Douluo Continent: Starting with controlling Ning Rongrong and establishing the Holy Cult

"Looks like a numerical monster... Luckily I have enough items."

She drank several more bottles of blood and blue.

The second problem with being trapped like a beast is the immense drain on her energy. Don't be fooled by her nonchalant attitude; in reality, Ning Rongrong has been through a near-death experience—it was like that time with Zhao Wuji, it was like that when she was stabbed earlier, and it's like that now.

"Or perhaps the other party has a resistance to poison?"

Chapter 23 The Great Battle Arena: Defeating the Monsters

Thinking it over, he canceled his third soul skill.

Ning Rongrong used Trapped Beast again to block the vine sweeping attack, but this time, her health bar dropped even more severely.

Then she remembered that her third soul skill could also remove poison. If she turned off this soul skill, she would be poisoned and suffer even greater damage.

But she gritted her teeth and returned the copied attack before activating her third soul skill again.

-4%.

"Oh, I see. He's completely immune to poison attacks, but with my third soul skill active, my attack deals 100% physical damage plus 60% poison damage, so it still deals 4% damage to him. The Eight Spider Lances are probably useless now."

She suddenly realized and decided to keep her third soul skill active.

The monster wildly waved its vines, which Ning Rongrong caught and bounced back time and time again. It took her a while to realize that this move was useless, so she switched to using a ground-shaking attack.

The vines slammed heavily against the ground, creating wave after wave of shockwaves.

This shockwave is very similar to Zhao Wuji's, but a little weaker.

Even Ning Rongrong, who is associated with Zhao Wuji, could dodge this, so what kind of useful attack could this thing possibly be?

wrong.

Ning Rongrong's eyes twitched.

The previous vine strikes on the monster were only single-target attacks, but what if this shockwave is an area-of-effect attack?

What if this shockwave could treat the monster as multiple targets, causing multiple instances of damage?

Without hesitation, Ning Rongrong used a falling attack to quickly return to the ground, then activated her Beast Trapping skill to block the attack. Her health wasn't dropping as much as before, leaving her unsure of her chances.

However, she still unleashed a copy of the attack, returning it to her.

-1%

This greatly disappointed her.

To her further disappointment, the monster started focusing solely on shaking the ground, neglecting even the vine strikes. Ning Rongrong had no choice but to replicate the shockwave and retaliate. This consumed significantly more time, health potions, and mana potions.

The monster realized the shockwave was no longer effective and switched to using poison stings...

The poison sting attack is similar to Ning Rongrong's initial attack, and also similar to Liu Jiayi's poison sting attack.

It's just that the quantity is larger and the speed is faster.

But even though it's faster, it's not that much faster. Ning Rongrong, with her second skill boosting her speed, can keep up with it perfectly.

The monster finally used a mix of three attacks, but Ning Rongrong hadn't run out of medicine yet, so these attacks naturally couldn't harm her.

After some time, accompanied by an angry roar, Ning Rongrong finally wore down the monster to death.

Despite killing the monster, Lu Ma felt no joy whatsoever.

He watched the monster on the screen gradually turn into dots of light, and then watched the white items it dropped. Instead of picking them up, he started complaining.

"This skill set... is too simple. It's boring, so boring. If your vine attacks were like fast and slow blades, your ground slam attacks could kill me instantly, and your spikes could outpace my drug usage, then maybe I could play with you."

Lu Ma only became interested after controlling his character to move forward and seeing the items dropped by the opponent.

It was a Holy Spirit Pill. A Holy Spirit Pill that was completely untouched by any impurities, just like the one Donald had in the cave at the beginning, even the description was the same.

"This monster even drops Holy Spirit Pills, but what's the use of just one?"

Lu Ma opened the Martial Soul interface again to confirm that the second Reversal Soul Skill required two Soul Stones, and the third Reversal Soul Skill required three Soul Stones.

This one is indeed useless.

But he didn't mind having too little, so he put the Holy Spirit Pill into his spatial backpack.

At the same time, the white mist gradually dissipated, and with a whoosh, the barrier broke open.

"It's done!"

Just then, the combined attack of the three outside landed on the barrier the instant the white mist began to dissipate.

With a whooshing sound, the three of them thought they had succeeded, and their faces were filled with joy.

When they saw the arena covered in blood and green monster fluid, the three of them were taken aback. The six people in the audience who had just come down from the stage were also stunned.

What exactly happened on that stage just now?

Puzzled, the crowd looked up and saw the tattered blue robe from the battle, the arm covered in wounds, and above that, a cold face, a face etched with arrogance. Ning Rongrong seemed to be looking down at them with disdain.

Further up, the monster had long since vanished without a trace.

Everyone felt a chill run down their spines.

"Rongrong!"

Ning Fengzhi rushed onto the stage, took out his medical kit, and bandaged Ning Rongrong's wound.

Ning Rongrong wanted to say that this was unnecessary, as the wound would naturally disappear once she drank the blood-nourishing medicine.

But she suddenly realized that this wasn't something that could be confirmed. Health was health, and wounds were wounds. Moreover, after this battle, her health and mana potions had been greatly reduced, with only about 170 bottles of each remaining. These potions seemed to only be obtained from opening treasure chests, and based on what she had used this time, this amount was only enough for her to squander twice at most.

Every bottle saved counts, since Ning Fengzhi's method is also a way to recover health.

She thought to herself, "I won't say anything more, not even a single word."

The gaze swept over Ning Fengzhi, then over Bone Douluo, Flander, and then over the other six.

These should be the only living people left in the Soul Arena; the one on the ground who is absolutely dead doesn't count.

Looking around, the Great Arena was in such a dilapidated state that it probably wouldn't be usable again for a while.

Ah... I should take advantage of this unskippable gameplay to think about what to eat for dinner. It seems like I've been playing for quite a while now... Did someone ask me to go out to eat?

But Lu Ma's blank stare made Ning Rongrong look expressionless, which was a different story in the eyes of others.

A chill ran through the eight men.

Especially Bone Douluo, as the only one present besides Ning Fengzhi who had witnessed Rongrong's madness after the evil soul master incident, Ning Rongrong gave him a strange feeling at this moment, as if she had become another extreme.

Ning Rongrong is usually cute, mischievous, and willful.

At that time, Ning Rongrong was terrified and longed for recognition.

At this moment, Ning Rongrong was clearly not terrified. Her eyes were cold, as if she had cast everything aside and was in a state of "it doesn't matter to me whether you approve or not".

It's scary.

If things continue like this, I really need to discuss with Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin about sending Ning Rongrong to a psychological rehabilitation center or something similar.

"Rongrong, how are you?"

Ning Rongrong glanced at Gu Rong but didn't say anything.

The banyan tree was in even more pain.

Waaah, it seems his adorable little Rongrong is leaving him...

Flanders felt as if he had done something wrong, even though objectively speaking, he did not seem to have done anything wrong.

But Ning Rongrong suffered such serious injuries, so as her teacher, he definitely had to take responsibility.

He stood there, intending to apologize to the two from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

"Sect Leader Ning, this matter was my fault..."

"We'll talk about this later."

Ning Fengzhi's serious voice came from the front, just as he finished bandaging all of Ning Rongrong's wounds.

At this moment, Ning Rongrong's lower body was almost entirely wrapped in white bandages, which gave her a unique and beautiful appearance.

Flander also keenly sensed that this matter was not a coincidence, so he turned to Dai Mubai and instructed him:

"Mu Bai, take the five of them to a safe place first. What happens next is not something you should know at this stage."

Chapter 24 The Ceremony of the Holy Maiden and the Note

"Understood, Dean!"

Dai Mubai immediately stood at attention and led the other five away from the Soul Battle Arena. Even though the five were curious, they held back their curiosity.

Something really big just happened here.

Although the major events from their perspective were just the fight between the outsider Soul Master and Dean Flander, and the strange occurrence on the Soul Arena, Zhu Zhuqing's intuition told her that this matter was not so simple.

For example, why is the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School here at this moment?

Near the Soul Arena, only the three members of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and Flander remained.

"Rongrong...do you want her to know, Fengzhi?"

Gu Rong looked at Ning Rongrong again, somewhat hesitant.

Ning Fengzhi patted the mechanical-looking girl on the shoulder, sighed, and looked quite helpless.

"We can only let her know, can't we? Getting involved in the evil soul master incident twice in a row, I don't know what our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School did wrong."

"twice?"

Flander was somewhat surprised. He knew about the evil spirit master incident this time, but there was another one before that he didn't know about. After all, he was just a small academy dean, and had no connection with the Spirit Hall, the three upper sects, or the two great empires. His understanding of evil spirit masters was based on the theories of the era when the Holy God had just fallen into obscurity. In that era, evil spirit masters were just a concept, referring to people whose spirits were evil and whose behavior was also evil. Even the Holy Spirit Cult had not yet flourished... In fact, even now, he felt unfamiliar with the Holy Spirit Cult.

"Yes, one of the reasons Rongrong ran away from home and came to your Shrek Academy is the evil soul master incident about a week ago—the evil soul master incident that happened around the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School."

Ning Fengzhi looked at Flander with a solemn expression.

"That time it was also a white mist barrier, and someone from the outside was preventing others from approaching the white mist space. Moreover, that time it was a Title Douluo, but he was killed by the Old Sword Man... Now that I think about it, it might have been a clone."

Gu Rong added that they had walked through every corner of the Soul Arena.

"But I'm very curious. That time, a ceremony was being held inside the white mist space, and this time there's nothing inside either. Why is this person who claims to be the seventh elder of the Holy Spirit Cult here to stop us?"