Hunting Sea Soul Beasts (3)

By granting Romantina enhanced information processing or logical analysis abilities, her potential for developing her Brain Martial Soul can be further unlocked.

This is also a prerequisite for her Brain Martial Soul to transform into a "supercomputer"!

At the very least, in terms of practical personal combat ability, as long as Romantina inherits the most fundamental ability of the Rubik's Cube Octopus, when using this Soul Skill, with the talent of the Brain Martial Soul, Romantina will be able to further control every part of herself.

In the future, if I learn some techniques for bone shrinking, muscle manipulation, and makeup, I might be able to master the art of disguise.

Moreover, once one masters the movement of the entire skeleton and muscles, understands the laws of human movement, and utilizes them, one can unleash powerful combat strength and control.

Therefore, the Rubik's Cube Octopus is the perfect Second Spirit Ring for Romantina.

More importantly, there aren't many types of Soul Beast with strong Spiritual Attribute on the continent. We can't really find a Moo Spring Ox to use as Soul Ring for Romantina, can we?

Seven days later, the group arrived at Vast Sea City.

This time, instead of riding in a carriage, they traveled westward to practice their leg strength.

In addition, all three were Soul Grandmaster who controlled the Qi Field Power, making them even stronger. Furthermore, each of them recovered their Soul Power quickly, so they didn't waste much time.

Vast Sea City is the largest city in the western border of the Heaven Dou Empire, and also the largest coastal city and port city on the Douluo Continent.

The enormous city was built along the sea, or rather, on a mountain by the sea, and could not be shaken in the slightest by the ebb and flow of the tide.

The thick city walls are about forty meters long and sixty meters high, making this a city of the main city level!

Cities located by the sea are often accompanied by sea breezes. People from inland areas often find it difficult to get used to such Sea City, especially the faint salty smell in the air, which makes all three of them frown slightly.

"Does everything taste like this in coastal cities?"

Looking at the city walls and roof tiles decorated with blue seashells, Xiao Wu felt that the architectural style was unique, but the only thing that was a little unbearable was the smell.

You'll get used to it.

Tang San sneezed and blew his nose.

"Let's go. We'll meet Romantina at the local Spirit Hall. Judging by the time, she should be here by now," Zhou Qing suggested.

The guards of Vast Sea City glanced at Zhou Qing and his group, and their eyes unconsciously showed a hint of contempt.

Although Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu were no longer wearing coarse linen clothes and were clean and tidy, they still looked like they came from the countryside compared to the residents of the main city.

The fee to enter the main city is also very expensive, requiring a Silver Soul Coin!

Fortunately, after paying three Silver Soul Coin, the guards didn't make things too difficult for her. They just made a sarcastic remark about Xiao Wu 'Xiao Wu appearance, which almost made her angry.

But Zhou Qing and Tang San covered their mouths and pulled them into the city together.

They came to help Romantina hunt Soul Beast, not to clash with the guards of the local main city.

Soldiers in this feudal era were all scoundrels, and the fundamental principle of military discipline was only one: obey orders.

Moral education is only taught in the Guardian Knights; most generals in ordinary military units do not mention it.

"If you two hadn't stopped me, I would have definitely given that guard a good talking-to!" Xiao Wu sneered.

"Forget it, it's their territory, we have to keep a low profile."

Zhou Qing advised.

Upon entering Vast Sea City, the three did not linger. They asked a passerby for directions to the Spirit Hall and headed there, where they found Romantina waiting outside the Spirit Hall.

It turned out that she had arrived here two days ago, stayed at a nearby hotel, and apart from eating, drinking, and using the restroom, and booking a boat to go out to sea, she had been wandering around the Spirit Hall, and was even almost arrested by the Spirit Hall personnel as a spy.

"You've finally arrived!" Upon seeing Zhou Qing and the others, Romantina hurriedly came forward. "Living in such a big city is so expensive; I'm almost a beggar."

Seeing how exaggerated she sounded, Zhou Qing asked curiously, "How much money do you have left?"

"I only have about three hundred Gold Soul Coin left." Romantina had only brought one Gold Soul Coin with her this time, thinking it would be enough.

Unexpectedly, the trip to the Extreme North didn't cost much, but the two days spent in Vast Sea City cost nearly seven hundred Gold Soul Coin.

Of those, 600 Gold Soul Coin were used to reserve a ship for a sea voyage.

The remaining hundred or so was for food, drink, and other necessities at the hotel.

"Even in the main city, spending 100 Gold Soul Coin in two days is a bit too much, isn't it? You're not staying in the most luxurious hotel, are you?" Zhou Qing asked suspiciously.

"Nonsense! I'm just staying at a hotel that caters specifically to Soul Master!" Romantina declared, adding that it was definitely not the most luxurious hotel.

Zhou Qing: "..."

The hotel's mission is clearly stated as "Serving Soul Master," meaning that even if it's not the most luxurious, it's definitely expensive.

"Alright, let's not talk about that anymore," Tang San suggested. "Nuoding Academy will start in a few days, and we'll have to rush back to report for duty and head out to sea as soon as possible to hunt the Rubik's Cube Octopus."

"Follow me!"

Romantina didn't want to stay in Vast Sea City any longer, otherwise she would have used up all three hundred Gold Soul Coin in her pocket.

We arrived at the port.

Boats of all sizes were moored along the shore, and sailors from some of the boats were unloading all sorts of fish and shrimp into leak-proof wooden crates, which were then transported to the city in cartloads.

"It seems that the people along the coast can all afford to eat meat. But why isn't so much meat transported inland?" Xiao Wu wondered. "Wouldn't that allow people inland to also eat fish and shrimp? And with such a large quantity, the price of meat would be very cheap, right?"

Tang San also thought it was a good deal.

Why doesn't anyone do it?

If the Heaven Dou Empire didn't do that, he could argue that it was because the powerful and wealthy were unwilling to let the people have enough to eat. After all, when people are well-fed and clothed, they start to indulge in lustful desires, and he worried that if the people were well-fed, they would become restless.

But why don't businessmen do that?

Zhou Qing replied, "From a practical point of view, it's a matter of transportation costs. Fish and shrimp will spoil after a day. How to keep so many seafoods fresh when transporting them inland is a big problem."

Should someone with an ice-attribute Martial Soul go to the ice-cold place?

Stop messing around!

Would a normal Soul Master do such a thing?

As for the method of making ice with saltpeter—in an era when humans did not understand enough about various minerals, how much saltpeter would be consumed by so many fish? Moreover, there were no similar mines along the coast, and importing it from the inland would cost a lot of money, making it not worthwhile.

As the saying goes, to get rich, build roads first.

If the roads aren't even repaired, transportation and communication will be inconvenient, so how can commerce truly develop?

"So, if we really change the world in the future, the first thing we need to do is build roads, build many wide and flat roads, not only to connect the countryside, but also to connect the cities, so that transportation is convenient, people communicate more, and ideas collide more, so that the whole world can develop."