6: The bear!

She Long was tall and sturdy, standing a full two meters high at first glance. Coupled with his elusive eighteen-foot Snake Lance, he truly exuded a tiger-like prestige that made people dare not look him in the eye!

As for the one She Long was protecting...

She had golden hair, a graceful figure, and peerless beauty!

Although there was a hint of youthfulness between her brows, she was clearly not very old.

However, her overall Aura was quite extraordinary; she was clearly someone of great wealth or noble status.

Furthermore, being accompanied by a Titled Douluo, how could she be anyone simple?

It was just that, because she didn't often travel on the continent, not many people recognized her.

After repelling over a dozen ten-thousand-year Spirit Beasts in a row, the ordinary Spirit Beasts knew this big guy She Long was not to be trifled with and didn't dare to provoke him.

...

Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Unlike the few people in the Elder Hall who knew the truth.

The fact that Xue Qinghe was actually Qian Renxue was not much of a secret to them.

On the contrary, facing the video that appeared, the higher-ups of the Elder Hall also wanted to see.

Why their Spirit Hall's Titled Douluo had suddenly become a member of the Qingyun Sect!

But when Ning Fengzhi saw the woman in the video, a rare expression of confusion appeared on his face.

Gu Rong: "Fengzhi, what's wrong? It's rare to see you with such an expression!"

"Forgive me, Uncle Bone. To be honest, I feel that every gesture of this woman in the video feels quite familiar.

I'm still quite confident in my memory, but strangely enough, I just went through my recollections and simply couldn't remember.

If I had to say, she actually bears a thirty percent resemblance to that Disciple of mine!"

Ning Fengzhi's Disciple?

"Fengzhi, you aren't talking about His Highness Crown Prince Xue Qinghe of the Heaven Dou Empire, are you?

But isn't he a man?"

"Indeed!"

Under Emperor Xue Ye's invitation, ever since becoming Xue Qinghe's teacher, Ning Fengzhi could be said to know this Disciple quite well.

He could confirm that the woman appearing in the video was definitely not Xue Qinghe!

His Disciple was also definitely a real man.

"Perhaps it's because of their noble education that there are indeed many similarities between them.

After all, with a Titled Douluo following her, her family background is definitely extraordinary, and they naturally wouldn't be stingy with her education."

Speaking of this, seeing Chen Xin's brow slightly furrowed, Ning Fengzhi asked with interest.

"Uncle Sword, what's wrong? Did you discover something?"

"I think you two are making a mountain out of a molehill.

True, with a Titled Douluo as a bodyguard, their origin can definitely be called extraordinary.

But, did you notice that Snake Lance Douluo's spirit ring configuration?"

spirit ring configuration?

It was fine before Chen Xin mentioned it, but once Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong focused their eyes, they also discovered something was wrong.

A thousand-year level fifth spirit ring?

This was not a good thing!

According to the rules explored by the Spirit Masters of Douluo Continent over many years, generally speaking, the first two spirit rings are hundred-year, the next two are thousand-year, and from the fifth spirit ring onwards, they must be ten-thousand-year level.

Of course, if conditions allow, being able to have a hundred-thousand-year ninth spirit ring like Tang Hao would naturally be for the best.

Two yellow, two purple, five black!

This was basically the standard configuration for a Titled Douluo, also known as the optimal configuration!

But what was with this Snake Lance Douluo before them?

Although the twelve-thousand-year threshold was hard to grasp, for someone of his level, it shouldn't have been a difficult task.

Yet his fifth spirit ring was actually at the thousand-year level; this was truly quite strange.

Gu Rong: "What exactly is going on here?"

"Perhaps it's because he came from a commoner Spirit Master background. When he was first Cultivating, he had no way to obtain a ten-thousand-year level spirit ring, so he had to settle for the next best thing and chose a thousand-year level spirit ring.

Such a result is truly a pity!"

Don't think obtaining optimal spirit rings was easy just because the protagonist's group got them so easily.

Looking at the entire continent, for most Spirit Masters, if they didn't have the support of a background or power, they could only settle for second best.

Not to look far, take Nuoding City's Lord's son Xiao Chenyu, Shrek Academy's Spirit Emperor teacher Li Yusong, and the youngest Spirit Emperor expert on the continent's surface, Qin Ming.

Even the spirit rings on them were not the optimal spirit ring configuration, let alone other ordinary Spirit Masters.

Chen Xin: "It is indeed a pity!"

"To be able to Cultivate to Rank 94 at such a young age, with his talent, if he had chosen optimal spirit rings, he might have had hope for becoming a Super Douluo in this life.

But now, without the intervention of the Heavenly Dao Golden List, Rank 94 will probably be the limit of his life!

His potential is exhausted; his path of Cultivation no longer has meaning!"

A commoner Titled Douluo, and one whose potential was exhausted at that, represented quite a lot of information.

Admittedly, this suddenly emerging Qingyun Sect having a Titled Douluo presiding over it made them a major power.

But if it was just this, they wouldn't be taken seriously by an established power like the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Chen Xin's words were already subtle enough. If such a spirit ring ratio were seen by Yu Xiaogang...

It probably wouldn't just be 'meaningless,' but 'trash'!

...

While they were watching, just as She Long was leading the young girl deeper inside, preparing to find a suitable spirit ring for her.

"Roar!"

First, an angry roar came from the forest, forcing ten thousand beasts to bow their heads, not daring to take a single breath.

Then a foul wind swept in, covering a distance of hundreds or thousands of meters in a flash. By the time She Long reacted, a giant bear fifteen meters tall and shaped like a mountain had already appeared before the two.

Looking closely.

The newcomer's fur was dark gold, thick and heavy, as hard as armor, with a natural metallic luster.

Its shoulders rose like hills, its muscles knotted;

Its arms were strangely long and thick, hanging past its knees, exceeding 10 meters in length.

Especially the two giant claws were particularly eye-catching, each 3 meters long, also appearing dark gold and incomparably sharp.

As the claws moved, it seemed as if the surrounding space could be torn apart by them!

Such a Vicious Beast was clearly not something an ordinary ten-thousand-year Spirit Beast could compare to. If no accidents occurred, it could probably reach a hundred thousand years!

But what was strange was that this Vicious Beast, which should have reigned supreme in the Star Dou Great Forest, was currently covered in wounds.

And from its panicked look, at first glance, it seemed as if it were being hunted!

Looking at the entire forest, who could hunt this kind of beast that could be called an emperor?

Although She Long couldn't recognize what the Spirit Beast before them was, as the Young Lord of Spirit Hall, Qian Renxue's experience was clearly not something an ordinary person could compare to.

With a brief look, she recognized that the Spirit Beast before her was a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear!

Like the Titan Giant Ape, it was a special existence where a thousand-year-old could kill a ten-thousand-year-old, and a ten-thousand-year-old was comparable to a hundred-thousand-year-old.

In terms of high attack power, relying on a pair of Dark Gold Terrorclaws, it was even above the Titan Giant Ape!

As for its cultivation...

Judging by its size and claw length, even someone as calm as Qian Renxue couldn't help but have a layer of fine cold sweat break out on her forehead.