Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 83 Mu Tian's Tragic Fate

While Tang San and Xiao Wu were packing their things to return to Holy Soul Village for the New Year, the Spirit Hall contacted the high-ranking officials of the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire to initiate reforms to the venue of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.

Tang San's suggestion regarding the competition venue was adopted by Bibi Dong and even received the approval of more than 80% of the Soul Masters across the continent.

After all, everyone hopes to compete on a suitable field in the future, thereby enhancing their fighting ability and achieving better results.

Those Soul Masters who opposed the idea were afraid that the competition would be held in an unsuitable arena, greatly reducing their combat effectiveness.

For example, if a person whose martial soul is a plant chooses a desert location, then apart from drought-resistant plants such as cacti and tumbleweeds, other plant-based soul masters will definitely find it difficult to exert their strength.

However, the major powers actually think this is good, as it allows them to see the advantages of Soul Masters besides their own strength.

In reality, for the major powers on the Douluo Continent, the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament is a large-scale talent show, or rather, a job search event.

Having mastered both literary and martial arts, they sold their skills to the emperor.

This also applies to Douluo Continent.

Talented individuals from various academies showcase their abilities in the competition, gaining recognition across the continent. They are then recruited by various powerful forces, enjoying status, wealth, honor, and power.

If we compare the major forces to large companies, then the participants are all job seekers, and only a very small number of Soul Masters will not think about joining a certain force after the competition.

Meanwhile, the various forces, which are the recruiters, also need to assess the job seekers' abilities.

In the past, they judged job seekers' abilities solely by winning or losing, but now they realize that relying on winning or losing alone may not be enough to select the most outstanding talents. After all, the management of a country and the development of a sect cannot be achieved simply by having the biggest fist.

If the venues for the future Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament are diversified, it will be able to demonstrate whether the talents cultivated by each academy can flexibly apply their abilities according to different environments.

Even if some Soul Masters never go to environments that are detrimental to their Martial Soul, it can still allow them to understand the vastness of the world and make them more composed when facing opponents who counter their Martial Soul abilities.

As for the construction of the venue, it is actually quite simple. Deserts, wastelands, grasslands, swamps, and forests are relatively easy to create. Just open up a new final venue, transport the corresponding items over, and make some adjustments. However, ice and snow, storms, rivers, volcanoes, etc. are a bit more difficult. It may require Soul Masters with the corresponding attributes to maintain the venue from outside, or to use related Soul Guidance Devices.

However, most major factions thought it was acceptable, while a small minority opposed it. But the minority had to submit to the majority, so their objections were invalid.

Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

After returning from Wuhun City, Ning Fengzhi recounted the incident to his disciples and ordered the construction of a suitable combat environment to train the Soul Masters within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Upon hearing this news, Mu Tian thought to himself, "Is this a Pokémon battle?"

Now, he suspects that Tang San is not someone who transmigrated from a martial arts world, but rather someone like him from modern society, and also a Pokémon enthusiast.

"Never mind, it has nothing to do with me. Anyway, my Bright Moon will have multiple attributes in the future, and it can adapt to any environment." Mu Tian didn't think about it too much. He found Bone Douluo and told him that he had cultivated to level 20 and could go hunt soul beasts.

"Eight years old, level 20, no wonder you have innate full soul power." Bone Douluo was quite satisfied with Mu Tian's cultivation speed. "Come on, I'll take you to Sunset Forest to hunt soul beasts. Have you decided what type of soul beast you want?"

"I've made up my mind, I want the light attribute," Mu Tian said.

"Light? Isn't your Fire Lizard a fire attribute?" Bone Douluo frowned, feeling that Mu Tian was being reckless. "Light and fire are similar, but they are not the same. Let's choose the fire attribute one."

"My martial soul has multiple attributes. As long as I obtain a soul ring of the corresponding attribute, I can acquire it. I can sense it," Mu Tian said with certainty.

Bone Douluo was somewhat suspicious.

While a martial soul can indeed inherit attributes that it doesn't possess from soul beasts of different attributes, if a martial soul itself has a certain attribute, it's best to enhance that attribute; otherwise, it may end up being a mixed bag without being proficient in anything.

Moreover, he had never heard of a Soul Master being able to sense the attributes of a Martial Soul; they could only observe them after the Martial Soul used its abilities.

"Alright, your martial soul is a bit unusual, so I'll choose to trust you this once. How many years will your spirit ring take?" Bone Douluo asked. "Ten-thousand-year whale glue. Although the sect found a piece, don't even think about it. That belongs to the little princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School. It's a thousand years old. You've eaten quite a bit of it. You can withstand a thousand-year spirit ring, right?"

"Even ten thousand years is fine," Mu Tian said confidently.

"At most two thousand years." Bone Douluo ignored Mu Tian's inexplicable confidence.

"Teacher, I really can withstand a ten-thousand-year spirit ring. My martial spirit is very powerful." Mu Tian felt that his martial spirit was the God of Heavenly Punishment, and he could definitely withstand a mere ten thousand years.

Even if a ten-thousand-year-old soul ring contains the remnants of a soul beast's spirit, how can that spirit compare to Austin Griffin's?

There will definitely be no problem.

"If you insist, then go hunt down a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast yourself. Otherwise, listen to me. At most, it will take two thousand years. In fact, I think with your current physique, you can only withstand about fifteen hundred years, which is similar to my situation when I was level thirty." Bone Douluo would not listen to the nonsense of an eight-year-old child.

Ten thousand years?

I don't even know how to write the word "death"!

Left with no other choice, Mu Tian had to agree.

Finally, Bone Douluo led Mu Tian to Sunset Forest, where they found a 1,600-year-old light-attribute soul beast, which Mu Tian then hunted and absorbed.

Two thousand years later, Bone Douluo still felt it was too dangerous and he couldn't take the risk.

Helpless, Mu Tian could only hunt down the light-attribute soul beast, release Haoyue, and begin absorbing the soul ring.

However, as soon as the spirit ring was put into Haoyue, Mu Tian felt the pain transmitted from Haoyue. His whole body trembled violently, swelled up, and blood kept gushing out, which was extremely terrifying.

"Mutian!"

Bone Douluo could only anxiously watch, as the absorption of the spirit ring could not be interrupted, otherwise he would either die or be seriously injured, and if his martial soul was affected, he would have no hope of cultivating for the rest of his life.

"We shouldn't have listened to him; we should have just found a soul beast that has only been around for a thousand years."

Three days passed quietly amidst Bone Douluo's regret. Mu Tian finally pulled through, but he suffered massive bleeding and his muscles were withered, as if he might die at any moment.

Bone Douluo fed him some water, checked his physical condition, and sighed, "It's a miracle that you survived. I told you not to take risks, but you insisted on being impulsive. Ten thousand years? You almost lost your life just trying to absorb a sixteen-hundred-year-old spirit ring."

After Mu Tian was brought back to the sect and received treatment from a healing soul master, it took him nearly a month to recover half of his health.

His Bright Moon did indeed change from one head to two heads, but the second head was still fire-attribute. However, when using the second soul skill, it could dye the flames with a white halo, and even metal and stone could be melted into juice.

Bone Douluo thought this soul skill was pretty good, befitting the power of a thousand-year soul ring, but Mu Tian looked on incredulously: "It should clearly be light attribute, why is it fire attribute?"

(End of this chapter)