In Douluo Continent, I am the mastermind behind the scenes.

Chapter 32. The Soul Spirit System Has Also Been Eliminated

"Third Senior Brother, Xue Di has come to our class as the assistant class teacher. Hmm... she said in class today that the Soul Master world has found a way to condense Soul Rings on their own. Is that true?"

It was still the Tulip Hotel, still the same small private room. Huo Yuhao stared longingly at Xu Sanshi in front of him, wanting the other party to answer his questions.

Xu Sanshi nodded, then took out a bottle of water from his storage ring and placed it in front of Huo Yuhao. "Junior Brother, we can think of the bottle as a Soul Master's dantian, and the water inside as Soul Power. Now, I'll draw nine marks, dividing the bottle into ten equal parts. Each time the bottle is filled to one mark, it means the Soul Master has advanced one level. When the entire bottle is full, it means the Soul Master has advanced a major stage."

"If we want to advance to the next stage, we need to find a way to compress the volume of water in the bottle to one-tenth of its original size. Hunting soul beasts and absorbing soul rings is a way of accomplishing this by using external forces."

"Now, people have found a way to compress soul power on their own. The biggest advantage of this method is that the soul skills obtained after breaking through the realm will not be limited by the age of the soul ring. The age of the soul ring depends on various indicators of your body. Once it reaches 100,000 years, you will have two soul skills."

"This method has not been fully popularized yet. A large number of Soul Masters still choose to go to the Soul Hunting Forest to hunt Soul Beasts to obtain Soul Rings. However... more than 90% of Quasi-Title Douluo will choose to break through their realm on their own. As long as their physique meets the requirements, the ninth Soul Ring will be 100,000 years old. It is a bit slow, and not everyone is qualified to hunt 100,000-year-old Soul Beasts."

Huo Yuhao pressed further, "Third Senior Brother, what about the second martial soul? This method can't be used to attach spirit rings to the second martial soul, can it?"

"That involves artificial spirit rings," Xu Sanshi pondered. "Artificial spirit rings are the materialization of spiritual power. Hmm... you wouldn't understand even if I explained it to you. You just need to know that the four great empires, the Sea God Pavilion, and the Body Sect's higher-ups already possess the ability to create spirit rings on their own. When creating a spirit ring, they can add a drop of a spirit master's blood to it. Depending on the type of spirit master's spirit, it achieves the same effect as absorbing spirit rings from similar spirit beasts."

"Junior brother, I'm not trying to discourage you, but compared to artificial spirit rings, the spirit system you created in your previous life has an extremely high barrier to entry. Not only does it require a large number of spirit beasts for research, but it also requires preserving the genes of each spirit beast. Aside from being able to gather multiple spirits to condense a 100,000-year spirit ring, it's truly useless!"

Huo Yuhao: "..."

Spicy!!!!

The Soul System was stillborn before it was even born!

Huo Yuhao didn't want to admit it, but he had to. In his previous life, his ability to crush all other Soul Masters of his age was inseparable from the help of his seven Soul Spirits. Especially Ice Emperor; without the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul, he would at best be a support-type Soul Master with some offensive capabilities.

Should he follow the trend of the times and break through to a higher realm to condense a soul ring on his own? No, no, absolutely not! If he did that, with the abilities of his Spirit Eye Martial Soul, without the support of a high-age soul spirit, he might not even be able to compare to Dai Huabin!

Seemingly noticing Huo Yuhao's predicament, Xu Sanshi comforted him, "Junior Brother, I know you're anxious, but don't worry. Rumor has it that the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress have broken up. The Ice Empress did not follow the Snow Empress to live in the human world, but instead stayed in the far north."

"Junior brother, with your abilities, you can easily play back the memories of your past life when you became a god, and trick... no, recruit the Ice Emperor into joining our team, so that she can sacrifice herself for you and form your second martial soul."

Have the two emperors of ice and snow fallen out?

To be honest, Huo Yuhao had no reason to doubt the authenticity of this information. He knew very well that Bingdi had always loved Xuedi, and now that Xuedi was married, how could Bingdi possibly stand it?

Just then, the door to the private room was pushed open, and Chen Yu, with long, ice-blue hair, walked in with Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and Mo Lian, and sat down in their respective seats.

Huo Yuhao stood up, looked around, took a deep breath, and slowly said, "Teacher Xiaoya, Senior Brother Beibei, Senior Sister Molian, Third... oh no, Senior Brother Xu, Senior Sister Chen, I've gathered everyone together today because there's something we need to discuss."

"With Senior Xu joining the Tang Clan and receiving his sponsorship, our Tang Clan won't face a funding shortage in the short term. So, what business should our Tang Clan develop next?"

As he spoke, Huo Yuhao gave Xu Sanshi a wink.

Xu Sanshi said, "According to intelligence, Duke Dai Hao of the White Tiger Sect spent a lot of money to hire ten mid-level Soul Masters to fill the gaps at the front line. It seems that the situation on the border of the Star Luo Empire is not optimistic, and the situation has reached an extremely tense point. I suggest that the best business for our Tang Sect to develop next is to help Duke Dai Hao of the White Tiger relieve pressure, so as to achieve the effect of making a name for ourselves."

Mo Lian nodded and said, "That makes sense. This method can indeed bring the Tang Clan back to life. However, on the other hand, with my abilities, I definitely can't produce high-level Mo weapons. The White Tiger Legion's own equipment is already quite good, so the help that low-level Mo weapons would provide to them would be almost negligible. The Star Luo Empire has its own equipment manufacturing department, and even if we sold them to them at cost price, they might not buy them."

Huo Yuhao: "..."

Xu Sanshi: "..."

The idea is wonderful, but reality is harsh. Are you, Huo Yuhao, still dreaming of the Tang Sect's invincibility? Do you really think the Star Luo Empire will accept any weapon the Tang Sect creates?

They are a large empire, yet their productivity is not even comparable to your meager Tang Clan.

My lord, times have changed!

Mo Lian scoffed, "Huo Yuhao, I've already said I support your revival of the Tang Sect, but can you be a little more realistic?"

"Now that we have the funds, let's go to the auction house and buy some decent quality self-created soul skills, potions, pills, storage rings and other resources. I happen to have a female alchemist friend, so I'll bring her into the Tang Sect and have her issue tasks to collect rare medicinal herbs."

"All Tang Sect disciples are qualified to accept missions. Depending on the difficulty of the mission, completing it will earn them a different number of contribution points. These contribution points can be used to redeem the aforementioned rewards. Wouldn't this attract more Soul Masters to join the Tang Sect?"

Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao fell into deep thought. Mo Lian's method was conventional, but all of this... was not what he wanted.

(End of this chapter)