The moonlight was clear, yet Tianling City remained bustling and extraordinary.
Bei Yuxuan led Lu Chen and Tang Ya to a tall building.
The building was a hundred meters high and shaped like a semi-arc.
Its peak pierced the clouds, resembling a giant beast crouching in the darkness.
Twelve soul tool lamps were set on each side of the walls, and twenty-four beams of light focused together on the plaque in the center of the building.
Tianling Spirit Dueling Arena!
The five gilded characters were especially eye-catching in the night, clearly visible even from several streets away.
At this time, people were coming and going outside the main gate, and many vendors were setting up stalls along both sides of the street to hawk their wares.
Its liveliness was evident.
“Is this the Great Spirit Dueling Arena?
It really is quite grand!” Lu Chen praised sincerely.
Tang Ya’s large eyes, however, were staring straight at those snack stalls, scanning back and forth as she swallowed her saliva in greed: “So much delicious food!” Just as she finished speaking, she suddenly covered her mouth and began to retch, looking confused.
“Uh, what’s going on?
Why do I feel a bit nauseous?” Lu Chen rolled his eyes helplessly: “That’s because you ate too much; you’re stuffed.” The table of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast meat that Bei Yuxuan had hosted at noon was far too nourishing.
Even if she only ate some hundred-year Spirit Beast meat in the evening, Tang Ya was completely stuffed.
Smelling the oily scent of the street snacks now, she naturally felt sick to her stomach.
Bei Yuxuan flicked his folding fan and smiled: “Brother Lu, Miss Tang, the time is about right.
Let’s head in.” Lu Chen nodded.
The group pushed through the crowd and headed toward the Spirit Dueling Arena.
Just then, a sarcastic voice suddenly rang out from the street behind them: “Oh, isn’t this Young Master Bei Yuxuan?
Didn’t lose enough yesterday?
Are you planning to come and deliver more money today?” Hearing this familiar voice, Bei Yuxuan’s footsteps paused.
His originally warm smile instantly cooled, and his face darkened.
Lu Chen raised an eyebrow and turned to look.
He saw a gloomy-looking youth dressed in deep red hunting gear, walking over with large strides surrounded by a group of people.
He was about the same age as Bei Yuxuan, but there was an unmaskable coldness between his brows.
Three young people followed behind him.
Two males and one female, all of them radiating thick ripples of spirit power.
The most eye-catching was an old woman beside him with a hunched body and a face as wrinkled as orange peel.
She leaned on a pitch-black cane, eyes closed as if resting, appearing as though everything around her had nothing to do with her.
And yet, it was that appearance of an ordinary person that made Lu Chen’s heart skip a beat.
This was a powerful expert!
“Luo Du!” Bei Yuxuan looked at the newcomer and squeezed out the two words through his teeth, his tone icy.
Tang Ya was stunned for a moment, then showed a look of disgust.
“I didn’t expect this guy to show up too.” “You know him?” Lu Chen asked curiously.
Tang Ya nodded and lowered her voice to explain: “He is the youngest son of ‘Duke Pozhen’, one of the six great dukes of the Heaven Dou Empire.
He is arrogant and overbearing with a twisted personality.
He loves torturing women the most and is notorious in Heaven Dou City.” Lu Chen nodded slightly; this fit his stereotype of certain nobles.
Luo Du had already walked up close by now.
He first swept a disdainful glance over Bei Yuxuan, then his gaze passed over Lu Chen.
His eyes were instantly filled with greed, sticking dead onto Tang Ya’s exquisitely curved body.
“Tsk tsk, Bei Yuxuan, it seems you lost so much yesterday that your eyes turned red.
Today you’ve switched to finding a little chick to risk her life for you?” He stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, his tone lewd.
“This girl doesn’t look bad at all.
This figure, this little face…” “Why don’t you follow this young master?
One gold soul coin a night.
I guarantee it’ll be much better than following this trash.” He made no effort to hide the filth in his heart, as if women were nothing more than playthings to be taken and used at will in his eyes.
As soon as these words were spoken, Tang Ya’s face instantly turned deathly pale.
She trembled all over with rage, yet she was furious but dared not speak out.
Subconsciously, she tightly grabbed the corner of Lu Chen’s clothes.
The Luo family was a ducal house with a Titled Douluo backing them.
Even the Tang Sect back when her parents were around wouldn’t dare provoke them easily, let alone her now, who had nothing.
If she spoke back, she was afraid of dragging Lu Chen into it.
“Shut up!” Bei Yuxuan’s eyes were icy as he took a step forward to block Tang Ya, staring dead at Luo Du.
“Keep your mouth clean.
They are my friends!” The surrounding onlookers immediately began to whisper: “Is this the Luo family’s little tyrant?
His reputation is indeed well-deserved; his mouth is too poisonous.” “Shh, keep it down!
The two Dukes Mansions have been fighting for decades.
On the life-and-death arena of Tianling City, people from these two families die almost every day.” Luo Du, however, acted as if he hadn’t heard Bei Yuxuan’s words.
He still stared straight at Tang Ya and reached out his hand, wanting to touch her face.
“If you look with those lewd eyes for one more second, I will gouge your eyeballs out.” An ice-cold, bone-piercing voice suddenly exploded.
Luo Du felt an extremely terrifying, thick, and tangible killing intent instantly lock onto him.
He subconsciously took a step back, his face suddenly freezing up.
Lu Chen stood in place without moving, his eyes merely watching Luo Du with indifference, an unmasked killing intent churning in the depths of his gaze.
“Fuck!
Where did this bastard come from!” Luo Du realized he had actually been frightened back by a seemingly ordinary commoner.
He instantly became shamed into rage and shrieked: “Old Madam Wang, cripple him for me!
Tear his mouth apart!” Just as he finished speaking, the old woman who had been resting with her eyes closed suddenly snapped them open.
Two streaks of purple lightning actually flashed through her murky eyes!
Boom!
A terrifying pressure, like an overwhelming mountain or sea, instantly descended.
Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black.
Nine brilliant spirit rings slowly rose from beneath her feet, encircling her body.
“A Titled Douluo?!” Terrified screams erupted from the crowd.
“It’s the Luo family’s Old Madam Wang!
She’s actually making a move personally!” “Wang Ou, for a conflict between juniors, isn’t it beneath your status to make a move yourself?” Old Chen’s gaze was calm, showing no fear of the old woman opposite him.
With a flicker of his body, nine spirit rings likewise encircled him, his aura not losing out in the slightest.
“Another Titled Douluo!” “What terrifying pressure!” The onlookers were greatly shocked, their bodies forced back repeatedly by the two powerful auras.
Some even collapsed directly to the ground, their hearts trembling with fear and cold sweat streaming down their foreheads.
“This old woman doesn’t care about status; I only follow the Young Master’s orders.” Wang Ou gave a cold snort and slammed her cane down hard.
The surrounding spirit power instantly surged violently, the killing intent pointing directly at Lu Chen.
Seeing this, Old Chen immediately blocked the way in front of Lu Chen’s trio.
His own spirit power condensed into a protective shield, firmly protecting the three inside.
“What terrifying spirit power ripples!” Lu Chen’s expression changed slightly.
Even with Old Chen blocking most of the pressure, he could still feel that heart-palpitating spirit power.
In his heart, he gained a clearer understanding of the top experts of the Douluo world.
Just the leaking spirit power was this terrifying; if they truly fought, one could imagine the destructive power.
This was only a Titled Douluo; how strong would a Super Douluo be?
Aside from his shock, Lu Chen’s eyes grew more and more excited.
He steeled his heart—become stronger!
“To think he can still smile when facing a Titled Douluo…” Old Chen noticed Lu Chen’s abnormality, his expression turning strange.
“Truly a monster.” With two Titled Douluos confronting each other, the situation became tense for a moment.
The air was thick with the scent of gunpowder.
“Lu Chen, what do we do?” Tang Ya tightly gripped Lu Chen’s hand, her voice trembling.
The might of a Titled Douluo was truly too frightening.
Lu Chen squeezed her slightly cold little hand and comforted her softly: “It’s okay, don’t be afraid.” He actually wasn’t worried about his own safety.
From the discussions of the people around them, it wasn’t hard to see that the Duke Bei and Duke Pozhen families were blood rivals.
Bei Yuxuan and Luo Du were already hostile toward each other.
Add to that his identity as a “Body Sect disciple.” As long as Bei Yuxuan wasn’t stupid, he would never sit idly by.
This was also where his confidence to directly berate Luo Du came from.