Chapter 169 Wang Qiu'er Appears! Tang San Sweates!
The purple patterns on the sky completely solidified, and the airtight order of the white world disappeared, replaced by the somber and causally intertwined scenes of the black world.
now....
[The image on the screen reassembles, revealing Shrek Academy in its dark world.]
[In the timeline of the dark world projected on the celestial screen, the smoke of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament has dissipated. Tang Ya, due to the decline of the Tang Sect and her hatred, has been completely corrupted, becoming an evil soul master and disappearing into the shadows.]
Shrek Academy, seemingly back to its former tranquility, conceals a deep-seated deficiency in its soul tool capabilities.
On this day, in order to advance its so-called "Ultimate Individual Soldier" plan, the Sea God Pavilion officially decided to send Huo Yuhao as an exchange student to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy for two years of intensive study.
Inside the Sea God Pavilion, Yan Shaozhe, with a complex expression, found Huo Yuhao and entrusted him with this mission, which had strategic objectives.
"Yuhao, are you willing to go?"
[Huo Yuhao agreed without hesitation, driven by a desire to become stronger and to revitalize the Tang Sect.]
"Dean, I'm willing to go!"
However, the Soul Masters in the underworld erupted in a sarcastic discussion after witnessing this scene.
"The so-called exchange student program is actually just a way for Shrek Academy to shamelessly send him to Sun Moon Royal Academy because Shrek Academy simply doesn't have the ability to teach him properly, right?" A free soul master sneered at the city gate.
"Didn't Shrek Academy always claim that martial souls were paramount and that they didn't value soul tools? This so-called 'ultimate individual soldier' is based entirely on soul tools as its core carrier."
"On the one hand, they look down on soul tools, but on the other hand, they rely on stealing other people's technology to carry out their plans. This is logically contradictory."
"Shrek Academy in the dark world has an irreparable and huge flaw in the field of soul tools. An academy that has to rely on sending 'spy exchange students' to acquire even core technologies has long since lost the right to be called the number one academy on the continent."
"In contrast, Shrek Academy in the white world has demonstrated the confidence of a top leader."
"If they want to do something, they don't need to go to the trouble of sending students elsewhere. Knowledge under the White Order is transparent and shared; they can complete all the evolution within their own laboratories."
The voices of countless Soul Masters then rose in discussion.
The more they watched footage of the Dark World, the clearer it became that many of Shrek Academy's statements about the Dark World were contradictory.
Moreover, this time, sending Huo Yuhao from the underworld to study at the Sun Moon Royal Academy is something that can be criticized a lot.
Therefore, the Soul Masters in the Dark World were discussing it extensively.
Amidst the widespread criticism across the mainland, the video feed sped up.
[In the scene, Huo Yuhao arrives at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.]
His life there was not easy. As an "outsider" from Shrek Academy, he not only had to face a rigorous academic schedule, but also the targeting and bullying from the native geniuses of the Sun Moon Empire.
[The scene then shifts to a blood-red moment: the Body Sect launches a surprise attack on Mingde Hall.]
Amidst the chaotic explosion and the surge of soul power, Huo Yuhao obtained the Ice Embryo—the embryo of the Snow Empress—through immense risk.
However, at the crucial moment of the final fusion, due to the energy going out of control, the Death Saint God of Magic, Ilex, who was dormant in Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness, chose to self-immolate in order to save the Snow Empress and calm Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness.
The greyish-white fragments of his soul vanished with the wind, and Electrolux's last trace in the dark world completely disappeared.
Upon seeing this, the Soul Masters of the Underworld once again expressed deep emotions.
"Compared to this, Electrolux from the White World is incredibly lucky," sighed a veteran Soul Master.
"The White World's Xuanzi avoided these deadly risks from the very beginning. With the White World's Xuanzi's help, Electrox not only survived but also became a mentor of the laws of order. In the Black World, however, he became a sacrifice for the rampaging energy."
"The most crucial factor is the technological gap. It was only at this point that the Black World barely mastered the Soul Spirit technology, by paying such a huge price as sacrificing the divine consciousness of a true god."
"And what about the White World? Bai Xuanzi had already perfectly deployed the Soul Spirit System when Huo Yuhao enrolled. It can only be said that the White World has indeed won by too much on the level of civilization."
Huo Yuhao's exchange program in the Sun Moon Empire has officially ended. Exhausted and with an incomplete knowledge base, he returned to Shrek Academy.
However, shortly after he stepped into the academy, the camera focused on a strange young girl.
The girl had long, shimmering golden hair and an extremely stunning appearance. What shocked the entire continent was that her appearance was exactly the same as the figure created when Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong performed their Martial Soul Fusion Technique—the one known as the "Goddess of Light."
The girl stood by the lake, her gaze clear and deep, looking directly at Huo Yuhao as she spoke: "I am Wang Qiu'er."
The entire Black World was instantly plunged into immense shock and confusion.
"Wang Qiu'er? Who is this? She looks exactly like Wang Dong'er. Could she be Wang Dong'er's twin sister?"
"Something's not right! I've read so much before, and there's never been any mention of Wang Dong'er having a sister!"
In the supreme realm of gods, Xiao Wu, who had been sitting upright, also exclaimed in surprise at this moment. She stood up abruptly, her eyes filled with incomprehensible panic.
"Huh? This girl... she's not Xiao Qi!" Xiao Wu's voice trembled slightly; as a mother, she instinctively sensed something was amiss.
"Although she looks just like Xiao Qi, and even has a trace of Xiao Qi's aura, her essence is not human at all! What's going on?"
Tang San, who was standing to the side, broke out in a cold sweat the moment he saw Wang Qiu'er appear.
As the God-King, he knew the girl's true identity better than anyone else.
That was another pawn he had carefully arranged to guide Huo Yuhao's fate, and also the bearer of the destiny of the Douluo Continent—the Emperor Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
But he did not expect that at this juncture, the heavens would reveal this secret, which involved divine intervention and even his use of his daughter's divine consciousness fragments to reconstruct his body, to the entire continent in such a direct way.
Tang San stared intently into Wang Qiu'er's golden eyes, his previously composed mindset completely crumbling at that moment.
"Damn, are they going to randomly expose things again next?"
(End of chapter)