People in Douluo, the mastermind behind the scenes

Huo Yuhao: "..."

Tang Ya is really bad at nothing. The Tang Sect was once the number one sect on the continent, and it has the same origin as the Sea God Pavilion and Shrek Academy. It has such a resounding golden sign, but it can't recruit disciples and supporters in Shrek City. Can you believe it?

In the end, they even resorted to tricking a "ten-year" soul ring soul master into joining the Tang Sect. Their indifference to both meat and vegetables reached a certain extent, which was outrageous to the extreme.

Besides, Tang Ya’s parents are not necessarily smart people. The Tang Clan has fallen to that state. There is no strong person inside who can be represented, and there are enemies outside who are eyeing them covetously. Don’t they know to seek refuge in Shrek City?
Others may not know the relationship between the Tang Sect, Poseidon Pavilion, and Shrek Academy, but does the Tang Sect leader himself not know it?
Putting aside that filter, Huo Yuhao was very clear that Tang Ya was indeed a bit, um... her IQ was questionable, and she was the kind of person who played a good hand of cards badly.

In this life... the Holy Spirit Church really has no reason to kidnap Tang Ya.

So where did Tang Ya go?
Thinking of this, Huo Yuhao couldn’t help but ask, “Sister Yunxi, didn’t Poseidon Pavilion send anyone out to look for her? Even if Sister Xiaoya has gone to the Sun Moon Empire’s territory, with Poseidon Pavilion’s intelligence network, they shouldn’t be unable to find Sister Xiaoya’s whereabouts, right?”

Yunxi said unhappily, "We just can't find her. Tang Ya is a banner of the Tang Sect after all. No matter how bad she is, we won't let her disappear without a trace. The Sea God Pavilion not only mobilized the highest-level intelligence network, but also sent some high-level spirit masters to assist in the search. We searched for a whole month and found nothing."

Hearing this, Huo Yuhao picked up the teacup and drank it all. Then he stood up, waved his hand, and said with full energy: "Let's go!"

"Where are you going?" A hint of confusion flashed in Yunxi's eyes. The war was imminent, but he left his important work behind and went to find an insignificant person.

Even if you want to find Tang Ya, you have to have a direction. Douluo Continent is so big, and searching blindly is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"Tiandou City."

Huo Yuhao replied coldly, ignoring Yunxi and walked directly out of the door of the private room.

……

The scene changed, and Huo Yuhao and Yunxi were searched by professionals and then led by a palace maid into the palace of the former Tianhun Empire.

Of course, the two were not captured, but came to Tiandou City through formal channels as special envoys of the Poseidon Pavilion.

Soon, the two arrived at Liangyi Palace. Although Zhu Ningyu was not interested in Poseidon Pavilion, she still received them with state etiquette.

After all... the "peace agreement" signed by the two major camps has not been torn up yet. The conflict in the eastern waters can only be regarded as a civil war between the northern and southern fighting spirits. As long as the high-level soul masters are not killed, everything is just a child's play.

"You two, according to the intelligence, you arrived at Lingdou City yesterday at noon. Why are you not in Hucheng to supervise the public affairs? Why are you coming to our Tiandou City?"

As she spoke, Zhu Ningyu picked up a big apple and put it to her mouth, but then she thought it would be a bit unsightly to eat an apple in front of outsiders, so she could only put the apple back to the fruit plate silently.

Seeing this scene, Huo Yuhao, who was about to reach out to eat a pear, froze in his tracks and couldn't help but murmur in his heart.

Could this be... a clever way of stealing the birthday gift?
(ps: Let me explain to those who don’t know the plot of Stealing the Birthday Gift. Here Huo Yuhao suspected that the fruit plate itself was not poisonous, and the big apple itself was not poisonous, but the action of picking it up made the apple contaminated with toxins, thus polluting the entire fruit plate.) In order to achieve sustainable development and to improve the overall IQ of Douluo Continent, Qin Yi wrote and published many enlightenment stories. Now, the effect is quite obvious.

Huo Yuhao quickly retracted his right hand, straightened his collar, looked at Zhu Ningyu in front of him, and said with a serious face: "Some time ago, the Sea God Pavilion sent a large number of people to look for something. I believe that the information cannot be hidden from you, Master Zhu. I can tell you clearly here that we did not lose something, but a person. The former master of the Tang Sect, Tang Ya, suddenly disappeared without any trace. It's as if she evaporated from the face of the earth."

Hearing this, Zhu Ningyu blinked her eyes and said thoughtfully, "Perhaps some powerful person valued Tang Ya's talent and was not too interested in the Sea God Pavilion, so he secretly accepted Tang Ya as a disciple and secretly brought her out of Shrek City."

"What kind of talent does Sister Xiaoya have that could be valued by those hidden great powers?"

Huo Yuhao’s back teeth were almost broken. He had seen people praising others before, but he had never seen anyone praising someone like this. How could this be called praising someone? It was clearly sarcastic!
"Master Zhu, I know Sister Xiaoya's situation better than anyone else, but she has done me a favor after all. I can't just ignore her sudden disappearance."

"How about this, as long as Master Zhu can provide me with clues about Sister Xiaoya's whereabouts, I am willing to use a 10,000-year-old soul beast as a bargaining chip to exchange information. If Master Zhu can send Sister Xiaoya back to Shrek City intact, I am willing to offer a 40,000-year-old Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion trunk bone."

"please."

As he spoke, Huo Yuhao suddenly stood up and bowed slightly in the direction of Zhu Ningyu.

"I'll keep an eye out for you."

Zhu Ningyu said this expressionlessly, then waved her hand, as if to see the guest off.

The two men were quite considerate. Seeing that Zhu Ningyu was getting impatient, they hurriedly bowed and, under the guidance (supervision) of a palace maid, quietly left the Liangyi Palace.

Watching the gradually receding backs of Huo Yuhao and the other man, Zhu Ningyu's gaze became increasingly profound. She felt that... Tang Ya's sudden disappearance was far from as simple as she had imagined.

You may not take the Poseidon Pavilion seriously, but you cannot underestimate the power it controls. A lean camel is bigger than a horse. After all, the Poseidon Pavilion has been the emperor of the three major empires of the original Douluo Continent for 10,000 years. It has only been a few decades since the Ningyun Sect was formed and officially established, and the coverage of its intelligence network may not necessarily catch up with that of the Poseidon Pavilion.

"How could a living person suddenly disappear?"

Zhu Ningyu folded her arms and glanced at the Douluo Continent map on the wall with an expressionless face.

She knew that even if she asked the Ningyun Sect and the intelligence departments of the Sun-Moon Empire to investigate, they could only find some irrelevant clues at best. It would still be a long way to go to solve the mystery of Tang Ya's disappearance.

Fortunately... Zhu Ningyu has most of Qin Yi's memories. As a time traveler, she will definitely not limit her investigation to Tang Ya.

"Hong Ling, notify Xu Guiyue to thoroughly check all areas within our actual control to see if there are any areas with excessively dense or thin spiritual energy, or areas with frequent spatial fluctuations, or any other unreasonable areas. Sort them out and report to me." (End of this chapter)