Heaven Dou City, the Sky-Blasting Gang's headquarters.
The blazing sun hung high overhead. Beneath its scorching rays, a group of newly recruited disciples stood bare-chested on the training grounds, their eyes brimming with excitement and admiration as they watched the Sky-Blasting Gang's leader—their new master, Yang Ming—deliver an impassioned torrent of words from the platform.
"Youth holds boundless promise, but only if you strive! Only by unleashing the passion of youth can you win a glorious tomorrow. Let the flames of youth burn for eternity, let the lightning of life streak across the horizon! Trade all your passion for time, and let youthful dreams know no end!"
"When someone's youth becomes part of an era, part of a cause, that youth will never fade, and that cause will surely shine with dazzling brilliance through the tempering of the years!"
"That brings a saying to mind: some people are alive, yet already dead; some people are dead, yet still alive."
"The meaning of life lies in living, but what is the meaning of living? Certainly not living merely for the sake of being alive. The answer lies in just two words: perseverance and striving!"
"The future is bright, though the road twists and turns. I believe that none of you here will be beaten down by hardship, and that every one of you will ultimately achieve outstanding results!"
As Yang Ming concluded his stirring speech, a wave of enthusiastic applause rose from below.
His gaze flashed like lightning as it swept across the youthful faces below the platform. Almost all of them were around ten years old, boys and girls who had cultivated qi.
Perhaps because the supreme cultivation method, the Demon-Summoning Scripture, conflicted with the rules of the Douluo Continent, practically no Spirit Master had managed to cultivate it successfully.