Target 7: Qingshan Town Cave

The woman with Innate Full Soul Power had been suppressing her cultivation to protect the pride of the man with Innate Fifth-Level Soul Power, making the person with Innate Full Soul Power appear to cultivate even slower than the one with Innate Fifth-Level Soul Power. Su Luo did not even know what to say.

You really could not have a love-struck fool for a brain.

"Let's not talk about that, Mother. I'm not sure whether we'll appear at the Qin Family when we open the Otherworld Gate again, so we'll need to stay on this Dou Qi Continent for a while."

"This Dou Qi Continent is different from the Douluo Continent. There are no Soul Masters here, but there are Dou Zhe, Dou Masters, Da Dou Shi, and the like. They are considered the powerful people of this continent."

"There is also a special profession called Alchemist, an extremely prestigious profession on this continent."

"I looked into it briefly. Even based on the pills I can refine, we could become honored guests of a major family in a second-tier city. So leave the money-making to me. Alchemists are incredibly valuable on this continent, and their status even surpasses that of Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent."

"Alchemists have such high status?"

Su Muyue was somewhat surprised. As someone from the former Douluo Three Kingdoms, under Shrek's influence, nearly all Soul Masters regarded taking medicine as a crooked path. Even the Sun Moon Empire, whose pharmaceutical techniques were quite advanced, was the same.

"Of course. I've already confirmed it. If someone here wants to hire an Alchemist to refine pills, they must provide the medicinal ingredients and cover all expenses during the Alchemist's refining period. They are then responsible for selling the refined pills, and the sales proceeds are split seventy-thirty."

"They do all that work and only get seventy percent?" Su Muyue asked skeptically. At this point, she still had no real concept of just how prestigious Alchemists were on the Dou Qi Continent.

Su Luo scratched his head awkwardly. "Ahem, Mom, that seventy percent goes to me, the Alchemist."

"What?" Su Muyue was so shocked by Su Luo's words that she nearly stood up.

"You heard right. I get seventy percent. And even for that remaining thirty percent, whether they get it normally depends on my mood."

"You mean that if people here hire an Alchemist, they need to buy all the medicinal ingredients?"

"Right."

"Then they have to cover all of the Alchemist's expenses during that period?"

"Right."

"Then they also have to use their own people to handle the sale of the medicine?"

"Right."

"Then they can only take thirty percent, and even that thirty percent depends on your mood?"

"Right."

"Are those people begging for food on their knees?"

"Uh... if you put it that way, then yes, they really are begging for food on their knees. Even so, plenty of people want to kneel, but in truth, they do not get the chance. I only agreed to refine pills for them because they gave me some financial aid when I was short on money a while ago. Otherwise, they would not have been able to hire me at all."

Su Muyue: "..."

"Let's not talk about that, Mother. While you were unconscious, I learned some things about this world. It differs from our Douluo Continent. On this Dou Qi Continent, everyone can draw qi into their bodies and become a Dou Zhe, Dou Master, Da Dou Shi, or even reach higher realms."

"And more importantly, this world has countless opportunities. There is a saying passed around in this world: if someone falls off a cliff and lands in a cave, do not panic. Take two steps forward, and perhaps you will become powerful!"

"And that saying is not false. In the nearly thousand-year history of this Dou Qi Continent, there is no shortage of stories about people becoming powerful through fortuitous encounters. Of course, this has also resulted in a large group of dreamers who wait by cliffs every day, prepared to jump down and become powerful. Most of them return missing arms and legs, though."

"Cliffs and caves... it seems we can take a look later. But there's no need to jump. I still have a Fifth-Grade Flying Soul Tool in my Storage Soul Tool. Once I recover from my injuries, I'll go take a look."

"Alright." Su Luo smiled. That was exactly what he had been waiting to hear.

As someone who had read Battle Through the Heavens, Su Luo knew that on a cliff in a mountain range near Qingshan Town, there was the tomb of an expert who had possessed at least Peak Dou Wang strength in life.

It was the opportunity through which Xiao Yan obtained the Purple Cloud Wings in the original work, and it was also the first opportunity Su Luo intended to seize.

Whether it was the millions of gold coins, the cultivation techniques and Dou Skills, or the fragment of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map, all of it would be of great use to Su Luo now or in the future.

However, given Su Luo's current strength, he could forget about obtaining the things there anytime soon.

As a one-ring Soul Master whose first Soul Ring had been developed into an Otherworld Gate, going to provoke the Rock Snakes on that cliff without a single offensive Soul Skill would be no different from courting death.

But things would be different with Su Muyue accompanying him.

Although the Douluo Continent had always been considered the bottom rung of fantasy worlds, from Douluo Continent Season 1 through Douluo Continent Season 4, Tang Jia San Shao had gradually increased the established strength of Soul Masters.

During Douluo Continent Season 1, even an injured God Tier expert would not dare to charge into an army of a million, fearing the possibility of being killed. But by the era of Douluo Continent Season 2, an Evil Soul Master Limit Douluo possessed enough power to destroy an entire city.

Based on the original description of Hai Bodong in Battle Through the Heavens, destroying a major city could not compare to Ice Sealing one, but it could match that Dou Huang who slaughtered an army of ten thousand enemy soldiers.

That Dou Huang's exact Star Rank was never specified, but this still proved that a Limit Douluo from Douluo Continent Season 2 was roughly comparable to an ordinary Dou Huang.

If a Limit Douluo had Dou Huang-level combat power, then it was reasonable for Title Douluo of that era to rival ordinary Dou Wang. In fact, the destructive power displayed by ordinary Dou Wang experts in the Gamma Empire, along with their status in the military and their standing within the nation, really was similar to that of the empires on the Douluo Continent.

If Dou Wang roughly corresponded to Title Douluo, then Dou Ling roughly corresponded to the Soul Sage to Soul Douluo stage.

Da Dou Shi would be around the level of five or six rings. That line of reasoning was fairly reasonable as well.

Of course, this was only Su Luo's speculation. There was not much actual evidence to support comparisons between the two sides, and Su Luo had never met the truly powerful experts from either world. But one thing was certain.

As a Five-Ring Soul King with a Ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, Su Muyue could summon a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast with equivalent combat strength. Against a First-Order Magical Beast, she possessed overwhelming power.

Even Second-Order Magical Beasts or ordinary Dou Masters were unlikely to be Su Muyue's opponents. With the Flying Soul Tool added to the equation, the only difficulty remaining for Su Luo in obtaining the cave's opportunity was finding its exact location.

And Su Luo was confident he could find that location in a short time.