Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai

Kai left the Spirit Hall Branch with a certificate Su Yuntao had issued him.

He returned to his home in Nuoding City.

It was a small, two-story building with sturdy walls built of stone bricks and a little courtyard outside. There was also a secluded cultivation chamber in the basement.

This had been his parents' former home, and now he lived here. Without Su Yuntao's help, someone else might have taken even this place away.

Kai remembered that the house had originally belonged to his grandparents, then passed to his father, and finally to him.

Kai remembered that his grandparents seemed to have been Soul Elders, so it was understandable that they had possessed some resources.

After all, although a Soul Elder's standing on the continent amounted to nothing before the top powers,

among smaller powers, it was already quite respectable. Owning a house with a little courtyard and a secluded cultivation chamber was already quite good.

Kai then went straight to his secluded chamber and immediately manifested his Ice Dragon King Martial Soul. He could feel that he had not fully displayed the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul at the beginning.

He wanted to test it again now.

An enormous dragon silhouette then loomed behind him.

It had magnificent wings, a powerful body, and a blue coloration. The horns on its head looked impressive, too.

Under the influence of this power, Kai's originally adorable, boyish face became handsome.

He had already been an adorable little boy, and now he looked even more handsome.

"Oh, right. Let me check in first."

[Ding! Congratulations on checking in, host. Reward: introductory Soul Tool knowledge.]

"This is a book for learning about Soul Tools."

Looking at the book, Kai felt that this was an opportunity to make a fortune.

In the first installment of Douluo Continent, "Soul Tool manufacturing methods/systematic technology" had essentially been lost.

In the original story, Yu Xiaogang had said something to this effect:

"Soul Tools are implements powered by soul power. Very few have survived, and most have no offensive capabilities. How they came into being and how to make them have already been lost. Those found on the market are basically antiques left behind by earlier generations, such as Tang San's Storage Soul Tools, Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges and Wish-Fulfilling Hundred Treasures Pouch."

So, more precisely: during the Douluo I era, Soul Tools existed, but they were mainly surviving relics/storage types. Offensive and combat Soul Tools were almost nonexistent.

As for their manufacturing techniques, the line of transmission had already been broken on the Douluo Continent itself, and they had been lost.

Thus, with the technology to manufacture Soul Tools, Kai could make them and sell them like hotcakes across the Douluo Continent. When the time came, even the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would have to spend a fortune buying his Soul Tools.

Money would no longer be a problem then.

"I wonder what Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai look like. They were famous beauties among the Titled Douluos in the Legend of the Dragon King era. Honestly, I really want to meet them, too. I'd also be very happy to have beautiful Douluos protecting me."

Soon, a day passed, and early morning arrived. It was around six in the morning, and Kai soon got up to practice the Eight Extremes Fist and the Six Harmonies Great Spear.

"Knock, knock, knock-"

A sudden knocking rang out from beyond the courtyard.

A flash of delight crossed Kai's eyes. It must be them. He headed straight for the gate.

He then opened it at once.

"Hello, my lord. I am Leng Yaozhu (Leng Yulai)." ×2

"Come in, quickly."

And just like that, the two beautiful Titled Douluos entered the little house. Although it was not particularly small and was perfectly habitable, there was still a considerable gap between it and the buildings of the Legend of the Dragon King era. After all, humanity's construction technology was not yet very advanced.

Only organizations with powerful Soul Masters could enjoy buildings made with the finest craftsmanship and construction techniques. Ordinary buildings, such as stone houses, were all for ordinary people, while some could only live in wooden houses.

For example, in Holy Soul Village, the houses its residents lived in were basically all made of wood. Stone houses were only for people living in small towns, or ordinary people with a little influence.

Those without money or influence could only build wooden houses.

Still, Tang San's circumstances at the beginning were rather laughable. Tang Hao was clearly a divine craftsman. According to the first installment of Douluo Continent, although blacksmiths had low status and Soul Masters reigned supreme on the Douluo Continent, things made by divine craftsmen were extremely valuable.

Tang Hao could easily have made some valuable things and sold them to earn some money, which would have let him provide his son with a decent home. Yet they ended up living in a dilapidated thatched hut.

He even left the cleaning and such to his son once the boy grew old enough to do it. It was utterly absurd. For a Titled Douluo to be this absurd was truly absurd; he was not even as good as Kai's Soul Grandmaster parents.

Kai merely sympathized with Tang San for having such a father. Of course, it was only having such a father that earned his sympathy; there was nothing else he sympathized with.

"I wanted to ask you both: what do you think is the oldest Soul Ring I can absorb at my current limit?"

Kai asked this because, although Yu Xiaogang's Martial Soul Ten Core Competition Theory was laughable, the fact remained that many Soul Masters, given their physical condition and age at rank ten, could only absorb Soul Rings a little over four hundred years old.

But he felt that, with his rank-twenty innate full soul power, the physical training he had done since childhood, and his Top-Level Martial Soul and God-level Martial Soul, he should be able to absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

"My lord, absorbing a Soul Ring really does depend on how much pressure a Soul Master can withstand. The more pressure a Soul Master can withstand, the stronger the Soul Ring they can absorb. Your soul power level is twenty."

"Moreover, you possess a Top-Level Martial Soul and a God-level Martial Soul, so the age of the Soul Rings you can absorb is also quite high. You exercise regularly, too."

"By my estimate, you should at least be able to absorb a Soul Ring around fifteen hundred years old."

"All right."

Leng Yaozhu then helped Kai test his spiritual power and physical fitness, confirming afterward that he indeed qualified to absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, one over a thousand years old-at least somewhere around fifteen hundred years.

"After you absorb your first Soul Ring, your physical fitness will improve further. Although your soul power level will not rise, when you absorb your second Thousand-Year Soul Ring, your physical fitness will improve by leaps and bounds."

"If you want a better first Soul Ring, one of a greater age, you must intensify your training. You must work even harder to train your body and make your physical fitness more formidable."

"Only then will you be able to absorb stronger Soul Rings. If possible, if your physical fitness is strong enough, then with the constitution provided by your God-level Martial Soul and Top-Level Martial Soul, you should be able to absorb a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring as your third Soul Ring."

"Of course, there is another way to strengthen your physical fitness and make absorbing older Soul Rings easier for you: whale rubber."