Douluo Continent: Narration Modified, Everyone Goes Crazy!

Chapter 43 Tang San's Money-Making Secrets: Selling Hidden Weapons!

"What! They blew up the Great Soul Arena?"

Shen He looked at Manager Ao, the person in charge of the Great Soul Arena, who was following behind Tang San and Master Yu with an unfriendly expression. After Manager Ao explained the trouble these two had caused in the Great Soul Arena, he learned about it.

"It's not easy to come back alive!"

While marveling at how the explosion hadn't killed the two guys, Shen He looked at Manager Ao, the person in charge of the Soul Arena, who had followed him back.

"So you've come here to demand compensation?"

If one of your men causes trouble and brings others over, it seems like you should be liable for compensation.

"The explosion at the Soul Arena is clearly due to the poor construction quality of your arena. How can you expect the Soul Masters involved to pay compensation?"

"If other Soul Masters find out that you also have to pay compensation for damage to the arena during Soul Battles, that wouldn't be a good thing for you, would it?"

When Manager Ao heard Shen He's explanation, he understood that the Great Soul Arena's actions this time were indeed somewhat unethical, but the losses caused were too great, and they couldn't just let it go like that.

"Of course there's no need for compensation; I didn't come here for this reason."

"Oh? What's the matter, Manager Ao?"

Upon hearing Manager Ao's denial, Shen He immediately became interested and couldn't wait to know what earth-shattering things Tang San and Master Yu had done.

"I have come here to demand compensation for the mental distress and health expenses caused to the audience by these two during the battle, as well as the costs of treating the casualties and injuries caused by the explosion."

As he spoke, Manager Ao silently added the venue fees and other losses to the treatment costs in his mind.

"A total of 100,000 Gold Soul Coins. As the Dean, how would you like to pay?"

"I was wondering why these two came back without any injuries; it turns out your side had provided them with treatment beforehand."

Upon hearing Shen He admit to the treatment, Supervisor Ao gradually relaxed. After all, if Shen He had said that these two people were not from Shrek Academy and that Shrek Academy would not bear the cost of their personal actions, he would have been helpless.

Relying on those two poor Soul Masters, Master Yu and Tang San, to compensate us would probably be too much money even if we sold everything!

"100,000 gold soul coins is just a number to me. You two remember this, you have to pay it back! And this time I only paid for it because Tang San is from Shrek Academy! As for the interest rate, let's calculate it based on 'nine out and thirteen back' to round it up to 150,000 gold soul coins."

Master Yu and Tang San breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that Shen He was willing to pay in advance, but they were still reluctant when they heard about the high interest rate. However, in order not to continue to embarrass themselves, they had no choice but to accept it, since they couldn't find anyone else to help them pay off their debts.

The matter was finally settled when Shen He handed a prepaid card worth 100,000 gold soul coins to Manager Ao. The trouble caused by Master Yu and Tang San was ultimately paid for by Shen He, who ended up owing Shen He a large sum of money, essentially returning them to square one.

The two, now penniless, not only have to repay Shen He's money, but also have to pay for their own food. The two hundred gold soul coins that the Spirit Hall provides each month are simply not enough.

Even if they didn't eat or drink, it would take 750 months, more than seventy years, to pay off the debt. They probably wouldn't be able to pay it off even if they died. More importantly, the Spirit Hall's subsidies are only distributed up to the Soul Master level. Once they break through to the Soul Sect level and obtain a Soul Ring, they won't receive a single penny. After all, the original intention of the Spirit Hall's subsidies is to encourage lower-level Soul Masters and increase their motivation to cultivate.

Who would have thought that Master Yu, a good-for-nothing who hasn't even broken through to the Soul Sect level in decades, would now be relying on these two to pay him back every month?

Back at the pigsty, Tang San glanced at the place where he and Master Yu lived, and his dissatisfaction with Shen He reached its peak.

One of them is a genius Soul Master with exceptional talent, and the other is the number one theoretical master in the Soul Master world. They are both renowned figures in the Douluo Continent.

And now, they're all sleeping in pigsties?

Is there no justice left? Is there no law left?

"This can't go on, Master."

In Tang San's mind, Shen He, who was taking advantage of their misfortune, was undoubtedly courting death. However, considering that he was no match for Shen He and for the sake of his image, he could only postpone his revenge against Shen He and start thinking about repaying the money. After all, Shen He had lent them money when they couldn't find anyone else to help them.

"My dear mistress, we're completely out of food money for this month. We're afraid we'll really have to eat pork for our thesis defense!"

Master Yu looked wistfully at the pigs in the pigpen who ate and slept with them, and said to Tang San.

Now that he's a useless person, all he can do is hope that his disciples can come up with a solution.

Upon hearing Master Yu's words, Tang San made his choice without hesitation.

"Master, how about we make some hidden weapons and sell them?"

I've been waiting for you to say that!

Upon hearing Tang San's words, Master Yu's eyes lit up. Although Tang San had never mentioned what his hidden weapons were made of or where they came from, Master Yu was already familiar with their power.

Tang San's Zhuge Crossbow is more than capable of dealing with opponents below the Soul Master level, and can even instantly kill Soul Masters. The Hidden Sand Shot is absolutely lethal against Soul Masters below level 30. Soul Masters above level 30 without poison resistance are also easily affected. Moreover, these hidden weapons are inexpensive to produce; if sold, they could fetch at least a thousand or eight hundred gold soul coins. Selling a few hundred would more than cover debts and even living expenses.

"Isn't this a bit inappropriate? Wasn't that your idea, mistress? Wouldn't it be a huge loss to sell it like this?"

Although he really wanted to agree, Master Yu pretended to hesitate for the sake of his image as an elder.

"It's alright, Master. It's just selling the hidden weapons I made. As long as I add a self-destruct mechanism, no one can copy them!"

Although he didn't create the Tang Clan's hidden weapons, he didn't think anyone in Douluo Continent could crack them based on the wisdom of the Tang Clan accumulated over thousands of years.

Yu Da Shi was naturally very supportive of Tang San's idea. Tang San took the initiative to propose it, but Yu Da Shi didn't know much about these things. If he really wanted to help, it would only be with some price negotiations. Wasn't this just trying to get money back by clinging to someone's coattails?

Can taking advantage of one's own disciples be called abusing one's seniority? It's called the disciple voluntarily sharing the burden with the teacher!

Master Yu was extremely glad that he had been so decisive and carefree in deceiving Tang San into becoming his disciple.

Seemingly imagining the joy of spending gold soul coins in the future, Master Yu immediately made the decision.

Let's go! We'll make some hidden weapons to sell and pay back the money!

So the two of them immediately left the pigsty and went to the blacksmith shop to buy, or rather, to use Master Yu's superb persuasive skills to trick, bah, to buy on credit the raw materials for making hidden weapons.

(End of this chapter)