Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 77 You think it's too expensive, but I think it's too expensive too.

Wuhun City.

Upon receiving Tang San's letter, the head of the Martial Soul Newspaper immediately went to the Papal Palace and delivered it to Bibi Dong.

As Tang San described the impact of the environment on a Soul Master's combat power in his theory, Bibi Dong nodded slightly. She knew how much environmental factors could enhance a Soul Master's strength.

Ordinary battle arenas are just bare stones and slabs, and they are only a small size. Even though they are about 100 meters long and wide, they still greatly limit the agility-based attack types.

If the competition venues are diversified, creating battlefields such as deserts, swamps, forests, grasslands, and rivers, the fun of the competition can be increased to some extent.

At the same time, the diverse environments of the venues also make it easier for the organizers to see whether the participating Soul Masters can make reasonable use of their abilities.

In the eyes of Title Douluo like Bibi Dong, the strength of a soul skill is actually irrelevant. What matters is the quantity and quality of soul power. Of the nine soul skills, they will basically only use a few of the most powerful ones, and will not use the others.

For non-titled Douluo, the ability to apply different soul skills appropriately in different environments is crucial.

Bibi Dong had already considered that if the future All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition were held in multiple venues, future Soul Masters would definitely pay attention to training and adapting in multiple environments.

In the future, the Spirit Hall can save a lot of training effort when recruiting Soul Masters.

"Truly remarkable." Bibi Dong instructed the head of the Spirit Newspaper to print it in tomorrow's Spirit Newspaper. Then she summoned Chrysanthemum Douluo and said, "Tang San is very talented. I want to bring him here, but I am worried that his talent will be worn down by the rigid teaching of the Spirit Academy. However, I am uneasy as long as he does not join the Spirit Hall. I always feel that something might happen."

Chrysanthemum Douluo understood and bowed, saying, "Your Holiness, Tang San's martial soul is a mutated Blue Silver Grass, a plant martial soul. My martial soul is the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum, also a plant martial soul. Why don't I go and take him as my disciple?"

"Do you think you have the ability to teach him?" Bibi Dong countered. "With the arrogance of a genius, he won't acknowledge someone less knowledgeable than himself, even if you are a Title Douluo."

Chrysanthemum Douluo's breath hitched, but he did not refute it. After all, Tang San's genius was obvious to all. Not to mention the recent evolution of the best combination of ancient and modern soul rings, the theory of multiple factors that soul masters can bear soul rings, and the role of whale glue, the earliest published theory of self-analysis and positioning of soul masters had already quietly changed the lives of a large part of the soul masters on the continent.

In terms of strength, even if Tang San's second spirit ring is a thousand years old, he is still only a Great Spirit Master.

However, in terms of influence on the entire continent's soul masters, even the current Pope cannot catch up—after all, the Pope basically does not leave Wuhun City, and other people's knowledge of the Pope is limited to knowing that she exists.

Now, the vast majority of Soul Masters are grateful for Tang San's theories, which have changed their fate. In particular, Soul Masters of the Agility-type have received unprecedented attention.

In the past, agility-based attack types lacked offensive power and seemed to be just there to fill a quota in the game. In most cases, they were only used to finish off opponents at the last moment when strong attack or control types were about to defeat them, making their role rather awkward.

However, Tang San has now discovered a new role for the Agility-based attack system: interference, assassination, and reconnaissance. The Agility-based attack system has already accomplished the first two, but no one has been able to accurately pinpoint their location. The latter has directly elevated the Agility-based attack system's status, and incidentally, it has also significantly improved the status of the Agility-based race on the continent.

It can be said that Tang San has become the object of admiration for more than 90% of agility-type soul masters on the continent. Even because the Spirit Hall has not released any information about Tang San, they all believe that Tang San is also an agility-type soul master.

After all, no one expected that he was a support-type Soul Master, and a support-type Soul Master whose Martial Soul was Blue Silver Grass.

However, there were also those on the mainland who opposed Tang San's theories.

For example, healing-type soul masters and food-type soul masters were both classified as support-type soul masters by Tang San, making them two categories of support-type soul masters. This caused great dissatisfaction among these two types of soul masters.

They could have occupied two departments and had a great reputation, but now they've both become support departments.

Recalling the recent news he had received about the Soul Master world, Chrysanthemum Douluo couldn't help but sigh, thinking to himself, "I really am not qualified to teach such a disciple."

"What I mean is, you're sending someone to protect Tang San," Bibi Dong said. "Who do you think is capable of doing that?"

"Spirit Kite".

After thinking for a while, Chrysanthemum Douluo said a name.

"She is a level 78 Soul Saint, with the Wind Chime Bird as her Martial Soul. Her speed is second only to the Swift of the Agile Clan. Moreover, she is only 30 years old now and is expected to break through to the Title Douluo level before she turns 50. However, she is a bit rash and aggressive."

"Letting her protect Tang San will be a good way to temper her temper and allow her to cultivate her character for a while."

Bibi Dong pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "She does have that kind of temper, a bit impulsive. Let her go. It'll give her more patience so she can become a qualified reconnaissance-type agility-attack soul master."

The order has been issued.

Chrysanthemum Douluo told Ling Yuan about this, and even though Ling Yuan didn't want to go, she couldn't refuse...

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at the same time.

Nottingham.

Tang San accepted Yang Long's order and prepared to forge him a dragon-patterned spear that was exactly the same as his martial soul.

"How well can you forge a spear?" Yang Long didn't know much about forging. Although he had read "Legend of the Dragon King" in his previous life, he had only skimmed through it and only remembered that it involved forging hundreds or thousands of times.

"I can undergo a thousand forgings," Tang San said truthfully after thinking for a moment.

"Alright, then let's do it a thousand times."

Yang Long naturally hoped that the dragon-patterned spear he crafted would be the best.

"That customer needs to pay more," Tang San said bluntly. "The 500 gold soul coins you paid as a deposit are not enough."

Yang Long frowned: "How much deposit do I need?"

Tang San didn't stand on ceremony: "According to the market, a thousand-forged weapon costs at least 120,000 gold soul coins. What you want is a long spear, which is a long weapon, so it's even more expensive, costing around 220,000 gold soul coins. The customer must give at least 110,000 gold soul coins as a deposit."

"Aren't you robbing me?" Yang Long was furious. 110,000 gold soul coins was just a deposit. The final price would be 220,000. Was he being sucked out?

The entire Po clan doesn't have that much money.

"Guest, please don't get excited. This is the price of a finished thousand-forged weapon on the market. Those are all divine weapons. This is already a discounted price."

Tang San gestured for the other party to calm down, "If you don't believe me, just go to any blacksmith shop in any city and ask. They'll all have the same price. Thousand-times-forged metal isn't expensive, but thousand-times-forged weapons are. Only the master craftsmen of Gengxin City can forge those weapons, not to mention that the customer wants the entire Dragon Pattern Spear to be thousand-times-forged."

"You think it's too expensive? I think it's too expensive too."

Yang Long gritted his teeth in anger, really wanting to grab a watermelon knife and stab Tang San in the stomach. Trying to calm himself down, he asked, "The cheapest, how much?"

"If the customer is willing to provide the metal themselves, then we can offer a discount of 10,000 gold soul coins."

Tang San revealed a smile that resembled that of a shrewd businessman.

"After all, you know I need to make money, and the blacksmith shop where I work also needs to generate income. After deducting costs, we need to make at least 50% profit. Otherwise, if we spend time and effort forging this thousand-times-forged weapon and only sell it for a price slightly higher than the cost, we might as well forge more kitchen knives, scissors, saws, and other tools. At least those things can be sold for three to ten times the cost."

(End of this chapter)