Douluo Continent: Dragon's Journey Across the World

Chapter 24 First Entry into the Star Dou Great Forest

That day, Yang Ping'an stayed alone in his room to cultivate. His aura reached its peak, and finally, all the meridians in his body became unobstructed, and his soul power aura finally surged.

Level 20! I've finally reached level 20! A year and a half after entering the Intermediate Soul Master Academy for Beasts, I've finally reached level 20.

In other words, it took Yang Ping'an a full year and a half to go from level seventeen to level twenty. This speed is only considered average among ordinary students.

But Yang Ping'an's mind was also unusually firm at this moment, as he understood the difficulty of entering this level 20.

Yang Ping'an had already reached the peak of level nineteen three months ago, but it took him a full three months to break through the final bottleneck, which was simply beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Yang Ping'an felt a pang of bitterness in his heart. Only when he reached this bottleneck did he understand the difference in innate soul power.

It took me three months just to break through the level 20 bottleneck. How long will it take to break through to level 30?

Yu Xiaogang spent his entire life trying to break through, but his own martial soul was the same as Yu Xiaogang's, and his innate soul power was also the same. Although he had improved his martial soul to some extent in recent years through his own methods, the improvement was still relatively small.

Even if I can break through the level 29 bottleneck in the future, there is still the level 39 bottleneck, and even the level 49 bottleneck.

It's important to know that there are countless people on the entire Douluo Continent who are stuck at a bottleneck and unable to make any progress. Moreover, there are even more Soul Masters who are stuck at a certain level and can no longer improve even a little bit, just like Yang Wudi in the original work. Even though he was very strong, he only reached level 82 in the end.

This is still a master who can reach the Soul Douluo level. The entire Soul Master system is also a pyramid structure. The higher the level of the Soul Master, the higher they are at the top of the pyramid. Soul Masters who cannot break through to the Soul King level in their lifetime probably account for more than 90% of the entire Soul Master world. If we calculate based on the total number of 100,000 Soul Masters in the Soul Master world, at least more than 90,000 of them will not be able to reach the Soul King level in their lifetime.

Thinking of this, Yang Ping'an's face became even more solemn and grim. If cultivating as a Soul Master is like rowing against the current, then even if it means going against the heavens, he will reach the peak and avenge himself.

After thinking about it for a long time, Yang Ping'an just shook his head and stopped considering it.

Yang Ping'an immediately asked the school's academic affairs office for leave, his purpose being to obtain a soul ring.

This second spirit ring is of utmost importance, as it relates to one's cultivation path after becoming a Great Spirit Master, and absolutely no mistakes can be made.

The academy's teachers were surprised. For students of the Beast Academy, obtaining spirit rings wasn't that difficult, especially since the academy regularly organized people to hunt low-level spirit beasts and also regularly organized students to obtain spirit rings. The cost wasn't that high.

Yang Ping'an politely declined all of these offers. His martial soul was quite special, and an ordinary hundred-year soul ring was not enough. He had to be very selective.

This time, Yang Ping'an made more preparations, even renting a blacksmith's shop and crafting more items himself, most of which were hidden in his storage ring.

Even with a storage ring, Yang Ping'an still carried a large bundle and a large crossbow, leaving the Beast Academy alone.

As for the storage ring, it contains some small items that I specially crafted, which will never be exposed unless there are special circumstances.

Although the Beast Academy has its own soul beast forest, the types of soul beasts there are only average. There are no soul beasts that are very suitable for him in terms of age and type. Moreover, any soul beast that is even slightly suitable for him is extremely expensive, far beyond his means. Besides, Yang Ping'an doesn't want to flaunt his wealth.

However, Yang Ping'an wore the school uniform of the Beast Academy the whole time he went out, which could be considered a kind of signboard, and he could barely borrow the tiger's power.

Although many free spirit masters look down on students from spirit master academies, believing them to be hothouse flowers lacking practical combat skills, few actually dare to use excessive force against them, especially those from well-known spirit master academies.

Take the Heaven Dou Royal Academy for example. Apart from the Shrek Academy group of hotheads with powerful backgrounds, ordinary soul masters might not dare to provoke it. At least the Heaven Dou Royal Academy represents the entire Heaven Dou royal family, and each student has a noble backer. If they really go too far and hurt any of the noble children, they might bring disaster upon themselves and their families.

Yang Ping'an also hired a carriage to go to the outskirts of the Soul Beast Forest this time. However, this time he did not go to the captive Soul Beast Forest, but went directly to the Star Dou Great Forest. Only the Star Dou Great Forest could contain the Soul Beasts he wanted.

The Beast City is only 300 kilometers away from the Star Dou Great Forest, and it takes about a day to travel there by carriage.

Yang Ping'an is now thirteen and a half years old, and his height has reached 1.7 meters. His appearance is relatively ordinary, and his face is not particularly handsome, but his features are quite distinct and angular. To outsiders, he appears to be a reliable person.

In particular, Yang Ping'an's skin was slightly dark all over his body. Through long-term weight training and blacksmithing, his whole body was covered in muscles, and his skin even looked a bit bronze. If it weren't for his slightly youthful face, he would look like a complete adult.

Yang Ping'an even weighed himself. At 1.7 meters tall, he weighed nearly 75 kilograms, but he was neither fat nor thin and looked quite well-proportioned.

After a day, Yang Ping'an arrived at a Soul Hunting Town again. This should be the Soul Hunting Town where Shrek Academy and Canghui Academy had a conflict in the original work.

Although it was already afternoon, Yang Ping'an didn't care and walked into the Star Dou Great Forest alone.

Entering and exiting the Star Dou Great Forest does not require a Soul Hunter's Token, and no one stops you. Yang Ping'an's school uniform seems to have deterred many people, after all, the Dragon Duke and Snake Granny of the Beast Academy are well-known top experts in the Soul Master world.

The Star Dou Great Forest was indeed completely different from ordinary soul beast forests. Even though we had only just entered the outer perimeter of the Star Dou Great Forest, it felt like we were in a primeval forest.

The surrounding area was filled with towering trees, each with a diameter of over two meters, something unimaginable on Earth in my previous life.

The entire Star Dou Great Forest seemed to exude a rich life force, making one feel exceptionally comfortable, as if immersed in a green ocean.

However, the entire Star Dou Great Forest seemed to be filled with a murderous aura. Occasionally, one could faintly hear a few sounds of fighting and roaring, or the endless chirping of insects, indicating that the Star Dou Great Forest was full of endless dangers.

(End of this chapter)