Douluo Continent: A Thousand Miles of Cultivation

Below the Soul Battle Arena, the seven members of Canghui Academy gave Huangdou Team 2 no chance whatsoever, their seven different gem martial souls, each radiating a seven-colored light, were activated first.

The moment the seven gems appeared simultaneously, a layer of colorful light emanated from them, completely enveloping their bodies.

Seven beams of colored light shot into the sky almost simultaneously, centered on the martial soul of the Canghui Academy captain, instantly condensing into a massive seven-colored pillar of light that completely enveloped the seven people forming the formation.

"A seven-in-one martial soul fusion skill?! Little Shui, this probably isn't that simple!"

"Sigh, that's what I was worried about."

The primordial spirit completely counters the mental system because it can see through the soul. The broken primordial spirit ignores defense. Unless it is a single-target crushing mental power like the Evil Emperor, it is very easy for a group of seven people from Canghui Academy to break through it by simply breaking through the surface.

Breaking through too easily will result in the elimination of the opposing team, and you should know that killing is not allowed in elite matches.

The Soul Arena, shrouded in seven-colored light, was no longer visible to the outside world, except for Qian Shui, who was seriously cultivating the Trinity, and his little disciple inside.

Without any other action, the little apprentice moved the instant the light enveloped him. A weakened version of the Thorn Aura was activated, and half of the mental attack was directly deflected. At the same time, Qian Shuishui's primordial spirit flashed with divine light, unleashing a weakened version of the Light of Destruction, and that was the end of it all.

Their spirits were annihilated, blood flowed from their seven orifices, and the seven-colored light dissipated. The seven members of Canghui Academy lay sprawled on the ground, utterly dead.

However, Qian Shui did not stop them this time; those who commit murder should be prepared to be killed in return. Did the seven from Canghui Academy ever intend to hold back?

Both on the field and in the stands, there was complete silence; no one could understand what had happened.

Feng Jingyi asked Qian Shui with the same confusion, "Xiao Shui, what kind of attack is this? It's similar to my external soul bone skill, but also different."

"This is the method of using spiritual power that I created after hunting down the 790,000-year-old ferocious beast, the Evil Eye Tyrant, through two soul bone skills and two soul ring skills."

The purpose is to unleash the soul impact, mental weakness, and mental confusion as an energy attack. What is given to Shui Shui is a relatively weakened version. With the blessing of the thorn aura and the primordial spirit's ability to see through the soul, it is a mental attack that is almost impossible to defend against and is guaranteed to hit.

Unlike before, when I could only use my primordial spirit to attack.

Speaking of this, Feng Jingyi became even more puzzled. "Your primordial spirit martial soul is clearly a spirit-type martial soul. Why don't you attach a spirit ring from a spirit-type spirit beast? Wouldn't that have allowed you to achieve this level much earlier?"

Qian Shui smiled and said, "Sister Feng, you know Shi Nian, right?"

"Yes... I see. If you do this, you'll just be an enhanced version of Shi Nian at best!"

"I've said it before: cultivate essence, energy, and spirit simultaneously—that's building a foundation. Techniques are techniques, and Shui Shui is an example of that. When all her foundations are solid enough, she can use such attack techniques on her own, so why waste a soul ring slot?"

Your confusion stems from not fully understanding the essence of a martial spirit, something you'll begin to grasp once you possess the true form of your martial spirit.

From my current perspective, the concept of Martial Souls likely didn't exist a long time ago. The emergence of this rule is probably a gift to the Douluo Continent from predecessors who broke through to a certain level.

Later generations, being unfilial and greedy for simple and quick methods, abandoned all other cultivation methods and focused solely on cultivating martial spirits.

The most direct result of this choice to focus solely on cultivating martial spirits is the emergence of different professions, such as support, control, and offensive.

As you already know, although I always introduce myself as an agile attacker, I can actually take on any role except for food-type attackers.

I didn't tell you before because I wasn't sure if the path was right myself.

There's nothing mysterious about it. Now I can tell you. You might have felt something was off, that what I'm saying is right, but you still feel something's not quite right.

In fact, Feng Jingyi understood halfway through Qian Shui's explanation, and blurted out, "Another cultivation method?!"

"It seems you figured it out from Shui Shui Di." Qian Shui smiled happily, as if her joke had been understood. "That's right, it's a different cultivation method, different from martial spirit cultivation. The primordial spirit martial spirit gave me a method that goes directly to the source to cultivate the foundation!"

Another question, which Qian Renxue also found the answer to, was why Qian Shui wouldn't let her cultivate like him. She only learned the answer the day before.

Qianshui cannot guarantee that his path is correct, but the Nine Trials of the Angels will definitely lead to success.

The Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul and the Divine Trial are the strongest cultivation methods passed down from predecessors who had cultivated their Martial Soul techniques to the extreme.

Since the Angel Ancestral God herself wouldn't have a six-winged angel martial soul, the origin of this martial soul is very likely that the Angel Ancestral God cultivated to break through level 100, completely fused with the martial soul, and simultaneously transformed herself into a martial soul, thus passing down this complete martial soul.

Therefore, the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul and the Sea God Martial Soul will be humanoid Martial Souls.

Considering that Qian Renxue's godhood martial soul transformed into her own appearance, a god-level martial soul is something above the divine position, forcibly locking in the ultimate form of the martial soul cultivation system. This is the true face of a god-given super martial soul.

From Qian Shui's perspective, it was completely the opposite. Because he cultivated his 'life' in advance, the rules of heaven and earth of his martial soul directly locked his 'life' into his martial soul.

The result is that it goes straight to the source, separating the original Glazed Pagoda Martial Soul from the soul, thus allowing a part of the Primordial Spirit Martial Soul to reach the ultimate of the Martial Soul cultivation system much earlier!

From one perspective, the Martial Soul Technique is a supplement to the cultivation system, and the powerful locking of the primordial spirit is even more of a cheat code. After all, that is the initial formation of the immortal foundation that can only be obtained when one cultivates 'life' to the stage of Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation.

The biggest difference is that a martial spirit only has a soul, not a body. This is why those who become gods in Douluo Continent are all soul gods. Without a body as their foundation, it is difficult to advance further.

In the terminology of cultivation, "refining the spirit and returning to emptiness" is the end. Without "refining emptiness and merging with the Dao", one cannot truly control the laws of supernatural powers, shatter the void, and truly ascend to immortality.

If one cannot even achieve the initial attainment of immortality, then the so-called eternal life is a joke. One can only drift with the tide and will eventually turn to ashes in endless calamities or in the destruction and rebirth of heaven and earth itself.

In other words, if one cannot transcend the Three Realms and escape the Five Elements, one will ultimately remain an ant.

...

The behind-the-scenes matters are over. Although the incident at Canghui Academy is incomprehensible, it's not just about who killed whom. If Qian Shui didn't care, he wouldn't have come to watch the match.

One of the reasons was for the safety of his apprentices and teammates, and also as a precaution.

Besides, Shi Nian no longer needs to exist, and no one needs to ask about him. Since he wanted to kill but had no further use, Qian Shui didn't mind letting his little apprentice have his way.

"Let's go, Sister Feng, let's clean up their mess. It shouldn't be a big problem."

With so many matches every day, the big shots wouldn't be idle; they would attend the matches every day, like this one against Canghui Academy.

Especially people like Ning Fengzhi and Salas, who are ostensibly on the organizing committee of the competition, but in reality rarely come to watch the competition.

Ning Fengzhi was too busy with his business at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School to handle everything, and he had also assigned tasks to a bunch of Soul Douluo and Soul Saint level students from the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

If that weren't the case, Qian Shui wouldn't really want to let Xiao Wu participate in the competition. After all, the Ice and Snow Emperors had slipped away, and without the cover of ferocious beast aura, this unfortunate rabbit would become a third wheel.

Feng Jingyi had asked Qian Shui several times. At first, she thought it was a 100,000-year soul ring that Qian Shui had prepared for Qian Renxue, but Qian Shui denied it, since it was inappropriate.

Then she assumed it was prepared for her and was moved to tears. It wasn't until Qian Shuishun turned out to be her pet, which she hadn't intended to kill but kept for research, and he even showed her the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, which was only two spirit rings short, that Feng Jingyi finally believed him.

Until today on the field, with a premonition that someone was going to die, Qian Shui's other reason became obvious—he had to personally cover up for this dead rabbit.

Originally, it would have been fine to take care of the main body, or even cover the entire Heaven Dou City with 'Thousand Illusions'. But that would also mean that all perception would have to be activated, which would lead to laziness, fear of mental pollution, and Qian Shui's opinion that the dead rabbit wasn't worth such a large energy expenditure.

So Ning Huahua came to watch the game in person.

The subsequent events were not complicated. Ning Fengzhi and Salas arrived together, and the big boss routinely asked them questions one by one. Since they weren't stupid, they just shook their heads and said they didn't know.

Even if Canghui Academy had all seven of its participating team members perish, and lodged a strong protest with the tournament organizing committee demanding severe punishment for Tiandou Royal Academy, it would be pointless.

Ning Fengzhi is one of us, Salas is one of us, and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy is official. Even if we suspect there's something fishy going on, it's useless. No normal person would commit suicide with a knife.

The final result was that the seven-in-one martial soul fusion skill failed to activate, and due to the backlash, they all died.

When Ning Huahua and Feng Jingyi were leaving, Ning Rongrong called them back. This girl was very clever. Just because her little apprentice didn't say anything didn't mean that some things could be easily kept from her.

"Hey, what's going on here? Don't try to fool me with that I don't know!"

"What do you want to eat?"

Ning Rongrong crossed her arms and glanced sideways at Ning Huahua, giving her an expression that said, "Do you think I'm stupid?"

"The teacher leading the team from Canghui Academy was that 'Remnant Dream' level 72 Soul Saint from back then, and his reputation wasn't good. I vaguely remember that Shui Shui left the academy one after the other that day, but I didn't think much of it at the time."

Later, as more and more news came out, it became clear that things were really too strange.

Ning Rongrong hadn't finished speaking when she piqued Qian Shui's curiosity, so he asked, "Oh? What do you know?"

"Although the Seven-in-One Fusion Technique is powerful, Canghui Academy clearly has no reason to use it on us. Shui Shui's sudden loss of control was too abrupt and completely illogical."

And the fact that even a lazy person like you came to watch the game is even more unusual.

If I'm not mistaken, Shi Nian should be dead, or it might be Shui Shui's doing.

Even the appearance of Brother Shui that day, personally taking Flander and Liu Erlong away, and the rumored sudden transfer of Yu Tianheng to carry out some unknown mission—all of these could very well be causally related.

Ning Rongrong paced back and forth, rubbing her chin, and calmly analyzed the situation. At this point, she pointed to Feng Jingyi and said, "Especially that night, when Shui Shui was taken away by Minister Yin and this woman, that's the strangest thing."

Ning Rongrong's analysis was so logical and insightful that Feng Jingyi and Qian Shui were stunned. To cover their tracks, they said that Yu Tianheng had been transferred away, but even that was connected to the fact that this girl had guessed this much based on just a few clues.

"Just as you guessed, go wash up and go to bed early, okay~"

After saying that, the two of them ran away without looking back. If they said anything more, the girl would probably reveal all her secrets.

"Hey! Damn it!"

The obviously perfunctory words naturally angered Ning Rongrong. She remained where she was, puffing out her cheeks, clenching her little fists, and stomping her little feet, still fuming.

Little Wu, who seemed to appear out of nowhere, was chewing a carrot with a loud "cheep cheep cheep" sound. Seeing Ning Rongrong sulking alone, stamping her feet, she hopped over and asked, "Rongrong, what's wrong?"

With a pout, Ning Rongrong had no choice; there were some things she wasn't qualified to get involved in. "It's nothing! It's just that I don't know what these people are doing, but I have a feeling we're all going to fall into some kind of deep pit!"

Xiao Wu tilted her head: "???"

But these clever people, once they think too much, know too much, and understand too much, will naturally become troubled. They will unconsciously want to get involved in many things, to the point that they eventually become unable to extricate themselves.

"Hmph! You won't tell me! I'll find out myself! Let's go, Xiao Wu. Next, we'll be facing Thunder Academy. With Yu Tianxin being such a tough opponent, let's go and rest."

"Oh, okay, Rongrong, do you want some?" Seeing that Ning Rongrong was unhappy, Xiaowu produced another carrot from somewhere and pretended to hand it to Ning Rongrong, but she still seemed reluctant.

"Hey, you eat it yourself! Be careful you don't have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night if you eat too much!"

"No! Carrots don't have that much water content!"

"Well, you also have to consider how much you ate!"

"Oh yeah..."

……

Due to some special reasons, Yu Tianheng was sent to the Tiandou Royal Academy by his family at a very young age, making him one of the first students to benefit from the educational reform.

The arrival of a certain Minister of Education brought about a qualitative leap in the strength of the Royal Fighting Team members, especially Yu Tianheng, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon who possesses the number one beast martial soul in the world.

He is the first student in the current Heaven Dou Royal Academy to reach the Soul Emperor realm before the age of 25.

However, Yu Tianxin, Yu Tianheng's cousin, is much less qualified than Yu Tianxin, who belongs directly to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's Thunder Academy.

"The Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan is known for its conservatism. Apart from Brother Tianheng, the family generally uses the old methods of cultivation. The difference between the two brothers, who are about the same age, is already indescribable."

As always, Ning Rongrong explained the opponents' information to her teammates.

"To be honest, it's probably because Brother Tianheng and the others have been in closed training for many years. Otherwise, just comparing them one by one should give them some motivation. Yu Tianxin wouldn't only have a soul power of level 43."

Ma Hongjun's theory was the worst, and he was also the most astonished: "No way, Rongrong, the difference is too big!"

"While there is definitely a gap in combat strength, for example, in a head-on confrontation, you and Dai Mubai probably couldn't beat him. Relatively speaking, it's also true that your levels are lower. To be honest, although I hate that woman, I have to admit that our training is ahead of almost an entire era."

...

"Achoo! Who insulted me!"

At this moment, a woman was mingling with Huan Hongchen, fiddling with something that most people on Earth would recognize—something that looked like an electric car.