Douluo Continent: The Eternal Order of the Azure Sky

Chapter 14 The Return to Origin: Breaking Through All Mysteries

Kong Tianxu finally looked up from the parchment, a half-smile playing on his lips as he looked at her. "You mean, to decipher this map, you're indispensable?"

He unfolded the map in his hand, and on the simple and primitive paper, a very complete map was clearly displayed.

Xu Yingluo's prepared words caught in her throat. She couldn't understand how Kong Tianxu, a master of restrictions, could do it. Her father, a master of restrictions, had received some hints when he obtained this map, and it took him years to figure out a way to temporarily break the restrictions.

"You seem to have overestimated your own worth." Kong Tianxu's face still held a smile, but his words chilled her to the bone.

"No, no, young master, Tianxu, listen to me. I hold a high position in the Xuanming Sect. The Xuanshui Pill formula and this treasure map are merely gifts. I will surely present the Xuanwu Divine Pill formula later. My Xuanwu bloodline concentration is also quite good. I can help you improve your martial soul bloodline through clan secret methods. I will definitely be of use to you..."

Her speech grew faster and faster, even becoming somewhat incoherent. Her elegant and serene demeanor vanished completely. Grabbing Kong Tianxu's sleeve, she listed her own merits in a frenzied manner. Her words even contained mockery of Xu Yuanxi's clumsy performance and disdain for the Xuanming Sect's seclusion in a corner of the world. Fear and ruthlessness were mixed together in her eyes, forming a complex mess.

His fawning and obsequious behavior was a stark contrast to his previous aloof demeanor, like a dog barking and begging for food.

But Kong Tianxu maintained the same posture as before, his clear eyes filled with a deep purple hue.

Looking into those deep, boundless eyes, Xu Yingluo trembled. She loosened her grip on Kong Tianxu's robes, lowered her head, and let a few drops of cold sweat slowly drip from her smooth cheeks.

Am I going to die?

"I really like your eyes." Kong Tianxu bent down slightly and extended his right index finger to lift her chin along her slender neck.

A surge of ecstasy bloomed in Xu Yingluo's dim eyes. She looked up at Kong Tianxu, revealing an expression that was both crying and laughing. Her defenses had been completely breached, and her layers of disguise had been stripped away. She possessed a vulnerability like that of a little girl, and her tearful face was filled with a stunningly beautiful, chaotic, and broken charm.

"But I don't like you."

With a gentle exertion of force, his index finger, instantly transformed into a dragon, pierced the skin on Xu Yingluo's chin. But he didn't penetrate further; a flash of purple light appeared behind him, and Kong Tianxu withdrew his right arm, which had already fully recovered.

Xu Yingluo collapsed, clutching her wound, and a drop of blood that slowly flowed out instantly froze into an ice crystal.

Kong Deming nodded slightly, clearly satisfied with the outcome; Kong Tianxu had never troubled him with his decisiveness. However, he still offered a word of advice:

"Destroy the jade pendant she gave you; keeping it will only be a hidden danger."

Just as Kong Tianxu had guessed, he had been following behind Kong Tianxu the whole time and knew everything that happened during the Soul Hunting Operation.

"Of course." Kong Tianxu took it out of his belt. For some reason, Kong Deming felt that the black luster of the jade pendant seemed to be lighter than before.

With a cold snort, Kong Tianxu's hand flashed with golden light, and a very faint black smoke emanated from it. The jade pendant gradually turned into its original emerald green color and gradually dissipated under the power of Wanshi Guiyuan.

"They have a backup plan? This Xuanming Sect..."

Kong Deming's voice was now tinged with anger. The black smoke was clearly not a good thing, and if it weren't for the fact that the Xuanming Sect was located within Tiandou City, making it difficult to clean up the mess, he would definitely have paid them a visit.

Kong Tianxu's eyes were deep and unfathomable. Only when he touched the Xuanwu Divine Pill did he realize that something was wrong with the jade tablet; a faint, cool sensation kept seeping into his body.

Of course, it had no effect on him.

The Realm of Returning to the Origin shatters all mysteries. The map, which was under a mental energy restriction, was like this, as was the Xuanming Poison, which was as cool as a deep pool. Neither of them could withstand this unprecedented and miraculous power.

However, even without this early warning, he wouldn't risk taking on someone who might stab him in the back at any moment. Besides, this person wasn't of much value.

The Xuanming Sect is indeed a good entry point, but that's just something to do along the way. The strongest among them is just a slightly stronger title holder, so what does that mean to him?

Kong Tianxu looked up at Kong Deming and said with a wry smile:

"Grandpa, let's put the Xuanming Sect aside for now. I've already sacrificed the elemental creed I just finished creating, do I still need to test it?"

Kong Deming was amused by Kong Tianxu's feigned modesty and said:

"Alright, of course not. No one would believe your achievements if you told others. With a cultivation level below Soul Venerable, you killed one Soul Emperor, three Soul Kings, and even crippled a Soul Saint. The Silver Dragon Martial Soul is indeed uniquely gifted. But what makes Grandpa most happy is your Soul Tool. Through a small reverse inscription, a melee Soul Tool becomes a fixed-mount Soul Tool shell. Good, very good. This is a very important idea, and it may even change the direction of the Empire's most advanced Soul Tool technology research. At your age, as a Soul Tool Master, I am far inferior to you. If it weren't for the limitation of level 40 Soul Power cultivation, your true Soul Tool level should be level seven."

For Kong Deming, the father of level nine soul masters, to give such an evaluation and unequivocally recognize him as level seven, means that Kong Tianxu can now at least call himself a level six and a half soul master.

Kong Tianxu scratched his head, feeling a little embarrassed by the praise, since he had only borrowed some experience from his previous life. Of course, being able to truly apply these to the design of soul tools was definitely genius.

After all, even someone's design of adding mechanisms to a soul tool is already a groundbreaking feat in this world.

Reaching the location of the golden hawksbill turtle's corpse, Kong Tianxu retrieved the head bone, the source of chaos, and removed its shell. He then stored both items in his storage ring and said to Kong Deming:

"Grandpa, let's go. I know where to find a suitable soul beast for me."

"Is it indicated on that map?"

Kong Tianxu gave a soft "hmm" and walked to Kong Deming's side. The two of them floated into the air in the blue light.

Kong Deming didn't ask any further questions. His only grandson had an extraordinary keen sense of many things, a fact that had been proven countless times over the past eleven years.

From beginning to end, the two of them never looked at Xu Yingluo again, as if she were just a speck of dust floating beneath their feet, not worth a second glance.

Before leaving, as if to celebrate something, Kong Tianxu snapped his fingers, and the seven-colored runes that had appeared in his hand at some unknown time quietly shattered.