Douluo Continent: Peerless Angel Qian Renxue.

Chapter 183 Spoils of War, Deep-Sea Silver

Qian Renxue's heart stirred slightly. She clearly remembered that after Ye Xishui arrived in the northern part of the empire, she said that she would choose to use another method to cultivate her Death God Tower.

If one no longer uses blood and soul energy, then other forms of energy are needed. The teacher mentioned that after obtaining the Bright Falcon Soul Ring and Soul Bone, she gained greater control over spatial power and the element of light; perhaps her thinking will be similar.

It's no wonder that Kong Deming came to the Jingyang Mountains. Because of the existence of the Sun Temple, Jingyang City and the surrounding area have become the region with the most abundant light and fire elements.

If she's right, then Kong Deming will probably propose a collaboration to them next.

As expected, Kong Deming explained the concept behind his soul tool. It's a soul core similar to an energy conversion device, capable of absorbing solar energy and converting it into soul power.

This is a groundbreaking way of thinking. In fact, if such a soul tool can be developed and its conversion efficiency can be improved, it would be like having a giant milk bottle as a backup energy storage for a soul array.

After thinking it over, she decided to agree to Kong Deming's request for cooperation.

Furthermore, Kong Deming stated that he would become Qian Renxue's teacher in the field of soul tools, which was the basis for their cooperation. Qian Renxue, of course, wouldn't miss such a good opportunity.

Because Kong Deming is the number one Soul Master in the Sun Moon Empire, and even in the current Douluo Continent.

"Okay, let's put it this way for now. In about a month, I will move here from Mingdu to conduct research on this kind of soul-guided array on the main peak of the Jingyang Mountains. I need a quiet environment," Kong Deming said.

"No problem, Elder Kong." Qian Renxue nodded. "But, will the royal family be okay with you leaving Mingdu like this?"

"My loyalty to the royal family does not mean I am their slave," Kong Deming said calmly. "Whether it is the emperor or the crown prince, they all know my importance and they need my support. And I also hope to become a landmark figure in the history of soul tools through my own efforts."

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After seeing Kong Deming off, Ye Xishui and Qian Renxue went to a dark room inside the Spirit Hall.

Upon entering the darkroom, Qian Renxue felt a chill run down her spine.

Because this room exudes a special aura.

"What is this?" Qian Renxue looked at a display case in the room. Inside the case were some storage soul tools, and next to the soul tools, five soul bones lay quietly.

"The spoils of war," Ye Xishui said. "After killing those two Sea Douluo, I found some storage soul tools on their bodies, as well as five soul bones."

"Five yuan? That's so little?" Qian Renxue walked to the side of the display case and gently stroked the glass.

Soul bones are different from soul rings. When a soul master dies, the soul rings they have absorbed will dissipate along with them, but soul bones will be preserved.

Various powerful forces, royal families, and even some academies on the continent possess inherited soul bones of varying quality; otherwise, they would be unable to support the rewards of the two thousand Soul Master Tournaments over the past ten thousand years.

Each reward consists of three soul bones, which amounts to six thousand soul bones. Of course, there will be some duplicates.

Then the champions are basically all from Shrek Academy, which has even more soul bones, and they never act as the organizers of the competition.

No one has questioned this power to this day, which just doesn't make sense. Therefore, even excluding some soul bones that have been broken in battles after passing through many masters, there are still countless soul bones on the continent.

Currently, there are fewer than 40,000 Soul Masters with cultivation abilities across the entire continent. On average, this means that roughly one in seven Soul Masters will have a Soul Bone.

Of course, Soul Masters with higher cultivation levels, better opportunities, and those from powerful factions will definitely have more.

If we calculate it this way, even after ten thousand years of inheritance, each of the Sea Douluo only has two to three soul bones, which is indeed too few.

"Who knows? Maybe it's because they haven't shown up for years," Ye Xishui said. "Among these five soul bones, the torso bone from the Starfish Douluo and the head soul bone from the Sea Maiden Douluo are the most precious."

"The torso bone is about 80,000 years old, it has a devouring skill; the head bone is 60,000 years old, its function is to amplify mental power..." Ye Xishui explained the functions of these soul bones to Qian Renxue, "How do you plan to use them?"

"Let's keep them for now." Qian Renxue glanced at the soul bones and then looked away. "They will be given as rewards to meritorious officials in the Spirit Hall later."

"Take this head bone to Yuan Yi," Ye Xishui said with a smile. "Consider it as a way to give her more creative ideas when she cooks in the future."

"Sure." Qian Renxue nodded, then thought to herself that the teacher still cared about that little fox after all.

Qian Renxue didn't care. These soul bones were captured by Ye Xishui, so she could distribute them according to her own will.

However, she still respected Qian Renxue's idea.

"And these storage soul tools, these things are treasures too," Ye Xishui said. "Why don't you take a look? Get ready."

Qian Renxue curiously picked up one of the storage soul tools and looked inside.

Then she was so scared that she almost threw the thing away.

This soul tool's storage space isn't large, but it contains some smaller soul tools similar to storage rings, and the storage rings are filled with gold soul coins!

Conservatively speaking, this one storage soul tool contains a full ten billion gold soul coins!

"This should be comparable to two years' worth of tax revenue in Mingdu, right?" She quickly gripped the soul tool in her hand. "I heard from Xu Tianran that Mingdu's annual tax revenue is about 500 million. Where did this Sea Douluo get so much private money?"

Ye Xishui shrugged. She had never really grasped the concept of gold soul coins, since she had never lacked them. But Qian Renxue was different. She truly knew how hard it was to earn money. Back when she was the crown prince, she had worried about the economic problems of the Heaven Dou Empire.

Besides these gold soul coins, the other soul tools also contained a lot of resources, including a soul tool that could hold living creatures, which contained some rare-grade immortal herbs, but no inferior immortal items.

"These must be what those Sea Douluos have accumulated over the years, right?" Qian Renxue murmured. "These things are enough to support the development of a large sect for a long time."

"Actually, I feel this is the most valuable one." Ye Xishui picked up the last soul tool. "It contains a lot of special metals. I've been immersed in soul tools for over a hundred years, and I've never seen this special metal material called [Deep Sea Sinking Silver] more than a few times."

Qian Renxue frowned and took out a piece of deep-sea silver. Judging from the name, this thing must have come from the seabed.

Suddenly, she sensed a familiar presence.

(End of this chapter)