Chapter 78: Meeting of the Two Sides

Xue Qinghe took her two Title Douluo guards and left the imperial palace in secret. After walking a distance out of the imperial city, they arrived in a forest. With no one around, Xue Qinghe walked while emitting a rich golden light from her entire body.

Once the light faded, she transformed from a young man into a stunningly beautiful twenty-year-old girl.

Her skin was whiter than snow, her nose bridge straight, and her slightly slender phoenix eyes possessed a peerless face with a hint of majesty, yet her golden eyes were as calm as water.

She wore a golden palace-style long dress. The dress was one-piece and seemed to be woven from gold thread; it lacked excessive decorative patterns, and the style was archaic and elegant. A golden stand-up collar protected her snow-white, slender neck. A head of long golden hair was draped casually behind her, not carefully combed, forming a sharp contrast with her neat palace attire.

Since she was going to hunt a Spirit Beast, she had returned to her true form. Although Qian Renxue did not care much about pretending to be someone else, she was a girl after all, and when unnecessary, she still preferred to restore her original appearance.

Nan Feihuang's group also arrived on foot at the small town closest to the Star Dou Great Forest at this time.

Seeing that it was getting late, they casually found a tavern that offered lodging and checked in.

Lan Xue ordered a table full of dishes. The others were fine, but Dian Wei had long been starving; his appetite was far greater than that of an ordinary person.

It was fortunate that he was now a member of the royal family; if he were a commoner, relying solely on the Spirit Hall's subsidy, they definitely could not afford to feed him.

But hungry as he was, since his lord Nan Feihuang had not picked up his chopsticks, he could only endure it.

Nan Feihuang smiled and placed a large chicken leg and a large pig trotter into Dian Wei's bowl. "E Lai, no need to endure. We are outside, not in the royal palace; there is no need to observe those court etiquettes. Feel free to feast and eat to your heart's content."

"Hehe, thank you, my Lord!" Dian Wei laughed honestly and stopped being polite. What were chopsticks? He directly grabbed the chicken leg in his left hand and the pig trotter in his right and stuffed them into his mouth.

Nan Feiling elegantly took a sip of the clear tea in front of her. "Sigh, this is truly too embarrassing. This Princess must definitely make a righteous break from this Han Han."

In her view, this guy Dian Wei had no merits other than being able to fight.

This was too damaging to the image of their Gu Lei Royal Family. Fortunately, they had not run into any acquaintances here today.

Unfortunately, what one fears is what tends to happen. At this moment, three people pushed open the door and walked in.

It was precisely Qian Renxue's group.

The temperament of these three was far too outstanding, instantly attracting everyone's gaze.

In fact, it was the same situation when Lan Xue and Nan Tianchen had entered just now.

The hotel owner couldn't help but wonder what kind of day it was, for big shots to be coming to his small place one after another.

Nan Feihuang's gaze was also attracted to the golden-haired woman in the lead. Although it was his first time seeing this golden-haired girl, he felt that she gave him a very familiar feeling.

Moreover, such a peerless appearance could not be seen just anywhere. Based on that face alone, she was generally not a simple person.

Just as Nan Feihuang was looking at Qian Renxue, Qian Renxue had actually noticed his gaze. "Feihuang, why is he here?"

And looking at the way Nan Feihuang was looking at her, he seemed full of confusion regarding her.

"That's right, Feihuang has never seen my true face, yet he can feel a sense of familiarity from me, which is why he is like this." Qian Renxue was bright and intelligent, and she figured it out in an instant.

"The two of you, to actually meet you here, what a pleasure," Lan Xue stood up and greeted the two people beside Qian Renxue.

She recognized Snake Spear Douluo and Citun Douluo at a glance.

Although these two were relatively mysterious and not well-known among the Nine Great Elders, even Dugu Bo had never seen them.

But Lan Xue had once been friends with Bibi Dong during her youth and had also lived in the Spirit Hall. At that time, she had met these two Title Douluo under Bibi Dong's introduction.

It was just that after so many years, the progress of these two in strength had been minimal—merely rising from level 91 back then to level 92 now; they had only gone up one level in several decades.

It was evident that their potential had long reached its limit; they were certainly hopeless of becoming Super Douluo in this lifetime, and instead, Lan Xue had come from behind and surpassed them.

"It's you!" She Long frowned. He also had not expected to see Lan Xue here.

The little girl who used to call them seniors was now an existence on equal footing with them.

Several people tacitly did not directly expose their identities; after all, in public, the sudden appearance of so many Title Douluo would cause a sensation.

Lan Xue asked the waiter for a private room and said to the three, "The three of you, meeting is fate. If you don't mind, come inside and have a chat!"

"Very well, since we have met here, then I will respectfully comply. Please!" Qian Renxue agreed; the face of a Title Douluo still had to be given.

The three walked into the private room, and Nan Tianchen asked the question in his heart, "Xue'er, who are these three?"

He did not know all the Nine Great Elders of the Spirit Hall; all he knew were the two Douluo, Chrysanthemum and Ghost, who were known to the public.

"Tianchen, Feihuang, Ling'er, Dian Wei, let me introduce you. These two are His Excellency Snake Spear and His Excellency Citun among the Nine Great Elders of the Spirit Hall!" Lan Xue introduced.

Nan Tianchen was greatly shocked upon hearing this. To think they were such figures; he hurriedly saluted, "Greetings to the two Excellencies!"

The status of a Title Douluo was even above that of a king of a kingdom like him, enough to sit on equal footing with an Empire's Emperor.

"Greetings, Excellencies!" Nan Feiling, Nan Feihuang, Elder Zhang, and Xu Rong also immediately saluted.

Nan Feihuang thought to himself, "So these two are She Long and Ci Xue. In that case, this beautiful golden-haired woman is my Brother Xue. I never imagined that when she restored her Qian Renxue form, she would be beautiful to such a degree, and it is a completely different style of beauty from Lingqi. One is sacred and holy, the other is heroic and spirited!"

"His Excellency Xuanbing, King of Gu Lei, you need not be so polite. I wonder why you are here?" She Long asked.

"Excellency, I just broke through the level 80 barrier these past few days, and these children here also have two who just broke through level 30, so we intend to go obtain Spirit Rings," Nan Tianchen replied.

She Long nodded, "So that is how it is. Then I must congratulate the King."

He was not overly shocked; a mere level 80 Spirit Douluo was not yet in his eyes.

However, those children looked to be at most eleven or twelve years old, yet they had already reached the level 30 bottleneck. It could be said that their aptitude was even better than the Golden Generation of their Spirit Hall. No wonder his Young Master had valued that place very much since returning from the Gu Lei Kingdom back then.

It seemed this kingdom indeed had the value of being brought under their command.

Not to mention Spirit Douluo Xuanbing herself, the depth of their foundation was not a bit inferior to top-tier forces. As long as these children grew up smoothly, it was very likely that in a few decades, the Gu Lei Kingdom would have several more Title Douluo.

(End of chapter)