180 thoughts on “118 – Finals, Spirit City

    • Interesting :3. I wonder how Xiao Wu is going to get her spirit ring once she hits level 40. I’m not sure she’s ready to tell everyone “I can magically summon spirit rings” yet, and I don’t know if she’d want to kill a spirit beast.

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        • I’m not sure if that is a spoiler anymore. I know she hasn’t told any of the Shrek 7 devils how she gets her spirit rings, but I think the novel has made it clear she didn’t get it in a normal way. So I don’t believe he posted a spoiler.

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        • It’s not a spoiler if people are this far in, back when Tang San gets his third spirit ring it explains that Xiao Wu literally summons a spirit ring from nowhere and then lies about it to everyone saying it was a thunder rabbit that got knocked out.

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          • unless you decide to read the latest chapter without reading anything before it, or skipped the chapter, it’s not a spoiler.. Technically, it can’t even be considered a spoiler since it’s something that happened in the older chapters, and this comment section can only be read if you’re reading the current chapter.

            It’s either Xiao Wu has some sort of connection to some higher existence or mysterious ancient clan to be able to summon spirit rings out of nowhere, or maybe she’s actually just so skillful she can make her own skills, like Feng Xiaotian.

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            • i think xiao yu is a kind of spirit beast, my point:
              -xiao yu can summon spirit ring
              -she don’t like to kill spirit beast from the very start
              -she is closely related to some peak existence spirit beast
              -apparently the ape can use ability close to those spirit master use (maybe like xio yu)
              -she was affraid what tang sang could see when his eyes lvl up
              -tang sang eye after lvl up clearly saw something maybe he somehow know it

              or she is somekind of incarnation of a new spirit beast and her offspring will be normal spirit master with a new spirit(rabbit something), no one as wondered how the first of a kind of spirit appeared

              I think my first suppostion is likely to be true but i hope it’s the second or something completely unexpected there is too little mystery in this ln.

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      • Lol, back to your original point, the way I see it Xiao Wu has two options on how to gain a spirit ring, the first would be to let atleast Tang San and most likely Liu Erlong know she can create her own rings and have them accompany her to atleast give the appearance she hunted her own spirit beast as she will not be able to slip away like she has before. The second and more interesting possibility would be for her to return to the Star Duo Forest(they should pass fairly close to it) and find a spirit beast that is willing to give up its life to her, it’s been stated before that a spirit beast that willingly sacrifices itself will always result in a spirit bone and the ring can even exceed the limits, like Tang Sans 10,000 year ring, like this she could easily close the gap between her and Tang San again. With the apparent bond Xiao Wu has with the spirit beats of that forest it wouldn’t be unrealistic that she could find a beast willing to make such a sacrifice, perhaps one that had lost it’s mate or something, and if done right she could make it appear like it was just a lucky coincidence and hide her secret for atleast another 10 ranks. The second is what I’d like to see happen as it would make her much stronger, and seeing the shock of a second monster appearing before Salas would be amazing, especially one even younger than Tang San.

        As for what Xiao Wu is my guess it that she is a form of spirit beast, most likely a 100,000 year beast in human form, or the child of such a spirit beast, and I would bet anything that whatever it turns out Xiao Wu is, spirit beast or no, that Tang San’s mother was the same…

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        • Nice reading the spoilers^^^^, we know who their mom is, if you’ve read the spoilers.
          Don’t try and play it off.
          You can’t just automatically assume that their moms are spirit beasts over 100,000 or/and reincarnated unless you’ve read spoilers.

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          • um… actually you can, I never read the spoilers, but given how Xiao Wu is so secretive about everything, the fact that Spirit Hall was hunting for something that Tang Hao was protecting it makes sense. If you’ve read alot of fantasy type stories you get a feel for the plot lines they like to use, I’m hardly the first person to point out this theory. Something like the moms or Xiao Wu herself being 100,000 year spirit beasts isnt that much of a leap, especially when you look at all the hints given throughout the series. It’s alot like figuring out that Tang San’s dad was a Title Doulou before it was actually stated, just because it wasnt confirmed doesnt mean there werent plenty of hints. And I never said for sure that they were, I just thought that was the most likely outcome, lots of people think the same if you look through the comments…. Also like 90% of my post was on how Xiao Wu gets her spirit ring, not even on what she is because I’m not entirley sure yet

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          • Spoiler By It Self Is A Very Losse And Yet Very Vague Word.
            But, Mostly Its All About ” Ones Point Of View ” And Morales ”

            Whats Truly Accpetable Can Only Be Judged By One self. . .

            The Use Here I Recon, Is All About Revealing Information Of Upcoming Chapters.
            Thus, Talking About This Chapter Is Or Should At Least Be All OKY,

            Theories In My Eyes, IS NOT A Spoiler, Although, Theroies Proving To Be Very True And/Or Also Solid,
            Is Something ” I Personaly Keep To My Self ” As I Take them As A ” Possible Spoiler ”

            So Spoilers Can Only Harm Thos:
            * Who Missed Something Important In Previous Chapters
            * Ignoring What They Were Given: Hints, information, Etc, Etc
            * Skipping Chapters

            I Personaly Did Only See One Possible Spoiler Above Being Posted by: Mika.
            The Others Above Commenting Clearly Stated ” Theory ” , ” I Think ” Or Something There Of.

            As Such I Also, Have Powerful Theories, But, Due to Personality And How Accurate I Deem Them, To Be.
            I Will Not Share, Until Proper Info Has Been Given By The Story.

            Thus: ” Ones Point Of View ” And Morales ” Comes Onto Play

            Some Form Of Confirmation By ” Mr.Bagle ” Would Be Nice As Well . . .

            Take Care Everyone & Of Each Other

            Ps.
            Originally I Didnt Mean For It To Sound As A Lecture,
            Im Truly Sorry For That, But, I Needed To Make Self Clear.
            So I Didnt Sound Frustrated Or Anything.
            As My Native Language Isnt English/American.
            I Meant No Ill Intent / Offense To Anyone At All.

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  1. Finally my Withdrawal symptoms are gone.
    Also Just because they want Tang dead theyre willing to kill or hurt everyone else? Or it could be a not previously established attack I guess.

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    • So I’m not the only one thinking this is Spirit Hall’s trap? Last chapter said Tang San had to die, and on the way to Spirit Hall, a team of people so amazing suddenly appear? Suspicious indeed….

      And I’m guessing either he uses his Title Douluo killing trap or is saved by Dugu Bo…. hoping for the 1st one… Tang San killing a super powerful enemy that a 43 rank shouldn’t be able to kill would be awesome…

      Bet they have someone at least level 70…. he needs to kill another one in front of everybody…

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        • …. other people are already getting paired with women that should be in harem…. let him look more awesome dammit!!!

          Besides, last time, he killed a lvl 70 in secret… this time he can take credit…

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      • That was my first thought as well, but I suppose it could also be the other nation since this attack seems to be against everybody.

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        • I’m guessing it’s an attack towards Tang San that everyone else is just involved in….

          To make it look like he wasn’t assassinated… maybe…

          or they just didn’t care (since Spirit Hall hates the empire).

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      • Grandmaster probably suspect this and when to look for help probabli from the woman that it was mention a couple time in the past chapter i think she probably is an elder…

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  2. Thanks!!!! None of my fave novels were updating for a while so i was worried. YAY! You came and saved my day!Good work.
    ✌(◕ ‿ ◕)

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  3. Ohhhhh, this is awesome…. sorta….

    Thank you for the translation!!!!

    Can’t wait for Tang to kick ass… though Huo Wu joining spirit hall isn’t nice…. she should marry Tang San…. I wish…..

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  4. I… would not mind a break from the endless tournaments. A war would be ideal, though it seems that this might just be a trap, rather than a straight up war.

    My thanks to you.

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  5. Time to break out the crossbows. Also, I wish Xiao Wu gets some time to herself to spawn another spirit ring.

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  6. Is this really an Asian culture thing for young kids to have a familial type of relationship grow into an intimate type of relationship. Can they really not find someone else to love outside of someone that can be viewed as a brother or sister. It just seems really weird. I don’t like Xiao Wu for Tang San as a love interest, but I guess the story has to go this route. I won’t say too much.

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    • Don’t bother thinking.. they were not siblings by blood in the first place.. and if by any chance Tang San would think to have another girl aside from Xiao, imagine the 8 drops… and you wouldn’t dare.

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  7. Just when I was feeling blue the chapter drops, thanks a bunch!!!

    I kinda want to see them trying to hurt Xiao Wu and Tang San going full Asura because of it xD

    Can´t wait till next chapter

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  8. Wow, I wonder how everyone will get out of this. I really love this political plot mixed in the combat novel. Can never get enough of this autor! I wish I could read asian langage so I could help you translate

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    • That was my thought when grandmaster disappeared. I have a feeling he foresaw this attack in some way or KNEW after tang pulled the hammer out publicly he needed a stronger backing. He could also just be going to the clear sky school in general and not necessarily tang hao. Only the next chapters will tell and I wish I could help Sheldon put these out because it’ just too good

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  9. thank you for the new chapter, I really appreciate the time you have putting in to translate this for us. 🙂

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  10. Today started out awful but ended awesome. Decided to check for a new chapter before going to bed. Now I am perfectly happy. Thank you!

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  11. I figured that the Spirit Hall would wait until they were in their city to start bumping people off. Though this might be the other empire trying to kill of the next generation of geniuses.

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    • I don’t know. It would seem awfully convenient to have the big competitors die on your doorstep, damning even. From a political POV it seems a bad choice, it could inspire alliances.
      True If it happens on the way there it’ll not be much better but despite its transparency at least the spirit hall would have it a bit easier to claim they didn’t do it.

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      • As long as only 1 or 2 were killed then the Spirit Hall could apologize to their families and “thoroughly investigate” their unfortunate, accidental deaths. Framing one of the other teams would also be a perfectly good option. Or, they could not kill them at all and just frame them for something and punish them however they like.

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        • See I wouldn’t buy that and I’m willing to go out on a limb and say neither would the powers in this world. Only 1 getting killed and that one being the biggest threat for spirit hall and right in the middle of the area they control and should be able to keep save? It would cost them and it would be way harder to sell the whole we are innocent spiel.

          1 or 2 killed depends on if they are on the same team but could have repercussions regardless of only with one empire a school or everyone. And only because Tang San is the most obvious target doesn’t mean they’d be able to just ignore the rest of his team. Of course that depends on how they die. If they could fake a public accident that they could get away with maybe but I’m guessing it is kinda hard to kill people with their spirit power. About the idea of framing them for something yes I agree that could very well work.

          But all in all the possibility of being immediately blamed for the attack is lesser the farer away from their area of control it happens they might even blame the empire if they think up enough reasons. So they might continue going after them in the finals area but there s no reason not to try earlier in fact as I see it there are only advantages.

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          • The downside to this method is that they either have to wipe out/capture the entire group or refrain from using their spirits. After all, how many high ranking people have the same spirit? It would be fairly easy to identify them by their spirits, especially if they also used their spirit abilities.

            But yes, I do understand your point. If they can do this successfully and then blame it on the other empire, then its a superior option, I just think that its a lot riskier.

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  12. The story only gets better from here. You guys are in for a lot of surprises in the next 20 or so chapters.

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  13. Dont know where, but I read that you wouldn’t be coming back for a while. Thank you so much, waiting for this translation is the hardest.
    As soon as Tang San released his second spirit that put him on spirit hall’s “Oh Shit Get Rid Of Him NOW!!” list. Man… next chapter I hope we get to see Tang San’s hidden weapons destroy these “bandits”. Its not like he will get a disadvantage in the finals so they most certainly should.

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      • What use have hidden weapons if you don’t use them when needet? Do you think he would let others get injured or let them die just to keep them secret? Btw it’s a battlefield, most should be to busy fighting to observe him.

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        • i doubt there wouldn’t be people observing tang san, you know everyone is highly intimidated by tang san right?

          as for hidden weapons, their essence is being hidden before and after using it, in most cases investigations wouldn’t result to anything leading to the murderer, thats what hidden weapons are.
          worst case they’d just know tang san “did” something to kill the bandits, doubtfully knowing it was hidden weapons, even less what kind of weapons they were.

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    • If you remember, earlier on in the story there was a flash forward where “Evil eye Duoluo” was ask why “Thousand Hands Duoluo” was the most frightening and the response was that he becomes an Asura for “Demon rabbit Duoluo” in other words those 3 no matter what won’t die until they’re titled duoluo.

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  14. S.S. Stronger than SupermanTheLivingTribunalDarksideGalactusandTheRedLanternCorpsputtogether says:

    man I can not wait for the next chapter. Oh, and I would also like to thank all the sponsors and translators

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  15. The biggest plot twist is this is could clear sky school come to take tang san away.

    Otherwise this is spirit hall trying to take tang San out.

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  16. Some advice for those that read both the LN and Manga. If you don’t want the story to be spoiled for you, I recommend that you stop reading the manga. They just caught up to the tournament, but they’ve changed a few things story wise, including spoiling the reasoning for Spirit Hall chasing down Tang’s parents. Apparently this reason hasn’t been unveiled in these LN translations yet, but the manga is taking g liberties and switching out present story content with future story content. You’ve been warned.

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    • Ya I read the Manga first loved it so I started reading the ln and to be honest I like the LN more the changes in the Manga got rid of a lot of great stuff that was in the LN

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    • Thanks for the warning nice guy. BTW the manga got to the point in which it changes too much from the story(SPOILER Both the reson with the parents and Ma Hongjun going out in the Second match of the eliminaries(As if TOFU-POT ,BINGE Chiken and Real Guard weren’t fucking it up enough

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    • Dun worry about the manga though it didn’t really spoilt.
      *little spoiler that was not really happen btw spirit hall and tang hao

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      • Amazing job as always ….about spoiler it is quite obvious that Tangs mom is really special otherwise Tang could not have twin spirits Twin spirit means both spirit must have the same quality…..

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  17. Am i the only one here that noticed that chapter 118 is chapter 117 ? or is it that my pc bugged or something and it shows me that chapter 118 has the same content?

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  18. I bet Grandmaster left to get Tang San’s dad, because Tang San revealed his hammer and Grandmaster is smart and probably figured out that Lil’ San would need more protection.

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  19. okay the finals after a 3 days rest and it takes 20 days time to reach Spirit City on foot? are they teleporting?

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  20. I never thought this would happen, but I feel that the manga is doing injustice to the novel….The novel is so much better thought out and structured than the manga. This is one of the best manga stories so far and I’ve read a lot. I just hope the translation will continue a bit faster.

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    • just use the manga to get a better picture of the characters fights and emotions, i would never love the ln as much if i didn’t see all the characters drawn in the manga, so the manga is just like a movie to a book so you can visualize better 🙂

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      • @Timi: I normally agree with you, mangas are great to get a look at the characters drawn there, (and even some fight scenes)…

        As in most cases the mangas are just a shortened version of the LN, but not in this case, the changes are just too drastic. I didnt read the manga, just looked at a few parts, but fatty isnt really that fatty, Dai mubai doesnt have double pupils, but different collored eyes (so the scenes where his pupils unifies become null), Oscar`s abilities arent sausages/vulgar, Tang San`s spider lances have three parts instead of two, and is reaaaaaaly small, their shrek masks are ridiculous, and dont cover their ages (the reason they used it..), the old freak is kinda young looking, and so on…

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  21. Guys if you cant wait for the translation. There is the chinese version which is complated.
    http://www.douluodalu.com.cn/
    If you cant read chinese, alternatively you can use google translate. Translate about 70% accurate. If you read enough, you will be able to understand. Cheers!

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      • Sorry. Apologies. I don’t have time for helping out with the translations. I am running a business and have to take care of 3 shops and a warehouse. I only got time to read. But I can always reply to anybody who emailed me and wants to know more information, Currently I read till chapter 208.

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      • Please check the spoilers file in the Google Drive linked at the About page. There’s are a few files that will give you the spoils you want. =D

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  22. Bagelson just a tip. If you use Dragon natural speaking you can just speak through the translations rather than typing.

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  23. This is amazing.. But I don’t know what’s up with the manga.!!!
    It’s becoming total bullshit compare to the LN… Also the tournament also became something different making ma hong jun appre on elephant academy fight and all… Also in manga what happened to DO GU BO coming to the shark akamady… Manga has made inside out of everything… But it traveled some thing about what spirit hall was fighting with tang hao for… That was the only good thing I got from manga… I total recommend every one to not read the manga because its totally different…

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    • I totally agree, but unfortunately the speed of the translation of the LN the manga will be long over by then 😦 that makes me soooo sad, I wish I knew chinese

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      • If you mean that the manhua will be completely translated before the WN translation is finished, that might not be so. The latest chapter of the RAW manhua is 144, which is roughly chapter 160 of the WN. I.e, the manhua will overtake the WN, but the WN may well catch back up again.

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  24. Yea, ln is reallly much more better than the manga story. Anyway im a bit confuse on manga ìf you remember on manga tang hao release his spirit rings flender saw it. there is 1red means 100k+ then why is the prince telling that tang hao has +×÷=%__€!## should it be the same color? I doubt

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    • He didn’t have a red one. He had a black one with a ‘redish’ glow to it. Meaning it was prolly in the high 80-90k range.

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  25. Finally that platinum ‘idiot’ bishop did it. He truly tried to kill Tang San by hiring mercenaries and attacking all of the schools representatives to cover up his true intention. Sigh, if i were Tang Hao, i will blow his head to piecies with that Godly Hammer

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  26. Do u guys remember when Tang San revealed his Hammer? That Idiot bishop plotted to kill him as soon as possible.

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  27. I hope the shrek academy is about to show them their real power now. Hopefully they all pull out the cross bows and slaughter over 300 enemies. Then tang San uses his poison to kill another hundred or so enemies(especially the weaker ones under 40). Then the rest of shreks show their power and teamwork to take out hundred each(except the teachers, probable thousands). Then tang San uses his spider lances and everyone sees him and after they finish off these bandits, the competition will be to scared and realize how they had zero chance of winning even after switching teams. I hope this is what happens, can’t wait to see.
    Also thanks for posting at least once a week, especially when you have no help.

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  28. `I really do enjoy reading the Novel series but am a bit confused when i read the pictorial Manga. sigh.. they both have epic plot twist but I feel it’s not streamlined. I will wait for more Novel chapter release though. http://www.chuixue.com has the raw manga

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  29. Thank you so much for translating. I am really enjoying reading the novel. Can’t wait for the chapters to come!

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  30. “What should they care about us transferring? As for the question about quota, I’ll handle it. It’s not difficult to speak to Spirit Hall. As long as we express to that platinum bishop that we’ll join Spirit Hall after the end of the tournament, what could they still object to?”

    The quota thing is the part about they having to hand over the list with the participants in the beginning ?
    I still dont get how they could get around it, the tournament is co-hosted by both empires and the spirit hall, even if she promises that to Salas, wouldnt the empires oppose such a big break of the rules ? One thing would be if their members died and didnt have 7, therefore needing more members, I could see the 3 parties making an exception, but this reason ? Why would the empires agree ?

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    • Well, Heaven Dou might agree since it’s their team, and it might improve their chances as a whole. That makes it 2v1 in a vote, and with a few legal technicalities to back it up, you have a win.

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      • Apart from the bragging rights, the competition is to find talents to recruit.

        If both teams were to be pledged to the spirit hall, which is a closed veiled enemy of Heaven Dou Empire (or possibly from both, and they actually want world domination lol), would they really agree ?

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  31. I Cant Help But Thinking:
    Thos Black Robed Thugs, Being Salas´s Lackeys.
    As Salas Wanted Tang Dead, By All Means.
    Even More So After Salas Saw ” The Clear Sky Hammer ”

    Hmm, Interesting Turn Of Events Here, *Running Away ~ To Next Chapter . . . >

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  32. Honestly this whole relationship with xiao wu and erlong is so forced. They barely new each other and had no special connection whatsoever. And suddenly she’s like be my daughter and that’s it.

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