Douluo Continent: Peerless Angel Qian Renxue.

Chapter 12 Using a borrowed knife to kill, the revenge begins

The other students were also detected by Qian Renxue. This team was not particularly strong. The students were mostly between fourteen and sixteen years old, but there was not a single Soul Master. There were only two sixteen-year-old students whose Soul Power had reached level forty, the Soul Venerable level.

Their mission was likely to attach spirit rings to these two students.

A bunch of small fry.

A disdainful thought flashed through Qian Renxue's mind. At this age, Soul Masters could only say that their achievements in this life would not be very high.

For no apparent reason, she recalled the battle at Jialing Pass. It wasn't the final battle between the gods, but rather the battle before that. When the Heavenly Dou Empire attacked Jialing Pass, their prolonged offensive failed to breach the city gates, so they allowed that old bastard Dugu Bo to release some poison, practically turning Jialing Pass into a dead zone.

……

"Tang San, can't you sense the deadly poison attack unleashed by Poison Douluo? There are over 500,000 people in Jialing Pass. It won't be long before the city is devastated. As the instigator, aren't you afraid of divine retribution?"

Tang San sneered, "You don't need to tell me these things. When your Spirit Hall attacked the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and wiped them out, did you think about divine retribution? When your Spirit Hall attacked my parents, did you think about divine retribution? The people who died were from the Spirit Empire. What does that have to do with me? You're the one who should be worried, right?"

……

Qian Renxue sat on a tree branch and closed her eyes. "So what if the Spirit Hall attacked your parents? Wasn't that because your mother's true form was a spirit beast? Did she kill a single innocent person while fighting your parents?"

The Spirit Hall did indeed launch a sneak attack on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but regardless, this was a struggle between two forces. The Spirit Hall has never sacrificed 500,000 people for a single victory! Not 500,000, but 500,000!

"I did kill a lot of people. I heard that after I returned to the Spirit Hall, the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace still called me an executioner." Qian Renxue smiled silently. "But compared to you, I am still ashamed of myself."

Yes, yes, those who died were all from the Spirit Empire. You caused widespread suffering by using Dugu Bo's hand. In the end, you can just shift the blame onto Poison Douluo. How could you, the pure and innocent Tang San Shao, admit to what you said?

When I finally fell from the sky thousands of meters away and had to retreat, my second grandfather, fourth grandfather, and fifth grandfather all sacrificed themselves.

She took a deep breath and calmed herself down. Although her other self always called her an idiot, she wasn't reckless. Knowing her current abilities, she needed to plan carefully first.

She really wanted to kill them all, but no matter how strong she was now, she couldn't directly face a Soul Emperor-level opponent plus a bunch of weaklings. This Soul Emperor-level teacher likely possessed a powerful, offensive fire-attribute martial soul; that was her conclusion.

She thought for a moment, then concealed herself.

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Time passed little by little, and before we knew it, it was already late at night.

The Shrek members were meditating and cultivating inside the cave, while two students were guarding the cave entrance.

"Hey, isn't it time for the shift change?" asked Person A.

Person B looked up at the moon in the sky and nodded slightly: "That's about enough. In five minutes, let Person C and Person D take over, and we'll go and rest for a bit."

Person A sat down next to Person B: "I don't know why, but to help find a suitable spirit ring, we have to apply to the academy. I heard that it was only after Teacher Zhou pleaded with Brother Wang and Sister Li that the Spirit Department approved our application."

Person B: "The academy is probably doing this to train our abilities, right? Although we three-ring Soul Masters have no problem facing Soul Masters of the same level, hunting Souls alone is still dangerous. It's infuriating that they say they're helping with Soul Hunting, but that's a privilege only core disciples enjoy. Shouldn't they be looking after those of us who aren't core disciples?"

A nodded: "That's right, but have you heard? Not long ago, a group of sixth-grade students went to search for their fifth spirit ring without a teacher's guidance, and more than half of them were killed or injured."

Person B: "I've heard about this. Apparently, they ventured too deep into the Star Dou Great Forest and were attacked by ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts... Tsk, we probably won't end up like that too..."

"Help—!" Before the person in question could finish speaking, a cry for help came from not far away.

"Bang—bang—" Following the cries for help were heavy and rapid footsteps. "...No way?" Someone swallowed hard.

"Help!" A girl dressed in a white and gold outfit was stumbling and running towards the cave where they were.

"You jinx!" Zhou Yi, who had discovered the situation earlier than A and B, shouted into the cave, "Wake up, everyone! Trouble's at our door!"

The other students were instantly jolted awake from their meditation and rushed to the cave entrance, where they all swallowed hard.

At the same time, the girl in the white and gold outfit stumbled to the cave entrance and came up behind the Shrek group, tears streaming down her face: "Save me, please, save me!"

Zhou Yi shoved her aside and asked sharply, "Who are you?"

"I...I came here with my family to hunt souls, but...but I don't know what happened, these soul beasts went crazy and trampled...trampled our camp..." The girl gasped for breath, explaining between sobs.

The moment the other students reached the cave entrance, a spotted leopard spirit beast, appearing out of nowhere, pounced from afar, roaring towards the entrance. Behind it followed a large group of other spirit beasts!

"What's going on?" Xiao Wang stared dumbfounded at the approaching soul beast. It was true that he came to hunt souls, and before meditating tonight, he had already confirmed with Teacher Zhou which soul beast to hunt. But we came to hunt souls, not to feed soul beasts!

Outside, there were countless soul beasts. Zhou Yi glanced at them and found that almost all of them were at the thousand-year level, with the highest cultivation being an eight-thousand-year-old Azure Blood Serpent.

"How did you escape?" Zhou Yi continued to ask.

"Waaah... I was brought out by my own father at great personal risk. Originally, we just wanted to..."

"Enough! Damn it." Zhou Yi interrupted her, her eyes shifting between light and dark. She glanced at the girl up and down; she was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and the aura emanating from her was around that of a Soul Master. This was undeniable, meaning that her family had been hunting for a Soul Ring for her, but had been caught in a small-scale beast tide.

"More than eighty in number. Damn it, how did these soul beasts suddenly appear in such large groups?" Zhou Yi muttered. She was indeed a Soul Emperor, so facing thousand-year-old soul beasts alone would be extremely easy for her. If she were alone now, breaking out of this place wouldn't be impossible.

But unfortunately, she had a few burdens behind her.

Moreover, why would these soul beasts launch a beast tide?

A fierce glint flashed in Qian Renxue's eyes. How did they appear? It's because I went out and released some blood, and these guys came here following the scent.

This was a plan she came up with on the spur of the moment. Since her aura could attract a two-winged demon tiger of the thousand-year level, her blood would surely attract even more soul beasts.

Anyone can use someone else to do their dirty work. Since the ones who die are Shrek's people, and we'll have to face them anyway, it's better to kill a couple first.

Dugu Bo smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, I am truly ashamed and unworthy of such praise. I was able to let go but not to take it back, which almost caused a great disaster. Fortunately, Tang San was able to deal with those deadly poisons; otherwise, I would probably have become a sinner for all time."

Tang Hao laughed and said, "I wouldn't call you a sinner for all time, but you can't escape the title of butcher. Actually, it's nothing. At worst, you'll just poison everyone in the Spirit Empire. We just need to withdraw our troops and let you deal with the poison slowly. We'll still get Jialing Pass, it'll just take a little longer."

Evil Soul Master Tang Hao, O(∩_∩)O haha~

(End of this chapter)