Douluo Continent: Simulating Douluo Dalu III, Especially to Screw Over Tang San

Tang Yuehua was worried that if Gong Yu continued fighting the Clear Sky Sect, he would eventually be killed by them. After all, in her view, the Clear Sky Sect's foundations were more than Gong Yu could handle.

She didn't know why she was telling Gong Yu these things. She should have hated him, yet after three months, she couldn't bring herself to do so. Perhaps this was fate, she sighed inwardly.

"That depends on whether the Clear Sky Sect gets in my way. If the day comes when the Clear Sky Sect dares to interfere with me, I won't mind wiping it out. After all, unlike Qian Daoliu, I made no agreement with your grandfather Tang Chen." With those words, Gong Yu left.

Watching Gong Yu's departing figure, Tang Yuehua felt a sense of loss. Doesn't he feel even the slightest reluctance to leave? Three months... even a stone would retain a little warmth after that.

After shaking her head and sighing, she rose and carefully dressed herself up, becoming the mistress of the Moonlight Pavilion who captivated countless men once more.

As Gong Yu was about to leave the Moonlight Pavilion, he happened to meet Crown Prince Xue Qinghe coming toward him. A young girl accompanied Xue Qinghe, none other than Princess Xue Ke.

Gong Yu had no interest in Xue Ke, and naturally none in Xue Qinghe either. He was, however, somewhat interested in Qian Renxue beneath Xue Qinghe's disguise.

Gong Yu glanced at the fake siblings, a faint smile playing at the corners of his mouth.

Sensing Gong Yu's gaze, Xue Qinghe looked over, and their eyes met head-on.

Xue Qinghe gave a slight nod in greeting, his behavior befitting the bearing of a nation's crown prince.

Gong Yu's lips curved upward slightly. From a good distance away, he moved his lips as though saying something, but no sound could be heard.

Watching Gong Yu's lips, Xue Qinghe frowned deeply. Others might not have been able to tell what Gong Yu was saying, but he had read three words from his lips: "of the Qian Family."

Even so, Xue Qinghe couldn't be certain he had read them correctly, but he had a persistent feeling that his identity had been exposed.

He casually beckoned, and an attendant at his side came over. Pointing at Gong Yu's retreating figure, Xue Qinghe instructed him, "I want everything on him."

"Yes, I'll see to it at once." After acknowledging the order, the attendant turned and left.

After leaving the Moonlight Pavilion, Gong Yu sensed someone following him and raised an eyebrow. He didn't have to think to know who had sent them.

"Qian Renxue, perhaps I should collect your father's debt from you. Tang Yuehua repaid her brother's debt as his sister, so there shouldn't be a problem with you repaying your father's debt as his daughter!"

Paying no heed to the follower's purpose, Gong Yu turned a corner and headed straight for the Academy of the Gods.

Chapter 113: Yu Xiaogang Takes Action

After seeing Gong Yu enter the Academy of the Gods, the person following him didn't dare go any farther. The Academy of the Gods was no ordinary place.

Over the past year, the Academy of the Gods had developed rapidly, surpassing even the Heaven Dou Royal Academy. It had also established its own Soul Tool industry chain, with its Soul Tool business reaching cities and towns throughout both empires. Even Xue Ye had been forced to court the Academy of the Gods.

Although Xue Ye had ultimately failed to win it over, he continued to maintain friendly relations with the Academy of the Gods.

Besides, it was no longer a secret that a Limit Douluo stood guard at the Academy of the Gods, so unless someone was a fool, they would never provoke it lightly.

Upon entering the Academy of the Gods, Gong Yu went straight to Gong Lan and the others' private training ground. It had been built especially for the contestants among them.

Inside the training ground, there were two substitutes in addition to Gong Lan and her seven sisters. Substitutes weren't actually necessary, but the Soul Master Elite Tournament had a standard requirement of seven regular contestants and four substitutes, so two more people had been added.

The two substitutes were familiar faces: Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing.

When Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing first saw Gong Lan and her seven sisters, their expressions were quite complicated. They had already guessed that what happened to the Shrek Seven Devils in Suotuo City had been Gong Xi'er's doing.

But things had already come to this, and Zhu Zhuqing and Oscar had nothing to complain about. After all, the two of them had ended up together. As for Oscar's former infatuation with Ning Rongrong, he regarded it as youthful ignorance, and after hearing about the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's rules, he was even less inclined to entertain thoughts of her.

By now, Oscar felt he ought to thank Gong Xi'er instead. If not for the tricks she and the others had pulled, he and Zhu Zhuqing probably wouldn't have been fated to be together.

Looking at Zhu Zhuqing now, Oscar swallowed involuntarily. Zhu Zhuqing's curves were simply too overwhelming. He had never dared imagine that a girl like her, who could fulfill most of a man's fantasies, would be devoted to a commoner loser like him.

When they saw Gong Yu enter, the women stopped training and gathered around him. Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing also walked over slowly behind them.

Once everyone had gathered around, Gong Lan slowly said to Gong Yu, "Young master, all of us sisters have reached level 50. The Soul Master Elite Tournament is only three months away. When will you take us to acquire our fifth Soul Rings?"

"You've all reached level 50?" Gong Yu was a little surprised, though it was also within his expectations. After all, Gong Lan and her seven sisters had all consumed Immortal Herbs, and a year ago their average level had already been close to 45. Now that a year had passed, it would have been a little abnormal if they hadn't reached level 50.

"Yes, everyone's level 50," Gong Lan replied, and the other women nodded.

Gong Yu looked at Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing, who were walking over slowly, and asked, "What about you two? What levels are you now?"

Without the help of Immortal Herbs, Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing's cultivation speed wouldn't have been very fast. But after they were recruited as substitutes, Gong Lan had taught them the Mysterious Heaven Skill. So although they cultivated somewhat more slowly, they weren't particularly slow.

The Mysterious Heaven Skill was a Tang Sect cultivation method. Gong Yu and the others hadn't cultivated it, but there was no problem with letting others do so. They would only be given the first five layers, however; anything beyond the fifth had to be earned through merit.

Oscar said, "I'm level 39."

Zhu Zhuqing said, "I'm level 37."

"I see. Then we'll go acquire Soul Rings in a month!" Gong Yu said after a moment's thought. "If Oscar can reach level 40 within a month, we can help him acquire his fourth Soul Ring at the same time. As for Zhu Zhuqing, you probably won't be that quick."

Gong Yu still had a few Immortal Herbs, but he wasn't a philanthropist. He couldn't just give them to Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing.

Without an Immortal Herb, Zhu Zhuqing probably wouldn't become a god in this lifetime, but Oscar still had a chance. Of course, that was only if he met the God of Food.

The God of Food had taken a liking to Oscar on Sea God Island, but in this life, Oscar hadn't followed Tang San, so there was no telling whether he would still go to Sea God Island.

"Okay, I'll work harder!" Oscar said.

"Me too," Zhu Zhuqing replied, following her husband's lead.

Gong Yu said, "Zhu Zhuqing is level 37 now. She should be able to reach level 40 before the Soul Master Elite Tournament finals. When the time comes, we'll see about taking you to hunt a Soul Beast."

Looking at Oscar, Gong Yu added, "Although Oscar's Sausage Martial Soul is a Food Martial Soul, it can also gain offensive power."

Now that Oscar had joined the team, Gong Yu felt he might as well share some information with him.

Oscar's eyes lit up. "Really? My Sausage Martial Soul can gain offensive power?"

"It can." Gong Yu slowly explained, "In the Frozen Forest in the north of the empire, there's a Soul Beast called the Mirror Shadow Beast. It has the ability to use blood to create copies. If you obtain a Soul Ring from one, it should give your sausages the ability to copy."

"Copy?" Oscar silently committed Gong Yu's words to memory.

Gong Yu said, "That's right, copy. For example, if you used Zhu Zhuqing's blood to make a copy sausage, then eating that sausage would immediately create a copy of Zhu Zhuqing to fight."

"That sounds about right." Oscar nodded.

"But I suggest you wait until level 60 before going to the Frozen Forest," Gong Yu added. "The environment there is extremely harsh. If your level is too low, it'll be difficult to survive there."

"I understand," Oscar said. "I won't rush off there recklessly."

After chatting with everyone at the training ground for a while longer, Gong Yu left.

Gong Yu walked around the campus and, without realizing it, came near Liu Erlong's cabin. From a distance, he could faintly hear Yu Xiaogang's voice coming from inside.

"Erlong, have you found any information? If you have, you mustn't hide it from me," Yu Xiaogang asked Liu Erlong. From his tone, one would have thought Liu Erlong owed him money.

Gong Yu was a little curious about what Yu Xiaogang wanted Liu Erlong to investigate, so he spread out his spiritual power and eavesdropped from afar.

Liu Erlong said, "Xiaogang, it's not that I won't help you investigate. I really couldn't find anything. I've sounded out all eight girls indirectly, and they truly don't have any special method for absorbing Soul Rings beyond the age limit."

"Impossible. One or two would be one thing, but there's no way so many people could absorb Soul Rings beyond the age limit. They must have a special method," Yu Xiaogang said in a somewhat displeased tone. "Could it be that because they're students at your academy, you refuse to tell me the secret?"

Chapter 114: Liu Erlong: Xiaogang, Hide Under the Bed!

"No, listen, Xiaogang, they really don't have any secrets," Liu Erlong explained again. "They all told me that to absorb Soul Rings beyond the age limit, you have to strengthen your body through training. As long as your physique is strong enough, you can absorb Soul Rings beyond the age limit."

Yu Xiaogang shook his head. "You say a strong enough physique is all it takes, but no matter how strong a person's body is, they can't absorb Soul Rings that exceed the limit by so many years. A few dozen or a few hundred years would be one thing, but those girls' third and fourth Soul Rings exceed it by thousands or tens of thousands of years.

"Erlong, I think you've forgotten the friendship between us in the Golden Iron Triangle, forgotten the feelings between us. Otherwise, even if you refused to tell me the secret, you wouldn't have to fob me off like this, would you?"

Gong Yu almost burst out laughing at the second half. You, Yu Xiaogang, still have the nerve to talk to Liu Erlong about feelings? You ran away for more than ten years. Even if you couldn't be together because you were cousins, surely it wasn't too much to tell her to her face and give her an explanation?

It was something a single sentence could have resolved, yet you, Yu Xiaogang, ran away for more than ten years without a word of explanation, making a girl waste more than ten years of her youth waiting for you. And now you still have the face to talk about feelings? You're shameless enough.

Liu Erlong had explained until she no longer wanted to. She sighed and said, "Xiaogang, I've told you everything I can. They really don't have any secrets. If you still won't believe me, there's nothing I can do."

Seeing that the hard approach hadn't worked, Yu Xiaogang tried a softer one. He spoke again. "Erlong, I was wrong earlier. I shouldn't have taken my anger out on you. But you know I have a disciple named Tang San. He's a genius, and if he could obtain Soul Rings beyond the age limit, his future achievements would be limitless.

"So, Erlong, I'm begging you. Please tell me all the secrets you know. I swear I won't pass them on. I'm only doing this for my disciple Tang San. I just want him to be able to absorb Soul Rings beyond the age limit too."

"Xiaogang, I've told you many times, they really don't have any secrets. I truly can't help you." Liu Erlong's heart softened somewhat at Yu Xiaogang's plea, but she really hadn't discovered any secrets from Gong Lan and the others. Even if she wanted to help him, she couldn't!

Yu Xiaogang was about to say something more when Gong Yu's voice rang out from afar.

"Is Vice Dean Liu Erlong here?"

Hearing Gong Yu's familiar voice, Yu Xiaogang's heart skipped a beat. This is bad.

He looked at Liu Erlong and said, "It's Gong Yu. He can't see me here. Erlong, is there somewhere I can hide?"

Liu Erlong frowned. She knew Gong Yu didn't like Yu Xiaogang and the others, but her cabin was tiny. She usually even cooked outside, and there was only a bed and a table inside. There really was nowhere to hide.

After looking left and right, her gaze settled on the bed. "Hide under the bed. That's the only place here where you can hide. Hurry up and get under there. I'll go outside and hold him off."

"All right, all right, hurry and go." Yu Xiaogang hurried to the side of the bed and crawled underneath.

Liu Erlong shook her head, sighed again, and walked out of the cabin.

"Well, what wind blew our great boss Gong here? What a rare guest!" Liu Erlong teased Gong Yu as soon as she stepped outside.

Gong Yu quietly spread his spiritual power into the cabin. After sweeping it over the room, he discovered that Yu Xiaogang was actually under the bed, and a plan formed in his mind.

"Ah... Sister Erlong, there's no need to tease me like that!" Gong Yu smiled slightly. "You don't mind me calling you Sister Erlong, do you?"

"Oh... why would I mind? Since you've called me sister, I'll accept you as my little brother." Liu Erlong spoke frankly, but she was thinking that she had to send Gong Yu away quickly, or Xiaogang would suffer lying under the bed.

"All right then, Sister Erlong, I came to see you about something!" Gong Yu said with a grin.

Liu Erlong's expression stiffened, and she pretended to be a little unhappy. "So you're only trying to get close to me because you want something?"

"Of course not. I meant it when I called you sister," Gong Yu said seriously.

"That's more like it." Only then did Liu Erlong pretend to rein in her temper. "All right, what is it? Go on."

"It's nothing major," Gong Yu said. "I just wanted to ask you for a fight, Sister Erlong. No Martial Souls or Soul Skills, just fist against fist."

"Oh... you came looking for a beating? No problem. I love beating people up. Let's get started!" Liu Erlong had also been given an earful by Yu Xiaogang, so she was looking for somewhere to vent.

Since Gong Yu wanted a fight, that was perfect. She had been wondering where to find someone to take her anger out on, and Gong Yu was strong enough to withstand her violence, making him an excellent punching bag.

"All right, let's begin!" Gong Yu smiled slightly and put some distance between himself and Liu Erlong.

In an instant, the atmosphere around the cabin changed.

The two of them immediately began moving at tremendous speed, their fists meeting again and again.

Their colliding fists made bang, bang sounds in the air. Under the force unleashed by their clashes, the surrounding trees, flowers, and grass fell in swaths. The ground was strewn with debris, like a garbage dump.

After fighting for about half an hour, the two finally stopped.

Having apparently vented her anger, Liu Erlong was in much brighter spirits. She had even forgotten that Yu Xiaogang was still hiding under the bed.

"Sister Erlong, catch." Gong Yu leaned against a crooked tree nearby and took two jugs of wine from his Soul Tool, tossing one straight to Liu Erlong.

"Drinking at your age? Be careful you don't turn into a drunkard later." Liu Erlong caught the jug Gong Yu threw her, but didn't forget to use the chance to tease him.

"I'm fifteen, all right? Flender's disciple was visiting brothels at twelve, so what's wrong with me drinking at fifteen?" Gong Yu's mouth twitched. "I brewed this wine myself. There are only five jars of it in the world, and it's absolutely top-notch. If you don't like it, Sister Erlong, you can give it back."

"Hmph, now that it's in my hands, you want it back? Dream on!" Liu Erlong snorted and opened the jug. A thread of wine fragrance instantly spread through the air, whetting her appetite. Without another word, she raised the jug and poured the wine into her mouth.

Liu Erlong was a female tyrannosaurus, and she was very fond of strong liquor, but Gong Yu didn't know how much she could hold.

Gong Yu added, "Sister Erlong, don't drink too fast. This wine was specially brewed by me and can get you drunk very easily. Even a Titled Douluo might not be able to handle it."

"Wonderful!" After taking several hearty swigs, the female tyrannosaurus let out a tremendous belch. She couldn't be bothered to mind her appearance now. Recalling what Gong Yu had said earlier, she asked, "You just said this wine can get people drunk, right?"

Chapter 115: A Drinking Game

Liu Erlong's question sounded odd at first, but on hearing it, one would find nothing wrong with it.

For ordinary people, wine could naturally make them drunk, but there really weren't many wines that could intoxicate Soul Masters, unless they deliberately indulged themselves and became hopeless drunkards like Tang Hao.

But even a hopeless drunkard like Tang Hao didn't get drunk easily. He had to drink a huge amount just to feel a little numb; he wouldn't get drunk at all.

Gong Yu replied, "My wine can naturally make Soul Masters drunk. Even a Titled Douluo would get drunk after drinking one jar. If they wanted to use Soul Power to dispel the intoxication, it would take two hours."

Liu Erlong said boldly, "Perfect! I haven't been drunk in ages. I had a great time fighting you today, so keep your sister company and let's get thoroughly drunk."

"No problem. There's plenty of wine." Gong Yu's lips curved upward slightly. If I didn't want to get you drunk, do you think you'd get to drink my wine?

"Plenty of wine? Didn't you say you only had five jars?" Liu Erlong took a swig, swallowed it, and raised her voice.

Gong Yu also took a drink, then said, "I really do only have five jars of this wine, but I never said I didn't have other wine!"

"You said it, plenty of wine. Don't run out halfway through!" Liu Erlong checked with Gong Yu again.

"I said it. There's plenty of wine, so drink as much as you like, Sister Erlong." Gong Yu smiled bashfully. If the wine in his Soul Tool were poured into a pool, it would fill several cubic meters. Even if Liu Erlong were a cow, she wouldn't be able to finish it today.

"All right, come on, let's toast." Liu Erlong walked over, raised the wine jar in her hand, and clinked it against Gong Yu's. Then she sat on the ground and drank to her heart's content.

Gong Yu sat down as well, and the two began competing to see who could drink more.

But Liu Erlong was all show. One jar down and she was drunk, the kind of drunk who talked nonsense.