Douluo Continent: The Peerless Tang Sect - Sharingan Intercepts Tianmeng

Chapter 16. We'll pay after the Spirit Hall is destroyed, and we'll pay before the Spirit Hall is destroyed...

Inside the Star Dou Great Forest, because it was Bei Bei and Tang Ya who were hunting for a hundred-year spirit ring for Huo Yuhao, rather than Huo Yuhao going to obtain the spirit ring himself, an accident unsurprisingly occurred on their side.

Due to a sudden turn of events, Huo Yuhao got separated from Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and others. Fortunately, Huo Yuhao's luck allowed him to escape danger without incident along the way, and he even managed to encounter a 400-year-old Blue-Eyed Bird that was on the verge of death.

With a single strike, Huo Yuhao unleashed a yellow spirit ring that gradually appeared on the Blue-Eyed Bird. He then released his spirit power and slowly channeled the century-old spirit ring into his own body.

Although Bei Bei had cleared his meridians, the spirit ring that was tightly attached to the absorption limit of the first spirit ring still made him feel very uncomfortable. Fortunately, Huo Yuhao still had Ilex in his body.

Sensing a force entering Huo Yuhao's body, seemingly poised to destroy Huo Yuhao's body and perish together with him, Electrolux instantly suppressed the violent part of it with a wisp of divine sense.

Even without that violent part, Huo Yuhao's body still found it difficult to absorb the spirit ring, but it had finally reached a point where he was capable of absorbing it.

After absorbing the energy for half an hour, Huo Yuhao slowly opened his eyes. During this half hour, he was very safe, and no soul beast suddenly ran to his side to disturb him.

After he absorbed the spirit ring, Bei Bei and Tang Ya finally came looking for him.

"Junior brother, thankfully you're alright."

"Xiao Yuhao, you scared me to death! I thought I'd never get to eat your grilled fish again in my life."

Looking at the two people who cared about him, Huo Yuhao's eyes were filled with emotion. "Don't worry, Senior Brother, Teacher Xiaoya, not only am I alright, but..."

As Huo Yuhao spoke, he released his spirit rings. A yellow, hundred-year spirit ring appeared around him, proving that he had successfully entered the realm of a spirit master.

"Junior brother, you..."

Just as Bei Bei was about to feel happy for Huo Yuhao, her expression changed drastically when she saw the dead blue-eyed bird next to Huo Yuhao.

"Junior brother, are you alright?"

"Of course I'm fine, what's wrong, Senior Brother?"

"It's good that you're alright." Looking at Huo Yuhao, whose body was completely normal, Bei Bei was glad that she had been overthinking things.

The maximum lifespan a Soul Master can withstand for their first Soul Ring is 423 years. This theory was developed by the master, who is considered the greatest theorist of Martial Soul theory.

It sounds fine, but as a direct descendant of a master, while others may not know what the problems are with this theory, Beibei knows exactly how big the problems are.

The master wrote down the lifespan limits of the first to ninth spirit rings and published them in his theory, but that theory was more of a politically correct thing to do within Shrek Academy.

From Tang San ten thousand years ago to Bei Bei's ancestor and Senior Sister Zhang Lexuan, none of them absorbed soul rings according to the so-called soul ring age limit set by the master.

This completely demonstrates that the master's theory has major problems. Offensive, control, and support types have different physical attributes, so they cannot be judged by the same physical absorption limit.

Previously, when Bei Bei helped Huo Yuhao circulate the Xuan Tian Gong within his body, she discovered that Huo Yuhao's meridians were severely blocked. Due to long-term malnutrition, his body was much weaker than that of a normal level 10 Soul Warrior.

Under these circumstances, he could not absorb spirit rings according to the normal standards for spirit masters. According to Bei Bei's prediction of Huo Yuhao, he should be able to absorb a spirit ring of two hundred years without any problem, and a spirit ring of three hundred years should also be fine. However, this spirit ring of four hundred years is more or less beyond Huo Yuhao's current limit.

The moment Bei Bei saw the Blue-Eyed Bird, she was genuinely afraid that Huo Yuhao would kill her because he had absorbed a spirit ring that exceeded his limits. Fortunately, it seemed that Huo Yuhao was out of danger.

"Blue-eyed bird, Xiao Yuhao, let's roast it when we go out later." After confirming that Huo Yuhao was alright, Tang Ya picked up the blue-eyed bird from the ground, preparing to have a barbecue later.

But suddenly, Tang Ya felt that the blue-eyed bird in her hand seemed a little hard. Suddenly, Tang Ya thought of something. She peeled open the blue-eyed bird's corpse in her hand and found the thing she had imagined.

"A soul bone! And it's an external soul bone!" Tang Ya exclaimed in surprise. She couldn't believe that a soul beast that was only four hundred years old would drop an external soul bone.

"Xiao Yuhao is absorbing it quickly. Although it's only four hundred years old, external soul bones can grow. This thing is second only to a 100,000-year soul ring."

Tang Ya handed the soul bone to Huo Yuhao, who quickly raised his hand to refuse. "Teacher Xiao Ya, you or Brother Bei Bei should absorb this. Since the Tang Sect doesn't mind accepting me as a disciple, it's my duty to serve the Tang Sect. Offering a soul bone to the Tang Sect is what I should do."

As one of only two forces that could achieve high returns with low investment from Huo Yuhao, the external soul bone that Huo Yuhao obtained from hunting soul beasts was eventually absorbed by Tang Ya after some back and forth.

Given Bei Bei's personality, he would never want Huo Yuhao's soul bone, which Huo Yuhao obtained by hunting soul beasts on his own. However, he could sense that Tang Ya was anxious about her strength every day.

For the sake of his girlfriend, Beibei ultimately did not firmly reject what shouldn't belong to him as she usually did.

"Junior brother..."

"What's wrong, Brother Beibei?"

"It's nothing." Forget it, I'll find a way to make it up to this junior brother later. As for now...

Beibei looked at Tang Ya, who was absorbing the soul bone, and silently felt happy for Tang Ya's improved strength.

After Tang Ya absorbed the soul bone, the three arrived at Shrek Academy. Just like in the original story, Bei Bei and Tang Ya introduced Huo Yuhao to the academy.

"Oh, right, Xiao Yuhao, I'll take you to collect your Soul Master subsidy later."

"subsidy?"

"Yes, this is a subsidy that is exclusive to the resident Soul Masters of Shrek City and the students of Shrek Academy. A one-ring Soul Master receives one gold Soul coin per month, a two-ring Soul Master receives ten gold Soul coins per month, and now that I have become a Soul Master, I can receive one hundred gold Soul coins every month."

"One hundred gold soul coins! Is that all?" Huo Yuhao exclaimed in surprise. He had never seen so much money in his life.

"Indeed, it's a lot. After all, it's one of the investments that the three great empires give to Shrek Academy every year. That's why this gold soul coin subsidy policy is only available in Shrek City," Bei Bei said slowly.

In Douluo Continent I, the Spirit Hall distributes gold soul coins to all lower-level soul masters. These gold soul coins are funded by the two great empires and issued by the Spirit Hall. Theoretically, those gold soul coins should have nothing to do with the Spirit Hall.

However, just as the US became a nation because of the existence of Russia, after the Spirit Hall was destroyed and the threat of the Spirit Hall was gone, the two great empires naturally could no longer pay money to ordinary spirit masters.

After all, those were real money and silver. Moreover, for nobles, they needed to spend money when the Spirit Hall was still in existence, and they needed to spend extra money after the Spirit Hall was destroyed. Wouldn't that mean the Spirit Hall was destroyed for nothing?

(End of this chapter)