Douluo Continent: I am Black Tiger Afu!

Nine Treasures City, located within the territory of the Heavenly Soul Empire, is a city exclusively belonging to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School. It is not far from the Heavenly Soul Empire's capital, Heaven Dou City.

In name, it still belongs to the Heavenly Soul Empire and will symbolically pay some taxes.

In reality, the city lord, the army, and the vast majority of soul masters and residents all came from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School.

This city has completely taken the shape of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School!

As for the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, it was the second-best sect in the world ten thousand years ago, and it is still one of the top sects on the continent. Its biggest characteristic is that it is very wealthy!

Such extravagance!

The Mingde Hall of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and the Jiubao Pavilion of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School are known as the two super treasure lands in the Douluo Continent, which are richer than a country!

Afu and Yanfeng entered Jiubao City and were speechless with shock.

Compared to Tianyun City, which they had previously encountered, it was a complete disaster.

The towering city walls stand tall, looking ancient and weathered.

But when Afu looked closely, he could see that the city wall had clearly undergone a special modification, and there seemed to be fluctuations of soul tools in every part of it!

Entering the city, it is even more different from other cities.

The buildings are no longer just two or three stories high; there are now many tall buildings. The streets are well-arranged and wide, lined with all kinds of shops, and each building is beautiful and magnificent, exuding a luxurious and opulent feel.

In addition, there are many magnificent palaces nestled within, exuding auspicious splendor.

Furthermore, with night just falling, countless soul-guided lanterns lit up, illuminating the city in a dazzling display, giving the impression of a modern metropolis intruding into an ancient palace.

It gave Afu the feeling of returning to his past life!

"How about it, were you shocked?" Ning Tian joked with a smile.

After spending time together, and given that the three are close in age, they have become quite familiar with each other.

The two nodded.

Ning Xueyan, standing to the side, smiled and explained to Afu and the other person:

"This Nine Treasures City wasn't like this before; it was only recently renovated. It was modeled after the Ming capital of the Sun Moon Empire."

Although we originally belonged to the Douluo Continent and should therefore be hostile to the Sun Moon Empire, we must admit that our lives have changed dramatically since the collision of the two continents and the rise of soul tools.

Among the various forces in Douluo Continent, our Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School was one of the first to accept soul tools, and thus benefited the most.

The advent of soul tools has given support-type soul masters combat capabilities.

As the sect with the most support-type Soul Masters on the continent, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School naturally became the biggest beneficiary.

However, it was precisely because the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School took the initiative to accept soul tools that many forces in the original Douluo Continent began to ostracize it.

The Heavenly Soul Empire, in particular, with its most conservative views, abolished the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's former status as a national protector sect and instead became increasingly close to the rising Body Sect.

Of course, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School was not without other preparations.

During the conversation, the group had already passed through Jiubao City and arrived at a continuous mountain range behind it.

This is the true location of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's mountain gate.

The sect is nestled in the mountains, where natural scenery such as ancient trees, waterfalls, springs, seas of clouds, and auspicious clouds are ingeniously combined with magnificent pavilions and towers, as well as various soul-guiding formations.

They enjoy the natural scenery while also having an extremely comfortable living environment.

I must say, that's impressive and shows they know how to enjoy life!

Upon arriving at the sect's main peak, a nine-story pavilion resembling a nine-colored pagoda sits atop the mountain, surrounded by numerous pavilions and courtyards arranged in a harmonious and elegant manner, resplendent yet refined.

In front of the nine-story pagoda, there is a huge square.

Looking up, Afu saw two enormous statues standing in the very center of the square, carved entirely from white jade.

Those were statues of two old men, one holding a sword in one hand, exuding an elegant air; the other with a bone dragon at his feet, radiating immense power! Both statues were incredibly lifelike.

Afu realized that these were probably the two statues of Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo from ten thousand years ago.

However, after seeing these two statues, an idea suddenly arose in Afu's mind:

If he were to apply the Rat Talisman's ability to bring stillness to motion to these two statues, who knows what would happen...

Ning Xueyan then turned her gaze to Yan Feng:

"See that? The statue on the right is the Bone Douluo ancestor of our sect from ten thousand years ago. He also possesses the Bone Dragon Martial Soul. The sect still preserves the insights that Bone Douluo gained from his cultivation. You can watch and learn from it later."

Yan Feng nodded emphatically.

Although he was unclear about his relationship with the old man, Yan Feng felt a strange sense of familiarity upon seeing the statue.

Ning Xueyan continued speaking:

"The one on the left is the ancestor of Sword Douluo. Ten thousand years ago, the two ancestors, Sword and Bone, sacrificed their lives in battle to save the Sea God Tang San, their swords shattered and their bones broken!"

As she said this, respect appeared in her eyes.

"Afterwards, our ancestor Ning Fengzhi personally collected their ashes, buried them here, and erected these two statues, which are worshipped by the descendants of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School!"

Upon hearing this, Afu began to look around the square.

Apart from these two statues, there is nothing else in the square.

There aren't even statues of Oscar and Ning Rongrong, who became gods ten thousand years ago. Doesn't the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School enshrine these two?!

……

A moment later, in the council hall of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Ning Xueyan sat upright on the throne in the very center of the north side of the hall. Although her expression remained gentle, perhaps due to the surroundings, Afu clearly felt that the aura of majesty emanating from her was stronger than before.

Beneath the throne was a large conference table.

On either side of the long table, six figures sat imposingly, their auras powerful, all possessing the strength of a Title Douluo.

However, what puzzled Afu was that the seat to the left of Ning Xueyan, which should have belonged to the chief elder, was empty.

"Elders!"

Ning Xueyan's voice rang out as she introduced Afu and Yanfeng to everyone in the hall.

"...I have decided to formally include the two of them in the training program for core disciples of my Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School."

Upon hearing this, apart from Ye Xingchen, who already knew the situation, the other elders all cast curious glances at the two of them, but they did not intend to make things difficult for them.

During the conversation, Afu also learned the identities of the six elders present.

Located to Ning Xueyan's right was Ye Xingchen, with whom she had spent the entire journey.

Second seat of the honored elders, Star Douluo Ye Xingchen, martial soul Star Sword, soul power level 96.

There is also a third seat, held by Hurricane Douluo Feng Mingyu, whose martial soul is the Hurricane Demon Wolf and whose soul power is level 96.

The fourth seat is occupied by Chen Xuanzhi, the Silver Spear Douluo, whose martial soul is the Dragon Gallant Silver Spear, and whose soul power is level 95.

The fifth seat belongs to Wu Yan, the Crimson Flame Douluo, whose martial soul is the Red Dragon and whose soul power is level 94.

Sixth seat, Dream Demon Douluo Cui Junshan, Martial Soul Dream Demon, Soul Power Level 93.

Seventh seat, Heavenly Mystery Douluo Su He, Martial Soul Heavenly Mystery Compass, Soul Power Level 92.