"Finally, I succeeded. I reached the level of a Super Douluo! That means I'm qualified to pursue Level 10 Soul Master! Our Hongchen Family will be able to gain even greater status in the Sun Moon Empire, and I'll have more say as well!"
Jing Hongchen was truly overjoyed. He had originally been level 94, and he had thought that, with his talent, the peak of an ordinary Title Douluo would be the limit of his life. He had believed he would never have a chance to become a Level 10 Soul Master.
But now, the opportunity had arrived! He was now a Super Douluo-level soul master. This meant he was qualified to train as a Level 10 Soul Master and create Level 10 Soul Tools.
With that, the Hongchen Family's future status in the Sun Moon Empire would be infinitely close to that of the imperial family.
After all, Jing Hongchen understood the value of a Level 10 Soul Master. Even Kong Deming, who was currently known as the person closest to becoming a Level 10 Soul Master, was only a level 94 Title Douluo.
Yet he was already a Super Douluo. Even if he was not yet a Level 10 Soul Master, as the soul master with the highest Soul Power in the Sun Moon Empire and its only current Super Douluo, his status would at least be nearly equal to Kong Deming's.
"I'll refine the second pill now. Be careful when the time comes... Fortunately, this kind of pill is fairly simple."
Zhong Kui's words were not wrong. First of all, low-grade pills like this were easy enough for him to refine. Moreover, pills that increased Soul Power were simple. If they were pills that increased Dou Qi, they would be much harder to refine on the Dou Qi Continent. After all, he was only a Grade 2 Alchemist capable of refining Grade 2 pills.
Thus, refining pills that increased Dou Qi was difficult for Zhong Kui, but the Douluo Continent was different. As everyone knew, the Douluo Continent was a low-tier fantasy cultivation world. Pills that increased Soul Power were quite simple, and even divine power was relatively simple.
In Zhong Kui's view, even divine power was not all that difficult. After all, it probably was not much stronger than Dou Qi.
After all, the divine power of those gods in the God Realm and the divine skills they used had difficulty even dealing with the walls built by people on the Douluo Planet ten thousand years ago, so they probably were not all that impressive.
"Then I'll leave it to you. I hope the first pill can go to Elder Kong Deming. He is the pillar holding up the Sun Moon Empire. If he can also break through to become a level 95 Super Douluo, he will definitely become a Level 10 Soul Master faster than I can. Then we'll have hope of dealing with the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
"But if you help us deal with the Douluo Three Kingdoms, won't you feel burdened by it?"
Jing Hongchen cautiously asked Zhong Kui at that moment. He still was not certain what Zhong Kui was thinking, so he needed to ask carefully. He also hoped Zhong Kui would tell the truth. He could tell there was nothing wrong with his body, so Zhong Kui's pill was safe, which made him less worried.
Moreover, he was certain Zhong Kui was not a spy sent by the Douluo Three Kingdoms. What kind of person with such talent would become a spy? If there really was one, he could only say those people had gotten their brains caught in a door.
Zhong Kui's talent was already extraordinary. At such a young age, he possessed destructive power at the level of a Title Douluo.
His strength and physical condition had both reached the level of a Title Douluo, proving just how powerful and talented he was.
That made it even more impossible for him to be a spy sent by the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
"I won't feel any burden. I'm not some noble or high-ranking figure from the Douluo Three Kingdoms. My parents were merely ordinary soul masters. In order to help me awaken my martial soul, they had to put in enormous effort, asking many people for help and relying on their connections.
"I truly have no favorable impression of the Douluo Three Kingdoms, so I have no interest in helping them. What if the Sun Moon Empire annexes the Douluo Three Kingdoms? What does that have to do with me? We just want a meal, a more wonderful life, and a better life. We genuinely do not care about matters of state, nor do we want to involve ourselves in them.
"For me, or for my parents, as long as the Sun Moon Empire is not a scourge that brings disaster to the Douluo Continent, then what does it matter if it unifies the Douluo Continent?
"If the Sun Moon Empire unifies the Douluo Continent, it won't kill us. As long as it does not impose tyranny, and allows us to live normally, have food to eat, and live better lives, we will not interfere. Besides, the rule of the Douluo Three Kingdoms is worse than that of the Sun Moon Empire!
"Although I know it may not sound good for someone born in the Douluo Three Kingdoms to say this, it is the truth. The Douluo Three Kingdoms truly do not govern better than the Sun Moon Empire. In the Douluo Three Kingdoms, even ordinary people have to spend money to awaken their martial souls, while the Sun Moon Empire can ensure that everyone awakens a martial soul. Doesn't that prove the Sun Moon Empire is better than the Douluo Three Kingdoms?"
After hearing Zhong Kui say this, Jing Hongchen understood. Simply put, Zhong Kui was someone who did not care about politics. He only wanted to live well and live a more wonderful life, while keeping his parents alive with him.
In other words, he did not care about politics, nor did he care whether he came from the Douluo Three Kingdoms. And the Douluo Three Kingdoms truly were terrible. The fact that Zhong Kui's parents had needed to expend so much effort and so many connections just to help him awaken his martial soul showed how badly the Douluo Three Kingdoms had failed at governing. No wonder he had come to rely on the Sun Moon Empire.
"Alright, I'm going to refine the pill now. Please prepare some more materials, just in case. If the refinement suddenly fails, I can refine another one.
"For me, everything must be prepared in advance, including preparations for failure. After all, I'm also afraid this kind of pill might fail during refinement."
"No problem."
"Huo Yuhao, I want to ask you something. Which country in the Douluo Three Kingdoms are you from? And why do you always carry that strange dagger with you? Where did this dagger come from? I feel like I've heard of it somewhere before." Wang Dong looked at the White Tiger Dagger Huo Yuhao wore and felt curious. It was normal for her to feel as though she had seen it before, since her true identity was Tang Wutong from the God Realm.
The White Tiger Dagger was a customized weapon bearing the mark of the descendant family of Dai Mubai, the former ruler of the Star Luo Empire.
Tang Wutong had met Dai Mubai in the God Realm before and knew some things about his family, so she had seen daggers like this. However, her memories were currently quite chaotic because her soul had been split, so she could not remember it.
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