Douluo Continent: I, Huo Yuhao, am the Master of Spirit

Chapter 28 "These Insects of the Douling Empire's Royal Family!" (Please read on, it's very important)
"Ouch! That hurts!"

A young man sat on a chair in the clinic with a bruised and swollen face. Huo Yuhao squeezed his left wrist and moved it slightly downwards after hearing him cry out in pain.

"What about this side?"

"Master Huo, I don't feel anything."

Huo Yuhao nodded, picked up a pen and paper to write it down in his notebook, and then said to him, "His wrist is fractured."

"The crack isn't very deep; I'll treat it for you right away."

After confirming the injury, Huo Yuhao performed a local reversal surgery on his left wrist.

Huo Yuhao is becoming increasingly adept at using this technique.

Initially, the reversal technique could only be used on the whole person, but now it can be used for partial reversals.

The physical energy generated after the reversal only acts on one area, which not only greatly reduces the user's energy consumption, but also alleviates the patient's pain.

The young man gritted his teeth, enduring the excruciating pain of his flesh being torn apart, while an unbearable itch shot through his left wrist.

This wasn't his first time coming here for treatment, so he was mentally prepared.

"All right."

Upon hearing Huo Yuhao's words, he was stunned and gasped for breath, turning his left wrist over and over to examine it several times.

"Hehe, your medical skills are truly superb, Master."

"If it were one of those healing Soul Masters from the Soul Arena, this hand would probably need to rest for a few days before it could fight again."

Huo Yuhao was somewhat helpless when he heard that his first thought was to go to battle.

"They have a point. You should rest for a few days."

The young man shook his head and said, "That won't do. I'm counting on making money through Soul Battles."

"As you know, I'm already level 20, just one more spirit ring away from becoming a Great Spirit Master."

"I must absorb a hundred-year-old spirit ring for this second spirit ring."

"Otherwise, there's no hope of even breaking through to the Soul Master level."

"If I fight ten more Soul Battles, I'll be able to earn enough money to hire a Soul Hunting Team."

"Alright, Master, I'll be leaving now."

The young man jumped up from his chair, put the money on the table, and excitedly left the clinic, heading straight for the arena.

In fact, Huo Yuhao knew that even if this young man absorbed the second soul ring of a hundred years, he would still find it difficult to break through to the Soul Master level.

His first spirit ring was a ten-year earth-attribute spirit ring, which was not only short-lived but also conflicted with his own spirit attribute.

The Wind-attribute Swift Wolf was originally of average strength. The wrong spirit rings polluted the origin of his spirit, and coupled with the hidden injuries left by years of battles in the Soul Arena, it was basically destined that he would not be able to break through to the Soul Master level.

Huo Yuhao has met more than a dozen people in similar situations.

This situation is common among Soul Masters, or rather, those Soul Masters in the original work who have the best or even overpowered configurations are extremely rare.

At least in all the Soul Fighting competitions Huo Yuhao has watched in Xuanfeng City, he has hardly seen anyone obtain the best configuration of Soul Rings.

Either the first ring is a hundred years old but the attributes don't match, or the attributes match but the age is too short.

Jiang Nannan's martial soul and soul ring configuration are among the best in Xuanfeng City.

"Or perhaps, this is the original state of the world."

After seeing off the first customer of the morning, Huo Yuhao returned to the counter to organize medical books, constantly using pen and paper to draw the direction of the human body's meridians, combining his practical experience over the past few days.

During this time, Huo Yuhao discovered through the Xuan Tian Gong and the human anatomy diagrams accumulated over ten thousand years in Douluo Continent that all Soul Masters who can cultivate have three open meridians. Even if they are not open before the age of six, these three meridians will definitely open after awakening their Martial Soul and gaining Soul Power.

Some medical books refer to these three meridians as the main meridians, and some even believe that all meridians are derivatives of the main meridians.

Huo Yuhao was overjoyed when he saw it; it turned out that someone in this world had already found the way for him.

When he went to find more information with great anticipation, he was told by the owner of a bookstore he frequented that the master who studied this field had been executed by the royal family of the Douling Empire a thousand years ago.

The reason was that the research content offended the authority of the royal family and nobility, so they not only ordered the people to be burned at the stake, but also confiscated all the books.

What Huo Yuhao can see now is still what he bought from the Sun Moon Empire.

It is said that the Sun and Moon Empire at the time was particularly interested in this theory, and Mingde Hall wanted to bring people to the Sun and Moon Empire, but unfortunately it did not succeed.

In the end, they managed to forcibly send people to snatch a complete set of that master's works from the Douling Empire.

After reading the entire book, the head of Mingdetang in that generation was immediately filled with grief and indignation.

His scathing criticism of the Douling Empire could be heard throughout the entire Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

It is said that he used extremely foul language and even went to the emperor of the Sun Moon Empire to angrily curse the Douling Empire for a whole day and night.

They kept saying that the Douling Empire didn't know what was good for them, which cost them a peerless genius and ruined the best opportunity for the Soul Master world to unravel the mystery of meridians.

And indeed, a thousand years have passed in Douluo Continent, yet there has been no progress whatsoever in the theory of meridians.

And then I heard that the Douling Empire felt that killing people was not enough, and wanted to scatter the master's ashes at the city gate so that everyone could trample on them.

That head of Mingde Hall was truly a traitor; he had never seen such an ignorant country.

Ignoring the Sun Moon Empire Emperor's advice, he took his self-developed level-nine soul tool and a large group of equally indignant soul masters and flew across half the continent overnight to attack Lingdou City, the capital of the Douling Empire.

The hall master ran into the palace, pulled the bewildered emperor of the Douling Empire out of his sleep, and slapped him several times across the face.

After a fierce battle, they seized the master's ashes and took all his manuscripts back to the Sun Moon Empire.

The Douling Empire dared not speak out against this, and had no choice but to remain silent.

Then the head of Mingde Hall personally supervised the large-scale printing of the master's posthumous works, hoping to preserve this lineage of meridian theory within the Sun and Moon Empire.

And he wrote a line on the title page of the book.

"To those who come after, this book is the greatest regret of our time. I hope you can carry on the torch of your predecessors and successfully climb the great mountain of meridian theory."

"Leaving a mark: Remembering the mortal world."

Huo Yuhao, who finally managed to find and read the book at the bookstore, finally understood the feelings of the Mingde Hall Master at that time.

That master almost meticulously explained the three main meridians and their derivative meridians using rigorous methods and diagrams.

They were just one step away from extending the meridian theory to the direction of the eight extraordinary meridians, and had even predicted the specific functions of the eight extraordinary meridians.

After writing only the title and preface of the "Eight Extraordinary Meridians" chapter, the book came to an abrupt end.

It made Huo Yuhao feel like he was participating in the Inch Stop Challenge.

"Damn it, the Douling Empire's royal family is a bunch of insects! What era are we living in that they still burn researchers alive!"

"How can a Soul Master ever be great again when he's stuck with these insects!"

As soon as Jiang Nannan entered, she heard Huo Yuhao's complaints and looked a little puzzled.

She stood gracefully at the door, pursed her lips, and held a repaired bag tightly behind her back.

　I'm begging you readers to suggest some more reading material; I really need it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)