Douluo Continent: Ink Bamboo as a Cauldron to Break Through Ten Thousand Heavens

"You can do that?!" Xiao Xiao's eyes lit up as she excitedly circled around Chen Cheng. "If I get nine 100,000-year spirit rings, wouldn't everyone be shocked when my martial spirit is attached to me?"

Chen Cheng was even more speechless. In his memory, Xiao Xiao in the original story was someone who could easily take out a large number of gold soul coins, but her background was not explained in detail. He thought she was at least from some kind of family. Could it be that there was no one in her family to teach this genius?

But thinking about it more carefully, it makes sense. Ning Tian and Dai Huabin have considerable talent, and their families must have provided a lot of supervision and guidance, which is why they were able to become Soul Masters at such a young age. But Xiao Xiao is absolutely lazy, incredibly lazy. She awakened her martial soul at six, and even assuming she had innate level one soul power, at 11 years old, that's more than three levels per year in five years. Oh, wait, twin martial souls can't possibly only have level one soul power; innate full soul power isn't impossible. Hmm, just as lazy as Wang Dong, but Wang Dong has "my God King father," so his soul power increases rapidly without him doing anything—how can he compare? If I want to get Xiao Xiao as a backer in the future, it seems I'll need to push her harder—no, I need to push her to cultivate properly from now on!

"What a pity, what a pity, such a promising talent." Chen Cheng feigned grief, his exaggerated manner making it seem as if he had lost hundreds of millions of gold soul coins.

Xiao Xiao was startled and quickly asked what was wrong.

"Sigh, if only I had met you sooner. It's such a waste to let such a precious gem be tarnished. If I had met you sooner, I would have done my best to help you with any difficulties in your cultivation, even if it cost me my old life! Tell me, is there some enemy spying on you that prevents you from cultivating properly? Or has your family fallen on hard times and you have to be a slave, preventing you from cultivating? Waaah, so tragic, such a pitiful little girl..." Chen Cheng mentally gave himself a thumbs up for his sarcastic remarks.

Xiao Xiao blushed, too embarrassed to admit that she was too lazy and that's why she was only at level 19. She could only promise to work harder.

Chen Cheng nodded, "That's more like it. Young people are at the prime of their cultivation years." He then took out a Profound Water Pill from his storage soul tool and handed it to Xiao Xiao.

"It hurts a little. I only got three from Xu Sanshi. I used one myself, and Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao each got one. It will be hard to get any more junior students I want to recruit." Chen Cheng tried to hide the pain on his face.

"This is... the Mysterious Water Pill!" Xiao Xiao exclaimed in shock. "This... this is too precious, I can't accept it."

"It seems that even someone who's willing to spend a thousand gold soul coins just to save face can't treat it like a snack like Xu Sanshi. But that makes sense, since it's a specialty of the Xuanming Sect after all. Xu Sanshi gave Bei Bei a 'friendship price' of 1000, but it's in high demand and short supply outside, probably fetching tens of thousands of gold. Sigh, at least this favor was done properly; the young lady knows her stuff." Chen Cheng frantically tried to reassure himself, attempting to accept this favor.

"Ughhhh, next we still need to prepare for the Soul Master Competition. To be on the safe side, we'll need to prepare another seven or eight Soul Tools, right? That's another huge expense. I'm so frustrated I could cry. I'm afraid I'll have to sell myself to the Soul Tool Department for the next while."

Seeing Chen Cheng's barely concealed heartache, Xiao Xiao assumed he was distressed about the Xuan Shui Dan and was deeply moved. She accepted the pill with both hands and solemnly declared that she would dedicate herself to cultivation and never slacken her efforts.

Chen Cheng didn't say anything more; his goal had been achieved. After briefly explaining the precautions for taking the medication, he arranged to take her to see Director Zhou after the shift assignments were completed the next day.

Chen Cheng then didn't return to his dormitory. Instead, he found a quiet spot with lush vegetation and began his cultivation.

When Xiao Xiao returned to her dormitory, the old man at the entrance glanced at her a couple more times before closing his eyes to rest.

Early the next morning, Chen Cheng started working at his recruitment post. Because it was the last day of recruitment, there were an unusually large number of students applying, and Chen Cheng was already extremely busy just organizing and screening their materials.

"Brother Chen Cheng!"

"Keep the files separate, and put the letter of introduction on the left," Chen Cheng replied without even looking up, as he was busy.

"Hey Chen Cheng, I don't usually see you taking on this kind of tedious and low-value job, do you?" A familiar voice rang out. Looking up, he saw that it was indeed Bei Bei and the other two. "You're so busy that you don't even have time to take care of Xiao Yuhao, whom you've been training. I'm almost tempted to take pity on you and help you out."

  

"Isn't this waiting for the right person? Hey, I wasn't talking about you! Please, don't come here. There's no such thing as a free lunch!" Chen Cheng stood up and said with a smile. Suddenly, he noticed Tang Ya's eyes were red, as if she had just been crying. "Hey, Sect Leader Tang, did that unruly student Bei Bei upset you again? If you can't handle it, don't do it yourself. Let me teach him a lesson to vent your anger!"

Upon hearing this, Tang Ya's sorrowful expression turned agitated: "No! I was..."

Chen Cheng, of course, knew it was another story about the decline of the Tang Clan, and he was tired of hearing it. He quickly interrupted, saying, "There's a situation now that we need you to make a decision about."

After being teased by Chen Cheng, Tang Ya's mood improved considerably, and she became curious along with Bei Bei.

"The class monitor for Class 1, Grade 1 this year is that old woman." Chen Cheng said calmly. Huo Yuhao looked blank, while Bei Bei and Tang Ya's expressions changed drastically: "Zhou Yi?!"

"Yeah, she was supposed to teach the third grade, but because of too many complaints, she was demoted to the freshman class. But you know her problem, she's very domineering and has a one-man rule. She can fire people whenever she wants. I'm worried that Yuhao won't have a good time there..." Chen Cheng said with a lot of difficulty.

"Alright, I bet you had a premonition about something again, which is why you took this task and put it in your hands." Beibei patted Chen Cheng on the shoulder and gave him a thumbs up. "Let's get together after you're done tonight. Xiaoya is really craving Yuhao's cooking!"

Chen Cheng patted his chest, indicating that he would leave it to him.

Suddenly he called out to the three of them again: "Prepare food for two more people tonight. One is because I have a promising young man here, and I'd like to build a relationship with him so he might be recruited into the Tang Clan. The other is to have Yuhao bring his roommate over so they can get to know each other better and maybe stay together forever."

Beibei said it was no problem, Tangya was just being greedy, and Yuhao thought Chen Cheng had even considered his relationship with his roommate, which was really thoughtful. It's just that the last sentence sounded a bit awkward.

After seeing the three off, Chen Cheng went about his business, while also pondering:

He was unsure whether or not to expose Wang Dong's disguise as a man later.

"Theoretically speaking, revealing Wang Dong's true gender has advantages, and the advantages outweigh the disadvantages! First of all, from the perspective of social morality, having boys and girls share a dormitory is very detrimental to the physical and mental health of both parties, and it is also very inconvenient! However, considering the openness of the Douluo Continent environment, this point can be disregarded."

"Secondly, if Huo Yuhao knew Wang Dong's true gender beforehand, and the two fell in love, perhaps he wouldn't flirt with other women like Ju Zi and Wang Qiu'er. After all, in the original story, a large part of Huo Yuhao's attraction to Ju Zi and Wang Qiu'er was due to Wang Dong's own coyness and insistence on cross-dressing. Huo Yuhao didn't even know she was a woman! It would be reasonable for him to like other women! In other words, is my roommate's excuse for not finding a partner waiting for his buddy to turn into a catgirl? It's a bit creepy. But a father who loves his daughter and wants to punish his fickle, womanizing son-in-law is justified, and there's not much he can do about it. The key is that Huo Yuhao in the original story also accepts it."

"Furthermore, it's about personal bias. When reading the original novel, I wanted Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er to be together. The love triangle between Ju Zi and Wang Qiu'er was disgusting. And then they forcibly tried to reconcile it later, what was that all about? The idea of ​​splitting his daughter into three is even more nauseating! Think about it from another perspective: if your best friend and your girlfriend swapped souls, would you love your girlfriend in your best friend's body or your best friend in your girlfriend's body? The very existence of such a question is disgusting!"

"As for other things, such as Huo Yuhao's cultivation speed slowing down without the power of Hao Dong, or being unable to awaken a martial soul fusion skill, it can only be said that it doesn't have a significant impact. From the moment Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and Ilex chose Huo Yuhao, he was destined to become a god. Later, the Ice Emperor martial soul he risked his life to obtain and the Snow Emperor soul spirit that Ilex sacrificed himself to fuse with—did they have anything to do with Wang Dong'er? One might even suspect that Tang San deliberately used some tricks to eliminate the variable of Ilex."

"However, we really don't dare to reveal his identity directly. The current information is that Tang San won't easily interfere in the human world. But, the Clear Sky Sect has two of his divine officials under him, which is equivalent to the combat power of two Limit Douluo. He has a divine power seal on his daughter. A normal person wouldn't suddenly have the idea to dress up as a girl and enter some boys' dormitory, right? Later, didn't Wang Dong himself feel that this made things very unpleasant? A large part of this is probably due to the seal of that God King, the principle is the same as the repulsion of soul tools."

"Furthermore, I've already created enough butterfly effects recently. I'm afraid that if there are any major changes involving the God King, the impact will be beyond my control."

After much deliberation, the following plan was finalized:

Without revealing or exposing the truth, but by occasionally hinting, we can get these two taciturn people to be honest with each other sooner!