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

Chapter 436 Ancient Books from Ten Thousand Years Ago
"Later, with the help of the Sea God Tang San, the doctor named Ji Xiang actually obtained innate full soul power in his postnatal state. He quickly hunted down a hundred-year-old soul beast and became a true soul master."

really.

Chen Ping nodded inwardly. The Eight Extraordinary Meridians were like eight soul power pathways independent of the body's meridians.

Even an ordinary person who is born without a trace of soul power and whose meridians are blocked can have the opportunity to embark on the path of cultivation again if any one of the eight extraordinary meridians is opened.

For a Soul Master who already possesses extremely high innate Soul Power, opening up the Eight Extraordinary Meridians is merely icing on the cake. But for a Soul Master like Ji Xiang, opening up the Eight Extraordinary Meridians is not just a lifeline, but akin to a complete rebirth.

Jixiang was merely nourished by a ten-thousand-year-old ginseng king that was by no means a celestial plant, and the opening of his eight extraordinary meridians allowed him to obtain innate full soul power, which further confirmed Chen Ping's guess.

"At the same time, the doctor named Jixiang not only received a divinely bestowed spirit ring from Tang San, the Sea God, but also had a Sea God's mark left on his brow by Tang San, who instructed him to absorb this divinely bestowed spirit ring only when he was breaking through to his ninth spirit ring."

Upon hearing Ning Junping's words, Chen Ping was overwhelmed with mixed emotions.

During this period, Tang San was not as inhuman as the Tang God King who now sits atop the clouds of the God Realm. He was not only grateful for kindness, but also a man who would repay even the smallest kindness with boundless gratitude.

Throughout the entire Douluo Continent era, Tang San's most inhumane act was merely impulsively poisoning and destroying the Slaughter City, though his original intention was likely good.

Aside from that, Tang San's most obsessive behavior was following the rules of the Xuan Tian Bao Lu, aiming his hidden weapons at Yu Xiaogang one day and the gatekeeper the next, as if anyone who discovered his secrets deserved to die.

But when time moved ten thousand years later, looking at Tang San in Tang Wutong's memory—a seemingly righteous but actually disgusting man whose every pore was oozing pus—they were completely different people.

They hadn't yet tasted power.
Suddenly, a sentence came to Chen Ping's mind.

Clearly, the joy and sense of control that came with achieving success and having the world at his fingertips had gradually and completely consumed Tang San's mind over time.

This transformed him from Tang San, who was originally willing to repay even strangers who helped him, into Tang Shenwang, who was willing to sacrifice even his own children to achieve his goals.

However, this still did not answer Chen Ping's question: why would Ji Xiang, who was born with full soul power, keep this divinely bestowed soul ring?

That was, after all, innate full soul power. Even if it was acquired later, the cultivation speed was real. Although Jixiang was probably almost twenty years old when he obtained innate full soul power, even if he just cultivated step by step, he should have been able to reach the Title Douluo realm by the time he was fifty or sixty.

Ning Junping's next words answered the question that Chen Ping had not yet had a chance to ask.

"Ji Xiang was very lucky, and his cultivation had always gone smoothly. With the sea god mark on his brow, he cultivated to the Soul Saint level in a place called Sea God Island in just a few years, and also absorbed a piece of his left leg bone."

"Unfortunately, all his good fortune came from Tang San, so he also had to bear the troubles caused by Tang San to some extent. Just when he chose to go to sea to hunt for his eighth spirit ring, he encountered the group of demonic tiger whales that Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils had almost wiped out."

"Those demonic orcas sensed the Sea God's mark on Ji Xiang's brow and instantly became enraged, tearing at his body and venting their fury at the near annihilation of their entire race. Although he was fortunate enough to survive with the help of the Soul Masters on Sea God Island, he lost a leg—the one with the Soul Bone." "You should understand just how devastating it is for a Soul Master to lose a limb and a Soul Bone at the same time."

"After that, Jixiang never reached the level of 90 before his death and was unable to absorb this divinely bestowed soul ring. And since his descendants inherited the same martial soul as him, which had no innate soul power, they were naturally unable to use this divinely bestowed soul ring either."

"This is the story of Physician Jixiang. Later, our sect sent someone to help Jixiang and his descendants open a medical clinic, which has been passed down for 2,672 years. The price is naturally that divinely bestowed soul ring."

Ning Junping, unaware that a book had appeared in his hand at some point, was an ancient book that had become extremely brittle and fragile due to the passage of time, as if it could shatter into pieces with a gust of wind. He was now studying it intently.

Only after recounting everything about Jixiang and his descendants did he slowly close the ancient book before him.

Chen Ping nodded. Now it made sense why the divinely bestowed soul ring had no energy. Having been away from Seagod Island for so long, the energy inside the divinely bestowed soul ring must have dissipated completely long ago.

Then the Sun Moon Empire crashed into us from the west, and Seagod Island disappeared without a trace. The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School had even less chance of finding an opportunity to recharge this blank 100,000-year soul ring.

Furthermore, Ning Junping's casual act of pulling out an ancient book from nearly 10,000 years ago also startled Chen Ping.

This is the power of inheritance. Whether it's something from thousands of years ago or something from ten thousand years ago, as long as the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School still exists at that time, they can probably tell you the whole story in great detail.

Moreover, unlike Shrek Academy, which was Tang San's private domain for acquiring faith power, and where various records about Tang San's deeds are likely biased, the records left by the more independent Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School over the past ten thousand years are likely more rigorous and authentic.

"So, Uncle Ning, is this divinely bestowed soul ring also an option?"

Chen Ping stared intently at the divinely bestowed soul ring, his eyes never wavering, as if he were glued to it.

Upon hearing this, Ning Junping chuckled, "You're calling me Uncle Ning instead of Sect Leader Ning now, how could I possibly refuse you?"

"Even without your soul-guided exoskeleton technology, just looking at Wu Feng's top-grade dark gold dinosaur claw with its attached right palm bone, and Ning Tian's soul spirit, you are qualified to take any one of these three treasures at random."

"What surprised me was that you didn't choose the six-piece set of advanced secret soul bones that seemed the most valuable, which would take thousands of years to assemble, nor the life force crystal that I thought could save your life at any time. Instead, you chose this divinely bestowed soul ring that can no longer be absorbed."

"Chen Ping, let me give you some advice. If you regret it now, it's not too late. For ten thousand years, countless sect leaders of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School have tried to use a soul ring with the word 'god' in it to figure out the opportunity to become a god."

"But as you've seen in the end, this thing has become a 'treasure' that has been passed down within the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School for who knows how long, but no one has ever used it."

(End of this chapter)