Douluo Continent: I, the world's greatest immortal master, have taken Ning Rongrong as my disci

Chapter 137 Ling Xiaoqi's Best Testing Ground - Slaughter City

Since the students from Tianshui College and the College of Botany reported to Taoyuan, a year and a half has passed quietly.

Deep within the peach grove, amidst lush foliage and blooming buds, a massive ancestral peach tree bursts into bloom.

A young man dressed in peach-white robes sat cross-legged on a black stone, surrounded by the roaring souls of twin dragons of ice and fire, echoed by countless peach trees, and exuding an aura of ethereal immortality.
[Disciples Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and Dugu Yan have successfully mastered the Grandmaster-level martial arts. The host has received a hundredfold increase in experience points for mastering the martial arts.]

[Disciple Xiao Wu comprehends the basic Qimen Dunjia Four Trigrams; Wang Sheng practices the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Forms ten thousand times to achieve mastery; disciple Ye Lingling condenses a petal of black lotus; host's entire soul ring age increases by 3000 years.]

[Ten disciples, including Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, Dugu Yan, Xiao Wu, Wang Sheng, Ye Lingling, and Shui Bing'er, have broken through to level 50 and obtained their 50,000-year soul rings. The host has received soul power feedback, and their soul power has broken through to level 95.]

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"Whoo~"

"Level 95 truly lives up to its reputation as a watershed moment for Title Douluo, earning it the title of Super Douluo, and the resulting increase in soul power far surpasses that of the previous levels."

Su Ran slowly opened her eyes, appearing amidst the peach grove like a reclusive peach blossom immortal.

More than a year has passed, and Su Ran's soul power has broken through level 95, moving towards level 96.

For levels 95 and above, each level represents a significant improvement.

More than ten disciples of the academy have also entered their own cultivation state. Even for nominal disciples such as Xue Wu and Qiu Ruoshui, Su Ran still planned exclusive cultivation paths and unique skills for them, resulting in great progress.

Soto City has become a highly sought-after city, with the Spirit Hall, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, and the Heaven Dou Royal Family all regarding it as their second stronghold.

Several major forces are vying for influence, all seeking to cultivate good relations with Taoyuan Academy in hopes of sending students there.

Su Ran neither refused nor did she agree.

Su Ran only wants to train her current core disciples to become successful and does not want to pay too much attention to worldly forces, which would only delay her teaching.

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"Snow Dance, the snowflakes released by your martial soul are a form between water and ice. Softening them is for support, while sharpening them is for strong attack. You can use Snowfall all by yourself. You must master this critical point."

"One who dies in an ice storm is not suited for cultivation, but once one reaches mastery, wherever he goes, the world transforms into a frozen wasteland, bitterly cold."

"Yunzhu, your swordsmanship is progressing well. If you encounter Sword Douluo strolling around Peach Blossom Forest, you can spar with him. It might be helpful to you."

"Rongrong, pause your training for now and call your other six teammates to the classroom. I have something to tell you."

Su Ran strolled leisurely through the peach grove. Every day, as she passed by the training grounds of the registered disciples, she would casually offer them a few pointers before finally heading towards the main campus's school.

Ning Rongrong, whose skin has transformed into bronze patterns and radiates a golden glow, looks like a female warrior.

Hearing her teacher's words, Ning Rongrong's incredibly hard body began to soften, her bronze skin faded, and she nodded.

"good teacher."

"Sisters, the teacher has chosen a girl! Come quick!"

"What do you mean by 'flipping the card'? You like spreading rumors about teachers all day long, you deserve a beating."

Upon hearing Ning Rongrong's words, Su Ran's heart skipped a beat, and she reached for the dogmas on the school windowsill.

Seeing the teacher's action, Ning Rongrong turned and ran away in fright, quickly and obediently going to gather her teammates, muttering to herself:

"Sigh, the teacher is good in every way, but he can't take a joke. Besides, we shouldn't let the good stuff go to outsiders. It would be bad if such an excellent man like the teacher were to fall for those two lustful aunties from Tianshui Academy or that annoying pope."

For more than a year, Leng Cishuang, the dean of Tianshui Academy, and Leng Yuehan visited every two or three months, never complaining about the long journey between Tianshui City and Soto City.

That annoying pope also came, and under the pretense of seeking knowledge. He even brought a tattered piece of paper to ask the teacher for its deeper meaning, which disgusted my senior sister Rongrong.

Fortunately, the teacher didn't have a good attitude towards that stinky pope either, and dismissed her after a few words, which was really gratifying!

...In no time, the core Peach Blossom level students of Peach Blossom Academy had all gathered in front of the school hall.

Compared to a year and a half ago, these seven students have grown up and matured. They have mastered, or even nearly perfected, their basic skills.

Su Ran looked at them with a sense of satisfaction and pride:

"First of all, I want to commend you. Since the Soul Master Competition, you have not become arrogant or complacent. You have quickly entered a state of learning and cultivation."

"Over the past year, you have all made progress. Although you have only just entered the basics of the Grandmaster's Techniques, there is no need to be discouraged. After all, the Grandmaster's Techniques are still the Grandmaster's Techniques. There are many people who practice for decades and still do not achieve anything. You are already very good."

Su Ran's words were not merely to comfort the students, but were the truth.

For example, the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms practiced by Wang Sheng took Guo Jing thirty years to master in The Return of the Condor Heroes, barely making him a grandmaster.

If the Xuan Tian Gong and Tang Clan hidden weapons that Tang San stole in his previous life were first-rate skills, then the grandmaster-level skills that Su Ran taught these disciples were top-tier skills.

"From now on, you can continue your cultivation as I have taught you."

“Only Lingling is different. Lingling, your Nine Revolutions Black Lotus has largely completed its condensation, but merely completing the condensation is not enough to improve the innate genetic properties of your martial soul. You need to devour life.”

Su Ran then turned her gaze to Ye Lingling, whose hair color had changed after completing the transformation of her Life and Death Martial Soul.

The hair on the left is blackish-gray, while the hair on the right is gradually turning silver-white, symbolizing the dawn of life and the engulfment of death, respectively.

"The Nine-Heart Begonia devours the lives of the clansmen of the martial soul owner to gain healing power. It is a martial soul that looks beautiful, but it is also cruel. Do you see the delicate stamens on the Nine-Heart Begonia? They are the connections that touch the lives of your descendants."

Therefore, it is no longer suitable for you to continue cultivating in the academy. You need to rely on the power of the Nine-Turn Black Lotus to devour the life force of others to nourish the Nine-Heart Begonia. When the life force is sufficient to compensate for the healing you bring, then the negative effects of your Nine-Heart Begonia on your clan will also be eliminated.

After Su Ran finished speaking, Ye Lingling froze for a moment, not quite reacting, and tears immediately welled up in her eyes:

"Teacher, are you sending me away?"

All she heard from the teacher was, "You're not fit to stay at the academy."

This is hurtful.

"No, I'm not trying to get rid of you, but I want to take you to a new training ground."

Su Ran explained.

"A new training ground?"

Ye Lingling's expression softened slightly. "But teacher, although the Nine-Turn Black Lotus can devour other people's life force, one of our school mottoes is: 'We must not kill the innocent or bully the weak.' I cannot absorb other people's life force indiscriminately, otherwise, how am I any different from those evil people?"

Su Ran was very satisfied with Ye Lingling's answer, and a faint smile appeared on her face:

“You’re right, but don’t forget that while the academy has requirements for your moral character and upbringing, the outside world is not like that.”

"You must not forget that the academy is a safe haven. We can manage things within the academy, but we can never manage everything outside. Outside, it is still a dog-eat-dog world where the strong prey on the weak and the fittest survive."

"We treat good people as good people, but what about bad people?"

"If you use the Nine-Turn Black Lotus to devour the lives of good people and ordinary citizens for the sake of your descendants and clansmen, then you are an evil person, and that is something I do not want to see."

"But if you use the Nine-Turn Black Lotus to punish evil people and devour their lives, will there still be a problem?"

Su Ran finished speaking.

Xiao Wu raised her little hand and answered quickly, "Punishing evil and promoting good is the right path in the world!"

"Then where should I look for these villains?"

The teacher's words made Ye Lingling realize that this was also her current dilemma: although the Nine-Turn Black Lotus had the ability to devour life force, whose life should she absorb? What difference would that be from killing someone?
Su Ran's eyes narrowed, and he said, "A sinful paradise, which is also the best and fastest place for you to cultivate right now—the Slaughter City."

(End of this chapter)