People in Douluo: Becoming a God through Simulation Panel

Chapter 168 The Knockout Round Begins Early

The Hunyuan Pillar was successful, but it was different from what Wang Qi had originally imagined. For example, Wang Qi believed that it was necessary to break through the Hunyuan Pillar first before the mental power could break through to the Lingyu realm.

But after Wang Qi got started with Hunyuan Zhuang, he discovered that the prerequisite for getting started with Hunyuan Zhuang was that one’s mental power must first break through to the Lingyu realm.

Initially, Wang Qi thought that the Liangyi Posture was used to refine Qi and blood, and the Wuxing Posture was used to build a bridge between Qi and blood and spirit. So from the perspective of symmetry or perfection, the Hunyuan Posture should be a method of refining spiritual power.

It was not until Wang Qi got started that he realized that he had been thinking too shallowly. Hunyuan Posture is indeed a method to enhance mental strength, and it does consume some Qi and blood. Through the bridge opened by the Five Elements Posture, Qi and blood can affect the spirit.

However, the essence that really affects the improvement of mental power is not Qi and blood, but the power of heaven and earth. To be precise, it is the use of the invisible force of heaven and earth to nourish the invisible force of mental power. It also means that if Wang Qi can come into contact with a higher level of heaven and earth or energy in the future, he can also use Hunyuan Posture to improve his mental power.

It can be said that the surprise that Hunyuan Posture brought to Wang Qi was really too great. The quality of mental power is quality, and the quantity is quantity, and the two are incomparable.

The spiritual power of the million-year-old soul beast Tiancan Bingmeng and Alex are completely different.

Divine power can replenish consumed mental power, but it cannot increase the upper limit of mental power itself. If you want to increase the upper limit, you must rely on talent and comprehension. Apart from that, relying on the accumulation of time and resources can at most create an existence similar to the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm.

Therefore, Wang Qi felt that the surprise brought by Hunyuan Posture was big enough. At the same time, he also knew that only after the spiritual realm entered the spiritual realm, could the conditions for entering Hunyuan Posture be met.

"Let's make a concerted effort. Now that my mental strength, standing practice, physical fitness, and blood power have all reached the standard, and I have prepared enough resources, it's time to complete the second awakening of my martial soul."

Wang Qi has been practicing for an unknown period of time. He has been living in a secret room during this period. Because of the storage soul guide, Wang Qi has no shortage of food, so Wang Qi has no idea how long he has been practicing.

But none of this is important. The most important task at the moment is to hurry to the Yin-Yang Eye and use the ice and fire energy inside the Eye to complete the second awakening of one's martial soul.

After putting the altar into the soul guide, Wang Qi stood up and prepared to fly towards the Sunset Forest. As soon as he went out, he was stopped by Meng Shenji who looked anxious.

"If I hadn't been able to sense that someone was practicing in your secret room, I would have sent people out to look for you, Wang Qi. If you don't come out again, our Tiandou Royal Team will be finished in this Soul Master Competition."

"Huh? What do you mean? How long have I been in seclusion?"

Wang Qi looked at Meng Shenji in confusion. Although his concept of time was vague during his cultivation, he shouldn't say such a thing.

Listening to Meng Shenji's story about what happened during Wang Qi's retreat, Wang Qi suddenly understood.

Because of the beast tide in the Xingdou Great Forest, the Xingluo Empire intervened in the defense of the Tiandou Empire and even launched a war, occupying the territory of a province and a kingdom of the Tiandou Empire. As a result, the Tiandou Empire and the Xingluo Empire were divided into two factions. They had basically no intention of watching the so-called exhibition match, and it even seemed as if the two sides had made an agreement.
Riots broke out during the exhibition matches between their respective empires, and finally, with the mediation of the Spirit Hall, the matter was settled.

However, due to the severity of the internal struggle, both the Tiandou Emperor and the Xingluo Emperor applied to the Spirit Hall at the same time to start the rematch of the Soul Master Competition, that is, the knockout round, in advance.

Up to now, the knockout round has entered the fourth round, and the next opponent of the Tiandou Royal Academy team is the Five Elements Academy team, which is also located in the Tiandou Empire and is equally strong.

In the absence of Wang Qi, it is almost impossible for the Tiandou Royal Academy team to defeat the Five Elements team. Otherwise, Meng Shenji, one of the three teaching committee members of the Tiandou Royal Academy, would not have guarded Wang Qi like a dog-skin plaster and waited for Wang Qi to come out of seclusion as soon as possible.

The gambling king Qi Neng must come out before the game, otherwise the reputation of Tiandou Royal Team and Tiandou Royal Academy will be ruined.

The reason for the bad reputation is not because of the loss to the Five Elements Academy team, but because he boasted so much before the Soul Master Competition, but in the end he didn't even make it to the finals. It's so shameful. This means that everything the previous Tiandou Emperor did for the Soul Master Competition was in vain. It also means that this generation of Tiandou Emperor is also a useless mediocre person.

As an emperor, mediocrity is sometimes even more unacceptable than stupidity. Everyone knows which is more powerless: having the ability but not using it or having no ability at all.

If Xue Qinghe was not Qian Renxue, and Qian Renxue and Wang Qi belonged to the same Wuhun Hall camp, it would be a pipe dream for Wang Qi to go into seclusion at this time. Wang Qi even believed that they would not care whether Wang Qi had practiced to the critical moment, and would directly break into Wang Qi's secret room to interrupt Wang Qi's practice.

In the hundreds of years of history of the Tiandou Empire, geniuses are as numerous as crucian carp crossing the river, and the recorded strong people are even more numerous. A genius that has not yet grown up, even if Wang Qi has the opportunity to become a super Douluo close to the Tiandou royal family in the future, or even the pinnacle of the world of level ninety-nine soul masters, the current Wang Qi is still just a young man under twenty years old who has not yet realized his talent.

A young man versus the face of a country, which is more important? I believe many people are willing to help Wang Qi make a choice. After all, the young man chosen is not them. Using other people's interests in exchange for their own peace is a deal that many people are willing to do.

"No, so many things happened during my retreat. I never knew I was so important."

"I remember when I was traveling before, I would be away for a year or even longer. I thought everyone had gotten used to my absence." Wang Qi joked with Meng Shenji with a smile.

Meng Shenji was not angry either, because no matter Wang Qi's strength or talent, they were almost on the same level as Meng Shenji. In addition, Wang Qi was protected by Emperor Qinghe. Let alone a joke, as long as Wang Qi didn't poop on Meng Shenji's neck, Meng Shenji would not be angry.

After all, a genius like Wang Qi is something that Meng Shenji has never seen in his sixty or seventy years of life. We should be more indulgent towards geniuses, right?
The school supports students who get into trouble, and as long as they don't make mistakes of principle, the school should provide some protection to students. This is why Meng Shenji, who clearly still has the potential to become a Titled Douluo, still chooses to stay in Tiandou Royal Academy as a member of the Education Committee.

What? For money, for resources? Meng Shenji's martial soul is a top-level martial soul, and Meng Shenji himself is also of noble origin. Whether it is money or resources, to put it bluntly, Meng Shenji has no shortage of them. As for power?
Stop joking. The moment Meng Shenji is qualified to be selected as the teaching committee member of Tiandou Royal Academy, Meng Shenji, including his family, and the emperor of Tiandou Empire will not be stingy with power.

Looking at the high-spirited Wang Qi, Meng Shenji smiled and said, "Okay, don't stand here, we should set off. At my speed, we should be able to reach Wuhun City before dawn."

Soul possession, Meng Shenji's soul is Black Demon, a top-level mutant soul of the mind control system. The transformation between reality and illusion, virtual reality are the core means of Black Demon's soul.

In addition to the above methods, the soul beast Black Demon has another characteristic, that is penetration. It uses the characteristics of virtual transformation to give itself the characteristic of virtualization, so as to achieve the characteristic that the distance between two points is the shortest in a straight line. Mountains? Rivers? Under the ability of virtualization, everything does not exist. It can be said that when rushing on the road, Meng Shenji's Black Demon martial soul is not inferior to most Title Douluo.

Feeling the virtuality he was endowed with, Wang Qi curiously touched the wall and found that he seemed to be touching air. His hand passed through directly without encountering any obstacles.

"This Black Demon Martial Soul is a bit outrageous. Meng Shenji Education Committee, have you ever considered treating the Black Demon Martial Soul as a strong attack system and adding a spirit ring?"

This transformation from reality to illusion reminded Wang Qi of the Kamui in Naruto, constantly traveling through space. This ability was really too buggy.

"No, there are too many restrictions. Whether it is virtual or real, the Black Demon Martial Soul needs time to transform. Besides, the weakness of the attack between virtual and real is too obvious. As long as we target this point and absorb a passive counterattack soul skill, the Black Demon Martial Soul will be useless. Instead, we can use the mind to control and illusion to mislead."

Wang Qi had never attended Meng Shenji's teaching class, and he didn't know whether Meng Shenji was like this to everyone, or if he was just being so open-hearted towards Wang Qi, as if he was going to reveal all his family assets to Wang Qi.

Fortunately, Wang Qi had no intention of taking action against Meng Shenji, nor did he have any intention of targeting Meng Shenji's family. Otherwise, with so much information obtained, Wang Qi could even use the trick of destroying the family.

The most valuable information about every soul master is the details of his soul skills and the characteristics of his martial soul. Every time a soul master upgrades and every time he obtains a soul ring, he is strengthening the characteristics of his martial soul and making up for its weaknesses.

Try to hide your soul skills information as much as possible. Of course, with the development of soul master culture and as soul masters' research on martial souls becomes more and more in-depth, gradually, there will be an era in the future when martial souls have no secrets.

In that era, the gap between soul masters needs to be made up by knowledge, experience and auxiliary equipment.

For example, the soul guides in the Douluo Dalu II period, the battle armor in the Douluo Dalu III period, etc., require some non-soul master means to decide the outcome of the battle. These are the inevitable paths for soul masters on their road to development.

The reason why the soul guide culture in Douluo Continent is not strong enough is because the resources in Douluo Continent are too abundant. It is so abundant that even if soul guides rise up, the soul beasts in the Soul Beast Forest can still explode with a beast tide of millions, and soul beasts can still be hunted and killed in the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain soul rings.

You must know that this kind of situation is absolutely not allowed in the Sun and Moon Continent.

Only when the soul master’s cultivation resources are insufficient, in order to remain strong, will the soul master begin to choose to make changes and choose to find a way other than the soul master himself.

The soul master civilization will not be eliminated, but will be gradually replaced. This is an irreconcilable contradiction between resources and those who exploit them.

Wang Qi was led by Meng Shenji on a reckless journey. The experience from Tiandou City to Wuhun City broadened Wang Qi's horizons.

Wang Qi had never thought that walking through mountains and waterfalls in a virtual posture was a completely different feeling from walking in a cave or swimming in the water.

I don’t know if it’s because he has changed his perspective on the world, or because of his introduction to Hunyuan Posture, but along the way, Wang Qi has actually fallen into a special mode similar to enlightenment. Wang Qi’s mental power has begun to increase at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When this special mode ended, the two came to Wuhun City. Wang Qi's mental power had actually directly increased from the initial stage of the Spirit Realm to the bottleneck of the early stage of the Spirit Realm. He was only one step away from breaking through to the middle stage of the Spirit Realm.

This is a great opportunity. According to Wang Qi's estimation, this special state, without absorbing soul rings, can help Wang Qi save at least three to five years of accumulation.

This shows the importance of opportunity in the soul world.

"Huh, we finally arrived before dawn. The Holy Angel Hotel is where our Tiandou Empire competition area is located. The third floor is the Tiandou Royal Academy team. You will enter the city by yourself later. There has been a lot of work piled up in the academy these days waiting for you. You can go in by yourself after Wuhun City opens the gate."

"By the way, you have to get good results. Not to mention winning the championship of this Soul Master Competition, you have to at least get second place. Otherwise, it won't be so easy for you to ask for leave in the future."

Meng Shenji threw a soul guide to Wang Qi, and then began to remind Wang Qi of relevant precautions. He did not notice at all that at this moment, on the top of the city wall, there were two figures in golden armor looking at the two people in front of the city gate with interest.

Meng Shenji explained everything he needed to explain, without giving Wang Qi any time to react. He entered the virtual state again and left Wuhun City directly. Only a wisp of black smoke was seen penetrating everywhere and directly landing on a hill not far away.

"Hahaha, Xue'er, the Dream Machine from your Tiandouhu Royal Academy is quite interesting. I thought that old guy was also an antique like the eldest and second brothers."

Guangling Douluo offended at least two people with his words, and Qian Renxue rolled her eyes when she heard it. However, Guangling Douluo obviously didn't care about it and greeted Wang Qi under the city wall.

"Hey, kid, come up. You don't need me to take you up."

"Hiss, I haven't seen you for a year. What on earth have you been through? Your mental strength is not weaker than that of my third brother."

Guangling Douluo is a playful person. He knows that Wang Qi can fly, but the sound like a cannon when Wang Qi flies will definitely attract people who come to patrol. When the time comes, it will be definitely interesting for Guangling Douluo to take Qian Renxue away and watch Wang Qi's joke.

Unexpectedly, Wang Qi actually flew up directly with his mental power. Guangling Douluo had heard of this method of using mental power to fly.

Among the worshippers of the Spirit Hall, most of them are ranked according to their strength and cultivation. The eldest is Qian Daoliu, the second is Golden Crocodile Douluo, and the third is Blue Luan Douluo. The cultivation of these three people is above level ninety-seven. They once discussed that after the mental power reaches a certain level, they can fly without using soul power.

In order to reach this level, one's cultivation must at least reach level ninety-seven.

(End of this chapter)