After the member capable of flight had flown away, the scout captain wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and muttered to himself, "I never expected these Evil Soul Masters to set their sights on nobles."
As soon as the scout captain said this, one of the team members beside him overheard. The man gave a bitter smile and said,
"Heh, Captain. You haven't forgotten about those Evil Soul Masters who ambushed and tried to kill Heaven Dou's Crown Prince Xue Qinghe a while back, have you? They even dared attack a team guarded by a Title Douluo that was personally heading to Spirit City for the tournament. Compared to that, what are a few nobles?"
"How could I forget? I was merely voicing a thought." The scout captain shook his head.
What had happened recently had spread like wildfire. Hundreds of Evil Soul Masters, each at least a Soul Emperor, had formed a group to ambush the contestants of the Continental Youth Soul Master Elite Tournament. Too many powerful figures had fallen in that battle. Four Soul Fighting Douluos alone had perished...
"If our cultivation had been a little higher, we could have become nobles of the kingdom too," the scout captain said.
He had been born a commoner. His dream was to become a noble, but his Soul Power Level was not high—only level twenty-seven.
To become the lowest-ranking baron of the Heaven Dou Empire, one needed the strength of a Soul Ancestor. To become a baron in the Balak Kingdom, one only needed to reach level thirty or above.
Nobles who earned their titles through strength could pass their titles down to their descendants, but only for three generations.
After three generations, if the descendant who inherited the noble title failed to meet the corresponding strength requirement,