Douluo Jueshi: I Don't Want to Be an Evil Soul Master

Chapter 121 Strange Mission
As a Titled Douluo, his heart suddenly trembled.

There seemed to be a hint of gray in Lin Xiao's eyes. Although it was fleeting, it made Sleepy Nightmare Douluo feel fear for some reason.

"Did the teacher just get back from headquarters?"

Lin Xiao spoke, bringing Sleepy Nightmare Douluo back to his senses. "Yes, the Sun-Moon Empire is about to start a continental war. The leader has ordered the disciples to prepare early. I am also going to the three empires under the leader's orders. It's a good opportunity for you to return at this time, and I have something to tell you."

Sleepy Nightmare Douluo walked to the side and sat down. Just as he was about to speak, he looked at Lin Xiao for a few more times and suddenly changed the subject, "I see that you have broken through the bottleneck of level 70. Have you found a suitable spirit ring?"

"Yes, disciple is lucky."

"Did you find it yourself? How old is it? Show it to me."

Lin Xiao hesitated for a moment, but still activated his soul power. As the red spider lily bloomed in his palm, seven soul rings, six black and one red, rose together.

The aura of the hundred thousand year soul ring spread out instantly. At this time, in the underground hall, besides Lin Xiao and Sleepy Nightmare Douluo, there were two other disciples of the sect. The two seemed to feel a great pressure for a moment. They leaned against the wall and looked at Lin Xiao, their breathing becoming a little rapid.

Sleepy Nightmare Douluo stood up with a "swoosh" and stared at the red seventh soul ring beside Lin Xiao with a look of surprise and doubt.

It was not until a long time had passed that his gaze slowly fell on Lin Xiao's face, and a hidden look flashed in the depths of his eyes.

"Okay, not bad. A hundred thousand year spirit ring. You're really lucky. Keep it for now." Sleepy Nightmare Douluo nodded repeatedly and fell silent for a moment. He just kept looking at Lin Xiao. After a long while, he spoke again, "When did you come back? Does anyone else know your whereabouts?"

"The disciple just returned not long ago. When he came back, there were only these two disciples here." Lin Xiaochao glanced to the side, "No one else should know about the disciple's return."

Sleepy Nightmare Douluo nodded, "Then don't tell anyone for now. I just said that I was planning to find someone to do what the leader arranged. Now that you're back, I feel most at ease leaving it to you."

"Teacher, what's the matter?" Lin Xiao moved a little closer.

Sleepy Nightmare Douluo glanced at the two disciples standing nearby and said, "There's a very strange valley west of Mingdu. Disciples from the sect have mysteriously disappeared there before. Take them there and investigate what happened."

west?

Lin Xiao's mind raced, and he quickly recalled that the only truly eerie place west of Mingdu was Qiankun Wenqing Valley. However, in his memory, the Sun-Moon Empire had activated that place by sacrificing a man and a woman before launching a war. They should have known the reason long ago, so why did they still ask him to investigate?

Could it be that the Holy Spirit Church at this time still didn't know about the strangeness of that place?

Although he still had doubts in his heart, Lin Xiao still agreed, "Yes, teacher."

"Well, you guys leave immediately. I'll leave as well as soon as possible." Sleepy Nightmare Douluo said as he took the lead and walked out of the branch altar.

Lin Xiao glanced at the two disciples next to him. They seemed to have not yet recovered from the 100,000-year spirit ring, and their eyes looked at Lin Xiao evasively.

"Let's go." Lin Xiao didn't say much and walked out along the corridor. The two disciples naturally had no objection to Sleepy Nightmare Douluo's arrangement and followed him.

When Lin Xiao reappeared, he was already amidst a mountain range. Having already guessed his target, his flying soul tool carried him through the air, his gaze constantly sweeping across the valleys, trying to find the lake hidden within. The other two disciples behind him were not far away, occasionally glancing up at Lin Xiao before hurriedly looking away. Although the aura of a 100,000-year soul ring couldn't compare to that of a true 100,000-year soul beast, the pressure of feeling it up close in the not-so-spacious underground hall of the branch altar still instilled in them a degree of fear towards Lin Xiao.

"grown ups?"

"Hmm?" Lin Xiao slowed down a bit after hearing this. "Did you find anything?"

"No...no." The disciple who had just spoken shook his head repeatedly, "It's just that I'm afraid we won't find anything if we search like this."

Lin Xiao became interested and glanced at the disciple. "So, you know what we're investigating?"

"No, no, sir, I have only heard of the legends about this place, and I don't know what exactly is here."

"Legend? What kind of legend?"

"Hmm..." The disciple thought for a moment, "I don't remember the details, but it's a story my grandmother told me when I was a child. It said there was a god living in the mountains who would punish children who trespassed into his territory."

"That's not right. I remember that they would punish men and women who were unfaithful in love." Another disciple heard the conversation between the two and interrupted.

"Have you heard of similar legends?" Lin Xiao suddenly frowned, feeling something was wrong.

"Yes." The disciple nodded. "The children around Mingdu should be quite familiar with this story. It has been circulating for a long time."

Has it been around for a long time?

Lin Xiao came to his senses. Though similarly a treasured place, Qiankun Wenqing Valley wasn't located in a place surrounded by spirit beasts like the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire. It also didn't have anything like poisonous miasma blocking its path, and even on a normal day, there wasn't anything unusual going on.

Over tens of thousands of years, it is inevitable that soul masters or ordinary people would pass by there, occasionally seeing something strange and leaving behind a few words of records like stories.

But if there are really many stories like this, the Holy Spirit Church should have noticed it a long time ago. Why did they wait until now to let me investigate?

Or does Sleepy Nightmare Douluo have other motives?

Lin Xiao carefully recalled the scenes since he came back and met Sleepy Nightmare Douluo. His words flashed through his ears again. He glanced at the two disciples following him again, and suddenly a bad thought came to his mind.

Why did Sleepy Nightmare Douluo ask if anyone else knew about his return? Why did the only two disciples who knew his whereabouts come out with him... Was Sleepy Nightmare Douluo really going to the three empires to carry out a mission...

Thoughts kept churning in his mind, and before Lin Xiao could come up with an answer, the two Holy Spirit Sect disciples flying beside him suddenly fell behind, as if they had fainted, and fell straight to the ground without any warning.

wrong.

Lin Xiao's expression suddenly changed upon seeing this. The flying soul guide behind him turned and flew rapidly towards the ground. The moment he landed, he did not look at the two disciples who had fallen to the ground, but turned back to look at the sky.

(End of this chapter)