Douluo Continent: From Seven Treasure Glazed Tile to Crescent Moon's Solemnity

Chapter 195 Brothers | Regret | Admitting Mistakes

The time it took for Ning Feiliu to acquire the spirit ring this time, from entering the Star Dou Great Forest to leaving and returning to Heaven Dou City, was even faster than when she reabsorbed her third spirit ring last time.

Last time, he stayed in the Star Dou Great Forest for a full eight days, but this time he only took less than five days, four and a half days, to obtain the soul ring he wanted and return to Heaven Dou City.

This was naturally thanks to Ning Fengzhi's intelligence gathering capabilities as a major power, which allowed him to determine the habitat and most likely location of the Demon Eye Tree early on when he entered the Star Dou Great Forest.

This certainly saved a lot of effort.

After returning to Tiandou City, Ning Feiliu followed Ning Fengzhi and the others back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

"Fei Liu, you've worked hard too. Go back and rest first," Ning Fengzhi said to him with a smile. "I've had people clean and tidy your room these past few days, and I even renovated the garden in front of you. It should look much more comfortable now."

Ning Feiliu immediately smiled and nodded, "Thank you, Father."

Ning Fengzhi, satisfied, returned home accompanied by Sword Douluo.

After seeing him leave, Ning Feiliu shook her head.

This cheapskate father is quite good at winning people over, but unfortunately... it's not of much use to him.

Ning Fengzhi is now acting as his personal nanny, doing nothing but taking care of him to the extreme, and he doesn't even feel it.

Unless it's like a cliché novel plot, like in the original story where Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo sacrifice their lives to save that nobody...

He's not the kind of heartless, hypocritical person like a loser; he'd definitely be deeply moved by it.

"Big brother, let's go talk over there first," Ning Feiliu said with a smile to Ning Mingrui beside her, no longer insisting on the matter.

"Okay." Ning Mingrui nodded and walked side by side with Ning Feiliu.

Along the way, the two brothers began to loosen their inhibitions and start talking.

When they were in the Star Dou Great Forest, with elders like Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Dugu Bo around, they were definitely very reserved and didn't say anything.

Even a girl as outgoing as Dugu Yan appeared very well-behaved on the street.

Now that they are only brothers, Ning Mingrui finally opened up a bit and had some genuine conversations with Ning Feiliu.

"To be honest, it didn't really help me go there with you this time. It was such a long and tiring trip for me," Ning Mingrui said helplessly.

Ning Feiliu smiled. It was true. Ning Mingrui's trip this time was purely to accompany him. He neither absorbed the spirit ring nor did he need to help. So he just ran around for nothing.

"Just think of it as a trip. Brother, you've probably never been to the Star Dou Great Forest before," he said with a smile.

"What haven't I been to? I went to the Star Dou Great Forest when I absorbed my third spirit ring," Ning Mingrui said helplessly. "But I didn't go that far. Back then, my father sent an outer sect elder and several outer sect senior brothers to accompany me."

"Unlike Fei Liu, when you were hunting for spirit rings this time, even Grandpa Sword came out of his way."

He was also intentionally or unintentionally trying to salvage Ning Fengzhi and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's image in Ning Feiliu's mind.

Ning Feiliu smiled wryly and didn't say anything more.

And just then...

"Big brother! Little sister!" A familiar voice came from the side as they walked into the garden in front of Ning Feiliu's residence.

Ning Feiliu and Ning Mingrui turned around and saw that it was Ning Shouzong, Ning Xiaosi, Ning Xiaowu and his two brothers.

The three brothers seemed to be waiting for Ning Feiliu and Ning Mingrui here.

Ning Feiliu looked somewhat helpless and said to Ning Shouzong, "Second brother, could you please stop calling me 'Little Third'? It doesn't sound very nice."

He found the term "scoundrel" genuinely creepy.

However, he had only mentioned this to Ning Mingrui before, and he had not mentioned it to Ning Shouzong, Ning Xiaosi, and Ning Xiaowu.

"Ah? Then I'll just call you by your name from now on," Ning Shouzong said with a hearty laugh.

"Xiao Si, Xiao Wu, don't call me Third Brother anymore. You can just call me by my name, or even just Brother," Ning Feiliu said to Ning Xiao Si and Ning Xiao Wu.

"Okay...Brother Fei Liu." Ning Xiaosi and Ning Xiaowu had no choice but to call out like that.

"I know you have many questions, so let's talk about it here," Ning Feiliu said, glancing at them before sitting down on a stone bench in the garden with a smile.

The brothers all sat down together, and Ning Shouzong, the oldest and most outgoing, spoke first, "Fei Liu, you really are... You're usually so quiet, but suddenly you've shocked everyone! Goodness!"

"Brother Fei Liu is really amazing." Ning Xiaosi and Ning Xiaowu said with envy.

Ning Feiliu smiled and shook her head, jokingly saying, "Alright, I won't pretend anymore. I am indeed a peerless genius, one in ten thousand in the Douluo Continent!"

"Oh yeah, yeah, you're a genius! But you kept it from us brothers for so long," Ning Shouzong joked. "Shouldn't you be punished? Hehe, Fei Liu, you've never had a drink before, right? You have to drink a few pounds with me tonight!"

Ning Feiliu smirked and said, "Second Brother, you're mistaken. I've drunk alcohol before, and... not to exaggerate, how many kilograms? I could drink a whole bucket if you brought me!"

Ever since Ning Feiliu was drunk by Dugu Yan and tasted the wine from Douluo Continent that tasted like a beverage from her past life, she has fallen in love with this stuff.

He began to understand why some people in novels liked this stuff. It was like the drinks in his previous life, with a slightly fermented sweetness and aroma, much like an alcoholic beverage. Who wouldn't like to drink it?

At the same time, Ning Feiliu also improved his alcohol tolerance—mainly by using his soul power to accelerate the breakdown of alcohol, so that he could truly be called someone who could drink a thousand cups without getting drunk.

"Hahaha, that's even better!" Ning Shouzong, clearly a drunkard himself, exclaimed joyfully, "Let's all have a few drinks tonight!"

Ning Mingrui said helplessly, "Shouzong... stop making a fuss. And Xiaosi and Xiaowu, don't follow your two older brothers' example. You are still young and can't drink alcohol."

Ning Xiaosi and Ning Xiaowu had initially been somewhat hopeful, but upon hearing their elder brother Ning Mingrui's words, they immediately deflated.

"Big brother, you have to come tonight too!" Ning Shouzong turned his attention to Ning Mingrui and said, "You have to drink too! You definitely knew about Fei Liu a long time ago, good heavens, and you didn't tell us! Xiao Si, Xiao Wu, you guys are coming tonight too. If you can't drink alcohol, can't you at least eat something else and drink some honey water?"

"Alright, alright..." Ning Mingrui said with a smile, "I'll drink with you guys until we drop tonight..."

Suddenly, as if remembering something, he slapped his forehead and said, "I almost forgot something. Now that everyone knows about Fei Liu, it's time to give you the Xuan Shui Pill that Fei Liu entrusted to me."

He took out a box from his soul tool, which was... the Xuan Shui Pill that Ning Feiliu had given him back then.

Previously, in order to continue to keep Ning Feiliu's secret, he did not directly give the Xuan Shui Pill to Ning Shouzong.

"This is... Xuan Shui Dan?" Ning Shouzong was stunned for a moment; he was a little confused.

The Xuan Shui Pill... that's a legendary elixir that's famous throughout Tian Dou City. Currently, only one Xuan Shui Pill has appeared on the market. It was bought by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School for a sky-high price of 1.2 million gold soul coins and given to Ning Rongrong, the most talented among them.

As a result, the Xuan Shui Pill, worth a million gold soul coins, appeared in front of him so easily.

"It's absolutely genuine, I've taken one myself, it's definitely real," Ning Mingrui said with a smile. "Would I lie to you? Besides, this Xuan Shui Pill came from Fei Liu, who is Senior Dugu's student... how could it be fake?"

Ning Shouzong was somewhat incredulous. In the current era of Douluo Continent, the Xuan Shui Dan was truly a celestial pill that Soul Masters dreamed of.

So of course he was excited.

Ning Mingrui looked at him with a smile and said, "Alright, take it. And if you want to thank someone, don't thank me, thank Fei Liu."

"Fei Liu... this is such a valuable thing." Ning Shouzong was conflicted at this moment, looking at Ning Fei Liu with struggle in his eyes.

He really couldn't accept something so valuable without feeling guilty.

However, Ning Feiliu shook her head, smiled, and said, "What's so valuable about it... Second Brother, don't listen to the hype outside. Let me tell you the truth, this Xuan Shui Pill isn't that difficult to refine at all. I can easily make more than a dozen a day..."

Then he actually smiled and took out several medicine boxes from his soul tool, opened the lids one by one, and inside were Xuan Shui Pills.

This truly stunned the three Ning brothers, Ning Shouzong, Ning Xiaosi, and Ning Xiaowu.

One Xuan Shui Pill is worth over a million gold soul coins. There are six or seven Xuan Shui Pills here, which is equivalent to nearly ten million gold soul coins!

Ning Feiliu smiled and pushed two boxes containing Xuan Shui Pills in front of Ning Xiaosi and Ning Xiaowu respectively, saying, "Alright, now that everyone knows, I don't need to hold back anymore. But what your second brother has, Xiaosi and Xiaowu should have too. Here, these are for you."

He had already made preparations, and once his identity was exposed, there was no need for Xuan Shui Dan to hide it from Ning Xiaosi and Ning Xiaowu.

However, he still smiled and said to Ning Shouzong and the others, "But Second Brother, Xiao Si, Xiao Wu, you have to keep the cost and quantity of this Xuan Shui Pill a secret for me. This is a great way to make money."

When Ning Shouzong, Ning Xiaosi, and Ning Xiaowu heard Ning Feiliu say this, they stopped being coy and accepted the Xuan Shui Pill.

However, they secretly vowed in their hearts that from then on they would support Ding Ningfei.

If Ning Feiliu were to declare his intention to vie for the position of sect leader in the future, they would all support him as much as possible!

Of course, if such a situation were to occur, I believe that the eldest brother Ning Mingrui would voluntarily relinquish his position as heir immediately, and Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo would also be quite willing.

"Of course I know that, don't worry. I've managed the sect's business before, so it definitely won't leak out," Ning Shouzong said, patting his chest.

"We won't tell anyone either," Ning Xiaosi and Ning Xiaowu said firmly.

"Don't be so serious." Ning Feiliu nodded in satisfaction, but still smiled and said in a relaxed manner, "Among us brothers... I think it's best to relax a bit. But second brother, you'll have to splurge a little tonight and get plenty of good wine and snacks!"

"Don't worry about that! Tonight, we'll have plenty of good wine and food. I'll have the Royal Hotel in the city send over thirty bottles of Qiongyun wine, and the sect's master chef will prepare a table full of delicious dishes. Let's have a good drink together!" Ning Shouzong said generously.

Ning Feiliu had already given him such a precious Xuan Shui Pill, so he couldn't be stingy. A bottle of Qiong Yun Wine from the Tian Dou Royal Hotel cost five hundred gold soul coins, so it was clear that he had really gone all out.

However, even if this adds up to more than 10,000 gold soul coins, it's definitely nothing compared to the "market price" of the Xuan Shui Dan, which is more than one million gold soul coins.

Ning Shouzong was well aware of this, and he did not show any heartache as if his own flesh had been cut off. On the contrary, he could not hide his joy.

"No problem." Ning Feiliu smiled slightly, but at that moment, he turned his head to look at the shadows of the garden corridor behind him and said coldly, "How long do you plan to hide here? Say what you want to say."

Ning Mingrui, Ning Shouzong, and the others were taken aback. Then they saw a familiar petite figure walking out from behind Ning Feiliu, biting her lip.

"Third...Third Brother, and also Eldest Brother, Second Brother, Fourth Brother, Fifth Brother..." Ning Rongrong seemed like a completely different person, appearing extremely obedient.

However, Ning Feiliu wasn't buying it. She changed her previous amiable demeanor from when she was with her brothers and said coldly, "There's no need for this pretense. Besides, I'm not used to it. I'm more used to your previous little witch look."

"Third Brother...I..." Ning Rongrong's face was pale, and she wanted to say something.

"Wrong, you should call me trash." Ning Feiliu interrupted again calmly, "Ning Rongrong, stop pretending, you weren't always this nice to me."

"That was because Rongrong was ignorant before..." Ning Rongrong's pretty face immediately broke into tears as she cried to Ning Feiliu, "Third Brother... I really know I was wrong... I was wrong..."

Her pitiful appearance made it impossible to tell whether she was faking it or genuinely regretting it.

but……

For Ning Feiliu, regret is useless. Why didn't she do it earlier?

If Ning Feiliu were still that "useless third brother," would Ning Rongrong apologize like she is now?

So whether Ning Rongrong truly regretted it or was just pretending, it made little difference to Ning Feiliu.

He will not accept the apology, nor will he feel any pity for Ning Rongrong now.

"What kind of remorse is this?" Ning Feiliu said disdainfully. "You only regret it because I've become stronger, not because you actually know you were wrong. If you really knew you were wrong, you should have come out and apologized to me after you finished your confinement, instead of... it's been more than a year since that incident, and you're only now putting on this act."

If Ning Rongrong really showed concern for him after he woke up from the water, or apologized to him after he was released from confinement, Ning Feiliu might actually have some feelings for her.

But it's a pity...

Ning Rongrong's mischievous personality meant she would never do such a thing, which caused her relationship with Ning Feiliu to deteriorate to the extreme.

"I...I..." Ning Rongrong immediately regretted it again.

Why did she treat her brother Ning Feiliu like that? He was her own brother who was so good to her! At the time, she only felt that she had been wronged and she couldn't tolerate this. So she went to cause trouble for Ning Feiliu.

But... Ning Feiliu fell into the water and became seriously ill, and almost died, which resulted in her being subjected to unreasonable demands.

Isn't his grievance ten times, or even a hundred times, greater than hers?

Why couldn't she have thought about Ning Feiliu back then?

"Rongrong... Rongrong is sorry, Third Brother..." Ning Rongrong said, her face pale.

This sight made Ning Mingrui and his brothers, including Ning Shouzong, feel a little sorry for him.

After all, she's their sister...

Before what happened with Ning Feiliu, they actually loved their younger sister Ning Rongrong quite a bit.

But after what happened, they only distanced themselves from Ning Rongrong because they were standing up for Ning Feiliu.

But they did not try to persuade Ning Feiliu at this moment.

After all, Ning Rongrong was the one in the wrong, and Ning Feiliu was the victim. Now, they want to force the victim to forgive the perpetrator.

This is simply unacceptable.

"Don't call me Third Brother, I really don't like that title," Ning Feiliu said coldly.

He genuinely disliked the nickname "scoundrel" in the original storyline, especially when Ning Rongrong said it. In the original storyline, Ning Rongrong called the scoundrel "Third Brother," which sounded much more impressive.

But she was so cruel to her real brother; just thinking about it makes her seem like the ultimate ingrate.

"Don't show your face in front of me again. I won't pursue anything further. You're still the young lady of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, but that has nothing to do with me anymore," Ning Feiliu said impatiently.

He couldn't bring himself to kill Ning Rongrong, and he couldn't be bothered to care about her anymore.

After all, cultivation is the most important thing. Ning Rongrong can no longer take the Qiluo Tulip as in the original story to upgrade her martial soul to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. She will never be able to break through level 80 again in this lifetime.

And this is the best revenge against her.

Hearing Ning Feiliu's resolute words, Ning Rongrong knew that nothing she said would make a difference. With a pale face, she left without saying another word, accompanied by her attendants.

This surprised Ning Feiliu somewhat.

Ning Rongrong didn't retaliate like she did on the anniversary of his death, even after he had spoken to her like that, which shows that she seems to genuinely regret her actions and realize her mistakes.

However... as I said before, if you regret it now, why didn't you do it sooner?

Ning Feiliu stopped paying attention to Ning Rongrong and chatted with his brothers about his transformation. It was similar to what he had explained to Ning Mingrui before, omitting the "cheat code" and his own merits and attributing them to his cheap teacher, Dugu Bo.

He also made grand promises to his brothers, such as the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, saying that once he grew immortal herbs, he would definitely upgrade their martial souls first.

Ning Mingrui and his brothers, including Ning Shouzong, didn't bother with Ning Rongrong's affairs. Instead, they chatted happily with Ning Feiliu.

In the evening, after the unusual family dinner with Ning Feiliu as the main character ended, the brothers drank heartily late into the night, feeling refreshed and relaxed.

The next day, Ning Fengzhi approached Ning Feiliu again.

(End of this chapter)