Discussing the Powers over Warm Wine
Spirit Hall was actually a righteous organization that helped commoners' children awaken their Martial Souls for free?!!!
Jing Hongchen knew full well what a massive undertaking it was to help commoners awaken their Martial Souls for free. Even the Sun Moon Empire could not arrange free Martial Soul Awakening in every village.
The Sun Moon Empire could also awaken everyone's Martial Souls, but... it charged a fee!
The fees were not as harsh as those on the Douluo Continent, but it certainly did not do business at a loss!
A smile curled Jing Hongchen's lips, making him look like an old fox.
If the diary really described that era, then... things would get interesting.
But at that moment, the diary took a turn...
[But...]
[That woman Bibi Dong, the Pope of Spirit Hall, is no good...]
Zhang Lexuan, who had still been somewhat bewildered, subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the turn.
The diary might have been fabricated, but even if it was not very credible, who did not want to hear something nice?
[Bibi Dong, a participant in the Rakshasa God's trials.]
[A leader can be good or bad, but she absolutely cannot be crazy!]
[Bibi Dong is a complete lunatic. There's not a shred of logic to anything she does. Not only is she crazy, she's also got a love brain. A woman standing at the pinnacle of the continent with unmatched power actually fell for that "Grandmaster" Yu Xiaogang, who broke fifty years old at level twenty-nine. It makes you wonder whether the Rakshasa God put a curse on that crazy woman.]
[So, to sum up, Spirit Hall is a decent organization, but Bibi Dong is not a qualified leader.]
[If you were to assign percentages of credit for Spirit Hall's destruction, Tang San would get twenty percent at most. Bibi Dong alone would take sixty percent, and the remaining twenty percent would be split evenly between two other love-brained Saintesses.]
Jing Hongchen: "..."
The diary's contents were so outrageous that they seemed all the more likely to be true.
Since the diary had nothing to do with the Sun Moon Empire anyway, Jing Hongchen treated it as a chance to eat melon.
[Aside from Spirit Hall, there's one other power worth mentioning: the Heaven Dou Empire!]
[Of course, you could also call it the Heaven Dou branch of Spirit Hall's Worship Hall.]
[The Heaven Dou Empire is just some random nobody on the roadside. It can't even produce a single Titled Douluo. But its crown prince, Xue Qinghe, is the Saintess of Spirit Hall's Worship Hall, the possessor of the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, and a participant in the Angel God Trial. So the Heaven Dou Empire I'm talking about here is Little Angel's faction.]
[I don't know what wires got crossed for the illustrious Innate Level Twenty Qian Renxue to be assigned undercover in the Heaven Dou Empire to carry out the Nation-Stealing Plan.]
[It's the very pinnacle of a battle of wits, right up there with Zhongli faking his death. I'm dying of laughter...]
[Qian Renxue is a good boss who thirsts for talent, but her brain really doesn't work too well. Every now and then, she displays world-shocking wisdom.]
[If I could become her adviser and have her follow my lead, what would I have to fear from Tang San?]
World-shocking wisdom indeed: a genius with Innate Level Twenty sent undercover. Both Jing Hongchen and Zhang Lexuan felt their eyes had been opened.
[The last faction is the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect!]
[Looking at the whole picture, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect vanished for the entire story, and the Clear Sky Sect did a fine job of being a turtle hiding in its shell. Only the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect showed its face.]
[Of all the sects, only the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is suitable for a commoner grassroots nobody to join the game.]
[But apart from its wealth, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is still far too weak in terms of actual strength.]
[And though I say it's suitable for commoner grassroots nobodies, what it actually takes in are grassroots geniuses, not genuine grassroots nobodies. If your Innate Soul Power isn't good enough, I doubt the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would even look at you.]
Though they did not know whether the diary was genuine, by this point, the three people who had received Diary Copies had gained some understanding of the world it described.
Before long, the diary drew to a close.
[Forget it. There's no use planning any more right now.]
[In this world, Innate Soul Power and Martial Soul are everything. If I really turn out to be trash, thinking about it any more won't help.]
[I'm not asking for a particularly good Martial Soul or particularly high Innate Soul Power. Just give me an ordinary Martial Soul and Soul Power of Innate Level Three or above, and I'm confident I can defy the heavens and change my fate!]
In Elder Lin's little Western-style house at the Sea God Pavilion.
"Phew..."
Shen Yichen wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and visualized the diary in his mind, reading it over and over many times.
"There probably... aren't any major holes in it, right?"
This was the method Shen Yichen had come up with.
Since writing a diary about this era might not let him lie low safely, he would make up a transmigrator and write about events ten thousand years ago instead.
What did Xiao Yan, a transmigrator from ten thousand years ago, have to do with him, a thoroughly legitimate Sea God Pavilion baby?
Of course, the safest method was to actually record his ordinary life. But he was already here, already transmigrated. If he did not use his foreknowledge of the plot to stir up wind and rain, could he still call himself a lawless Otherworldly Demon?
The bold would eat their fill, while the timid starved. After all, he, Shen Yichen, had never been a spirit pearl content to stay in line!
"System, system, can I know who received the Diary Copies?"
Shen Yichen asked silently in his heart.
After a long while, the system had not responded at all.
His little face scrunched up, and Shen Yichen gave a disdainful "tsk."
But before long, the system chimed.
[Host has completed the first Daily Journal Check-In. Reward obtained: Martial Soul Evolution ×1. Automatically used; Manifested After Martial Soul Awakening.] [Host has completed the Daily Journal Check-In. Reward obtained: Constitution +1]
Suddenly, a current of warmth surged outward from his dantian. Shen Yichen could clearly feel that his body had grown stronger!
But it was less like water being poured into an empty cup and more like the cup itself had grown larger.
"So... was it my potential that increased? Or something more mysterious?"
Shen Yichen racked his brains but could not figure it out, so he decided to let himself off the hook. He was still young and had plenty of time!
Still, it was also this idiotic system's fault for not providing a numerical explanation or anything.
But then...
A demonic-pill-like smile curled Shen Yichen's lips. Hey, I have a plan!
He opened the diary in his mind. Pen, come!
[Wuhu, taking off!]
[I was originally planning to join someone else's faction, but now, I'm going to start my own!]
[I see that Tang San lacks virtue and Qian Renxue lacks wisdom. Of all the heroes under heaven, I, Xiao Yan, stand above them all!]
Jing Hongchen: "???"
He had looked so worried just a moment ago. How had he suddenly become so lawless?
[This diary system gave me a chance to evolve my Martial Soul on the very first day. My Martial Soul won't awaken until tomorrow, but... the Martial Soul that awakens definitely won't be weak! Innate Full Soul Power should be the bare minimum, right?]
[This era isn't like the era of Peerless Tang Sect ten thousand years later, where Innate Full Soul Power is as common as cabbages by the roadside. Looking at the whole first Douluo story, there are no more than ten geniuses with Innate Full Soul Power. There are no more than five explicitly identified!]
[Just one day of diary check-ins has given me the qualifications to compete head-on with geniuses. Give me another ten days or half a month to develop, and I don't even dare imagine how strong I'll be!]