Douluo Continent: Twin Golden and Silver Dragons Shock Bibi Dong

However, when they stormed into the cafeteria, ready to catch them red-handed and unleash their fury, the scene before them stunned them.

The imagined scene of intimate intimacy and disheveled clothing simply doesn't exist.

Although the large cafeteria was empty, Xuan Hao and Liu Erlong sat facing each other at the table as if nothing had happened. Xuan Hao maintained his usual unrestrained eating habits, stuffing himself with buns, fried dough sticks, and roast chicken like a starving ghost.

Sitting opposite him, Liu Erlong, dressed in a neat dean's uniform, was holding a bowl of porridge, staring at Xuan Hao's seemingly unfathomable appetite with a look of shock and speechlessness.

Seeing this perfectly normal, even somewhat comical scene, Ning Rongrong and the others' anger was instantly extinguished as if doused with a bucket of cold water, leaving them unable to vent their rage.

There's no reason for him to lose his temper.

Those rumors were so outrageous, but now it seems, what if Xuan Hao really did just rush back early this morning?

As for him appearing with Liu Erlong in his arms... this bastard is used to being lawless in the academy. He's used to relying on his strength and has even fought with the hot-tempered Dean Erlong before, and even forcibly hugged her. Besides, looking at how properly and conservatively dressed Liu Erlong is now, it doesn't seem like the kind of secret date that would make people have impure thoughts.

Noticing Ning Rongrong and the others standing menacingly at the door, Xuan Hao swallowed the half-eaten roast chicken in his mouth and waved his greasy hand at them: "Oh, you're all up so early? What are you doing standing at the door? If you haven't had breakfast yet, come and have some with us?"

Ning Rongrong and the others exchanged glances. Although they still felt something was off, they suppressed their suspicions and went over to sit down at the dining table.

There's no way around it; girls need a legitimate, plausible reason to get angry. Otherwise, wouldn't that just be making a fuss over nothing?

They knew Xuanhao's temper very well: if he got angry with a valid reason, this bastard would definitely bow his head and admit his mistake, and even put in the effort to coax him; but if he couldn't produce any evidence and was just being unreasonable, he wouldn't pay any attention to him at all.

However, while they didn't get angry, Liu Erlong, sitting opposite them, felt extremely uncomfortable.

Already feeling guilty for doing something wrong, she was now surrounded by Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan, and felt a prickling sensation on her back. Even the hand holding the spoon couldn't help but stiffen slightly.

Ning Rongrong was incredibly clever, and with the keen intuition of Dugu Yan and Xiao Wu, the girls only exchanged a glance before they could immediately sense Liu Erlong's unnatural and guilty state.

It seems there was definitely something fishy going on last night!

But the girls tacitly refrained from confronting him on the spot. This kind of thing had to be settled privately with Xuan Hao. They were giving him face in front of others now, so that they could rightfully extort a large sum from him once behind closed doors!

"When exactly did you get back?" Ning Rongrong picked up a steamed bun and asked Xuan Hao, pretending to be casual.

“Yesterday afternoon,” Xuan Hao replied while drinking his porridge. “When I arrived, I saw you confronting Dai Mubai and his group by the edge of the woods. However, I saw that Tang San didn’t intervene in the end and even used a hidden weapon to subdue the crazed Dai Mubai. It seemed like there wasn’t much trouble, so I didn’t show myself.”

Ning Rongrong looked bewildered: "You came all the way here? In that situation, why didn't you just show up and teach Dai Mubai a lesson?"

"The situation isn't out of control, what value would I have in showing up? To steal your thunder?" Xuan Hao rolled his eyes and retorted confidently, "Besides, I overheard you trying to get close to Tang San and discuss business. That Tang San guy is inherently arrogant, and he has an instinctive psychological aversion to me. If I suddenly appeared, he would be provoked, and your business would fall through on the spot, wouldn't he?"

"Don't even mention it," Ning Rongrong pouted and complained. "Without you coming out, my business deal fell through. He was too wary and wouldn't budge an inch."

“This is normal.” Xuan Hao put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth with a tissue. “For such a big deal that involves the future of the sect, it would be more appropriate for you to write a letter to your father and ask him to come and discuss it in person. In the eyes of a mature person like Tang San, you are still too young. You are just an impulsive young girl, and your words lack sufficient credibility and the authority to make decisions.”

Xuan Hao paused, his tone becoming serious: "Furthermore, do you really think you can so easily make a judgment on behalf of the sect regarding such strategic-level business deals that involve millions or even tens of millions of gold soul coins?"

"Several million gold soul coins?!"

Liu Erlong, who had been listening quietly, was stunned. Although she came from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, she was still astonished by this enormous number. "What kind of business could be worth so much money? Are you talking about those small hidden weapons that Tang San made?"

"Erlong, you must not underestimate those 'small hidden weapons'."

Xuan Hao shook his head. "If Tang San's mechanical hidden weapons could be mass-produced, their power would be enough to completely change the current war situation in the Douluo Continent. It's no exaggeration to say that most traditional soul master legions would be no different from lambs to the slaughter when facing ordinary armies equipped with those heavy hidden weapons."

"How is this possible?!" Liu Erlong's eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief.

“Nothing is impossible,” Xuan Hao analyzed. “Tang San’s hidden weapons, while not much of a threat to high-level Soul Masters like us, especially those at the Soul Saint level or above, are extremely lethal to mid-to-low-level combatants below the Soul King level. If you combine them with his deadly poison… the potential of his stuff on the battlefield becomes limitless.”

Xuan Hao tapped his fingers lightly on the table: "You should know that even the Spirit Hall's Spirit Master Legion, which has the deepest foundation, is mostly composed of Spirit Masters below the level of Spirit King. As for the regular armies of the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires, that's even more true. Most of the so-called elite forces are just cobbled together from Spirit Masters, Great Spirit Masters, and Spirit Venerables."

"If Tang San really disregards everything and puts his most advanced blueprints into mass production... the current war logic between the countries of Douluo Continent based on the number of Soul Masters will collapse instantly."

"At that point, it will be impossible to fight. It will be a one-sided massacre that relies purely on weapons and equipment."

"Therefore, from the perspective of maintaining the balance of power on the continent, it's best not to let those dangerous hidden weapons in his possession circulate freely."

Xuan Hao chuckled lightly: "Fortunately, apart from a few people, there aren't many in the world who truly know their stuff and have no idea how much strategic value is hidden behind his junk."

He glanced at Ning Rongrong and continued, "It's fortunate that Tang San had a falling out with Prince Xue Beng before, preventing him from successfully joining the Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Otherwise, if he had really used this opportunity to make connections with the Heaven Dou royal family, and if a knowledgeable military genius happened to appear within the royal family..."

Xuan Hao shook his head: "Now everyone is always talking behind our backs, saying that the Heaven Dou Empire's army is weak and that it would be no match for the Star Luo Empire in a real fight. But if Tang San's hidden weapons were all deployed in the hands of the Heaven Dou army, the Star Luo's proud iron cavalry would be powerless against the overwhelming Zhuge crossbows and heavy mechanisms!"

"If Emperor Xue Ye of the Heavenly Dou Dynasty truly harbors ambitions to conquer the world and desires war... once equipped with those hidden weapons, within three years, the Heavenly Dou army will be able to directly reach the walls of the Star Luo Imperial City!"

Upon hearing Xuan Hao's war simulation, everyone present was completely stunned.

Liu Erlong, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing... all the girls sat there dumbfounded.

They usually only thought Tang San's hidden weapons were a bit troublesome in one-on-one combat, but who would have thought that when it came to the level of national warfare, they would be so... powerful?!

Chapter 279 An Incompetent Father and a Paranoid Son

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"Once that thing is fully equipped in the military, quantitative changes will inevitably lead to qualitative changes."

Xuan Hao picked up his water glass and took a sip. "Moreover, the extreme environment of war itself will greatly promote the iteration of weapons. Once Tang San's hidden weapons are put into actual combat, their design and power will inevitably be amplified again in the war."

"Who knows, if someone were to combine these mechanical hidden weapons with those lost ancient soul guidance device technologies in the future... then, let alone Soul Kings and Soul Emperors, even the high and mighty Title Douluo would be worn down to death facing thousands upon thousands of Zhuge Crossbows firing in a hail of arrows!"

Xuan Hao scanned the horrified faces of the crowd and said in a deep voice, "Never underestimate the terror of 'firepower coverage.' Human strength has its limits, and even the soul power of a Title Douluo is not limitless. But once these killing weapons, which can be mass-produced on assembly lines and equipped to ordinary people, are truly operating at full power, they will be terrifying."

"Of course, this is only a simulation of combat capabilities based on the main battlefield."

Xuan Hao shrugged, then changed the subject: "After all, old monsters who can cultivate to the Title Douluo level wouldn't be so stupid as to go and fight to the death with tens of thousands of troops on the plains. If they can't win, they can run away, they can infiltrate behind enemy lines to carry out a decapitation strike and directly assassinate the enemy's commander-in-chief."

"While powerful standard weapons can certainly sweep everything on the front lines, what makes high-level Soul Masters most fearsome is never their strength on the front lines, but rather their extraordinary mobility and their all-pervasive single-target destructive power."

"Even so, once Tang San's hidden weapons are exposed, the impact on the balance of the entire Douluo Continent will be revolutionary. So, you should be aware of this and not spread the details of those things. If you can control the information, try to keep it within a small circle."

Hearing Xuan Hao's serious admonition, Liu Erlong, who had been sitting opposite him, suddenly looked somewhat uneasy. She hesitated for a moment, her eyes flashing slightly, and said, "Well... about controlling the information, I'm afraid... it's already out of control."

Xuan Hao stopped what he was doing and looked at her in confusion: "What's wrong? Has Tang San already sold the blueprints to someone?"

"I didn't sell it, but..." Liu Erlong sighed, rubbing his temples with a headache, "A few days ago, Tang San and the others had just joined Blue Tyrant Academy when they got into a fight with a student named Tai Long and beat him up."

"It's not a big deal for kids to fight, but when the younger one gets involved, the older one comes too. Taino from the Power Clan comes straight to the academy to stand up for his son. Tang San is pushed to the limit, so he uses his poisoned hidden weapons, which immediately wounds Taino so badly that he almost loses his life."

Liu Erlong recalled the scene, her expression growing increasingly grave: "This wasn't the end of it. After Tainuo was seriously injured, the patriarch of the Power Clan, that old Titan, personally came to take him away and took Tang San away directly."

"At that time, Old Titan was furious, and Flander and I couldn't stop him at all. However, Flander went over and whispered something to Old Titan, and when he came back, he told me not to worry and that Tang San would definitely be fine."

"The next day, Tang San returned to the academy unharmed. And the strangest thing was that Tai Long, who had been fighting him to the death before, was now like a lackey, following Tang San around every day, calling him 'Young Master' more affectionately than anyone else."

Liu Erlong looked at Xuan Hao, her tone revealing deep worry: "I didn't think much of it at first, just assuming that Flander had mediated between them. But after listening to your analysis just now, I realized that something was wrong."

"That old Titan of the Power Clan is one of the three most famous master craftsmen on the continent! He's spent his whole life forging iron. If Tang San really did demonstrate those hidden weapon mechanisms to him..."

Liu Erlong took a deep breath: "With Old Titan's insight, there's absolutely no way he couldn't see the terrifying value hidden behind Tang San's hidden weapons!"

Upon hearing Liu Erlong's words, Xuan Hao stroked his chin, his expression immediately becoming somewhat unnatural.

"So they've gotten involved with the Power Clan?"

"Flirting? What do you mean?" Ning Rongrong keenly caught the subtext in his words and leaned closer with a curious look on her face. "What kind of relationship could Tang San, a Soul Master from a commoner background, have with the Power Clan?"

Xuan Hao glanced at everyone and said, "Tang San actually has twin martial souls. His second martial soul is the Clear Sky Hammer."

Upon hearing this, the entire dining table fell into a deathly silence.

"The Haotian Hammer?!"

Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan exclaimed in unison, their eyes wide with disbelief.

As successors of the three upper sects and the Poison Douluo, they knew all too well the weight these three words represented in the Soul Master world.

That is the inherited martial spirit of the direct lineage of the number one sect in the world—the Haotian Sect!

"How is this possible..." Even the well-informed Liu Erlong was completely dumbfounded. "His surname is Tang... Could he be..."

“That’s right.” Xuan Hao nodded and revealed Tang San’s background without any hesitation. “Tang San is actually the famous Haotian Douluo, Tang Hao’s biological son.”

Everyone gasped again, their minds buzzing.

This boy, whom they always regarded as a commoner genius, actually had such a powerful background!

Seeing everyone's shocked expressions, Xuan Hao continued to explain unhurriedly: "Titan, the patriarch of the Power Clan, was originally a trusted confidant of Tang Hao. It was precisely because that old man recognized Tang Hao as his master that the Power Clan, out of love for Tang Hao, chose to join the Haotian Sect and become one of their four affiliated clans."

"You've probably heard what happened next. Tang Hao severely injured the former Pope of the Spirit Hall and was ruthlessly expelled from the Clear Sky Sect. The Power Clan also suffered an undeserved calamity and eventually broke away from the control of the Clear Sky Sect."

Xuan Hao shrugged. "To put it bluntly, the Power Clan has never truly recognized the Clear Sky Sect; they only recognize Tang Hao as a person. As far as that stubborn old man Titan is concerned, since Tang San is Tang Hao's son, he is naturally the rightful young master of their Power Clan. With this status, how could Titan possibly bear to harm a single hair on Tang San's head?"

Ning Rongrong was stunned for a moment, but quickly realized her mistake: "But... how could Tang San be Tang Hao's son? Didn't Xiao Wu say before that he grew up in that remote little place called Notting City?"

"The ins and outs of this matter are very complicated, and I'm too lazy to tell you all about the feuds between wealthy families from the beginning."

Xuan Hao waved his hand, "However, you only need to know one thing—Tang Hao is nothing like the fearless, upright hero that people outside say he is. Take off that filter, and that guy is actually a complete idiot."

"Tang Hao completely neglected his biological son Tang San from childhood to adulthood, leaving him to fend for himself. He has no right to call himself a father."

At this point, Xuan Hao glanced at Xiao Wu beside him, and Xiao Wu nodded in agreement.

“Xiao Wu also knows very well that Tang San has never experienced the warmth of a family since childhood, so he yearns for family affection deep down.” Xuan Hao steered the conversation back on track, looking earnestly at Ning Rongrong. “That’s why he’s so obsessively protective of his teacher, Yu Xiaogang. Because when Yu Xiaogang was at Notting Academy, he truly gave him that kind of care and support that was like that of a teacher and a father.”

"So, Rongrong, if you still want to represent the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School to discuss cooperation on hidden weapons with Tang San, you must be careful to handle the interpersonal relationships involved."

Xuan Hao solemnly reminded him, "You must handle Yu Xiaogang's matter with care. You may look down on him, but you must never show any contempt for Yu Xiaogang in front of Tang San. Otherwise, once you touch Tang San's sore spot, no matter how high the price you offer, he will absolutely not cooperate with your Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School."

Chapter 280 Tang San's Pride: I Don't Climb High, Nor Do I Admit to Being a Coward.

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Upon hearing Xuan Hao's earnest reminder, Ning Rongrong's expression immediately became somewhat unnatural. She bit her lip awkwardly and muttered, "This...this might be a bit difficult to handle."

"What?" Xuan Hao raised an eyebrow.

“Back in Soto City, I had already completely broken ties with Yu Xiaogang.” Ning Rongrong spread her hands, her face full of helplessness. “Besides, you couldn’t hold back and slapped him in front of so many people. Tang San probably holds a grudge against you now.”

"And that's our relationship..."

Ning Rongrong sighed, "If I could just suck up to Yu Xiaogang and close the deal for Tang San's hidden weapons, I wouldn't mind putting on a show and being disgusted. But the problem is, we've already fallen out. Even if I wanted to pretend to respect my teacher now, he wouldn't believe me."

Hearing this, Na'er, who had been sitting quietly to the side, gently put down her teacup, a rational to almost cold light flashing in her clear purple eyes.

"Since the facade has already been torn apart, there's no need for us to bother mending it. Why don't we just find a way to completely sever the master-disciple relationship between Tang San and Yu Xiaogang?"

Ning Rongrong was taken aback and looked at her in surprise: "You mean... you want Tang San to give up his obsession with Yu Xiaogang? How is that possible? Tang San is the kind of person who is fiercely protective of his own."

"The reason Tang San desperately protects Yu Xiaogang is simply because Yu Xiaogang is viewed through a lens of 'perfect teacher' and 'life guide' in his mind," Na'er analyzed methodically. "As long as we shatter this lens, especially by crushing his sense of responsibility and character as an elder and a man, and let him see Yu Xiaogang's selfish and cowardly true colors, then Tang San's respect for him will naturally disappear."

At this point, Na'er turned her head slightly and looked at Liu Erlong sitting opposite her.

“And to do this…” Na’er looked at her, her tone resolute, “Dean Erlong is the best breakthrough point.”