Chapter 129

"Who is making such a racket here!"

Di Tian shouted angrily, but in the blink of an eye, he had already arrived between the two, quickly separating them.

"Damn it, who is..."

"Woo."

The tiger had just wanted to domineeringly take on two opponents, but after seeing clearly who had arrived, the flame of battle that had risen in its heart instantly vanished.

The Beast God of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Lord's representative in the world, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, Di Tian!

Fight? In her heavily injured state, let alone fighting him, even this human with the strange bloodline was a struggle to fight.

"..."

The human woman noticed the newcomer, but instead of relaxing, her face showed even more worry; was this person a friend or a foe? Her name was Zhang Lexuan, an ordinary Inner Court student of Shrek Academy, well... she was luckily hailed as the most talented person in ten thousand years, with the potential to reach the god level in the future.

Facing a heavily injured hundred-thousand-year soul beast, even if she couldn't win, she had some confidence in escaping.

But if another one came, or even just an eighty-thousand-year soul beast in its prime, she would die! And the aura on this black-robed fellow was something she couldn't fathom at all. Oh no...

"Big..."

"Big Senior Sister!?"

Just as her attention was focused on the black-robed man, the next moment, a somewhat familiar voice reached her ears, causing her body to tremble.

"Xiao."

"Xiaotao?"

Her gaze fell on Ma Xiaotao, who was being protected behind the black-robed man; her eyes were first filled with surprise, and only then did she let go of her anxious heart.

"It seems... they are friends?"

She secretly breathed a sigh of relief; she didn't know who the black-robed man was, but wasn't that red-haired girl her little sister Xiaotao, who had followed her in cultivation since she was young?

When her family was wiped out and she became an orphan, she and the other had formed a deep sisterly bond—that was a story for another time—but now, with her there, she figured she was safe.

"Big Senior Sister, why were you being hunted?"

Ma Xiaotao hurried forward, affectionately grabbing the other's hand, and asked with concern.

Big Senior Sister was actually being hunted, and by a hundred-thousand-year soul beast at that! If it weren't for her and Wulin... and Di Tian running into them, there would have been absolutely no chance of survival for her.

"Did you not have any Academy teachers accompanying you when you came to hunt for a soul ring this time? This is too dangerous!"

Sensing the bottleneck in the other's cultivation, combined with her current miserable state, Ma Xiaotao's expression immediately turned ugly, and she couldn't help but speak.

But as she spoke, her heart couldn't help but feel a wave of doubt; that was impossible!

This was the inner circle! The possibility of encountering powerful soul beasts was too high, and besides, this was for her eighth soul ring; without powerful people to help, how could she go hunting?

"This..."

"It's a long story, Xiaotao."

"That elder doesn't know where he went."

Speaking of this, a look of helplessness flashed across Zhang Lexuan's face; she opened her mouth, but found it hard to say.

She had long since reached level 80 and had been consolidating her cultivation for two months; she needed a suitable soul ring to achieve greater strength. This trip to the Star Dou Great Forest was led by the Sea God Pavilion's Vice Pavilion Master, the Academy's second strongest person, the Gluttonous Douluo Xuan Zi, to hunt for her eighth soul ring.

Accompanying them were seven other trainees, all outstanding geniuses, the same age as her, twenty, yet none had strength lower than Soul Emperor; they were all top talents from the Neiyuan in recent years, and even the previous generation of the Shrek Seven Monsters team.

These people all had the talent to become Titled Douluo; they were undoubtedly the backbone of the Academy.

For this trip following the Big Senior Sister, especially with the Gluttonous Douluo Xuan Zi accompanying them, everyone cherished this opportunity for training.

Not to mention the exchange with the Big Senior Sister who was about to break through to Soul Douluo, with the peerless powerhouse Xuan Zi following, at the very least, nothing would go wrong.

And then...

Unexpectedly, an accident happened.

Up to now, the Gluttonous Douluo Elder Xuan didn't know where he had gone; she wasn't even sure if he was still in the Star Dou Great Forest! And just at this time, their Shrek group very unfortunately encountered a hundred-thousand-year soul beast; even if the other was in a heavily injured state, it wasn't something she, who wasn't even a Soul Douluo, could deal with.

Up to now, she was the only one who had survived; the others had long since died in various places.

And she, too, was originally likely to die.

She gritted her teeth for a moment and couldn't help but ask.

"Doesn't know where he went!?"

"Which elder is so careless? Doesn't he know this is really dangerous!!!!"

Ma Xiaotao was suddenly furious; such a lack of concern for students actually happened in her own Academy! "Um..."

"Elder Xuan."

Zhang Lexuan clearly didn't treat Zhang Lexuan as an outsider; she pursed her lips and finally whispered.

"Elder Xuan is actually so irresponsible..."

"Wait, Elder Xuan?"

"The Sea God Pavilion's Vice Pavilion Master, the Gluttonous Douluo Elder Xuan?"

Ma Xiaotao said angrily, but soon, the anger on her face turned into astonishment.

Xuan Zi!

That Gluttonous Douluo who usually carried a jug of wine and never lacked a chicken leg in his hand, Xuan Zi??? "He is actually so irresponsible?"

The astonishment on Ma Xiaotao's face lasted only for a moment, then turned into anger; regardless of whether he was Elder Xuan or not, even as the Academy's second-in-command, he couldn't do such an irresponsible thing! "I've long heard that this Xuan Zi is unreliable, but this is truly something else!"

She muttered to herself.

"..."

"Who's to say otherwise."

Zhang Lexuan opened her mouth, wanting to say a few good words for Elder Xuan, but then she thought about it—there really weren't any good words to say about him.

"But Xiaotao, what's your situation?"

"And that man in black, I don't see him as an elder of our Academy either; who is he?"

Zhang Lexuan's face held some doubt; even if she flipped through all the elders she had seen in her memory, she had no memory of the person before her.

Could he be a hidden master who had been in seclusion? But even Elder Mu didn't feel as terrifying as the person before her.

"He is not an elder of the Academy, he is..."

Ma Xiaotao shook her head, preparing to explain, but that Tiger King couldn't hold back anymore.

"Di Tian!"

"You are actually associating with humans!"

"Even if I die today, I will not become a disgrace to the beast race!"

Watching the scene before her, the Silver Moon Tiger King was bewildered.

The human who was her mortal enemy was actually holding hands with someone beside Di Tian? For a moment, treated like air, she really couldn't hold back anymore.

Even a cat will scratch when pushed, let alone a tiger!

She never sought trouble; logically, it was absolutely impossible for her to have a feud with the other, but she didn't fear trouble either!

Moreover, in her current state, she wouldn't live many more days even if she survived; she had to kill this person who was related to her enemy! "That person is the Lord's person."

Di Tian only responded coldly, which caused the little fairy tiger, whose anger level had reached 1000%, to drop to zero; she retreated to the side, not daring to speak.

"She is the Lord's person?"

He had thought of ten thousand possibilities in his mind, but never imagined the other would say such a thing; and as the Lord's former guard, as the Beast God of the Star Dou Great Forest, it was even more impossible for the other to joke about the person he respected most in his heart.

This person is really the Lord's person!?

"But..."

"But what about my son..."

The Silver Moon Tiger King's face wore a look of grievance and sorrow; on one hand, of course, she wanted to kill this person to avenge her son's death.

But this person was the Lord's person! Could she... do that...

"Di Tian?"

"Di Tian!"

Zhang Lexuan silently recited this name three times in her heart, trying to find a human powerhouse related to the other, but found nothing. But the next moment, when she thought of this place, she was instantly stunned on the spot: Beast God Di Tian!

The strongest in the Star Dou Great Forest, and also the strongest guy on the entire continent, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King Di Tian!

"Why are you with him?"

Zhang Lexuan couldn't figure it out no matter how she thought; she couldn't understand how her little sister could be mixed up with him.

"Well."

"My man brought me here; he knows Di Tian..."

Ma Xiaotao pointed toward Tang Wulin, a blush on her face as she introduced him with a smile.

"Hmm?"

Noticing Ma Xiaotao's gaze, especially her flushed cheeks, Tang Wulin also smiled slightly; he didn't interrupt their reunion, but instead gave the other a friendly smile.

He hadn't expected to run into Zhang Lexuan, a woman with peerless talent even in the original work, this time.

And looking at that hundred-thousand-year Tiger King, the hundred-thousand-year soul beast the other absorbed in the original work must have been her, right?

"A heavily injured hundred-thousand-year soul beast..."

"Even if heavily injured, this is still a top-tier hundred-thousand-year soul beast; in Tang San's era, this was the ceiling of combat power. It's really not easy for Zhang Lexuan to defeat it at level 80..."

Tang Wulin sighed with emotion; as the number one genius in ten thousand years, Zhang Lexuan was truly qualified.

Just wonder what kind of rewards he could get from signing in for himself!

"This person looks okay..."

"Your man!"

Hearing these three words from Ma Xiaotao, Zhang Lexuan couldn't help but be startled, looking at the other with an incredulous gaze.

The degree of her shock at this moment was no less than when she found out about Di Tian earlier.

Her childhood little sister actually had a man? When did this happen! Clearly, the last time she was at the Academy, the other was still that Ma Xiaotao who kept strangers at a distance; let alone finding a boyfriend, even being with a man was, just as she remembered, non-existent.

And now they were together without a word?

"When did this happen?"

"How old is he, where is he from, have you met his parents, how is his strength and talent, and of course, most importantly..."

"Does your teacher know about him?"

Zhang Lexuan stared at Ma Xiaotao, as if she had transformed into an elder, and asked.

As a big sister, she really needed to ask Xiaotao properly to see if the other was worth entrusting her life to.

"Hehe, you don't need to worry, sister."

"Teacher agreed..."

Ma Xiaotao had a blush on her face as she said with a smile; while speaking, she couldn't help but feel embarrassed, clearly thinking of the scene when she was with him.

"That's fine then."

Hearing this, Zhang Lexuan finally felt relieved, and at the same time, her vigilance vanished; since it was someone approved by Elder Yan Shaozhe, then he must be qualified in every aspect, and there was no need for her to worry.

"However."

"The trickiest thing is still the matter at hand..."

Zhang Lexuan's gaze fell on the Silver Moon Tiger King once again, not knowing what she was thinking, and she muttered.

"Hmm? Little Tiger!? What's wrong with you."

"Sister Zi, you're here too!"

On the other side, while Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan were catching up, Zi Ji was carefully examining this hundred-thousand-year soul beast, but couldn't help but be startled; it was an old acquaintance.

These two were also old acquaintances; long before the Tiger King became a 100,000-year soul beast, she had, because of "newborn calves not fearing tigers," gone to find Zi Ji before she became a fierce beast, wanting to clash with her, starting a battle.

And then she was beaten into recuperation for ten thousand years...

During those ten thousand years, she recuperated and worked hard on her cultivation; when she finally broke through to 100,000 years and wanted to find the other to clash again, the other had transformed into a fierce beast, and one of the Ten Great Fierce Beasts at that, leaving her far behind.

"Why are you here?"

"What's going on with you and that person? You couldn't beat her? And why did you want to fight her?"

Zi Ji's face held some doubt; she really couldn't figure out how the tiger before her, who once dared to take the initiative to fight her, had fallen so low after breaking through 100,000 years that she went to fight a tiny human woman.

Whether she knew Xiaotao was one thing, but the key was that the aura on the other didn't even reach Titled Douluo; how could the other be so relentless and still not kill her?

"Yeah."

Listening to Zi Ji's words, Zhang Lexuan and the Zhang Lexuan beside her were also full of question marks; why, why on earth? They had no grudges between them; no matter what, a hundred-thousand-year soul beast couldn't possibly be looking for trouble with her!

"Sister Zi..."

"My life is bitter!"

The Silver Moon Tiger King let out a howl and cried, lying on the ground like a child who had been wronged, and told the story of what happened.

It turned out that a few months ago, a human powerhouse brought a young man to the inner circle, not only beating her into a crippled state but also killing her child who hadn't grown up yet, a 70,000-year mutant soul beast, the Tyrant Gold Tiger, to use as a soul ring.

And that person, right in front of her, killed it himself! "Today, I will only take your child's tiger life and spare your life."

That human acted all righteous in front of her, but not long after he left, the words he said to the person beside him reached her ears:

"This hundred-thousand-year soul beast is not bad; in the future, it can still be your ninth soul ring. Your child is truly lucky; with such a soul beast soul ring, it will also drop a good soul bone. Following me, you won't lose out."

"Thank you, Elder Xuan."

Was that him sparing her?

That was him preparing for his disciple to break through to Titled Douluo, and then personally finish her off to take the ring and bone! "Sister Zi, you tell me, how can I endure this!"

The Silver Moon Tiger King cried out; at this moment, she really had no other way.

"But..."

"What does this have to do with me?"

Zhang Lexuan's face held a look of confusion, and she couldn't help but blurt out; what did the dispute between the other and that human powerhouse have to do with her? "It has to do with you!"

"I had long been lurking around here; I saw with my own eyes that person leading you all to hunt soul beasts, don't lie to me!"

The Silver Moon Tiger King said through gritted teeth.

"Ah?"

"You this..."

Hearing these words, Zhang Lexuan fell silent; she had a guess in her heart, but obviously didn't jump to conclusions.

"Tiger King, what did that person who attacked you look like? I want to know why you think that was my companion."

"Can you tell me?"

"What did that person who attacked you look like?"

Tang Wulin clearly knew who that person was; suppressing the helplessness in his heart, he looked at the Silver Moon Tiger King before him and spoke.

"Right!"

"You tell us what he looks like, and Big Senior Sister will know."

Ma Xiaotao nodded earnestly, looking at the Tiger King before her, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she couldn't help but say.

"That person!"

"He looks like a mangosteen, looks wooden and dull, carries a wine gourd on his body, and walks unsteadily..."

The Silver Moon Tiger King didn't hide anything; after just a moment of thought, that person's figure had already emerged in her heart; she absolutely could not forget that person.

"And."

"He's holding a chicken leg! Every time I see him, he's clutching a chicken leg in his hand!"

At this moment, she seemed to have suddenly thought of an important characteristic; her whole mood couldn't calm down, and she said angrily.

"Chicken leg..."

Hearing this, everyone present, whether they understood or not, fell into a complete silence.

Especially Zhang Lexuan; her originally calm face was now filled with helplessness, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly.

It really was him.

(End of chapter)