Chapter 157. Enemies All Over the World.
She hunted spirit rings and spirit beasts deep in the mountains and ancient forests to make a living. Beside the house that held fond memories of her childhood, Lin Mengtong erected several tombstones: those of her parents, the family that adopted her, and those who died because of her.
Every sunset, she would confess her sins before these tombstones. Her peaceful days did not last long. The Shrek law enforcement team arrived at her retreat, torching Lin Mengtong's room and destroying all the tombstones she had erected.
Having escaped this fate, Lin Mengtong watched her childhood home engulfed in flames. With the tombstones destroyed, her resentment nearly drove her mad.
Her hatred for Shrek became her driving force for survival.
However, her strength was still too weak. She sought a new retreat, cultivating while plotting revenge against Shrek.
The Tang Clan invaded her retreat and destroyed her home. Lin Mengtong managed to survive by hiding in the deep mountains and forests.
Later, the Haotian Sect, the two empires, the entire continent, and all the forces joined in the campaign against her.
Lin Mengtong lived in hiding, each time she encountered an opportunity, she faced danger. The Haotian Sect would immediately appear before her, forcing her to hide and watch helplessly as they snatched away her opportunities.
Later, Lin Mengtong directly invaded the Tang Clan's forbidden area and, within the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire, obtained a sacrifice from the spirit beast Wangchuanqiushui, which became her seventh spirit ring.
The Tang Clan's forces then reacted and attacked her before she could obtain any more immortal items. Forced to evade them, Lin Mengtong fought her way back, and during her repeated pursuits across the continent, she defeated the geniuses of Shrek, the Haotian Sect, and the two empires.
In this world of universal enemy, Lin Mengtong desperately sought to improve her strength. The Evil-Eyed Spider Emperor possessed the ability to devour human flesh and souls, accelerating her cultivation. However, she never used this ability, knowing her deceased parents would not wish her to become a true evil spirit master.
After her promotion to Soul Douluo, her reputation was formidable. Even if she resisted, her enemies would not let her go, and her hands were already stained with countless corpses. In the past, she had killed to survive, but now, she had finally begun to seek revenge, her first target being the Titled Douluo who had abducted her parents.
The Evil-Eyed Spider Emperor's soul bone pierced deeply into the Titled Douluo's body. Lin Mengtong stared at him with bloodshot eyes and demanded, "Tell me, why did you kidnap my parents? Tell me—"
"Why?" The Titled Douluo, knowing his end was imminent, laughed, "Evil soul masters are punishable by all. Do we need a reason?"
"My Baba Mom, they're not evil soul masters," Lin Mengtong said angrily and sorrowfully.
"Not evil soul masters?" the Titled Douluo said, "Anyone who awakens an evil spirit is an evil soul master. Evil Emperor, can your quibbling change the original sin of their spirits? And yours?"
"You don't want to say, right? Then I have a way to find out." Lin Mengtong's Spider Emperor claws pierced the body of the man she resented, extracting his flesh and blood, forcing his eyes to gaze into her evil eye.
In a trance, his soul was devoured by Lin Mengtong's evil eye, and Lin Mengtong also gained his memories.
It turned out that Shrek's purpose was very clear at the beginning, which was to capture Lin Qingzheng and Wang Mengling, and then let himself go.
Wang Mengling's initial hiding hadn't fooled the Titled Douluo. She'd survived only because Shrek Academy and other forces needed her.
Otherwise, when her parents were captured, no matter how hard she tried to hide, she wouldn't have been able to hide from a Titled Douluo.
This realization struck Lin Mengtong like a bolt of lightning.
Looking back, she'd been constantly fleeing, hiding, running from place to place, rarely taking a moment to pause, breathe, or even to reflect.
But now a Soul Douluo, she reflected on the past, and it was filled with the bizarre. How had she, so weak, managed to evade Shrek Academy's pursuit?
This person had already revealed the answer: her evasion was simply a deliberate act by forces like Shrek and the Clear Sky Sect.
Killing those close to her while deliberately letting her go was like someone strangling themselves, but the rope kept tightening and loosening, forever keeping them alive without ever killing them.
The further she thought, the more terrifying it became.
Shrek Academy, the Tang Sect, the Haotian Sect, the Empire, the Kingdom—the continent's myriad factions, rife with internal conflict—how could they possibly follow such a single command and execute it in unison, just as they were pursuing her?
She suddenly felt as if she had been caught in a conspiracy against her since birth. Who was orchestrating this?
Lin Mengtong was furious, her hatred reaching its peak!
Her fate had been manipulated, her family and friends had perished before her. Except for the age of six, she had been on the run almost every moment. Shrek and the Haotian Sect had hunted her, yet they hadn't let her go.
Who, exactly, was orchestrating all this? I'm going to find you and kill you again. Lin Mengtong went mad, slaughtering each and every one who came after her, absorbing their spirit power and memories, constantly exploring the past.
From the memories of a member of the Shrek law enforcement team, she read the inhumane torture her parents endured. While interrogated in the Shrek prison, they were presented with a mountain of evidence and forced to confess. Under the torture, they yielded, ultimately admitting to the crimes Shrek had coerced them into confessing.
From the memories of each former participant, Lin Mengtong read out a trail of memories, a forbidden existence that had targeted her from the moment she was born.
With this knowledge, Lin Mengtong no longer hesitated, believing she possessed the strength to defeat those who pursued her.
Shrek, the Haotian Sect, the Tang Clan, and other factions, while pursuing her, were also hunted by her, falling one after another.
Lin Mengtong's power exploded, earning her a title, then a Super Douluo, and finally a level 97 Super Douluo.
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