Douluo: The blue phoenix cries loudly, and the wind whistles through the air

Leaving aside the influence of the Martial Soul Daily, the fact that the Martial Soul Bank regulates the Soul Hunting Teams across the continent is enough to earn it much praise in the Soul Master world.

Since Soul Masters often occupy a large amount of social resources, ordinary people at the bottom of society will inevitably have their views on the Spirit Hall changed under the influence of these Soul Master groups.

Who can guarantee that their family won't produce a Soul Master in the future? In the past, it was extremely difficult for ordinary Soul Masters to hunt Souls, and they also had to face the backlash from Soul Hunting Teams. Every advancement was like walking on thin ice.

Now, the Spirit Hall not only issues corresponding soul-hunting subsidies, but also eradicates the evil deeds of the soul-hunting teams. For ordinary soul masters, this is their golden age.

It's important to understand that ordinary people don't care who is in power in the two great empires or even the Spirit Hall. As long as their descendants or themselves can safely progress on the path of a Spirit Master and have some surplus food, they will give their full support to whoever is in power.

With the added publicity from the Spirit Daily, the Spirit Hall gained unprecedented popularity and influence in just one year.

Wu Qi's willingness to allow Davis to use the Martial Soul Daily as a tool for Davis to attack his political enemies was naturally due to his own considerations.

With Davis, this troublemaker, in the government, the court will never be at peace as long as the Star Luo Empire does not establish a crown prince. This prevents the court from reaching a consensus, making it difficult to concentrate its efforts on important matters, which is highly advantageous to Wu Qi's plan.

Dai Mubai sighed weakly and said, "Xiao San, what should we do next?"

After Davis's three decisive moves, he was completely speechless and didn't even have the slightest thought of resisting.

Tang San pondered for a long time before finally speaking: "Do we have any chance to replicate the Martial Soul Daily and promote it within the Star Luo Empire?"

In the past, Tang San didn't think there was anything special about the Martial Soul Daily; the articles mostly recorded humanities and geography, and could only be considered as reading material for the general public to learn.

It now appears that the power of public opinion should not be underestimated. If similar measures cannot be devised to counter it, their future actions will be extremely passive.

Zhu Zhuqing shook her head. "Third Brother, I've already calculated the costs."

"At the price of one copper soul coin for one newspaper, if we were to open a newspaper in the name of the royal family, we would not make any money at all, and would even suffer huge losses."

"Even if you add the gambling games the Spirit Hall publishes in the newspapers, they would lose at least one million gold soul coins every month, which would amount to twelve million a year. Not to mention the royal family, even the Spirit Hall couldn't afford it."

"How does the Spirit Hall make money?" Tang San couldn't help but ask.

Even as a time traveler, he had never seen these new things before and had no idea how they worked.

In his view, the Spirit Hall's decision to spend money to run a newspaper was clearly an attempt to distort the truth and prepare for the annexation of the continent.

“The Spirit Hall’s intelligence transmission channels are too mature, and the channel costs are much lower.” It was Dai Mubai who spoke. “Xiao San, even if a major change occurs in Han Hai City, the Papal Palace can find out within two days, while the official relay stations of Xing Luo and Tian Dou would take four days to deliver the message to the Imperial City.”

“The Spirit Hall already has a mature relay station system, plus branch halls scattered throughout the continent, so their delivery costs are more than half of ours. According to my and Zhu Qing’s estimates, the Spirit Hall’s newspaper is basically breaking even, and may even make a small profit.”

He paused, then suddenly remembered something and added, "Moreover, the Spirit Hall uses storage soul tools to transport newspapers. In this way, a single agility-type Soul Saint can supply newspapers for an entire city, making transportation costs extremely low."

"A soul tool?" Tang San's lips twitched slightly. "Is the Spirit Hall really going all out?" In his memory, a complete storage soul tool with only one cubic meter of storage space could easily sell for nearly a thousand gold soul coins. If it looked even better, a high-quality one-cubic-meter storage soul tool could sell for ten thousand gold soul coins.

It should be known that the technology of soul tools has long been lost on the mainland. All the soul tools on the market are second-hand. Every one that is damaged is one less available. Has the Spirit Hall not considered the extent of the damage?
None of the people present could answer this for Tang San.

Of course, they wouldn't know that the Spirit Hall had already been secretly conducting teaching on soul tools.

Although the Spirit Guidance Department exists within the Spirit Hall Academy, its teaching facilities are separate from those of the Spirit Guidance Department, and personnel who are not from the Spirit Guidance Department are prohibited from entering or leaving.

It's kept extremely secret internally, so how could the outside world possibly know?

A 50-cubic-meter storage soul tool can be assembled by a level 3 soul master; Zhao Chenggong can create dozens or even hundreds of the most core storage modules at a time, and then hand them over to lower-level soul masters to assemble, resulting in a very large monthly output.

The cost of a soul tool is only a few dozen to a hundred gold soul coins. If you sell it on the market, you can easily make a profit of tens or hundreds of times.

……

Zhu Zhuqing, being a woman, had a habit of shopping in her spare time. She shared her recent discovery: "Recently, several large shopping malls near Xingluo City have started selling large-capacity storage soul tools."

“In the past, these large-capacity storage soul tools were all put up for auction. But recently, all auction houses have removed all storage soul tools from their shelves and no longer hold any auctions of them.”

"At first, I guessed that someone had discovered an ancient ruin containing a large number of storage soul tools. But as the investigation went deeper, the truth was not so."

The storage soul tools sold in the mall looked brand new, not at all like items that had been buried underground for tens of thousands of years.

Upon closer investigation, Zhu Zhuqing discovered that the appearance of these soul tools was inextricably linked to Davis, and the supplier was the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, which was located far away in the Heaven Dou Empire.

According to the terms of the ceasefire agreement between the two empires, the Star Luo Empire opened up a portion of its market share to merchants of the Heaven Dou Empire. As the biggest beneficiary, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School was naturally qualified to open shops in Star Luo City.

Researching soul tools is incredibly expensive. If some soul tools cannot be sold to generate cash, where will the funds come from to continue the research?
The Soul Guidance Department is just starting out, with few students, so it's too early to tell what's going on. But things will be different once the number of students increases.

It's simply unrealistic to rely solely on subsidies from the Papal Palace, and the Papal Palace can't afford to allocate a large portion of its budget to research on soul tools.

Therefore, under Wu Qi's arrangement, the soul tools were sold to the outside world through the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School as a distributor to subsidize research expenses.

……

Faced with Tang San's repeated questioning, Zhu Zhuqing was unable to answer at all.

Their trail went completely cold at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School. They couldn't find out where the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School got the goods, nor did they know that this matter was connected to the Spirit Hall. (End of Chapter)