Chapter 271: A World Where Everyone Has a Love-Brain

It just so happens that Ning Feiliu has returned and unexpectedly changed his mind, intending to participate in this year's Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.

Then, he might as well take this opportunity to let him get familiar with the members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team first.

Although Dugu Yan knows that, given Ning Feiliu's strength, there is no need for him to concern himself with worldly affairs or social graces.

As long as he says he wants to join the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, it can be said... even if Xue Beng were to bring Prince Xuexing along again just like in the original plot of Shrek Academy, they would be unable to stop this from happening.

After all, Ning Feiliu is fully qualified in both status and strength.

His strength goes without saying.

As for his status, he comes from a noble background; on this point, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect dares to call itself the nobility among the nobility of the Heaven Dou Empire—besides the Imperial Family, who would dare to object?

Even if Dugu Bo had not become Ning Feiliu's teacher, and Xuexing were to invite Dugu Bo again to exert pressure, Dugu Bo would absolutely be powerless when facing the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Not to mention that Dugu Bo is now Ning Feiliu's teacher.

But as a future teammate, Dugu Yan still feels that it is a good thing for Ning Feiliu to get familiar with the members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team.

She has already taken it for granted that Ning Feiliu participating in the Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament means he is joining their Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team.

Otherwise, could Ning Feiliu possibly join another team? And with Ning Feiliu present—he was already a Soul King two years ago—plus his formidable strength.

Dugu Yan is full of confidence this time; she will definitely get her revenge in this tournament!

In the last tournament, she was just one step away from a breakthrough, and coupled with being outnumbered, the members of the Spirit Hall Team were indeed not to be trifled with.

Those seven starting members all had at least level 45 soul power, and the captain and vice-captain were both level 48 soul power, just like Dugu Yan.

Among them, there was also the existence of a Spirit Fusion Skill, which is why Dugu Yan was defeated.

After all, the gap in strength was right there.

But how could she be easily reconciled? Isn't it perfect that Ning Feiliu has returned and is also participating in the Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament?

This time, she will definitely be able to vent her anger properly!

Hearing Dugu Yan's words, Ning Feiliu smiled slightly and did not refuse, saying, "Alright, no problem."

"Then let's go." Dugu Yan was satisfied, and this time she directly took Ning Feiliu's arm and would not let go.

Even in the eyes of Yu Tianheng and Oslo, she was uncharacteristically snuggling up to Ning Feiliu like a little woman.

However... after all, this person is Ning Feiliu.

The strongest of the younger generation who once crowned Heaven Dou City, and perhaps even the strongest of the younger generation on the Douluo Continent today—a peerless genius who appears once every fifty years.

Ever since Ning Feiliu broke through to become a Soul King at the age of fifteen, he was destined to be a peerless genius comparable to Tang Hao, the youngest Title Douluo, in the future.

Everyone is looking forward to seeing how old Ning Feiliu will be when he breaks through to become a Title Douluo in the future.

He broke through to Soul Ancestor at thirteen and Soul King at fifteen, though his cultivation speed should slow down later; it is unlikely he will break through a major realm in just two or three years again.

Therefore, many people speculate that Ning Feiliu will be around twenty to twenty-two years old when he breaks through to Soul Emperor.

Breaking through to the Soul Saint realm will take at least twenty-seven or twenty-eight, and later, reaching Soul Douluo will be around thirty-five or thirty-six; after that, it will depend on his fortune.

However, it is still possible to break Tang Hao's record of achieving Title Douluo at forty-four.

In short, in the eyes of outsiders, Ning Feiliu has the potential to rival or even surpass Tang Hao.

Therefore, only he could capture the heart of Dugu Yan, who is also a peerless genius that broke through to Soul King before the age of twenty, making her act like such a little woman.

The group, lost in various thoughts, headed toward Heaven Dou City.

Emperor Street.

Heaven Dou Royal Restaurant.

As a grand restaurant for the Imperial Family to collect wealth, the banquets they produce have always claimed to be imperial feasts, and the quality is indeed quite high.

Because those who said the quality was not high were long ago silenced by the Heaven Dou Imperial Family...

Of course, that is just a joke.

But on one hand, the quality control of the Royal Restaurant is indeed very good, and on the other hand, those who can come here to eat are all big shots and major powers with status.

They know what it means to be cautious in their words and actions, and they will not speak carelessly and ruin the reputation of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.

And the Heaven Dou Royal Restaurant cannot openly cheat people of their money; otherwise, if guests stopped coming, they would not be able to answer to the Imperial Family.

Therefore, what was placed before Ning Feiliu was an exceptionally luxurious and sumptuous table of imperial delicacies.

However, everyone came from noble backgrounds, so they were not particularly concerned about the food.

Dugu Yan kept drinking with Ning Feiliu and then asked him what had happened during this period.

Ning Feiliu just shook his head, signaling with his eyes that there were others present and his own experiences were not easy to talk about.

Dugu Yan instead began to talk about her own experiences during this time.

The main thing was the participation process of the last Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament; they did not play in the Heaven Dou Empire's regional division because they were seeded directly into the finals.

So, the subsequent matches were directly facing those challengers who had advanced from the later stages.

With the strength of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, they naturally won easily.

After that came the classic rivalry between the two great empires.

But in terms of Spirit Master configuration, the Star Luo Empire has never been a match for the Heaven Dou Empire, not to mention that the last Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament had an extra high-level Soul Ancestor in Dugu Yan.

The Star Luo Empire was crushed, and the Heaven Dou Empire could be said to have vented the anger of being constantly beaten by the Star Luo Empire in military terms.

Then, when the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team faced the Spirit Hall Team in the finals, they still lost after a bitter struggle.

This made Dugu Yan very depressed.

"If you were there, Feiliu! You would have knocked those guys from the Spirit Hall down long ago!" Dugu Yan, feeling the effects of the drink, raised her head and said.

Three years ago... indeed.

If the mission had been triggered a little earlier, and there were no restrictions on which academy to join, Ning Feiliu would have really joined the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy to participate.

And at that time, he was already at the Soul King realm; even without Xue Di's soul ring and soul bone, and without the Dark Harvest Rune or the Samsara Domain.

With his physical fitness, combat experience, and Explosive Ring Soul Skill—all enhanced by multiple soul rings—the Spirit Hall Team, which lacked a Soul King powerhouse, would still have been crushed, even with a pair capable of using a Spirit Fusion Skill.

Even if the trio of Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan had already broken through to the Soul King realm to compete, Ning Feiliu was confident he could defeat them.

It was a pity the mission came too late, and it was restricted to joining Tianshui Academy, so he couldn't help Dugu Yan beat up this year's Spirit Hall Team and let her vent her anger in person.

However, he had also been considering how to tell Dugu Yan about this matter during this time...

He wasn't joining the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, but joining another academy instead? This seemed a bit troublesome to explain, but he soon thought of an idea.

Now he only needed to keep being the listener for Dugu Yan; he just smiled like this while listening to Dugu Yan talk about her experiences, even telling him about trivial matters. From time to time, he would also interject, agreeing with Dugu Yan's perspective.

What was funny was that Dugu Yan's original idea was to have Ning Feiliu get closer to the others on the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team.

But now she had forgotten about this instead, and was just hogging Ning Feiliu all to herself.

After all, she really missed Ning Feiliu too much; many times, people just want to monopolize the things that belong to them.

Ye Lingling, who was on the side, glanced unnaturally toward Ning Feiliu and Dugu Yan; she actually... also wanted to be like Dugu Yan, as she also had many things she wanted to say to Ning Feiliu.

But what right did she have to say so many, many things to Ning Feiliu? Just in the capacity of a friend?

Ye Lingling felt somewhat dejected and heartbroken.

She knew that perhaps she shouldn't harbor delusions, but sometimes, the more you remind yourself to give up fantasies, the more that imagination destroys the convictions she had painstakingly built up, every time she dreamt back in the middle of the night, every time she was lost in thought.

Ye Lingling's eyes looked carelessly, again and again, at Ning Feiliu's handsome face, which was gentle and carried a smile; how she wished that gentleness also belonged to her.

But... it was impossible.

As long as Dugu Yan was still there, she would never obtain this gentleness from Ning Feiliu that belonged exclusively to a lover.

Sometimes she also thought...

Perhaps she shouldn't have left that boring theory class that day to read outside, and then happened to run into Ning Feiliu who had come looking for Dugu Yan.

If they hadn't met that day, would everything that followed not have happened, and would she not have been in such agony?

But if it could happen all over again, she still couldn't help but want to meet Ning Feiliu.

And even wanted to... meet him one step earlier.

"Lingling, are you eating?" Yu Tianheng, who was on the side, offered his attentiveness.

He didn't notice at all that Ye Lingling's "love-brain" was acting up, or perhaps he was actually one of those whose "love-brain" was acting up too.

So he still followed the plan he had envisioned earlier, getting along well with Ye Lingling to bring their feelings closer.

This also happened to be when Ning Feiliu returned, and Dugu Yan was automatically pulled away, without needing Yufeng and Oslo to go and distract her.

"Mm, thank you," Ye Lingling said softly.

Then, as she ate, she lifted her veil slightly, and the beautiful outline of her face beneath the veil was breathtaking to Yu Tianheng.

Yufeng and Oslo, who were on the side, shared a knowing smile and chose not to disturb them, instead starting to play rock-paper-scissors among themselves nearby.

In this situation of obvious "three-way partition," did this banquet end just like that...?

During this process, Ye Lingling still couldn't help but pay attention to Ning Feiliu and Dugu Yan's side.

Ning Feiliu had also wanted to focus on Dugu Yan's side at first, but the number of times Ye Lingling looked over increased.

It was hard for him not to notice Ye Lingling.

At the same time, he also sighed in his heart; perhaps he had only made contact a bit more closely at first because he held some slight favor for the Ye Lingling in the original work.

But he truly hadn't intended to make Ye Lingling so captivated; the main factor was the influence of everyone on the Douluo Continent having a "love-brain."

It made Ye Lingling fall for Ning Feiliu, and also made her unable to forget him for so long.

Just like the two great "love-brain" legends of the Spirit Master world; at the very least, they were seventy or eighty years old, had children, and even had grandchildren, yet could still fall for other women.

Qian Daoliu at least had some persistence; although he might have only guarded Wuhun City because he was clearly rejected by Bo Saixi, he at least never abandoned the entire family power to run outside and act like he was dying for a woman.

Tang Chen was purely a terminal "love-brain" patient; he really was seventy or eighty years old and still acting like he was dying for love, not even caring about the Clear Sky Sect or his own direct descendants.

To put it bluntly, if he had been at the Clear Sky Sect, would the Spirit Hall have dared to bring people to attack the Clear Sky Sect's mountain gate? I fear Tang Chen would have come out forcefully to protect his own, saying, "My daughter-in-law is a Soul Beast? I think you look like a Soul Beast! Eat my Great Sumeru Hammer's final ultimate technique!" So, the tragedy of the Clear Sky Sect was inevitably partly Tang Chen's fault.

If he hadn't run off, even if Qian Daoliu had personally brought people to attack the Clear Sky Sect, the Clear Sky Sect could have fought the Spirit Hall to the death.

But because he fell in love with another woman and misunderstood Bo Saixi's words, he ran straight to Slaughter City to seek the inheritance of the Asura God.

The key was that he also happened to fall into the Rakshasa God's ambush; with the Rakshasa God's mental influence plus the parasitic erosion of the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King, he forgot who he was on the spot.

And the Clear Sky Sect then, because Tang Hao fell in love with A Yin, this Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast—uh, this part was actually correct.

But his mistake was that, knowing A Yin was a Soul Beast and that she was pregnant, he still took people and ran outside.

Even if the Clear Sky Sect were heartless, it would really be impossible for them to expel the son of the contemporary Sect Master of the Clear Sky Sect and the successor designated by Tang Chen just because he fell in love with a Soul Beast.

If that were truly the case, then the Clear Sky Sect would be quite "Tang" indeed.

In short, a series of very bizarre plot points created the tragedy of the Clear Sky Sect.

And all of this could be attributed to the setting of this world where everyone is a "love-brain."

Ye Lingling was clearly the same at this moment; under the influence of a "love-brain," she was already unable to forget Ning Feiliu.

One could tell from her eyes; sometimes when you like someone, your eyes cannot hide it.

Because you will always inadvertently want to look at him.

And just as Ye Lingling looked at Ning Feiliu inadvertently once more, Ning Feiliu also subconsciously looked over.

The two of them happened to lock eyes.

Both Ye Lingling and Ning Feiliu were stunned for a moment, then quickly looked away subconsciously.

"... I'm just saying those guys from the Spirit Hall are very detestable... Hm? Feiliu, what's wrong?" Dugu Yan's voice came over.

On the other side, Yu Tianheng also froze for a moment as he watched Ye Lingling's eyes suddenly drop.

"Lingling... what's wrong?"

"It's nothing," Ning Feiliu said with a smile, pretending to return to normal. "The people from the Spirit Hall are a bit like that, but overall, ordinary Spirit Masters still tend to have a good impression of them."

"It's nothing," Ye Lingling also said to Yu Tianheng.

Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng were both a bit puzzled, but as if they hadn't noticed anything, they continued to chat with Ning Feiliu and Ye Lingling respectively.

Only Ning Feiliu, still feeling guilty, remained a bit more focused on Dugu Yan.

Ye Lingling, however, was somewhat distracted because Ning Feiliu seemed to have sensed her feelings just now and had looked over at her.

It was not until half an hour later that the delicacies on the table were mostly finished.

"Alright, we're done eating, let's pay the bill and go," Ning Feiliu said with a smile as he stood up, speaking to Dugu Yan, "Sister Yan, I still have many things I want to say to you."

While writing this chapter, I suddenly had an idea for a new book; I might as well just write about the number one lover in the Douluo World, a guy who directly conquers love-struck heroines, hahahaha.

I feel like there are indeed quite a few love-struck people in the Douluo World; wouldn't a love-conquest system be invincible for advancing the main plot?

I'm preparing to get some material from my buddy; when the time comes, I'll use that scumbag buddy of mine as a prototype and put together something a bit more lighthearted.

(End of this chapter)