Douluo Continent: Little Huo Niang Taken Away by Di Tian

As the team leader, Beibei knew that she had to take the lead at this moment.

With a death-defying resolve, he forked a piece of the mixture—a mixture of burnt cake, blood-stained marshmallows, and "bone-shaped" white chocolate—closed his eyes, and popped it into his mouth.

The next second, his face turned a deep liver color!

The sticky, thick chocolate paste, which looked like asphalt mixed with saccharin, smeared his entire throat with lightning speed!

His eyes bulged, veins stood out, and he gripped his own neck tightly with both hands, making a choking "hoarse" sound.

"Water...water!!" Tang Ya cried out, her voice trembling with tears, as she hurriedly shoved a whole jug of water into Bei Bei's hands.

Beibei snatched the water bottle, tilted her head back, and gulped down the water. The water gushed down her chin, creating a gruesome scene.

He Caitou's lips twitched, and he carefully dabbed a tiny bit, no bigger than a pinhead, with the tip of his fork and licked it.

Suddenly, an indescribable, strange taste—a combination of bitterness, astringency, sourness, fishiness, cloying sweetness, and burnt flavors—exploded on his taste buds!

His body trembled, his face turned green, and he muttered, "I'd rather gnaw on Mingdetang's latest composite armor steel, no, I'd rather eat rare metal ore raw!"

Tang Ya mustered her courage and forked a small piece of "blood-stained cotton candy".

When you put it in your mouth, the outer layer of the marshmallow is slightly charred, but the inside has a strange, burning spiciness!

It's not the spiciness of chili peppers, but an indescribable, chemical-like tingling sensation that shoots straight to the top of your head!

Tang Ya's eyes reddened, and large tears rolled down her cheeks uncontrollably: "Waaah...why...why is the cotton candy spicy...and it stings my eyes..."

Ning Tian made a concerted effort to maintain the elegant demeanor of the heir to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School.

She used a knife and fork to cut her portion of "cake" into countless tiny pieces that were almost indistinguishable to the naked eye, with the precision of a microscopic dissection.

The movements were fluid and graceful, the postures pleasing to the eye, as if a work of art was being created.

As for eating?

She was seriously considering whether it would take more time to arrange the fragments according to the star chart or to piece them together into the pattern of the Nine-Treasured Glazed Pagoda.

Wu Feng wore a tragic and resolute expression, thinking that a short, sharp pain was better than a long, drawn-out one.

She cut off a piece the size of a fingernail, closed her eyes, gritted her teeth, and popped it into her mouth.

Three seconds later, her eyes lost focus, her expression went blank, as if her soul had floated out of her body and entered a supreme state of meditation, devoid of sorrow, joy, taste, and sensation.

Xiao Xiao and Huo Yutong exchanged a glance, both seeing extreme fear and a cry for help in each other's eyes.

On a sudden impulse, the two simultaneously picked up the "mildest" little corner of their plates and, tremblingly and extremely slowly, extended it toward each other's mouths.

"Xiaoxiao/Yutong, you...you go first."

"No, Yutong/Xiaoxiao, you go first..."

Finally, at the very moment when the two forks touched each other's lips almost simultaneously, both of them understood from the other's stiff smile and the misty tears in their eyes that their fate was to perish together.

In a daze, Xiao Xiao seemed to see herself lying among flowers, her face peaceful, her soul ascending to a paradise without Xuan Lao's creative cuisine.

Huo Yutong, a girl who had cherished every grain of food since childhood, had only one thought churning in her mind at this moment:

Master Xuan didn't cook rice.

This is definitely not food.

This is a brutal and inhumane terrorist attack launched against the god of cooking!

Xuanzi looked at the children in front of him, who were "extraordinarily lively" and "reacting in different ways," and stroked his beard with satisfaction, nodding.

Well, it seems everyone really "likes" his new work.

Next time, try incorporating honey, chili peppers, and deep-sea salted caviar into the pudding?

……

Zhang Lexuan was originally a noblewoman from the Heavenly Soul Empire, but due to infighting among the powerful, her family was destroyed overnight.

She was only twelve years old that year. When the tragedy of her family being wiped out occurred, she was curled up under the bed playing hide-and-seek with her mother.

The mother's fallen body blocked the gap at the edge of the bed. At the last moment, the bloodstained hand reached back with difficulty and tightly covered her mouth, which was about to burst into a scream.

The stench of blood filled the darkness. Zhang Lexuan opened her eyes wide, tears streaming silently down her face, but she dared not utter a single sob.

She remained frozen under the bed for an unknown amount of time until all was completely silent before crawling out of the pool of blood and stumbling away to escape the city.

A teacher from Shrek Academy found her in the suburbs; her eyes were vacant, like a soulless shell.

After learning about her background, Moon personally examined her physical condition.

This child is exceptionally gifted. His martial soul "Moon" is one of the three top-tier martial souls inherited by the Sun Moon Empire. It was only because his ancestors married into a collateral branch of the Sun Moon royal family that it was able to continue in his bloodline.

But deep within those eyes, besides fear, there was only a burning, bone-deep hatred.

She knelt before Moon, kowtowing repeatedly, her words dripping with anguish: "Please... avenge my family."

At that time, Moon had just experienced the blow of the successive deaths of Beibei's parents, and his heart was filled with unbearable pain and desolation.

He helped the trembling child up and solemnly promised, "Shrek will do its utmost to nurture you into a successful person."

He paused slightly, then continued, "But you must swear an oath: to protect Shrek Academy for life, and... to become Bebe's child bride."

Zhang Lexuan swore an oath without hesitation.

Moon then personally took action and uprooted the plant that had been used to kill all the nobles in her family.

With her grudges avenged, she had nowhere else to go, so she stayed at Shrek Academy, devoting her entire life to almost self-destructive asceticism.

She possessed extraordinary talent and was single-minded. At the age of twenty-six, she broke through to the Soul Douluo level, becoming the youngest Soul Douluo in the academy's five-thousand-year history.

In order to obtain her eighth spirit ring, she went to the Star Dou Great Forest with eleven inner court disciples and Xuanzi.

No one could have predicted that this trip would lead to such an unexpected and disastrous ordeal—

At that time, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had been imprisoned for a thousand years, losing all its cultivation and only retaining its original essence. After narrowly escaping from the clutches of the Star Dou Ferocious Beast, it was on the verge of dissipation.

In her panic, she encountered a titled Douluo on the outskirts of the forest. Driven by his survival instinct, he attempted to sacrifice himself to her.

Unfortunately, the power went out of control and actually burst the titled Douluo apart.

Xuanzi noticed the sudden burst of energy and rushed to investigate, which caused him to become separated from the group.

A 100,000-year-old soul beast that originally inhabited the mixed zone was also attracted by this unusually powerful energy fluctuation and wandered to the outer perimeter. It was at this moment and place that Zhang Lexuan and her group suddenly encountered this soul beast.

The twelve fought to the death, but eight perished. Zhang Lexuan fought desperately and miraculously survived, obtaining the 100,000-year soul ring and soul bone.

After that battle, she lay in a coma for six months before gradually recovering.

Following that accident, Xuanzi, who was supposed to resign, was retained after Zhang Lexuan knelt down and begged him to stay on.

She had long regarded the academy as her only home, and everyone there was family she was determined to protect with her life.