Douluo Continent II: The Dragon Breaks the Nine Heavens

Chapter 284 "Fellow Paths" (End)

Feng Ling fell into depravity, even during the most primal act between Yan Shaozhe and her.

Feng Ling, who suddenly fell into the form of the Evil Phoenix, was attracted by the evil nature within Yan Shaozhe and almost used the unique devouring attribute of the Evil Martial Soul to drain Yan Shaozhe dry.

This is a genuine sucking dry, not a joking sucking dry.

If Yan Shaozhe hadn't reacted quickly, his flesh and blood essence and martial soul power would have all become nourishment for Feng Ling.

Looking at the fallen Feng Ling, Yan Shaozhe fell into the same dilemma that his grandfather Long Xiaoyao and teacher Mu En had faced: what should he do if his wife became an evil soul master?

Fortunately, he was a disciple of Mu En and had Long Xiaoyao's blood flowing in his veins. Even though he was a Shrek, he still chose to protect his woman.

That's right!

When it comes to love, school rules are nothing! I won't hesitate to hunt down evil spirit masters. Anyway, those people have nothing to do with me. They've already met their end by killing innocent people indiscriminately. But my lover hasn't killed anyone. As long as I haven't seen her kill anyone, then she's not an evil spirit master!

If you want to kill her, step over my dead body!

(Tang San gave a thumbs up)

The most striking thing is the double standard!

Just as Yan Shaozhe was about to let Feng Ling go, Mu En arrived. He stood not far away, watching Yan Shaozhe instruct the now calm Feng Ling on how to evade Shrek Academy's pursuit.

Hmm... this plot seems a bit familiar.

Mu En sighed softly and came up behind Yan Shaozhe.

Yan Shaozhe felt himself being covered by a shadow, realizing that someone was behind him. He suddenly turned around and looked behind him, and then saw Mu En's old face with a complicated expression.

"Teacher..." Yan Shaozhe's lips trembled, his tone filled with panic and fear, but his body instinctively shielded Feng Ling behind him.

Seeing Yan Shaozhe's actions, Mu En's eyes darkened even more. This action really reminded him of Long Xiaoyao's abstract behavior. Back then, that scoundrel had also stood in front of Ye Xishui in the same way, confronting him.

Truly worthy of being Brother Long's offspring, excellent!

At this thought, a very big idea suddenly popped into Moon's mind.

You, Long Xiaoyao, stole my wife, didn't you? I'll see if I can get someone else to steal your grandson's wife!

It's not that retribution won't come, it's just that the time hasn't arrived yet.

Hehehehe!

Moon's complex and subtle expression suddenly changed, replaced by a gentle (hypocritical) smile.

"Sigh, Shao Zhe, you've finally ended up on this path!" Mu En patted Yan Shao Zhe's shoulder with a complicated expression.

Yan Shaozhe looked bewildered: "Teacher, what are you talking about?"

Moon shook his head, answering a completely different question: "Don't worry, although Shrek Academy has always taken it upon itself to eliminate evil spirit masters, you are still my disciple, Moon. How could I let you watch your beloved perish before your eyes, causing you to be immersed in pain and regret for the rest of your life?"

Mu En's words moved Yan Shaozhe deeply.

"Teacher..." Yan Shaozhe looked at Mu En with teary eyes, his eyes full of respect and admiration. He felt as if he had returned to the age when he first met Mu En, and once again became that six-year-old child who was confused and at a loss.

"This must be your little sweetheart, right? Very nice, a perfect match for you." Mu En looked at Feng Ling and nodded with a smile.

"Senior." Facing Mu En's scrutiny, Feng Ling gave a rather reserved deep bow.

When her martial spirit first became corrupted, it did indeed go out of control and almost swallowed Yan Shaozhe whole.

However, the loss of control is only temporary. The evil martial spirit will gradually lead Feng Ling to fall into evil, unable to suppress her desire to devour and kill. But she will still have her original memories, at most a change in personality.

She still loved Yan Shaozhe and naturally respected his teacher. Moreover, Mu En seemed to have no intention of killing her but rather of letting her go, which made her equally grateful and respectful to Mu En.

Lord Moon, we evil spirit masters have always respected and loved you!

"Since you are Shao Zhe's lover, you don't need to be so reserved. If you don't mind, please call me 'teacher' like Shao Zhe does," Mu En said with a wave of his hand and a kind tone.

"Yes, teacher!" Feng Ling naturally wouldn't refuse such a request, and readily accepted Mu En as her teacher.

Thus, Mu En not only took a descendant of an evil spirit master as his disciple, but now he has taken a real evil spirit master as his disciple. Such behavior makes people really suspicious of his true identity.

After resolving Feng Ling's matter, Mu En turned to Yan Shaozhe and said solemnly, "Shaozhe, now that things have come to this, I won't hide it from you anymore. Your background is actually not simple!"

With Feng Ling as a witness, Mu En told Yan Shaozhe part of his past, though Yan Shaozhe embellished it.

He only said that he and Long Xiaoyao were good friends, and that they both fell in love with Ye Xishui. In the end, it was Long Xiaoyao who won Ye Xishui's heart. The story was roughly the same as the one Huo Yuhao heard from Xuanzi, except that it included Yan Shaozhe's father.

Mu En took Yan Shaozhe as his disciple out of old friendship.

"So, my grandparents were your friends from over a hundred years ago, and they were both level 99 Limit Douluo?" Yan Shaozhe was shocked.

"That's right. Your grandparents were my old friends, and now they are both powerful experts at the Limit Douluo level," Mu En said.

"Feng Ling obviously cannot return to Shrek with you, so the only solution right now is to send her to your grandmother so that she can live well in the Holy Spirit Cult."

Upon hearing this, Yan Shaozhe looked at Feng Ling with lingering reluctance, while Feng Ling also met his gaze with tears in her eyes. The atmosphere made Mu En feel as if he had been fed some cyber dog food.

However, considering that he would soon show Long Xiaoyao what it meant to have fortunes change every thirty years, he immediately forgot about this unimportant detail.

He gave Feng Ling and Yan Shaozhe ample time to say goodbye, and then, with the two reluctant to part, he took Feng Ling and soared into the sky, flying towards the location of the Holy Spirit Sect.

Only Yan Shaozhe remained, watching the two black dots disappear into the horizon, his back view utterly desolate.

"Ling'er, you must live on."

"Live well!"

……

Feng Ling was taken away. To be honest, when watching this scene, if you ignore the identities of the three of them and Mu En's identity as the master of the Sea God Pavilion, this scene is actually quite touching.

Especially the illustration of Yan Shaozhe looking into the distance in the sunset, with a lonely and desolate expression, makes people feel sorry for him from the bottom of their hearts.

no way.

The illustrations are simply divine. Looking at all six books, any illustration with a sunset background evokes a strong sense of desolation and loneliness. The creation of light and shadow atmosphere is absolutely perfect.

Ironically, this desolate and lonely feeling can evoke different atmospheres in different situations, making people unconsciously immerse themselves in it.

For example, in the Dragon and Phoenix series, the image of Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo bumping fists under the sunset, their smiles conveying unspoken emotions against the backdrop of the setting sun, encompasses both brotherly love and forbidden romance. Another example is in the Sinful Army series, where Zhou Yi stands on a high building under the sunset, looking down at her numerous defenseless students, the atmosphere of despair and intense oppression vividly portrayed.

For example, in the story of Phoenix Playing with Two Dragons, Mu En stands in the sunset, only his back is visible. His shadow is very long, and at the end of the shadow are Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui, who are leaving hand in hand with happy smiles. Ye Xishui is holding her and Long Xiaoyao's child in her arms. Mu En seems to have become an outsider. The sad and lonely feeling of loving but not being able to have the love is so suffocating.

Finally, there's this one by Yan Shaozhe.

Each picture seems to have been infused with a great deal of effort and emotion from Teacher Qingye, making it no longer just a picture, but a series of vivid scenes.

Such terrifying writing and drawing skills make one want to look up to the sky and shout: Aoba-sensei! The god who rules over the twilight and sunset!

But after abandoning sophisticated tastes and reverting to vulgar pleasures, everyone suddenly frowned.

That's not right!

While it's touching, it's astonishing that two high-ranking members of Shrek Academy both fell in love with the evil spirit master, and even chose to protect and help him survive.

Every evil spirit master represents rivers of blood and fields of wailing!

Are you afraid your lover will die? Aren't you afraid your lover will kill us? As long as they are evil spirit masters, they will be evil spirit masters for life!

A rotten orange is a rotten orange. Expecting an evil spirit master to reform? Well, we can only say to Shrek Academy:

dream!

and many more……

But then again, it seems Shrek Academy has never really cared about the lives of us ordinary people, has it? Killing evil spirit masters is just a trick they play to amuse themselves. After all, the higher-ups of Shrek Academy and the Holy Spirit Cult sleep in the same bed. Aren't they all family behind closed doors?

Masaka...

Could it be that Shrek Academy is using the power of the evil spirit masters of the Holy Spirit Cult to help them clean up the unruly "trash," while Shrek Academy is helping the Holy Spirit Cult gather evil spirit masters, making those independent evil spirit masters feel fear, and finally making them spontaneously gather to the Holy Spirit Cult, thus strengthening the Holy Spirit Cult?!

Huh...?!

A clever person immediately connected this to a chilling conspiracy, a conspiracy that was even darker than the abyss of the Thirty-Six Emperors and more evil than the heart of the Sea God Tang San!

With a sense of dread, they continued reading, for the story of "Like-Minded People" was far from over; the final chapter was the essence of the book.

——Mature dividing line——

Led by Mu En, Feng Ling and he arrived at the headquarters of the Holy Spirit Cult, the largest terrorist group and criminal organization in Douluo Continent.

Contrary to outsiders' assumptions, the headquarters of the Holy Spirit Cult is not eerie or sinister. Instead, it is located in a primeval jungle, a place that is clearly untouched by humans. There is no smell of blood or decay; instead, the air is fresh and filled with the fragrance of birds and flowers, a truly natural atmosphere.

But then again, it makes sense. Even if the Holy Spirit Cult members love the smell of blood, fresh blood has a very short shelf life. Freshly gushing blood intoxicates them, but if they wait for it to ferment for hours or even days...

That taste was absolutely delicious, sour and refreshing.

Needless to say, corpses, without special preservation methods, will decompose in no time.

The Holy Spirit Cult members are just perverts, not idiots, much less rats from the sewers. They have no interest in making their lair smell like a fermented cesspool.

Evil Soul Master: We don't accept definitions!

In any case, Feng Ling, who was visiting the Holy Spirit Cult for the first time, really felt that her eyes had been opened. She never thought that the lair of an evil soul master organization would be so beautiful.

Shortly after Moon arrived at the Holy Spirit Cult's territory, two figures, one in black and one in red, quietly appeared not far in front of Moon.

"Xiaoyao, Xishui, it's been a long time." Mu En looked at the two clasped hands, and the joy of their long-awaited reunion was almost completely dispelled.

Moon: I should be under the car, not inside it.

That's disgusting! Why did I ever think of coming to the Holy Spirit Cult?

Mu En was inwardly groaning. His composure was crumbling, and his stomach was churning with acid. He couldn't stand this place for another second. If he could see the loving Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui any longer, Mu En felt like he might explode on the spot.

After briefly explaining Feng Ling's martial spirit and her relationship with Yan Shaozhe, Mu En quickly finished speaking.

Ye Xishui certainly knew Yan Shaozhe. As soon as she heard that Mu En had taken in a disciple with the Martial Soul of the Bright Phoenix, and that the disciple's surname was Yan, Ye Xishui guessed that Yan Shaozhe was most likely her descendant.

However, after returning to the Holy Spirit Cult, she was immediately invited by Zhongli Laogui to play a secret room game. Later, due to a drastic change in her personality, she deliberately stopped paying attention to her descendants, so she didn't know whether Yan Shaozhe was her grandson or great-grandson.

To be honest, after more than a hundred years, Ye Xishui no longer cared about the past. She also didn't have much interest in Yan Shaozhe, her bloodline descendant. The only two people she cared about were Long Xiaoyao and Mu En.

What do the lives and deaths of other people have to do with her, Death God Douluo?

Moreover, Mu En's hasty departure also made her somewhat dissatisfied. After finally meeting, what did Mu En mean by giving her the cold shoulder right away?

Ye Xishui, who was not very interested, waved her hand casually, letting Feng Ling go play by herself.

Meanwhile...

Zhongli Wu, who had succeeded as the leader of the Holy Spirit Cult and was now a Title Douluo powerhouse, noticed Feng Ling. He felt that there was something about this woman that attracted him.

And so... the escape room game was played again.

Moreover, Zhongli Wu's methods were even more perverse than his father, Zhongli Laogui's. He not only used various toys to break Feng Ling's will, but also used numerous drugs in the process, making Feng Ling completely obedient to him...

Uh... a velvet ball~

The illustrations of Zhongli Laogui and Ye Xishui were already amazing enough, but the illustrations of Zhongli Wu and Feng Ling are even more incredible, reaching the highest level of artistry.

After all, with over a century of innovation and iteration, Zhongli Laogui's little toys are long outdated; what's popular now are game props with a stronger experiential element.

That's how it was upgraded step by step from a low-quality white to a legendary gold level!

The noble lords, who had just ordered their skilled craftsmen to make props, immediately handed over the new version of the concept art to those craftsmen. As a result, after making the props, the craftsmen turned around and closed the door to return to their old ways, practicing their long-lost crafts.

There was no way around it; to learn how to make props, one had to observe repeatedly, and one had to understand all the illustrations in "Like-Minded People." This kind of stimulation was something that ordinary mortals like them could not bear.

……

And so, Feng Ling became Zhong Liwu's property. While Yan Shaozhe was still cautiously paving the way, Zhong Liwu had already stood up and pedaled the bicycle, even putting a lock on it and making extremely professional unauthorized modifications.

Yan Shaozhe, who was far away at Shrek Academy and longing for Feng Ling, felt a pain in his chest, and it seemed as if a few extra weight had been added to the top of his head.

"Like-minded People" has come to an end.

(End of this chapter)