Setting Out! Heaven Dou Royal Academy (Part One)

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

By cultivating together with Qian Renxue while in their Martial Soul Fusion state, benefiting from their 120 percent Martial Soul compatibility and tenfold 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 spirit ring, Qian Renxue had obtained her sixth spirit ring from the Fifty Thousand Year Golden Earth Dragon King.

For an ordinary six-ring Spirit Emperor, the upper limit for a sixth spirit ring was only twenty thousand years.

Thus, after acquiring her sixth spirit ring, Qian Renxue had directly risen two levels, breaking through to level sixty-two.

That was only because Qian Renxue possessed a Divine Spirit and her Soul Power was exceptionally pure. Had it been a Spirit Master with an ordinary Martial Soul, rising three or four levels would have been entirely possible.

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

It contained the pure foundation equivalent to an Innate Grandmaster cultivating tirelessly for sixty years without sleep or rest. It should originally have been enough to raise Qian Renxue's Soul Power to level seventy, but after Bai Ge and Qian Renxue worked together to compress and refine 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 occupied with her plans, so neither made much further progress.

In truth, after level sixty, every additional level of Soul Power required a considerable amount of time.

In the original story, both Tang San and Qian Renxue were undeniably blessed with both talent and cheats.

They were the favored children of fate in the first ten thousand years of the Douluo Dimension.

When it came to talent, even Bibi Dong would be instantly reduced to nothing beside those two.

By the time she became a god, Bibi Dong should have been in her early sixties.

Tang San, meanwhile, was twenty-five, while Qian Renxue was just over thirty.

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

That showed just how terrifying those two truly were.

The ordinary transmigrators Bai Ge had mentioned before referred to "ordinary" people with at least innate level-nine Soul Power, the standard innate full Soul Power, a top-tier Martial Soul, and no system, who went and hung around Tang San and the Grandmaster.

With that kind of talent, they would be better than Ma Hongjun, whose head was full of Evil Fire and women, no matter what.

Without a system cheat or a complete inheritance of cultivation techniques, how could an ordinary transmigrator who had merely been a shut-in in his previous life contend with a professional killer from the Tang Sect like Tang San? If you dared ask even half a word about the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Tang San would have already twisted your neck off.

Character was one matter. Strength, temperament, methods, and scheming were entirely another.

The male leads of ancient web novels were never simple characters.

Tang San was a tech nerd obsessed with hidden weaponry, an orphan raised by the Tang Sect, a professional killer, perhaps even a deathsworn who regarded human lives as worthless.

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

When facing Jia Lieao, he swung an iron rod straight at his head. If Jia Liebi had not stopped him in time, Jia Lieao would have replaced Liu Xi as Xiao Yan's first kill.

Liu Xi, the first villain, was burned to ashes by Xiao Yan with a single flame under the instruction of Yao Lao, Medicine Venerable Yao Chen, becoming Xiao Yan's first kill. Xiao Yan showed no discomfort afterward.

Lin Lei? A descendant of the Baruk Dragonblood Warriors—when he saw battle, blood, and slaughter, his first reaction was not nausea or the urge to vomit, but longing, boiling blood, and calmness.

The male leads of those three works from the same era were truly beyond comparison with today's pathetic shut-in transmigrators.

All three of them were absolute hardliners.

Among 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 laid low until he reached the Dou Huang level five years later.

Then poison and hidden weapons would have poured forth, leaving none alive—not the Yunlan Sect Disciples, their stewards, their families, nor anyone in the Nalan Family. Every last one would have been exterminated.

Do not assume Tang San was hot-tempered simply because he had intended to kill that gatekeeper.

In the original story, the gatekeeper had called Tang San's Spirit Hall certificate forged. That was equivalent to someone altering Bai Ge's college entrance examination score in his previous life—it would have cut off Tang San's path to becoming a Spirit Master.

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

And he had even beaten Grandpa Jack, an old man.

That gatekeeper was just an ordinary person without Soul Power.

He had truly brought death upon himself. Tang San would have had no difficulty killing him at all, which was why he had prepared to act.

By the rules of the Douluo Continent, if Tang San 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 armchair readers online claimed.

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

Bai Ge had confidence because he possessed a system cheat.

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

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

If there was to be a battle, then battle!

As Tiance, Bai Ge would only ever 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 allowed them to unleash Ultraman's Resurrection Ray. With the Life Source Pearl added in, reviving the Blue Silver Emperor would not be difficult.

Then, if they prevented Bibi Dong from targeting Xiao Wu, and with Qian Xunji already dead and the friendship between Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen, there would be no need to fight to the death at all.

As for the conflict between humans and spirit beasts, forget it. That was just nonsense meant to fool three-year-olds.

Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong were the same in this regard—they only wanted Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Rings and Spirit Bones.

Claims that spirit beasts transformed into humans to infiltrate society with malicious intent were merely a matter of picking on easy targets.

If they went to fight genuine hundred-thousand-year spirit beasts, they could easily lose their lives.

Hey, look! There's actually a foolishly innocent rabbit that transformed into a human, and an equally foolishly innocent Blue Silver Emperor!

Quick, seize them! Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Rings and Spirit Bones!

What?! They sacrificed themselves? The cooked duck flew away?

Tang Hao, you colluded with a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast and betrayed humanity. Your crimes are unforgivable!

We of Spirit Hall shall uphold justice and eliminate scum like you!

Wasn't that all there was to it?

Adults only spoke of interests. Only children distinguished right from wrong.

In the original story, Bai He was willing to sell his granddaughter Bai Chenxiang to Ma Hongjun for the sake of allowing his family's Martial Soul to evolve.

In contrast, when Rongrong fell for Oscar, Ning Fengzhi demanded that Oscar become a battle Spirit Master. Though that demand seemed heartless, it tested Oscar's character and temperament, allowing the two to find happiness.

Bai Chenxiang, as a mere tool character, ended up with a tragic fate.

Yet that was precisely how cruel reality was.

(This was also why Bai Chenxiang had been paired with Oscar in this story, while Fatty was left single.

Bai Chenxiang was a pure and decent girl. Fatty's character truly did not make him worthy of her.)

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

And in this regard, perhaps Tang San was the only one who could understand him.

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

He would use the original Spirit Hall as the spark to spread, research, and perfect martial cultivation techniques.

He would use the original Heaven Dou as his foundation, rename the nation Huaxia, peacefully unify the entire Douluo Continent with god-level strength, and protect the people so they could live and work in peace, free from the suffering of war.

Establish the heart of heaven and earth, secure the lives of the people, carry on the lost teachings of the sages, and create peace for all ages!

To restore the glorious prosperity of our vast Huaxia and the Nine Provinces beneath heaven—this was the breadth of vision a modern transmigrator ought to possess!

If all you could think about was stepping on Tang San and the Grandmaster, then your eyes were fixed on nothing but your tiny patch of land. Your vision was far too narrow!

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

I'll post another chapter later!

People keep saying that me going to Shrek means I'm sucking up to Tang San, and it's really pissing me off.

I never agreed with Spirit Hall's war from the start!

People die in wars! The sci-fi mecha stuff in Douluo 3 and Douluo 4 is even more absurd.

The protagonist is going to pull the Douluo world, which has gone astray, back on track!

This is a multiverse novel. The Douluo Dimension is the protagonist's foundation for becoming a god and proving his Dao. After the Spirit Master Tournament ends, the plot will take a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.

Read the book properly and follow what I wrote!

Other than the original novel and the anime, which barely deviates from it, all other fan settings can stay out of my way!

I'm saying this one last time!

Damn it, I'm furious! Now I finally understand why haters are so detestable, and why so many authors end up abandoning their books!