Douluo's Demon Blade Thousand Blades and the Original Martial Soul

Chapter 87 Tianshui City

After hearing Yan Kongming's explanation, Lin Yan and the other noble members understood why the team in front of them was so strong. It turned out that their combat experience was forged from the brink of life and death.

"I see." Lin Yan nodded, then said, "Brother Kongming, will you come to the Soul Arena to fight often in the future? I'd like to spar with you more often and learn from you. There are so few Soul Masters like us who can fly and whose Soul Power levels are not much different; I've hardly encountered any."

"Our team isn't planning on taking any more orders for a while, so we'll be going to the Soul Arena to fight and earn a little extra money," Yan Kongming said.

"Alright, you'll have to have a few more one-on-one battles with me then," Lin Yan said with a smile, toasting Yan Kongming.

"There are rules to this Soul Arena. I can't just fight whomever I want. I hope we can be matched together," Yan Kongming said.

"That's not a problem. I'll arrange it. When you need to fight, I'll have the arena arrange for me to participate," Lin Yan said.

Xiao Dong said, "You guys often go into the Soul Hunting Forest, can you tell me about the things you've encountered while hunting? Any interesting or exciting things are fine. I bought all my soul rings, and I've never been to the Soul Beast Forest before. I really want to know what the Soul Beast Forest is like."

Lin Yizhang thought to himself: What a lucky noble child! He's cultivated to the Soul Venerable level without even ever being in the Soul Beast Forest!

"The Soul Beast Forest is full of dangers. Even a seemingly ordinary blade of grass or a little rabbit could lead to your demise in the forest."

When I first joined the team, I didn't have much experience. After entering the forest, I was attracted by a beautiful flower. At first, I thought it was just an ordinary little flower, so I wanted to go over and pick it.

Unexpectedly, when I got close to that flower, I suddenly felt weak all over, and then the flower stretched out towards me, covering my face. If the captain hadn't appeared in time and cut the flower off, I wouldn't have made it back." This time, it wasn't Yan Kongming who answered, but another Soul Master in his team named Luo Shen.

"Huh? Is it that dangerous? That flower is a soul beast, right? What's its name?" Xiao Dong asked in surprise.

"It should be a soul beast, but we don't know its name. None of us have systematically studied soul beast knowledge; we only have some experience to judge the general abilities and strength of soul beasts," Luo Shen said.

"Huh? You guys haven't even learned about soul beasts? Haven't you ever gone to a soul master academy?" Luo Jingting asked in surprise.

"We only attended a junior Soul Master academy. Back then, we were too young to understand things and didn't study seriously. Later, we couldn't afford to go to school anymore, so we never had the chance to come across any books about Soul Beasts again..."

The group ate and chatted in a relaxed atmosphere.

The next morning, Lin Yizhang woke up, shook his still dizzy head, and found himself sleeping in the hotel room he had booked. He figured he must have been drunk, and Teacher Ling Xu had brought him back.

After washing up, I went downstairs and saw that Ling Xu had already ordered breakfast, and he was the only one eating it there.

Lin Yizhang walked over, greeted them, and then sat down to eat breakfast. Soon, people woke up one after another, and the second team gathered together again.

Lin Yizhang asked Ling Xu, "Teacher Ling, have the people from King Buwei's team left?"

"Yes, they left last night. They used their soul power to expel the intoxication before leaving," Ling Xu said.

Lin Yizhang nodded. "Today we'll still participate in the Soul Battle as usual. The seven of you will participate in team Soul Battles, as well as individual and duo Soul Battles. Zhang Fan and I will not participate in the Soul Battles; it's hard to find suitable opponents here."

"When will we leave this arena and go to other large arenas to fight?" Lin Yan asked.

"We'll leave after you've mastered some basic fighting skills here," Lin Yizhang replied.

And so, the second team began training to participate in Soul Battles and accumulate combat experience.

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Time flies, and the second team has been training in various major arenas for half a year. Although Lin Yizhang and the other three have not participated in any matches during this period, the name "Tian Dou Second Team" still resounds throughout the many arenas in the Tian Dou Empire.

The reason why Lin Yan and his six teammates were able to maintain a winning record was mainly because Lin Yizhang led the second team to participate in Soul Battles from the weakest to the strongest. When they were weak, he found some Soul Masters whose strength was far inferior to theirs to serve as sparring partners. When they made progress, he arranged for stronger Soul Master teams to put pressure on them. In this way, under Lin Yizhang's careful arrangement, not only was the potential of Lin Yan and his six teammates stimulated, but the team's name was also spread.

At this moment, the second team was on their way to Tianshui City.

Lin Yizhang learned that the four elemental academies of Thunder, Blazing Fire, Divine Wind, and Heavenly Water would be holding a sparring match in the Great Soul Arena of Heavenly Water City before the Pan-Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament, so he planned to go and have a soul battle with them to test the current strength of the second team.

The Five Elements Academy comprises five major academies: Thunder, Blazing Fire, Divine Wind, Heavenly Water, and Elephant Armor. In the past, these five academies would spar before each major competition, but the Elephant Armor Academy did not participate in this year's competition.

The higher-ups of the other four elemental academies all knew that Elephant Armor Academy had secretly sided with the Spirit Hall, so they harbored resentment towards Elephant Armor Academy. Naturally, Elephant Armor Academy would not come here to be ganged up on.

This battle against the prodigies trained by these four renowned old academies will serve as a perfect opportunity to test the second team's current strength. Regardless of the second team's performance, they can return to Heaven Dou City after this battle.

There are only six months left until the start of the preliminary rounds. If Lin Yan and his team don't perform well in this Soul Battle, Ling Xu will take them to the Heaven Dou Arena to continue participating in Soul Battles after they return to Heaven Dou City, so as to identify and address any shortcomings. If they perform well, they can focus on cultivating and improving their Soul Power level.

After this battle, Lin Yizhang had his own plans: to ask Dugu Bo to go rabbit hunting. After the second team returned to Tiandou City and then headed to Soto City, there would probably only be a little over three months left before the start of the tournament.

This is the perfect time to capture Xiao Wu. It seems that without Tang Hao's intervention, Yu Xiaogang can persuade Tang San to continue preparing for the Soul Master Competition.

This way, Tang San can participate in the Soul Master Competition as normal, thus revealing his Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul. Once Tang San and Tang Hao are exposed to the Spirit Hall, the title of Clear Sky Douluo will be enough to divert the Spirit Hall's attention to Tang San and Tang Hao.

This would be more advantageous for Lin Yizhang. Of course, even if Tang San were to withdraw from Shrek Academy, as long as he couldn't find a way to get back at him, it wouldn't have too much of an impact on him. Moreover, even if Tang San and Tang Hao didn't come out to attract the attention of the Spirit Hall, it wouldn't matter. Anyway, Bibi Dong is currently busy integrating the Spirit Hall and participating in the Divine Trial, so she won't be thinking about establishing the Spirit Empire so soon.

Most importantly, with Qian Renxue in Heaven Dou City, I don't need to fear the Spirit Hall. If I can't resist, I can always turn to Qian Renxue.

(End of this chapter)