Douluo Continent: From Seven Treasure Glazed Tile to Crescent Moon's Solemnity

Chapter 218 Campfire Talk

Shui Bing'er came to Ning Feiliu's side, then sat down without any hesitation, and said, "I'll keep watch with you. It's a bit unfair to leave you on watch alone..."

But just as she sat down, she noticed that Ning Feiliu was still happily eating Xiao Jiu in her hand.

She paused for a moment, but didn't scream like a normal girl.

"Is this your pet?" Shui Bing'er even wanted to reach out and touch Xiao Jiu's emerald green head.

However, the next moment Ning Feiliu covered Xiao Jiu with her hand, because Xiao Jiu had just seen Shui Bing'er reach out and almost bite her.

The toxins in nine-section jade are not simple.

Although Ning Feiliu could help Shui Bing'er detoxify, being bitten and poisoned was still unpleasant.

So he immediately stopped Xiao Jiu's behavior.

"Xiao Jiu, stop fooling around." He first tried to soothe Xiao Jiu with a helpless expression, and then said to Shui Bing'er, "Xiao Jiu is like my pet, but more than that, she's my friend."

Xiao Jiu gradually calmed down, but it seemed to always be wary of Shui Bing'er, keeping a close eye on her.

Ning Feiliu was both amused and exasperated.

Shui Bing'er smiled and said, "It seems... Xiao Jiu doesn't like me very much."

"That's how it is with strangers; once you get to know them, you won't be so wary," Ning Feiliu said.

"So, is Xiao Jiu a soul beast?" Shui Bing'er asked again.

"No, they're exotic beasts, an ancient type of beast distinct from soul beasts. Most of them are now extinct," Ning Feiliu said with a smile.

"I see... This is the first time I've ever seen a beast like this before, so I'm quite curious." Shui Bing'er nodded immediately and said.

"People are naturally curious about things they haven't seen before," Ning Feiliu could only say.

"What I'm actually more curious about is Heaven Dou City," Shui Bing'er suddenly said enthusiastically again, "You and Xiao Jiu are both from Heaven Dou City, and I've learned a lot from you."

"The teachers at the academy all say that the Imperial Capital, Heaven Dou City, and Spirit City are the bigger stages. No matter how good we are at Tianshui Academy, if we go to Heaven Dou City or Spirit City, we'll only be considered ordinary genius spirit masters." She looked at the burning campfire and said, "Some merchants who have been to Heaven Dou City have also come to Tianshui City, and they all say the same thing. Compared to the Heaven Dou City Great Spirit Arena, the Tianshui City Great Spirit Arena is far inferior."

Shui Bing'er then looked at Ning Feiliu, smiled wryly, and said, "Now I finally know why."

"Don't think like that. Your talent, especially yours, would rank fourth among your peers even in Heaven Dou City. And how should I put it..." Ning Feiliu shrugged and said, "That's not fair to you."

Among the Soul Masters of roughly the same age in Heaven Dou City, including him, he and Dugu Yan had significantly improved their cultivation levels by cheating with immortal herbs and the Moon Essence Breathing Technique.

In fact, based on the talent and combat power of the genius soul masters in Tiandou City in the original story, only Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin could reliably suppress Shui Bing'er.

Even Dugu Yan in the original work has similar talent to Shui Bing'er, but his strength should be inferior to Shui Bing'er's.

Therefore, the main reason why Dugu Yan is now more powerful than Shui Bing'er is because Ning Feiliu gave Dugu Yan the immortal herb and the Moon Essence Breathing Technique.

Shui Bing'er is really strong. In Ning Feiliu's eyes, even in the Five Elements Academy, the only people stronger than Shui Bing'er are Feng Xiaotian and Yu Tianxin, Yu Tianheng's cousin.

Huo Wu is at most on par with Shui Bing'er. Hu Yanli, who absorbed a piece of skull because of his family background, is not considered skilled. Moreover, if he were to lead his team against Shui Bing'er, they might not be a match.

Shui Bing'er has a martial soul fusion skill with Xue Wu, which is really outrageous.

Furthermore, the fact that she could switch from Xue Wu to her own sister Shui Yue'er when using the Soul Fusion Skill likely proves that the Soul Fusion Skill, Ice and Snow Falling, was led by Shui Bing'er.

Just like the conditions for a certain type of powerful fusion monster in Yu-Gi-Oh!, Water Ice is an indispensable and irreplaceable fusion material, while the second fusion material may only need to be of the "Ice" attribute.

(The original setting was that the author himself retconned the book and didn't read the previous plot, so he wrote it wrong. Originally, it was written that Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu used the Martial Soul Fusion Skill together, but later it was changed to Shui Bing'er and the two sisters Shui Yue'er using the Martial Soul Fusion Skill.)

Here I'm making a secondary interpretation based on this retcon setting, mainly to highlight Shui Bing'er's strong talent.

This is enough to prove that Shui Bing'er's martial soul, the Ice Phoenix, is of extremely high quality. But that makes sense, since it is a phoenix martial soul. Even if it is ice-attribute, it is still a first-class martial soul, just like the Frost Wave Clan's Ice Dragon martial soul.

However, Shui Bing'er already possesses the quality of a near-top-tier martial soul. Coupled with her own exceptional talent, the fact that she is the one who leads the martial soul fusion skill proves that she doesn't necessarily need a fixed partner to perform the martial soul fusion skill.

This is almost equivalent to one's own strength.

Therefore, in terms of talent, within the entire Tiandou Empire, Ning Feiliu believes that after Feng Xiaotian, Yu Tianheng, and Yu Tianxin, Shui Bing'er is the next best.

Of course, this excludes Shrek Academy.

Without those rare herbs, it's hard to say whether Shrek Academy will even be able to participate in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament next year.

Shui Bing'er's talent is truly remarkable.

However, Shui Bing'er looked at him, sighed, and said, "You don't need to comfort me, Fei Liu. With your strength, as well as that Miss Dugu and the young master of the Blue Lightning Sect you mentioned, they are all much stronger than me. So others must be no weaker than me either. I guess I've learned that there are always people more capable than me. I can be a little more humble in the future."

Ning Feiliu shook her head upon hearing her words and said nothing more.

After all, there's no point in saying more; he and Shui Bing'er were just strangers who met by chance.

There's no need to say so much.

"But with Fei Liu and the others, that's enough. By the way..." Suddenly, Shui Bing'er remembered something and asked curiously, "The Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament will be held in less than six months. Aren't you going back to participate?"

With Ning Feiliu's Soul King-level combat power, it can truly be said that he possesses an absolutely overwhelming combat power in the continent-wide advanced Soul Master Tournament.

To reiterate, the very meaning behind the term "Golden Generation" of the Spirit Hall is enough to prove that even the Spirit Hall cannot produce a young Spirit Master at the level of a Spirit King in every generation of participants in the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Tournament.

The Spirit Hall's Golden Generation earned this title because they all broke through to the Soul King level before the age of 25, when they were eligible to participate in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament.

Indeed, that was the case. The cultivation data of all the contestants in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament that Ning Feiliu could find was...

The highest-level Soul Master in the previous All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament was only level 47 Soul Power, three levels away from the Soul King realm.

The other party belongs to the Spirit Hall.

However, even a team led by a level 47 Soul Master and composed entirely of Soul Masters from the Spirit Hall would be enough to crush the other participating teams.

If Ning Feiliu, a Soul King, participates, wouldn't he just crush everyone?

Indeed, that was the case. Without Tang San, Shrek Academy wouldn't exist; without the Four Elements Academy that Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wu decided to form together after losing to Tang San; without the Golden Generation of the Spirit Hall, his cultivation and combat power would be completely unrestricted.

If the combat power of these three teams were to be completely replicated from the original story, they would barely reach the Soul Saint level. (This is from the original work and has nothing to do with me; this is not a secondary interpretation.)

First, Shrek Academy used the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's secret technique—the Seven-in-One Fusion Technique—to allow Tang San to unleash the pseudo-Haotian True Body.

Feng Xiaotian is also formidable; his combination of soul skills with Huo Wu Nong allowed them to forcibly withstand Tang San's pseudo-Haotian True Body and continue fighting.

The sibling spirit fusion skill of Xie Yue and Hu Liena, who are both Soul Kings in the Golden Generation of the Spirit Hall, is also powerful enough to rival the strength of a Soul Saint.

Later, without using the Seven-in-One Fusion Technique, Tang San used the Tang Sect's hidden weapon technique, Bat Wing Reincarnation, to severely injure the Spirit Hall's Golden Generation, who had exhausted their resources.

Therefore, if these three teams were to suddenly appear ahead of schedule and replicate the combat power of the original story one-to-one, Ning Feiliu would still find it somewhat troublesome.

But being in a difficult situation doesn't mean Ning Feiliu feels she has no chance of winning.

He just can't completely overwhelm Tang San anymore, but he should still be able to win, especially since he's wary of Tang San's hidden weapons.

However, this year there are no Four Elements Academy teams, no Shrek Academy teams, and no Spirit Hall Academy teams from the Spirit Hall's golden generation. Ning Feiliu can really crush them all.

Unfortunately... he's not participating.

"Um, I have no intention of participating in the competition. I haven't even joined any Soul Master Academy," Ning Feiliu chuckled and then said truthfully.

"No intention to participate in the competition? Not even to join any Soul Master Academy? Why?" Shui Bing'er asked incredulously.

The All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament is a competition that all young soul masters across the continent dream of.

Almost all talented young Soul Masters choose to participate in competitions to showcase their talent and strength.

However, Ning Feiliu did not participate.

Especially with his talent, he is undoubtedly the best young Soul Master in the last decade.

It's like a student who always gets first place in mock exams, major exams, and competitions, but ultimately doesn't choose to take the college entrance exam.

In the real world, students who don't take the college entrance exam might be admitted to universities through special admission programs.

However, there's no such thing as guaranteed admission in the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament.

"It seems like no one is as good as me, and there aren't any good prizes for us," Ning Feiliu said with a casual shrug.

"It is said that if you can achieve a higher ranking in the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament, you will receive a noble title and a large reward from the Empire... Last time, the senior sisters who participated made it to the final stage and each of them received a viscount title and a reward of 10,000 gold soul coins." Shui Bing'er said with bright eyes and a hint of envy.

Viscount is the second-highest rank of nobility in the empire. Among the ranks of kings, dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons, generally speaking, Soul Masters at the Soul Master level who join the empire and serve it can obtain the lowest rank of baron.

Therefore, those at the Soul King level can naturally obtain the title of Viscount.

That's indeed true, but as I said before, obtaining a title ahead of time is similar to cultivating to the Soul Saint realm ahead of time.

Just like in the past, when you created a new account and played the game, you would eventually reach level 30. But who wouldn't want their account to reach level 30 sooner?

When you play DNF, back in the level 70 version, you could eventually reach level 70 anyway, so why bother trying?

Anyway, you'll inevitably retire at 65... well, not necessarily.

Some people are just ridiculous; they think they don't need to work hard just because their potential is limited.

Anyway, you can reach that level by lying around until you're seventy or eighty, so why bother working hard? Why differentiate between disciples with different talents and treat them differently?

Shui Bing'er didn't think that way. She felt that as long as she entered the final stage of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament and obtained the empire's title and a reward of 10,000 gold soul coins, it would be something that would make her very happy.

Ning Feiliu, however, felt... Oh.

After all, he started from a very high point. Does he lack status?

Even if he is a useless piece of trash, he is still the son of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's sect leader, so his treatment won't be too bad.

Later, like Ning Mingrui and Ning Shouzong, they were sent to manage the sect's business outside, where they could earn a lot of money and their status was much higher than that of an imperial viscount.

Not to mention what he is like now.

He will have no shortage of honor, status, and money now.

The only thing lacking is strength!

Ning Feiliu needs something that can enhance her strength: a soul bone or a soul ring, and it must be a high-level, high-quality soul bone or soul ring.

In the original storyline of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament, Bibi Dong specially prepared three ten-thousand-year-old soul bones for the first generation of the Spirit Hall trio, but he didn't even want them.

So... why did he go to participate in this continent-wide advanced soul master competition?

Ning Feiliu chuckled and said, "I don't really need these things, so... let's leave these rewards for someone more useful."

Shui Bing'er was stunned for a moment when she heard this.

She looked at Ning Feiliu's handsome face with a nonchalant, roguish smile and blushed slightly.

Ning Feiliu... perhaps she really is quite different.

He was quite different from all the men she had ever met!

However, at that moment...

"Sister, Brother Fei Liu, what are you doing?"

Ning Feiliu and Shui Bing'er turned around and saw that it was Shui Yue'er.

She was looking at the two of them with a suspicious expression.

"Moon! What are you doing out here?! Go back and rest!" Shui Bing'er's expression changed immediately, and she scolded and shouted.

"I was just thinking... Fei Liu works so hard keeping watch at night, so I could take over for him and let him go back and rest..." Shui Yue'er said, seemingly a little afraid of her half-sister.

"Oh! Yue'er meant well," Ning Feiliu said with a smile. "But it's not necessary. You still have... Bing'er. You two go back and rest. Let me continue my night watch."

"Bing'er, don't be too harsh on Yue'er. You need to give her some confidence so she can grow up better," he said helplessly to Shui Bing'er.

This reminded him of his older sister from his previous life; in fact, his sister's ideas were good.

However, such thoughts can seriously hurt the self-esteem and confidence of younger siblings.

That's why Ning Feiliu spoke up at that moment.

However, he didn't notice that Shui Yue'er's eyes lit up immediately upon hearing these words, and she looked at him with great interest.

(End of this chapter)