Departure! Heaven Dou Royal Academy (Part 1)

Two months was roughly the length of Bai Ge's summer vacation in his previous life.

By dual cultivating with Qian Renxue while in their Martial Soul Fusion state, backed by a 120 percent Martial Soul compatibility and a tenfold increase in cultivation speed, Bai Ge had forcibly broken through to level forty-five.

Qian Renxue, meanwhile, had reached the peak of level sixty-eight.

It was hardly surprising. When Bai Ge obtained his third Soul Ring, Qian Renxue had obtained her sixth Soul Ring from a fifty-thousand-year Golden Earth Dragon King.

For an ordinary six-ringed Soul Emperor, the limit for a sixth Soul Ring was only twenty thousand years.

Thus, after obtaining her sixth Soul Ring, Qian Renxue rose two levels in a row, breaking through to level sixty-two.

That was still because Qian Renxue possessed a God-level Martial Soul and her soul power was exceptionally pure. Had it been a Soul Master with an ordinary Martial Soul, rising three or four levels in a row would have been possible.

A month later, after Qian Renxue's cultivation had stabilized, she took the Great Revitalizing Pill Bai Ge had given her.

Its effects were equivalent to the pure foundation of an Innate Grandmaster cultivating tirelessly for sixty years. Originally, it would have been enough to raise Qian Renxue's soul power to level seventy, but after Bai Ge and Qian Renxue joined forces and compressed and refined it once more in their Martial Soul Fusion state, it only raised her five levels, bringing her to level sixty-seven.

Afterward, Bai Ge went to Shrek, while Qian Renxue was busy with her plans, so neither of them improved much further.

In truth, after level sixty, every additional level of soul power required a great deal of time.

In the original work, both Tang San and Qian Renxue were undeniably gifted cheaters.

They were the favored children of fortune in the first ten thousand years of the Douluo Plane.

In terms of talent, even Bibi Dong would be instantly reduced to nothing before those two.

By the time they became gods, Bibi Dong should have been in her early sixties.

Tang San, however, was twenty-five, while Qian Renxue was only in her early thirties.

Then consider Tang Hao, once hailed as the youngest Titled Douluo in the history of Douluo Continent, who was forty-four.

That showed just how terrifying those two truly were.

The ordinary transmigrators Bai Ge had mentioned before referred to "ordinary" people who possessed at least innate level-nine soul power, Innate Full Soul Power as the standard, a top-tier Martial Soul, and no system, then went to hang around Tang San and Grandmaster.

No matter what, that kind of talent was better than Ma Hongjun, whose head was filled with nothing but Evil Fire and women.

Without a system to cheat with and without a complete cultivation technique inheritance, if an ordinary transmigrator who had merely been a homebody in his previous life faced a professional killer from the Tang Sect like Tang San and dared to ask even half a word about the "Mysterious Heaven Skill," Tang San would have already snapped his neck.

Character was one thing; strength, temperament, methods, and scheming were another.

The male leads of ancient web novels were never ordinary people.

Tang San was a Hidden Weapon-obsessed tech nerd, an orphan raised by the Tang Sect, a professional killer, perhaps even a dead soldier who regarded human lives as worthless.

Xiao Yan had endured humiliation for three years, and his temperament had become decisive and ruthless, calm and mature.

When facing Jialie Ao, he swung his iron rod straight for the man's head. If Jialie Bi had not stopped him in time, Jialie Ao would have replaced Liu Xi as Xiao Yan's first kill.

Liu Xi, the first villain, had been burned to ashes by Xiao Yan with a single blaze under the instruction of Old Yao, Venerable Yao Chen, becoming Xiao Yan's first kill. Xiao Yan showed no discomfort afterward.

Linley Baruch, a descendant of the Dragonblood Warriors, did not feel sick or want to vomit at the sight of battle, blood, and slaughter. His first reaction was desire, surging bloodlust, and calmness.

The protagonists of those three works from the same era truly could not be compared to the pathetic homebody transmigrators of today.

All three of them were absolute ruthless figures.

Of them, Xiao Yan truly had the best temper. If it had been Tang San, he might even have calmly accepted Nalan Yanran breaking off the engagement, then hidden away for five years until he reached the Dou Emperor level.

Then he would have unleashed poison and Hidden Weapons alike, leaving not a single living thing from all the Yunlan Sect Disciples, stewards, and their families, as well as everyone in the Nalan family.

Do not assume Tang San was hot-blooded just because he had been prepared to kill that gatekeeper.

In the original work, the gatekeeper claimed that Tang San's Spirit Hall certificate was forged. That was equivalent to someone altering Bai Ge's college entrance examination results in his previous life, enough to destroy Tang San's path to becoming a Soul Master.

The reason was simply that Tang San and Village Chief Jack had not bribed him.

And he had even beaten up old Grandpa Jack.

That gatekeeper was also just an ordinary person without soul power.

He had truly brought death upon himself. Tang San could have killed him without the slightest effort, which was why he had been prepared to act.

By the rules of Douluo Continent, if Tang San had killed him, it would have been entirely his own fault.

It was not something that could be brushed aside with a few casual insults, as some ignorant online readers claimed.

An ordinary transmigrator without a system wanted to fight Tang San? Go wash up and sleep.

Bai Ge had confidence because he had a system to cheat with.

He was confident that even in a direct confrontation, he could defeat Tang San fairly and squarely.

He disdained, and would never use, such underhanded methods.

If there was to be a battle, then let there be a battle!

As a Tiance, Bai Ge would always crush his opponents head-on!

Besides, Bai Ge had no conflict with Tang San.

The Martial Soul Fusion Skill Bai Ge and Qian Renxue could use could unleash Ultraman's Resurrection Ray. Combined with the Life Source Pearl, reviving the Blue Silver Emperor would not be difficult.

If they also stopped Bibi Dong from targeting Xiao Wu, and with Qian Xunji already dead and the friendship between Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen, there was no need for them to fight to the death.

As for the conflict between humans and soul beasts, forget it. It was nothing more than nonsense meant to fool three-year-old children.

In this respect, Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong were the same—they were only after Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and soul bones.

What Soul Beast transforming into a human, what infiltrating with ulterior motives—it was nothing more than picking on the weak.

If they went up against a real Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, they could lose their lives if they were not careful.

Hey, look! There was actually a naïve little rabbit that had transformed into a human, and an equally naïve Blue Silver Emperor!

Quick, grab them! Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and soul bones!

What?! It sacrificed itself? The cooked duck had flown away?

Tang Hao, you colluded with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and betrayed humanity—your crimes are unforgivable!

Spirit Hall would uphold justice and eliminate scum like you!

Wasn't that exactly how it went?

Adults only cared about their interests; only children distinguished right from wrong.

In the original story, Bai He had not hesitated to sell his granddaughter Bai Chenxiang to Ma Hongjun so that his clan's martial soul could evolve.

In contrast, when Rongrong fell for Oscar, Ning Fengzhi demanded that Oscar become a battle soul master. Though seemingly heartless, this requirement tested Oscar's character and temperament, allowing the two to find happiness together.

Bai Chenxiang, who had merely been treated as a plot device, instead met a tragic end.

And reality in society was precisely this cruel.

(This was also why I paired Bai Chenxiang with Oscar in this novel and left Fatty single.

Bai Chenxiang was a perfectly innocent girl. Fatty's character really wasn't worthy of her.)

Bai Ge's dream was to rebuild Huaxia on Douluo Continent, allowing Huaxia martial arts to take root in this world and flourish.

And in this regard, perhaps only Tang San could understand him.

He would pull the Douluo world, which had originally gone astray, back onto the right path and turn it into a golden age of martial arts at the high-martial level!

Using the original Spirit Hall as the Core Flame, he would spread, research, and refine martial arts techniques.

Using the original Heaven Dou Empire as a foundation, he would rename the country Huaxia and, with God-level strength, peacefully unify the entire Douluo Continent, protecting the common people so they could live and work in peace, free from the suffering of war.

Establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, establish a destiny for the people, preserve lost teachings for the sages of the past, and bring peace to all ages to come!

To restore the magnificent prosperity of our grand Huaxia, of the Nine Provinces beneath heaven—this was the vision a modern transmigrator ought to possess!

If all you could think about was stepping on Tang San and the Grandmaster, then all you saw was your own tiny patch of land. Your perspective was far too narrow!

I got carried away writing and padded things out again. But it was a public chapter anyway, so it was free.

I'd post another chapter later!

People kept saying that me going to Shrek meant I was sucking up to Tang San. It really pissed me off.

From the very beginning, I never agreed with Spirit Hall's war!

War meant people died! The sci-fi mecha stuff in Douluo 3 and Douluo 4 was even more ridiculous.

The protagonist was going to pull the Douluo world back from its crooked path!

This was a world-hopping novel. The Douluo Plane was the protagonist's foundation for becoming a god and proving his Dao. After the Soul Master Tournament ended, the plot would take a complete one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.

Read properly and follow what I write!

Other than the original work and the anime, which barely deviated from it, all those other fan-made settings could stay out of my way!

I'm saying this one last time!

Damn it, I'm furious! Now I finally knew why haters were so detestable, and why so many novels got dropped halfway!