Douluo Dalu: Tiger Roars in the Universe

Chapter 173 Wuhun City, Goodbye Xue Qinghe

The entire Wuhun City can be said to be a small hill, which gets higher towards the center. On this hill, there are two buildings that are the most eye-catching.

One of them is the magnificent dome building on the hillside. It is the famous Pope's Palace of the Spirit Hall. Bibi Dong, the current Pope of the Spirit Hall, should be there.

The other building is at the top of the mountain. Although it is only one-third the size of the Pope's Palace, it gives people a solemn feeling. It is the highest-level existence in the Spirit Hall, the Douluo Palace, which is the tomb of the Titled Douluo of all generations.

In the past, when the Spirit Hall had not yet degenerated and was still an open and publicly accessible force, the titles of all Titled Douluo on the continent were basically bestowed by the Spirit Hall. Even the titles inherited by the major forces, such as "Haotian" and "White Tiger", their first titles also came from the Spirit Hall.

At that time, the Spirit Hall was similar to an alliance of major forces, so everyone was willing to accept the Spirit Hall's conferring of titles. Even the vast majority of Titled Douluo on the continent were willing to be buried in the Douluo Hall of the Spirit Hall after their death.

However, all this eventually changed with the deterioration of the Spirit Hall.

Now, let alone being buried in the Douluo Palace, he didn't even want the Spirit Palace to be involved in the conferment of his own title.

Except for those soul masters directly under the Spirit Hall, who will choose to accept the Spirit Hall's title after breaking through the realm of Titled Douluo, the Titled Douluo born from other major forces will either inherit the inherited title or simply choose one for themselves and at most let the Spirit Hall's people come to watch the ceremony, just like the previous title given to Dai Yaochen's cheap father.

The Spirit Hall is no longer everyone’s Spirit Hall.

After taking a look at the Pope's Palace on the mountainside and the Douluo Palace on the top of the mountain from a distance, Dai Yaochen started to walk around Wuhun City.

Although Wuhun City is much smaller than Xingluo City and Tiandou City, that is because Xingluo City and Tiandou City are national capitals with too many ordinary people living in them, but Wuhun City is different.

In Wuhun City, every person must possess soul power, which means that one must be a soul master to be qualified to enter Wuhun City.

Dai Yaochen just took a casual look around and found that even a waiter or a street vendor had a soul power of at least level 20. The children running around the street all had a soul power of at least level 7 or 8. Seeing this, Dai Yaochen couldn't help but shook his head.

The two empires have made great efforts for the Spirit Hall to have so many spirit masters.

You should know that the two great empires often allocate funds to the Spirit Hall. For example, the subsidies that the Spirit Hall gives to low-level spirit masters are all paid by the two great empires. Otherwise, with so many spirit masters on the continent, and each three-ring spirit master needs a subsidy of one hundred gold soul coins every month, how can the Spirit Hall alone come up with so much money?
In the past, when the Spirit Hall was selfless, there was nothing wrong with paying money to the Spirit Hall and letting it distribute soul master subsidies on your behalf. However, since the Spirit Hall deteriorated, the situation has changed.

The vast majority of soul masters only knew that they received money from the Spirit Hall, and few would investigate where the money came from. As a result, the two empires paid the money, but it actually helped the Spirit Hall absorb a large number of civilian soul masters.

The same is true for the Soul Hunting Forest. The major Soul Hunting Forests on the continent were basically built jointly by the two empires and the Spirit Hall, but in the end most of them were taken advantage of by the Spirit Hall.

It can be said that the reason why the Spirit Hall is becoming increasingly powerful is mostly due to the two empires. If this continues, the two empires will always suffer losses and let the Spirit Hall take advantage, which the two empires naturally cannot tolerate. Therefore, after the rise of the Xing Luo Empire, it will compete vigorously with the many branches of the Spirit Hall in the country.

Just as Dai Yaochen was observing the quality of the soul masters in Wuhun City, a voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "Eh? Isn't this Brother Yaochen? Did the Xingluo Empire send you to lead the team this time?"

The voice was very familiar. Dai Yaochen immediately turned his head and looked in the direction where the voice came from. The figure he saw made his pupils shrink slightly. He said, "It turns out to be Brother Xue. Long time no see."

That’s right, the person in front of Dai Yaochen was Xue Qinghe. He didn’t expect that he would run into Xue Qinghe when he first arrived in Wuhun City. It was too much of a coincidence.

No, maybe it's not a coincidence...

Others may not know, but Dai Yaochen knows.

Xue Qinghe's real identity is actually a member of the Spirit Hall. Naturally, he also has his own power in Spirit City. For him, returning to Spirit City is like returning home. He must have known that he was here, so he pretended to meet me by chance, but in fact he came here on purpose.

Dai Yaochen's mind raced and he roughly guessed what was going on, but on the surface he remained calm and greeted Xue Qinghe.

What does this guy want to do by suddenly looking for me?
Just as Dai Yaochen was guessing Xue Qinghe's intention, Xue Qinghe pretended to be joking and said, "Brother Yaochen, because of you, the teacher has a headache every day. Even I have been greatly affected. You have to compensate me well."

Teacher? Is it because of Ning Fengzhi?
Dai Yaochen's brain started working quickly, and then he bowed to Xue Qinghe and said, "Brother Xue, you are too kind. Although we have a good relationship, we belong to two different countries after all. This is always the case between countries. If I have affected Brother Xue in any way, then I can only apologize."

"But in my opinion, although this matter makes Sect Master Ning very distressed, it may not be a bad thing for Brother Xue. Brother Xue should be grateful to me."

"Oh?" Xue Qinghe's eyes flickered when he heard Dai Yaochen's words, and he pretended not to know, "Why don't I understand what Brother Yaochen meant?"

"Brother Xue." Dai Yaochen glanced at Xue Qinghe and said calmly, "As far as I know, Sect Master Ning and Brother Xue should have a closer relationship now. In the past, if Brother Xue wanted to do something, Sect Master Ning might object. But now, even if Brother Xue does something excessive, Sect Master Ning will at most acquiesce. Isn't this a good thing for Brother Xue?"

No matter why Xue Qinghe came to him, it did not prevent Dai Yaochen from taking this opportunity to test Xue Qinghe.

When Dai Yaochen just left the City of Slaughter and learned about the situation on the mainland from Dugu Bo, he suspected that Xue Qinghe had already had the idea of ​​​​killing the king to ascend to the throne, and might have already begun to implement it. Now that he ran into Xue Qinghe, Dai Yaochen naturally had to confirm whether his speculation was correct, so that it would be convenient for him to respond next.

(End of this chapter)