Douluo Continent: Peerless Angel Qian Renxue

Chapter 239 The Spirit Hall Wants to Make Some Money

Ye Xishui was both amused and exasperated: "I heard Yuan Yi mention the meal you made for her on her birthday..."

Qian Renxue narrowed her eyes: "Alright, this little fox betrayed me, didn't she?"

"...It's delicious." Ye Xishui said.

Qian Renxue narrowed her eyes: "Alright, this little fox is just being hypocritical, isn't she?"

The two chatted as they traveled, and before they knew it, they had arrived in the territory of the Star Luo Empire.

"It seems like there are surveillance cameras everywhere," Qian Renxue said as they passed through some towns.

"It should have happened in the last few months," Ye Xishui said.

"Yes, I've heard about this from my subordinates, but when I actually arrived in the Star Luo Empire, I was still quite surprised." Qian Renxue shook her head. "Simply trying to control the people's speech is undoubtedly digging our own grave."

"The information offensive has been a great success, which proves that they can't silence the people by doing this. I heard that you are preparing to establish a second branch in the southern part of the empire. You must be planning to infiltrate the Star Luo Empire, right?" Ye Xishui asked.

"Yes, that's right. The reason I came to participate in this competition is to observe the people of Xingluo City up close. This is the capital, and it can be considered the gathering place of most nobles."

"Alright. Besides Shrek Academy, other major powers should also be paying attention to this competition, such as the Body Sect. You can use this to launch another round of publicity." Ye Xishui nodded.

Qian Renxue smiled mysteriously: "Teacher, just watch. This time, I've specially arranged for another group of people to enter Xingluo City, and I guarantee it will be effective immediately."

Ye Xishui raised an eyebrow, but didn't ask any further questions. The two of them flew quickly towards Xingluo City.

A few days later, in Xingluo City, at the Xinghuang Hotel.

At the top of the hotel, in a huge VIP suite, the participants of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy sat in a specially designed meeting room within the suite.

Inside the conference room, the members of the regular and reserve teams sat on either side of the long conference table. At the head of the table were Teacher Ma and another teacher who led the team, Tong Tingting, Qian Renxue's former homeroom teacher and soul guide trainer.

Originally, Tong Tingting wasn't going to get involved in this matter, but because Qian Renxue was there, she discussed it with Jing Hongchen and asked for the spot.

Because of Qian Renxue, her status in the academy rose accordingly, and she was indeed very skilled at training soul masters.

Tong Tingting reached out and tapped the table twice, and fourteen small soul-guided screens appeared in front of the team members: "Children, according to our observations, Shrek Academy only sent ten contestants this time. Elder Ma used our informants within the Star Luo Empire and obtained accurate information."

Qian Renxue remained completely unmoved; she knew perfectly well why only ten people had come.

Everyone looked down at the small soul guidance screen, which recorded information about ten people gathered from internal investigations. Three of them were nineteen years old, and the other seven were under fifteen. The meaning of this was self-evident.

At this moment, Old Ma slammed his fist on the table: "What is this? This is contempt! They completely look down on us! They think they can crush us by sending only a reserve team! Ma Rulong! If we lose this match to such a lousy lineup, you're getting out of Mingde Hall!"

Xiao Hongchen calmly said, "Old Ma, do you remember the academy competition five years ago? Shrek Academy had the privilege of being late. Even if the registration deadline had passed, as long as the person who arrived later arrived, they could continue to participate in the competition."

Old Ma originally intended to use this opportunity to encourage the starting team members, but Xiao Hongchen interrupted him. The current Xiao Hongchen was not as arrogant and conceited as before; although he was proud, he also knew how to restrain himself.

Old Ma glanced at Xiao Hongchen, quite satisfied with the reserve team captain: "Xiao Hongchen, no matter what, they will let that reserve team play in the first few matches, which is a good opportunity to observe their abilities in advance. Our intelligence only has their names, but no specific information on their martial spirits and soul power levels."

Xiao Hongchen smiled slightly: "That's natural, Elder Ma. The instructors taught us that we must first treat them like trash in terms of momentum, and then use our full strength when the golden toad fights the turtle."

"First of all, that's called strategic contempt and tactical attention; secondly, even a lion uses its full strength to hunt a rabbit," Qian Renxue explained helplessly. "Xiao, here's a task for you: during the first match tomorrow, go and observe those little bastards, and then summarize your impressions of them."

Upon hearing Qian Renxue's words, Xiao Hongchen nodded in agreement.

Old Ma nodded slightly: "In that case, I will arrange the personnel for tomorrow's first battle."

On the morning of the second day, all the participating teams left the Xinghuang Hotel and headed to Xingluo Square, while Qian Renxue, Shen Yuanyi, and Xue Di stayed at the hotel.

Xue Di and Shen Yuanyi stayed at the hotel to break through their bottlenecks during cultivation the previous night, while Qian Renxue changed her appearance and went to a small inn next to the Xinghuang Hotel.

They weren't interested in this so-called opening ceremony, and Qian Renxue also had things to do.

She arrived at the small inn and entered a simple room. Inside the room was Coco Nair, the president of the Spirit Hall and the Spirit Merchant Guild.

Upon entering the room, Qian Renxue removed the hat she had been wearing: "You're here? How's the investigation going?"

CocoNair smiled and said, "Young Master, according to my market research, the entrance fee for this Soul Master Competition is two gold soul coins per person per day, while the area near the competition stage requires one hundred gold soul coins."

Qian Renxue pondered for a moment: "What's the situation on your end now? It should be different."

"Young Master, you're right. In fact, because there are only so many seats, some people have already bought some seats in advance and then resold them at high prices, thus making a lot of money from the price difference. Some seats that were originally worth 100 gold soul coins have been speculated to be worth nearly 2,000 gold soul coins. In our industry, this practice is called scalping."

"How many seats have you acquired so far?" Qian Renxue asked, "And how many have you sold?"

"Since tickets went on sale three days in advance, we managed to buy quite a few seats. We've already made 300,000 Gold Soul Coins by reselling tickets over the past few days and profiting from the price difference."

Qian Renxue pondered for a moment: "If we look at the price difference you just mentioned, it seems a bit small. In one day, the Star Luo Royal Family could earn around two million."

Coco said helplessly, "There's nothing we can do about it. The Martial Soul Merchant Guild only has so many people right now, and there are other nobles in Star Luo City doing the same thing, so we can't be too blatant right now."

Qian Renxue narrowed her eyes. This was a method Coco Nair had mentioned to her before for quickly earning gold soul coins. She had allocated 400 million gold soul coins to build the Silver Moon Temple, and now the Spirit Hall urgently needed a large amount of money.

Who doesn't like a little money?

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