sect could produce a Sea God, what a sight that would be!
As for the Upper Three Sects standing together like branches of the same tree, there was no need to pay that any mind.
After all, the so-called unity of the Upper Three Sects ultimately amounted to huddling together for warmth.
Each feared that, left alone, it would be looked down on and suppressed by Spirit Hall or the two great empires.
But if their own sect could produce a Sea God, what would they have to fear?
As for the requirements for becoming a Sea God, Gu Rong gave them no thought at all.
What kind of genius could the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect not find?
If all else failed, they could use Tang San as a template and draw on the entire sect's resources to raise one.
This time, Ning Fengzhi did not immediately refute Gu Rong.
He seemed to be thinking it over seriously.
Beside them, Chen Xin kept his eyes on his nose and his nose on his heart.
He knew that whenever their sect master harbored ill intentions, he would signal Gu Rong to voice them.
And Gu Rong did indeed play that role.
The tactic had worked every time.
To put it plainly, one played the bad cop and the other the good cop. They often did this when dealing with outsiders, and they had kept up the habit in private as well.
Now Gu Rong had played the bad cop out of habit, yet Ning Fengzhi had not immediately refuted him.
Clearly, he was very tempted.
But after wrestling with the matter for a long time, he still let out a sigh.
"Sigh, the Upper Three Sects are branches of the same tree. Unless it becomes necessary, we should not damage the friendship between the Upper Three Sects."
Ning Fengzhi had given the matter so much thought, but Gu Rong had no need to think. He immediately let out a cold snort.
"Hmph, Tang Hao has long since been cast aside and struck from the rolls of the Clear Sky Sect. What kind of Clear Sky Sect disciple is he?"
At that, Gu Rong seemed to recall something and grew even angrier.
"If not for Tang Hao back then, how could the Clear Sky Sect have suddenly clashed with Spirit Hall and then been forced by Spirit Hall to seal off the sect? If the Clear Sky Sect hadn't sealed itself off, how could our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect have suddenly found itself under so much more pressure these past years?"
At the time, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had wholeheartedly agreed that the Upper Three Sects were branches of the same tree.
And it had done nothing to overstep.
Relying on the might of the Upper Three Sects, the three great sects had withstood the pressure from Spirit Hall.
But then something had suddenly happened to the Clear Sky Sect, causing the pressure on the other two sects-the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan-to rise sharply.
Over the past six years, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had rarely shown itself in public, retaining only its reputation as the second-ranked sect under heaven.
As for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, it had kept an even lower profile.
The clearest example was that disciples of the two sects no longer went out to travel.
People like Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Yu Xiaogang no longer traveled the continent.
They sent their disciples to academies for training instead.
Gu Rong, a dignified Titled Douluo, felt stifled.
And he attributed the root of it all to the Clear Sky Sect.
The Clear Sky Sect had been too weak, simply announcing that it would seal itself off.
And if the Clear Sky Sect was the root of the problem, Tang Hao was the chief culprit.
It could only be said that Gu Rong had no good face to show either the Clear Sky Sect or Tang Hao.
He had been playing the bad cop with genuine feeling.
So he truly felt there was no need to have any qualms about intercepting and killing Tang San and Tang Hao.
Ning Fengzhi nodded in silence.
He, too, had harbored resentment toward Tang Hao over the years.
Even so, he still did not speak directly about intercepting and killing the two.
"Just send people to gather information about them. No, don't investigate them; simply keep an eye out. We won't be the only ones on the continent interested in them," Ning Fengzhi said.
"My accomplishments increased out of nowhere."
Lin Yi was somewhat surprised to feel his accomplishments suddenly increase by a large amount.
He had deliberately revealed information about Tang San earlier because he wanted the Soul Master World of Douluo I to hunt Tang San down and change his fate.
But he had not managed to achieve that.
The Soul Master World had merely grown wary of Tang San.
As a result, he had gained relatively few accomplishments.
Of course, the effects were far-reaching, so his accomplishments had continued to increase.
But the rate of increase was limited.
Yet just now, after Lin Yi completed Seal the Game and Return to Play, his accomplishments had increased by another large amount.
It was several times more than the sudden gain in accomplishments he had received the first time.
This meant he had made a qualitative leap in changing Tang San's fate.
Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King.
"Changing the past to affect the future-is that his Spiritual Domain?" Yun Ming marveled.
Unlike those in Douluo I, who knew nothing when asked, many Soul Masters in the era of Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King knew that Lin Yi's Seal the Game and Return to Play was a Spiritual Domain.
Compared to Martial Soul Domains, Spiritual Domains were more shaped by the mind.
Most Soul Masters who could form a Spiritual Domain managed it thanks to the quality of their Martial Souls. Only because their Martial Souls were powerful enough could they reach that point, so most Spiritual Domains were connected to their Martial Souls.
They were also often related to their Martial Souls' innate abilities.
But there were a few whose experiences had been truly extraordinary. Combined with the particular emotional fluctuations, life experiences, and longing for something they felt when forming their Spiritual Domains, this resulted in Spiritual Domains that had no close connection to their Martial Souls.
For example, some Soul Masters had Spiritual Domains that turned back time.
Yet their Martial Souls might have nothing to do with time.
It was very likely that, when awakening their Spiritual Domains, those Soul Masters had simply been seized by a powerful desire to turn everything back.
Thus, Yun Ming and the other Limit Douluo of the era of Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King could understand how Lin Yi had come to possess a Spiritual Domain like Seal the Game and Return to Play.
Of course, understanding it did nothing to lessen their astonishment.
After all, a Spiritual Domain like that truly defied common sense.
"Every one of Lin Yi's Soul Rings can be traced. I wonder if we could try to raise a Lin Yi of our own era..."
The Far North.
Lin Yi still wore the same azure robe and had not added any other clothing.
Yet as he walked through the ice and snow, he seemed unable to feel the cold.
The temperature in the Far North was extremely low. Even Titled Douluo had to circulate their Soul Power at full force to resist the bitter cold when they ventured deep into it.
The Core Circle.
Lin Yi became one with heaven and earth.
The Black and White Energies appeared, weaving together into a chessboard. The board then vanished into the surrounding space and spread outward, carrying Lin Yi's spiritual power with it.
The situation throughout the Core Circle of the Far North immediately appeared in Lin Yi's mind.
Lin Yi fixed his gaze on a scorpion that was jade-green from head to tail.
The Ice Empress Jade Scorpion!
The Ice Empress, queen of the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan, ranked seventh among the current top ten Ferocious Beasts.
Of course, since the Evil Emperor had already been killed by Lin Yi, the Ice Empress could theoretically move up one place.
After pinpointing the Ice Empress's location, Lin Yi did not rush to act.
He also searched for the Snow Empress.
Yet even with his spiritual power merged into heaven and earth, Lin Yi failed to find the Snow Empress on his first search.
Is this what makes the Snow Empress special?
She was a spirit formed from the ice element gathered in the Core Circle of the Far North.
Blessed with the spiritual essence of heaven and earth in the Far North, she was almost one with the environment here.
But Lin Yi was, after all, a Limit Douluo, and his abilities were extraordinary.
Having failed to find her the first time, he searched more carefully with his senses on the second pass and finally located the Snow Empress.