Douluo Continent: The World Shines with Stars

Chapter 37 The Three-Year Agreement

Xu Mingxi plunged into the Star Dou Great Forest without looking back. The Star Crown Sect recalled most of its disciples, leaving only a few still training outside, Xu Mingguang being one of them.

Amidst the turmoil in the outside world, the Holy Maiden of the Spirit Hall believes she has found true love, while the abandoned son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan begins to peruse books and organize materials in the Spirit Hall's library.

The Haotian Twin Stars roamed the continent, gaining fame and encountering the people they loved most in their lives. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, relying on the Sword and Bone Twin Douluo, expanded its business throughout the entire continent.

The Star Luo Empire was ambitious and wanted to conquer the entire Heaven Dou Empire. The Spirit Hall mediated and curbed the development of the Star Luo Empire, and the entire continent entered a relatively stable period of development.

Three years later, the sect leader personally led the Grand Elder and two Title Douluo to a small town on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, the place they had agreed to meet with Xu Mingxi years ago.

The vast Star Dou Great Forest is like a man-eating beast; every year, every day, people lose their lives here.

The two began a long wait. As the days passed, the Grand Elder's face gradually turned ashen, and a hint of pain was faintly revealed in the Sect Master's eyes.

Just when they thought the future of the Star Crown Sect was doomed in the Star Dou Great Forest, Xu Mingxi walked out of the Star Dou Great Forest alone. The moment she saw the Sect Master and the Grand Elder, she could finally faint in peace.

The elder's eyes were filled with tears. This was his grandson whom he had spoiled for twenty years. He looked at Xu Mingxi's clothes stained with bright red blood, his disheveled hair, beard, and weathered face.

Knowing that the sect leader had carried Xu Mingxi on his back, the Grand Elder saw the centipede-like scar that stretched from his back to his neck. He couldn't hold back anymore, and tears streamed down the face of this nearly 100-year-old man.

"Let's go back to the sect."

After checking on him, the two found that Xu Mingxi had only fainted due to overwork. They then washed him up, bought the most expensive and comfortable carriage in town, and took the young sect leader of the Star Crown Sect back to the sect.

Unbeknownst to them, shortly after they left, a group of burly men rushed out of the Star Dou Great Forest, searching with Xu Mingxi's portrait, seemingly claiming that they had stolen something from them.

The portrait depicts Xu Mingxi after his trials and tribulations, looking disheveled with messy hair, stubble, and his face covered in dust, dressed in tattered ordinary soul master attire.

Even if Xu Mingguang came, he might not recognize that it was his once proud and noble younger brother.

Xu Mingxi was picked up by the sect leader and the first elder as soon as he left the Star Dou Great Forest. The people in the town had never seen him before, let alone knew where he had gone.

The burly man at the head of the group brutally unleashed his martial spirit, and seven spirit rings appeared on his body. The seventh spirit ring, as black as ink, lit up directly, and with a single blow, the entire town was razed to the ground.

The soul masters in the town fled in droves. Those who survived looked at the hammer in his hand, furious but unable to speak out. After watching him completely destroy the town, they led their teams away.

Across the continent, Xu Mingxi's hastily written wanted poster began to circulate. Anyone who found it could claim a reward of ten thousand gold soul coins from the Haotian Sect.

The instigator had already returned to Xingluo Mountain by carriage. Xu Mingxi woke up from his unconsciousness midway and saw his grandfather sitting beside him. He ate a few bites of food and then fell into a deep sleep again. He was really too tired in the past three years.

A few days later, Xu Mingxi, having finally woken up after a good night's sleep, washed up and changed into a high-necked Soul Master robe, covering the scars on his back and neck. Looking at his reflection in the water, he felt as if he had been transported to another world. He greeted his mother and walked alone through Falling Star Mountain, looking at every blade of grass and tree around him. Time seemed to have stopped within this mountain, almost completely unchanged; the only change was in the Star Crown Sect members who had grown up here.

Xu Mingxi entered the main hall of the sect. Since receiving the news that Xu Mingxi had woken up, the sect leader and eleven elders, except for the fifth elder who was guarding Xu Mingguang outside, had all arrived and had been waiting for a long time.

They looked at Xu Mingxi, whom they hadn't seen for many years, and were even a little dazed. He was completely different. The confidence and sharpness he exuded from the inside out were dazzling even to these old guys.

Xu Mingxi nodded to the sect leader and several elders, and then smiled gently when he saw his father sitting at the bottom of the table.

With that smile, Xu Mingxi instantly concealed his outward sharpness, hiding it all within his body. He would never direct his sharpness at his family and sect, whom he had nurtured.

The sect leader and elders were very pleased. This was more like the heir of the sect. What was the point of his previous behavior? They just wondered if Mingxi had fallen behind in his soul power cultivation during his three years in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Xu Mingxi knew what the sect leader and elders were thinking. The star crown appeared, and six soul rings lit up in the sky above it. Level 67 Battle Soul Emperor, reporting for duty.

As long as his soul power cultivation hadn't fallen behind, this cultivation speed was even faster than Xu Mingxi's original cultivation speed in the sect. No one asked about his sixth soul skill; after leaving a single sentence, they all dispersed.

Seven days later, the succession ceremony for the young sect leader will be held.

When Xu Mingxi returned home, she was surrounded by her grandfather and parents, receiving their concern, and slowly recounted the good experiences of the past three years.

For the past three years, apart from hunting souls and traveling, Xu Mingxi has been either cultivating or on his way to cultivation, even squeezing his sleep time to the extreme, which is why he has achieved his current level of soul power cultivation.

At first, he went to a small town outside the Star Dou Great Forest alone, investigated for a few days, and joined a well-known Soul Hunter Mercenary Group.

At first, things went relatively smoothly. He was able to earn some gold soul coins while training. When he reached level 60, he even encountered a nearly 20,000-year-old Howling Moon Silver Wolf by chance. With the help of his teammates, he successfully hunted it down and obtained his current sixth soul ring.

But their good fortune didn't last long. During a hunt for a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, a soul bone was discovered. As the leader of the mercenary group and the only Soul Saint, he immediately turned hostile and wanted to kill all the members of the group.

Their mercenary group valued quality over quantity, and including Xu Mingxi, there were only six people. The two Soul Emperors and Soul Kings closest to the leader were killed without warning.

The remaining three fled for their lives, but they were no match for the enemy. Xu Mingxi was the last one to be chased, and she only managed to escape because of the night. Even so, she was left with indelible scars.

As for the soul bone, it naturally fell into the hands of the leader. Xu Mingxi remembered him thoroughly, the Soul Saint known as Giant Wing, who turned into a devil in the face of profit.

(End of this chapter)