A Little Mouse That Delivered Itself

Heaven Star City, situated on the border between the Star Luo Empire and the Heaven Dou Empire, was nowhere near as grand or majestic as one might have imagined.

Instead, it was rather shabby!

Xue Ye and Dai Tianfeng had come to an astonishingly similar conclusion!

They were always at war anyway. Once the fighting ended, the city walls would be wrecked, so why bother repairing them?

Of course, Qian Cheng had no interest in such nonsense.

He preferred training his female disciple!

Hu Liena followed behind Qian Cheng, panting heavily.

Beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down her forehead, leaving her utterly exhausted.

"Teacher, why is it so tiring just to walk behind you?"

Hu Liena asked between gasps.

"As a soul master, physical fitness is extremely important."

Qian Cheng stopped and turned around, a mischievous smile appearing on his face. "So I applied twice the normal gravity to you. It's equivalent to training your body every moment of every day."

"Ah? What if I can't hold on?"

Hu Liena's eyes widened as she stared at Qian Cheng in shock.

"It's fine. Even if your body explodes and you die, I can reconstruct your flesh."

Qian Cheng spoke calmly.

"Teacher, I really am so grateful to you!"

Hu Liena's tone carried a hint of laughter and tears.

"You're welcome. The good days are still ahead!"

Qian Cheng said with a playful expression.

"Thank you so much, Teacher!"

The corner of Hu Liena's mouth twitched slightly.

She had a feeling that the "good days" Qian Cheng spoke of would involve plenty of suffering for her.

The two entered Heaven Star City and, before they knew it, arrived before a narrow alley.

The alley was packed with people, and as far as the eye could see, there was nothing but a dense sea of heads.

"Teacher, I once heard the dean say that there are sometimes thrilling performances in big cities, like Milk White Smashes Big Stone, Iron Spear Pierces Throat..."

Hu Liena suddenly perked up and spoke excitedly.

"Milk White Smashes Big Stone? You're interested in that?"

Qian Cheng looked at Hu Liena suspiciously.

Unfortunately, the little girl seemed not to understand what milky-white tits truly meant.

"Since that's the case, let's go in and take a look."

Making full use of his advantage, Qian Cheng effortlessly squeezed into the crowd.

Faced with an invisible force, the onlookers naturally parted and made way for him.

Someone capable of such a feat had to be a soul master with profound cultivation.

The people forced aside were filled with shock and did not dare voice a single complaint.

"Apologize? What good is an apology? Do you know how much my clothes cost?"

The moment Qian Cheng squeezed into the crowd, he heard a haughty voice.

Following the sound, he saw a burly man in an exquisite gray robe standing amid the crowd.

Four soul rings—yellow, yellow, purple, purple—glowed around him. He held a black hammer in his hand, looking especially imposing.

Standing before him were two raggedly dressed girls.

One was slightly older, around fifteen or sixteen.

The other was much younger, perhaps only six or seven.

They wore coarse hemp clothing and were clearly ordinary commoners.

The fifteen- or sixteen-year-old girl hurriedly pulled a worn wallet from her clothes.

Perhaps she was too nervous; her hands kept trembling, and she accidentally dropped the wallet onto the ground.

More than a dozen copper coins mixed with several silver coins rolled across the ground, making crisp clinking sounds.

"Lord Soul Master, my little sister didn't mean to bump into you. Is this money enough for compensation?"

The girl carefully gathered the coins from the ground as she spoke.

"The clothes I'm wearing were bought from Brocade Pavilion in Heaven Dou City. One set costs tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins!"

"The money in your hands isn't even enough to buy a single thread!"

The gray-robed man looked at them with disdain, his tone full of contempt and arrogance.

"But we don't have that much money."

The girl's face turned deathly pale, and a trace of despair flashed through her eyes.

"No money? Then sell yourselves!"

"You two look decent enough. Sell yourselves to a brothel, and you can at least make up for some of my losses."

The gray-robed man sneered.

"I..."

The girl lowered her head, her nails digging deeply into her palms as grievance and unwillingness filled her heart.

Why?

Why did this have to happen to us?

We were clearly trying so hard to live, giving everything we had just to survive, yet we still had to suffer such injustice.

This isn't fair!

Why can soul masters act without reason?

Why can soul masters bully the weak?

Her little sister had merely bumped into him by accident, yet they were going to sell her to a brothel?

"Respect the fate of others. Let go of the urge to help."

After hearing the full story, Qian Cheng prepared to turn and leave.

"Teacher, aren't we going to do anything?"

Hu Liena's eyes were full of confusion and incomprehension.

"What is there to do? This is merely a conflict between classes."

Qian Cheng's tone carried a trace of indifference.

"What does that mean?"

Hu Liena still did not understand.

"This world can roughly be divided into three classes: commoners, nobles, and soul masters."

"Although some nobles, such as emperors and princes, may be stronger than certain soul masters, they are exceptions in the end."

"In the eyes of the highest-ranked soul masters, so-called emperors and princes are nothing more than grass and straw."

"And in the eyes of most nobles, every commoner is lowly cattle, fit only to provide emotional value and labor."

Qian Cheng's voice was calm and cold, as though he were recounting the most ordinary fact in the world.

"Why is it like this?"

Hu Liena looked at Qian Cheng, her eyes filled with bewilderment.

"Because soul masters represent extraordinary power. Power creates authority, and authority creates rules."

"For example, I could flatten all of Heaven Star City with one palm strike. For the people of this city to survive, they would have to treat me with the utmost respect."

"And you—if you did not possess Innate Soul Power, you would have been abandoned long ago and left to fend for yourself."

"The fate of those two sisters might have been a warning of what awaited you."

"But your Innate Soul Power is Rank 9. If you grow normally, you can become a Titled Douluo and rise to control the highest class."

Qian Cheng's voice carried a note of warning, as though reminding Hu Liena that this world was simply this cruel.

"Power is the root of everything?"

"Only by possessing power can one control one's own life?"

"Love is worthless bullshit?"

Hu Liena nodded as though she had suddenly understood.

"You're teachable!"

Qian Cheng nodded slightly, a satisfied smile appearing on his face.

"You two pieces of trash are over there talking about power and authority. What do you know about power?"

"The Clear Sky Sect represents power. As a direct disciple of the Clear Sky Sect, I, Tang Hai, represent authority and power!"

The gray-robed man turned around and looked mockingly at Qian Cheng and Hu Liena, his eyes filled with disdain and arrogance.

Upon hearing that, a sharp gleam suddenly flashed through Qian Cheng's eyes as he had been about to leave.

A direct disciple of the Clear Sky Sect?

An unexpected delight?