Douluo Continent: My Martial Soul is the Black Dragon, I am the Lord of the Gods

Chapter 42 Cultural Crisis
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“Bibi Dong, the child you had Yue Guan snatch from Tian Dou City does not belong to you.”

Pope's Palace.

Since Qian Daoliu couldn't personally intervene, he had to ask Golden Crocodile Douluo to discuss the matter.

“Not mine?” Bibi Dong raised her head.

"Does that mean it belongs to you?"

“Xiaoxue took a liking to it first,” said Golden Crocodile Douluo.

"Yue Guan also snatched him away from She Long, so you have no reason to keep him in your hands."

"She took a liking to it first?" Bibi Dong raised an eyebrow.

"Regarding the matter concerning Dugu Bo, Yue Guan and Gui Mei have already reported on it at the Elder Hall meeting."

"It was the child that Yue Guan and the others encountered first. They reported the news to me as soon as they returned to Wuhun City, and I also immediately issued the order to bring the person back."

"Before I gave the order, that child probably hadn't even returned to Heaven Dou City yet. How could it be that she took a liking to him first?"

"Elder Golden Crocodile, if we're talking about who arrived first, it seems I was the first one here, wasn't it?"

Golden Crocodile Douluo frowned. "You only gave the order, but Xiaoxue was the one who came into contact with the child first."

"Of course she went first."

"Her first?" Bibi Dong stood up.

"Has she already won over that child? Or has Xue Qinghe already won over that child?"

"It seems like none of them have it yet?"

"If we're talking about who came into contact first, then it was Dugu Bo who came into contact with that child first. Ultimately, Xuanming should be considered Dugu Bo's person."

"I had Yue Guan bring the person back, but that person was snatched from Dugu Bo. What business is it of hers?"

Golden Crocodile Douluo grunted, "I'm not going to argue with you about this. Anyway, that child is Xiaoxue's, and you can't keep it."

Bibi Dong frowned slightly. "So, Elder Golden Crocodile only came to inform me?"

"So what if I give you a notification?" Golden Crocodile Douluo said.

"..."

“Then naturally I wouldn’t dare say anything more.” Bibi Dong sat back down.

"That child is currently at the Martial Soul Academy. Elder Jin'e, if you wish to kidnap him, please do so."

As she spoke, Bibi Dong's attention returned to the memorial on the table.

Seeing that Bibi Dong agreed so easily, Golden Crocodile Douluo couldn't help but feel a little suspicious.

Is this a trick?

"You'd better not try anything funny," Golden Crocodile Douluo warned, then turned and left.

Bibi Dong raised her head, squinted, and watched Golden Crocodile Douluo leave.

Xuanming has adapted fairly well to the Martial Soul Academy these past few days. Thanks to Hu Liena's connections, no one dares to bully the child.

Moreover, the students at the Martial Soul Academy are a group of innocent children, unlike the noble children of Heaven Dou City, who subconsciously regard Xuanming as an outsider or even a plaything.

The children were mostly just curious about Xuanming, after all, it was the first time they had ever seen such a peculiar martial soul mutation.

According to Yue Guan's report, Xuan Ming's guard has lowered considerably under these circumstances. He is no longer opposed to life at the Martial Soul Academy and has relaxed.

Imagine a child who has experienced hardship and finally settled down, only to have his hard-won peace suddenly shattered. How do you think he would feel?
If this happens again and again, the child probably won't be in a good mood, right?

……

Wuhun Academy.

Worried that Xuanming might not adapt well to studying in a lower grade class, Hu Liena decided to take him to the higher grade classes with her, regardless of whether he could understand them or not, just to let him get used to the environment first.

Then, Hu Liena discovered that Xuanming was very smart. He could remember many things after hearing them only once, and he understood them quickly. He could even skip many lower-grade courses completely.

"You...are you really an orphan?"

Hu Liena looked at Xuan Ming with a strange expression. She could understand his lack of talent as a factor in his martial spirit cultivation.

However, this child had absolutely no difficulty reading and writing!

The Martial Soul Academy also has academic courses. It doesn't require you to be an expert in everything, but as a Soul Master, you can't be completely illiterate.

Therefore, the first three years after entering the Martial Soul Academy involve a heavy academic workload.

Soul Masters have stronger mental strength and memory than ordinary people. As long as they are strict with themselves, they can master the cultural courses that ordinary people take nearly ten years to learn in three to five years.

Most people will only begin their actual theoretical studies after three years of general education courses.

After all, if your academic studies aren't up to par, you won't even understand what the teacher is saying, let alone learn those complex theories about Soul Master cultivation.

She is a spirit-type Soul Master with strong spiritual power and a clever mind. Therefore, she completed the basic cultural courses in just two years and entered the theoretical learning stage.

A couple of days ago, when she was teaching Xuanming a senior theory class, she felt something was strange. The child could actually understand what the teacher was saying!
At the time, she only thought that the child was exceptionally gifted.

However, she brought back two books for lower elementary school students today, intending to teach Xuanming to read, but the child was actually able to understand them!

If they were nobles, they would have special teachers to teach them these things from the age of four or five, so it's not surprising that they could read.

But wasn't Xuanming an orphan from the border region?
How could he possibly be literate? Who taught him?
"..."

Faced with Hu Liena's suspicions, Xuan Ming fell silent.

He also wanted to know why Douluo Continent was written in Chinese.

Therefore, even if he has never attended school in this world and no one has taught him, he can still understand the text here.

He hadn't noticed this problem before, since he hadn't seen many books before.

Now, he can't exactly say that the villagers taught him, can he?

Given his previous situation of being orphaned, homeless, and unable to afford food, where would he have had the opportunity to study and learn to read?

"Don't be angry, I was just asking, I didn't mean anything by it."

Seeing Xuanming's brows furrowing, Hu Liena mistakenly thought he was angry and quickly tried to explain.

"Did your mother teach you that?"

Xuanming did not respond.

He was only five years old when his mother passed away, and he never had the chance to learn to read.

"I didn't mean to bring up your sad stories."

Seeing that Xuanming did not respond, seemingly because he was saddened by his mother's situation, Hu Liena believed that she had guessed correctly, and at the same time, she felt a little guilty.

“I am not sad,” Xuanming said.

Because of his father's passing, his mother gave birth to him prematurely, which caused her to develop health problems and eventually die young.

He was indeed grateful to his mother in this life, but there wasn't much affection between them, and he even found it difficult to adapt to their relationship.

Perhaps he has become accustomed to living alone and can no longer experience the warmth of family.

Because he had never experienced it, he didn't know what it was.

Perhaps he was sad, or perhaps he was just a heartless person.

"Hmm." Hu Liena gently hugged him, ignoring Xuan Ming's reaction, and opened the book.

“You should have learned some of it, but not all of it. Let me teach you.”

"Repeat after me, sister."

"..."

"Yes."

"I recognize this character."

“These are two words.”

"..."

(End of this chapter)