Douluo Continent: Starting with a Tom Cat

The three familiar Soul Masters exchanged glances, and one of the tall men asked, "Miss DouDou, is it true?"

After receiving Pang Tao's reply, Dou Dou said softly, "Of course, if you win, your Soul Points will be doubled, and the Gold Soul Coins will be split among the three of you."

Without further hesitation, the three men and one woman stepped onto the Soul Battle Platform. Although it was impossible to win in a three-on-one fight, the rewards were too generous, so they had to hurry up and go.

"Zhang Gang, a level 29 offensive Soul Master, with the Martial Soul Stone Axe."

"Jiang Pei, a level 29 control-type Soul Master, possesses the Martial Soul Chessboard."

"Huang Qi, a level 27 support-type Soul Master, with the Martial Soul Purple Lotus."

The cheers from the stands grew even louder. Three against one—this was a scene never seen before in the Soul Arena. Could that young man on the field really pull it off?

The audience was filled with curiosity, their eyes glued to the screen, not daring to blink for fear of missing a single exciting moment.

Shen An smiled faintly and said, "No need for further words, let's all come at once."

The three men looked displeased. Although Shen An had just defeated Chen Liu decisively, his contemptuous treatment of them was far too arrogant.

Actually, they misunderstood. Shen An didn't mean to look down on anyone. He just wanted to end the battle as quickly as possible. To him, it didn't matter who came; they would all lose.

The three instantly summoned their martial souls in their hands, with gray, black, white, and purple light intermingling and intense soul power fluctuations causing their clothes to rustle.

One person has the best spirit ring configuration, while the other two have one white and one yellow spirit ring, with light simultaneously gathering on their spirit rings.

Shen An squinted as he watched. This was about to unleash a powerful attack. Although Shen An was confident that even if the group used their ultimate moves, they could still defeat him with their swords, why let things develop unchecked when it was possible to simplify the matter?

When fighting Chen Liu, Shen An relied solely on his own soul power, qualities, and the sharpness of his martial soul, without releasing any soul power. This time, with the three of them joining forces, Shen An felt he needed to take it seriously.

Two spirit rings, one yellow and one purple, surrounded Shen An, causing an uproar throughout the audience. No one could believe that someone's second spirit ring was purple!

Zhang Gang and his two companions were visibly drenched in sweat. A second spirit ring that's a thousand years old—just which powerful family's genius is this?!

"Chasing the wind and lightning, wielding a sword."

The Nine-Leaf Phantom Sword suddenly appeared, splitting off from the sword grass in Shen An's hand. Shen An took a step forward, like a stone falling into a calm lake.

This step unleashed the hidden sword energy concealed within the twin swords, both real and illusory, causing a blue light to rise in the sky and the swordsmen on the ground to simultaneously attack the three opponents.

As the saying goes, in a team fight, you either take down the carry or the healer first, but Shen An is different. He chooses to take down both, as he has a wide range of options with his dual swords of illusion and reality.

"not good!"

Of the three, Huang Qi's soul skill was interrupted by the sudden sword light, and he could only hurriedly dodge the sword light. However, how could a support-type soul master dodge a flying sword?

Zhang Gang, who was originally preparing to attack Shen An, had no choice but to face the blue sword light in Huang Qi's place.

Now facing Shen An is Jiang Pei, a control-type Soul Master. Jiang Pei, holding a chessboard, was so surprised that he quickly placed a chess piece down. Several black and white chess pieces condensed and smashed towards Shen An.

Shen An could feel his soul power slowing down, and he realized that this must be a control-type soul skill. Then, he slashed the chess piece with his sword grass, and the chess piece made a loud explosion before turning into an illusion and disappearing.

Jiang Pei's chess pieces fell too fast to keep up with Shen An's sword strike. Soon after, he saw Shen An advance with his sword, the sharpness of the blade making him tremble with fear.

"What kind of monster is this? My chess piece, which can trap a Soul Master of the same level, was completely cleaved in two or three sword strikes by this person!" Jiang Pei looked at Zhang Gang, who was being entangled by the Nine-Leaf Void Sword, in despair.

Zhang Gang's originally powerful stone axe was struck by the flying sword, producing a series of metallic clanging sounds that made Zhang Gang's hands ache.

Zhang Gang also felt powerless. Who the hell is this offensive Soul Master? The real person didn't even make a move, just a flying sword was enough to leave him struggling, barely able to protect the healer.

Seeing that he couldn't rely on Zhang Gang, Jiang Pei had no choice but to hastily raise his chessboard and smash it against Shen An's longsword.

Seeing Jiang Pei's actions, Shen An couldn't help but laugh. Throwing a chessboard at someone was more like something Liu Qi, the chess master of the Han Dynasty, would do.

With a flick of his longsword, he tore the chessboard apart, aiming straight for Jiang Pei's throat.

"You jump down yourself." Shen An then faced Zhang Gang, who was facing the flying sword. He had many wounds on his body, but fortunately Huang Qi treated him so that they were not too serious.

Upon seeing Shen An charging towards him, Zhang Gang hastily used his second soul skill to cleave the sword light and shouted, "I surrender!"

How can we fight this? All the control-type Soul Masters have joined the fray, and we're already outmatched against a flying sword.

Zhang Gang and the others looked at Shen An's somewhat immature face as if they had been deeply shocked, and suddenly felt that the world had become so absurd.

"A complete rout after three battles and one defeat—is this the true value of the strongest newcomer in the Arena?"

The same thought simultaneously crossed the minds of all the audience members, including the Soul Masters.

Chapter 58: Fighting is nothing compared to Tom's fun! (Please read on!)

Around midnight, Shen An and his group returned to the teahouse, where people in the fighting arena were frantically chanting Shen An's name.

One or two more groups of Soul Masters came up to challenge, but they were all defeated. However, Shen An's Soul Power was also greatly depleted.

After Shen An's performance, the other Soul Masters dared not go on stage and embarrass themselves, so Shen An went home.

On the way back, watching his fame points jump at an incredible speed, Shen An felt extremely excited.

After looking at Tom, who hadn't caused any trouble all day, Shen An decided to reward Tom with the ham he had drawn.

Shen An discreetly took out Tuffy's diaper, but couldn't find it after searching inside. Shen An was full of questions.

Strange, where did the ham go? Could it be that Tuffy's diapers can swallow things?

Just as Shen An was filled with questions, he heard a series of tsk-tsk sounds from the side.

"Tsk tsk tsk"

At this moment, Tom watched Shen An take out a diaper, his cat head shaking back and forth, making tsk-tsk sounds, as if he was laughing at Shen An.

Shen An glanced guiltily at the two women walking ahead, then glared at Tom, signaling him to just watch and not to talk nonsense.

Who would have thought that when Tom saw Shen An's guilty look, the whole cat burst into exaggerated laughter.

The two girls were instantly drawn to Tom's voice. They saw Tom give a thumbs-up and point diagonally at Shen An.

So the two girls saw Shen An, the strongest newcomer in the Soul Arena, a genius boy who could slay enemies with his sword, with his hand inside a small diaper. The scene was incredibly incongruous.

Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong were looking at him with strange expressions, and even couldn't help but chuckle. What's going on? Shen An has this kind of hobby?

Shen An's face instantly turned bright red, and steam even rose from his head: "Tom!"

Shen An never expected that Tom would do something so awful when he was planning to reward him for being so well-behaved today. This cat just has a problem.

Shen An immediately pulled the diaper back, made an angry expression, and prepared to pinch Tom's cat face hard so that it would dare to laugh at him.

When Tom saw Shen An about to pounce, he first made a face, then lifted his leg and ran, sticking out his tongue as he ran in a provocative manner.

The two, a man and a cat, chased and played on the deserted streets. Every time Shen An was about to catch up, Tom would be startled and then speed up. They were just a hair's breadth away from each other, but he just couldn't touch Tom.

Shen An was surprised to find that even with his lightning-fast speed boost, he still couldn't catch up with Tom.

"Tom, stop! There's a wall ahead."

Shen An looked at Tom speeding away and quickly spoke up, but Tom's legs, which had turned into a white whirlwind, did not stop at all.

Tom hadn't felt this way in a long time. The last time was with Jerry, and the whole cat was enjoying himself so much that he couldn't listen to Shen An.

Hmph, foolish master, you think you can trick me, the Heavenly Emperor, into stopping? Dream on! I, Tom, am a master shrewd man.

"This silly cat!" Shen An helplessly covered his eyes with his hands, unable to bear watching what was about to happen.

"boom!"

A loud bang rang out clearly in the desolate night sky, and Tom the cat was embedded in the wall.

Shen An didn't lie to me, there really is a wall. It feels so familiar, meow~ Tom thought, seeing stars. They really are little golden stars, especially clear in the dark night.

Shen An and the other two stared in astonishment at Tom embedded in the wall. When most people hit a wall, they would at most let out a scream, but no one would be completely embedded like Tom.

Shen An and Zhu Zhuqing grabbed Tom's tail together, but they couldn't pull him out no matter how hard they tried. Even Ning Rongrong summoned her martial spirit to boost their power, but it still didn't work.

Even after being stretched three or four meters, the cat still couldn't get out. As they pulled, Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong's hearts were pounding, afraid of hurting Tom.

Zhu Zhuqing remained silent. As a great soul master, she could shatter a wall with her full strength, so why couldn't she pull out a cat?

Shen An remained relatively calm, after all, he knew that what had happened to Tom could not be deduced by common sense.

In the end, Tom pulled himself out, using his limbs to pull back against the wall, first pulling out his limbs one by one, and finally pulling his head out as well.

Because of the excessive force, the cat flew horizontally through the air. To the surprise of Zhu Zhuqing and the other two girls, Tom, who had flown out of the air, actually swam back by waving his paws.

Shen An stared wide-eyed. Could what you see in an animated film be the same as what you see in real life?

It's a shame there's no Newton in Douluo Continent, otherwise he'd be turning in his grave.

Finally realizing he was floating in the air, Tom fell to his bottom with a thud. The two girls, feeling sorry for him, hugged and comforted him.

Shen An, who had originally planned to knead Tom, had to give up. Along the way, Ning Rongrong teased him for being such a grown man and still playing with diapers. Shen An had a dark face the whole time.

Even when he argued that the diaper was a storage soul tool, Ning Rongrong still laughed and mocked him.

"You're the only one on the entire continent to make a soul tool look like a diaper, Zhu Qing. Do you think Shen An has some kind of weird fetish?"

Even the usually aloof Zhu Zhuqing nodded, looking at Shen An with a mocking expression.

Ning Rongrong smiled wickedly: "Give me some of your novel, delicious, and fun things, or I'll expose you for playing with diapers."

"I want everyone in Soto City to know that Boss Shen, who runs a teahouse and is the strongest newcomer in the Soul Arena, is a pervert who plays with diapers."

Ever since Ning Rongrong drank cola and played video games, she has been thinking about these things constantly, and she took this opportunity to bring them up.

Shen An's face was as black as coal, and his words seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth: "How much do you want!"

Ning Rongrong's eyes darted around: "Give me a game console that Tom plays, and a box of that thing called Coke."

Finally, Shen An reluctantly agreed, giving Ning Rongrong a case of cola, potato chips, and a game console to keep the little devil from bringing it up again.

Although these items weren't valuable—you basically get these in a ten-pull—Shen An still pretended to be in a difficult position, and finally gave them to Ning Rongrong with a pained expression.

The girl thought she had gotten a great deal, and she was overjoyed, skipping and jumping all the way.

On the contrary, Zhu Zhuqing laughed but did not make any demands like the little witch. Perhaps she didn't care, or perhaps she was indifferent and didn't care about such things.

But after thinking about it, Shen An still asked Tom to give it to Zhu Zhuqing as well. Tom looked very surprised and relieved, which made Shen An want to pinch his cat face.

Back in the teahouse, the aroma of tea filled the air, making everyone feel refreshed. As it was getting late, the group quickly washed up and went back to their rooms.

Shen An then began his favorite part: the lottery draw.

Tonight's Arena has given him a whopping 70,000 reputation points, enough for a 70-pull gacha! Let's begin!

Ding! Congratulations! You have received 7 Small Soul Power Experience Packs!

Ding! Congratulations! You have obtained [Tom's Lasso]!

Ding! Congratulations! You have obtained [Tom's Power Potion] and [Jerry's Speed ​​Potion]

Ding! Congratulations! You have obtained [Tuffy the Mouse's Firecrackers*3]

Chapter 59 Why don't you just rob it?! (Please read on!!!)

Shen An's current soul power level is 28. He used four small soul power experience packs in a row to raise it to level 30.

Each time he leveled up using cheat codes, Shen An felt incredibly happy. He was in a great mood, humming a little tune and singing a song. As expected, the new soul ring exchange should be available soon.

Shen An glanced at the system panel and, sure enough, a new exchange option had been added. Shen An's heart stirred, but what he saw immediately turned his good mood to ashes, and he even had the urge to swear.

[System Soul Ring: Can be exchanged for 500,000 Reputation Points]

"Damn it, 500,000? Why don't you just rob me!" Shen An blurted out. "No, robbing isn't as fast as this!"

The second spirit ring only requires 100,000 reputation points, while the third spirit ring requires a whopping 500,000 reputation points, a five-fold increase.

Shen An felt his scalp tingle when he saw this number. He wondered if he could get 500,000 reputation points even if he emptied the Soul Arena. Keep in mind that the entire Soto City only has a few hundred thousand people.

Moreover, there are 300,000 reputation points required to summon the mysterious figure. If it weren't for the need to increase his power level, Shen An would have already saved up reputation points to summon the mysterious figure first.

Fortunately, Shen An discovered that fame is not only about popularity but also about respect and fear, meaning that one person can exploit others multiple times.

Even so, Shen An questioned whether he could amass millions of reputation points in Soto City in the future. He knew that fame and respect were easy to obtain, but he couldn't bring himself to do something like being afraid or reverent. He couldn't just act arrogantly and become a scoundrel.

Suddenly, a line of illusory text appeared on the system panel: "After testing, the host can absorb soul rings with an age of over ten thousand years, thus greatly increasing the exchangeable fame value."

"In the Douluo world, a ten-thousand-year spirit ring carries the risk of soul tremors, but the spirit rings bestowed by this system are not only most suitable for the host in every aspect, but also pose no risk whatsoever."

"Furthermore, the host can hunt soul beasts himself. If the host thinks they are too expensive and doesn't want them, he/she doesn't have to take them."

OK OK.

Shen An was completely stunned when he saw the last line of small print in the system.

He could almost see the system transform into a burly man, cursing and saying, "If you don't want it, plenty of people will. If you're too poor to afford it, go somewhere else."

Shen An took a deep breath. "Hmph, just a small amount of 500,000. I'll get you sooner or later."