Chapter 171: Lady Moon

The audience discussed the Moon Emperor Team, a group formed by the powerful alliance of Ning Feiliu, Yu Tianheng, and those other genius Spirit Masters who were renowned throughout Heaven Dou City.

Just looking at their strength on paper made one feel that this team was invincible.

Especially with the presence of Ning Feiliu, it made people feel that even a team composed of seven level-39 Soul Elders might not necessarily be able to defeat this Moon Emperor Team, a powerful alliance of genius Spirit Masters.

As for the other team, the Huangsha Battle Team, which was about to collide with the Moon Emperor Team before their eyes?

The audience only felt that this Huangsha Battle Team was somewhat pitiful; to have encountered the Moon Emperor Team, which had only recently registered and formed, wasn't this... a situation where they were destined to be crushed?

Just then, all sixteen members of the Moon Emperor Team and the Huangsha Battle Team stood upon the Douhun Platform.

Yu Tianheng and the others began to discuss their positioning and layout for the upcoming battle; when asked for his opinion, Ning Feiliu indicated that he was indifferent.

No matter what, he would simply follow the arrangements.

He possessed no arrogance or desire for control; as long as they could win, anything was fine by him.

"Alright... then we will center ourselves around classmate Lingling. Shi Mo, Shi Mo, you two stand at the very front. Yufeng, you take to the air immediately and prepare to engage the enemy at any time. Oslo, you stay in the back and be ready at all times..." Yu Tianheng said, arranging them in a low voice.

This was also the combat formation of the Imperial Fighting Team in the original plot, only this time they were missing Dugu Yan, who had originally served as the Control System Spirit Master.

Therefore, Yu Tianheng said to Ning Feiliu, "Yafei, how about you stand in front of Lingling and serve as the Control System Spirit Master?"

"No problem," Ning Feiliu nodded and said.

In truth, because of the Crescent Moon Divine Weapon, his positioning had always been ambiguous.

After all, with the various combinations of the five Crescent Moon Divine Weapons, the roles he played were also different.

For instance, when using the Crescent Moon Divine Weapon Calibrum, he could fulfill the role of an Agility Attack System Battle Soul Master, while when using Severum, he was more like an Assault System Battle Soul Master.

As for using Gravitum, he was undoubtedly a Control System Battle Soul Master.

Therefore, everyone had always been very clear about Ning Feiliu's positioning: he was an all-around Battle Soul Master with no fixed position.

They were not even aware of the existence of Ning Feiliu's Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul, which served as the weapon case for the Crescent Moon Divine Weapon, allowing him to truly become an all-around Spirit Master who combined Agility Attack, Assault, Control, and Support.

The only thing missing was the Defense-type Spirit Master category; although Ning Feiliu had a defensive bonus to himself when using Gravitum, this did not support him becoming a Defense-type Spirit Master to stand in front and block damage for the team.

This would be equivalent to an Aphelios who had built a defensive "tank" item standing at the front of a team fight as a tank; is that reasonable?

Of course, that was an impossible thing.

But even so, if one thought about it carefully, for a character in a game to have extremely high mobility, extremely strong damage, carry extremely strong control abilities, and also provide support effects, that was already a definitively overpowered existence in a game.

Ning Feiliu even had a certain defensive bonus, so he wouldn't become a glass cannon.

His presence was a huge boost to any team, and he could exert an extremely huge effect regardless of which position he was in.

The circular Douhun Platform, with a diameter of forty meters, was already very large, covering over a thousand square meters, so even though there were as many as sixteen people from both sides, it did not appear crowded.

"Are you prepared?" the host on the Douhun Platform immediately asked the members of the two teams.

"Prepared," Ning Feiliu nodded.

"Wait!" However, at this very moment, the captain of the Huangsha Battle Team, Old Huang, gritted his teeth and said, "For this Spirit Fighting Battle, we concede!"

He spoke very crisply and decisively, without the slightest appearance of hesitation.

And the members of the Huangsha Battle Team behind him showed no surprise at all; instead, they remained very calm.

Clearly, they had long known that their captain was going to concede, and they had no objections whatsoever...

Nonsense!

Facing these famous genius Spirit Masters of Heaven Dou City, where would they find the courage to duel?

One must know when to back down; they were not some high-spirited, hot-blooded young geniuses. They were merely frustrated ordinary people who mainly came to the Soul Fighting Arena to earn some extra money, and only secondarily to improve their own strength and combat power.

Moreover, conceding this Spirit Fighting Battle that was destined to be lost in order to preserve their condition and stamina to prepare for the next Spirit Fighting Battle was clearly a more sensible choice.

This was better than them giving their all to duel the Moon Emperor Team, only to lose and end up covered in injuries, which would result in them being unable to participate in the next Spirit Fighting Battle for a short time.

In short, the members of the Huangsha Battle Team were very clear about their own weight.

But this directly caused an uproar.

"What? Conceding without even fighting?"

"They don't even dare to fight? This isn't a Life-and-Death Fight; you don't even dare to fight against a bunch of little kids, you cowards!"

"That's easy to say, but the Huangsha Battle Team couldn't possibly be the Moon Emperor Team's opponent."

"Even if they aren't opponents, shouldn't they go up and try?"

"Boring, I just wanted to see them fight. I didn't expect the Huangsha Battle Team to be a bunch of spineless cowards."

"If you're so good, you go up! Why don't you people go up and try fighting the Moon Emperor Team?"

"Pah! Why should we go up? Just because the Huangsha Battle Team doesn't dare to go up, we have to?"

"The Huangsha Battle Team indeed wouldn't be the Moon Emperor Team's opponent, but conceding directly is truly too unsightly."

"It's understandable, after all, they are facing the two peerless geniuses Yafei and Yu Tianheng!"

"Isn't Yu Tianheng a loser to Yafei? Since when can he be mentioned in the same breath as Yafei?"

"Yafei can defeat a Soul Ancestor while crossing levels; can you, Yu Tianheng, do that? When you can also defeat a Soul Ancestor while crossing levels, then talk about being a genius like Yafei."

"Bullshit! Even if Yu Tianheng can't beat Yafei, can't he beat other Soul Elders? Being invincible at the same level is also very impressive, okay!"

"Yafei is not just invincible at the same level; I'll say it again, be able to challenge across levels before you talk about being mentioned in the same breath as Yafei."

Regardless of what the nearby audience thought, in short, the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena had no way to deal with the Huangsha Battle Team's direct concession.

They couldn't very well forbid the Huangsha Battle Team from surrendering, could they?

In games, there is still a delete surrender button, or the right to veto a surrender.

In reality, if others simply step off the ring and refuse to fight, you really have no way to deal with it.

Unless the combatants were all slaves, like the so-called arenas of Ning Feiliu's past life, driving slaves into the arena to duel.

In short, after the Huangsha Battle Team announced their concession, Yu Tianheng and the others felt somewhat bored as they listened to the host finish the announcement and then stepped off the stage.

Ning Feiliu, on the other hand, was slightly happy, as he was not a particularly bellicose person after all.

He came to the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena to complete a series of related tasks like Presence of Mind; being combative was secondary.

It would be fine if he encountered opponents who were evenly matched or even appeared stronger, but like encountering a weaker opponent such as the Huangsha Battle Team, he truly had no interest in bullying the weak.

Bullying the weak has no meaning; it is like an adult bullying a child—you feel nothing even after you knock the child to the ground.

Perhaps some people would find it interesting and laugh out loud there.

But Ning Feiliu felt it was very boring; he preferred to exchange blows with the strong, as only that kind of victory would have meaning.

As for contests with the weak... he would probably only feel a bit happy in situations where he could complete tasks quickly because of it.

Next, just as Ning Feiliu intended to tell Yu Tianheng and the others to continue signing up for the next Team Battle Spirit Fight.

"Yafei." A familiar voice came from the side.

Ning Feiliu immediately turned his head to look and discovered two beautiful women of different ages walking toward him.

He naturally recognized one of them.

It was naturally Shuang Lan, whom he had chatted with yesterday and who had facilitated his and Yu Tianheng and the others' formation of the Moon Emperor Team.

As for the other mature, beautiful woman, who was nearly thirty years old and dressed in a long silver palace-style dress, Ning Feiliu did not recognize her.

"Shuang Lan," Ning Feiliu called out casually.

"Senior Sister Shuang Lan," Yu Tianheng, Yufeng, and the others addressed Shuang Lan quite politely, as she was, after all, from the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.

Then, when Yufeng saw the mature, beautiful woman in the silver palace-style dress beside Shuang Lan, he was stunned for a moment.

Following that, he said politely, "Junior Yufeng greets Lady Yue."

Tang Yuehua chuckled and said to Yufeng, "It seems you have come to my Moon Pavilion for lessons before..."

"Moon Pavilion?" Ning Feiliu was stunned for a moment, his expression strange.

Between this being the Moon Pavilion, the title of Lady Yue, and this attire and elegant demeanor...

It definitely could not be wrong.

He did not expect that the mature, beautiful woman before him was the younger sister of Tang the Great Hammer from the original work—Tang San's aunt—Tang Yuehua.

However, Heaven Dou City was not small, but it was not large either.

Ancient cities did not have large populations; even the largest major cities only had three or four hundred thousand people.

Like Ning Feiliu, he remembered that such data only reached that scale during the peak of capitals like Luoyang or Chang'an in the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties.

He had not investigated the population scale of Heaven Dou City, so he did not know for sure; perhaps with the existence of a group with supernatural powers like Spirit Masters, the scale of the city would be slightly larger.

But it was likely at most around the scale of a million people.

However, the true nobles and big shots were just that one batch of people; as the owner of the Moon Pavilion, the Heaven Dou Empire's court etiquette academy, Tang Yuehua's own status and fame were not small.

Ning Feiliu would encounter her sooner or later, so this was not strange.

A smile appeared on Yufeng's handsome face as he said, "Yufeng was once taken to the Moon Pavilion by my mother and attended a tea party with many ladies; I had the honor of seeing Lady Yue once..."

He remembered very well that his mother had told him at the time that this Lady Yue had a significant background and had a special relationship with Emperor Xue Ye; she was Emperor Xue Ye's concubine... (Not a secondary setting, this is the authentic, original text and original setting.)

Of course, what he did not know was that this was truly just a rumor.

Tang Hao's sister, the youngest daughter of the previous Clear Sky Sect Sect Master—for the now elderly Emperor Xue Ye, who lacked profound cultivation, to be able to take her as a concubine was truly an incredible thing.

If it were spread, it could make those who knew Tang Yuehua's identity thoroughly ridicule the Clear Sky Sect for it.

The daughter of the former Sect Master of the dignified number one sect in the world actually submitting herself beneath an old man; it was truly somewhat laughable.

One can only say that those who spread such rumors are truly bold; if the Clear Sky Sect were to return and someone narrow-minded caught them, their nine generations would truly be hammered flat.

One can only say that everyone loves to spread gossip about such big shots and high-ranking figures, even if they have to risk huge dangers to enjoy a good piece of tea.

But it is estimated that those who spread such rumors only did so without fear because they saw the Clear Sky Sect being forced by the Spirit Hall to retreat into the mountains.

In short, there were very few people in Heaven Dou City who knew Tang Yuehua's true identity.

It is estimated that only the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, Dugu Bo, and the upper echelons of the two great sects knew that Tang Yuehua was actually the daughter of the former Clear Sky Sect Sect Master and the sister of the contemporary Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Hao.

"So that's how it is." Tang Yuehua nodded and said with a smile, "Come to the Moon Pavilion to learn noble etiquette more often in the future, and the same goes for everyone else; always fighting and killing lacks noble style."

"We will respectfully follow your teachings, Madam." Yu Tianheng, Yufeng, and the others responded somewhat helplessly.

Ning Feiliu found it even more laughable—noble style?

Can noble style be eaten as a meal?

What truly determines whether you can survive and whether you can enjoy glory and wealth is only power.

You can be so noble and high and mighty in displaying your noble style purely because you have a good father and two good brothers.

"Very good." Tang Yuehua smiled with satisfaction.

Then she looked at Yafei, who had not spoken again just now, and said, "Yafei... actually, I came here specifically to find you this time."

"Find me?" Ning Feiliu's expression, which had been mocking Tang Yuehua beneath his mask, immediately became suspicious.

Why was Tang Yuehua looking for him?

He did not remember having any intersection with Tang Yuehua.

"I came... because I wanted to ask you one thing in person." Tang Yuehua then said, "Forget it, this is not a place to talk; come to my Moon Pavilion to drink a cup of good tea, and I will discuss it with you in detail... would that be alright?"

"No need." Ning Feiliu's handsome face beneath the mask frowned, and he directly refused, saying, "I am but a crude person and cannot enter a hall of high elegance; I fear I would soil your elegant place, which is filled with fragrance and graceful luxury."

"Rest assured." Tang Yuehua seemed to see his current wariness and suddenly said, "Actually, you don't need to be so nervous... I'll tell you, I am the biological sister of the person you know; look, we both have the surname Tang..."

Ning Feiliu was stunned for a moment; his expression was strange.

Regarding these sudden words from Tang Yuehua, others might truly not be able to tell what she was talking about.

But Ning Feiliu heard it.

And he also heard Tang Yuehua's misunderstanding of him... could it be that Tang Yuehua thought he knew Tang the Great Hammer?

Right, the pre-cast animation for his two great Blessing Skills, 【Summoning of the Casting God】 and 【Summoning of the Ice and Snow God】, was to explode his own Soul Ring, which looked the same as the final ultimate technique of Tang the Great Hammer's Great Sumeru Hammer, Exploding Ring.

So... Tang Yuehua misunderstood that these two great Blessing soul skills of his were taught to him by Tang the Great Hammer?

(End of chapter)