Monopoly on Knowledge.

Soul Battle Zone.

After Li Chang'an arrived here, he did not rush to sign up for a match. Instead, he planned to sit in the audience area and see how other soul masters fought.

After all, although he now possessed considerable strength, he had never had any fighting experience, let alone seen with his own eyes how battles between soul masters played out. If he went straight up and found someone to spar with or challenge, then even against someone weaker than himself, he would probably risk getting beaten black and blue.

Li Chang'an was not a masochist, so naturally he would not go looking for a beating for no reason.

So he sat quietly in the stands like this, silently watching the battle at the center of the arena.

Yu Tianheng on the field had long black hair. His looks could not be called handsome, and there was little expression on his face, as if his facial muscles had gone stiff. It seemed the people of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan all had this problem of being expressionless. Li Chang'an remembered Yu Xiaogang also having a stiff expression?

As his nephew, Yu Tianheng actually had the same expressionless problem too. It was hard not to make the connection.

However, after careful observation, Li Chang'an discovered that Yu Tianheng was not actually expressionless. That seemingly paralyzed expression of his looked more like he was deliberately imitating someone. Thinking of how much this guy worshiped that useless Xiaogang in the Original Work, he had reason to suspect that this brat was imitating Yu Xiaogang.

He really could not understand how that useless fraud chasing fame had made so many people in the Original Work admire him so much.

Li Chang'an subconsciously shook his head. After coming to this world, he had also read the works of Yu Xiaogang, who was known as "Grandmaster." He discovered that many of the theories inside were actually baseless conjectures and guesses by the author, without any real theoretical support. If one truly cultivated according to what was described inside, people would absolutely die.

It could be said that among Yu Xiaogang's many works, eighty percent of the content consisted of wrong theories and baseless speculation. As for the remaining useful portions, they were knowledge that could be found in the libraries of some large academies.

Therefore, it would not be fair to insist that this book was completely worthless, since some things inside were indeed useful. For civilian soul masters who had no way to study profound knowledge, Yu Xiaogang's works were indeed somewhat useful, but not much. If they believed everything in them, they would die without even knowing how.

As for knowledge that involved truly hidden secrets and the mysteries of high-level soul master cultivation, Yu Xiaogang had not written it in the books he published. After all, that knowledge was the closely guarded secret of nobles, great clans, and major forces. Unless one joined them, it was impossible for those civilian soul masters to come into contact with it.

If Yu Xiaogang dared to spread this truly profound knowledge, then even if he was the son of the sect master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, he was guaranteed not to live past the next day. Because he would have touched the interests of every major force under heaven! That included the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

The moment he dared to do that, he would face the entire world as his enemy!

The world had never been so beautiful. Knowledge was also a precious resource. It was monopolized by those nobles, great families, and major forces, and commoners had no chance of coming into contact with it. Because they had to ensure their own status and prevent those dirt-legged civilians from rising up, then suddenly standing shoulder to shoulder with them one day.

Do not be fooled by the many academies in the Original Work that accepted commoners. In truth, the knowledge that these low-level academies could teach was extremely limited. At best, it was some common knowledge of the Soul Master World, or else some knowledge unrelated to cultivation.

So the reason it was difficult for civilian soul masters to get ahead, aside from poor talent and poor resources, was mainly because they lacked that profound knowledge passed down through generations. On the path of cultivation, many of them would end up taking detours.

Leaving everything else aside for now, just identifying the type of soul beast and its age was enough to stump the vast majority of people.

They were all Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, but sometimes a difference of a few dozen years could pose a mortal danger to a soul master.

So true civilian soul masters who could rely on themselves to grow were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns. The vast majority joined a certain force and served it. There were no exceptions!

The life of a lone ranger was not that easy. Without knowledge or resources, if a commoner wanted to become strong, even with the aptitude of Innate Full Soul Power, it would probably still be hard. There was a huge chance they would fall halfway. Most causes of death would be getting killed in retaliation while hunting soul beasts, or misjudging the age while absorbing a Soul Ring and blowing themselves up.

If a person transmigrated to the Douluo World and their identity was that of a commoner, and they did not have a Cheat that directly gave them strength like a nanny through Empowerment, then honestly joining a certain force was absolutely the safest approach.

As Li Chang'an pondered, the battle below had already been decided.

Along with Yu Tianheng's Thunder Dragon Claw, which viciously raked across his opponent's chest, electric light flashed, and crackling sounds sent electricity through his opponent's entire body. The added force sent him flying, directly knocking him three or four meters away.

"The match is over!"

The teacher acting as the referee hurriedly announced the result, while at the same time stopping Yu Tianheng, who was somewhat unable to hold back his strength. Afterward, several other teachers came forward and began releasing healing soul skills on the person lying on the ground, still twitching all over and flickering with electricity.

Under the actions of three healing-type soul masters.

The electric light on the person lying on the ground began to disappear. The claw marks on his chest, so deep that bone could be seen, also healed as flesh wriggled under the treatment, closing at a visible speed until they were finally as good as new.

And although the injuries on his body had been healed, the defeated person was still unconscious and did not wake up.

The teacher in charge of treatment checked his condition. After finding nothing seriously wrong, he waved his hand, and very soon two staff members came over carrying a stretcher and carried the unconscious person away.

"...The victor is Yu Tianheng!" Referee Teacher announced the result.

Many spectators at the scene immediately cheered.

"I knew Senior Yu Tianheng would definitely win."

"That kid is only a minor noble, yet he actually dared to challenge Young Master Yu, who comes from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. He really overestimated himself."

"What a shame we can't place bets in the academy. Otherwise, I'd have bet directly on Yu Tianheng winning and made a fortune."

"Make a fortune my ass. Anyone with eyes knew the winner would be Yu Tianheng. Who would dare be the banker? Unless you bet on the other guy winning."

The students discussed animatedly. Almost everyone was not surprised by the outcome of this battle.

Meanwhile, Li Chang'an looked at Yu Tianheng in the arena, his face full of high spirits after his victory, while in his heart he recalled the descriptions of him in the Original Work...

Yu Tianheng was fourteen this year, the same age as Dugu Yan, but his Soul Power Level had already reached rank thirty-one. He was a genuine Soul Elder. His Innate Soul Power was only rank nine, not Innate Full Soul Power. Being able to cultivate to this level at this age was already quite good.

However, everything feared comparison. Once compared with those cheating protagonists of the Original Work, his achievement seemed especially shabby.

Tang San and the others had generally reached the Soul Elder level when they were twelve or thirteen. Dai Mubai, who also had rank-nine Innate Soul Power, had even reached rank thirty-seven in Soul Power Level at fifteen. In contrast, when Yu Tianheng and the others first appeared in the Original Work, they were around twenty years old, yet their Soul Power Level was only a mere rank thirty-nine.

Damn it, by comparison, he was practically as weak as a pile of shit!

And this was the young sect master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?

He was not even as good as Feng Xiaotian.

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