Chapter 283: The Small Spirit World

Imagine, in a duel between Great Soul Masters, one side possesses an Explorer Bracer and uses an Invincible Golden Body to block three soul skills launched by the opponent.

At the same time, because the soul power consumed comes from the Soul Power Crystal within the Soul Guidance Device itself, the Spirit Master does not expend much of their own, and can still use their own strongest soul skill.

Naturally, the side with the Explorer Bracer would be the victor.

Therefore, the Enhancement provided by Soul Guidance Devices is still significant; it is almost an existence that can determine the outcome of a battle.

And these are just ones where the attached soul skills lean toward self-preservation and escape; according to the principles of these Soul Guidance Devices of Ning Feiliu's, if it can attach a defensive self-preservation soul skill, could it not also attach a powerful offensive soul skill?

For example... replacing the Soul Skill Core of the Soul Guidance Device with an offensive soul skill similar to "White Tiger Intense Light Wave."

And because the power of this Soul Guidance Device's soul skill does not depend on the soul skill core, but rather on the Soul Power Crystal—or more accurately, the output power of the Soul Power Crystal.

Therefore, this offensive soul skill, similar to "White Tiger Intense Light Wave," would have a power not inferior to the level of a fifty-thousand-year soul skill...

This would greatly disrupt the balance of combat between Spirit Masters.

If such a Soul Guidance Device were truly created by Ning Feiliu in the future, it would be no different from high-tech weaponry brutally crushing primitive people.

To be precise, it would be like the era of the Peerless Tang Sect using high-level offensive Soul Guidance Devices to brutally crush Spirit Masters from the era of the Douluo Continent.

That scene... is truly too cruel.

Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling also thought of this scene, and they both felt a sense of powerlessness.

As Spirit Masters, even if they work hard to cultivate in the future, will they still be unable to compare to someone possessing a powerful Soul Guidance Device?

It is just like how you study hard, but it is not as good as having a good background; you need over 600 points in the college entrance exam to get into your dream school, but when you ask your roommate who got into university, they only got less than 500 points and still got into the same university as you on their second choice.

Whoever encounters this... would find it hard to accept.

Ye Lingling is fine; she is only an Auxiliary System Spirit Master, so that sense of powerlessness is not as obvious.

Dugu Yan, however, is a Battle Soul Master; she finds it truly hard to accept when imagining such a scene.

Her dozen or so years of cultivation and hard work might not be as good as the opponent possessing such a Soul Guidance Device...

Put this way, it feels a bit like playing a game where you use all sorts of techniques and kiting to get the opponent to low health, only for the opponent to pop an ultimate, hit an EQAAAAA, and kill you.

"I only saw talent and sweat ()." Ning Feiliu also knew this, but he shook his head and said, "This world is inherently becoming more and more unfair. We Spirit Masters with extraordinary backgrounds are already meant to possess better resources than other commoner Spirit Masters, and the future will only be more unfair."

The Douluo Continent is actually considered good, because in reality, powerful factions and Spirit Masters of noble birth have no cultivation methods, nor do they have any miraculous pills to help with cultivation.

Only top-quality martial souls count as an advantage.

Compared to those other fantasy and cultivation worlds... let's not even mention those; things like a sect's god-tier cultivation methods, various miraculous pills that can increase cultivation speed, Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, and prime cultivation grounds can directly pull a huge distance between ordinary cultivators and rogue cultivators.

Even compared to the martial arts world like the one Tang San lived in during his previous life, cultivation methods like the Mysterious Heaven Skill and martial arts manuals like the Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track are enough to create a gap.

On the Douluo Continent, you really do start with just a martial soul, and everything else depends on your own hard work.

Moreover, as long as your luck is good enough, it is not impossible to be like Huo Yuhao: starting with level one soul power and a trash martial soul, and ending up with a max-level triple top-tier martial soul, seven Soul Spirits, seven soul bones, and all kinds of magic and cultivation methods...

His case is truly beyond words; his background provided absolutely no help, and he relied entirely on his own hard work (luck).

Just look at how he happened to encounter a million-year Soul Beast that had just broken free and wanted to become a god, which also helped him trick a four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, then encountered the soul of an invincible Necromancer from another world, then obtained a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast embryo, and after that, met a master who was the Emotion God, Rong Nianbing...

This luck is already invincible.

But apart from that, background is still far greater than luck.

After all, no one can have such good luck unless you are a Child of Destiny like Huo Yuhao.

"That's true... this world is inherently unfair." Dugu Yan sighed and said, "Sometimes, individual effort really is not as good as one's background."

Take Ning Feiliu, for example; it is said he relies entirely on cheats, but in reality, if he hadn't been born into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but instead into an ordinary farming family like those in Notting City.

He wouldn't even have the conditions to open a medical clinic to accumulate experience in Pharmacology, and might have had to solve the problems of food and money first.

So, background is still very important.

"We are very lucky; we just need to keep working hard in the future," Ning Feiliu said with a smile. "If we, with our backgrounds, still couldn't compare to those ordinary Spirit Masters, wouldn't that be too embarrassing?"

Indeed, since our background advantage is already a huge step above commoner Spirit Masters, it would truly be embarrassing if we ended up losing to them.

Some people might think that as long as you have high Innate Soul Power, especially Innate Full Spirit Power, you can just lie back and reach Title Douluo.

In reality, you still need to cultivate hard; is Innate Full Spirit Power really destined to achieve Title Douluo...?

Not to mention the possibility of dying young or being killed halfway, even for the soul power growth in between, if you don't cultivate every day, will your soul power grow on its own?

In Ning Feiliu's view, talent is just like smart students and slow students doing homework; smart students do their homework a bit faster, but if they don't do it during the National Day holiday, no matter how smart they are, the homework won't finish itself.

Slow students do their homework very slowly and need all kinds of tutoring and worrying, but as long as they are willing to do the homework, it's fine.

As long as they spend six hours a day on their homework during the seven days of the National Day holiday, the homework can be finished.

So that is why Spirit Masters with Innate Full Spirit Power are not that... highly sought after.

For example, in the original story, Tang San and Xiao Wu, two students with Innate Full Spirit Power at the Notting City Soul Master Academy, were not snatched up, nor did people from other Soul Academies come to poach them... that is exactly why.

Therefore, hard work is still more critical.

"Hmph! That's true, but we aren't lazy; don't make it sound like Lingling and I don't work hard on a daily basis," Dugu Yan said with her hands on her hips, looking dissatisfied.

"Uh... I didn't mean you and Lingling, Yan-jie," Ning Feiliu said, feeling a bit awkward.

Seeing Ning Feiliu like this, Ye Lingling also found it quite funny and said, "Yanyan, don't misunderstand Feiliu; he definitely didn't mean that."

During this time, ever since fighting side-by-side with Dugu Yan, she had changed how she addressed her, moving from "Classmate Dugu" to the intimate "Yanyan."

"Hmph, I think that's exactly what he meant." Dugu Yan grabbed the arm of the Ye Lingling beside her and said, "He's bullying us! Lingling... tonight, let's join forces and get our own back!"

"Tonight..." Upon hearing Dugu Yan say this, exciting images appeared in Ning Feiliu's mind again.

In an instant, he pitched a "little tent."

Seeing that impressive little tent, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling both blushed and felt their hearts flutter.

Although they couldn't stand Ning Feiliu sometimes, the time spent with him was always happy.

So, of course, they also... longed for the time spent with Ning Feiliu.

"By the way... as we agreed before, once this period is over, we will go out for training together." Ning Feiliu forcibly suppressed his wandering thoughts and said. "I, of course, am ready at any time!" Dugu Yan said excitedly, "I haven't really seen the outside world much either, except for the last Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament. This time, I want to take a good look at the outside world."

"I... will talk to my father about this and give you an answer in a few days," Ye Lingling said.

"Good, then we shall wait for your answer, Lingling, before deciding on the departure time," Ning Feiliu said with a smile.

"Then it's settled, but... before that, you have to..." Dugu Yan pulled Ning Feiliu's hand with a mischievous smile, while her other hand pulled Ye Lingling, and she said, "Let's go, to my house!"

It was another night of unrestrained indulgence, but Dugu Yan, who had originally said she would get back at Ning Feiliu with Ye Lingling that night, was the first to be defeated.

Even though she was the one who started the war, she ended up wrapped in a quilt on the side, watching Ye Lingling suffer Ning Feiliu's attacks.

Then the next day, while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were still asleep like exquisite works of art.

After Ning Feiliu woke up, he discovered...

A line of small text appeared out of thin air before his eyes—

【Cause one thousand Spirit Blossom Trees to take root and bloom for the first time in this world, and obtain the mysteries of the Spirit World.】

Then this line of text shattered, turning into a vast and unique stream of knowledge that entered Ning Feiliu's mind.

"Spirit World..." Ning Feiliu was stunned for a moment, and then... he felt the existence of the Spirit World.

This so-called Spirit World was right there... in the Sunset Forest.

And at this moment, in the Sunset Forest.

Watching the last Spirit Blossom Tree come to life, grow, and bloom, Dugu Bo revealed an excited smile.

Then at this very moment...

All one thousand Spirit Blossom Trees in the Sunset Forest released a strong yet somewhat gentle pink light, which converged together, completely turning the already somewhat pinkish Sunset Forest into a place of immense peace of mind.

Beautiful and warm, even the Spirit Soul could attain complete tranquility.

In a place Dugu Bo could not see, as the gentle light released by these one thousand Spirit Blossom Trees shone, the Blooming Spirit Flower Ancestor Tree within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well also emitted an even more powerful aura.

Deep underground in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, in that unknown place, those two giant dragon bones also seemed to resonate at this moment, then released a powerful force.

In just an instant, that powerful force followed the gentle pink light and fell entirely into that original Blooming Spirit Flower Ancestor Tree.

Then... a hundred years...

A thousand years...

Ten thousand years...

Fifty thousand years!!

In the end, this original Blooming Spirit Flower Ancestor Tree actually spanned millions of years of time in an instant, becoming a fifty-thousand-year-level Soul Beast.

Furthermore, on its massive trunk, a kind and amiable old face soon condensed.

"Master!" it suddenly shouted with great joy.

Far away at the Dugu Mansion in Heaven Dou City, Ning Feiliu also heard this call.

He did not expect that the completion of this task would directly cause the Blooming Spirit Flower Ancestor Tree to absorb a portion of the life essence of the two great Dragon Kings, directly becoming a fifty-thousand-year-level Soul Beast! "Hmm, it seems you have also gained from a misfortune." Ning Feiliu did not know what to say, but at this moment he felt something else...

He saw that in the Sunset Forest, countless wandering spirits seemed to have awakened because of this.

Those who had died in the Sunset Forest, whether Soul Beasts or human Spirit Masters, their wandering spirits had all undergone Revitalization.

The one thousand Spirit Blossom Trees formed a unique and massive Domain, or perhaps it could be called a Small Spirit Realm.

In any case, within this Small Spirit Realm, the wandering spirits were all awakened, and there was no risk of their souls scattering.

However, their awakening not only frightened the Soul Beasts that saw them, but they also thought they had been resurrected, and acted according to their behavioral patterns from when they were alive.

The wicked wandering spirits intended to attack any life they could see.

The wandering spirits who still thought of their friends and family intended to leave the Sunset Forest.

In an instant, the entire Sunset Forest was in chaos! "This... what should I do?" Ning Feiliu frowned.

"Master, do you need these wandering spirits to rest in peace?" At this time, the Blooming Spirit Flower Ancestor Tree spoke respectfully.

"Yes, that..." Ning Feiliu did not yet know how to address the Blooming Spirit Flower Ancestor Tree that now had self-awareness, and was just about to give it a name.

As it turned out, the Blooming Spirit Flower Ancestor Tree said, "Master may simply call me Spirit King."

"Hmm, that's good. Spirit King, do you have a way to make them quiet down?" Ning Feiliu asked.

"Within this embryonic Spirit World, Master is the supreme Domination, and I reside beneath Master, and can make them fall back into slumber at any time," the Spirit King said respectfully at once.

"That's good... except for..." Ning Feiliu saw at this moment the revitalized Dugu Xin and Duan Zilin, who were happily staging a reunion scene with Dugu Bo.

"Except for these two, my father-in-law and mother-in-law, let the other wandering spirits rest in peace," he finally said.

"Yes, as you command," the Spirit King said respectfully.

Then it shouted toward the Sunset Forest, "All spirits... be silent and rest in peace!"

Sure enough, after it issued the command, those Spirit Blossom Trees in the Sunset Forest swayed slightly as if they had heard the order.

Then they emitted a strange fluctuation, and soon those chaotic wandering spirits all disappeared on the spot once again.

Only Dugu Xin and Duan Zilin remained, excitedly reuniting with Dugu Bo.

"Spirit King, you may withdraw for now; I will come to find you later." Ning Feiliu breathed a sigh of relief and said.

"Yes... Master." The Spirit King obeyed the order, and then no longer maintained a conscious connection with Ning Feiliu.

"A Small Spirit Realm... is it?" Ning Feiliu was somewhat dazed; the knowledge in his mind regarding the mysteries of the Spirit World made that original idea in his heart become increasingly clear.

Why be a Moon God, a Martial God, or a God King of Asura? He would be... the supreme Domination God King of the Spirit World!

(End of this chapter)