Chapter 223: Sword Dao Soul Skills

Shui Yue'er and Shui Bing'er soon went back to rest.

But then, Ning Feiliu was cared for in turn by several girls: Shen Liu Yu, Yu Hai Rou, Xue Wu, Qiu Ruoshui, and Gu Qingbo.

He, too, chatted with the girls for a while just as he had with Shui Bing'er, then politely declined their kind offer.

Their instructor, Jiang Xi, also appeared midway, though Jiang Xi only intended to stand guard for Ning Feiliu and did not have as many thoughts as the girls.

After all, the age gap between her and Ning Feiliu was too large.

Douluo Continent seems to care a great deal about age; for instance, in the original work, Dugu Bo did not intend to play matchmaker between Tang San and Dugu Yan simply because Dugu Yan was six years older than Tang San.

It is easy to imagine that Douluo Continent, which is very sensitive to age in its records, is also very sensitive to age in such matters of love.

A teacher-student romance, which Ning Feiliu felt was no problem in his past life, is something absolutely unacceptable here in Douluo Continent.

So much so that after Bibi Dong suffered the secret chamber incident at the hands of Qian Xunji, she went completely insane.

The forced "betrayal" of her beloved, combined with the shock of her teacher committing such an act that went against all human ethics, caused Bibi Dong's mind to collapse instantly.

This was what caused Bibi Dong to go mad later on.

The night passed without incident, and there was no danger.

When they woke up the next day, Ning Feiliu and the girls packed their things and headed straight for Tianshui City again.

They traveled until the afternoon before they finally walked out of the Star Dou Great Forest.

However, there was still some distance to Tianshui City; after all, a city would certainly not be built so absurdly at the entrance of a great forest.

It was, however, already quite close, as Tianshui City was not far from the Star Dou Great Forest.

So they continued their journey and finally arrived at Tianshui City just as evening was ending and before the sun set.

There is nothing much to say about the environment and appearance of Tianshui City; it is certainly not as magnificent as Heaven Dou City, nor does it have any special features.

After all, Ning Feiliu has traveled through the Bei Jing of the continent and is quite familiar with the environment and customs of the cities in the northern region.

"Feiliu, since you don't have a place to stay, why not come home with us?" Shui Bing'er said with a smile at this moment. "Our home is quite large, and there is an empty guest room where you can stay for now."

However, Ning Feiliu gave a wry smile and said, "Forget it, it would be embarrassing to intrude, I'll book a hotel."

He had plenty of money; as far as he was concerned, anything that could be solved with money was not a problem.

But Shui Bing'er and the others were a bit worried.

"Wouldn't it be a waste of money to go to a hotel..." Yu Hai Rou said, "And there is no Spirit Master Subsidy for those above the Soul Ancestor level..."

The Spirit Hall stipulates that Spirit Masters at or above the Soul Ancestor realm no longer receive a monthly Spirit Master Subsidy.

Naturally, Ning Feiliu, being a Soul King, also did not receive a Spirit Master Subsidy.

And one can only imagine how destitute a Spirit Master without a subsidy might be.

It is like the difference between a college student who can still ask their parents for living expenses and a fresh graduate who has just started working and must be independent.

When one can still ask for living expenses, one doesn't know how carefree it is; every month, besides eating and drinking well, one can still have some money to buy clothes and shoes and go to parties with classmates.

But once one starts working, without living expenses from parents, one is so poor every month that one wishes they didn't have to eat or drink.

The Spirit Master Subsidy mechanism of Douluo Continent is actually similar; a Soul Elder level Spirit Master can receive one hundred Gold Soul Coins a month, so logically, the income of Soul Ancestor and Soul King level Spirit Masters should be ten or a hundred times that of a Soul Elder.

Yet, in the original plot, the teachers at Shrek Academy, all of whom were above the Soul Emperor level, would even embezzle the ten Gold Soul Coin registration fee from students, looking as if they couldn't survive.

Of course, this was also them being hypocritically aloof; they couldn't earn much money themselves, yet they refused to join other forces or merely accepted titles from the Heaven Dou Empire on the surface to receive rewards.

If this isn't being hypocritically aloof, what is? If they were truly aloof, that would be one thing, but they still had to put on a show of being forced to swindle students out of their registration fees so that their pathetic academy with only a few people could keep running.

A Great Soul Master level student only gets a monthly Spirit Master Subsidy of ten Gold Soul Coins.

It is equivalent to cheating someone out of a month's wages while acting as if they were forced to do so; if this isn't being hypocritically aloof, what is? So looking at it this way, if a high-level Spirit Master doesn't have a major force behind them, their financial situation is likely not much better.

After all, if one really calculates it as one hundred Gold Soul Coins a month for a Soul Elder, one thousand for a Soul Ancestor, and ten thousand for a Soul King, it would accumulate quite a bit.

The original work clearly stated that those seventy thousand Spirit Masters of the Spirit Hall accounted for nearly seventy percent of the Spirit Masters currently on Douluo Continent.

The remaining thirty percent belonged to the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire respectively.

Considering that the number of Spirit Masters in the Heaven Dou Empire should be higher than in the Star Luo Empire, the Heaven Dou Empire has twenty percent of the Spirit Masters, which is twenty thousand.

And in the original plot, only four thousand Spirit Masters at or above the Soul Elder cultivation level could step onto the battlefield.

Calculating the total, the overall income of Spirit Masters would likely exceed hundreds of millions of Gold Soul Coins...

This is a rhythm that would lead to an explosion of inflation, so it is not necessarily true that the higher the Spirit Master level, the higher the income.

There are no shortage of Soul Kings and Soul Emperors as poor as those teachers at Shrek Academy, who would even embezzle a few Gold Soul Coins.

And Ning Feiliu once said he did not join any academy; coupled with his current situation of being able to travel, he should not have joined any force either, having no constraints to be able to go out and train.

But in that case... the travel funds would likely be a bit tight.

However, Ning Feiliu laughed and took a Gold Soul Coin card directly from the Steel Sun Box, saying, "Don't worry, for me, money is not a problem."

Seeing this, Shui Bing'er and the others said no more.

It now appeared that Ning Feiliu was much wealthier than them.

But they were also very curious about how Ning Feiliu had so much money.

Yet they did not ask directly.

Ning Feiliu naturally did not need to answer.

"Then Feiliu, have a good rest, we'll head back first," Jiang Xi said with a smile at this moment.

"Mm, goodbye everyone." Ning Feiliu waved his hand and walked toward the hotel at the end of the street without looking back.

Seeing this, Shui Bing'er and the other girls also went home.

The night passed without incident, and Ning Feiliu checked into a luxury room at the Tianshui City hotel.

Then he practiced all night on the balcony of the luxury room.

The moonlight was perfect tonight, and with the speed bonuses from his various tasks, Runes, and the Moonlight Breathing Method, he felt that he would be able to break through another level of soul power in two months.

One must know that he is already at the Soul King realm, yet his improvement speed is still this fast.

It can only be said that it is all thanks to his cheats.

However, what he did not notice was that Xiao Jiu, who had followed him for a long time, was at this moment also drawing the remaining moonlight into its body with every breath it took beside him.

Having followed Ning Feiliu for so long, Xiao Jiu, this intelligent Exotic Beast, although unaware of the specific operation method of the Moonlight Breathing Method, had relied on instinct to learn how to draw moonlight into its body for cultivation.

Ning Feiliu, of course, did not know this; he remained immersed in his cultivation.

……

In the time that followed, Ning Feiliu began his "training" in Tianshui City in accordance with the requirements of his travel mission.

The travel mission required Ning Feiliu to visit and "check in" daily for a period of time at the "important landmark locations or forces" of every city.

And generally speaking, an important landmark location or force in any city on the Douluo Continent was invariably the Great Spirit Arena.

Ning Feiliu often went to the Tianshui Great Spirit Arena, occasionally participating in a few Soul King-level Spirit Fighting Battles, much like his previous travel itinerary.

At the same time, during this period, he focused on maintaining a persona as a "pushover," vowing to step in and help whenever he saw injustice.

After all, he had to complete his mission.

It was just that this behavior of his seemed to confirm his persona as a pushover in the eyes of Dugu Yan.

Shui Bing'er and the others also felt that Ning Feiliu was just a pushover.

But Ning Feiliu felt that it did not matter; being labeled a pushover was actually acceptable to him.

The key was that there was a real reward for doing good deeds, and that was enough.

In addition to the experience of the Sword Saint and Sword Maiden, Ning Feiliu also obtained their respective secret techniques—【Alpha Strike】 and 【Laurent Heart-Blade】.

However, he renamed them 【Crescent Moon Raid】 and 【Crescent Moon Heart Sword】.

【Crescent Moon Raid】—rapidly traverse the battlefield, attacking multiple enemies simultaneously in an instant.

【Crescent Moon Heart Sword】—significantly increase the keenness of insight into enemy attack movements; if actively used to precisely block an enemy's attack, one can deflect the attack back at the enemy.

Without a doubt, this belonged to the series of Self-Created Spirit Skills, and unlike 【Summoning of the God of Casting】 and 【Summoning of the God of Ice and Snow】, it did not require the external release of soul power.

So, did Ning Feiliu entering Slaughter City also mean he could use these soul skills to slaughter his way through?

Besides that.

However, the landmark location of Tianshui City was not just as simple as the Tianshui Great Spirit Arena; there was also, of course...

Tianshui Academy.

So...

"What? Feiliu, you want to join our Tianshui Academy as a teacher?" Shui Bing'er was stunned for a moment and said with some shock.

At this time, Shui Yue'er, Shen Liu Yu, and Xue Wu were also there, and they were all quite surprised.

During the half-month he had lived in Tianshui City, Ning Feiliu had naturally interacted quite closely with Shui Bing'er and the others.

After all, they were the few people Ning Feiliu knew in this Tianshui City.

So the interactions were a bit close—mainly because Shui Bing'er and the others took the initiative to interact with Ning Feiliu a lot.

Therefore, through their interactions over this half-month, Shui Bing'er and the others felt even more that Ning Feiliu was a thoroughly good person.

Even when encountering civilians whose affairs had nothing to do with him, he would step in to help without asking for anything in return.

Such a person was truly too kind.

Kind, powerful, handsome, and from an extraordinary background...

Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and the others could not help but develop different feelings for Ning Feiliu.

"Yes, I have also heard that your Tianshui Academy does not accept male students, but... it didn't say it doesn't accept male teachers, right?" Ning Feiliu said with a hint of a smile in his eyes.

"It... it didn't say it doesn't accept male teachers..." Xue Wu thought for a moment and said at this time.

"But..." Qiu Ruoshui said with some helplessness, "Our academy doesn't have any male teachers either..."

Tianshui Academy did not explicitly forbid the recruitment of male teachers, but it could not be helped that they were an academy consisting entirely of female students.

And a large portion of Tianshui Academy's teachers were excellent students like Jiang Xi who remained at the academy to serve as teachers after graduation.

So, as time went on, even Tianshui Academy, which had never said it wouldn't recruit male teachers, defaulted to having basically only female teachers, with not a single male teacher.

Now Ning Feiliu was saying he wanted to become a teacher at Tianshui Academy?

Well... Ning Feiliu, at the Soul King level, was certainly qualified to be a teacher at a Soul Academy.

Although he was a bit too young.

"It's fine, where there's a will, there's a way; as long as it's not forbidden, there's still a chance." Ning Feiliu said with a smile, "I'll ask Teacher Jiang when the time comes to see if it's possible."

Entering Tianshui Academy as a teacher was easier for "checking in" at Tianshui Academy than entering as a student.

It was just that his doing so made people feel very strange.

Why did Ning Feiliu insist on joining Tianshui Academy to become a teacher?

So some among Shui Bing'er and the others were curious about this, and asked directly.

"Speaking of which... Brother Feiliu, why do you want to become a teacher at our academy?" Shui Yue'er was truly too curious at this moment, and asked directly.

Logically speaking, having spent this time together, they all knew that Ning Feiliu was not short of money, nor did he seem like a Spirit Master who needed to work.

Why did he want to enter Tianshui Academy to become a teacher? Could it be because...

The girls all blushed slightly, all thinking of that possibility.

Was it to get closer to one of them?

Although Ning Feiliu said he already had a sweetheart, it still made people unable to help but let their imaginations run wild.

Ning Feiliu, however, had already thought it through, and said half-jokingly, "I just think it's interesting, being a teacher and all, especially being a teacher to beautiful young girls."

"Brother Feiliu, you're joking again." Shui Yue'er said with some helplessness.

"No, I actually just think it's interesting." Ning Feiliu insisted with a smile, "And becoming a teacher at Tianshui Academy can allow me to gain something."

After all, becoming a teacher at Tianshui Academy would allow him to successfully "check in" at Tianshui Academy, and he could complete his travel mission faster.

Wouldn't the Resurrection Rune obtained in the end be a gain? Seeing that Ning Feiliu seemed truly serious, Shui Bing'er and the others said nothing more.

"Then I'll help Feiliu ask Teacher Jiang and the others." Shui Bing'er immediately said with a smile.

"Then many thanks," Ning Feiliu chuckled and said gratefully.

Then he picked up a pot of wine again and said, "Many thanks to everyone; if I truly become an academy teacher, I ask for everyone's kind indulgence."

Following that, he drank the wine in one gulp.

At this moment, Shui Bing'er looked at Ning Feiliu, who was drinking boldly in large gulps, and looking at his willow-leaf eyes that were like the bright moon and filled with a smile, she suddenly lowered her eyelids.

Meanwhile, her younger sister Shui Yue'er looked at her sister's appearance, then looked at Ning Feiliu to the side, a trace of dimness flashing through the depths of her eyes.

(End of chapter)