Douluo: From Rusted Spear to Emperor-Slaying Spear

Chapter 9: Invitation from Brother Haipo

Director Lu and Dean Shui glanced at the slightly embarrassed Ji Wuming and said in unison,

"Then let Xiao Ji choose who to become his disciple."

At this moment, Ji Wuming didn't know what to do. Could it be that the strong people on the mainland would be tempted to take in a child with a little talent as their disciple?
Good teachers choose famous students, and famous students also choose good teachers. Ji Wuming was not averse to accepting disciples. After all, he was just a commoner. If he could get help from a soul king in the early stage, the three soul rings in the future would be settled. However, there is a rule in the soul master world that a person can only have one master in his life.
Although he had the Soul King Master to guide him in the early stage, the help he provided was very weak in the middle and late stages. It might not be as powerful as his fourth and fifth soul skills, and what he could teach him was also quite limited.

Now Ji Wuming is in a dilemma. If he doesn't become a disciple, he might hurt the relationship between teacher and student. If he chooses to become a disciple of Dean Shui, it will definitely chill Director Lu's heart.

Then Ji Wuming gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, turned around immediately, and ran out quickly, muttering,

"It's horrible, it's really horrible, I want to go home."

Seeing Ji Wuming's action, Director Lu and Dean Shui were also stunned. It took them a while to recover. With a wave of their hands, the door of the Dean's Office was closed. Only a fierce quarrel could be heard from inside the room.
"Dean, you've scared Xiao Ji away. You should have let me choose first. Do you understand what it means to respect the young and love the old..."

"Xiao Lu! I am a Soul King. Strength is respected in the Soul Master world. I possess not only knowledge, but also rich combat experience. Can you compete with me?"

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Ji Wuming finally calmed down after returning to the dormitory. He took out all the weapons from his soul guide ring.
Ji Wuming picked up a shiny, undamaged metal box. He touched the switch on the top with his finger and the metal box opened, revealing three slender metal tubes.

"Could this be an offensive soul guide?"

Ji Wuming immediately took out the blood dragon's body from the soul guide ring. The blood dragon was dead, but its scales were very strong. It was just right to test its power.
As soul power was injected, three beams of white light shot out from the metal tube.

"Boom..."

A scale on the blood dragon's body was knocked off, and its skin surface turned into several pieces of charcoal.
"Oh my god, the power of this soul guide ray can even knock off the scales of a mutant blood dragon. If it hits a human, it is far superior to the long-range second soul skill of an ordinary great soul master! This is equivalent to a second-level soul guide device ten thousand years later."

"Is it possible that the second-level soul guides in the Sun-Moon Continent are now widely used?"

Ji Wuming couldn't help but fall into deep thought. The soul guide technology in Douluo Continent has been discontinued. Apart from some storage soul guides, there are very few offensive soul guides.

Most of the soul guides were found in the ocean and sold, or in other words, most of the soul guides in the ocean came from the Sun and Moon Continent.
Even ten thousand years ago, the soul guidance technology of the Sun and Moon Continent must have been not much worse.

Ji Wuming then picked up the last three identical and intact soul guides and emitted a yellow light to one of them in turn, which was still flashing.

"Is this a desk lamp?"

Only the sound of "ding ding——" was heard.

"wrong?"

Ji Wuming shouted, quickly put away the other two soul guides, then quickly retreated more than ten meters, lifted the bed partition,
"boom--"

The tabletop was blown off, and metal fragments flew everywhere, making the entire dormitory a mess.

"This, this really is a soul bomb!"

Ji Wuming looked at the wall and the metal fragments on the bed in great shock, then shook his head, "It's just that the power is too weak. I'm afraid it's not as strong as some close combat first soul skills."

Ji Wuming looked at the soul guides covering the ground and shook his head helplessly. He would not be like Tang San, who would put aside his great cultivation talent to study soul guides like hidden weapons, thus wasting his golden cultivation period.
Furthermore, he knew nothing about the production of soul guides, and the soul guides he had obtained were too low-level. Even if he could make them, their power would definitely not be a match for hidden weapons.

Soul guides can be researched, but definitely not at this time.

After figuring it out, Ji Wuming immediately put away all the soul guides present, glanced at the dormitory, and couldn't help but sigh.
"Oh, I have to clean it up myself!"

After the dormitory was cleaned up quickly, the door was kicked open.

"Ji Wuming, I heard that Director Lu helped you successfully obtain your first spirit ring. We two would like to compete with you. Do you dare?"

The people who came were none other than the fourth-year Haipo brothers, Haibai and Haigui. As the well-known rich kids in Hanhai City, they were the school bullies in the academy. Whenever they disliked someone, they would drag him to the duel arena for a one-on-one challenge.

According to most classmates, the Haipo brothers were preparing to defeat all the soul masters with soul rings in the academy one by one, and this move had been going on for more than a month. However, they did not expect that they would challenge them as soon as they returned from hunting souls.

"Okay, I accept your challenge, but there's a little bit of a bet..."

Ji Wuming rubbed his thumb and middle finger against each other, making a gesture as if asking for money.

"Gold Soul Coins are no problem. If you can win, my two brothers will give you half a year's living expenses, which is nearly 500 Gold Soul Coins."

"No, I don't want gold soul coins. I heard that your Hai family is engaged in a large-scale fishing business. I want 40 kilograms of whale glue or the same weight of soul beast meat. The older the better."

The Haipo brothers looked at Ji Wuming with sharp eyes, then looked at each other and said sarcastically,
"Ji Wuming, I didn't expect you to have that kind of fetish. Have you fully grown yet?"

Then, Ji Wuming glared at the two of them and said angrily, "If you agree to this bet, I will fight you. If you don't agree, you will have to pay for the damage to the door. Goodbye."

"Okay, we'll make a bet for you. If we lose, we'll give you whale glue. If we win, what will you give us?"

In response to Hai Bai's question, Ji Wuming replied without hesitation: "If I lose, I will pay the equivalent amount of Gold Soul Coins according to the market price."

"Okay, see you at the duel pond in an hour."

The two Haipo brothers immediately rushed to the duel pool behind the dormitory building and asked their younger brothers to publicize the duel competition.

Since today is the academy's weekly free training day, both senior and junior students rushed over to watch the excitement when they heard that Ji Wuming was going to compete with the Haipo brothers.
"Have you heard, classmates? That weird guy who always holds the rusty spear has just returned from obtaining a spirit ring and wants to compete with the brothers Haibai and Haigui."

"The Haibai brothers have never lost in the past month of challenges. Even the strongest students in grade six can't beat them. It's a pipe dream for you to think you can defeat the Haipo brothers with just a rusty spear weapon spirit."

"Yes, even though they only have one ring, their martial soul fusion skill - Water Tornado, is extremely powerful."

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More and more students came to the duel pool. They all wanted to witness with their own eyes how Ji Wuming, this weirdo, was quickly defeated by the Haipo brothers' martial soul fusion technique.

(End of this chapter)