Douluo Continent II: The Dragon Breaks the Nine Heavens

Chapter 295 I hit you, and you still have to apologize.

Ning Zhirou looked at Lin Yun, who had a half-smile on his face, and then glanced at Bingdi behind him, who looked like a maid. She felt bitter inside.

"A frog at the bottom of a well, truly a frog at the bottom of a well!"

Ning Zhirou sounded a warning bell in her heart. This was the consequence of insufficient strength and narrow vision. She had never seen a real strong person, yet she thought she was invincible. Little did she know that in front of a real strong person, she was just an ant that could be crushed at will.

Speaking of which, it was that Seven-Colored Glazed Jade Tea that made Ning Zhirou's Seven Treasure Glazed Pagoda eight stories high, which made her a little arrogant.

As the saying goes, one cannot possess both humility and thunder. After breaking the seven-treasure glazed pagoda's ten-thousand-year-old confinement and becoming the eight-treasure glazed pagoda, Ning Zhirou's original cautiousness was temporarily overshadowed.

She knew that the forces behind Lin Yun were not to be trifled with, and she had previously instructed the two Guardian Douluos not to offend Lin Yun. The only thing she hadn't expected was that Lin Yun would descend upon the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School in such a high-profile manner, giving her a rude awakening right from the start.

It's laughable that I actually thought I could communicate with Lin Yun on an equal footing, given the difference in our strength...

Is equality even possible?

Thinking of this, Ning Zhirou felt much more at ease. She casually tossed the two ice sculptures behind her and then gracefully bowed to Lin Yun: "This humble servant greets Your Excellency. Please forgive any shortcomings in our hospitality. I have long heard that Your Excellency is fond of rare and precious treasures. Please accept this small apology."

A bright blue light flashed, and Ning Zhirou held a jade box about twenty centimeters on each side in her hands. She then presented the jade box to Lin Yun with both hands.

They're quite something.

Lin Yun did not reach out to open the jade box. Instead, he first looked at Ning Zhirou, who, after only a moment's thought, lowered her stance and took the initiative to show weakness and goodwill. He sighed inwardly.

The decline of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School was justified, and the fact that it has maintained its lineage even after its decline, without disappearing into the river of time, is also not without reason.

Given their lofty ambitions, coupled with the unique nature of support-type sects and the essence of merchant sects, it would be extremely difficult to completely annihilate them.

"No wonder your Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School has been able to pass down its traditions for so long. This sense of being pragmatic and reasonable is truly beyond the reach of ordinary people." Seeing that Ning Zhirou had already lowered her head, Lin Yun no longer maintained his aloof demeanor and said with a touch of admiration.

"You flatter me, sir." Ning Zhirou smiled and maintained her bowing posture.

That's why she's considered outstanding. Even though Lin Yun didn't reach out to open the jade box and accept the gift, she maintained this posture, giving Lin Yun ample face and emotional value. Even as the head of a sect, she knew when to bow her head and didn't seem to care about losing face.

If she had adopted this attitude from the beginning, Lin Yun would have already been happily discussing with her about submitting to him within the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Too smart, too sensible.

It would be a real shame not to recruit this force into becoming a traitor and betraying Tang San.

So Lin Yun readily accepted Ning Zhirou's show of weakness and reached out to open the box in her hand.

A dreamlike milky white light suddenly shone, with a layer of rainbow-like seven-colored luster within it. Lin Yun raised his eyebrows slightly and reached out to pick up the contents of the box.

It was a milky white bead, slightly smaller than Lin Yun's fist. Actually, it would be more appropriate to call it a sphere. The reason for calling it a bead is quite simple.

"Pearls?" Lin Yun blinked.

"Yes, Your Majesty, this should be a pearl from a 100,000-year-old clam-type soul beast. It's of very high quality, and absorbing it will significantly increase your soul power," the Ice Emperor said. Overall, it's no worse than a soul bone.

That's impressive, quite a generous investment. According to Ice Emperor, if a normal Soul Saint were to absorb this, it would increase their Soul Power by three to five levels. Although it requires gradually extracting the Soul Power from the pearl and integrating it into oneself, it only takes three to five months to increase one's Soul Power by three to five levels without any side effects, which is enough to make any Soul Saint envious.

The effect is even better for Soul Masters below the Soul Saint level, especially for Soul Masters.

Because this thing can even condense soul power, purifying and compressing the unstable and mixed soul power of soul masters due to taking drugs, it can truly be called a rare and precious treasure.

After all, it's a pearl from a 100,000-year-old clam-type soul beast. There aren't many of them in the entire history of Douluo Continent. If you took it to the Sun Moon Empire, even if you offered a level nine soul tool or a level eight fixed-position soul tool shell, someone would probably want it.

More importantly, this shiny thing perfectly suited Lin Yun's taste.

"Your Excellency has a keen eye. This is indeed a pearl from a 100,000-year-old clam-like soul beast. It was obtained by a senior member of my Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School hundreds of years ago," Ning Zhirou said with a smile.

"This is just a small apology; please accept it, sir!"

"Alright, I'll accept the gift." Lin Yun nodded, closed the box, and tossed it into his storage soul tool. He didn't need the thing, but someone around him could use it.

Furthermore, if he didn't accept this gift, Ning Zhirou would probably be very uneasy.

Indeed, when Ning Zhirou saw Lin Yun accept the pearls, she not only didn't feel sorry for him, but breathed a sigh of relief, and her smile became much brighter and more natural.

The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan is a large and wealthy family. Although they don't have many good things like this pearl, they still have enough to make. Now that she needs someone's help, Ning Zhirou isn't afraid that Lin Yun will want it, but she is afraid that he won't want anything at all.

Hmm... or rather, Lin Yun ended up wanting everything.

"Please follow me into the sect, my lord." Ning Zhirou straightened up and gestured for him to enter.

As for the two Title Douluos who were frozen into ice sculptures...

Ning Zhirou simply ignored them. Since their accounts were already banned, they wouldn't die from being frozen for a while. Asking Lin Yun to help release them now might displease Lin Yun, not to mention whether these two arrogant fools would cause trouble again after they came out. Ning Zhirou couldn't say for sure.

They've given her the cold shoulder quite often, after all, she's not Ning Fengzhi, and the Heavenly Sword Douluo and Purple Star Douluo aren't Sword Bone Douluo, they're not that harmonious. Otherwise, they wouldn't have jumped out to cause trouble even after she had already warned them in advance.

Ning Zhirou felt it was better to let them freeze for now.

Instead, Lin Yun gave Ice Emperor a look, and Ice Emperor pointed a finger, freeing the two Title Douluos who had been frozen into icicles from the confinement of the ultimate ice.

To Ning Zhirou's surprise, after the two Guardian Douluos emerged from the ice and met the Ice Emperor's gaze, they immediately wilted and followed behind Ning Zhirou, looking disheveled.

The most striking thing is that he was completely defeated.

(End of this chapter)