Douluo: I am a biologist, awakening the weapon spirit?

Chapter 168 Gu Yueling Returns Home

Just as Gu Yueling stopped attacking, the Shi brothers were about to speak when they simultaneously felt a numbness in their bodies.

The two of them collapsed to the ground, panting heavily.

Gu Yueling turned to the host on the sidelines and said calmly:
"we won."

The somewhat stunned host snapped out of his daze, glanced at the Shi brothers slumped on the ground, and quickly announced the results of the competition.

The surrounding audience erupted in uproar. They couldn't understand why the fight, which had been evenly matched just moments before, with the Shi brothers even having the upper hand, had suddenly turned into this.

The Shi brothers, who were directly involved, were also somewhat bewildered. They stood on the ground for a few seconds before Shi Mo asked Gu Yueling:
"How... how did you do that? We clearly blocked your attack."

Shi Mo couldn't help but speculate:

"Could it be that you know how to use poison?"

There was a poison-attribute Soul Master in their team, which is why they made this guess in the first place.

"It's not poison, it's internal force." Gu Yueling said without further explanation and turned to leave.

"Hidden strength?" The Shi brothers exchanged a glance, both looking bewildered.

"Yueling, what did you mean by 'hidden strength' just now? Is it a result of the special training we did before?" Ning Rongrong asked Gu Yueling curiously as they walked off the Soul Arena.

Gu Yueling nodded and said, "It is indeed a result of the special training. Before, I could only fight with brute force, but under the guidance of the master, I learned how to transmit force through objects."

"I call this technique 'hidden force.' Although those two had strong defenses, I still managed to inject force into their bodies through their shields. That's how they lost. Also, you're addressing me incorrectly. My surname isn't Gu; Gu Yue is my surname."

"Oh, I see. How about I call you Ling'er?" Ning Rongrong asked.

"Okay." Gu Yueling nodded slightly.

"Ling'er, I have a question."

"go ahead."

"While your technique of using internal force is indeed impressive, it took you so long to paralyze them. It doesn't seem very practical in actual combat," Ning Rongrong offered her opinion.

Gu Yueling laughed, "That's because I didn't use my hidden strength at first, I only used it in the last few punches, which is why it took me so long to beat them."

"Why didn't you use it in the first place?" Ning Rongrong asked, puzzled.

"Don't you think they're great punching bags?" Gu Yueling's smile deepened.

"what?"

“A punching bag for venting your anger,” Gu Yueling explained. “I heard that some people fill bags with sand and use them as punching bags.”

“I know what sandbags mean, but I’m asking why you’re using them as sandbags?” Ning Rongrong asked.

"They're both so tough, why not use them as punching bags?" Gu Yueling countered. "I was feeling down before, so of course I had to make good use of these two punching bags that came to my door. And look, I feel so refreshed after we finished."

Ning Rongrong was about to ask Gu Yueling why she was depressed, but she quickly remembered something and shut her mouth and stopped talking.

Gu Yueling was clearly in a good mood at the moment, and was still sharing her insights:
"I like tough opponents like this the most, and secondly, I like those who like head-on confrontations; they're really fun to fight against."

"What about Xiao Feng? You didn't seem to use any hidden force in your fight with him before," Ning Rongrong said after thinking for a moment.

Mentioning Chen Feng's name, Gu Yueling's originally radiant face immediately fell. "When I fought him, I didn't have a chance to use my internal force at all. This guy is like a ball of cotton; he doesn't exert any force when I hit him. How can I use my internal force like that?"

Clearly, Gu Yueling harbored deep resentment towards Chen Feng for that battle.

If she loses in a head-on confrontation, she has nothing to say, but if she loses dirty, she will be very unhappy, and she will probably still remember it for years to come.

The two chatted as they returned to the spectator area where the others were.

After Ning Rongrong and Gu Yueling finished their duel, the other duels also ended one after another.

"Everyone has won the battle today, very good. Now we will start preparing for the team battle." Tang San announced after everyone had gathered. "I have submitted the list of nine people who need to participate, and we should have the results soon."

"Who are you planning to field?" Chen Feng asked.

Tang San shook his head. "It's not certain yet. It depends on the situation of the other side. After we're matched with an opponent, the staff at the Soul Arena will send the basic information of both sides to the other side."

"If the two sides agree on the number of participants, but the number of people on the list exceeds the agreed number, then the selection of participants becomes a game of strategy between the two sides."

Chen Feng thought for a moment and said, "It should usually be seven people, right? After all, the team battles in the Soul Master Competition consist of seven people, and the Soul Arena should also be affected by the Soul Master Competition."

There are two types of people who participate in the Soul Battle: one type is people from the general public who come to train their combat skills or to earn money, and the other type is students from the Soul Master Academy.

The main purpose of the Soul Master Academy students participating in the Soul Battle is to prepare for the Soul Master Competition, so the team battle practice is naturally the seven-person team battle.

In this way, their opponents will likely also choose a seven-player team battle, otherwise the two sides won't be able to match up.

Over time, seven-player team battles will likely become the default format for the Arena.

However, there are always exceptions, which is why the Arena doesn't have a fixed number of players in team battles.

"You're right. I asked the staff, and they also said that most team battles in the Soul Arena are seven-person team battles, and it's rare to see team battles with more than seven people."

“We have a total of nine people who can participate in team battles. Xiao Feng, you can also be included if you want to play. This gives us more flexibility in personnel selection, and we can arrange counters to play based on the opponent’s situation,” Tang San said with a smile.

As they were talking, a staff member from the Soul Arena came over and handed Tang San a list.

"Sir, this is the information of your opponents in this team battle." After saying this, the staff member left.

Everyone gathered around to look at the list of opponents, and soon Ma Hongjun muttered to himself:

"It doesn't seem very strong."

"How strong can the opponents in the first team battle be?" Xiao Wu also felt that the opponents on this list were somewhat weak.

Or to put it another way, it's a bit green.

Not only were their martial souls unremarkable, but their soul power was also mediocre at the Soul Master level, with the highest being only level thirty-seven.

This is normal, after all, the world is mostly made up of ordinary people, and those in the Royal Fighting Team are already a very small minority.

Speaking of the Royal Fighting Team, Chen Feng planned to ask the staff at the Soul Arena later if there were any team matches for them today. If so, he could take the opportunity to gather some information.

Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win every battle.

Although the Shi brothers lost to the combination of Gu Yueling and Ning Rongrong, it doesn't mean they weren't strong; they just lost because they were countered.

The fact that the Shi brothers were able to achieve nine consecutive victories in a place like the Heavenly Battle Arena is enough to demonstrate their strength.

If Chen Feng were to encounter them, unless he could instantly kill one of them at the start, it would be quite difficult for him to fight them.

Even with Zhu Zhuqing added, they would still need to eliminate one of the two brothers through a surprise assassination in order to win the competition.

In other words, once these two brothers are joined together, most opponents will be left scratching their heads in frustration.

The Shi brothers are not the top members of the Royal Fighting Team. Leaving aside Yu Tianheng, who has the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Martial Soul, the Nine Heart Begonia alone is enough to create a chemical reaction with the two brothers.

If all seven members of the Royal Fighting Team were to gather, who knows what disgusting things they might hatch into?

Therefore, Chen Feng must make plans early.

As for Tang San and the others' team battle, Chen Feng didn't plan to watch it. The opponent's level was indeed very average, and they should be able to win the game as long as they played normally.

Chen Feng's idea is good, but unfortunately, the Royal Fighting Team is not here today.

According to the staff, the Royal Fighting Team is a well-known team in their area. Although they don't come often, they always manage to win when they do.

Coincidentally, no one from the Royal Fighting Team came to register for the team battle today; it seems that only the Shi brothers were here.

Chen Feng was somewhat disappointed with the result, but he didn't care too much about it.

There will be plenty of time in the future to see what the Royal Fighting Team is like.

After returning to the spectator area, Tang San and his team's team battle also ended.

Unsurprisingly, they won easily.

Thus, Hydra's debut in the Heaven Dou Arena ended in a complete victory.

On the way back, everyone was chatting and laughing because of their perfect victory in the battle. Just as they were about to return to the academy, Gu Yueling suddenly spoke up:
"I'm level 40."

"Huh? When?" Ning Rongrong asked in surprise.

"It was when I was hitting those two sandbags just now, that exhilarating fight, that helped me break through," Gu Yueling said.

"That's great! We should tell the teachers right away and ask them to help you find a suitable spirit beast," Tang San suggested.

But Gu Yueling shook her head and said:

"There's no need to trouble the teachers. I plan to go home tomorrow and ask my family to help me find a soul beast. Besides, the teachers just came back from the Death Desert, so it wouldn't be good to make them go back again."

"I see." Tang San thought for a moment and then said nothing more.

For many Soul Masters from wealthy families, they might prefer to have their family members help them find Soul Beasts, as this is a safer option and they can also draw on the Soul Ring planning experience passed down through generations of their family.

Like Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing back then, and Meng Yiran later, if they hadn't met Chen Feng, they might have continued to follow the old path given to them by their families, instead of arbitrarily forging new paths.

Because of the great risks involved, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing might not have easily changed their soul ring configurations if it weren't for the rules of the successor duel and the fact that they had encountered a genius scholar like Chen Feng.

Therefore, Tang San believed that Gu Yueling was in the same situation, because she was unwilling to easily change her spirit ring configuration, so she wanted to go home to obtain a spirit ring.

However, Chen Feng saw Gu Yueling's decision to go home as a different matter.

Chen Feng had always suspected that she was an imperial auspicious beast, but he hadn't gotten any concrete evidence. Now that Gu Yueling had suddenly decided to go home, did it mean that she wanted to do something?

If Gu Yueling were an ordinary person, then Chen Feng wouldn't need to think too much; he could just wait for Gu Yueling to return.

If Gu Yueling is indeed an imperial auspicious beast, then considering their previous experience in the Death Desert, Chen Feng believes that Gu Yueling is very likely going to report to those ferocious beasts.

So what results will this report bring?

Chen Feng couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Chen Feng was actually unaware of the state of the ferocious beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest during the Douyi era.

All he knew was that the ferocious beasts were more active ten thousand years later, and even launched a massive beast tide.

It was that beast tide that forced Shrek Academy to set a rule that forbids anyone below the Soul King level from entering the Star Dou Great Forest head-on.

Of course, the root cause of this situation was that Shrek Academy, as the strongest academy at the time, had students who frequently entered the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt soul beasts, thus arousing the hatred of the soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.

This can be considered a consequence of the escalating conflict between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts.

Later, the Soul Spirit system created by Electrolux originally had the hope of easing this conflict, but as we all know, although Electrolux left behind the Snow Empress's Soul Spirit, he himself died to save Huo Yuhao.

Although Huo Yuhao perfected the theory of soul spirits, he did not have time to establish the order related to the soul spirit system because he was taken away by Tang Shenwang.

Thus, the conflict between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts completely erupted. By the time of Douluo III, the Soul Beast forces had been severely damaged, and consequently, the life energy of Douluo Star weakened. As a result, the Soul Masters also suffered.

This is the lose-lose situation that Chen Feng mentioned before, between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts.

Therefore, he has always wanted to establish a win-win relationship between the two, or in more professional terms, a sustainable scientific development perspective.

In any case, draining the pond to catch all the fish is definitely not advisable. If there is no water and no fish, how can people live well?

The problem now is that Chen Feng doesn't know the exact state of the ferocious beast.

Are they able to come out and move around at any time? Or are their movements restricted, preventing them from taking any action?
The latter would be better, as it would prevent the situation from becoming complicated.

However, if it is the former, then the ferocious beasts will inevitably take action.

The most likely course of action would be to kidnap Chen Feng directly into the Star Dou Great Forest, which would then cause a lot of trouble.

Chen Feng's own safety is secondary, since the ferocious beasts are unlikely to harm him anyway. However, this could very likely cause a conflict between humans and soul beasts, given Chen Feng's unusual identity.

So, what should we do?

(End of this chapter)