Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 157 Why don't you look for the reasons within yourself? (Bonus Chapter)
Afternoon, beast fighting area.

It is the largest building in the Shrek Academy's exclusive area, and also the most magnificent building in the academy.

The area of ​​the Beast Fighting Zone is so vast that it is comparable to the total size of all the teaching buildings, dormitories, and Shrek Square in the Martial Soul Department.

On the vast Douluo Continent, there are only a handful of institutions that can use the power of an academy to raise soul beasts.

And there is absolutely no other place that can reach the scale of Shrek Academy's Beast Fighting Area.

After all, raising spirit beasts is no easy task. It requires maintaining their wildness, taking into account their diverse dietary habits, and ensuring their safety. The manpower and resources required are enormous, and the initial investment and maintenance costs are not to be underestimated.

Shrek Academy is able to achieve this entirely due to its abundant financial and human resources.

The Beast Fighting Zone consists of two main sections: one is the Beast Breeding Area, which is rarely seen by the students and is figuratively called the "Beast Enclosure," and the other is the highly anticipated Beast Fighting Arena.

The Colosseum is oval-shaped, with a unique style and a stable structure, and it cleverly uses architectural techniques such as arches and vaults.

It is surrounded by four tiers of receding stands, forming a stepped layout.

The audience seating is arranged in a semi-circle, ensuring that every spectator can clearly witness every moment in the Colosseum.

Gazing at this magnificent arena, the newly arrived young Soul Masters were all awestruck.

Even Chen Ping, who had just woken up from a nap in the classroom at noon and rushed to the arena, was no exception.

"Isn't this the ancient Roman Colosseum? Where did I end up? Is this still the Douluo Continent?"

Looking at the incredibly familiar building, Chen Ping couldn't help but sigh, leaving Wu Feng beside him completely bewildered.

"What is the ancient Roman Colosseum? Isn't this the Colosseum of our academy?"

Wu Feng scratched his head, looking eagerly into the arena, clearly itching for a fight.

Wu Feng said, "I remember that apart from our academy, there shouldn't be any other arenas on the Douluo Continent that raise soul beasts on such a large scale."

"After all, even our Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School can't afford the annual maintenance costs of such a huge arena."

"Considering that the disciples of our sect don't have a particularly urgent need to build a special beast pen to improve their combat experience, our Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect ultimately did not follow our academy's example and build a second beast fighting arena of this scale."

Chen Ping shook his head; Wu Feng naturally couldn't possibly understand what the ancient Roman Colosseum he was talking about was.

However, Wu Feng was right about one thing: there is no larger artificial soul beast gathering area on the entire Douluo Continent.

After all, even though Shrek Academy is financially powerful, the annual maintenance cost of such a huge arena is quite considerable, amounting to an astronomical figure.

In comparison, the Spirit Hall's Soul Hunting Forest, which spans the entire Douluo Continent for ten thousand years, seems much wiser.

After all, Shrek Academy goes to great lengths to build the arena and stables, which naturally costs a lot of money.

The Spirit Hall's Soul Hunting Forest, on the other hand, transformed the once dense forests of various sizes of spirit beasts into individual Soul Hunting Forests by pruning them down like ornamental trees, limiting the number of high-age spirit beasts within them.

Under this construction approach, although the Soul Hunting Forests of the Spirit Hall are often several times, or even ten or dozens of times, larger than Shrek Academy's animal pen and arena, they are basically self-sufficient and form a complete ecosystem.

In this situation, the only thing the Spirit Hall needs to spend money on is to source spirit beasts from non-man-made forests like the Star Dou Forest after the Spirit Hunting Forest has been nearly wiped out, thus maintaining ecological balance. Ten thousand years ago on the Douluo Continent, the two great empires, many kingdoms, duchies, capitals, and large provinces each had at least one Spirit Hunting Forest, possibly totaling more than twenty.

Each Soul Hunting Forest is ten times the size of Shrek Arena, the largest artificial soul beast gathering area in the entire Douluo Continent.

Ten thousand years later, not a single one of these Soul Hunting Forests remained. Chen Ping felt that this was indeed amazing.

This is the strategic vision of the three great empires that Chen Ping can currently see.

In Chen Ping's eyes, it was simply unbelievable that the Soul Hunting Forest, a place that could bless the next ten thousand years, or even several ten thousand years, could be completely destroyed.

Aren't you afraid of being criticized and gossiped about behind your back by your descendants?

Oh right, those who have the authority to make such a decision to cut down the Soul Hunting Forest probably look down on the ordinary soul beasts in the Soul Hunting Forest.

These people only hunt for the best spirit rings, and it has to be in places like Sunset Forest, Frozen Forest, and Star Dou Forest, where top-tier spirit beasts gather.

As for ordinary soul masters, because they no longer have the Soul Hunting Forest, they have to travel long distances and take risks to hunt soul beasts in the perilous Soul Beast Forest. Who told you not to work hard? You should look for the reasons within yourself.
Why is it that others can hire high-level Soul Masters, travel comfortably by carriage to Sunset Forest to hunt Soul Beasts, and complete the hunt with a single blow?

You'll have to run all the way to the Star Dou Forest, grab a broken stick and crawl into centipede holes, risking turning into centipede droppings at any moment to hunt for spirit rings.

As he thought about it, Chen Ping's fist inexplicably hardened.

Fortunately, at that moment, Hibiscus arrived.

Dai Huabin, who hadn't been able to sleep all afternoon while holding a stack of forms, handed them out in front of the two homeroom teachers.

Led by their respective homeroom teachers, Chen Ping and the others entered the Great Colosseum.

Because they were conducting an upgrade assessment, they would not go to the viewing platform. Instead, they would line up neatly outside the fighting area of ​​the Colosseum and wait for their assessment.

There are more than one hundred students in Class One and Class Two taking the second-year upgrade assessment here.

Because this was their first time coming to the Colosseum for assessment, the academy took it very seriously and, to ensure their safety, had twenty instructors already waiting there early on.

Upon entering the Colosseum for the first time, Chen Ping looked around with great curiosity.

But at this moment, Dai Huabin, who was originally at the front of the group, slowed down and soon caught up with Chen Ping, who was walking at a normal pace.

"Chen Ping, this semester, I can only be number one in our class. I'm going to challenge a thousand-year-old soul beast. If you have the guts, go for it."

After saying this, Dai Huabin strode away with an arrogant expression, leaving many of his classmates gasping in astonishment.

After all, many of them only planned to deal with soul beasts that were two or three hundred years old!

Dai Huabin's willingness to directly challenge a thousand-year-old soul beast must mean he hasn't slacked off at all during this holiday and has undergone a complete transformation.

On the other hand, can Chen Ping, who spent a month in the laboratory, still hold onto his number one spot?

　The extra chapter I mentioned yesterday has been added.

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