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

Chapter 315 Advancement | The Trouble-Making Old Gorilla

This is why the self-created cultivation techniques, or rather, self-created soul skills, in Douluo Continent are so weak.

When a self-created soul skill, painstakingly developed, is easily destroyed by an opponent's advanced soul skill, and it's better to focus on cultivating it, then creating a self-created soul skill seems particularly foolish.

Creating your own soul skills is like putting theory into practice; it requires a solid foundation.

Just like the scientific building in Ning Feiliu's previous life, it wasn't able to control thunder and nuclear explosions from the beginning.

It all started with just being able to slowly pull a gear, from waterwheels to steam, then to direct current, then to alternating current, and then step by step towards nuclear fission.

The same applies to creating your own soul skills; without the simplest techniques, how can you develop more advanced ones?

After all, geniuses like Tang Chen are few and far between. It can only be said that in the 40,000-year history of the Tang family dynasty in Douluo Continent, Tang Chen's comprehension and talent are clearly unparalleled by any discerning person.

The only one who might be comparable to him is the sword fanatic Ji Juechen.

To be able to comprehend one's own sword intent in a world like Douluo Continent, where there are neither sword techniques nor sword intent, is quite impressive.

But it still doesn't feel as good as Tang Chen's, after all, Tang Chen is...

In an era when there weren't many self-created soul skills like in Douluo Continent I, he was able to comprehend the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique, Haotian Nine Absolutes, Sky-Piercing Strike, Haotian Body Protection, Hammer Shaking Heaven and Earth, Great Sumeru Hammer Cultivation Method, and the accompanying Ring Explosion Mystery—a collection that could be considered extremely powerful self-created soul skills.

These self-created soul skills, except for the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique which is rather useless, all have a high ceiling and are at least as good as any soul skill of any soul master at the current level. The Great Sumeru Hammer's Ring Explosion Secret Technique goes without saying; it should be considered a secret technique from the other side.

It greatly increases one's strength in a short period of time, even allowing one to challenge opponents of higher levels, after which one falls into a weakened state.

In any case, Tang Chen's comprehension is truly admirable.

However, this prodigy with extraordinary comprehension could only become a victim of the struggle between the Rakshasa God and the Asura God in the end. He did not become a god, but should have become some unknown existence in the God Realm. On the contrary, Tang San, who had less comprehension than Tang Chen and almost no character, became the ruler of this world. It is truly lamentable.

Anyway, saying that Tang San is the strongest God King in history is a bit of a stretch.

After all, simply inheriting from the former without having anything of one's own, even if one inherits the dual divine positions of the Asura God and the Sea God, it will still be the same.

When Tang San was in the mortal realm, all he knew how to do was use Tang Sect techniques and play around with the Clear Sky Sect's ultimate skills.

In the realm of gods, the moves of the Asura God and the Sea God come and go, along with the Sword of Judgment of the Three Realms, which is also a hybrid monster, a final sword formed by combining the power of the five great god-kings of goodness, evil, destruction, life, and Asura.

So ultimately, the Douluo world is a deformed world, whether it's the Douluo Continent or the God Realm.

Trying to figure that out on your own is no better than simply playing around with collecting power; you might as well not bother with any trading.

Feng Xiaotian has now realized this point and has completely given up on the path of creating his own soul skills.

But there's not much to say, since in the Douluo Continent, creating your own soul skills isn't exactly a smooth road.

On the contrary, the real path to success is to honestly absorb soul rings.

After all, the soul skills obtained by absorbing soul rings are generally very strong, much more powerful than the average person's research into how to attack or cultivate.

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The Douluo Continent is a cultivation system with a very high minimum standard, but its maximum potential depends entirely on the emergence of geniuses.

And so, after Tianshui Academy easily crushed Shenfeng Academy, it continued its invincible path.

With Ning Feiliu's help, Tianshui Academy's lineup is truly capable of making it all the way to the finals without Ning Feiliu having to worry.

Anyway, he didn't need to worry about anything until he encountered Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling's Heaven Dou Royal Academy, or the Spirit Hall.

Even if it weren't for the fact that the Spirit Hall hasn't made any statement yet for this competition, Ning Feiliu felt that the Spirit Hall's Golden Generation would be no match for Shui Bing'er and the others.

But just in case, he will step in to oversee the battle against the Spirit Hall.

He only needs to watch the qualifiers and qualifying rounds.

Soon, the preliminary rounds were coming to an end. After defeating Shenfeng Academy, Tianshui Academy's fate was sealed, and the trend was one of complete domination.

The preliminary rounds in Tiandou City have all concluded, and according to the schedule, the awards ceremony will be held soon.

In reality, it was just the Heavenly Dou Royal Family making a show of themselves, with Emperor Xueye appearing to award qualification certificates to the top five teams in the qualifiers.

The rather complicated and tedious ceremony was held on the main arena in the center. As for the other academies that did not advance, they would not participate in the final ceremony. Only the top five teams went to the VIP section of the main stage to receive their qualification certificates.

The ceremony was not complicated. At the host's announcement, the captains and vice-captains of the top five teams walked onto the stage.

Ning Feiliu has to make an appearance this time, unless he really doesn't plan to participate in the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament, otherwise this procedure will still have to be followed.

But his plan was to watch Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er receive their awards from behind as a member of the ordinary Tianshui Academy team.

however……

"What? The information submitted lists me as the vice-captain?" Ning Feiliu asked incredulously, not expecting this to be the case.

"Yes, it was the dean's idea. He said that since your cultivation level is so high, if you weren't unwilling, I would have given you the captain's position." Shui Yue'er stuck out her tongue and said with a smile.

"So, you and Bing'er can go up there together to receive the award later," Xue Wu and the others said with delight.

And so it was settled: Ning Feiliu would go on stage with Shui Bing'er as the vice-captain to receive the award.

The results of this preliminary round were undoubtedly the same five teams that advanced: the Five Elements Academy. After all, with Shrek Academy no longer competing for a spot, Elephant Armor Academy was naturally able to qualify.

This greatly pleased Hu Yanzhen, who had been watching as a VIP.

However, one unexpected dark horse academy emerged among them, and that was... Canghui Academy.

In the original storyline, Canghui Academy launched a major attack on Shrek Academy, directly showcasing the "Seven-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill," which was actually a Seven-in-One Fusion Skill.

However, Tang San was able to counter this move with his Purple Demon Eye in terms of mental strength, and then his counterattack turned all seven people from Canghui Academy into idiots.

However, it would be very difficult for other colleges to counter this tactic.

However, Canghui Academy can only use this tactic once, and can only pull off a surprise attack once. Once the opponent becomes more cautious, this tactic will not be as effective.

Therefore, they were just going through the motions to showcase themselves, all for the sake of a competition to let people see their "Seven-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill" and become famous throughout the Douluo Continent.

Therefore, Canghui Academy used this only opportunity on... the Blazing Fire Academy, which seemed to be the weakest among the five elemental academies.

However, it's possible that because Blazing Academy isn't like Shrek Academy in the original story, and doesn't seem so easy to bully, Azure Sun Academy is also afraid that if something happens to Blazing Academy, they will retaliate against them relentlessly.

Therefore, they did not use the same ruthless methods as in the original storyline, but simply made Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu and the other seven unconscious.

The students from Blazing Fire Academy woke up perfectly normal; they hadn't become mentally impaired.

But this also demonstrated the power of Canghui Academy, and the "Seven-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill" made people's eyes burn with fervor.

After all, the more people involved in a Soul Fusion Skill, the more powerful it becomes—this is a widely accepted notion on the mainland.

A three-in-one martial soul fusion skill is generally stronger than a regular two-in-one martial soul fusion skill.

The Golden Dragon of the Golden Iron Triangle is an example of this. It is a martial soul fusion skill performed by two Soul Saints and one Great Soul Master. In the original work, it forced out Dugu Bo's true martial soul body, soul bone and eighth soul skill.

Even if Dugu Bo in the original work is considered a disgrace to the Title Douluo, he does indeed possess the strength of a Title Douluo.

As a result, they were forced to use all their skills except for the ninth soul skill, which is enough to prove the power of the Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

If a three-in-one martial soul is this powerful, wouldn't a seven-in-one martial soul fusion skill be incredibly powerful?

I have to say, it's really tempting.

Moreover, Yu Xiaogang wasn't there this time. In the original work, he was the one who immediately recognized that Canghui Academy's technique was not a martial soul fusion skill, but a seven-in-one fusion skill.

After all, he does have some skills. He is the core of the Golden Iron Triangle's Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Technique. Although he himself is not very good, he is indeed the core of the group.

Like the FMVP support player on the championship team, he may not be the best himself, but he is the most important core player in the whole team.

In addition, not all of his theories were wrong; some of his research was accidental, which is why it can be seen at a glance in the original work that this is not a martial soul fusion technique.

But now that Yu Xiaogang has gone to the Star Luo Empire, there's nothing anyone can do about it; no one can tell right away.

Even Ning Fengzhi was tempted, wondering whether he should recruit these people from Canghui Academy.

However, unexpectedly... the students from Canghui Academy immediately showed goodwill towards the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School after the competition, with expressions that seemed to say... "Quick! Come and recruit us!"

After all, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is now receiving excellent treatment, unlike in the past. Previously, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School was just a big spender who only knew how to throw money around. Another attractive feature was that the sect had two peerless experts.

But now... the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School has plenty of money, can greatly help you improve your strength and talent, and is equipped with a storage soul tool that is hard for ordinary people to obtain. What else do you need to think about?

Let alone ordinary Soul Masters, even disciples from powerful forces and families would want to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School if it weren't for their own power.

After all, Douluo Continent is the only place that can truly provide you with miraculous pills to enhance your strength...

That's how the gap in core competitiveness emerged.

Even if you join the Spirit Hall, what kind of improvement or help can the Spirit Hall give you?

It's nothing more than the corresponding "tutoring by famous teachers" and the title of the strongest force on the mainland. Even in the original work, the Spirit Hall doesn't have any special cultivation methods or rare treasures.

At least Ning Feiliu didn't know much after coming to this world.

Of course, it's also possible that the Spirit Hall is keeping it a secret, and they have some special cultivation method, such as the Moon Essence Breathing Technique.

Just like the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School doesn't tell anyone that their sect has a core cultivation technique called the Moon Essence Breathing Method, which can only be obtained and practiced by elders and disciples who have made great contributions to the sect.

However, since there's nothing that's actually been promoted, you could say there isn't anything at all.

Thus, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School has become an even more attractive super sect than the Spirit Hall, so it's quite normal for the Canghui Academy students to want to join.

Ning Feiliu was too lazy to interfere with Ning Fengzhi's decision. If her cheap father really intended to recruit these charlatans, then so be it.

Anyway, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is not short of money right now.

So Ning Fengzhi really didn't discover the truth and recruited these people, along with Shi Nian, the teacher from Canghui Academy, and even gave Canghui Academy a good sponsorship fee.

Apart from that, Canghui Academy only stole one of Chihuo Academy's achievements, and then things went back to normal.

From then on, Tianshui Academy ranked first with an invincible record of 27 wins and 1 loss. Shenfeng Academy and Leiting Academy both had 25 wins and 2 losses, but Leiting Academy ranked third because it lost to Shenfeng Academy.

Fourth place goes to Elephant Armor Academy. Unfortunately, Blazing Fire Academy was robbed by Azure Sun Academy, making it the worst performing of the five elemental academies and ranking fifth.

After Ning Feiliu and Shui Bing'er, along with the captains and vice-captains of the other four academies, went up to the stage to receive their awards in front of Emperor Xueye, Salas, and Ning Fengzhi, the preliminary rounds came to a complete end.

The so-called prizes are qualification certificates for advancement and bonuses.

The qualification certificate for advancement is actually just a handwritten note. There's no fear of forgery with such a document, since both the Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire know exactly which academy has advanced.

The top five colleges receive the same prize money; after all, this is just the preliminary round.

Each team received a reward of 10,000 gold soul coins from the Heaven Dou Empire.

In the finals, the prizes for the top three finishers will be provided by the Spirit Hall.

But the Spirit Hall hasn't said anything yet, so it's unclear whether they'll be able to get three spirit bones this time.

Anyway... Ning Feiliu felt that it might not be so. In the original story, the Spirit Hall dared to offer three spirit bones as a reward for the champion because they believed they were sure to win.

But just like opening champagne at halftime or deciding on skins before the match, this kind of overconfidence before the game even starts is like setting a flag, and it's a sure way to lose.

The Spirit Hall truly hadn't expected that Shrek Academy, a team without a single Soul King, could defeat all three of their Soul Kings...

But things are different now. Ning Feiliu has arrived. Not to mention Ning Feiliu, even the Heaven Dou Royal Academy has two Soul Emperors, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling. The Spirit Hall definitely won't dare to underestimate them.

Just as Ning Feiliu was thinking about this, he was unaware that in the audience, a burly man with white hair was staring at him with sharp eyes.

(End of this chapter)