Douluo Continent: Building a Divine Kingdom Starting from the Spirit Hall

"Who is Xiao Lang? Why did you kill him? Who are the 'we' you just mentioned?"

Before Ma Hongjun could speak again, a stern voice rang out.

Qin Ming stood up and angrily stepped forward to question Ma Hongjun.

Although it's unclear what happened, from the conversation between Dean Flander and Ma Hongjun, it's clear that Ma Hongjun committed murder, and it was Jiangzhu's boyfriend.

Furthermore, this matter seems to be related to Dean Flander, and the issue is definitely not simple.

"Qin Ming, Xiao Gang, you two go out first. I can handle this."

Flanders realized he had spoken out of turn and gestured for the two to leave first, as this matter should not be made public.

"Dean, he killed someone! He killed someone, don't you understand? And he was Jiangzhu's boyfriend, don't you understand the seriousness of the matter?"

Seeing that Flanders wanted to suppress the matter, Qin Ming became even more furious.

He was in charge of training the three girls, Jiangzhu, and was considered their teacher. Now, his student's boyfriend had been murdered, and by Ma Hongjun, who was on the same team. How could he not be furious?

Moreover, Flander just said he wanted to get rid of Xiao Lang, using the word "get rid of," which clearly indicates that the other party is a student of the academy, making the situation even more serious.

Teacher Yue had warned him to be careful of Ma Hongjun, especially after the dean and Yu Xiaogang had the team kill the Fierce God Team, which caused a noticeable change in him. He was worried at the time.

But no one expected Ma Hongjun to change so drastically, actually murdering a classmate.

If they're killing even their classmates now, will they kill even their friends and teachers in the future?

Seeing Qin Ming's anger, Flander felt a headache coming on.

He knew Qin Ming's personality well; although he was usually gentle, he was also extremely strict and serious, and now he was clearly keeping a close eye on this matter.

"You just mentioned Xiao Lang, is his martial soul a flame and his spirit ring configuration one white and three yellow?"

At this moment, Yu Xiaogang seemed to remember something and asked seriously.

"You know that child?"

Flander, who was deep in thought, was stunned, wondering why his friend knew about that good-for-nothing.

Although he knew that Xiao Gang had gone through all the student files in the archives a few days ago, Xiao Lang's file was very mediocre, even rubbish.

Furthermore, there are many people with the same name, so why did Xiaogang recognize the person just by hearing their name?

“A few days ago, Jadeite came to the archives and looked through some files on a bookshelf. I didn’t see which one he was looking at at the time. Afterwards, I looked through the whole bookshelf but didn’t find anything.”

However, one of them is named Xiao Lang, and she's Jiang Zhu's boyfriend, so things might not be that simple.

After sharing his analysis, Yu Xiaogang had read the files on that bookshelf several times and was deeply impressed by them.

He felt the name Xiao Lang sounded familiar when Ma Hongjun called it out before, which is why he asked about it.

"Now is not the time to talk about this. Take us there quickly and see if there is any hope."

Qin Ming suppressed his anger and gestured for Ma Hongjun to lead the way quickly.

How to handle the situation is secondary; the key is to save people's lives. If someone dies, the situation will become much more serious.

"You give me directions."

Flander understood this as well, so he picked up Ma Hongjun and jumped out of the window. Yu Xiaogang, empowered by his soul power, also jumped out and grabbed Flander's other hand.

Flander glanced at his good brother who had followed him out, then flew out of the academy following Ma Hongjun's direction without saying much.

Qin Ming, also wielding his martial spirit, leaped out of the window and ran rapidly, closely following behind.

Flander and Qin Ming moved quickly and arrived at the place where Tang San and the others were resting and healing in no time.

Flander, with his best eyesight, immediately locked onto the charred body, and upon closer inspection, his brows furrowed deeply.

Qin Ming, who had followed closely behind, stepped forward, but upon seeing the charred remains, he fell silent.

He came to save the person, but seeing their miserable state, it was clear they were beyond saving.

The victim's body was not only charred by the high temperature, but also covered with various sharp weapons.

He had seen those weapons before; they were the ones Tang San used, which he called hidden weapons.

Countless hidden weapons pierced the opponent's body, not only vital organs but also his hands and feet.

They were clearly tortured to death.

The more Qin Ming looked, the angrier he became. He slapped Yu Xiaogang, who was standing next to him, sending him flying and shattering all of Yu's other teeth.

"Xiao Gang!"

Flander, realizing what was happening, rushed over and caught Yu Xiaogang, glaring angrily at Qin Ming.

"What are you doing? Have you gone mad?"

However, Flander was furious, and Qin Ming was even more furious.

"You're the ones who've gone mad. You'll stop at nothing to win the Soul Master Competition, even having those kids kill people. The youngest of them is only twelve years old!"

We are educating and nurturing good Soul Masters who can benefit the Soul Master community, not cultivating murderous maniacs.

I tried to persuade you before, but you wouldn't listen and said it was no problem. Now you call it no problem?

He killed someone. Ma Hongjun killed someone, and the victim was Jiangzhu's boyfriend.

Don't think I didn't notice. These past two days, Ma Hongjun has been sneaking peeks at people from time to time. Anyone can understand what he's up to.

Now she's killed someone's boyfriend, and in such a cruel way at that. This is no longer just about jealousy.

"Dean Flander, don't you understand the seriousness of the situation?"

The more he spoke, the angrier he became. Qin Mingzhen regretted not listening to Teacher Yue and not sticking to his own opinion; otherwise, things wouldn't have escalated to this point.

He had been thinking about it on the way here and had a rough idea of ​​what was going on, but that only made him angrier. Things were worse than he had imagined.

Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing also understood what was going on and glared angrily at Ma Hongjun, who was hiding behind Flander. Even Dai Mubai and Oscar, who had just woken up, looked very unhappy.

The biggest change was in Tang San; his chilling killing intent was no longer concealed.

They had initially thought the other party was persecuting Ma Hongjun, and that's why they acted out of greed; who would have thought it was for this reason?

If you want to pursue Jiangzhu, then go ahead and pursue her. What kind of crazy thing is it to kill her boyfriend like this?

At this moment, they finally understood why the other party hadn't used all of those mushrooms to kill them in the first place—they were holding back, not wanting to escalate the situation.

Instead, they relentlessly pursued him and even tried to prevent him from escaping back to the academy.

This whole scene looks like they're about to surround and kill someone, but the other side is so ruthless in the end, it's like they're going to die together with them.

If they were in that situation, they would definitely be even more ruthless.

Seeing the anger of Ning Rongrong and the others, especially Tang San's murderous intent, Flander was sweating profusely, but he didn't know how to deal with it.

He also felt deep regret. If he had known things would turn out this way, he would never have agreed to Xiao Gang's suggestion to expose the children to killing at such a young age.

Now things have escalated to this point, and he doesn't know how to end it.

"Senior Qin Ming, do you know who this senior is?"

Ning Rongrong, who was the first to calm down, walked to the charred body, looked at its miserable state, and asked Qin Ming.

Withdrawing his glare from Ma Hongjun and Yu Xiaogang, Qin Ming looked sadly at the pitiful charred remains and explained, "I don't know, but I heard Master and Dean Flander mention it before. This person is called Xiao Lang, he should be a student of our academy, and he is Jiang Zhu's boyfriend. His martial soul is a flame, and his soul rings are a combination of one white and three yellow."

Although his strength is low, he is still a student of our academy; you shouldn't treat him like this.

Having revealed everything he knew, Qin Ming now had no idea how to face Jiang Zhu in the future, let alone how to tell her about this matter.

"Insignificant strength?"

Hearing Qin Ming's assessment of his low strength, Ning Rongrong's expression turned strange.

If this senior is weak, then what are the others?

Garbage or waste?

At this moment, Yu Xiaogang recovered, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and spoke.

"His name is Xiao Lang. According to his file, his martial soul is a flame, his innate soul power is level three, and his soul ring configuration is white-yellow-yellow-yellow."

The first soul skill is fire control, the second soul skill is flame enhancement, the third soul skill is flame fusion, and the fourth soul ring was purchased last month in Tiandou City for nine thousand gold soul coins. The soul ring skill is fire shield, which is a rare defensive fire attribute soul skill.

The former dean of the academy, Jadeite, had seen his file, and I suspect that his file was replaced by a forgery by Jadeite.

This person definitely possesses a top-tier martial soul, a soul bone, and an astonishingly high configuration of soul rings, breaking all conventions.

With a wise glint in his eyes, Yu Xiaogang used three affirmations in a row to express his judgment.

He was certain that the jade marrow had been looking at this person's file that day, or that the other party had gone there that day specifically to change this person's file so that he wouldn't notice Xiao Lang. Their intentions were truly sinister.

Ning Rongrong shook her head slightly and said, "The file should not be falsified. Although he only used two soul skills in front of us, they should be fire element type martial souls."

Moreover, judging from his appearance, he should be over twenty years old, but his soul power is only level forty, which is definitely not the aptitude of a top-level martial soul.

The soul ring configuration is indeed white, yellow, yellow, yellow. We've all seen the fourth soul skill, Fire Shield, and I've also experienced the third soul skill, Flame Fusion, which took away control of my gem flying sword. The first two soul skills should also be genuine.

But his strength was by no means weak. Our entire team pursued him... but the pursuit failed to harm him in the slightest. In fact, we were injured many times. In the end, if it weren't for the protection of the teacher's sword energy, Zhu Qing and I would probably have died.

He just didn't expect that Third Brother's Zhuge Crossbow could break through the fire shield's defense; otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to hurt him at all, let alone kill him.

He must be a prodigy, a trump card that Blue Tyrant Academy is secretly cultivating for next year's Soul Master Competition.

After sharing her analysis and speculations, Ning Rongrong looked at the charred body, filled with guilt and regret.

"Impossible! How could someone with that kind of martial spirit and spirit ring configuration possibly have the power to kill you all?"

Yu Xiaogang was the first to refute it, saying he absolutely did not believe such a thing.

He had previously guessed that this person must possess a top-tier martial soul, and his soul ring configuration must also be top-tier, possibly even breaking the limits of the optimal configuration like Ma Hongjun and Tang San.

But Ning Rongrong's statement completely overturned her previous assumptions.

He didn't believe that a useless martial soul and those trashy soul rings could have the power to destroy the Shrek Academy team, especially since he had personally trained the Shrek Academy team during this period.

He could accept Huang Yuan's victory over Jing Ling in their previous sparring match, but he absolutely did not believe that this person could single-handedly destroy the Shrek team.

Ning Rongrong was too lazy to explain to that thing. She squatted down and examined it for a while before finally placing her palm on the wrist guard on the charcoal wrist.

That's a storage soul tool; there should be some clues inside.

Now that the person is dead, we must find a way to resolve this matter, otherwise there will inevitably be future troubles.

They quickly used their Purple Cloud Soul Power to refine the storage soul tool, and then took out all the contents inside, which everyone gathered around to examine.

The contents were simple: aside from some clothes and other odds and ends, there were notebooks and books.