On the Douluo Continent, no one knew what to say anymore.
The Upper Three Sects fell silent, and Spirit Hall was struck speechless.
Beneath the Heavenly Screen, the entire continent was as quiet as a flock of crows and sparrows gone mute.
But there was always one person who could find something to say.
Yu Xiaogang spoke up again.
[Yu Xiaogang: Wait! This Grandmaster has figured it out. Did you cheat?!]
[Yu Xiaogang: Class fifteen soul tools? How could you possibly have developed so quickly? Our Douluo Continent has spent tens of thousands of years researching them and still can't make a decent storage soul tool, yet you casually throw around class fifteen and class sixteen? Only a ghost would believe that!]
[Yu Xiaogang: Besides, however quickly you developed, you couldn't possibly slay gods! What supremely exalted beings deities are! Soul tools are ultimately nothing but external aids, a pile of lifeless objects. What gives them the right to stand against deities and soul masters?]
[Yu Xiaogang: In this Grandmaster's judgment, you must have used illusions, sleight of hand, or similar tricks to deceive the Heavenly Screen and fabricate that profile card! Tricks like these can't escape this Grandmaster's eyes!]
[Wei Lai: Even when I'm looking for faults, I couldn't come up with something like that! Trashgang, you really are something!]
The Soul Guidance Temple.
On the operating table, most of Lingxiao's body had already been dismantled. Precision components floated in the air, one after another, forming a ring around her.
Yet her consciousness remained clear throughout.
When she saw Yu Xiaogang's four consecutive challenges through her spiritual power, the lone brain remaining on the operating table gave her mechanical voice an unmistakable edge of anger.
She connected directly to the Heavenly Screen.
[Soul Guidance Temple · Chief · Lingxiao: You don't know shit about soul tools!]
[Soul Guidance Temple · Chief · Lingxiao: You spent over ten thousand years researching them and still can't figure out how to make them? That's because you're stupid. Don't use your ignorance to put limits on our intelligence!]
[Soul Guidance Temple · Chief · Lingxiao: As for why you can't develop powerful soul tools, I'll tell you why!]
[Soul Guidance Temple · Chief · Lingxiao: It's because you've never cared about ordinary people!]
[Soul Guidance Temple · Chief · Lingxiao: What is the greatest significance of soul tools? They can erase the gap between soul masters and ordinary people, let those with trash martial souls stand tall, let the untalented become strong, and give everyone born without fortune's favor a chance to choose again!]
[Soul Guidance Temple · Chief · Lingxiao: And you? Behind your lofty gates and grand courtyards sit nothing but talented nobles. Your books contain nothing but legends of geniuses. Who cares about ordinary people? What do ordinary people amount to? Mere ants, mere expendables!]
[Soul Guidance Temple · Chief · Lingxiao: A field of study that serves only geniuses will never grow into a civilization! I truly don't know what qualifies you to be a Grandmaster!]
[Soul Guidance Temple · Chief · Lingxiao: As for godslaying? Believe it or don't. Perhaps one day, when we come to your Douluo Continent, you'll see for yourselves what Nuclear Peace means!]
The moment Lingxiao's words landed, the Holy Spirit Continent's bullet comments erupted with a thunderous roar!
[Meng Jiu: Sister Lingxiao, well said!!!]
[Old Wang: Well said!! Now that's a grandmaster!]
[Xiao Tian: Yu Xiaogang, oh, Yu Xiaogang, you're the ultimate clown! You actually dare question us? The Heavenly Screen is right here for everyone to see, you clown!]
The Douluo Continent.
Yu Xiaogang was left speechless by the rebuke.
The major sects lost their spirit as well.
In truth, they all knew perfectly well.
The Heavenly Screen couldn't be faked.
That profile card and those words were true, every last word.
They simply didn't dare believe them.
It was far too incredible.
Yet Lingxiao's words were like a basin of cold water dumped over their heads, berating them awake.
It was time to face reality.
Had both the soul masters and soul beasts of the Holy Spirit Continent already become this powerful?
Could the Douluo Continent really be worthless?
No.
The Douluo Continent wasn't worthless-they had simply narrowed their own path.
Since their path had grown narrow, they would take another.
Ning Fengzhi was the first to speak.
[Ning Fengzhi: I am Ning Fengzhi, master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, one of the Upper Three Sects. I venture to ask: how exactly should the study of soul tools be developed? Would you kindly offer us your guidance?]
Among the Upper Three Sects, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had the weakest disciples in terms of combat strength.
Others relied on their martial souls; they relied on support.
If they could master soul tools, they would fill the greatest gap their sect had suffered since its founding.
[Yu Yuanzhen: I am Yu Yuanzhen, patriarch of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, one of the Upper Three Sects. I, too, would like to know!]
[Bibi Dong: I am Bibi Dong, Supreme Pontiff of Spirit Hall. I have already seen the advantages of soul tools clearly. Such technology concerns the destiny of our continent. In the name of Spirit Hall, I formally request instruction in how to develop it.]
[Yu Xiaogang: As a Grandmaster of theory, I value learning above all else. You can tell me how to research soul tools, and I will surely carry them forward to greater heights!]
For a time, the major powers all followed suit.
Requests for guidance rose one after another across the Heavenly Screen.
The two realms had been arguing themselves red in the face just moments ago, yet in the blink of an eye...
Everyone on the Douluo side adopted a humble posture, seeking instruction.
And beneath that posture, each faction's abacus clacked away with its own calculations.
If they could master this technology and then develop it slowly behind closed doors...
As for letting ordinary people stand tall?
Ha.
Couldn't they simply monopolize it?
With the technology in the sects' hands, ordinary people who wanted to become strong would have to bow to the sects' whims.
They weren't nearly as kindhearted as those soul masters of the Holy Spirit Continent!
Seeing the Douluo crowd switch from arrogance to deference, the Holy Spirit Continent instantly boiled over.
Furious curses blotted out the sky!
[Meng Jiu: Pah! Shameless! You were just accusing us of soul beast enslavement, barking nonstop, and now you hold out your hands for our technology?! Are you worthy?]
[Old Wang: When you called us trash, slaves, and barbarians, every one of you shouted louder than the heavens. Now you "venture to ask"? Pah! You aren't even worthy of the words "seek guidance"!]
[Wei Lai: Don't stop them. Let them ask! It'll be a waste of breath anyway. After the ugly faces they showed just now, we'd sooner dismantle the Holy Spirit Continent's soul tools and throw them back into the furnace than teach this pack of white-eyed wolves!]
[Holy War Gaia: Even Yu Xiaogang, with his dick exposed, thinks he's worthy? With that brain of yours, you think you can carry anything to greater heights? Could you stop sullying soul tools?]
[Soul Guidance Temple · Chief · Lingxiao: You? Not worthy!]
All those countless curses couldn't match those four words.
The Douluo Continent.
Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong, Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, and the others instantly flushed with fury.
They were all rulers who could make the Douluo Continent quake with a stamp of their feet.
In all their years, when had they ever lowered themselves to beg anyone like this?
Yet the very first time they asked, those two words were slapped straight back into their faces.
They couldn't swallow it. They simply couldn't swallow it!
[Yu Xiaogang: We represent this continent's illustrious Upper Three Sects, Spirit Hall, and prestigious academies! Lowering ourselves to ask you is giving you face! Yet you refuse to give us any face at all!]
[Yu Xiaogang: Besides, what do you think you are? A pack of trash who can only borrow power from external aids! Unlike us, who cultivate ourselves, advancing one solid step at a time! In terms of your own strength, you could never compare to us!]
[Yu Yuanzhen: If you've got the guts, compare martial souls! Compare soul power levels! Compare physical strength! What skill is there in comparing external aids!]
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