Douluo: The Dragon King's Descent of the Gods

Chapter 84 Soul Social Interaction

In the bustling banquet hall, Xu Xiaoyan followed behind her own spirit ancestor, watching obediently as the spirit ancestor greeted his old spirit friend whom he hadn't seen for many years.

"Sister Xingxiang, it's been a long time! Shall we go grab a drink?"

"Okay." A woman in a starry blue dress turned to Xu Xiaoyan and smiled. "Xiaoyan, I'm going to meet up with some old friends. You can wander around as you like."

"Okay, Ancestor," Xu Xiaoyan replied with a sweet smile.

Tonight's banquet is called—Soul Socializing.

Soul social interaction, as the name suggests, refers to the social interactions between the souls of the deceased.

In this era, spirits and spirit masters are equal in status, and legendary spirits hold a pivotal position and have a voice in spirit master families.

Therefore, spirits naturally participate in the social activities of spirit masters.

Just like humans, people of different levels associate with people of the same level. The same applies to souls; souls of different levels associate with other souls of the same level.

Souls that are ten thousand years old form one circle, and souls that are one hundred thousand years old form another circle.

(Souls with a cultivation level below ten thousand years lack social awareness due to their average intelligence, and therefore have no established social activities.)

Because spirits that have signed a contract with a spirit master cannot be far away from the spirit master, human spirit masters are indispensable in the social occasions of spirits.

Soul spirits that have signed a contract with a Soul Master will bring their contracted partners to participate, while Soul spirits that have not signed a contract will bring their descendants from their own Soul Master families to participate.

Xu Xiaoyan came to the Soul Spirit Gathering with the Star Ancestor, who had the highest cultivation among the three legendary Soul Spirits.

Although the Astrological Ancestor is a man-made soul spirit, it is no different from a soul spirit transformed from a soul beast. In terms of gender, because the Xu family ancestor who awakened the Star Wheel Ice Staff martial soul a thousand years ago was female, His Majesty the God designed the three soul spirits of Star Wheel, Star Palace, and Astrological Ancestor to be female when creating them. In human terms, they are female.

The Astrological Ancestor is a 100,000-year-old soul spirit, so all the soul spirits at this banquet are also 100,000-year-old soul spirits. The human soul masters who can appear in the banquet hall are either contract partners of these 100,000-year-old soul spirits or descendants of the soul master families to which these soul spirits belong.

It can be said that everyone in the banquet hall was either rich or powerful.

Soul Masters who can form contracts with 100,000-year-old soul spirits are either top-tier experts or top-tier geniuses, and the juniors who can be brought to the banquet by 100,000-year-old soul spirits are all outstanding young talents from their respective families.

Take the Xu family, where Xu Xiaoyan is from, as an example. Xu Xiaoyan was brought by the Astrological Ancestor to attend a gathering of 100,000-year-old soul spirits, while her brother Xu Xiaoyu was brought by the Xu family's Ice Staff Martial Soul Ancestor, a 10,000-year-old legendary soul spirit, to attend a gathering of 10,000-year-old soul spirits.

"Hello, beautiful lady, would you like to have a drink with me?"

Xu Xiaoyan looked in the direction of the sound and saw a group of young people sitting on a sofa by the window not far away. They were of different ages, the oldest looking about fifteen or sixteen years old and the youngest about eight or nine years old.

The person who had just spoken to her was a young man who looked about her age. He had long blue hair that cascaded down his back, and he had an ethereal air about him. He wore a gentle smile on his face, and his light blue eyes looked at her with amusement.

"Okay." Xu Xiaoyan smiled quietly, walked to the sofa, and sat down next to a girl who looked to be about the same age as her.

The atmosphere here was relaxed yet slightly reserved. It was clear that no one knew each other; they had only gathered together because their respective ancestral spirits had brought them to the gathering.

"Hello, my name is Wu Siduo, what's your name?"

"My name is Xu Xiaoyan." Xu Xiaoyan looked at the girl next to her, who was about the same age as her, but whose physical development was far ahead of her age.

Looking at her long, wavy, brownish-red hair and her precocious figure, and considering the surname Wu, Xu Xiaoyan quickly guessed the family Wu Siduo came from and what kind of martial soul she might possess.

Similarly, Wu Siduo was also guessing Xu Xiaoyan's identity.

The surname is Xu, with long, icy blue hair and icy blue eyes—she shook her head inwardly; there weren't many clues, and she couldn't guess.

"It must be the Xu family from Donghai City."

A familiar voice came from the side, and Xu Xiaoyan looked to the side. It was the blue-haired boy from before.

Seeing Xu Xiaoyan's puzzled expression, the blue-haired boy smiled and said, "My name is Luo Guixing. My family's martial soul is space element. My ancestors were all control-type soul masters, so I pay more attention to this kind of thing. Naturally, I know that the number one control-type soul master in the world a thousand years ago came from the Xu family of Donghai City."

"That person's Star Staff Martial Soul has unparalleled control over the world. It's just a pity that the Star Staff is a mutated Martial Soul and has not been able to be passed down stably. The Xu family has not been able to awaken a second Star Staff Martial Soul in the past thousand years."

Then, Luo Guixing looked at Xu Xiaoyan and asked, "If I may be so bold as to ask, what is Miss Xu's martial spirit?"

"My martial spirit is the Star Staff," Xu Xiaoyan replied politely.

Upon hearing this, Luo Guixing's expression underwent a subtle change.

He had stumbled upon the second Star Staff Martial Soul in a thousand years. Was his dream of becoming the number one control-type Soul Master in the world about to be shattered at this moment?

"Star Staff? I heard my teacher talk about it in my Martial Soul class. The absolute validity of the astrological attribute makes the Star Staff the number one control-type Martial Soul in the world."

Wu Siduo looked at Xu Xiaoyan with shock and a hint of fighting spirit in her eyes.

In this day and age, there are not many martial spirits that still hold the honor of being the number one martial spirit in the world.

The three former upper sects each possessed the world's number one martial soul.

But now, the Clear Sky Hammer is no longer the number one weapon spirit in the world, and the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus is no longer the number one beast spirit in the world. Only the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda is still the number one support-type spirit in the world. However, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School only has the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, not the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

The Federation officially recognizes only four martial souls as the number one in the world:

The number one food-type martial soul in the world: the ten-thousand-year-old ninth-grade ginseng king.

The number one support-type martial soul in the world: Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

The number one healing-type martial soul in the world: Prayer Angel.

The number one control-type martial soul in the world: Star Staff.

Of the four number one martial souls in the world, three are support-type, and only the control-type Star Staff martial soul has combat capabilities.

Wu Siduo really wanted to personally challenge and test the control effect of the Star Staff Martial Soul to see if it was truly as legendary as it was said to be.

With innate full soul power, twin martial souls—the White Tiger and the Netherworld Cat—plus her own martial soul fusion skill, this is the foundation of her confidence in challenging the world's number one control-type martial soul.

"That was an achievement of our ancestor in her time," Xu Xiaoyan said with a smile and shook her head. "In this era, my Star Staff Martial Soul dares not claim the title of the number one control-type Martial Soul in the world."

Wu Siduo and Luo Guixing took her sincere words as the humility of a genius.

"Miss Xu, excessive modesty is just arrogance," Luo Guixing joked.

Seeing his disbelief, Xu Xiaoyan didn't know how to explain. She turned her head to look at the others on the sofa, and after scanning the room, asked softly, "Who are those three people? They seem a bit unsociable?"