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

Chapter 815 The Destined Man
"This phenomenon has only occurred in Wuhun City and a few towns in the two major empires surrounding Wuhun City. Soul Masters in other regions who break through to the Soul Saint realm do not experience this phenomenon."

"Based on my statistics over the past twenty years, all seventeen Soul Saints who broke through in this area have this problem without exception."

"There is one student in our academy who went to the Frozen Forest to hunt for his seventh spirit ring. When he came back, his spirit form was exactly the same as the spirit forms of us veteran spirit masters."

Zhao Wuji seemed to have been holding back these words for a long time, and he quickly blurted them all out in one breath.

"This is normal. Isn't it a good thing that the Martial Soul True Body has no side effects?"

"Dean Zhao, do you have any other questions? If not, let's end this conversation here."

Tang San seemed completely unconcerned about the question Zhao Wuji had raised, his tone tinged with impatience.

"Wait a minute," Zhao Wuji quickly continued, "If that's all there is to it, what you said is not wrong. If the Martial Soul True Body does not have a period of weakness, even if the improvement of soul power is reduced by one level, it will not matter."

"However, in recent years, not only our academy students but also those from other places who have gone to the Star Dou Forest to hunt for their ninth spirit rings have clearly felt that their life force has not increased significantly when they have advanced to the title of Douluo. What is going on?"

"Once an ordinary Soul Master breaks through to the Title Douluo level, their lifespan is three hundred years. After that, for each level they advance, their lifespan increases by a hundred years. This is a certainty."

"But your senior Qin Ming was the team leader of the Royal Fighting Team thirty years ago. He later returned to Shrek Academy to teach. After breaking through to the Title Douluo level, he was healthy and peaceful, but he passed away at the age of eighty-two."

"Not only your senior Qin Ming, but also Flander, and your Second Master's wife, can all sense that our lifespan is at most a hundred years!"

"But as long as a Soul Master has not obtained the ninth Soul Ring in the Star Dou Forest, the vitality in their body is no different from that of an ordinary titled Soul Master."

"Dean Zhao, what are you trying to say?" Tang San interrupted Zhao Wuji without any politeness: "Doesn't this just prove that the problem lies with the Star Dou Forest? Why are you asking me?"

"You fart!"

Zhao Wuji seemed to have reached his limit and shouted, "Isn't this because of the golden tree you brought back? This evil tree is strange; it's secretly absorbing the life force, even the very essence, of everyone nearby."

"Now, you either uproot this demonic tree you brought from the divine realm, or I'll uproot it for you myself. This evil root and source of disaster cannot be allowed to remain!"

Zhao Wuji was practically roaring at this point, his voice booming out like thunder.

"Absurd! Zhao Wuji, I called you Dean Zhao twice, and you really don't understand how you should treat a deity."

“I said all of this is normal, so it is all normal. Since you don’t want to leave a good reputation for posterity and insist on asking unreasonable questions, that’s your own freedom.”

"But I'll say it again, all of this is normal. Stop wasting your time on the Golden Tree. This is what I left at Shrek Academy to protect it!"

As soon as Tang San finished speaking, the light of the sea god emanated from the golden tree, instantly sending Zhao Wuji flying.

As Zhao Wuji's nine soul rings descended, his seventh soul ring shone, instantly transforming him into a 15-meter-tall Mighty Vajra Bear. Yet, he was still blasted away like a brown bear doll, spitting out blood!

Snap! As this scene came to an end, the view in front of Chen Ping also shattered, along with the Zhao Wuji sculpture beneath the Sea God Lake.

Chen Ping silently surfaced, swam to the lakeside, and climbed ashore, soaking wet. He sat by the lake, gazing at the ancient golden tree in the distance, remaining silent.

The mystery that had troubled him for over a decade was finally solved, but Chen Ping felt no joy, only endless melancholy.

Zhao Wuji might be a bastard, otherwise he wouldn't have been chased and killed by so many bishops of the Spirit Hall.

But at least this guy is really loyal to his own people, and he's even willing to go to Tang San, who is now the Sea God, to get the truth for his former student Qin Ming.

However, just as Mu En in the original work used the light of the sea god within the Golden Ancient Tree to capture Du Busi who had no power to resist, a mere Zhao Wuji, even though he was already a nine-ring titled Douluo, appeared so insignificant in the face of the power of a god.

"The golden tree."

Chen Ping sighed. He used to be delighted because the fruit of the Golden Tree could enhance his talents.

Now, combining Zhao Wuji's fragmented memories of this time with the analysis of the Golden Tree, it's clear that the Golden Tree before us has devoured an unknown amount of life force from the entire Douluo Star to grow to its current level.

What the other party spat out was merely a tiny fruit, produced only twelve times every nine hundred years, as insignificant as dust.

From Zhao Wuji's words, Chen Ping could confirm that the Golden Ancient Tree's ability to devour life force and plunder the essence of soul masters was actually quite weak when it was in its seedling stage. Its influence was limited to the entire Shrek City, the towns and villages surrounding the two empires, and the Star Dou Forest.

During that period, as long as Soul Masters avoided Shrek Academy and went to places like the Frozen Forest, they could still retain their original Martial Soul True Body when they became Soul Saints.

It grants numerous effects, including but not limited to 'no cooldown for skills below the seventh ring for thirty minutes', '150% increase in the power of all skills', and 'a huge boost to attack, defense, speed, and soul attributes based on the characteristics of the martial soul'.

However, given the current state of the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Masters' Martial Soul True Forms—which are essentially like having their pants pulled down, allowing them to unleash their power at will—it's possible that the Golden Ancient Tree's influence has already covered the entire Douluo Star.

Reducing a Soul Master's lifespan further diminishes their chances of finding a path to godhood through faith after achieving the title of Title Douluo.

Even Poseidon, the god of the sea, spent a thousand years collecting the faith in the ocean.

It is conceivable that, given that the current lifespan of a Limit Douluo is only three hundred years, creating a godhood for oneself has become an almost impossible, delusional fantasy.

Ten thousand years have passed, and yet no outstanding individual on the entire Douluo Continent has gained the attention of the gods.

This means that Tang San cut off the second path for the beings of Douluo Continent to become gods in the God Realm. Before Tang San's permission, no god could cast his gaze upon Douluo Star.

Even so, Tang San was still not at ease. He even wanted to make a change to the Soul Saint's Martial Soul True Body skill to ensure that even if such a chosen one really came up, at least one of his desperate skills would be far inferior to his own.

The cost of a 50% decrease in all attributes within seven days after using the Martial Soul True Form may be severe, but only the living can lament about it; the dead have no right to say such things.

(End of this chapter)