Douluo: Starting by Taking Control of the Holy Ghost Cult's Saintess

Let's turn the clock back slightly to one week ago—

It was once again the most important time of the year for Shrek: the start of the school year. Early in the morning, a large stream of people had already flocked to the gates of Shrek Academy. Apart from the returning old students, the vast majority were parents bringing their children to register for the new student entrance examination.

A month had passed since the vacation began. The new school year was to start tomorrow. The new students were busy participating in the entrance examination, and the old students were not idle either; their own promotion assessments were also about to begin.

Only after completing the promotion assessment could they truly advance to a higher grade to study. Otherwise, they, like those new students who failed to pass the entrance examination, would have to pack up and leave.

Right now, at least ninety percent of the old students had returned to school. They had not dared to slack off in the slightest during this one-month vacation. Seeing that the school year was about to begin, they naturally came back early to ask their teachers about the content of the assessment and seek guidance.

Students with sufficient strength, like the partners around Huo Yuhao, were naturally not afraid of the assessment and even liked it, as it could test the results of their cultivation. But for the vast majority of students, every assessment was a difficult hurdle. How could they not seize every sliver of opportunity?

At this moment, a figure was rushing forward from the shore of Sea God Lake at an astonishingly high speed, quickly crossing Shrek Plaza and arriving at the first-year dormitory building.

As he ran, he kept muttering to himself, "Aiya, I'm late, I'm late. They must have come back long ago and are getting anxious waiting. Aiya, it's all my fault. Why was I working so hard! But, this time I'll definitely give everyone a surprise, haha."

As he spoke, the youth had already arrived at the dormitory entrance. At the gate, the Dragon God Douluo Mu En was still lying on his recliner as if he owned the place, looking unspeakably leisurely.

This youth who had rushed here in a hurry was precisely the incarnation of Tang Wutong, Wang Dong. Compared to a month ago, she didn't seem to have changed much. She still wore the first-year school uniform, her powder-blue short hair had grown a little longer, and her large, lively eyes had a bit more vitality and were filled with excitement.

It had been almost a month since they had parted. Wang Dong had been delayed on her return journey due to some matters and had only managed to rush back the day before the school year began, much later than the time she had told Tang Men and the others.

In her mind, Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and Xiao Xiao must have come back long ago and were waiting for her.

Putting down her luggage, she quickly got up and ran towards the temporary station of the Tang Sect in the academy.

Before long, she saw Bei Bei and Xiao Xiao from a distance at the Tang Sect station.

"Senior Brother! Xiao Xiao!" Wang Dong waved at them excitedly and trotted over.

When she got closer, she discovered that compared to a month ago, Bei Bei's face was much more haggard, and Xiao Xiao beside him had a worried look on her face.

"Senior Brother, what happened?" Wang Dong's heart skipped a beat, and a bad premonition immediately arose.

Bei Bei's face was ugly, and he seemed unwilling to say much. Wang Dong could only look at Xiao Xiao at the side.

From Xiao Xiao's mouth, she learned that during this one-month vacation, Tang Ya had received a strange message and had returned alone to the old site of the Tang Sect, the capital of the Heaven Soul Empire, Heaven Dou City.

Heaven Dou City was the place where she was born and grew up. Five years ago, a sect that couldn't even rank in the soul master world had taken everything from her. The Tang Sect, after declining for several thousand years, had finally collapsed and ceased to exist. Including her father, mother, also...

Tang Ya had tried to find the old acquaintances of the Tang Sect, her parents' friends, but when those people saw her, they avoided her as if she were the plague. Moreover, the news of her return was also learned by the small sect that had taken over the Tang Sect's foundation.

Thus, Tang Ya began to be ostracized and suppressed in all aspects.

In the end, just as in the original novel, Tang Ya had fought fiercely in the Iron Blood Sect and had accidentally awakened the Dark Blue Silver Grass.

When Tang Ya was just born, her parents had already known that another talent was hidden in her body, a talent for devouring life.

Her studies at Shrek Academy made Tang Ya feel that she was getting farther and farther away from Bei Bei, and restoring the sect was even more of a distant prospect. In the end, she chose to activate this talent of hers ahead of time.

When she was at the academy, she would quietly leave the academy every night after school, go to the nearby Star Dou Great Forest, release her Blue Silver Grass, and entangle those plants, absorbing the life force in the plants to assist her own cultivation. Her talent for devouring life was extremely powerful. With the help of this talent, her cultivation improvement could be described as a thousand miles in a single day. At the same time, her martial soul also underwent a change, becoming the current—Dark Blue Silver Grass.

If her Blue Silver Grass devoured the life force and soul power of a soul master, then her cultivation improvement would be even more rapid. But Tang Ya had never done so before.

Just like the Buddha from ten thousand years ago, she was just trying to revive the Tang Sect. How could she kill the innocent? It wasn't until today, when she saw her enemy and returned to the Tang Sect, that her long-suppressed killing intent finally erupted. An evil aura instantly controlled her mind. Within that Iron Blood Sect, she began a frenzied slaughter. And when she used the Dark Blue Silver Grass to kill and devour the life force of the first Iron Blood Sect disciple, she had already truly and irrevocably become an evil soul master.

The greatest characteristic of Tang Ya's Dark Blue Silver Grass was that the more she fought, the stronger she became. She could supplement herself by absorbing the enemy's life force and soul power, and she could also automatically filter during the absorption process. This was the characteristic of her evil martial soul. Not all evil soul masters' abilities were extremely powerful, but Tang Ya's Dark Blue Silver Grass was undoubtedly a leader among them, with extremely high development potential. Hence, the Holy Ghost Cult was willing to revere her as their Saintess.

Tang Ya returning to the old site of the Tang Sect and going on a killing spree was naturally Huo Yuhao's arrangement. It was just that he had requested the people of the Holy Ghost Cult to thoroughly awaken her evil martial soul and then release her back to Shrek Academy, for him to supervise this Saintess.

After Tang Ya degenerated into an evil soul master, the self-proclaimed pure and chaste Tang Buddha would naturally completely abandon this evil soul master sect master, Tang Ya, and instead vigorously cultivate the "Son of Fortune," Xu Sanshi.

Speak of Old Cao, and Cao Jinxuan arrives. Not just this partner from Wang Dong's team, but Xu Sanshi had also rushed over upon hearing the news. And coming with him was Jiang Nannan.

As Tang Ya's close friend, how could Jiang Nannan not be anxious? Learning this news, she had to first put aside her prejudice against Xu Sanshi and rush over with him.

After getting along for nearly a year, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao had also come to know Cao Jinxuan's background—a disciple of the Body Sect.

As a once-in-a-generation genius of the Body Sect, Cao Jinxuan shouldered no small expectation. In the new student assessment, he not only replaced the main control position that originally belonged to Huo Gua in Wang Dong's team but also led a team of all two-ring soul masters into the finals.

Originally, he was just shouldering the mission of his sect, planning to use the new generation of Shrek as a stepping stone to win the championship of the new student assessment and proclaim the power of their Body Sect. But he ended up with a miserable defeat. This made him put away his original arrogance and stay in the academy, working hard to improve his cultivation.

The Body Sect, as an expert in the second awakening of martial souls, had its own unique insights in this area. So Bei Bei and the others made an exception and allowed him to check Tang Ya's condition.

"She has completely awakened her evil martial soul. If it is not controlled, she will surely become a blood-soaked evil soul master in the future," Cao Jinxuan finally came to this conclusion with an ugly face.

Hearing his words, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao's expressions couldn't help but change. One must know, Tang Ya was the sect master of their Tang Sect. A sect with an evil soul master as its master would surely be spat upon by the world in the future.

"What we should do now is to prepare for a rainy day..." Cao Jinxuan made a slitting motion across his own neck with his hand, proposing his view.

"Absolutely not!" Bei Bei hurriedly stood in front of Tang Ya. As a descendant of the contemporary Sea God Pavilion's master, how could he not know that this was the best solution? But facing the person he loved, how could he bring himself to do it?

Cao Jinxuan would not force them on the spot. The Body Sect also deeply hated the Holy Ghost Cult. With his ruthless personality, as long as he found a chance, he would definitely do things to the absolute extreme.

"There must be a way," Xu Sanshi patted his good brother Bei Bei's shoulder. He didn't know what words to use to comfort everyone either.

"After reporting tomorrow, I will go find Elder Xuan. The old man might have a way!" Bei Bei's eyes were red. With the great Shrek as his backer, he didn't believe there was no solution.

Compared to the gloomy clouds on the Tang Sect's side, Huo Yuhao's group was on the verge of anxiety.

Cui Yejie had come back long ago and had even brought Huo Yuhao many local specialties from her village. Xie Huanyue had also returned two days early. His temperament had changed a lot, and his whole person was more mature.

Ning Tian and Wu Feng had also returned from their sect to the academy on the same day as Xie Huanyue. The two of them had also made considerable progress during this vacation. Nanmen Yun'er was the last to arrive. Her home was in Shrek City, so there wasn't much difference between vacation and no vacation.

Xie Huanyue was also a regular visitor to Ning Tian's villa. Although he was not allowed to sleep under the same big blanket, because of his relationship with Huo Yuhao, he had come here to freeload on food and drink no small number of times. His appetite was too large, and the academy cafeteria had long restricted his meals. Only the financial condition of a rich girl like Ning Tian could afford to support this large group of people, including him.

The five of them waited and waited. Until the eve of the end of the academy's registration, they still could not wait for Huo Yuhao's figure.

Cui Yejie also knew that Huo Yuhao had a deep relationship with Mu Jin and Ma Xiaotao and had gone to inquire with the two girls. The answer she got was the same: Huo Yuhao hadn't come back.

The person hadn't come back. There was no use in being anxious. The group of five was anxious. Mu Jin and Ma Xiaotao, as Huo Yuhao's women, were even more anxious.

Everyone close to Huo Yuhao had different thoughts in their hearts. Some were angry, some were regretful, some were confused. But none of them could have imagined the real reason why Huo Yuhao had not returned in time. But time waits for no man.

The registration time passed, and Huo Yuhao still had not returned.

Why hasn't he come back yet? Why?

Shrek Academy's rules were very strict. If one failed to report on time, they would be treated as having withdrawn from the school!

The sky gradually darkened, but he still had not returned.

By the shore of Sea God Lake, Ma Xiaotao looked into the distance, her gaze already a little dazed. She was almost twenty this year, much older than Huo Yuhao. In the two decades of her life, this was the first time she had missed someone so much.

Xie Huanyue stood in his single dormitory. His legs were already a little numb, but in his mind, the joyous romps and studies with Huo Yuhao in the academy over the past year kept replaying.

Cui Yejie, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng lay silently on the large bed that still had his scent. In this one year, they had attended classes together, cultivated together, participated in the new student assessment together, won the championship together, ate roasted fish together, and walked through the first academic year of Shrek Academy together.

We're back. Where are you?

The sky gradually darkened. The afterglow of the sunset left a faint red on the distant horizon. The evening clouds were beautiful, but they could not illuminate the gloom in their hearts.

It's late. It's already late. He had already passed the reporting time. It's too late, it's too late!

Mu Jin had been standing alone at the academy gate for a day. Looking at the gradually darkening sky, her bright face also dimmed.

Huo Yuhao, you heartless man!