Douluo Continent: Tonight, a Fairy Tale Descends

Xiao Wu wandered aimlessly along the paths in the camp.

As she walked, she saw a familiar figure.

Zhu Zhuqing.

She stood beside a tent, holding a bowl of hot porridge in her hand, and was sipping it slowly.

Her long, dark hair swayed gently in the morning breeze, softening her cool and aloof face.

Since they met at the registration desk that day, Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing have gradually become familiar with each other.

It wasn't that they deliberately approached each other; it was just that in this unfamiliar place, neither of them knew anyone, and they started chatting after a while.

Zhu Zhuqing told Xiao Wu that she came from Shrek Academy.

After the Soul Master Competition, the Shrek Seven Devils went their separate ways. She was alone and had nowhere to go, so she came to the Northern Territory to join the army.

Xiao Wu didn't ask why they had nowhere to go. She could tell that Zhu Zhuqing didn't want to talk about it.

Zhu Zhuqing did not ask Xiao Wu about her background.

All she knew was that Xiao Wu came from the Star Dou Great Forest, but Xiao Wu didn't say exactly where, and she didn't ask.

The two maintained a lukewarm relationship, not exactly friends, but not strangers either.

Xiao Wu walked over and stood beside Zhu Zhuqing. "Good morning."

"Good morning." Zhu Zhuqing glanced at her, then lowered her head to continue drinking her porridge.

The two stood side by side, neither of them speaking.

The sounds of commotion from the military camp drifted from afar, mingling with the morning breeze and gently echoing in my ears.

Xiao Wu's gaze swept over the soldiers training on the parade ground, then suddenly stopped.

She saw someone.

She was a young girl wearing a light gold dress, with her long gold hair braided into a loose plait that hung down in front of her, the ends of which almost touched her waist.

She was squatting at the entrance of a tent, holding a bowl of medicine in her hand, feeding it to a soldier lying on a stretcher.

Her movements were very light and gentle, as if she were taking care of a sick child.

The sunlight fell on her, casting a warm glow on her long golden hair.

Xiao Wu felt that this person looked familiar.

It's not the kind of familiar face you see when you brush past someone on the street, but rather someone you've definitely seen somewhere before, but can't quite place where.

"Who is that person?" Xiao Wu asked, gesturing in that direction with her lips.

Zhu Zhuqing followed her gaze.

“Rapunzel.” She put down her bowl of porridge, her voice cold and clear. “She participated in the Soul Master Competition, was a member of the Heaven Dou Team One, and her martial soul is long golden hair.”

Xiao Wu's eyebrows twitched slightly.

Team One of Heavenly Dou. Soul Master Tournament.

She remembered. The blonde girl who stood on the arena with Snow White, Yu Tianheng, and Dugu Yan.

During the Soul Master Competition, Xiao Wu's attention was focused on her strongest opponents: Snow White, Lia, Lan Fo'er, and Feng Xiaotian. Rapunzel wasn't the most outstanding member of the Heaven Dou Team, but her martial soul was unique, and Xiao Wu had some impression of her.

"So it was her." Xiao Wu nodded and didn't say anything more.

Zhu Zhuqing didn't say anything more.

The two continued to stand side by side, watching Rapunzel busy herself in the wounded soldiers' camp.

Rapunzel moved from one tent to another, from one wounded soldier to another.

She knelt down, fed him medicine, bandaged his wounds, and unleashed her healing soul skill.

Her movements were light and gentle, but she did everything very quickly, as if she were racing against time.

Watching her busy figure, Xiao Wu suddenly felt a little dazed.

In a daze, she saw the image of her mother in Rapunzel.

The same gentleness, the same beauty.

Chapter 537 Another one

Just as Xiao Wu's thoughts drifted away.

Within the sea of ​​consciousness, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, which had been quiet for a long time, suddenly sprang up.

The golden silkworm image seemed to be burned by something, bouncing high from the corner of the mental sea, somersaulting in the air, then somersaulting again, its small eyes wide open, its mouth agape, but unable to make a sound.

It actually sensed it...

It was just bored, just bored out of its mind, just that its wound was still throbbing, it couldn't sleep, and it wanted to find something to do, so it subconsciously used its mental power to scan the Soul Masters around Xiao Wu.

Unexpectedly, this scan revealed another one.

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's shadow froze in mid-air, its small eyes fixed on Rapunzel's direction. Its golden body trembled slightly, each segment emitting a faint cracking sound, like porcelain breaking.

That was a sign that its mental strength had not fully recovered from the injury, but it couldn't care less about that now.

"God...God..." Its voice was so hoarse it was almost inaudible, as if a wad of cotton was stuck in its throat, "Divine power..."

Xiao Wu frowned slightly. "Tianmeng, what did you say?"

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm did not answer.

Its mental energy swept over it again and again.

That's right, it's divine power, the same power fluctuation as that in the far north.

Although they are not the same god or the same attribute, the sense of hierarchy that transcends soul power and the oppressive feeling that makes its spiritual power instinctively want to submit are exactly the same.

The shadow of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm fell from mid-air and landed on the surface of the mental sea, creating a circle of fine ripples.

It stood there, its silkworm head tilted slightly, its little eyes fixed on Rapunzel's direction.

Another one has arrived.

Since sacrificing itself to Xiao Wu, it has discovered that the world is completely different from what it knew before.

It was nearly killed by the Ice Queen in the far north; it brought it upon itself, and it deserved it.

But before that, it had already witnessed too many illogical things around Xiao Wu.

The talents of the young soul masters in the Soul Master Competition were more and more outrageous and exaggerated than the last.

Snow White, Lia, Lanfoer, Merida, and Xiaowu herself—aren't they all geniuses, one in a million?

At the time, it comforted itself, thinking that it was just a Soul Master Competition, and the gathering of geniuses was just a coincidence.

The results of it?

This is no coincidence; it's the norm.

After leaving the Soul Master Competition and arriving in the Northern Territory, a casual glance revealed another winner of the Divine Exam.

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm buried its head in its body and let out a muffled groan.

It now seriously suspects that it's not just bad luck, but that something is wrong with the world.

How come it was able to encounter so many Soul Masters who had passed the Divine Test after sacrificing itself to Xiao Wu?

Back when I was living at the bottom of the Star Dou Great Forest, I couldn't even sense the shadow of a talented Soul Master.

Now, things are really messed up. Turning right after leaving the house leads to the Divine Exam, and looking up reveals yet another Divine Exam. You can even spot one with a casual glance.

When did the Divine Examination become so worthless?

Xiao Wu didn't notice Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's inner monologue.

She heard the two words "divine power" spoken by Tianmeng Ice Silkworm.

Her pupils contracted slightly, her heart skipped a beat, but her face remained expressionless.

She learned one thing while living in human society: never let others know what you are thinking.

"Are you sure?" Xiao Wu asked in her mind, her voice very low.

"Confirmed." The voice of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm came from its body, muffled, with a calm acceptance of fate.

“Although my mental strength is injured, I can still recognize divine power even with my eyes closed. The divine power of that girl named Rapunzel is different in nature from the power of the far north, but the level is the same. She must be an inheritor of a god.”

Xiao Wu remained silent for a moment.

She had witnessed the once-in-a-millennium divine test three times in the past few days.

Once, in the sky of the far north, a magnificent aurora filled the sky, a celestial phenomenon caused by an unknown soul master triggering a divine trial.

On one occasion, she witnessed the Ice Queen's divine trial firsthand, but Tianmeng Ice Silkworm said that her divine trial was nearing its end and she was about to officially become a god.

Now, for the third time, at the entrance of the wounded soldiers' camp of the Northern Allied Forces' elite battalion, on a blonde girl named Rapunzel.

Xiao Wu didn't know what to say.

She could only sigh inwardly, realizing that even the most difficult exams could occur in clusters.

"What, you know her?" Zhu Zhuqing's voice came from the side, cool and calm.

Xiao Wu snapped out of her daze and looked at Zhu Zhuqing's cat-like eyes, which were staring at her. "Hmm? What?"

"You stared at that person for quite a while." Zhu Zhuqing gestured towards Le Pei with her chin. "You know him?"

Xiao Wu shook her head. "I don't recognize him. He just looks vaguely familiar."

“She participated in the Soul Master Competition and was a member of the Heaven Dou Team One.” Zhu Zhuqing withdrew her gaze, picked up her bowl of porridge, and took another sip. “It’s normal that you’ve seen her before.”

Xiao Wu nodded and said nothing more. She watched Rapunzel bustling about in the wounded soldiers' camp, moving from one tent to another, from one wounded soldier to another.

She knelt down, fed him medicine, bandaged his wounds, and unleashed her healing soul skill.

The movements were light and gentle, but everything was done very quickly, as if racing against time.

"Should we go and get to know them?" Zhu Zhuqing suddenly asked.

Xiao Wu paused for a moment, then turned to look at her. Zhu Zhuqing didn't look at her; her gaze remained fixed on Le Pei, her expression still the same ever-changing aloofness.

“If you’re interested in her, why don’t you just go and say hello? Anyway, you’re both in the Northern Alliance, and you might even be on missions together in the future.” Zhu Zhuqing paused, her voice lowering.