Douluo: Law of Heaven and Earth

Chapter 166: The Soul Master World...is Actually Very Cruel
"Tang San, what's wrong with you? All the buns fell." Xiao Wu noticed the buns that Tang San dropped on the table, and looked at his dazed eyes, feeling a little strange.

"nothing."

Tang San picked up the bun, took a deep breath, and said with a smile, "I just figured out some things... Brother Qing, don't worry, no matter what you want to do, I will support you unconditionally!"

And Tang San has already thought of the future scenario:

The Great Zhou was in the open, contending with the two empires and the Spirit Hall; while the Tang Sect was in the dark, secretly eliminating some enemies that could not be dealt with openly for the development of the Great Zhou.

In this way, with one yin and one yang, and working on both fronts, why worry about not achieving great things?
"Forehead······"

Zhou Qing was a little dazed by Tang San's sudden change. He couldn't understand what was wrong with this guy all of a sudden, and those scorching eyes -

Is your sexual orientation really abnormal?
After secretly shuddering for a moment, Zhou Qing coughed and changed the subject, "After everyone finishes eating, let's go to Nottingham Square."

"it is good."

When Wang Sheng heard this, he was the first to respond.

After breakfast.

Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Wang Sheng, surrounded by the working students, civilian students, and noble students like Xiao Chenyu of Notting College, found Mo Hen, who had just finished breakfast in the teacher's dormitory building, and Romantina, who had just sobered up and was still a little dizzy, and headed towards Notting Square in a mighty manner.

The other teachers followed suit.

Qingzhu Zhu lives in a hotel near Notting Square, so they will meet each other then.

"Teacher Mo, come to think of it, have you always lived in the college?" Zhou Qing asked about this.

"Um... I still have a small house in my hometown." Mo Hen's smile was a little awkward, but then he said, "In fact, most free spirit masters don't have a house that truly belongs to them."

Zhou Qing: "???"

I thought that Teacher Mo Hen just didn't save enough money to buy a house in Notting City, but I didn't expect such a big news to be exposed.

Most free spirit masters don't have real estate...

Isn't this just a vagrant?
But after thinking about it carefully, Zhou Qing understood the reason: apart from those soul masters who have sects and families, and excluding those soul masters who have fixed industries (mostly towns outside the Soul Beast Forest), the remaining large group, more than 90% are mobile people with no fixed place to live.

Just like the grading of junior colleges, intermediate colleges, and senior colleges, a child with the talent to become a soul master, under normal circumstances, needs to upgrade step by step, from one city to another. For civilian soul masters, it is naturally impossible to buy a new business there all at once when going from a city they are familiar with to an unfamiliar city.

In the Douluo Continent during this period, apart from the nobles, probably no one else dared to engage in real estate business on a large scale. Therefore, even if a soul master saved enough money and wanted to buy a house in a big city, he had to wait for someone to plan to sell the house.

If you want to quickly own your own house, joining a certain faction is the best way...
【hiss--】

[Is this also a way for major forces to recruit soul masters?

Food, clothing, housing and transportation, just the word "housing" has been controlled by major forces.

Civilian spirit masters can still be adventurers and choose freely today, only because there are still many places in Douluo Continent that have not been explored and there is still a large space to be developed. However, currently few civilian spirit masters are willing to take risks in unknown areas, and instead want to be promoted under the existing system.

However, within this developed continent, the distribution of benefits has already reached saturation, and it is difficult for people at the bottom to get a piece of the pie unless they have a background.

And if that person is really a gifted commoner, and his talent is obvious to the public, he will inevitably be offered olive branches by major forces, forcing him to join the current "rules of the game" of the mainland, and he must adapt to and maintain these rules. Otherwise, he will be excluded and even attacked.

This might be the case with the Spirit Hall in the original novel.

Moreover, perhaps because of Bibi Dong's personal spiritual problems, in the original novel, Spirit Hall launched the war without putting forward any constructive slogans, reasons, or war programs.

This gave the high-ranking officials of the two empires the feeling that among the three players that dominated the Douluo Continent, the Heaven Dou Empire, the Star Luo Empire, and the Spirit Hall, the Spirit Hall suddenly threw a tantrum for no reason and refused to play anymore. They were ready to overturn the table, but it was not for the purpose of making a comprehensive reform of the continent. They just wanted to kick the other two players out - I eat the meat and drink the soup; the others can't even lick the bones!

In this situation, not only will the two empires work together to resist the Spirit Hall, but a large number of civilian spirit masters will not stand on the side of the Spirit Hall from the bottom of their hearts.

Because in their eyes, the Spirit Hall is the instigator of the war. Civilian spirit masters don’t understand the distribution of benefits, but they still understand the concept of “aggressor”...】

"I heard that most of the adventurers in the Notting Guild rent houses, and some even sleep in stables." Xiao Wu interrupted, "It's really shameful that they don't even have their own homes. Teacher Mohen, you have to work harder, otherwise you won't be able to find a wife in the future. Or, will you and your wife spend your wedding night in the teacher dormitory building of the academy?"

Mo Hen: “…”

I have been a teacher for so many years, but I still live in the college. I haven't even saved enough money to buy a house of my own in Nottingham. It's really embarrassing.

But Xiao Wu's mouth is really vicious. If someone marries her in the future, he will probably suffer.

"With the way you spend money lavishly, you probably won't even be able to afford rent a house when you graduate." Zhou Qing collected his wandering thoughts, rubbed his temples, and mocked Xiao Wu.

"Humph!"

Xiao Wu turned her head away, not intending to argue with Zhou Qing, but she felt that she really had to consider the issue of housing after graduation.

They definitely couldn’t go back to the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest. After those ferocious beasts “returned home”, Da Ming and Er Ming could only bow their heads. As a transformed soft-bone rabbit, she couldn’t beat them up or make them call her “Sister Xiao Wu” before she reached the Titled Douluo level.

Not to mention, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm also has a great hatred for those ferocious beasts...
In the human world, if she wants to have a house of her own, she must either save money, join a certain force, or marry a good man who owns property.

Xiao Wu directly ruled out the last two options.

Join a certain force?

Sister Xiao Wu is not someone who can be bound by rules!

Unless, that force is very interesting.

But if she takes this path, she also has to consider whether her identity will be exposed.

Although she had the method of refining soul rings for the second time, which allowed a small part of her soul beast aura to be integrated into her martial soul and spine, she currently only had one soul ring and could not completely guarantee that her identity would not be seen through by the strong.

Therefore, it is better to have less contact with already formed forces.

As for marrying a good man with a house...

Is her sister Xiao Wu the kind of person who lives off her?
"Actually, you three don't need to worry about the house in the future." Romantina's cheeks blushed slightly, "My house is actually quite big."

[Why does this sound so familiar? ]

Zhou Qing glanced calmly at Romantina who was embedding the Huangwu staff into the softness as pudding - she was not wearing a breastplate today.

"That's great!"

Xiao Wu jumped and lay on Romantina's back, causing ripples in front of her. "You really are worthy of being my good friend, Romantina."

"When you didn't need me before, you argued with me and called me a pervert. Now you're attracted to my house and call me your good friend." Romantina covered her cheeks, feeling shy: o(*////▽////*)q
"Oh, don't worry about these details, hahaha!" Xiao Wu put her hands under Romantina's armpits and tickled her.

“No~No~”

Romantina twisted her body, waving her arms, her face flushed: o(>*//﹏//*<)o
[This person... is really hopeless! ]

Zhou Qing held his forehead with his hand, wondering if he had committed some unforgivable crime in his previous life that he had to be a teammate with such a weirdo.

Nottingham Square.

When the Notting College group arrived, the outer area was already crowded with people, and there were many snack vendors shouting.

However, among the many soul masters surrounding them, not many paid attention to Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu and others. After all, most of them could not see through the tactics of Team 18 yesterday, and just thought that they won by accident.

"Zhou Qing."

Qingzhu Zhu followed Zhu Ma to Zhou Qing's side and asked, "Did we complete a martial soul fusion last night?"

"Yes..."

Seeing that Qingzhu Zhu had an impression, Zhou Qing did not intend to hide it, "But I feel that the fusion of our martial souls is not normal."

"Yeah, I think so too." Qingzhu Zhu shook her chin, but her guess about the fusion of martial souls was different from Zhou Qing's. She felt that last night, he and she did not really complete the fusion of martial souls, so there was no such attraction between martial souls.

“What?!” Romantina threw Xiao Wu behind her and grabbed Zhou Qing by the collar, almost lifting him up. She roared with a flushed face: “You actually completed the fusion of martial arts spirits with a little loli…hiss, is this cheating? It’s too much! When you do this kind of thing in the future, please do it in front of me…no, you must not let me know!”

Zhou Qing pushed Romantina and shouted, "Don't get so close! And don't say weird things! Other students will misunderstand!"

Wang Sheng turned around, whistled, and chatted with Song Si and other part-time students about how powerful he would be when he went on the court later.

Mo Hen chatted calmly with other teachers, telling them how many gold soul coins he needed to buy a vacant manor in Notting City.

Tang San and Xiao Wu were chatting awkwardly, discussing the connection between "forging" and "fruit wine".

"Fuck! Don't mess with me!"

Seeing this group of people looking at each other with their eyes on the nose and their noses on their hearts, Zhou Qing wanted to cry but had no tears - what kind of bad friends did he make?

But this guy can really divert people's attention and prevent them from overusing their brains...
In the end, Zhou Qing ignored Romantina who was "talking nonsense" and returned to the topic. He said to Qing Zhuzhu: "Don't worry about the fusion of martial souls. I feel that I am quite special. It is possible to fuse with the martial soul of any spirit master... Xiao San, after this friendly match is over, let's experiment."

"it is good!"

Tang San was stunned for a moment, then agreed, but he did not think that his Blue Silver Grass, Clear Sky Hammer and Zhou Qing's blood circulation system could be integrated. He just thought it was an excuse for Zhou Qing to persuade Qing Zhu Zhu and get rid of Romantina.

"If you two want to fuse your martial souls, you'd better practice more." Teacher Mo Hen walked up to Zhou Qing and Qing Zhuzhu and gave his advice.

Martial soul fusion skills are extremely rare on the mainland.

For Mo Hen, this was the first time he encountered a student who was able to fuse his martial soul with other students of the same age.

Even though I haven't seen it with my own eyes, since both sides believe that their spirits have merged, it proves that these two are a perfect match.

If possible, as a teacher, he should still help to bring them together... This Qingzhu Zhu's identity seems to be that of a young lady? It shouldn't be a big family, but he can only take verbal advice.

If you come from a big family,

Qing Zhuzhu blushed a little.

Zhou Qing took a deep breath and said, "Teacher Mo, please don't make things more complicated... Forget it, in the final analysis, it's still my fault."

"???"

Mo Hen thought about Zhou Qing's riddle-man behavior again and again, and could only classify Qing Zhu Zhu as an aristocrat with very high status and position.

In his opinion, only when the status gap is too big will Zhou Qing not have the thought of love between men and women——

Mo Hen absolutely didn't believe that Zhou Qing didn't understand the relationship between men and women.

Thinking back to when he was six years old, he also fell in love with a lovely girl. Unfortunately, that girl was extremely talented. She graduated at the age of twelve, and her soul power reached the sixteenth level. She was admitted to the intermediate college, and he was forced to separate from her...

Seeing Mo Hen’s melancholy face, a question mark also appeared on Zhou Qing’s forehead.

However, the awkward atmosphere was eased after the arrival of Zhong Dingxiu and the Xingluo Royal Team.

"Without further ado, the first match of the second round begins now!"

The words fell.

Zhong Dingxiu began to draw lots and took out two balls from the box handed over by City Lord Xiao.

Number sixteen, number eight.

These two teams were put together at short notice, and the cooperation between the teams was not very tacit. They were able to enter the second round because the teams they met in the first round were weaker.

And now, when the two teams meet, it can be said that they are evenly matched and the cooperation between them is almost zero. They are truly fighting each other. The members of the two teams do not obey the arrangements of their captains and each of them acts in his own way.

In a sense, the tactics of these two teams are consistent with those of Zhou Qing's Team 18. The only difference is that each person in these two teams is a truly independent individual. Once they find a person, they will fight to the death with that person and will never think about attacking other people or helping their opponents.

"too messy."

Tang San shook his head, "Didn't the captains of these two teams arrange any tactics?"

"There are spirit masters of levels 10 or 20, and they are all temporarily formed. There are no auxiliary, healing, or food-related teams. They are just acquaintances of each other, and the difference in spirit power is not big. Naturally, no one will submit to the other. Everyone has his or her own set of battle ideas in his or her mind."

Zhou Qing sighed, "Under the premise that the captain does not have enough ability and strategy to make the members of the two teams cooperate with each other, this method of everyone finding a person on the opposite side to fight to the death is considered good. After all, as long as one person falls first, the other side will be able to gain the advantage."

"As for the shortcomings, they are obvious. If they encounter a team that can cooperate a little, both teams will be finished."

"From the perspective of us spectators, this kind of battle is boring... but it's not like we can't learn anything from it."

Xiao Wu said disdainfully: "What can we learn from these two teams?"

"Look—"

Zhou Qing pointed at the captain of Team No. 16.

The captain's martial spirit was a steel knife, which emitted a flashing cold light when it was swung.

But the captain of team number eight was no idler; his martial soul was a long sword with sharp sword light, which actually blocked every attack of captain number sixteen.

Captain No. 16's second soul ring lit up, and he let out a long roar: "Second soul skill: Wind-breaking Strike!"

In an instant, a thin layer of light green whirlwind swirled around the steel knife, making a sizzling sound, as if even the air was being cut apart.

Facing this attack, Captain No. 8 held the sword horizontally with both hands, his eyes widened, and he concentrated his mind, trying to take the attack.

however--

Swish!
Captain No. 16 suddenly reached into his pocket with his other hand, took out a handful of white flour, and sprinkled it on Captain No. 8's face.

In an instant, Captain No. 8 closed his eyes and burst into tears.

Captain No. 16 swung his sword, and the sword light wrapped in a light green whirlwind passed through the chest of Captain No. 8, leaving a sword mark about 40 centimeters long and 5 centimeters deep on his chest, and knocked him away.

Captain number eight!

defeat!
Advantage, came to team No. 16...

Xiao Wu said indignantly: "What's wrong with that guy? He seemed to have used the same trick yesterday, and he actually used it again today! Flour attack? How despicable!"

"That's right! He doesn't have the spirit of a soul master at all!"

Wang Sheng also cursed out loud.

The working students, commoners and aristocratic students at Notting College also looked down upon such behavior.

However, Tang San has a different opinion:

First, Captain No. 16 did not violate the rules. In this "friendly match", other weapons and methods besides martial spirits could be used.

Secondly, this unexpected approach is indeed very effective when traveling in the martial arts world, and when encountering the necessary fighting moment, it can even turn defeat into victory.

"It's true that there is no such thing as the pride of the strong, but we have to be on guard. We should be thankful that this type of competition still has some fairness. If we had a conflict with this kind of soul master in the Soul Hunting Forest, he would not be spreading flour, but lime."

Zhou Qing said earnestly, "When we are hunting souls, if we encounter other soul master groups, and the strength of both sides is not equal and there are conflicts, they will not follow the rules of the soul master world and have a soul fight to decide the winner, but will directly kill them."

Teachers such as Mo Hen were also surprised.

They only knew that the world of soul masters was cruel, but they didn't know it was so cruel.

But Zhou Qing knew that this was not their fault, because they were just teachers at the Junior Soul Master Academy and did not usually participate in any form of soul fighting. At most, they would help students hunt soul beasts during the holidays. After learning about their identities as "teachers", other soul master teams would mostly give face and not make things difficult for them.

It is precisely because the teachers at the Junior Soul Master Academy do not have many responsibilities and are considered to be living in a "good" place in the Soul Master world, that Mo Hen and other teachers at the Junior Soul Master Academy have a relatively limited understanding of the cruelty of the Soul Master world.

(End of this chapter)