Early in the morning, when most of Nuoding Academy's teachers and students were still asleep, two tall and one short three people had already walked out of the Academy's gates. Walking out of the Academy were precisely Grandmaster, Dai Xing Hun, and Tang San.
"We're going to the Soul Hunting Forest four hundred miles northeast of Nuoding City. That's where the empire raises spirit beasts, we'll definitely find something suitable for the two of you. However, Xing Hun, teacher can only help you obtain one soul ring. I have the heart but not the ability to help you obtain the other soul rings. But don't worry, teacher will help you think of a way.”Grandmaster wore a tight suit today, looking a bit more heroic, but his stiff face still gave people a feeling of disharmony.
"Captive? Could soul beasts be reared in captivity? Teacher, tell me about soul beasts.”Tang San looked at Grandmaster, his expression incomprehensible.
"High grade spirit beasts naturally can't be reared in captivity, but low grade ones can. A soul beast was a wild beast that possessed soul power. The longer it existed, the stronger it became. Therefore, generally speaking, we divide soul beasts into five grades according to their age.”
"Ten-year soul beasts, hundred-year soul beasts, thousand-year soul beasts, ten-thousand-year soul beasts, and hundred-thousand-year soul beasts. As the name implied, a soul beast that cultivated for more than ten years was a ten-year soul beast, and so on. The distinction between spirit rings and spirit beasts was the same. Spirit rings of different ages were very easy to recognize, and could be seen from their colors. Among them, ten year spirit beasts had white spirit rings, hundred year spirit beasts had yellow spirit rings, thousand year spirit beasts had purple spirit rings, ten thousand year spirit beasts had black spirit rings, and hundred thousand year spirit beasts had red spirit rings. The soul beasts reared by the country for the soul masters to hunt were mostly ten or hundred year soul beasts. There were very few thousand year soul beasts.”
"Teacher, the longer a spirit beast cultivates, the stronger it is, and the better the effect of the spirit ring produced. In what aspects was this powerful?”Tang San asked.
"This question is very well asked, the spirit rings produced by spirit beasts of different ranks differ mainly in the attribute addition to the Spirit Master and ability. For example, if one looked at it from a quantitative point of view, your blue silver grass spirit would take the control system tool Spirit Master route, then, if you obtained a ten year spirit ring with compatible attributes, then your blue silver grass control would increase by ten, but if it was a hundred year spirit ring, then your blue silver grass control would increase by one hundred. Therefore, if possible, all soul masters would try their best to pursue a more powerful martial soul.”
"Doesn't that mean the more powerful the person, the better the spirit rings they can obtain? Those nobles could completely rely on their own family's power to hunt for even stronger spirit rings for themselves.”
"Being able to think of this proves that you've thought carefully, but in fact it's not that simple. In other words, the additional requirements of a spirit ring were extremely harsh.”
"First of all, you must kill a spirit beast yourself to obtain the spirit ring of that spirit beast. The spirit ring will only exist for a very short time. If it doesn't attach itself to you within two hours, it will lose its effect.”
"Secondly, soul beasts are extremely proud creatures. No soul beast will allow themselves to be captured. If they are seriously injured by the enemy and want to capture them, then the soul beast will choose to self-destruct and die. This puts an end to the situation you mentioned. Even if you hire someone to hunt spirit beasts, it would be very difficult to obtain a spirit ring if it wasn't killed by him in the end.”
"Of course, this is not absolute. How can the intelligent soul beasts of mankind compare? The best way to hunt a soul beast was to form a group and head to the soul beast's location. The final blow would be done by oneself, and that way, one could obtain a soul ring. Therefore, the nobles and some people with power you mentioned do have a certain advantage in hunting soul beasts.”
"However, this kind of person easily obtaining spirit rings doesn't mean that he will become more powerful than ordinary Spirit Masters. No one can be sure whether the spirit beast attributes they encounter are the most suitable for themselves. The level of the soul beast was important, but the compatibility of its attributes was equally crucial. No matter how good a spirit ring was, it couldn't produce any good effect when it countered your own spirit. On the contrary, it would affect you. Most importantly, every Spirit Master had a limit to absorbing spirit rings at different stages.”
"For example, you're only a tenth ranked Spirit Warrior now. With your current spirit power, you can at most absorb a hundred year spirit beast's spirit ring. If you try to absorb a thousand year spirit ring, then there will only be one outcome, your body can't withstand it and will be destroyed by the spirit ring's power. When absorbing a spirit ring, no external force could help, and he could only rely on himself.”
"Think about it, those who need help from others to hunt the spirit beasts they need, how can their own strength be tenacious, perhaps absorbing a spirit ring that suits them and at the same time is within the range of control will produce a destructive blow. The two of you must remember that this world is fair. If you want to obtain something, you must make corresponding efforts. The spirit theory I've researched is only to make the process of Spirit Master's hard work a bit easier, to become even more powerful under the circumstances of having equal strength, do you understand?”
Tang San earnestly nodded, and Dai Xing Hun looked at Grandmaster with a smile.
After that, Grandmaster prepared three leather bags specially used to hold drinking water. Each leather bag could hold a full five liters of water. He also bought some bacon, flatbread, and fruit, making two big bags. In the end, Grandmaster also got a whole twenty catties of white radishes. After Grandmaster purchased all these things, he immediately hired a carriage in the city.
This was still Tang San's first time sitting in a carriage. Even though it was a bit bumpy, the novelty still made him very interested, and from time to time he pulled open the curtains to look outside. Looking at the bustling crowd and all kinds of shops, he couldn't help but yearn for the outside world. In this life, he was destined not to live as simply as in his previous life. He wondered what would happen when he entered society in the future.
Afterwards, Tang San received Twenty Four Moonlit Bridges from Grandmaster and tied it to his waist. The four hundred li road wasn't long, but it wasn't short either. It wasn't until noon the next day that they arrived at their destination, the Spirit Hunting Forest.
When Tang San got off the carriage, he discovered that the Spirit Hunting Forest was completely different from what he had imagined. The forest, in Tang San's impression, should be filled with the breath of nature, serene and tranquil, fresh air, sparsely populated. But this Spirit Hunting Forest in front of him, at least outside the forest, felt like a large market.
Outside the forest, a large number of houses or shops were built. All kinds of shouts rang out one after another, one after another man-made simple paths crisscrossed among them, the noisy atmosphere making Tang San unable to help frowning.
"We have a warrant to form a team to hunt strength type soul beasts.”
"Kill agility type soul beasts, seven people warrant. Ten gold spirit coins."
Similar shouts rose and fell, the shops mostly selling weapons, armor and various food supplies. Grandmaster brought Tang San into this market that could be considered a small town: "Do you know why I bought everything in Nuoding City?”
Tang San shook his head. Grandmaster pointed to the prices marked on those shops: "Because here, the price has to be at least doubled. Aren't you curious why it's so lively outside a forest? In fact, it was very simple. Where there were soul beasts, there were benefits, especially in these forests that were specially reared by the country to rear soul beasts. Soul masters were a wealthy group, and there were too many people who wanted to make money from soul masters.”
Afterwards, Tang San understood how to form a team, and Grandmaster brought them to walk towards the depths of the market. Even though the market was noisy and chaotic, when they walked out of the market and saw the great forest in front of them, Tang San still couldn't help being somewhat shocked. The height of the trees showed their age. There was a huge steel fence outside the forest, facing the side of the forest, revealing a large number of sharp thorns. The fence was more than ten meters high and looked extremely solid.
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