Douluo Continent has a system, but I don't want to use it.

Chapter 85 An unexpected encounter with the Holy Maiden of the Spirit Hall in Spirit City

After Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan reunited with Dugu Bo, they followed the Beast Academy and discreetly protected Liu Erlong, Fang Yi, and Dugu Xin.

The group from the Beast Academy participated in the Soul Master Competition as planned. Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan, naturally, weren't interested in this level of Soul Master combat. They simply followed from a distance.

Apart from Fang Yi, Liu Erlong, and Dugu Xin, the rest of the students at the Beast Academy are all at the Soul Master level. Even in such a top-tier competition, they still have opponents.

Despite stumbling and falling along the way, the team led by the three little ones eventually became one of the five teams to advance.

During this time, there were naturally moments of joy in victory and moments of frustration in defeat, and injuries were also inevitable. Fang Tian would only check them out from time to time, and as long as the injury was not to the point of affecting their very essence, he would hand them over to the healing soul masters of the Beast Academy for treatment.

During the competition, Dugu Xin had the highest soul power in the Tian Dou region. There really were people with malicious intentions who tried to assassinate this talented student.

Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan showed no mercy, interrogating the other party before killing him, and then handing the evidence over to Dugu Bo for processing.

The Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire, after deliberation, imposed a severe punishment: the academy was banned from participating in the next three Soul Master Tournaments. This academy was essentially finished; it would be unlikely to recruit many outstanding students in the future.

The five teams that advanced went through another round of matches to determine the rankings of each team, which also allowed the various noble sects and other organizations that hoped to recruit commoner soul masters to see the strength of the participants.

Afterwards, the members of the Beast Academy set off with the escort army personally dispatched by the Heavenly Dou Empire. This time, the Heavenly Dou Empire was led by Xue Ye, who had not yet ascended the throne.

The procession moved slowly and leisurely forward. Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan, after disguising themselves, followed along leisurely in the procession of the Beast Academy.

After a month-long journey, we finally arrived at the holy land of Soul Masters—Wuhun City.

The Martial Soul City is majestic and vast, bearing the marks of time and the weight of history. The traces left by various soul skills and beast claws on the city walls are still clearly visible.

It is evident that there have been multiple instances of soul beasts attacking the city throughout history.

The group from the Beast Academy entered Wuhun City with the main group and checked into the arranged hotel.

After Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan saw that the group had settled down, they decided to take a stroll around Wuhun City. It was their first time visiting Wuhun City, so they naturally wanted to explore it thoroughly.

After saying goodbye to Dugu Bo, Fang Tian and Qiu Fengyan went shopping together.

The two strolled leisurely, buying and trying any snacks that caught their eye along the way.

Fang Tian suddenly noticed two young people in front of him. It wasn't due to any mysterious force that he noticed them; it was simply because the young woman was exceptionally beautiful.

"Hmph! Where are you looking? Your eyes are glued to me." Qiu Fengyan was happily strolling down the street when her lover's gaze was drawn to another girl, and she immediately flew into a rage.

"Stop fooling around, we're doing serious business! See those two young men and women up ahead? I suspect that woman might be Bibi Dong, the Holy Maiden of the Spirit Hall." Fang Tian saw that Qiu Fengyan was showing signs of anger, so he quickly changed the subject.

Fang Tian had already used his own recognition system to check the information of the two people opposite him.

The young man possessed a soul power level of 29 and his martial soul was a mutated Radiant Holy Dragon Cub. The young woman possessed a soul power level of 56 and her martial souls were the twin martial souls, Soul Devouring Spider Emperor and Death Spider Emperor.

"Is that the Holy Maiden of the Spirit Hall?" Qiu Fengyan asked in surprise.

"Yes, but the person next to her is widely recognized as having low aptitude in the Douluo Continent. You should have heard of him; he's Yu Xiaogang, the son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's leader, the one with innate soul power of 0.5." Fang Tian replied with a smile.

"Oh? That's Yu Xiaogang, the famous one in Douluo Continent? Why are those two walking together? They probably don't have much in common, do they?" Qiu Fengyan asked in surprise.

"The strangest thing in the world is this kind of inexplicable emotion. It's easy for someone with ulterior motives to scheme against a naive and brainless fool," Fang Tian said with a smile.

If Fang Tian listened carefully, he could hear Yu Xiaogang showing off his research results to Bibi Dong.

"I've discovered that plant-based martial souls don't necessarily need to absorb plant-based soul beasts, and animal-based martial souls don't necessarily need to absorb animal-based soul beasts; they can absorb each other," Yu Xiaogang said with a smug look.

"Pfft!" Qiu Fengyan laughed out loud. Since Fang Tian could hear it, Qiu Fengyan, with her Title Douluo mental strength, could naturally hear it as well.

"Haha, sorry, I wasn't laughing at you. I just suddenly thought of something happy," Qiu Fengyan said, trying to suppress her laughter.

At this moment, Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong turned around and saw a young woman who looked to be around twenty years old covering her mouth and laughing.

"Does this young lady find what I just said ridiculous?" Yu Xiaogang frowned.

"It's not that funny, just generally funny! Hahaha, I couldn't help it! Sorry, I usually don't laugh at others unless I can't help it." Qiu Fengyan said, bursting into laughter.

"You! Is there something wrong with my theory?" Yu Xiaogang's face turned red with anger.

"Hehe, since you insist on figuring out exactly where your theory is wrong, then I'll explain it to you properly." Qiu Fengyan saw that Yu Xiaogang was determined to take things seriously, and she immediately stopped indulging him.

"Plant-based martial souls must absorb the spirit rings of plant-based spirit beasts, and animal-based martial souls must absorb the spirit rings of animal-based spirit beasts. Which book holds this view? If we follow this view, then what spirit rings should sword-based martial souls, saber-based martial souls, and hammer-based martial souls absorb?" Qiu Fengyan retorted with a smile.

"This! This!..." Yu Xiaogang was speechless.

"Could this be a point of view you made up, and then you're trying to find someone to refute it so you can show off how smart you are?" Qiu Fengyan said with amusement.

"When choosing spirit rings, people with plant-type martial souls choose spirit rings from plant-type spirit beasts, and people with animal-type martial souls choose spirit rings from animal-type spirit beasts," Yu Xiaogang said excitedly, as if he had found evidence to support his point of view.

"Hehe, this is just a rule that has been agreed upon by everyone over a long period of time. It's not a rule that's absolute!" Qiu Fengyan said doubtfully.

"Since the establishment of the Soul Master system, do you think everyone knew at the beginning that animal martial souls need to absorb the soul rings of soul beasts, and plant martial souls need to absorb the soul rings of plant soul beasts?"

Back then, it wasn't about absorbing whatever was powerful or absorbing the spirit rings of whatever spirit beast you hunted.

"But later, people gradually discovered that plant-based martial souls absorb the spirit rings of plant-based spirit beasts, and animal-based martial souls absorb the spirit rings of animal-based spirit beasts. This is why things gradually evolved into the current state," Qiu Fengyan summarized.

(End of this chapter)