Douluo Continent: Dragon's Journey Across the World

Chapter 12 Secret Message

During my four years at Nottingham Primary School, aside from blacksmithing and meditation, I spent most of my mornings studying, mainly reading.

Over the course of four years, Yang Ping'an had read almost all the books in the library.

Every morning when class started, Yang Ping'an would bring a pile of books to class. While the teacher was lecturing enthusiastically, Yang Ping'an would quickly flip through the books and read, completely ignoring everyone else.

The teacher occasionally had some opinions about Yang Ping'an in class, but every time the teacher asked a question, Yang Ping'an could give a perfect answer, and some of his answers even exceeded the understanding of an elementary school student.

From then on, none of the teachers paid much attention to Yang Ping'an's studies, because in terms of theoretical knowledge, Yang Ping'an had become no less capable than these elementary school teachers through long-term reading. The only thing he lacked was some practical experience.

During this time, Yang Ping'an secretly did a small thing.

When Yang Ping'an was in the third grade, he wrote a secret report with his left hand. The report described in detail that Tang Hao was in Holy Soul Village and even described Tang Hao's current situation.

However, when Yang Ping'an threw the letter into the Spirit Hall while passing by, no news came back.

There was neither the tension and chaos I had imagined, nor any battle scenes; it was as if nothing had happened at all.

Especially when Yang Ping'an graduated from fourth grade, it was around the same time that Tang San's martial soul awakened.

Yang Ping'an wrote another secret letter, which even described Tang San's twin martial souls and Tang Hao's training of Tang San. However, the letter still disappeared without a trace and did not cause any trouble.

After sending the letters twice, Yang Ping'an just sighed and ignored the situation. It seemed that the Spirit Hall, especially some of its higher-ups, had made their attitude very clear. Since they wanted to raise a tiger to cause trouble, he wouldn't worry about them anymore. As for revenge, he would probably have to do it himself.

Yang Ping'an had also considered taking a liking to Xiao Wu, a 100,000-year-old transformed soul beast.

With her innate full soul power, Xiao Wu, a beast-type martial soul, is practically a natural candidate for a Title Douluo. If properly nurtured, she has a very high chance of becoming a Title Douluo. Even if the nurturing is poor, she can still become a Soul Douluo.

But after making a few inquiries around, Yang Ping'an found that he had no information about Xiao Wu at all.

Normally, if a village produces a promising talent with innate full soul power, it would be announced everywhere with fanfare. Such talents are usually highly sought after by various forces. However, there was no news about it in the entire city of Notting, not even from the Spirit Hall, which seemed unusually strange.

Yang Ping'an had considered hunting down Xiao Wu beforehand, but after thinking about it for a long time, he felt it was unrealistic.

Although Xiao Wu is only a six-year-old girl, she has innate full soul power and can condense soul rings on her own. She is now at least an eleventh-level soul master, while Yang Ping'an himself is only an eighth-level soul master. He might not even be able to beat Xiao Wu.

If we could have gotten news of Xiao Wu in advance and set a trap to deal with her, we might have been able to achieve something. However, there was no news from any of the surrounding villages, so the plan to hunt her down in advance was doomed.

As for intercepting Xiao Wu after she arrived in Notting City, the opportunity had already been missed. Not to mention Tang Hao, the hidden Title Douluo, Notting City, although it was just a small city, had a group leader who was a Soul King level expert, and there were also several Soul Sect masters in the city.

When a 100,000-year-old soul beast dies, in addition to its enormous blood-red 100,000-year-old soul ring, it will also leave behind a powerful soul beast aura, making it impossible for it to kill Xiao Wu without anyone noticing.

Moreover, he is currently just a child with a soul power level of eight. Soul rings are of no use to him at the moment. Trying to compete for a 100,000-year soul bone is no different from courting death. Furthermore, he does not have a soul tool or any other way to conceal the aura of a 100,000-year soul bone. Even if he does obtain the soul bone, it will only be a death warrant.

It's important to understand that Notting City is just a small city. The value of a 100,000-year-old soul bone even exceeds that of the entire city. Many powerful forces might resort to bloody massacres for information about soul bones of this level, and you yourself might be killed indiscriminately.

Thinking of this, Yang Ping'an could only sigh. It was truly a pity that he couldn't do anything about such a treasure passing by.

After much deliberation, Yang Ping'an finally decided to inform the Spirit Hall of this information. However, after the information was sent out, it still did not cause any ripples. Even the Spirit Hall in Notting City remained calm, as if nothing had happened.

Yang Ping'an was speechless for a moment, and in the end he could only continue his hard work in studying and blacksmithing, pretending that nothing had happened.

I have already sent out three messages, but I haven't received any response from either the Spirit Hall or Notting City. It's clear that someone is blocking communication between the Spirit Hall and Notting City, or perhaps there's some unseen force preventing me from sending the messages out.

After the start of the fifth grade, two figures appeared among the new students, unsurprisingly: Tang San and Xiao Wu.

Tang San appears colder than in the original story. Perhaps it's only when you meet him face-to-face that you can feel his aloofness. Maybe that's what people call the cold arrogance of a genius.

Xiao Wu, just like in the original story, is carefree and innocent, somewhat like a naive and innocent little girl. Unfortunately, all of this seems incredibly ironic to Yang Ping'an.

A girl burdened with a blood feud, a 100,000-year-old soul beast who transformed into a human to seek revenge—and this is how it ends? That so-called blood feud was nothing but a joke.

Recently, Yu Xiaogang has lost his previous dejected demeanor and has even shown a rare smile on his face, or rather, he looks somewhat gratified. Perhaps he is very excited after just accepting a new apprentice.

Whether facing Tang San or Xiao Wu, Yang Ping'an did not show a trace of hatred. At this time, Tang Hao was probably also observing in secret, and might even know Xiao Wu's identity. If anyone else dared to show a trace of hostility towards Xiao Wu, or even a trace of understanding of Xiao Wu's 100,000-year-old soul beast, the consequences would be dire.

As a fifth-grader, Yang Ping'an had no interaction with Tang San and Xiao Wu except for breakfast.

Yang Ping'an himself was content with what he saw and didn't want to be bothered by it. He figured he could take revenge later; his current focus was on improving himself, or rather, increasing his resources for revenge.

According to the original plot, he will have plenty of opportunities to take revenge in the future, so instead of worrying about the present, he should focus on the future.

Moreover, things don't happen more than three times. He had already written three secret letters and still hadn't received any news, which was already the biggest news of all.

(End of this chapter)