Chapter 126: Special Martial Soul

After Xiong Xin realized that Zhou Heng also seemed quite formidable, he felt an itch in his heart and whispered a request to meet Zhou Heng later in the small woods behind the mountain for a proper physical collision.

Zhou Heng thought about it and agreed.

Although, in a sense, he was currently a Title Douluo without a seventh, eighth, or ninth Soul Ring.

Soul power at the level of a quasi-Soul King at level 70 was also a crushing force against a level 44 Soul Ancestor.

But Zhou Heng could not simply refuse to spar with others for that reason.

Xiong Xin was quite an interesting person, very different from the nobles Zhou Heng had known before, and Zhou Heng was willing to make a friend.

To put it jokingly, if Zhou Heng ever had a sudden whim to seize the Heaven Dou Empire, a friend from a military family could provide him with significant help.

After chatting a little, Xiong Xin began to talk about recent events.

As a child of a military family, he knew some secrets that he theoretically should not have known.

For instance, where the three Education Committee Members had gone recently.

According to Xiong Xin, for some unknown reason, a Fallen One at the Spirit Douluo level had appeared on the continent.

Rumor had it that this Fallen One was a once-respected Soul Saint who had been stuck at level 79 for many years.

Despite having a noble status and position, he was somehow provoked, wiped out his entire family, and became a Spirit Douluo through evil means.

No one knew exactly why.

Matters concerning Fallen Ones on the continent were supposed to be handled by the Spirit Hall, but this particular Fallen One was said to have a somewhat sensitive background, seemingly having some blood ties to the imperial family, so the Heaven Dou Empire did not want the Spirit Hall to intervene.

As a result, several groups sent to capture this Fallen One were killed instead.

The imperial family could not bring themselves to ask the Spirit Hall for help, so they had no choice but to request the three Education Committee Members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy to take action.

But for some reason, this Fallen One suddenly began to hide, to the point where the three Education Committee Members could not take down this scourge immediately.

Hearing about the Fallen One, Zhou Heng thought of Qian Renxue, the Spirit Hall young master disguised as the Crown Prince, so he casually asked Xiong Xin what the Crown Prince's plans were.

Xiong Xin thought for a moment and told Zhou Heng that a few days before the three Education Committee Members left, the Crown Prince had suddenly decided to go to the border, supposedly to audit the accounts there again.

According to the traditions of the Heaven Dou Empire, every time accounts were audited at the border, unpleasant incidents basically occurred; there had been many cases of officials being assassinated in the past, and no one knew what the Crown Prince was thinking, suddenly wanting to find trouble for himself.

"It seems that Qian Renxue being ambushed by that Earl during this audit is quite normal.

It's just that the Divine Power of the Rakshasa God and the Asura God feels a bit off," Zhou Heng thought to himself.

Currently, some ministers in the imperial court who were at odds with the Crown Prince were privately spreading rumors that this matter might be related to the Crown Prince; otherwise, why would a Fallen One who wiped out his own family appear right after the Crown Prince left?

Honestly, Zhou Heng also felt that this was a bit too coincidental.

But thinking that Qian Renxue was actually the successor of the Angel God, and that the Angel God lineage and evil spirit masters were irreconcilable, Zhou Heng did not really believe this had anything to do with Qian Renxue.

Perhaps someone on the continent really did have a sudden mental lapse and became a Fallen One who wiped out his own family just to break through from level 79 to level 80?

On the Douluo Continent, that was truly not impossible.

After all, people on the Douluo Continent often used shocking wisdom to pull off shocking stunts; no one could say for sure what might happen.

Zhou Heng could not help but feel some emotion regarding the Heaven Dou Empire's intelligence system.

Such important intelligence could be known by just anyone; it was truly beyond words.

Xue Ye was really not afraid of someone assassinating the Crown Prince.

With only two (actually one) of his four sons left, was he not afraid of an accident in this situation?

If the Crown Prince really met with an accident because of the audit, could Xue Ye really let that playboy Xue Beng inherit the throne?

He truly was not afraid of the Heaven Dou Empire simply splitting apart like that.

Zhou Heng complained a few times, then turned his attention with Xiong Xin to the situation in the arena.

At this moment in the arena, students were demonstrating their strength for spots on the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy team.

Although not only the strong met the standards for the team, some rather special Spirit Masters were qualified to join the team even if their strength was insufficient.

But undoubtedly, those with excellent strength were more likely to become members of the school team than those with poor strength.

After all, in the Douluo World, having big fists was the truth; fancy tricks were just extra bonus points.

Unless the fancy tricks were extreme, it was difficult to become true strength.

The Baoyu Beast Spirit Master Zhou Heng had been watching was also in the battle, and she had already won three consecutive fights.

Although she had the same name as the wife of the master of the Huashan Sect, this Ning Zhongze was a strong person whose arms were thick enough for a horse to run on; blue veins bulged on her brown skin, and her muscular arms were thicker than an ordinary person's thighs, giving her a sense of pure power.

Her entire appearance resembled Nezha from *One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes*; her face and her muscular body were simply two different art styles.

It was just that her body size was not that exaggerated; even after the Martial Soul Avatar, her height barely exceeded two meters. Well, even in the category of Power-attack System Spirit Masters, those who could exceed two meters by the second ring were rare.

For female Spirit Masters who mostly chose directions like agility or control, this height of two meters was not common even across the Douluo Continent.

Given that the Baoyu Beast martial soul could determine its development trend by absorbing the first Soul Ring, this strong person must have had her own ideas about the Power Attack System from birth.

The Baoyu Beast had the special characteristic of turning into the same Spirit Beast as the first Soul Ring absorbed, so as long as one had a normal brain, one would basically pay extra attention to the quality of the first Soul Ring; even if one could not find a Super Spirit Beast, one had to get a top-tier Spirit Beast to lay the foundation for one's martial soul.

Zhou Heng observed for a while and discovered that this Ning Zhongze's first Soul Ring was likely taken from the Vajra Bear, which was famous for its defensive and offensive power among top-tier Spirit Beasts.

The second Soul Ring was also likely from some high-quality bear-type Spirit Beast.

Her first soul skill was the same name as Zhao Wuji's first soul skill, also called Vajra Palm.

The way it was expressed was also divided into two types: one was to strike a huge palm print in the air, with an attack range of medium to close distance; the other was to attach it to the palm for close-range slapping.

As for the name of the second soul skill, it was very simple, just called Bear's Strength.

The form it manifested was an excellent increase in strength and defense, though the exact amount of the increase was hard to tell.

During his observation, Zhou Heng also discovered that the Baoyu Beast martial soul possessed the characteristics of both a Beast Spirit and a Tool Spirit.

This Ning Zhongze not only displayed the defensive power of the Vajra Bear but also had the resistance common to gem martial souls, and the two even overlapped, making her attack and defense appear more outstanding than a normal Vajra Bear Spirit Master.