Why are all of us who transmigrated at the same time demons?

The advanced academy has only one course: cultivation.

In Loran's eyes, the cultivation experience imparted by the teachers at the Spirit Academy was a complete mess, utterly devoid of any system. Their lectures were entirely arbitrary, going on and on wherever their thoughts led them, without any unified syllabus to guide them.

Moreover, these so-called experiences are not actually verified, but rather discovered by the teachers themselves through practice, and there are even many errors and omissions in them.

This so-called academy system is actually not fundamentally different from the ancient apprenticeship system.

In the apprenticeship system, apprentices can only learn from their masters; they learn whatever their masters teach, with no right to choose. Similarly, at Douluo Academy, students can only passively accept the knowledge imparted by their teachers, even if that knowledge is inaccurate or unsuitable for them.

In a martial arts academy where even weighted running is listed as an advanced course, how much truly valuable knowledge can students actually learn?

The biggest attraction of advanced colleges for students is really only three things:

Firstly, the academy itself provides a valuable background, offering students a less complicated and stable environment for cultivation, while powerful teachers can offer support and backing. Furthermore, the academy's teachers and classmates formed during the academy will become future connections, similar to a class reunion.

Secondly, the academy will provide students with a simulated cultivation environment, which is a rare resource.

Thirdly, it provides opportunities for students without connections to hunt soul beasts and obtain soul essence.

Of course, there are also various teams that compete in tournaments.

In fact, Loran thought the teaching methods of the so-called Soul Master Academy, which emphasized teamwork and team tactics, were stupid.

Reality is not a game or competition. The vast majority of Soul Masters will not choose to join the army in the future, and the army will not play those fancy coordinated tactics in the academy. Of course, the Douluo army, which can use cutting off supplies as a peerless strategy, may not necessarily be one of them.

After leaving the academy, Soul Masters have very few opportunities to encounter well-organized teams. Most of the time, they often face situations where their teammates are scattered or even alone.

Furthermore, unlike the Great Soul Arena or the Soul Master Tournament, real-life battle scenarios usually do not have restrictions on the venue or the opponent's cultivation level, nor do they limit the opponent's age like in the Soul Master Tournament.

This means that real-world battles are often asymmetrical, with significant differences in the strength, conditions, and environment of the two sides.

Given this, what is the significance of emphasizing tactics for seven-person and two-person teams, and designing teamwork specifically for these teams? In this reality, can such tactics and teamwork truly achieve their intended effect?

Is it just for the Soul Master Competition? Oh, it can also be used to make money in the Soul Arena.

While it's true that overly complex tactics shouldn't be taught, and teamwork shouldn't be overemphasized, this doesn't mean ignoring these aspects entirely. These elements certainly need to be taught, but they should absolutely not be the core focus of Soul Master training.

When teaching tactics, it is sufficient to teach some basic coping strategies. The focus should be on how to flexibly apply these basic tactics, and to emphasize how individuals can adapt flexibly in teamwork.

Instead of wasting precious time on those fancy, impractical things like "flying yo-yos"!

Is this some kind of video game? The training of Soul Masters is no joke; every step should have real value and significance.

Loran envisions establishing a university town centered around the Intellectual Society, which currently maintains an apprenticeship model of one-on-one or one-on-many mentorship. This model hinders the development and advancement of knowledge and technology, preventing the scholarly community from effectively expanding.

Loran decided to emulate the modern academic system by combining general education with professional advancement to cultivate more talent, thus promoting a massive explosion of knowledge.

However, enrollment was not ideal after the first college was built.

Most people at the bottom of society have no idea what the Wisdom Academy is. Moreover, the Wisdom Academy was never established specifically to train Soul Masters, so the vast majority of students who have access to information about the Wisdom Academy simply don't come.

Moreover, despite his current fame across the continent, in the eyes of outsiders, his actions of personally crippling his father and second uncle and destroying his clan are extremely heinous.

Therefore, Lorraine's reputation is mostly infamous.

The first cohort of the Wisdom Academy was not even able to fill its quota; the vast majority of students were recruited spontaneously by scholars from the Wisdom Society.

"Oh well, it's better than nothing."

Loran scratched his head, looked at the few scattered little kids sitting in the classroom, and began his lesson with some distress.

"Students who come to my 'Introduction to Archaeology' course must first understand what archaeology is and why we conduct archaeology. Archaeology, in essence, is..."

Just as Loran began his career as a university professor, in the Kingdom of Bak, in the province of Fax, in the village of Saint-X outside the city of Nox, a clearly malnourished three-year-old child stood on a low stool, struggling to pry open the cooking utensils on the stove. He was preparing dinner for his drunken father.

"Even though my dad is an alcoholic, slovenly, doesn't earn much money, and abuses children, he's still my dad!"

“In my previous life in the Tang Clan, I had no father. Now I am a child with a father, and I, Tang Buddha, must be filial to him.”

The young Buddha Tang struggled to lift the spatula and stir the rice porridge, which resembled clear soup.

Fate has taken an unprecedented turn, and it's unknown how far Tang Dafozu will go this time.

Anyway, Loran made a trip to Saint X Village, knocked down the young Tang Buddha and read all his memories, and then ignored the father and son.

Loran has never been afraid of the idea of ​​being the protagonist.

After all, in the urban world, Loran has killed countless "protagonists".

If Loran had an achievement system, he would definitely find that he has an entry for "protagonist killer".

The world doesn't revolve around any one person. Does Old Jack have to live without Tang Dafozu? Does a rabbit stop eating carrots?

Instead of focusing on the main character, concentrate on improving yourself.

Chapter 49 Death God: The Death God Who Eats Hollows

Of the four Lorans so far, Death Loran is probably having the worst time.

Because Hueco Mundo is a desolate place with nothing but barren wasteland, completely devoid of any civilization. Even pots and pans have to be made by Loran himself.

Hueco Mundo is layered. The upper layer is a barren, white desert landscape covered with withered trees resembling quartz. Below is the Great Hollow Forest, inhabited by Gillian and Hollows of lower ranks. The Great Hollow Forest is filled with enormous, quartz-like withered trees, and the trees on the upper layer are actually just branches of the giant trees on the lower layer.

These seas of spirit sands are the remnants left behind by the Void Clan when the Spirit King destroyed the ancient times.

These so-called quartz trees, though seemingly made of quartz, are actually composed of spiritual particles. Loran named these quartz-like giant trees "Void Spirit Trees." These quartz trees possess astonishing strength and hardness, supporting the entire upper desert of Hueco Mundo.

Loran developed a special ghost-path technique specifically for the Void Spirit Tree, which allowed him to quickly peel off the branches and bark from it.

Loran once placed the corpses of the undead in an open environment, then drove away the undead that walked by, and observed their evolution.

Virtual corpses do not undergo decay; they simply disintegrate.

As a Hollow dies, if it is not consumed by its own kind, its body will gradually disintegrate. The stronger its spiritual pressure was in life, the slower this process will be. One manifestation of spiritual pressure is its ability to bind the spiritual particles of the body.

The vast majority of the ethereal body will diffuse into spirit particles and enter the atmosphere, then enter the spirit particle cycle, or reorganize into other things somewhere.

But there is always something that will not dissipate: the spirit sand. Each Hollow leaves behind only a small handful of spirit sand in the end. The sand in this vast desert is the ashes left behind by countless Hollows who died throughout history.

Loran tapped and hammered at the spirit furnace, setting up spells and using the power of the 'Myriad Transformations Demon Weapon' to modify it, frantically increasing the temperature of the spirit furnace until it finally melted the spirit sand.

By mixing molten spirit sand with some bark fragments from the Void Spirit Tree, a unique spirit material can be created, which Loran calls "spirit bone." By controlling different proportions and furnace temperatures, spirit bones with different properties can be obtained.

Most of these spiritual bones can effectively block the transmission of spiritual pressure, somewhat like the killing intent stones of Soul Society.

Loran used the spirit bones to build his residence, laboratory, and to manufacture experimental equipment.

What does it mean to start with a handful of sand and have to craft all your own equipment?

Now, Loran has his own house in the Black Forest of the Great Void Forest, along with three laboratories and two warehouses, and is beginning to resemble a base.

Hueco Mundo has no natural water sources and is a truly barren land. However, the concentration of spiritual particles here is extremely high, and the creatures of Hueco Mundo can survive by breathing the spiritual particles in the atmosphere.

However, in order to replenish spiritual pressure in time and to evolve, one must hunt for food.

The body that Loran possessed was that of the Grim Reaper, who could not digest the flesh and blood of the undead and could only sustain life by breathing in the spiritual particles in the atmosphere.

However, after obtaining the "Heavenly Demon Soul Stealing" divine power from Douluo Luolan, Luolan had a ulterior motive. Based on this divine power's ability to extract the essence of life, he developed a new use for spiritual beings, which he called "Soul Eater".

The "Soul Eater" ability allows Loran to mimic the talent of the unreal beings to devour souls, digesting and transforming the consumed spirits into his own.

The spirits consume souls not because souls taste good, but because they instinctively crave souls, and the stronger the soul's spiritual power, the better it can satisfy their craving for souls.

For Xu, the so-called appetite, sexual desire, and desire for sleep cannot compare to the desire for power and evolution.

They devour souls, which is actually tasteless and boring. The important thing is that devouring souls satisfies their thirst for evolution, which makes them feel good.

After death, the soul is a chaotic mass. Because it has lost its heart, all thoughts and emotions from before and after death have lost their subjectivity and are like tangled hemp deposited in the soul.

However, Loran was able to taste these thoughts and emotions through the "Soul Eater".

In Lorraine's sense of taste, joy is sweet, anger is spicy, sorrow is bitter, fear is salty, love is sweet, disgust is sour, dread is pungent, and desire is a combination of all these flavors.

While the Void Devouring Souls simply uses the souls of others to make up for its own deficiencies, Loran can not only absorb the souls of things to evolve itself, but also savor the thoughts within the souls of its prey, even absorbing the memories and knowledge within those thoughts. This ability allows Loran to digest souls more thoroughly.

For example, if we set the essence contained in a soul as 10, an ordinary Hollow can only digest 3 when it devours a soul, and 7% of that is dissipated. After merging with the environment and evolving into a Great Hollow, its digestive ability is enhanced, and it can extract 40% of the essence. In that case, Loran's "Soul Eater" ability is not much worse than that of a Great Hollow.

The only problem is that Loran can't devour large amounts of souls. Although the "Soul Eater" ability allows Loran to absorb the souls of Hollows, its digestion speed is not as fast as that of Hollows.

This is because the spirit of the Grim Reaper is incompatible with the spirit of the Hollow. Each time, Loran has to spend a lot of time digesting the different spiritual pressure, otherwise he will experience physical discomfort.

However, Loran's spiritual pressure gradually increased with the help of the "Soul Eater," so is this some kind of mini version of the Devouring Heaven Demon Art?

After a busy day, Master Luo cut up the hunted Gillian meat. The meat from the center of the Gillian's back is the most tender and is considered the best ingredient.

Master Luo took out a shallow knife he had once stolen and used his superb knife skills to cut it into pieces of meat.

He took out a stone slab and placed it on the spirit furnace, carefully controlling the heat.

Master Luo took out a spirit bone jar from the kitchen. Inside was a spirit oil with an amber color. This was the essence of the soul of a beast that resembled a wild boar that he had hunted, and he had refined it using a spirit furnace. The desire contained within it gave the oil a unique fragrance.

This method of pan-frying meat in oil brings out the savory flavors of the meat, creating a unique and impactful taste.

With his ruthless iron hand, Loran scooped out a slightly charred steak and threw it into his mouth while it was still hot.

With just a slight chew, the meat juice bursts in your mouth, releasing a large amount of soul essence and the seven emotions and six desires accumulated in the soul. The flavors are a mix of sweet and salty, with a hint of sour and spicy, making it incredibly satisfying.

Loran used his "Soul Eater" ability to carefully savor the thoughts and emotions contained within this piece of soul. It should be known that each Gillian Hollow is composed of hundreds or thousands of souls, and this piece of meat may contain all the memories and emotions of a Hollow before and after its life.

"Hmm... He was a samurai in life... *smack smack*... He was famous for his cross-shaped spear technique... *smack smack*... He gained the appreciation of a daimyo... *smack smack*... He was resented by his colleagues... They secretly plotted against him... *smack smack*... After death, he transformed into a Hollow."

Loran extracted all the information contained within the void's soul, absorbing the useful knowledge and discarding the unused memories as waste.

The soul information contained in this steak indicates that the person in life was a skilled and brave warrior who was betrayed on the battlefield due to jealousy from his colleagues. After death, his deep-seated obsession led him to fall into the form of a mantis Hollow, which was then eaten by an even more powerful rhinoceros Hollow.

The opponent's most useful skill was his marksmanship, a technique deeply ingrained in his soul.

“It can be used to enrich my skill set. It’s always good to have more skills,” Loran thought to himself as he chewed on his steak.

Chapter 50 Death: The Spirit Pivot and the Spirit Particle Soup

While enjoying the Kylian steak, Loran dragged over a snake-like creature called Adjuchas, which resembled a python and had a pair of human hands, and was tightly bound by spiritual chains. Many locks extended from the chains and were deeply embedded in the snake's body, blocking the flow of spiritual energy within it.

The giant snake already had numerous injuries, with wounds that exposed its bones and internal organs.

Ignoring its curses and wails, Loran dissected its muscles with great interest, observing its internal structure.

"Is this the Adjuchas's body structure? It feels like the spiritual particle binding is much tighter than that of the Gillian, and the skin is an even denser layer of spiritual particles. Is this the Adjuchas's steel skin?"

This serpentine Adjuchas is Loran's recent hunting spoils. It seems that the Adjuchas suffered a defeat in the battle in the upper Hueco Mundo and therefore tried to escape the hunters to the less threatening Hollow Forest.

Unfortunately, he ran into Loran. It took him a little effort to subdue the terrified Adjuchas, sealing its spiritual power with Death's Binding Spell, and dragging it back to its lair.

"How should we eat it? Snake meat soup? Or roasted snake meat?" Loran hesitated.

"Let's stew it. I just recently invented a recipe for spirit seed soup."

Loran gleefully dragged the serpentine Adjuchas to the location of a huge stone cauldron, smashed its head with a Cero, and ended its life.

Then, using the Zanpakuto as a small knife, they carefully peeled off the skin and removed the bones, leaving the snake skin. Some of the snake meat and all the snake bones were used to make snake meat soup, and some of the snake meat was used to roast. The internal organs, except for the snake gall, were used as fuel for the spirit furnace.

This stone pot was originally a natural stone platform, but Loran specially hollowed out the bottom to turn it into a stove.

Loran added the snake meat, used his treasured Hollow Blood Essence as the "water" for the soup, added Hueco Mundo's special spices—a powder made from certain rare Hueco Mundo plants and uniquely ground Hollows—and then took out a small amount of silvery-white fragments, a portion of which he had ground from Asahi, and sprinkled them into the soup.

Then Loran took a flat stone slab to use as a pot lid. He firmly inscribed the binding spell on the pot lid to prevent the loss of spiritual power and soul essence during the stewing process.

To prevent insufficient firepower, Loran specially ignited the Spirit Furnace with Azure Fire Pendant.

Loran deliberately made a small opening in the stone slab, and a white esophagus extended from his abdomen. This was the ability of a spider-type Hollow he had previously captured. It had constructed a special esophagus that connected to its digestive system. This esophagus could burrow into the prey's body, inject a unique digestive fluid that decomposed the spiritual particle structure, and directly absorb the prey's soul and spiritual pressure, greatly increasing its feeding efficiency.

Inspired by this, Loran used the power of the Asura Path to create this spiritual esophagus for himself and named it "Spiritual Pivot," thus inventing a unique way of eating spiritual broth.

This method of cooking is less like stewing and more like extraction.

The cooking rules for spirit particle ingredients are different from those for vessel ingredients. For example, after a spirit particle creature dies, the rate at which its spirit particles dissipate is also linked to its spiritual pressure during its lifetime. The stronger the spiritual pressure, the more stably the flesh and blood are preserved after death.

However, there is a difference, namely the soul. Through many years of extensive practical research, Loran discovered that the soul and spirit particles cannot be generalized.

The soul is the soul, and the spirit is the spirit.

Like vessel particles, spirit particles are part of the material composition of this world. Spirit particles and vessel particles can be transformed into each other. For example, when Chad, Orihime, and others broke into Soul Society, it was Kisuke Urahara who transformed their vessel bodies into spirit particle bodies.

The soul, on the other hand, is something more metaphysical; you can understand this by comparing the soul from a previous life with the physical body.

In Loran's eyes, the so-called spiritual particles still belong to the category of matter, only they are a special kind of matter that is different from the nature of physical particles.

Compared to the vessel, this substance is more closely integrated with the soul and has a higher potential for growth, but the vessel is more stable in nature than the spirit.

If we can compare the vessel to turbid air, then the spirit is pure air.

Compared to turbid air, ancient immortals preferred pure air, which was beneficial to the primordial spirit. Turbid air was often seen as related to the physical body.

After a spirit-elemental being dies, the bond between the spirit-elemental being and the soul gradually loosens. Some of the soul-elemental being and the spirit-elemental being will enter the great cycle of the three realms, while those with heavy sins will enter hell.