"It's irrelevant." Tang San lowered his head in thought. "Great-grandfather is right; we truly shouldn't make an enemy of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect right now."
"But Zhu Zhuqing and I both have to prioritize our divine examinations. To quickly elevate our strength for our divine examinations, we can't obtain it through normal means."
"I understand. After I return this time, I'll head to Sea God Island and recover all injuries as quickly as possible with Bo Saixi. You all shouldn't make too big a move."
Tang Chen knew that his current strength wasn't sufficient to handle everything; he must recover to his peak.
Moreover, Tang Chen felt that Tang San's personality had changed greatly, seeming more mature—perhaps due to Xiao Wu's sacrifice.
After all, she was Tang San's childhood sweetheart; as an elder, it wasn't good to pry too much.
When Tang San chatted with him, he mentioned that the divine examination had an option to revive Xiao Wu.
Regarding the secondary god's remnant soul, it might involve the divine examination, so Tang Chen didn't delve deeper.
However, Tang San had planned to use the secondary god's remnant soul to make the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect owe a favor, then smoothly pull them into his camp, and find a way to help Xue Beng ascend to the Tian Dou Empire's throne.
With Zhu Zhuqing and Xue Beng, the armies of two major empires.
Plus high-end combat power, defeating Spirit Hall wouldn't be difficult.
But plans couldn't keep up with changes.
He hadn't expected the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to be so terrifying, able to even resolve a god's remnant soul.
...
Days passed one by one.
The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's carriage convoy was heading to the Tian Dou Empire's capital, Tian Dou City, for trade. The convoy stretched out in a long line.
In one of the luxuriously decorated large carriages.
Sword Douluo sat glumly in the coachman's position, holding a whip and occasionally cracking it on the horse to make it go faster.
While inside the luxuriously decorated carriage behind him were three girls heading to the Tian Dou Empire.
Ning Tian, Ye Lengleng, and Tokisaki Kurumi.
Ning Tian gripped the intelligence just delivered from the sect, her pretty face showing a bit of anger: "Which naturally evil guy said that our Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is two-faced and three-knived, cooperating with the Xing Luo Empire's Haotian Sect! Is this trying to shove us into a latrine pit?"
It was stated so convincingly: the land-invincible Tang Chen bringing the next Haotian Sect sect master Tang San to have a very pleasant conversation with Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's sect master Ning Fengzhi—that was one thing.
It also said that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was dissatisfied with the Tian Dou Empire imperial family's attitude toward suppressing the nobles and planned to withdraw from the Tian Dou Empire, and so on...
Ye Lengleng beside Ning Tian also leaned over to look at the letter's contents, her delicate eyebrows furrowing from time to time.
"If this matter isn't clarified, it might deal a blow to the sect."
"Pfft—"
On the other side, Tokisaki Kurumi, watching the harmonious pair, couldn't help but laugh. "Has the Tian Dou Empire responded yet?"
"No response—isn't that the worst situation?" Ning Tian looked up, her expression somewhat puzzled.
"No need to worry at all. Even if we really cooperated with the Haotian Sect, so what?"
"This..." Ning Tian was baffled.
"When we go to the capital, just communicate with the Tian Dou side and say it's not true. The rest will be handled by the Tian Dou officials defending us."
Tokisaki Kurumi rested her wrist on the armrest and smiled indifferently.
"You two still don't understand your sect's strength!"
"Even if we cooperate, as long as we don't explicitly take sides, Tian Dou and Spirit Hall will just turn a blind eye."
"Is this true?" Ning Tian and Ye Lengleng exchanged glances. The two weren't clear on the sect's high-end combat power, but the empire had a million-strong army, plus Spirit Hall...
Tokisaki Kurumi smiled: "Let me put it this way: for large-scale destructive power, we have Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan."
"For high-end combat power, me, Ning Rongrong, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo are all existences comparable to Limit Douluos."
"My somewhat unreliable master and I can even slay secondary gods."
"If it's just your father Ning Fengzhi, plus Sword and Bone Douluos, relying on their martial soul fusion skill, they could have a certain probability of slaying a secondary god too."
"If not for scrupling certain forces in the God Realm..."
"The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could take down the entire Douluo Continent in less than a month."
"Even if Spirit Hall came out in full force, they wouldn't be our opponents."
"Uh... I remember Spirit Hall has many Title Douluos, more in number than in our sect!" Ning Tian's expression changed repeatedly.
Good grief, hegemony is actually mine.
Is the sect this strong?
How did it feel like, without a sound, the strength had surpassed Spirit Hall!
Tokisaki Kurumi chuckled: "Title Douluos are also divided into grades. That former Title Douluo of shame Dugu cough cough..."
"Even if there are many 91st rank Title Douluos, as long as the number isn't like locusts, they won't be opponents for a quasi-god."
"Of course, I mean not that kind of empty-headed, mindless quasi-god."
"Let me put it this way!" Tokisaki Kurumi counted on her fingers. "If I wanted, I alone could slaughter all of Spirit Hall's Title Douluos except Qian Daoliu."
"Even if Qian Daoliu activates full state, he'd just be a bit troublesome."
"Uh... that's a bit outrageous." Ning Tian and Ye Lengleng were speechless.
"Anyway, don't learn from your sister Ning Rongrong; she straightforwardly benchmarks herself against the God Realm's five great god kings."
"She can't beat them now, of course, but on the entire continent, as long as Ning Fengzhi has the will, it can all be said to be the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's nursery."
Tokisaki Kurumi snapped her fingers, and the paper in Ning Tian's hand appeared in Tokisaki Kurumi's palm. She glanced at it calmly: "Hehe, Ning Fengzhi this person..."
"He sent the letter just to see how you'd handle it. Actually, how you handle it doesn't matter."
A small flame began to ignite on the paper, and in a few seconds, it turned to ashes.
Tokisaki Kurumi patted the fragments left on her fingers and smiled lightly:
"Compared to these irrelevant things, I'm more curious about some proper matters."
"Proper matters?"
Feeling Tokisaki Kurumi's gaze, Ning Tian suddenly felt her scalp tingle.
"Actually, my master is quite curious too, but with her tsundere personality, she probably won't ask you. And I'm curious too, so I'll ask!"
"Ning Tian, how does it feel to become a girl? Isn't it great?"
"Have you... hehehe~"
"Have I what?"
Ning Tian didn't react for a moment—how did it jump from the Tian Dou Empire to this.
But Ye Lengleng beside her looked at Tokisaki Kurumi, then at Ning Tian.
Suddenly, a blush rose on her face.
"Looks like Ye Lengleng knows!" A flash of surprise crossed Tokisaki Kurumi's face, but thinking about it, Ye Lengleng's age, in terms of human physiology and psychology, had reached this stage!
"I... I don't know anything."
Ye Lengleng shook her head repeatedly, indicating she really didn't understand.
It was all Dugu Yan's fault—always popularizing all sorts of weird things to her before.
Like "Becoming a Girl, Then Enchanting the World" or whatever—totally outrageous.
Back then, she even debated with Dugu Yan: how could a big burly youth possibly turn into a cute girl? You think reality is a novel?
However, now...
Fine, she could no longer distinguish reality from novel.
And seeing Ye Lengleng's expression, a black light seemed to illuminate Ning Tian's mind.
Her whole body shuddered.
Damn!
What kind of pets did Ning Rongrong raise!
One by one, so upright yet deviant—could you ask such things directly?
Moreover, the pet follows the master.
Ning Rongrong must also be curious about such bizarre things.
Also, too much is bad, it'll break!
Just as Ning Tian was storming in her mind about how to respond, a strand of golden light flashed in the carriage.
Immediately after, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda burst out from Tokisaki Kurumi's body.
It quietly hovered in the empty space of the carriage.
An illusory figure of Ning Rongrong, about the same size as the miniature Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, quickly manifested.
"Kurumi, I have something to find you. Where are you now?"
"If you have time, come to the Extreme North as soon as possible."
(End of this chapter)