Douluo: A Century-old Legend I Am the Second Uncle Chenxin

Chapter 1854 Dust Meets You! (A fragmented chapter!)
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[Battle Soul Academy - Tactical Meeting Room]

Inside the training room of the Fighting Spirit Academy, a heavy atmosphere almost materialized and pressed down on the tactics board.

Chen Jianjun's rough fingers traced the list of Chang'an team members, stopping at the three characters "Chen Xinyi," and his brows furrowed.

"Bang!!!"

The heavy oak door let out a loud thud as it was kicked open with brute force!

The peerless phoenix horse, Yinqi, rushed in like a burning flame. Its wine-red bodysuit outlined its fiery curves, and its once charming face was now filled with anger.

She clutched tightly in her hand a letter from Tianzhilou with gilded edges and an urgent secret letter bearing the Ma family emblem.

"Chen Jianjun—!!!" Ma Yinqi's voice almost lifted the roof off.

She rushed to the tactical board and slammed the letter down hard on the name "Chen Xinyi" with such force that the entire board vibrated.

"Can you kick the door less? I even paid for the door hinges last time!" Gui Dang roared, rubbing his ears which had been thudded by the loud noise.

"Enough nonsense!" Ma Yinqi's beautiful eyes widened as she stared intently at Chen Jianjun. "Chen Xinyi?! The Life Vine Healer?! You call this 'a bit difficult to fight'?! Chen Jianjun, explain yourself! What's with this blood-red, 100,000-year-old sixth spirit ring?!"

"Wow!"

Like cold water poured into a frying pan, the entire training room instantly erupted in chaos.

"What?! Ten thousand years?! That brat?!" Gui Dang reacted the fastest and most furiously, slapping the steel instrument next to him, leaving a clear handprint. His eyes widened in disbelief: "Chen Jianjun! You knew all along, didn't you?! That day you said 'she's definitely not just a healer' and 'very capable,' and you just fooled us like that?!"

Ma Yinqi slammed the gilded letter on the table with a "bang," her wine-red folding fan pointing directly at Chen Jianjun's nose, her pale pink eyes burning with fire: "Captain! Last time, you exchanged 500 gold coins for this nonsense about 'Martial Soul Life Vine, Level 51 Healer'?!"

Her fingertips almost pierced through the thin pages, and her fan ribs thumped loudly on the table. "I'll admit that Tianzhilou sells counterfeit goods! But what about you? Who is this 'Donghuang Xiuyi, Shao Siming'?! She's your brother's childhood sweetheart?! Your own sister-in-law is the top-ranked 'Donghuang' on the Heavenly Pride List—you've kept this a secret as if it were an ironclad fortress! Is it fun to watch us analyze the 'Chang'an Brother Team' like idiots?!"

The air suddenly solidified.

The crowd, who had been arguing just moments before, instantly turned to focus on Chen Jianjun.

"What?! The top-ranked Donghuang?! That woman has appeared?!" Gui Dang's eyebrows shot up, he snatched the letter, his gaze sweeping over the line "Chen Xinyi is Donghuang Xiuyi, also known as Shao Siming," his pupils contracted sharply, and his rough voice rose eight octaves: "Laojun!!!"

She slammed her fist on the table, causing the hardwood surface to crack and explode.

Xue Wanni was struck dumb, and the silk handkerchief she was holding, in which she was reading Chen Xiaojun's new poem, fluttered to the ground.

Her almond-shaped eyes instantly filled with tears, and she staggered backward, crashing into the wall. A broken sob escaped her lips: "Brother...brother's wife is the Eastern Emperor? The top...Eastern Emperor?! Waaah...my third-place scholar brother's 'Sorrow is the deepest sorrow, the greatest parting is life' was originally written for her...my childhood sweetheart is the eye that looks down upon all living beings...Wan Ni...Wan Ni, I...Waaah..."

She slid down the wall and sat on the floor, hugging her knees and sobbing.

Fang Yiling appeared the calmest, the silver chain in her dark blue hair trembling slightly.

She took the letter, her fingertips tracing the descriptions of "seven vines" and "willow branch freezing the Heavenly Emperor's Hammer" on the intelligence report. Her dark eyes flashed with a chilling light: "Captain, do you know how many people this 'deliberate omission' will kill? The intelligence says that Xue Shiming and the other two heroes' Blood Burning Strike was easily blocked by that 'slender willow branch'! If we had followed the 'healer' strategy before the competition... the 'Valkyrie' would have become a 'wrongfully deceased ghost'!" She took a step closer, a rhombus-shaped crystal flashing coldly between her brows: "The Chen family... what a grand scheme! Even Tianzhi Tower can be silenced?!"

Amidst the chaos, Ximen Chuixue's figure leaning against the window stood out conspicuously, his whole being resembling a cold blade half an inch unsheathed.

Faced with this sudden storm, he merely furrowed his stern brows slightly, parted his thin lips, and uttered two cold words: "Very noisy."

Seeing the gazes of all the women turning towards him, he slowly rubbed his cold, jade-like fingers together, his voice like an ice blade cutting through the clamor: "Sixth Ring 'Ten Thousand Years'."

Five words instantly silenced all the noise!
Gui Dang slammed his fist on the table, cracking the hardwood surface: "Sixth Ring, Soul Emperor!"

She rushed to Chen Jianjun, almost grabbing him by the collar, "You incomplete dog! You incomplete dog who only speaks halfway! You made me still figuring out how to finish this quickly! He just used a 100,000-year soul skill, Time-Space Prison, and we're supposed to finish this quickly?! Even Tang Chen and the other two Soul Douluo's combined attack couldn't break the light membrane, are we supposed to ram it with our heads?!"

She recalled the scene described in the intelligence report where a transparent light membrane casually blocked the [Heavenly Emperor's Hammer], and felt a chill run down her spine.

Dust Lord, bearing the rage that was almost tangible, swept his tiger-like eyes over the crowd: "Family prohibition! I only knew about the 'cover-up' of Xiao Jun's deal with Tianzhi Tower, not the whole story. Before today, I didn't know she had so many vines... let alone that 100,000-year-old phenomenon."

"A ban?!" Ma Yinqi laughed in anger, his Fire Phoenix Fan unfurling with a "whoosh." "Five hundred gold coins for intelligence! Compensation for emotional distress! Performance fee for watching the monkey show! Pay up! Now! Immediately! Right now!"

She pounced on him, her fan lashing out at Chen Jianjun's shoulder without hesitation, her red skirt billowing like a blooming poppy. "I'll teach you to lie! I'll teach you to lie!"

Gui Dang glared fiercely at Chen Jianjun: "Laojun! Let's settle this score on the arena! I want to see if the 'Knight of Heavenly Sin' can break free of that time-space prison!"

Fang Yiling added coldly, "Captain, your sister-in-law has really given us quite a 'surprise.' This 'surprise' will probably have to be paid for with our crushing defeat on the field."

"Ouch! Stop hitting me! Stop hitting me!" Chen Jianjun parried the attack in a disheveled manner, and hurriedly explained in a frustrated voice, "The family has issued a gag order! It is strictly forbidden to divulge Xiaoyi's true identity and strength! If I dare to say anything, my father will really break my legs!"

"It would be better if your father broke your legs than if that 'Shao Siming' broke all our bones!" Gui Dang roared.

"Exactly! If you had told us earlier that she was the top-ranked Donghuang, would we still be scheming against Chen Mu and He Qiang? We've completely missed the point! The whole strategy has to be scrapped and started over! No, it's scrapped and then we're in despair!" Ma Yinqi angrily counted the falling gold coins.

"Waaah... my dear brother who ranked third in the imperial examination... he deceived me so badly..." Xue Wanni's sobs became the background noise.

Dust-Seeing-Jun was dizzy from the noise and finally couldn't help but shout, "Enough! Now you know! Alright! Calm down! No matter how strong 'Eastern Emperor' is, she's still a person! There's always a way... uh..."

He looked at the name "Chen Xinyi/Donghuang Xiuyi" on the tactics board and his teammates who were still glaring at him angrily, and sighed helplessly.

Ma Yinqi snapped his fan shut in frustration, Gui Dang sulked with his arms crossed, Xue Wanni was still sobbing, Fang Yiling's gaze was icy, and Ximen Chuixue's aura was even colder.

Looking at the chaotic tactics room, Chen Jianjun's rugged face flashed a helpless, bitter smile reminiscent of Chen Xun's.

He silently took out his money pouch and tossed it to Ma Yinqi.

Ma Yinqi beamed, then suddenly her eyebrows shot up: "You think this is all?!"

Chen Jianjun: "..."

(End of this chapter)