Chapter 67: Things deserved

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The next day, Sunset Forest.

Nan Feng, Bibi Dong, and Dugu Yan walked in front to lead the way, while the bruised and swollen Yue Guan and Gui Mei walked behind to hold the line.

"Why do you tell everything to others?" Gui Mei transmitted his voice.

Yue Guan's eyelid twitched slightly. "How was I supposed to know that old poison-user would say everything? Besides, wasn't it to make that guy honestly join the Spirit Hall, so as not to cause trouble?"

Nan Feng's despicable and shameless nature, anyone who knows even a little bit should know that this guy is truly capable of doing anything!

He can punch a hundred-year-old man and kick a three-year-old child! It's not that he has no quality, it's that he has no bottom line! Bullying the weak, using his strength to bully the small, sneak attacks from behind, and even kidnapping and threats, he doesn't mind any of it!

But how could he have known that, facing such a Nan Feng, Dugu Bo would still have a glimmer of hope! Actually thinking that after this guy's cultivation level went up, he would have some kind of expert demeanor? Screw the expert demeanor! Not to mention Nan Feng himself, now all the Titled Douluos of the entire Elder Hall have been led astray by this guy! When a lion fights a rabbit, it uses its full strength! If they can gang up, they will never fight one-on-one!

If they can sneak attack, they will never face them head-on!

If they can play dirty, they will never go soft! What fairness and justice? Only killing the opponent is the only important thing. As for the means, as long as they kill the opponent, the process is whatever they say it is! Only those who survive can speak! ……

After a long trek through the jungle, Dugu Yan led Nan Feng and the others to the outskirts of a large poison array.

"My grandfather usually lives inside here." Dugu Yan said.

"This ghost place is so hidden, how do you remember the way?" Nan Feng asked in confusion.

They had been circling in the Sunset Forest for a whole morning, and he was almost losing his sense of direction.

"Poison." Dugu Yan said.

"My grandfather set up some marked poisons along the way. Those poisons have the effect of repelling spirit beasts. My grandfather has taken me through here many times before to ensure I remember these few paths."

"Then what about now?" Nan Feng asked.

"This poison array can't even be endured by a Spirit Saint for long; how are you going to get in?"

Over the years, he had exchanged some information on the use of deadly poisons with the Pufferfish Douluo of the Elder Hall, and he could roughly distinguish the power of some poisons.

Among them, the deadly poison of Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor is something even Titled Douluos have to avoid.

The reason why Yue Guan and Gui Mei couldn't bring Dugu Bo back when they joined forces was mainly because they didn't dare to push too hard. If this old poison-user were to self-destruct, even Yue Guan and the others couldn't handle it.

They could only hunt him like a spirit beast, chasing him while leaving room, letting the other party keep running, consuming his physical strength, and only when they had absolute certainty of taking him down would they get serious.

As for the Spirit Fusion Skill, the other party isn't an idiot; how could they stand there and wait for you to use your big move?

Either someone stalls, or you catch them off guard, or your own moves are enough to make the other party unable to be distracted and run away.

"Wait for my grandfather to come out and pick me up." While speaking, Dugu Yan completed her Martial Soul Possession, a yellow spirit ring on her body lit up, and she spat a mouthful of poisonous mist toward a flow point of the poison array.

"The way you guys pass signals... is quite unique, isn't it?" Nan Feng said with a strange expression.

Relying on poison to pass information, an exclusive key!

After Dugu Yan's poison merged into the poison array, Nan Feng's group sat down and waited quietly for Dugu Bo to come out.

Although Bibi Dong could rely on the Soul-Devouring Spider Emperor to forcibly break into this poison array, since Dugu Yan was so cooperative, it would be somewhat impolite if they were still like hooligans and bandits.

"Why are you looking for my grandfather?" Dugu Yan asked in confusion.

If it was just to recruit him, it wouldn't be enough for even the Pope to come along, right? "Robbery." Nan Feng said.

"By the way, Yue Guan, after we go in later, don't get too excited."

"Excited?" Yue Guan was stunned.

"What do you mean?"

"There are immortal herbs inside, Strange Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, just like your martial soul." Nan Feng said.

"……"

Boom! Yue Guan shot toward the depths of the poisonous mist at a speed that almost took off from the spot. The thick poison array was forcibly blasted into a long passage by this Titled Douluo's momentum.

Bibi Dong's eyelid twitched slightly. "Aren't you afraid he'll snatch the things and run away directly?"

Although Yue Guan has stayed in the Spirit Hall for most of his life, in the organization of the Spirit Hall, except for those elders, there is basically no loyalty to speak of.

The Spirit Hall is the company Nan Feng mentioned; there is gain only with effort. No one can get anything for free. In the Spirit Hall, to obtain resources, one must first make corresponding contributions.

Everyone is the same.

Therefore, how much one can get is one's own ability, and it is all what they deserve; there is no such thing as gratitude or not. Only with effort will there be a reward.

Everyone who joins the Spirit Hall knows this, so the Spirit Hall's Spirit Masters have a strong sense of career, and there are very few who neglect their duties, especially in the middle and lower levels, after all, if you don't work, you have nothing.

This is the advantage of the Spirit Hall, and also its biggest disadvantage.

After all, those sects outside are all linked by blood and martial souls. Unless it is that kind of particularly outstanding one, others, even if they pay, may not necessarily have a harvest.

But in the Spirit Hall, most things are clearly priced. This system can stimulate the people below to strive for progress to the greatest extent, allowing the Spirit Hall to develop faster, but it also brings a problem.

Whatever I can get, I fought for it myself, and it's all what I deserve!

The vast majority of Spirit Masters in the Spirit Hall have this kind of thinking, just like those Spirit Hunting Groups that do business and take bounties; there is simply no such thing as the so-called loyalty of those sects.

Including the subsidies for low-level Spirit Masters, the two great empires already have subsidies for low-level Spirit Masters. After all, low-level Spirit Masters are busy cultivating and cannot spend time looking for work as Spirit Masters, and they don't have the ability to find it either.

If enough living subsidies are not issued to low-level Spirit Masters, guess what method these Spirit Masters with powerful strength will use to obtain wealth when they are short of money? It probably won't be street performing, right?

The subsidies for low-level Spirit Masters are for social stability and to reduce the maintenance costs of public security, not because anyone is kind-hearted.

One Gold Spirit Coin can make a Spirit Master honestly stay for a month, ten Gold Spirit Coins can make a Great Spirit Master live his life peacefully, and one hundred Gold Spirit Coins can make a Spirit Elder follow the rules.

If there were no such subsidies, the funds the two great empires would have to spend on Spirit Master security maintenance would increase exponentially! Don't treat the ruling class as fools; no one will do things that have no benefits.

It's all about how to be cost-effective.

Compared to spending time and effort to manage these scattered Spirit Masters, giving money directly is more cost-effective.

Martial soul awakening is the same, free?

When the input of a thing is greater than the return, it cannot be free.

Look at the places in the two great empires that have started to set up their own martial soul awakening sites, and you should know how profitable martial soul awakening is!

As long as one person with spirit power appears among one hundred people who awaken their martial souls, it is profitable!

If the Spirit Hall hadn't relied on its powerful military force to take over the work of martial soul awakening, would it be possible for the two great empires to leave such a thing that can almost be said to be a ten-thousand-fold profit undone? The Spirit Hall wants to develop, and the two great empires also want to develop. Spirit Masters are a minority, and things are precious because they are rare.

Unless Spirit Masters are everywhere, these special treatments for Spirit Masters will not disappear.

When most people are Spirit Masters, things like Spirit Master subsidies will naturally disappear, and martial soul awakening will also start to cost money.

All people and things are products of the era.

There is white only because there is black; Yin is not outside Yang, but within Yang.

"Run away?" Nan Feng raised his eyebrows.

"You mean, Yue Guan dares to snatch my things, and then, in front of my face, run away?"

Bibi Dong's eyelid twitched.

Forgot about you, this bandit!

"What an unfamiliar vocabulary." Nan Feng sighed.

"Are there still such warriors in this world?"

Saying this, Nan Feng looked at Gui Mei.

"Is Yue Guan this brave?"

Gui Mei's expression stalled. "I... don't know."

"I don't know either." Nan Feng stood up.

"But I'm curious if he really has the guts."

"Remember the last person who wanted to snatch my things? He doesn't even have a grave."

"……"

Dugu Yan looked at Nan Feng with a strange expression.

Isn't this my grandfather's stuff?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 68 =====