Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 186 Huo Yuhao's Journey in Douyi (Part 2)

"Newspapers for sale! Martial Soul News! Master Tang has published a new theory, related to Martial Soul Fusion Techniques!"

Half a month later, Huo Yuhao arrived in Tiandou City. As soon as he entered the city gate, he heard shouts similar to those of a newspaper vendor, which felt a bit off. "There are newspapers in Douyi already? Or is it that when I was in the Dai family mansion, I didn't pay much attention to news from the outside world?"

Tian Dou City is not far from the Star Dou Great Forest. If you take a carriage, you can get there in seven days. However, Huo Yuhao had no money and got lost, so he wasted more than twenty days.

"Which academy do you want to join?" Dou Yimeng asked. "According to your memory, in this era, the only famous academies in Tiandou City are the Four Elements Academy, Tiandou Royal Academy, and Shrek Academy. Oh, right, Canghui Academy and other smaller academies also seem to be in Tiandou City."

"Shrek." Huo Yuhao's eyes narrowed as he uttered a name.

"Are you crazy? Tang San is right here at Shrek Academy!" Dou Er Tianmeng felt Huo Yuhao was acting recklessly. "Aren't you just walking into a trap?"

"The most dangerous place is the safest place. With my strength, I should be able to get in, and two white spirit rings won't attract attention." Huo Yuhao explained his reasoning. "The Four Elements Academy has certain requirements for the attributes of martial spirits, especially Tianshui, which is exclusively for women. I simply cannot join."

"Canghui Academy is a more suitable academy for me. After all, my martial soul is mental, and Shi Nian was also mental. I might be able to use his meditation method, or even find it quite compatible. However, he is similar to Tang San, a treacherous villain, and I don't trust him much."

"Although the Heaven Dou Royal Academy also accepts commoners, once I put on my two spirit rings, I can't even get through the door unless I happen to run into someone from the education committee or something, and can demonstrate my abilities... Without connections, I can't get in."

"At Shrek Academy, the main characters and ordinary students are basically on two parallel lines, with little interaction between them. Moreover, Liu Erlong comes from the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan, and the academy's library might have a meditation method suitable for mental martial souls."

Seeing that Huo Yuhao's analysis was so logical, Dou Yitian and Dou Ertian didn't say much.

If they encounter Tang San in the future, they can just keep Huo Yuhao under control. If a conflict arises again, they can simply abandon Huo Yuhao.

The necromancy seal left by Elex has been broken by them.

Electrolux is a demigod, but the two of them are also million-year-old soul beasts, and they are mental beings. Even if their methods of using mental power are not as exquisite as his, they have the advantage of quantity!

So, Huo Yuhao asked passersby for directions to Shrek Academy and then set out on his mission.

However, as soon as they arrived at the entrance of Shrek Academy, they were stopped by the gatekeeper students who said, "Unauthorized personnel are not allowed to approach."

"I'm here to enroll," Huo Yuhao said gently, taking a deep breath.

"Admission?" One of the students frowned. "You're too late. The entrance exam for this year ended two weeks ago. Try again next year."

"There's an entrance exam?" Huo Yuhao was taken aback. This was different from what he had heard on the way. "I heard that as long as you reach the level of a Great Soul Master, are no older than eighteen, and are a commoner, you can join this academy at any time. I'm twelve years old, which is the right age."

"Your information is outdated," said another student standing on the right. "The academy was renamed Shrek Academy last year, the dean changed, and the requirements for new students have been raised. You must reach the level of a Great Soul Master before the age of fourteen... If you really are a Great Soul Master, you meet that requirement, but the academy is currently short-staffed and cannot conduct a test specifically for you, unless—"

The student standing on the left chimed in: "Unless, you are exceptionally talented and your strength is close to that of a Soul Master."

The student on the right continued, "Release your martial spirit and spirit rings. We'll see what happens. If it's possible, we'll go in and report."

Huo Yuhao thought for a while, then opened his eyes. His Spirit Eye Martial Soul had been activated, making his eyes exceptionally bright and clear. Then, two white spirit rings appeared.

The student on the left: "Is a martial soul an eye?"

The student on the right: "Two ten-year spirit rings?"

The two were dumbfounded, having learned something new.

This was the first time they had ever seen a spirit being a part of oneself, and the first time they had ever seen someone with two spirit rings that were both ten years old, and judging from the color, the white ones were the same shade.

"Sorry, you're not qualified to join Shrek Academy." The student on the right said bluntly, "Although being able to cultivate to the level of a Great Soul Master at the age of twelve proves that your innate soul power should be good, your two white soul rings are really too weak."

The student on the left bluntly mocked, "If Shrek Academy had a student like you, it would be incredibly embarrassing. We don't want a trash junior like you."

Of course, the two of them were also good at reading people's expressions.

Huo Yuhao's clothes were a bit strange but simple, and he was thin, so he was definitely not a rich person and someone they could bully.

The new dean once said: "Those who dare not cause trouble are mediocre."

These powerless and insignificant soul masters are the easiest to mess with.

Huo Yuhao clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and said, "I will repay this humiliation a hundredfold!"

"Oh ho, you dare to insult Shrek!" The student on the left sneered, glancing at the student on the right, who immediately understood and rubbed his wrist.

Faced with the two's attacks, Huo Yuhao was powerless to defend himself, and Dou Yitianmeng and Dou Ertianmeng did not help at all—it would be too embarrassing for them to help two Great Soul Masters who had not even opened their Martial Souls.

Moreover, they felt it would be good to teach Huo Yuhao a lesson, so he wouldn't boast when he didn't have the strength, lest he get beaten to death.

If Huo Yuhao were to ask, Dou Ertianmeng would have a reason to say that after Electrolux's sudden departure, the two of them were also affected by his mental energy and would occasionally fall into a deep sleep.

Dou Yitianmeng had another reason: her sacrifice directly raised Huo Yuhao's cultivation to level twenty-one, which consumed more energy than Dou Ertianmeng.

Therefore, they both have plenty of reasons to give.

"snort!"

The student on the left snorted coldly, kicked Huo Yuhao one last time, and said, "Let's see if you dare to mess with Shrek Academy again. Don't blame us for teaching you a lesson again next time we see you."

"Huh?" The student on the right noticed the White Tiger Dagger tucked into Huo Yuhao's waist, took it down, and played with it. "What a beautiful dagger! It looks like a soul tool, an offensive soul tool? This is an antique among antiques! If I could sell it..."

Immediately, a look of greed appeared in their eyes.

The student on the left said, "This soul tool will be considered a way to wipe the slate clean of your previous insults to us. Now get lost."

"What do you mean, wipe the slate clean?" The student on the right became even more aggressive. "This dagger was clearly our shared property, but this kid just stole it."

"Uh...yes, that's it." The student on the left realized what was happening, chuckled, and kicked Huo Yuhao again, saying, "Get lost, don't let us see you again."

Before the two Shrek students returned to their posts at Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao staggered to his feet, his eyes filled with murderous intent.

Shrek!

Damn!

For him to join Shrek Academy after being beaten like that would be utterly foolish.

Without saying a word, he stared at the two men for a while before turning around and preparing to head to Canghui Academy.

In front of the gate of Canghui Academy, Huo Yuhao displayed his martial soul and soul skills, and was once again ridiculed. However, this time it was different because Shi Nian had just returned from hunting souls with his students.

"What kind of behavior is this, making such a racket?" Shi Nian's voice was old, yet possessed a magnetic quality and an imposing air as he looked at Huo Yuhao, who was adorned with two white spirit rings. "And who are you?"

Faced with Shi Nian's unquestionable tone, Huo Yuhao wanted to stand up for himself, but for some reason, he was a little scared and honestly said, "Hello, teacher, I want to join Canghui Academy. My martial soul is the eye."

"Join Canghui Academy? You?" The students following behind Shi Nian laughed loudly. "Two white spirit rings, you think you're worthy of joining Canghui Academy? That's laughable."

"Did I ask you to speak?" Shi Nian asked in a deep voice, startling the students who were laughing behind him into silence.

"Our Canghui Academy welcomes talented students. How old are you this year?" Shi Nian asked.

"twelve."

"Twelve years old, a Great Soul Master, that's quite talented. Born in a remote village, right? Your clothes are a bit odd," Shi Nian said rather objectively. "But those two white soul rings are indeed a bit lacking... What are your soul skills?"

"My first soul skill is mental detection, and my second soul skill is mental sharing."

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm endowed Huo Yuhao with four soul skills: Mental Detection, Mental Sharing, Mental Interference Domain, and Soul Impact. Both of his soul rings contain these four skills, and the same soul skills can be stacked.

However, Huo Yuhao could never tell the truth about this; he could only make a choice.

"Detection and sharing?" Shi Nian pondered. "Sounds pretty good, but I wonder how powerful it is. How about giving it a try? If it works out, I can make an exception and let you join Canghui Academy."

"good!"

Huo Yuhao nodded, his first spirit ring flashed, detecting everything within a 20-meter radius. Then his second spirit ring flashed, transmitting the detected images to Shi Nian.

"This is!"

At that time, he felt that he could see everything within a radius of 20 meters, 360 degrees, including the sky and the ground, without any blind spots.

He immediately realized that this was a perfect detection soul skill.

More importantly, he can actually use the skills of two spirit rings at the same time, which is quite a talent.

only--

"Is the detection range only twenty meters in radius?" Shi Nian was not very satisfied with this, since the power of a soul skill is fixed, so the skill's effectiveness is limited.

"No, my martial soul is an eye, which I named Spirit Eye. It's a mental type. As long as my mental strength increases, its range can also increase. Moreover, my soul power can also be converted into mental power, but the consumption will be relatively large." Huo Yuhao tried his best to show his value. "Although my soul ring age is a bit low, my soul skills are very useful. In terms of support, I dare say that no one can beat me."

At this moment, Shi Nian looked at Huo Yuhao with excitement and extended an invitation to him, saying, "Become my disciple! With your mental abilities, you can only unleash your full power in my hands. My martial soul is Remnant Dream, which is also mental. Your Spirit Eye and my Remnant Dream might be able to form a martial soul fusion technique."

"Isn't this a bit too sudden?" Huo Yuhao wasn't too keen on becoming a disciple, after all, Shi Nian in front of him was not an easy person to get along with.

"What's so sudden? Even if you join Canghui Academy, you still need to pay tuition. Judging from your appearance, you don't have any money. If you don't become an apprentice, can you afford it?" Shi Nian chuckled. "Five hundred gold soul coins per semester."

Huo Yuhao: "...Teacher!"

"Haha, from today onwards, you are my disciple!" Shi Nian was excited. In the Douluo Continent's concept, once a student truly becomes a disciple, it is the closest relationship besides that of their parents.

Moreover, Shi Nian believed that this little guy from the small village would never betray him.

"What's your name?"

"Huo Yuhao".

"A good name."

Shi Nian put his arm around Huo Yuhao's shoulder and said to the students behind him, "From today onwards, Huo Yuhao is my disciple and your senior. If I find out anyone bullying him in the future, you'd better think twice about your own strength."

"Yes."

The students who had been laughing loudly suddenly fell silent, and the two students on duty also lowered their heads, not daring to look at Huo Yuhao.

Who would have thought that the poor boy from just now would transform into Shi Nian's disciple?

Really good fortune.

They just hoped that Huo Yuhao wouldn't retaliate against them later; that wouldn't be pleasant...

···

the other side.

After Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Guang Ling returned to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, they spent their days either training, researching martial souls and soul tools, or studying medicine and herbs. Their lives were very fulfilling.

In his spare time, Tang San, with his Light Feather, applied to the Spirit Hall for the intellectual property rights and patents for the Mother-Child Soul Guidance Photography Sphere. Later, he cooperated with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and began production.

To this end, Tang San and Xiao Wu even produced an animated film of more than ten minutes.

That's right, an animated film.

Who would have thought that the first movie to appear in Douluo Continent would be an animation, not a live-action film?

For this ten-minute animation, Xiao Wu drew tens of thousands, nearly nine hundred thousand, almost identical pictures, to the point that she didn't want to do any more drawing.

However, this kind of creative work is also a challenge to her mental well-being, and it can enhance her mental strength—the clumsy way to enhance mental strength is to exhaust it, sleep it off, and recover.

Soul power can also be improved more quickly using this method.

The animated film, which is more than ten minutes long, tells the story of a girl named Xiaorou who came from the mountains and ventured into the big city. She met a pharmacy owner named Xiaotang, worked odd jobs at the pharmacy, and eventually became a famous doctor by virtue of her knowledge of various folk remedies and herbs from her time in the mountains.

It's a very simple story.

The only thing that attracts the audience is that the characters, which look like paper cutouts, can move.

This short animated film caused an extremely sensation when it was shown at an opera house in Tiandou City. Most of the viewers were seeing moving pictures for the first time and had no idea how they moved.

Tang San generously shared the principle behind the animation's movement with Guang Ling—drawing countless similar yet different drawings and rapidly flipping them.

The simple principle shocked the world and gave rise to the idea that "I could do it too."

However, most people gave up.

In the era before industrialization, it would take an ordinary person more than half a year to draw thousands of pictures.

However, there are still ordinary people who have united and persisted in painting.

Some sculptors and master painters have realized that making their works dynamic is an elevation of art, which can attract more viewers and gain their appreciation.

When this animated film, which was only a dozen minutes long, was presented to Bibi Dong, it attracted her a lot of attention. However, compared to the story it told, she was more interested in the Mother-Child Soul Guidance Photography Sphere, a soul guidance device that included photography, video recording, and message transmission.

According to tests conducted by personnel from the Spirit Hall, this mother-child soul-guided photography sphere can take photos, and the child sphere can play images. The two are paired together, and one mother sphere can have multiple child spheres.

The transmission of information between the child ball and the cue ball is almost simultaneous. Even if the two are thousands of miles apart, the child ball can still project the image recorded by the cue ball.

only--

Even at a distance of thousands of miles, the footage of the projected ball is delayed by ten seconds.

Ten thousand miles is a hundred seconds.

For every additional thousand miles, there is a ten-second delay; within a thousand miles, the delay is negligible.

The convenience of message transmission far surpasses that of carrier pigeons, or even allowing agility-based Soul Masters to run or fly.

"Tang San and his disciples have truly given our Spirit Hall and other forces a great gift." Bibi Dong realized that with the mass production and spread of this thing, both the Spirit Hall and the two great empires would greatly strengthen their control over the major forces within their borders.

But what was Tang San's purpose in doing this?

Bibi Dong pondered that, as a researcher who was a master of martial spirit theory, she needed a stable environment to conduct better research.

The spread of these soul-guided devices, besides strengthening the control of the three major powers on their own sides, will also allow them to understand each other's hidden strengths, thus making them hesitant to act rashly and preventing potential wars...

In reality, Bibi Dong was overthinking things.

Tang San had only two goals:

First, he hopes to see anime again; it represents his youth.

Secondly, the hope is that once the Soul Master Tournament begins, the competition scenes will not only be visible to the people of Heaven Dou City, but also to residents of cities and even villages throughout the continent.

It is too limited to the Soul Master community, since Soul Masters make up a very small percentage of the total population of the continent.

he!

Tang San!

We must announce to the entire Douluo Continent:

I have been to this world!

The first purpose was selfish.

The second purpose is to better expand one's own influence, which ultimately stems from selfish motives.

"Nana, what do you think?" Bibi Dong suddenly asked Hu Liena, who was staring intently at the screen.

ha?

Hu Liena was taken aback, but quickly recovered and said respectfully, "Teacher, this animated scene, turning inanimate objects into living things, is truly amazing..."

Hearing Hu Liena say this, Bibi Dong knew that she had absolutely not considered the importance of the Mother-Child Soul Guidance Photography Sphere. She sighed inwardly, "Nana is still too young and hasn't experienced enough. Just hard training won't be enough for her to control the Spirit Hall in the future. After the competition, how about arranging for her to go to a branch hall for some training?"

(End of this chapter)