Douluo: Did you move Danta here?

Chapter 496 Targeting
You have to understand that Ma Hongjun can now be considered a true evil soul master, and he finds it hard to believe that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is still willing to accept him as he is now.

Ning Bei shook her head and slowly held up two fingers, saying:

"Two choices: one is for you to come back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School with me directly, and the other is for you to stay here and work together to destroy the Tang Sect as it has become."

"I choose option two."

As soon as Ning Bei finished speaking, Ma Hongjun made his choice immediately.

Now that he saw a glimmer of hope, all he felt for this evil soul master was disgust and hatred. Only by completely destroying the Tang Sect could he regain his true self. In addition, he also wanted to take revenge on Tang San, who had made a fool of him.

Upon hearing this, Ning Bei smiled with satisfaction. The other party understood very well that gaining his trust required offering a pledge of loyalty, since he didn't have the irreconcilable feud with Tang San that Oscar did.

Seeing that Ma Hongjun had agreed to her second request and turned to walk out of the private room, Ning Bei's smile deepened, and she quickly called out to him.

"and many more."

"Hmm? Is there anything else you need to tell me? If not, I will come to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School to find you when the Tang Clan disappears."

Ning Bei shook her head, not intending to argue with him any further. With a gentle flick of her hand, the cockscomb phoenix sunflower that Ma Hongjun had been dreaming of floated in front of him, leaving Ma Hongjun stunned once again.

"You just gave it to me like that?"

"Otherwise what? What if you die before you've even finished your great undertaking? It would be better to give it to you to take first."

Upon hearing Ning Bei's words, Ma Hongjun fell into a long silence, finally managing to squeeze out a few words after a long while.

"Aren't you afraid I'll take the magic herb and then not do anything about it?"

Ning Bei's expression didn't change at all because of these words. Instead, she looked at Ma Hongjun with a half-smile and said:
"You can try it, but I'm sure you won't want to suffer the consequences."

"Gudong."

Although Ning Bei kept smiling at him, the icy tone of her words sent chills down his spine. After swallowing hard, he spoke as if afraid Ning Bei would misunderstand:

"No, please rest assured. Even without the immortal herb, I will not let Tang San go."

"Of course, I am extremely grateful for your trust."

Thinking of the deep and calculating Tang San, Ma Hongjun's expression gradually turned cold. He could not forgive Tang San for making a fool of him and secretly harming his best brother.

Just as Ma Hongjun was about to turn and leave again, Ning Bei stopped him once more.

"Heh, why are you in such a hurry? You know Tang San doesn't trust anyone, so how could he not have a backup plan for you?"

"what?"

Upon hearing this, Ma Hongjun felt a chill run down his spine. He looked at Ning Bei in disbelief. In the past year, he hadn't discovered that Tang San had actually left a contingency plan on him. Was Tang San already preparing for his betrayal? As for Ning Bei lying, he didn't doubt it much; as he said before, there was absolutely no reason for the other party to do such a thing. Seemingly to dispel Ma Hongjun's doubts, Ning Bei flicked her finger, sending a wisp of soul power into his body. The fat man, who hadn't noticed anything strange about his body before, immediately changed his expression. He could feel subtle changes occurring throughout his meridians.

It was as if countless streams of water were trying to gush out from his meridians, and his senses were not wrong. However, what was forced out of his meridians was not water, but streams of dark substance hidden deep within his meridians.

Several seconds later, Ma Hongjun, gritting his teeth and enduring the pain all over his body, suddenly opened his mouth and spat out a jet of blood that shot straight into the floor of the private room. The floor that came into contact with the blood immediately made a sound similar to that of an object being corroded by strong acid.

Wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, Ma Hongjun muttered to himself with a gloomy expression:
"You, Tang San, you're really something. So you never intended to let me go from the beginning. You were planning to use me and then take my life, right?"

Even though he wouldn't have lived much longer before meeting Ning Bei, the fat man still felt an overwhelming surge of anger when he learned that there was a poison hidden in his body.

As the toxins were forced out of his body through his meridians, Ma Hongjun's cultivation level, which was close to 75, suddenly dropped to 72, and even showed signs of falling to 71. It is conceivable that these toxins were completely hidden in his body and integrated with his soul power. If Ning Bei had not been there, even if he had discovered the toxins, he would have had no way to deal with them.

"Thank you. Is there anything I can do for you within the Tang Sect? If there are no specific requirements, I will act in my own way."

Ma Hongjun's eyes were now bloodshot, clearly a sign of extreme anger, but Ning Bei didn't seem to care, shaking her head and saying:

"You will most likely never see Tang San again. Once the people from the Evil Extermination Sect enter the territory of the Principality of Salikel, you should use your power to cooperate with them in erasing all traces of the Tang Sect here."

"Okay, I listen to you."

Ma Hongjun wasn't too concerned about whether he could take revenge on Tang San in person. Being able to make his year-long efforts go to waste was enough to vent his anger.

As Ma Hongjun left, the little angel glanced at him with a smile on her face.

"You're quite good at winning people's hearts!"

"That's right. Don't you know who you learned it from? Someone even offered himself up to win over my heart, Ning."

"Bah, so shameless."

When her husband brought up the old story again, the little angel blushed deeply and gave a light, laughing scolding.

The affairs within the Duchy of Salicor had been arranged, and Ning Bei had also rushed back to the Duchy of Tianshuang with Qian Renxue overnight. As for how Ma Hongjun would proceed, that was up to him. In any case, even without him, things wouldn't be too complicated. The purpose of this trip was simply to ensure that Tang San would no longer have Ma Hongjun as an ally in the future. As for whether he could be brought under the command of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, Ning Bei didn't care that much.

Tang San, his face dark with anger, rushed back to the Far East from the Star Dou Great Forest town. His anger had not diminished at all; instead, a more tangible resentment had gathered behind his forehead. After all, a Soul Saint with seven hundred-year soul rings was practically one in a million. He didn't even want to take out the Clear Sky Hammer again in future battles.

However, his resentment did not last long. When he passed through a town along the way, he quietly noticed something was amiss.

According to the plan, this place should now be a Sichuan restaurant, but when he arrived at the location of the restaurant, he found that there were no Tang Clan members there. Instead, there were some completely unfamiliar faces.

However, the absence of this one branch station did not make him feel that things were beyond his imagination. Perhaps the members were delayed by something. But the fact that he did not find any trace of the Shu Restaurant in dozens of cities along the way made Tang San's heart sink to the bottom. Even those branch stations that he knew had been established for a long time had now disappeared without a trace, either replaced by other shops or turned into ruins.

(End of this chapter)