Soul Land V: Rebirth of Tang San

As she approached the academy, she suddenly noticed a person standing not far from the campus gate, looking in her direction.

Seeing him, Pretty Girl froze for a moment. For some reason, the sight of him brought a comforting sense of security.

He also heaved a great sigh of relief upon seeing her. The person waiting outside the Jiali Academy was none other than Tang San.

After sensing the crisis and oppression, he had been silently observing Jiali City. He then went to Jiali Academy in search of Pretty Girl but couldn\'t find her presence anywhere. Just when he was about to return to the city to look for her, she finally appeared.

The luck that came with the Heavenly Fox Eye was indeed good. It seemed as if wishes could indeed come true!

"Pretty Sister," Tang San took the initiative to greet her. Now that he was taking on Tang San\'s persona, he couldn\'t adopt the same attitude as Asura.

Pretty Girl asked, "Why are you here?"

Tang San replied, "It seemed like you went out early this morning. Later, I heard something happened in the city, and I was worried about you, so I waited here."

Pretty Girl felt a warmth in her heart and said, "I\'m fine. But indeed, something did happen in the city. Don\'t go into the city these days, alright?"

"Mhm, okay," Tang San nodded, agreeing quickly.

Pretty Girl asked, "How has your cultivation been recently? Have you made any progress?"

"Well, it\'s not bad. I\'m almost at the Seventh Stage," Tang San whispered.

Pretty Girl\'s heart stirred. "The Seventh Stage is a critical level. Don\'t rush for a breakthrough. Build up a solid foundation, then you\'ll have more room for improvement in the future."

"Got it." Tang San nodded continuously.

As they talked, they walked toward Jiali Academy. Pretty Girl glanced back towards the direction of Jiali City, feeling somewhat worried about her mother. And the man who had appeared so unexpectedly today gave her a very strange feeling. With her cultivation base, she couldn\'t see through him at all. And it was clear he had deep ties with her mother, otherwise her mother wouldn\'t have been so distressed.

The two walked back to Jiali Academy together. Pretty Girl said, "You\'re still working, right? Go ahead with your tasks. By the way, the academy seems to be recruiting vassals for combat trials lately. They fight against our students to enhance their real combat experience. You might consider this job. If you perform well, there\'s a chance to rise above the vassal rank. While it\'s not noble status, it could be like having an ordinary demon race identity and completely leaving slave status behind."

Tang San asked, "What do I need to do to…"

Pretty Girl answered, "You\'ll need to participate in an identity registration. After that, fight against our students. If you can secure more than ten consecutive victories and you\'re under the age of twenty, seen as promising talent, and a race wishes to take you in, you can apply for promotion to Citizen Rank and leave behind your slave status. This is a privilege of the institution. Since you\'re almost at the Seventh Stage and also have decent combat experience, you have a chance. But first, you need to get the village head to complete your identity data properly, without any loopholes, and withstand scrutiny."

"Understood," Tang San nodded.

"I\'m going to rest now; you busy yourself," Pretty Girl said as she nodded to him and left briskly. After the assassination attempt and the subsequent events, she was indeed weary.

Tang San watched as she walked toward the dormitories before he finally relaxed. As long as she was safe, that was all that mattered.

As for leaving his slave status, it wasn\'t something Tang San considered important. It wasn\'t his concern, but since Pretty Girl had mentioned it, he would follow her advice and do as she suggested.

Gazing into the distance and once more looking in the direction of Jiali City, the gloom over the city seemed to have deepened even further.

Jiali City, City Lord Manor.

The Peacock Demon King sat silently in the main seat of the conference hall. At this moment, it was the only one in the entire hall; even the attendants had been dismissed.

It was silently pondering, contemplating everything it had felt before. It had successfully directed all the contradictory accusations toward the Ancestral Court, but it was indeed clearly aware that there was an aura of the Peacock Bloodline in that place. How could it, as the Peacock Demon King, possibly mistake the spatial fluctuation unique to the Peacock Demon Clan?

Who could it be? Who would create trouble for it at this time and distract it?

"Report—" Just then, an urgent voice suddenly came from outside.

A guard of the Peacock Demon Clan rushed into the hall and knelt on one knee.

"Reporting to City Lord, the Sky Horse Carriage Team from the Ancestral Court will soon arrive, with Flying Horse Knights already here to notify. Please prepare to receive them."

The Sky Horse Carriage Team, the Demon Emperor\'s procession, represented the top-tier protocol of the Ancestral Court. Even as the city lord, the Peacock Demon King, not being a Great Demon Emperor, had to acknowledge its inferiority to the other party.

What was inevitable had finally come, and so swiftly at that. He was indeed in such a hurry!

The Peacock Demon King stood up, his expression already returning to indifference, "Issue my command, open the main gate of the City Lord Manor wide. All within, follow me to welcome the Sky Horse Carriage Team."

As he spoke, he strode outward.

The entire City Lord Manor instantly bustled with noise as the high-ranking officials of the Peacock Demon Clan, who held various important positions, quickly gathered.

The main gate of the City Lord Manor flung open, red carpets rolled out, and the Peacock Demon King, now dressed in a blue ceremonial robe, accompanied by a host of clansmen, walked tall and proud to the front of the City Lord Manor.

Not long after, his gaze suddenly locked in a direction, and in that direction, several flying vehicles came into view.

Altogether five flying vehicles, the one in the center was particularly conspicuous with its sheer size. The mighty Heavenly Horses pulling the vehicle exuded strong presences, while the other four vehicles were drawn by flying horses. They flapped their wings, traversing the air, bringing the five vehicles down from the sky straight toward the City Lord Manor.

The Peacock Demon King maintained a calm expression as his gaze followed the flying vehicles all the way to the ground. One by one, the flying vehicles landed and glided forward to a stop, right in front of the City Lord Manor.

The doors of the first two and the last two flying vehicles opened first, and over a dozen beings with powerful auras alighted. They all had human forms but subtle features revealed that most of them belonged to different races.

Among them, the most eye-catching was a young man who disembarked from the last vehicle. He appeared to be in his twenties, and among all the Monsters who had alighted from the vehicles, his aura was the weakest. But the powerful beings who had disembarked earlier stepped aside voluntarily, allowing him from the last vehicle to walk to the forefront, arriving beside the door of the central giant flying vehicle.

Seeing the young man, the Peacock Demon King\'s pupils also contracted slightly. He looked mostly human, the only difference being his white hair, exuding a strange aura, with faint white radiance shimmering within his eyes.

The Peacock Demon King knew all too well what this phenomenon signified.

The door of the central flying vehicle slowly opened, and the strong beings who had gotten off the other four vehicles bowed and welcomed him.

A man in luxurious robes with a gentle demeanor stepped down from the vehicle, and if Pretty Girl were here, she would surely recognize that this person was the same individual who had caused her mother such emotional turmoil in the milk tea shop.

The Peacock Demon King stood still, while the Crystal Phoenix Demon Emperor descended from the carriage with gentle eyes and a faint smile, looking in its direction.

As their eyes met, both faces revealed warm smiles.

"Brother Wang, it really has been too long!" the Crystal Phoenix Demon Emperor said with a smile.