Planning to Join Spirit Hall

"I hope to see you again in two weeks!"

At the gates of Ze'an City, Qian Renxue left behind those words and a token before departing in the direction of Spirit City.

"Fei Er, it seems our family is about to be dragged into serious trouble!" After Qian Renxue and her party had left, Li Ming said gravely.

Their family was merely a merchant household. Now that Li Fei's theory had been discovered by Spirit Hall, they had no way to resist. Moreover, Spirit Hall surely had informants planted by all the major factions. Before long, those factions would learn of it as well, and the Li Family would truly be in danger.

"We have no choice. From here on, we can only choose to join a faction and seek its protection!" Li Fei said in a low voice.

"Fei Er, you mean Spirit Hall! Is that why you agreed to be that Saintess's groomsman?" Li Ming immediately understood.

"That's right! At present, the only force on the entire continent capable of protecting us is Spirit Hall. Only Spirit Hall can withstand threats from all the other factions at once. As long as Xiao Fan and I prove talented enough and can bring more benefits to Spirit Hall, I believe they will protect our family!" Li Fei said solemnly.

It was not as if he had never considered making the theory public. But doing so would offend Spirit Hall. Once the Beyond-Limit Spirit Ring Absorption Theory was made public, the entire Soul Master world would certainly fall into turmoil. That was something Spirit Hall, which maintained the continent's balance, did not wish to see.

It was not that Spirit Hall could not tolerate geniuses. On the contrary, it was the most accepting of talented people on the entire continent. The ones who truly could not tolerate geniuses were those families and major factions that monopolized knowledge. They had no desire to see another family rise in the future and lord over them.

Moreover, if any faction or family obtained such a theory, none of them would want it to spread. This theory could ensure their family or faction remained powerful for thousands, even tens of thousands of years, securing their position in the Soul Master world.

Spirit Hall would not want such a faction or family to exist either, so the only choice was Spirit Hall. Only Spirit Hall could—

"Fei Er, you'll truly have it hard in the future!" Li Ming and Jiang Xin looked at Li Fei with guilt written across their faces. They had no way to protect their son, and now they even had to sacrifice him to shelter themselves.

"It's not hard! When all is said and done, I caused this myself. I have to take responsibility for it!" Li Fei shook his head.

"Ah! Let's go home first. We can talk about it after we get back!"

Li Ming sighed and turned toward the manor.

After returning home, the family felt none of the joy that should have come from obtaining spirit rings. Instead, their faces were filled with worry as they sat in the living room in utter silence.

"Xin Er, we can't stay in Ze'an City any longer. Once Fei Er's theory leaks out, our family will become a target for everyone. Fei Er is right. For our family's safety, we have no choice now but to join Spirit Hall!" After a long while, Li Ming finally spoke.

"I understand. Over the next few days, I'll contact our business partners and sell off the family properties in Ze'an City. Our whole family will move to Spirit City. It should be much safer there!" Jiang Xin nodded and replied seriously.

Seeing that his parents no longer wore their former smiles, Li Fei knew it was all because of him. He could not help feeling guilty, his fists clenched tightly.

"It's all because of strength. If my strength had reached that of a Titled Douluo, or even a Super Douluo, this situation would never have happened."

At that moment, Li Fei gained a new understanding of the fact that strength reigned supreme on Douluo Continent. In a world like this, only strength was fundamental. Everything else was hollow.

He secretly resolved that he would definitely become a Titled Douluo, perhaps even a god, and change this situation where one could only compromise before the strong.

That night, the manor remained brightly lit. No one slept.

In an antique-style bedroom, Li Fei sat cross-legged on the bed, his mind immersed within his body as he sensed the flow of Soul Power after absorbing his First Spirit Ring.

Since Gluttony was a passive soul skill, Li Fei could sense that the Soul Power, which had originally circulated in a simple cycle, now had two additional paths. After his Soul Power traveled along these two new paths, he felt an extremely comfortable sensation in his spleen and stomach, while his Soul Power also seemed to gain a sense of heaviness.

However, many places along these two new paths felt blocked, preventing the Soul Power from completing a full cycle. The increase in the heaviness of his Soul Power was not very obvious.

"In my previous life, traditional Chinese medicine divided the human body into the Five Elements. Whether it was the internal organs or the meridians and bones, they all seemed to fall within the scope of the Five Elements. Now that I've obtained the spirit ring of an earth-attribute Gluttony Pig, then for my Soul Power to maintain the passive soul skill Gluttony and produce earth-attribute Soul Power, it must circulate through the meridians represented by the earth attribute."

"If that's really the case, then even if I don't know the locations of the body's eight extraordinary meridians, could I learn the locations of all the meridians throughout my body by gathering soul skills of all Five Elements attributes? Then I could open all the meridians in my body."

"I never expected that gathering spirit rings with all Five Elements attributes would bring such a surprise!"

Joy immediately appeared on Li Fei's face. With this discovery, the path ahead of him began to grow clear. It also gave him his first goal: to open all the meridians in his body.

He began to actively circulate his Soul Power along the new paths, repeatedly using the heavy Soul Power to strike at the blocked points, making a small effort toward opening his meridians.

The next morning, under Shen Chenyan's shocked gaze, Li Fei devoured three times his usual amount of food, then rushed to the training ground, picked up a five-hundred-jin Tungsten Steel Rod, and began training.

Before long, Li Fan came over to train as well. The dark circles under his eyes made it obvious that he had not slept well. However, he did not choose the Tungsten Steel Rod. Instead, he trained with his own Black Iron Rod martial soul. The Black Iron Rod had changed by now, with golden patterns appearing on its originally pitch-black shaft.

"First Soul Skill: Limit-Breaking Weapon!"

Li Fan shouted softly. The rod instantly turned golden, and its weight increased considerably. He began to perform the staff techniques he had learned, the sound of it slicing through the air ringing out continuously.

This was Li Fei's suggestion to him. To fully bring out Limit-Breaking Weapon's ability to evolve his martial soul, he had to use it frequently. Only then could the martial soul slowly be transformed during the process of being repaired by Gold Attribute Soul Power.

After training for two hours, the two brothers sat on the ground nearby, drinking tea and recovering their strength.

"Brother, are you really going to be that Saintess's groomsman?!" Li Fan took a sip of tea and asked reluctantly.

"Mm!" Li Fan nodded. Seeing the reluctance and worry in Li Fan's eyes, he reached out and rubbed the boy's little head, comforting him. "Don't worry. Brother is only going to make a training plan for Her Highness the Saintess. Nothing will happen."

"Will you come back?!" Tears had already welled up in Li Fan's eyes.

"Of course I'll come back. I couldn't bear to leave you, Mom, and Dad!" Li Fei said with a smile.

"Then you have to come back!"

"Mm! I definitely will!"