Aftermath (2)

After Dai Tianling announced the successful conclusion of the continent-wide youth soul master competition, the staff led both the participants and the audience out of the Star Luo Stadium.

Anping and Gu Yuena did not linger there. After their previous exchange match, they knew that if they stayed longer, they would inevitably face some harassment.

There would definitely be people who were unhappy with their victory over the Monster Academy or who wanted to recruit them to join their side.

After all, this was the home stadium of the Star Luo Empire, so it was normal for some radical spectators to exist. To understand why there were people who wanted to woo them, one had to know the history of the Star Luo Empire.

The Star Luo Empire had migrated from the Douluo Continent to its current continent, which was not uninhabited before. In order to establish themselves in the new continent, they had to attack and suppress the native people of the Star Luo Continent.

This also meant that the surviving natives harbored a deep hatred for the Star Luo Empire. If they had a chance to take revenge, they would not mind if the people who joined them were from the Sun Moon Federation.

Even though thousands of years had passed since the Star Luo Empire came to this continent, many forces that resisted the Star Luo Empire still existed, either openly or secretly.

With the talents of Anping and Gu Yuena, anyone with a discerning eye could see that they had the potential to become Limit Douluo in the future. If they joined the resistance, they would pose a serious threat to the Star Luo Empire when they grew up.

They knew that the current Star Luo Empire had the support of the Tang Sect, but the strongest combat force in the entire empire was En Ci, the dean of the Monster Academy.

That was why the Star Luo Empire was so eager to arrange for Anping and Gu Yuena to leave and send strong men to protect them. They were afraid that Anping and Gu Yuena would be tempted by the resistance forces.

The resistance forces might not know what kind of strong men Anping and Gu Yuena had behind them when they came to the Star Luo Empire. But after hearing En Ci's words, Dai Tianling, the emperor of the Star Luo Empire, had gained some understanding of them.

What Dai Tianling feared the most was that Anping and Gu Yuena would accept the overtures of the resistance forces. If Anping and Gu Yuena really led the powerful men behind them to join the forces that opposed the Star Luo Empire, the empire might not be far from destruction.

Although the Star Luo Empire still had the support of forces like the Tang Sect, the Tang Sect was an independent force after all, and they would not necessarily link their survival to the Star Luo Empire's fate.

They had miscalculated the strength of Anping and Gu Yuena. If their strength was only at the level of ordinary soul emperors, as long as they did not surpass Long Yue, the Monster Academy of the Star Luo Empire would not have lost the match.

What they did not expect was that Anping and Gu Yuena did not intend to use their own strength to test their opponents, but used their martial soul fusion skill from the start.

From the course of the match, their martial soul fusion skill not only had the ability to move in space without energy, but also the final flame space cage had the effect of combining control and attack. The control effect was even more powerful than the dragon with the strongest attack power in the Monster Academy. Yue Du was helpless.

Anping and Gu Yuena were already so formidable at the Soul Emperor level. Dai Tianling shuddered to think how much damage they could do to his Star Luo Empire if they joined the forces that opposed him.

To prevent those resistance forces from contacting Anping and Gu Yuena, Dai Tianling ordered his subordinates to take action as soon as he closed the competition.

He also delayed the delivery of the rare materials that he had promised to Anping and Gu Yuena after their victory. But Anping and Gu Yuena were not worried that Dai Tianling would break his word. After all, he was not a fool who could become the emperor of a country.

On their way back, Xu Xiaoyan noticed the Star Luo Empire staff who were following them at a distance. She asked curiously: "What's up with these people? Didn't we already leave the Star Luo Stadium? Why are they still tailing us?"

Le Zhengyu cleared his throat and said, "I think it's because your brother Anping and sister Nana were so dazzling in the final exchange match that they're worried someone might harm us on our way back. That's why they arranged for some manpower to protect us all the way."

Xu Xiaoyan didn't buy Le Zhengyu's explanation. How could the Star Luo Empire not know about Mr. Xiong and Biji's existence? She looked at Anping and Gu Yuena and asked: "Brother Anping, Sister Nana, do you know what's going on?"

Gu Yuena shook her head slightly and said she didn't know. These people were not very powerful, so Gu Yuena didn't pay much attention to them and didn't bother to think about these things.

Seeing Xu Xiaoyan turn to him, Anping said: "Maybe they're worried about our safety as Le Zhengyu said. I heard that Shrek Academy had some trouble in the Star Luo Empire."

It wasn't that Anping didn't have other guesses, but they weren't that important to him. Besides, those people from the Star Luo Empire were not far from them. Although he wasn't afraid of them, Anping didn't want to talk about the Star Luo Empire's flaws in front of them.

But Anping mentioned that Shrek Academy had been attacked here. Although he didn't say it clearly, Xu Xiaoyan could make a rough inference based on her intelligence.

She had also read some books about the Star Luo Empire when she was bored on the way. Since those books were from the Sun Moon Federation, they wouldn't glorify the Star Luo Empire.

So Xu Xiaoyan also knew that there were resistance organizations in the Star Luo Empire. With Mr. Xiong and Biji around, they wouldn't have any security issues. The reason why those people followed them was probably because they were afraid that they would get in touch with those resistance organizations.

Since Anping and Gu Yuena didn't want to discuss this matter, Xu Xiaoyan didn't ask any more questions and just nodded slightly.

Le Zhengyu said casually: "As I said, they must be following us because they're afraid that we'll be attacked or something."

Seeing Le Zhengyu acting smug, Xu Xiaoyan muttered something like "Idiot."

Although she said it softly, Le Zhengyu was a soul master and very close to Xu Xiaoyan, so he heard her clearly.

Le Zhengyu said angrily: "Why are you swearing all of a sudden? How stupid am I?"

"I don't want to talk to you!" Xu Xiaoyan moved closer to Gu Yuena and away from Le Zhengyu.