Douluo: The Peerless Tang Sect - The Ordinary Life of a Supporting Character

Chapter 117 The "Remnants" from Ten Thousand Years Ago

At the east gate of Shrek Academy, as usual, there were still many vendors selling things, but the boy who sold grilled fish rarely appeared anymore.

In the distance, an old man and a young man were walking towards them. The old man had short, gray hair, and although his face was full of wrinkles, he did not look old at all when he walked. He was tall and had very bright gray-blue eyes.

And that "young man" was none other than Pan Yang, who had met Wang Nan once before.

There were no guards at the main gate of Shrek Academy, only a middle-aged man sitting near the entrance. Of course, Shrek didn't need guards; although many people came to visit, no one would easily enter.

The old man and the young man were no exception; they stopped in their tracks as they approached from a distance and looked up at the gate of Shrek Academy.

The gatekeeper initially thought the two were just ordinary visitors, but after a while, he realized that they seemed to be more than just visitors.

"Hello, what brings you to Shrek Academy?"

"Oh, we're here to find someone." The old man came to his senses and looked at the gatekeeper.

"Are you looking for someone? Is it a teacher or a student? What's the person's name?"

"We're looking for a trainee named Wang Nan."

Although Wang Nan didn't tell Pan Yang his name at the beginning, with the end of the Soul Fighting Tournament, the names of Shrek Academy and his group were no longer a secret.

The gatekeeper looked at the old man suspiciously. "What do you mean by 'should'? Who are you to him?"

Pan Yang, who was about to lash out behind the old man, was stopped by the old man's hand.

"Just tell him that you had an agreement with him and that Pan Yang came to find him."

The gatekeeper glanced at the old man again, still uneasy. Seeing the old man give a seemingly kind smile, he nodded slightly, took a few steps back, and then pulled out a voice transmission device from his pocket.

This made Pan Yang, who was standing to the side, take a second look. He hadn't expected that even a gatekeeper at Shrek Academy was a Soul Master who could use a Soul Tool.

After a moment, the gatekeeper was relieved. "Alright, come in with me now."

As he spoke, the gatekeeper turned and walked into the academy, followed by the old man and Pan Yang.

After walking about two hundred meters forward, several tall statues appeared ahead.

"Alright, just wait here for a bit. The person you're looking for will be out soon. This is Shrek Academy's outer courtyard area; you can't go in anymore."

The old man nodded, watched the gatekeeper return to the entrance of Shrek Academy, and then looked up at the statues.

On the other side, Wang Nan had just stepped out of his dormitory and was about to head to the Sea God Pavilion for meditation and cultivation as usual when a teacher approached him, saying that someone was looking for him at the academy gate.

After confirming, Wang Nan realized that it must have been Pan Yang who brought her grandfather to find him that day.

When Wang Nan arrived at the outer courtyard, he saw the old man looking up at several statues.

Those statues are the Golden Trio and the first generation of Shrek Seven Devils who founded Shrek Academy ten thousand years ago. Wang Nan saw them quite often when he entered and left the academy.

However, the old man's eyes were somewhat different, appearing rather complex, and even slightly lost in thought.

"Grandpa, he's here."

Pan Yang was the first to see Wang Nan and reached out to tug at the old man's sleeve.

Upon hearing this, the old man looked towards Wang Nan, his gray-blue eyes seemingly gleaming. The Heavenly Forged Floating Dragon in Wang Nan's spiritual sea seemed to sense this and stirred slightly.

"Nice to meet you, young friend Wang Nan."

"Hello," Wang Nan replied politely, glancing at Pan Yang beside him before turning his gaze back to the old man. "I heard you've been looking for me?"

"Yes." The old man nodded. "Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Pan Huai, also known as Qian Gu Huai Wu."

After Pan Huai finished his introduction, he stared intently into Wang Nan's eyes. Seeing that Wang Nan didn't show much emotion, he couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

Wang Nan took in Pan Huai's changing expression, but he couldn't understand why Pan Huai reacted this way. Shouldn't he have heard of this name before?

"How about this, if you'd like, young friend, I'll start from the beginning?"

Wang Nan nodded.

"Let's start with the Panlong Staff martial spirit of our lineage," Pan Huai said, his gaze once again falling on the statues in front of him. "Although the story of Shrek Academy and the first generation of Shrek Seven Devils is well-known, you probably didn't hear much about it when you were a child, right?"

Wang Nan had also wondered about this matter, but he always thought it was because he was precocious that his parents wouldn't tell him these kinds of stories meant for young children. Now it seems there's more to it than meets the eye.

"Actually, to be honest, all of them can be considered our enemies." Pan Huai's eyes changed, and he began to tell a story from ten thousand years ago.

"Ten thousand years ago, there was an organization on the Douluo Continent called the Spirit Hall. At its peak, the Spirit Hall's influence spread throughout the entire Douluo Continent, and its Papal Palace once became a holy place in the hearts of all spirit masters on the continent."

Wang Nan nodded in agreement with Pan Huai's words.

Even though he hadn't studied these terms in depth in his previous life, he had still heard of them before. Furthermore, they were recorded in Shrek Academy's history.

"Above the Papal Palace, there is a Hall of Worship, which can only be entered by those whose cultivation has reached the level of a Title Douluo. Our ancestors are among those enshrined there."

Pan Huai lowered his head, his eyes dimming. "Later, the Spirit Hall was destroyed, and our opponents at the time were the first generation of Shrek Seven Devils. Our two ancestors also retired from the world and no longer concerned themselves with worldly affairs."

"Later, the first generation of Shrek Seven Devils achieved godhood. After the two ancestors passed away one after another, their descendants could only change their surnames and live in anonymity. Only the direct descendants of the two ancestors changed their surnames to 'Pan' and 'Long' from the Panlong Staff martial soul, and passed down the story of their ancestors by word of mouth."

"The Panlong Staff martial soul of the two ancestors sealed a Heavenly Awakening Golden Dragon. Similarly, only the Panlong Staff that has awakened the dragon soul is the true Panlong Staff martial soul."

Based on his impressions from his previous life, Wang Nan did not believe that Pan Huai was lying. Perhaps in this life, he really did have the bloodline of those two Title Douluos, and he might also have a name like Qian Gu Nan Li.

But what's the point of saying these things to him?

Wang Nan could understand a lot from the name Pan Huai, no, Qian Gu Huai Wu, but to him, the Spirit Hall was just a name. He never had the same feelings for the Spirit Hall as he did for Pan Huai.

(End of this chapter)