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

"Never mind, it's probably because of that Easter egg. Isn't the name of the Holy Spirit Cult leader also made up of these boxes?"

After loading was complete, the game screen returned to its vibrant state. It wasn't black and white anymore, but color.

As expected, a "mental pollution" bar has been added to the status bar. The current mental pollution status is 20/38, which is still safe.

However, he still sighed: "It's a pity that this state doesn't allow me to kill indiscriminately, and I don't know how fast the mental pollution will automatically recover. But it doesn't really matter, since I've already killed Yu Xiaogang once anyway."

This seemingly mundane save-loading maneuver was nothing to Lu Ma, but for Ning Rongrong it was quite extraordinary. So much so that it took her a long time after Lu Ma finished speaking before she came to her senses.

Can a soul state also experience that lingering fear, like gasping for breath?

Ning Rongrong can tell you without hesitation: Yes!

That was her situation at that moment. She looked around in panic, only to breathe a sigh of relief when she saw that everything around her was colorful.

She seemed to have just had a very long nightmare in which the Holy God controlled her to kill the new teacher. Then she could not hear any sound, could not feel any touch, and all she could see was black and white. Although she regained control of her body, she killed Tang San again while in a daze. After that, she was taken home and imprisoned by her father and was killed by a strange man with a hammer.

She touched her neck, but unfortunately, being in a spirit state, she couldn't feel anything.

I am fully conscious now, but recalling it still sends chills down my spine—if I could.

The reason she felt it was a nightmare, rather than "it actually happened, but the Holy God made time go back," was precisely because in the later stages of that nightmare, she was actually in control of her body.

Besides, in her memory, she could feel the Holy God rewinding time, but at this moment she clearly didn't feel that.

'But it still feels so real, like it's about to happen. Could it be a precognitive dream like those in storybooks?' She was a little doubtful, but then dismissed the doubt, because her body didn't react the same way as in the dream.

That dream was indeed just an ordinary nightmare.

【Recap】

[After being provoked by Tang San's words, Yu Xiaogang stood up and pushed Ning Rongrong.]

Ning Rongrong stared at Yu Xiaogang in disbelief, her body involuntarily retreating, and then—

—Losing his balance, he fell to the ground.

This time, Lu Ma didn't actively resist the master's shoving, letting the character fall to the ground. He was thinking about what Ning Rongrong could do if she didn't kill the master.

Seeing Ning Rongrong's posture, Yu Xiaogang was extremely smug. He pointed at Ning Rongrong's nose and scolded, "Disrespectful to elders! I told you to go and accept punishment, are you deaf?"

Yu Xiaogang has begun implementing his method of destroying the Seventh Elder's dignity, which is to make the other party complete his punishment. That must be a very shameful thing.

Moreover, since he's now in charge of arranging the training content, this task is very easy for him. He didn't do anything wrong; he simply assigned the training to the students.

He leaned closer to Ning Rongrong, and with a courage he didn't know where he got from, he whispered, "Seventh Elder, how could I not recognize my own identity? But, it seems you must complete my punishment, right? As the Seventh Elder, how can you have to obey the orders of a prospective elder like me? Isn't that shameful? But, if you give me the complete version of the Martial Soul Evolution Theory, maybe I can let you go."

Ning Rongrong was stunned, looking at Yu Xiaogang's confident eyes—it didn't seem like he was faking it.

Is he an idiot? Where does he get the audacity to think I'd listen to him? And what is this Martial Soul Evolution Theory? Does the Seventh Elder even know it?

Ning Rongrong looked worried and couldn't figure out what this thing was.

However, a wicked idea did spring into her mind. Since she couldn't kill the master, but the master had no reason to exist anyway.

that,

Why don't I just become a master?

They turned the master into Ning Rongrong's puppet, making him only listen to Ning Rongrong's words.

To render the master a mere figurehead.

Lu Ma's game logic is sparse; "maximizing benefits" is one of them. In this highly free game, creating a fictional version of Yu Xiaogang is clearly more valuable than killing him.

By sidelining Yu Xiaogang, the training content would be more advantageous to Ning Rongrong, who is essentially herself, and for the others... it's still better than Yu Xiaogang designing the training content himself. Moreover, sidelining Yu Xiaogang would actually garner the admiration of the others. Students are the soul of Shrek Academy, its future. Controlling the students means, in other words, Shrek Academy belongs to Ning Rongrong. How Ning Rongrong wants Shrek Academy to develop is how Shrek Academy must develop.

And Shrek Academy is even more valuable to her!

So what would it take for the fictional Yu Xiaogang to do?

Ning Rongrong blinked; the current situation seemed to make it unnecessary to consider this question.

No one believes the master's words anymore; at this point, all that's needed is to stir things up a little.

She believed that the master would definitely give her a chance.

Seeing Yu Xiaogang push Ning Rongrong to the ground, the five Shrek students suddenly sprang up and were about to attack Yu Xiaogang.

Tang San stood in front of the crowd.

"Hey, get out of the way. For the sake of our brotherhood, I won't hold it against you for being misled by thieves!" Dai Mubai said in a deep voice, his tone filled with anger.

Tang San shook his head and asked in return, "Do you really think what you're doing is right?"

At the same time, Yu Xiaogang stood up straight, a smile on his face: "As expected of my most outstanding disciple."

Then he looked at Ning Rongrong, who was already gathering her emotions.

Seeing Ning Rongrong remain silent, Yu Xiaogang assumed she was frightened and remained smug, completely unaware of what was about to happen.

In order to rebuild his authority in the eyes of the crowd, he stared contemptuously at Ning Rongrong and said, "I'll give you ten more seconds. If you don't take the lead and make everyone accept the punishment within ten seconds, then everyone's punishment will be doubled!"

"ten!"

"Ah, teacher, this doesn't seem right! Why is Ning Rongrong punishing us all along? Rongrong, get up quickly, don't drag us down with you!" Tang San turned to look at Grandmaster in shock, unable to believe these words came from his mouth. Ten round trips were already terrifying enough; making him do twenty round trips would be tantamount to killing him.

"Hmph!" The master snorted coldly and continued, "Nine!"

"Ahhh?" The group of people who wanted to attack the master stopped at this moment.

No one would turn down their own interests, especially since they had only known Ning Rongrong for a few days and weren't very familiar with her. In the likely outcome of the conflict between Ning Rongrong and the master, Ning Rongrong would lose, and they would still have to bear the unfair punishment. If they advised Ning Rongrong to accept the punishment now, although their conscience wouldn't allow it, they could at least suffer less... Of course, they probably wouldn't be able to tolerate Ning Rongrong's kind glances for the rest of their lives.

Of course, the above is just the master's conjecture.

The master's countdown continued: "Eight—"

Zhu Zhuqing's face darkened, and she clenched her fists. She was about to go up and punch the master.

She was undoubtedly a "pro-Rongrong party" member, unlike the "neutral party." She thought that if she helped Ning Rongrong bring down the master at this time, then all the punishments would be avoided.

"seven--"

Zhu Zhuqing stepped forward, and Xiao Wu followed closely behind, both aiming at the master.

"Count me in," Xiao Wu said.

Putting aside her other identity, from the perspective of a Shrek Academy student, she might really not be able to make a choice. One is a classmate for a long time to come, and the other is a teacher for a long time. No matter which one she chooses, she will offend the other.

But she couldn't let go of that. If you consider Ning Rongrong's connection to the Silver Dragon King and her status as a princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, then of course she would choose Ning Rongrong.

"Six, five—"

Seeing that the two women had already made their choices, it was obvious how the remaining three would choose.

The scene of the crowd splitting apart that the master had imagined did not occur. He revealed an angry expression, and the countdown accelerated slightly.

"Four, three, two..."

"Boom."

The fist slammed into the ground, producing a dull thud.

"I'm sorry, I'm too weak."

Ning Rongrong had already prepared her emotions, and this aggrieved voice came from her mouth.

Ning Rongrong slowly got up from the ground, and two crystal-clear teardrops fell from her face.

“I accept the punishment. Slurp—They didn’t do anything wrong. If someone has to be punished, then punish me. I will accept all your punishment, along with theirs. I accept it.”

She lowered her head, called out softly, and ran towards the gates of Shrek Academy.

With her sleeve covering her eyes, no one saw that behind the sobbing was a sinister smile of triumph.

"This—" The group stared blankly at Ning Rongrong's departing figure, stunned.

The master was also somewhat puzzled. Although it looked strange, the goal had been achieved, right?

Then he shouted loudly at the crowd again:

"Ning Rongrong has already gone, what are you all standing around for? Go and accept your punishment!"

Ma Hongjun felt incredibly guilty. Why had he even wavered just now? Between the Master and Ning Rongrong, who was truly thinking of them? Couldn't he see that?

This idea wasn't just on Ma Hongjun's mind; the other four, besides Tang San, shared the same sentiment.

The five people stood still with gloomy faces. Tang San was worried about the safety of the master, so he did not go to the school gate.

The situation reached a stalemate.

Just then, as if the heavens themselves were adding fuel to the fire, rain began to fall from the sky.

silence.

Still, silence.

Large raindrops fell on the six of them, while Master told Tang San to keep an eye on them and then turned to walk towards the dormitory: "Since you don't want to go, then let Ning Rongrong suffer alone!"

Dai Mubai stared intently at the departing figure of the master, about to step forward, but was stopped by Tang San.

“Hey mistress, get out of the way!” Dai Mubai said.

Tang San shook his head: "Teacher must have his reasons for doing this. Don't be fooled by Ning Rongrong. She's just trying to gain your sympathy. She's definitely not a good person."

However, no one believed this. The facts were right in front of them, and they believed what they saw: the master had attacked them all, and Ning Rongrong couldn't stand it and went to argue with him—after all, Ning Rongrong was the little princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, so it was normal for her to do so—but she was threatened by Yu Xiaogang with them, and Ning Rongrong accepted the punishment alone for their benefit.

Ning Rongrong is thinking of them.

What a wonderful girl Rongrong was, yet she was ruined like this by trash like that "master"!

"Brothers."

Finally, after a long silence, Dai Mubai spoke.

"Are we really going to let this pretentious 'master' bully us and Rongrong?"

Chapter 67 Mitosis, Ning Rongrong is Ning Rongrong's clone.

"Am I destined to live a life of subservience forever?"

Dai Mubai stepped forward, his face contorted with rage, and the White Tiger Vajra Transformation was activated.

"Mu Bai, what are you trying to do?" Tang San panicked and revealed his Blue Silver Grass.

"What are you doing? Brothers, Rongrong is still waiting for us, and preserving the fine traditions of Shrek Academy is still waiting for us!"