Chapter 173: Martial Soul Evolution | Consecutive Victories

Tang Yuehua immediately turned and left, and Shuang Lan also glanced at Ning Feiliu before following her away.

Only Ning Feiliu, Yu Tianheng, Ye Lingling, and the others remained where they were.

Ning Feiliu immediately said, "Let's continue to sign up for a Spirit Fighting Battle next; after all, we haven't truly started a Team Battle Spirit Fight in the real sense yet."

The Huangsha Battle Team had conceded directly in the previous Spirit Fighting Battle, so they hadn't consumed any soul power at all, and naturally, they could continue to sign up for a Team Battle Spirit Fight.

Because the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena is vast in area, it is not like the Spirit Fighting Arenas in other places where everyone can only participate in one form of Spirit Fighting Battle per day.

Because if they did that, the venues for Spirit Fighting Battles would be completely insufficient.

But the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena does not need to consider this point at all, because as a Great Spirit Arena located in the imperial capital, coupled with the support of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family behind it, the idea of building it to such a huge scale was also to ensure it could accommodate multiple teams competing when hosting the Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.

Come to think of it, the backing of the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena is actually not just the Heaven Dou Imperial Family; in fact, the Great Spirit Arenas of the Douluo Continent have their own complete system, and it can also be said that they are a special faction.

Originally, it was jointly founded by the seven most prestigious Spirit Master families on the continent, and it is not affiliated with the two great empires or the Spirit Hall; it can be said to be a third-party force.

Only the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena, because it is located in the imperial capital of the Heaven Dou Empire, allowed the Heaven Dou Imperial Family to forcibly intervene and get a share of the profits.

After all, occupying such a large piece of land in the core area of the imperial capital... even if you are very rich, almost wealthy enough to rival a nation, it is impossible to buy such a plot of land so easily.

However, this is limited only to the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena; the Spirit Fighting Arenas in other parts of the Heaven Dou Empire are all independently affiliated forces, belonging to the seven Spirit Master families that jointly founded the Great Spirit Arenas.

But speaking of this, one cannot help but be curious about which families these seven Spirit Master families that jointly founded the Great Spirit Arenas actually are.

In fact, the original story never mentioned which families these seven Spirit Master families were, but the number "seven" in these seven Spirit Master families makes it hard not to think of the seven great Spirit Master families on the Douluo Continent.

However, in fact, if the Great Spirit Arenas were affiliated with the seven great sects of Spirit Masters, then Ning Rongrong and Yu Tianheng, as heirs of the Upper Three Sects, should be equivalent to young masters in the Great Spirit Arenas and could definitely walk sideways.

Once the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul were brought out, the high-level officials inside and outside the Great Spirit Arena would have to come out to support them.

But there was no such plot in the original story, so it is certain that the seven Spirit Master families that jointly founded the Great Spirit Arenas are not the current seven great sects of Spirit Masters.

However, they are just not the current seven great sects of Spirit Masters.

As for whether they were in the past, that is unknown.

After all, one must know that the members and ranking of the seven great sects of Spirit Masters have always been changing.

In the original story, the Spirit Hall held a re-election conference for the seven great sects on the grounds that the Clear Sky Sect had retired, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had suffered heavy losses, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect had been wiped out, promoting the Elephant Armored Sect, Holy Dragon Sect, Black Tiger Sect, Wind Sword Sect, Fire Leopard Sect, Rock Antelope Sect, and Sparrow Bee Sect, which were loyal to the Spirit Hall, as the new seven great sects of Spirit Masters.

And the current seven great sects of Spirit Masters, including their ranking, are speculated in the original story to have been decided in the generation of Tang Chen, and it was also Tang Chen who led the Clear Sky Sect to the throne of the number one sect in the world.

The seven Spirit Master families that jointly founded the Great Spirit Arenas might have been the seven great sects of Spirit Masters from a long time ago; after all, being able to stand independently and jointly found the Great Spirit Arenas under the pressure of the two great empires and the Spirit Hall is enough to prove that their strength at that time could not have been too weak.

However, the original work did not say which families these seven Spirit Master families were, and they didn't even have a chance to appear later. Logically speaking, the force behind the Great Spirit Arenas, which could even withstand the pressure of the two great empires and the Spirit Hall, should have had a name.

Yet, they never actually appeared by name. I don't know if the original author forgot, or if there was really no need for these seven Spirit Master families to appear in the later stages.

However, over the past half year, Ning Feiliu has been circulating within the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena, and because he is in a real world, he has been able to come into contact with information about these seven Spirit Master families that jointly founded the Great Spirit Arenas.

They didn't hide it either; the family emblems representing their martial souls are placed in the lobby of the Great Spirit Arena.

They are the Luo Family who possess the Giant Storm Sword martial soul, the Lu Family who possess the Forest Demon Deer martial soul, the Lei Family who possess the Rapid Thunder Spear martial soul, the Feng Family who possess the Phoenix martial soul, the Hu An Family who possess the Phantom martial soul, the Lv Family who possess the Soul Reaping Halberd martial soul, and the Jin Family who possess the Diamond Tiger martial soul. (Second setting)

Looking at the names and martial souls of these seven families, one can actually tell that they should be the old-school veteran players from the very early batches.

Compared to the current seven great sects of Spirit Masters, names like Clear Sky Hammer, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, Diamond Mammoth, and the like are all much simpler.

In fact, from the complexity of the naming, one can somewhat tell what version of the product this is.

Just like the hero skills in League of Legends, some of the very early marksman heroes, the most typical being the Battle Mistress Sivir, have four skill names: Boomerang Blade, Ricochet, Spell Shield, and On The Hunt.

But look at the later Aphelios and Zeri, with things like Soul Reaping Moonshot, Arc Light Facing Shadow, Earth Frost Dark Erosion, and then things like Spark Surge, Ultrashock Laser, and Hypercharge...

The names of people in Ning Feiliu's previous life were also like this. In the ancient period, humans were directly called by a single character as their name, and later it was about what family they were from or what they invented, such as the Nest-Builder, the Fire-Driller, and the Divine Farmer.

Later, there were surnames, and by the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the names were still very simple. For example, Duke Cheng of Jin was called Ji Heitun, which was because his buttocks were quite black.

There was also Duke Hu An of Qi, whose name was Jiang Xiaobai, and Duke Wen of Jin, whose name was Ji Chong'er.

The evolution of names has always been from simple to complex, so one can basically see the historical background from the names.

The martial souls of the Douluo Continent are the same. Although Ning Feiliu has not yet studied martial souls, his current guess is that at the beginning, some special individuals appeared among humans who could absorb the Soul Ring of a Soul Beast after killing it.

In fact, they probably didn't have martial souls at the beginning, but after absorbing the Soul Ring of a Soul Beast, they were influenced by the Soul Ring, and changes occurred in themselves, which became the initial martial souls.

Because in the original work, martial souls can "evolve" by absorbing Soul Rings, absorbing the characteristics of the original Soul Beast of the Soul Ring, such as San Ge's initial absorption of the Man-Faced Demon Spider martial soul, which allowed his unawakened Blue Silver Grass martial soul to gain toughness and paralytic toxin attributes.

This is actually equivalent to adding a few strokes to a painting that already has Blue Silver Grass on it, making it tougher and possessing paralytic toxin attributes.

And if early humans had no martial souls at all, it would be equivalent to a blank sheet of paper, and the process of absorbing Soul Rings would be humans drawing the shape of their martial soul on this blank sheet of paper stroke by stroke.

Martial souls are passed down from generation to generation, and Spirit Masters absorb one Soul Ring after another, eventually giving birth to the various complete martial souls that exist today.

The evolution of Beast Spirits should have come about this way: absorbing the Soul Rings of one Soul Beast of the same kind after another, and then the martial soul becomes completely complete.

As for the evolution of Tool Spirits, Ning Feiliu guesses that some Spirit Masters did not choose to absorb the same kind of Soul Beast, or they underwent mutations themselves; they did not inherit the beast body of the Soul Beast, but rather its ability to condense metal attack organs.

Such as claws, fangs, and horns. There are many Soul Beasts that can condense iron horns and golden claws on their bodies. Perhaps these earliest Tool Spirit Spirit Masters were in such a situation, slowly condensing their "martial soul" as a weapon.

At the same time, because of the influence of human civilization on their soul subconscious, their martial souls were subconsciously shaped into the forms of weapons that only humans could forge.

But no matter how the martial soul evolved, the initial martial soul must have been wild and primitive, and the names were not as flashy as those top-tier martial souls today.

At the beginning, the names of martial souls were probably just things like dragon, tiger, snake, knife, sword, spear, and axe.

The martial souls of these seven Spirit Master families that jointly founded the Great Spirit Arenas are clearly like this; they are not too flashy and probably belong to the top-tier martial souls at the end of the early stage of martial soul evolution.

In fact, this is indeed the case. Ning Feiliu learned from the conversations of Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, and others that these seven Spirit Master families that jointly founded the Great Spirit Arenas were indeed the seven great sects of Spirit Masters that dominated one side back then.

At that time, relying on their own powerful strength, they forced the two great empires and the Spirit Hall to compromise, allowing them to jointly found the Great Spirit Arenas.

The Great Spirit Arenas were indeed profitable, and soon made their families wealthy. Once they became wealthy, it was inevitable that family members would fall into laziness.

Coupled with the version updates of the Douluo Continent, with the appearance of more complete and stronger martial souls, they were pushed off the altar of the seven great sects of Spirit Masters one by one.

It's just that because the Great Spirit Arenas they have operated for many years are very profitable, and these seven Spirit Master families did not deliberately favor the two great empires or the Spirit Hall, no one wanted to deliberately create a powerful opponent, so these seven Spirit Master families still exist today by relying on the Great Spirit Arenas.

It's just that their former prestige is gone.

Their families are not in Heaven Dou City either; they are basically far away from the political centers of the two great empires and the Spirit Hall, far away from disputes, and are scattered in seven relatively safe cities on the Douluo Continent, developing the Great Spirit Arenas, which is basically equivalent to being landlords.

But this is also good. If you don't have enough ability, then having less ambition and staying away from disputes and avoiding disasters is a good thing.

Anyway, if Ning Feiliu didn't have a cheat, he would probably choose to keep to himself.

Just like himself in his previous life.

If you don't have that much ability, then don't go thinking about so many unnecessary things.

But if you clearly have this ability and still shrink back like a coward, then it would be better to just die.

After Tang Yuehua and Shuang Lan left, Ning Feiliu asked Yu Tianheng and the others for their opinions.

Yu Tianheng and the others also expressed their agreement, and then followed him to continue signing up for the Team Battle Spirit Fight.

……

Three days later.

"Zhuiming Third Soul Skill! Dull Lock Moon!"

"Zhuiming First Soul Skill! Earth Frost Dark Erosion!"

Only to see a piece of deep, pitch-black moonlight instantly wrap around the bodies of the opposing group on the Douhun Platform like a ghostly shadow, and then Ning Feiliu held Zhuiming and pressed it downward!

The extremely terrifying five-fold gravity effect combined with the binding control made the seven opponents completely unable to move.

"Now's the chance!" Ning Feiliu shouted in a low voice to Yu Tianheng, Ye Lingling, Yufeng, and the others behind him.

Ye Lingling immediately summoned the Nine Heart Begonia in her hand, and as the third Soul Ring on her body flickered, "Third Soul Skill! Healing Light!"

The white light representing healing fell upon Yu Tianheng, Yufeng, Oslo, Shi Mo, and Yu Tianxin; these five had just been injured, and blood was seeping from the corners of their mouths.

Now, in an instant, the white light flashed by, and these five were completely recovered as if nothing had happened.

However, seeing this, the five of them no longer held back!

"Second Soul Skill! Thunderous Might!" As the second Soul Rings at the feet of Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin flickered simultaneously, the countless snake-like lightning bolts coiling around their bodies amplified at the same time, transforming into countless arrows of lightning that flashed violently in all directions!

"Third Soul Skill! Wind Rises Clouds Surge!" Yufeng leaped into mid-air, and as his third Soul Ring flickered, his wings turned into afterimages, and countless wild wind feather blades rushed toward the Great Soul Arena like a storm.

"Third Soul Skill! Leopard Shadow Clone!" Next, light burst from Oslo's eyes, and as his third Soul Ring flickered, he conjured two shadow clones; together with his main body, their hands' sharp claws flashed with cold light as they rushed toward the opponents opposite!

"Second Soul Skill! Basalt Transformation Shield!" The turtle shell on Shi Mo's chest and back separated strangely, landing in his hands to become two giant turtle shell shields one meter in diameter, and he threw the shields in his hands out.

The turtle shell shields rotated and whistled in the air; the unparalleled momentum alone was enough to make one's heart tremble.

The most peculiar thing was that behind each turtle shell shield, there was a strand of yellow soul power connected to Shi Mo's right hand.

The sharp edges of the turtle shell shields continuously cut through the air as they moved forward, rushing toward the opponents with a heart-stopping, shrill whistle!

However, the opponents were unable to resist; under the terrifying gravity suppression of Ning Feiliu's Zhuiming, they simply could not break free to dodge these attacks.

The next moment... they all flew out of the Great Soul Arena, wailing.

And seeing the opponents all finished off by the Moon Emperor Team and flying out of the Great Soul Arena, the host on the stage also did not hesitate and announced directly, "The winner this time is the Moon Emperor Team! Without a doubt! They have once again defeated the strong enemy Zijin Battle Team, who had already completed a three-match winning streak in Team Battle Spirit Fights! Proving that their winning streak continues!"

Immediately, the audience who saw this scene cheered throughout the arena.

"Moon Emperor! Moon Emperor!"

"Yafei! Yafei!"

"Heavenly Generation!"

"Heavenly Generation!"

……

Ning Feiliu, however, was used to such cheers and did not pay attention to them, but instead turned his head to look at his "teammates," "It seems your consumption is not small."

Hearing this, Yu Tianheng gave a wry smile and said, "After all, we aren't freaks like you, and this time we were facing a star team with five Spirit Masters above level thirty-eight."

However, he also felt fortunate in his heart that he had "Yafei" as a teammate.

It must be said that after these three days of Spirit Fighting Battles, he felt even more closely just how powerful this guy "Yafei" was.

"Yafei" did not only have those two powerful Self-Created Spirit Skills; his own strength was also very powerful.

The most critical thing was that he could adapt to various roles within the team; he was competent in the three major mainstream Battle Soul Master types: Press the Attack, Agility Attack, and Control.

And in team battles, the role where Ning Feiliu could exert the greatest effect was, without a doubt, serving as the team's Control System Battle Soul Master when using Zhuiming; that terrifying full-field control ability made him seem like the Domination of the Soul Fighting Arena.

After all, the Moon Emperor Team was not lacking anything at this time, except for a Control System Battle Soul Master.

Therefore, Ning Feiliu also intentionally controlled his blades and summoned Zhuiming to serve as a Control System Battle Soul Master, trying his best to use One-on-One Soul Fighting and Two-on-Two Soul Fighting to consume the bullets of the Crescent Moon Divine Weapon, and then switch to Zhuiming to come and participate in Team Battle Spirit Fights with Yu Tianheng and the others.

This was indeed effective, and so far, his One-on-One Soul Fighting had reached a forty-two-match winning streak, his Two-on-Two Soul Fighting with Ye Lingling had reached a twenty-eight-match winning streak, and the Team Battle Spirit Fight had currently only reached a three-match winning streak.

After all, Team Battle Spirit Fights depended not only on his personal state but also on the state of his teammates.

Currently, Ning Feiliu was actually unable to keep up; he was now doing as much as one One-on-One Soul Fighting match, two Two-on-Two Soul Fighting matches, and one Team Battle Spirit Fight per day.

When encountering strong enemies, it was even possible to have two Spirit Fighting Battles in one day, otherwise, the consumption of soul power would be unsustainable.

But even so, his winning streak had reached 73 matches!

He believed that soon, he would be able to complete a one-hundred-match winning streak!

(End of this chapter)