Douluo Continent: Peerless Angel Qian Renxue

Chapter 472 The Dark Crawling Fourth Stranger

Ning Rongrong suddenly opened her eyes: "What's wrong with them? What's going on?"

He Caitou gave a wry smile: "I don't know the specifics, but I do know that in the north of our academy, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, together with several other forces of the Douling Empire, launched an attack on the city where the Haotian School is located."

"At the same time, the Heavenly Soul Empire did not make any further statements and let them fight it out."

Together they found Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing and told them about it.

Dai Mubai's expression changed: "The Heavenly Soul Empire is doing this because they want to discard us after they've served their purpose!"

As a former member of the Star Luo Empire's royal family, he naturally understood this situation. He decided to remain silent, let them fight amongst themselves, and then intervene to clean up the mess once the fighting had subsided.

"I feel like we've become white-collar workers," Zhu Zhuqing said after a moment of silence.

The other three nodded in agreement.

They came down, but what did they do after they came down? They didn't do anything. The only useful thing they did was go to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and bring back two Acacia Heartbreak Red plants.

However, this came at the cost of turning Huo Yuhao into a eunuch, and even indirectly caused Xuanzi's death.

"Let's find a chance to leave," Dai Mubai said sadly. "Let's leave Shrek City, this place of sorrow. Our targets are relatively small, and we can easily hide in the crowd. Let's go to the Sun Moon Empire, find Fatty, then find a secluded place in the mountains to cultivate in seclusion, and then go to the Divine Inheritance Land that we arranged in advance to receive the inheritance and escape."

"Do you think we can return to the God Realm safely?" Ning Rongrong shook her head with a bitter smile. "Don't forget, after we come down, the God Trial will essentially be in Tang San's hands. If he tampers with the contents of the God Trial like the previous Sea God and Asura God did, then we will really be dead."

Zhu Zhuqing closed her eyes in pain: "My poor descendant Yuhao, look what this guy has done to him."

Everyone fell silent once again!

Because they realized that no matter how they looked at it, they had no choice!

After they chose to cooperate with Tang San's plan and descend to the mortal realm, their fate changed. They were no longer high and mighty gods, but were manipulated and played with like ants.

If Tang San were to learn of their rebellious intentions, he could simply add a test to their divine trials: they could not become gods unless they destroyed the newly formed Spirit Hall, thus ensuring they would never be able to enter the realm of gods.

If they had never become gods, perhaps they wouldn't be so heartbroken. As the saying goes, it's easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to simplicity. It is precisely because they once possessed it that they are so saddened.

Not to mention, they knew Tang San's true origin—that he was a soul that had transmigrated from another world—so they just had to follow the script and escort him all the way.

However, that was done after the previous generation of Asura and Sea God decided to run away. Tang San didn't want to leave the current God Realm. Therefore, they felt that if they failed to complete the Sea God's mission, Douluo Continent would probably become their burial ground.

For a moment, they felt as if the heavy pressure on them was like the collapse of the surrounding mountains and the reverse flow of the seawater falling from the sky.

Dai Mubai paused for a moment: "That kid Huo Yuhao said that he had met Qian Renxue before. He even received a little bit of help and guidance from her on the way to Xingdou together."

"Whether this Qian Renxue is the same one from ten thousand years ago, or simply a descendant of an angel born from a fragment of a god's position, we cannot be certain of any of this." Dai Mubai shook his head. "Right now, we are like the Spirit Hall from ten thousand years ago, on the road to being wiped out."

"Our Shrek inspection teams across the mainland have been continuously found and eliminated in the past six months. We don't even know the specific details of the battles. Each branch has been wiped out one by one by some mysterious powerful figures hiding in the shadows."

"Do we really have a chance of winning?" Dai Mubai clutched his head in anguish. "We might not even be able to leave Shrek City."

"Unless we go find the Azure Shadow Divine Eagle," Ning Rongrong said seriously, "they've been trying to break out of the city and head to the Douling Empire. We have to find them, no matter what, we must find a way to get out of the city first."

"That's all we can do," He Caitou sighed. "We must find a way to inherit our respective divine positions as soon as possible! Rongrong's Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, even with the blessing of the Acacia Heartbreak Red, cannot evolve into a Nine Treasure Pagoda. Perhaps that's the special nature of immortal items." "However, I left Rongrong with a backup plan when setting up her divine position inheritance, allowing her to receive a reward of martial soul evolution during the divine trial. Because martial souls are ultimately mortal things, only by ascending to the divine realm can they evolve into quasi-divine artifacts or even divine artifacts. In a second-level divine inheritance, this is already the greatest reward."

"In addition to this, we have also removed the limitation of the uniqueness of the examiners in our own divine test. In other words, we can bring our own confidants along, just like when the Sea God took his divine test."

It must be said that among the original Seven Devils, Oscar's intelligence was on point. He knew to leave himself some options and didn't put all his hopes for Ning Rongrong's martial soul evolution on a Celestial-grade weapon.

"When we leave, should we take Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong with us?" Zhu Zhuqing asked.

"Damn it!" Dai Mubai cursed angrily. "At a time like this, creating division without Wang Dong will make it extremely difficult for us to cross the sea to find the inheritance."

"Why did the Sea God Pavilion and the Treasure Pavilion have to start fighting amongst themselves at a time like this?!"

He Caitou made a quick decision: "Never mind all that. If we just stay in the city and waste our time, we'll only die. Let's find a chance to break out of the city. With the help of the Azure Shadow Divine Eagle, there might still be hope. As long as we can leave Shrek City, we can find a place to hide..."

"Tang Hao and Da Ming are currently helping Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong cultivate inside the Sea God Pavilion."

That evening, the original four monsters arrived at a corner of Shrek City.

"Is this the place?" Ning Rongrong asked with some concern.

He Caitou covered his face and said, "According to the information left by a senior brother, this was a small base used by Dean Xianlin'er for secret transactions before her death... You can see the people from Jubaoge here now."

Looking at the house in front of them, Dai Mubai and the others turned green with shock, because this was not the main entrance, but a... dog hole at the back of the house.

"Ahem, I'll go in and take a look first." He Caitou lay down and crawled into the dog hole in the shadows.

"Ugh—" He Caitou wiggled his buttocks. His tall figure seemed particularly cramped in the hole. It took him a lot of effort to squeeze in.

"How is it?"

He Caitou spent a long time rummaging through that house and finally found a hidden piece of intelligence.

He emerged again, looking disheveled, and opened the paper, on which some words were written.

"..." The four men's faces turned green again. The document said that in order to test the newly joined smugglers, they had to give their bodies and minds to the organization, so they had to submit a pledge of allegiance.

This rule was left over from the time of Xianlin'er. The so-called pledge of allegiance is to see your determination and decision. Each person must pay five million gold soul coins as a membership fee.

It was only then that they realized that Shrek Academy's corruption had actually existed for a long time. If they hadn't been constantly shifting blame, the city would probably have been in chaos long ago!

"Where would we get so much money?" Dai Mubai roared angrily.

"Brother Dai, don't worry." He Caitou analyzed, "Given the standard of living in the academy, not many people can actually afford this kind of expense, unless you have a criminal record or use money from your family. However, not all the smugglers we've investigated before were extremely wealthy."

"For example, using soul bones as collateral should be acceptable. Although we don't have soul bones, we have other things."

Dai Mubai's eyes suddenly lit up: "You mean... the reward for the Divine Exam?"

(End of this chapter)