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

Chapter 291 The Spirit Hall's Attention

At this moment, Huo Wu overheard their conversation.

"...Are you planning to travel throughout the southeast?" Huo Lingfei asked Ning Feiliu with a smile. "So, where do you plan to go?"

"As for the destination... it's the Star Dou Great Forest in the southern part of Blazing Fire City, since I might be breaking through in the future." Ning Feiliu smiled slightly and took out a map for Huo Lingfei.

This was naturally not the map of the ruins that the Dragon Lord had given him, but rather a map of the southern border of the Heavenly Dou Empire that he had found elsewhere.

There were no locations or routes marked on the list of ruins, so Huo Lingfei didn't know that Ning Feiliu's destination was actually a ruin in the Star Dou Great Forest.

However, his words stunned Huo Lingfei, Huo Wu, Leng Hanxue, and everyone else around them.

Aside from Leng Hanxue, who witnessed Ning Feiliu's current Soul Emperor realm firsthand, others had also heard that Ning Feiliu was now the youngest Soul Emperor.

During the time Ning Feiliu returned to Tiandou City, he did not hide his cultivation level at all. The first to know that he had broken through to the Soul Emperor level were Ning Fengzhi and the others.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School quickly learned that Ning Feiliu had broken through to the Soul Emperor realm, and then...

Driven by vanity, the disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School used Ning Feiliu's current astonishing cultivation level as a source of boasting, spreading the news throughout the entire Heavenly Dou City.

People are vain. If they don't have the means to boast, they'll use their relatives or friends to brag.

Ning Feiliu, as the pride of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, has always been a source of pride for the disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

After all, who wouldn't brag about having produced such a peerless genius in their family?

It's like if one day a top student who can get into Tsinghua or Peking University suddenly appears in your high school, the school will not only be proud of it, but will also promote it extensively as a selling point.

The students at that high school probably often boasted about this top student who got into Tsinghua and Peking University when talking to outsiders.

Therefore, the news of Ning Feiliu becoming the youngest Soul Emperor spread throughout Heaven Dou City, and then through the caravans of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and merchants traveling to and from Heaven Dou City, reaching various towns and cities of the Heaven Dou Empire.

I thought it was already amazing enough that Ning Feiliu broke through to the Soul Emperor realm at the age of eighteen.

But now... Ning Feiliu says she's about to break through again?

This Soul Emperor said he's going to break through and go to the Star Dou Great Forest, isn't that clearly saying...?

He's not trying to break through to the level one of soul power, but to break through to a whole new realm.

If Ning Feiliu, who was already the youngest Soul Emperor, were to break through now, wouldn't she become the youngest Soul Saint in history?!

And what's more... he's about to break through to the Soul Saint realm before he's even nineteen!

You should know that the previous youngest Soul Saint, who was also the youngest Title Douluo, was named Tang Hao!

However, Tang Hao was already thirty years old when he broke through to the Soul Saint realm!

(The setting of Tang Hao breaking through to Soul Saint at the age of thirty from Baidu is my second setting, but the previous setting of the youngest person to break through to Soul Saint is my second setting.)

So don't be fooled by the Shrek Seven Devils' seemingly superhuman speed of advancement in the original story. Normal Soul Masters don't advance that fast. Even Tang Hao, with his Great Sumeru Hammer cultivation method and a sect's inherited Soul Bone, only became a Soul Saint at the age of thirty. Others would definitely be even slower.

Tang Hao broke through to level 70 in soul power at the age of 30. That means that excluding the first 6 years when his martial soul was not awakened and he did not cultivate, assuming that he had level 10 innate soul power and started at level 11, the subsequent level 59 soul power improvement would only be 2.5 levels of soul power per year on average over 24 years.

Of course, the improvement will become slower and slower in the later stages, with the improvement speed decreasing in six stages. The improvement speed of the previous realm is twice that of the later one. Tang Hao will not break through to the Soul Sect until he is at least 16 years old.

Even if Shui Bing'er is incredibly talented, she could never be as gifted as Tang Hao, so it's impossible that she's too young.

Ning Feiliu is now eighteen years old!

Such talent has made Huo Wu, Huo Lingfei, and others feel... as if they are useless.

Especially Huo Lingfei, who is Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang's cousin. Ning Feiliu is the same age as Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang, but he is more than fifteen years older than them.

His talent was also considerable. As a former prodigy of Blazing Fire Academy, he broke through to the Soul Master level at the age of twenty-four and to the Soul King level at the age of thirty.

But now he's thirty-five, and while he's still stuck at the Soul Emperor realm, Ning Feiliu is about to break through to the Soul Saint realm?

Huo Lingfei suddenly felt like he had wasted his life.

However, he quickly came to terms with it. After all, people can't be compared. Isn't it normal that he can't compare to such a peerless genius?

Regardless of his background, talent, or the era, it's normal that he can't compare to Ning Feiliu.

After all, he didn't have the Xuan Shui Dan or Soul Power Recovery Potion back then, which could enhance his talent and speed up his soul power cultivation.

However, Huo Lingfei did not simply conclude that Ning Feiliu's achievements were solely due to her origins in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and her possession of the Profound Water Pill and Soul Power Restoration Potion.

You have to be strong yourself to succeed. If Ning Feiliu didn't have talent, how fast could he improve?

If Ning Feiliu were only a Soul King now, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School also had an eighteen-year-old Soul King like him.

That can also be attributed to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School background and the help of the Profound Water Pill and Soul Power Restoration Potion.

However, Ning Feiliu is now an unprecedented eighteen-year-old Soul Emperor, and is about to break through to the Soul Saint realm.

That is, besides the help of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, the Profound Water Pill, and the Soul Power Restoration Potion, his own talent is definitely far beyond that of ordinary people.

"...How about it? Xiao Fei, I'll have to ask you to show me the way then," Leng Hanxue asked with a smile.

"No problem, just come with us when the time comes." Huo Lingfei agreed.

The three elemental academies stayed at Tianshui Academy for several days afterward, and Huo Wu took this opportunity to quietly approach Ning Feiliu...

……

However, at this time, the Spirit Hall...

The dome soars into the clouds, stained glass windows reflect dappled light and shadow, and the sacred hall shimmers with a gentle glow under the flickering candlelight.

The massive marble columns are covered with intricate reliefs, creating an atmosphere of holiness and sublimity.

A magnificent chandelier hangs from the high ceiling, and the refraction of the crystals makes the entire hall resemble a night sky adorned with stars.

Before the Pope's throne, a golden carpet was laid out. Stepping onto it, all sound was swallowed up, leaving only a profound shock to the soul.

The throne is inlaid with countless gems and pearls, which shimmer under the light, proclaiming the Pope's supreme authority and dignity.

And seated on this throne was a voluptuous and stunningly beautiful mature woman.

She was not tall, wore a magnificent black robe with gold trim, a nine-curved purple-gold crown, and held a scepter about two meters long, inlaid with countless gems.

Her fair skin and near-perfect features made her stand out from the crowd.

In particular, the intangible nobility and holiness emanating from them makes people unable to help but feel a sense of worship.

It was Bibi Dong—the current Pope of the Spirit Hall.

She sat dignified and majestic on the papal throne, her powerful aura compelling people to kneel in reverence.

Below the papal throne stood a voluptuous man and a shadowy figure.

The shadowy figure made it impossible to tell whether it was human or ghost, let alone male or female.

As for the voluptuous man, if it weren't for the Adam's apple on his neck, no one would think he was a man.

Wearing a bright red ceremonial robe that only titled Douluo are qualified to wear, the red robe was inlaid with gold and silver patterns, especially the gem on the chest that shone with golden light and was the size of a baby's fist, which was full of noble aura.

However, his skin looked as delicate as a baby's, and his alluring appearance gave people a special feeling.

Needless to say, these are Bibi Dong's most capable and loyal subordinates—Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo.

Below them, a Spirit Hall bishop dressed in red knelt on one knee, reporting something to Bibi Dong above.

Bibi Dong held a unique glass bottle in her hand, filled with a pale yellow, misty liquid, which she poured back and forth in her fair palm.

"Is this the soul power restoration potion of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School? Have you found out what its ingredients are and how it's made?" she asked the cardinal below.

The cardinals of the Spirit Hall, who are second only to the four platinum cardinals in the Spirit Hall, can only kneel on one knee here.

After all... before him stood the supreme Pope of the Spirit Hall, and the other two were elders of the Spirit Hall, all of whom held positions above the Platinum Bishop.

Faced with Bibi Dong's question, he became extremely cautious, and then said with some trepidation, "Currently... we only know that one of the main ingredients of this potion is the blood of two soul beasts: the Heavenly Water Serpent and the Wave-Tide Illusionary Beast..."

"What about the others?!" Bibi Dong frowned, her voice filled with annoyance.

"The others... I don't know for now... that's because..." The cardinal was about to explain.

but……

"Useless!" Bibi Dong sneered. "We've been investigating for years, and I've sent you a lot of manpower and provided you with a lot of gold soul coins, and you still haven't found out anything?!"

Over the years, the Xuan Shui Pills and various potions sold by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, especially the Soul Power Recovery Potion that can restore and accelerate the speed of Soul Power enhancement, have caused a frenzy among Soul Masters in the Douluo Continent.

Enhance talent, increase soul power, accelerate soul power cultivation, and quickly recover soul power...

These effects are exactly what people desire.

The Spirit Hall naturally couldn't have missed it either, but they didn't intend to simply purchase the Profound Water Pill and those alchemical potions like other forces and spirit masters.

They plan to... obtain the recipes for the Mystic Water Pill and the Alchemy Elixir, and then make them themselves!

To this end, the Spirit Hall devised a plan to investigate the formulas of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's elixirs and potions.

"But... the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School keeps its formulas extremely secret, and those disciples are all direct descendants of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, very difficult to bribe..." the cardinal said, cold sweat beading on his forehead. "We can't alert them by kidnapping them and interrogating them..."

After all, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is very wealthy, and even the disciples responsible for making alchemy potions are treated far better than ordinary noble soul masters.

The Martial Glazed Pavilion is also the core of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, making it extremely difficult to infiltrate.

It is very difficult for other direct disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School to join the Martial Glazed Pavilion.

At least the members sent by the Spirit Hall to fish in troubled waters as spies have no chance of entering the Spirit Pavilion now.

The essence blood of the soul beasts used to make alchemical potions was revealed by a spy during a casual conversation with a disciple of the Wu Liu Pavilion.

but……

Although ordinary disciples of Wuliu Pavilion can also make alchemical potions, Ning Feiliu arranged the production process in a modular way.

Each Wu Liuge disciple is responsible for the extraction process of two or three kinds of medicines, or part of the production process of soul tools.

The final assembly was also handled by another disciple.

The division of labor was clear, which made it easier for Ning Feiliu to teach him.

After all, it would take a long time for those disciples to learn the complete extraction and synthesis formula of the entire potion in a short period of time.

However, once they learn how to extract individual components, things become much simpler.

Apart from a few elders of Wuliu Pavilion, no one knew the complete alchemical potion recipe.

Not to mention the Mysterious Water Pill.

The Mysterious Water Pill has always been a closely guarded secret of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, and only a few elders are allowed to make it.

Therefore, the disciple did not continue to reveal the complete pill formula, because he did not know exactly what the complete pill formula was.

"Find their weaknesses. If money doesn't work, collect their vulnerabilities and use their friends and the things they've done that no one else knows to blackmail them. Do I have to teach you that?" Bibi Dong snorted again and shouted.

She was unaware of the intricacies of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School; she simply felt that her subordinates were incompetent.

"Yes..." the cardinal had no choice but to say.

"What about the Xuan Shui Pill? How's your investigation going?" Bibi Dong asked about the Xuan Shui Pill again.

Compared to soul power recovery potions, the value of the Xuan Shui Pill is undoubtedly higher.

After all, these kinds of pills that enhance talent have a much more significant effect on increasing cultivation speed.

Bibi Dong was very clear about this, because... the Spirit Hall had already spent two million gold soul coins to purchase four Xuan Shui Pills without the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's knowledge.

Three of the Mysterious Water Pills were given to Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan, three members of the Spirit Hall's Golden Generation.

With the help of the Mysterious Water Pill, and the effect of the Soul Power Recovery Potion that accelerates Soul Power cultivation, Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan all broke through to the Soul King realm one after another!

If you had a God's-eye view, you would know that the three of them broke through to the Soul King realm a year earlier than in the original work!

What Ning Feiliu didn't know was that, thanks to him, the stats for the next All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament would actually increase significantly.

With the Xuan Shui Pill and soul power cultivation potion, not only Feng Xiaotian, but also the Elephant Armor Academy and the two imperial academies, their soul power has generally increased by three to five levels!

Two years later, the Spirit Hall team, which stood on the continent-wide advanced Soul Master Tournament, had all improved their Soul Power by five levels.

Xie Yue and Yan have both reached level 55 soul power, and Hu Liena will also reach level 54 soul power!

The numbers have become extremely inflated.

Although the other noble soul masters participating in the competition could not afford the Profound Water Pill, they could afford soul power recovery potions to speed up the improvement of their soul power, so they would also have a two or three level improvement in soul power.

There are now many more Soul Masters at the Soul Master level!

It was precisely because of this that the Spirit Hall and Bibi Dong knew even more about how miraculous the effects of the two elixirs from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School were.

(End of this chapter)