Chapter 178
"Now we prepare to begin the thirteenth experiment."
The ultimate goal of the experiment: What is Soul Power?
Objective of this experiment: To improve the clinical trials of Life Solution.
Experimental target: Soft Bone Rabbit (Reason: weak attack power, not easy to lose control, and most importantly, cheap and delicious; I want to eat spicy rabbit head today).
Target status: Healthy. Sex: Female. Weight: 4.21 kg...
On an experimental table, a teenager is recording the various states of the Soft Bone Rabbit and the subsequent procedures.
This wasn't the first time the boy had done something like this; you could tell from his muttering "the thirteenth experiment" that this was at least the thirteenth time he'd done it.
The boy's name is Qingming. He is a transmigrator from Blue Star, which is both his name in his previous life and his name in this life.
In his previous life, he was abandoned at birth and sent to an orphanage. All that remained of him was a Qingfeng pendant engraved with the words "Qingfeng". Therefore, the director of the orphanage named him "Qingfeng", hoping that Qingming would one day find his biological parents through this name.
In his previous life, Qingming was exceptionally intelligent from a young age, possessing precociousness beyond that of ordinary people. It was precisely because he was too smart that no one was willing to adopt him, leaving him an orphan for the rest of his life.
Fortunately, with the encouragement of the dean Qingming his own hard work, he worked part-time and received financial assistance from kind-hearted people in the community. He managed to finish university, albeit with some setbacks. It was a first-tier university, not a 985 or 211 university, but he still had no trouble finding a job.
And just half a month before Qingming traveled through time, Qingming had just finished her internship at a large laboratory. The contract and everything else had been signed, with a monthly salary of nearly 20,000 yuan and an annual salary plus various bonuses of up to 300,000 yuan. Her future prospects were limitless.
After more than twenty years of hard work, Qingming was finally about to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but then fate played a cruel joke on him: he was transported to another time.
I really don't want to travel back in time for Qingming. More than twenty years! Do you know how you've spent these past twenty years?
He had worked hard for over twenty years to achieve his goals, but then, without a word, fate transferred his soul into the body of a little kid who had just died.
I cried during the Qingming; that taut string finally snapped.
Since she was old enough to understand, Qingming has cried no more than three times. No matter how wronged she feels or how difficult life is, Qingming will never shed tears easily.
But on the very day he traveled through time, Qingming cried, cried uncontrollably, as if he were no longer the strong man he had been for over twenty years, but a weak and helpless child.
Even though Qingming's current appearance is indeed that of a little kid, his soul is already that of a twenty-three-year-old adult.
Adults don't cry easily, except when they are extremely sad.
After Qingming cried herself to sleep, Qingming slowly began to accept the world.
There's no way around it, life goes on!
This was also the sentence Qingming often said to herself while she was in the orphanage.
Everything has come full circle, Qingming chuckled self-deprecatingly.
Put aside your grief and begin to accept the memories of losing your child Qingming.
Coincidentally, the deceased child's name was also Qingming, and he was also an orphan, seven years old this year.
He lived in Pea Village until he was six years old, relying on his grandfather Qingyun for survival. It was on the day Martial Soul Awakening at the age of six that he learned that he was not his grandfather Qingyun's biological grandson, but an abandoned baby picked up by his grandfather.
The reason is simple: everyone in the entire Pea Village has a pea as their Martial Soul, except for him, who has fire. The result, of course, is self-evident.
The original owner was heartbroken by this, even to the point of hurting her family due to her inferiority complex. She said some things she shouldn't have, which hurt the old man's feelings. The old man was already in poor health and unfortunately passed away six months later, leaving the original owner a true orphan.
Even if the original owner was heartbroken, the dead cannot be brought back to life, and no matter how much regret she felt, she couldn't make up for it.
Six months later, the original owner had Soul Fighting with a classmate and was severely injured. After returning to the dormitory, instead of resting properly as instructed by the teacher, he forced himself to cultivate, which aggravated his injuries. Coupled with the backlash from cultivation, his longing for his family, and his self-hatred, he couldn't recover in time and died. Then, Qingming from Blue Star was reborn in his body.
After reviewing the remaining memories, Qingming gained a general understanding of her situation, and it was time to start organizing them.
Name: Qingming. Gender: Male. Age: 7 years and 37 days (calculated from the day he was found, the difference from his actual age will not exceed one month). Height... Weight... Assets...
Martial Soul: Fire
Innate Soul Power: Level 2
Current level: Level 5 Soul Scholar.
Soul Master? Douluo Continent?
Perhaps I have come to that world, Qingming thought to himself.
Douluo Continent is not unfamiliar to Qingming. He read the novel when he was in college, and after graduation, it was said that an anime and a TV series were also made. However, due to his work at the time, Qingming did not have much time to pay attention to these entertainment things.
Is your Martial Soul fire?
Qingming fell into thought and reminiscence: Was there anything special about his Martial Soul?
The answer is: No.
It was just an ordinary flame, nothing special.
Furthermore, the teachers at the primary Soul Master Academy, along with the Spirit Hall, had assessed his awakened Soul Master and concluded that he was merely an ordinary flame, with his Martial Soul quality at most intermediate.
In the Douluo Continent, Martial Soul are divided into five qualities: low-level, mid-level, high-level, top-level, and super Martial Soul.
Of course, this is a saying that has been passed down from mainland China.
In fact, there should be a divine-level Martial Soul above it, but Qingming wouldn't have known that if he hadn't read the novel.
With Innate Soul Power at level two, Qingming's maximum potential in this lifetime is only that of a Soul Elder, and that would be the result of his own tremendous efforts.
If you don't work hard, you might not even reach the level of Soul Grandmaster in the future.
This is a world with extraordinary power, but also a world of despair. Class distinctions are rigid, everything is Solidification, and the path to upward mobility has long been cut off.
In this world, Soul Master, who make up less than one percent of the population, occupy more than ninety percent of the world's resources, while the top ten Soul Master, who make up less than ten percent of the population, occupy eighty to ninety percent of the total Soul Master resources.
However, ordinary people and low-level Soul Master are helpless because the gap between extraordinary beings and ordinary people, and the gap between extraordinary beings themselves, is simply too great. The rules of the original world simply do not work here.
Faced with absolute power, everything is in vain.
Fortunately, he is now Soul Master, otherwise Qingming really wouldn't know how to survive in this world.
It's simply because this world is too unfriendly to ordinary people. No matter which group Soul Master or a noble is, ordinary people dare not provoke them. In fact, if an ordinary person just glances at them a few times, they might die a violent death.
As for the law.
hehe.
Those were all tools used to protect the nobility and help them exploit the common people.
I only gradually learned about these things after Qingming came to this world. This world is indeed wonderful, and the standard of living and enjoyment are even no worse than in my original world.
But all of this is built on the exploitation of ordinary people.
That's practically cannibalism!
Foreign capitalists and feudal landlords were moved to tears, and they all had to admit they were experts!
Compared to the nobles of the Douluo Continent, those landlords and capitalists are practically philanthropists!
I can be considered a quasi -Soul Master now, but that doesn't mean my future will be any easier.
You should know that your Innate Soul Power is only level two, and your future limit is basically Soul Elder.
He's just Soul Elder, his strength is nothing to those noble lords. Although his life is much better than that of ordinary commoners, he is still exploited just as much as he always is.
While many Soul Elder do manage to obtain noble titles, are these nobles truly considered nobles?
You're overthinking it. How can a nobleman who doesn't even have a hereditary fiefdom be compared to a true noble lord?
Nobles without fiefdoms are false nobles. When Soul Master dies and his descendants fail to rise to prominence, everything he has will be devoured by those hereditary nobles, and everything will return to square one.
If you want to earn money and eat, you still have to kneel down and be subservient to the noble lords.
If you want to earn money while standing up, don't even think about it without the strength of Soul King.
As for Qingming: Soul King?
That's impossible.
His two levels of Innate Soul Power destined him to remain at the Soul Elder realm for the rest of his life. Even if he trained until he died, it would be difficult for him to break through to the Soul Elder. As for the Soul King realm, he could only dream about it.
There's no way around it; this world is just that cruel. Innate Soul Power and Martial Soul determine a person's future, and no matter how hard you try, it's useless.
Without excellent bloodlines or birth, your achievements in this life will be limited. No matter how hard you try, you can't reach the minimum level of those privileged individuals. This is truly despairing!
While a certain degree of class Solidification exists on Blue Star, it's nothing compared to the Douluo Continent.
In the Douluo Continent, the son of a commoner will always be a commoner. If he wants to achieve upward social mobility, his ancestors' graves must be blessed with extraordinary luck, producing a Soul Master with Innate Soul Power of Level 4 or above, because only those with Innate Soul Power of Level 4 have the possibility of breaking through to Soul King.
Innate Soul Power is below level three, you can forget about breaking through to Soul King in this lifetime. In the thousand-year history of the Douluo Continent, only three people have ever broken through to Soul King with Innate Soul Power below level three.
As for the Soul Emperor, zero.
The Soul King is the minimum requirement to become a hereditary noble. Only by reaching this level can one potentially rise from the commoner class to the noble class.
Even if one doesn't want to associate with the nobility, one can still establish their own family and have the right to compete fairly with the noble forces.
Gradually, Qingming regained her composure. Five years had passed; she had been in this world for five years; she was now twelve years old.
In the past five years, he had never relaxed his cultivation, but even so, he had only increased his Soul Power by eight levels. He was now just a level thirteen Soul Master, barely surviving on the subsidies from the Spirit Hall each month.
I'd like to work Qingming, but someone has to be willing to take me in.
Ordinary people can't afford to hire Soul Master for work, wealthy people look down on their own abilities, and Soul Master teams that specialize in hunting Soul Beast have no interest in bringing along a burden.
As a result, Qingming's current status and abilities are in an awkward position, neither good enough for a high-level job nor good enough for a low-level one.
Fortunately, the Spirit Hall provides a monthly subsidy of gold coins; otherwise, Qingming might have truly starved to death.
Just like the Soft Bone Rabbit on the operating table right now, do you really think it's your own experimental subject?
No.
This is actually food for Qingming. Research and such are just secondary considerations. I haven't eaten meat for almost three days, so I need to replenish my body.
One Soft Bone Rabbit costs one and a half silver coins.
A gold coin is only worth ten silver coins, and one silver coin is equal to one hundred copper coins. The purchasing power of one copper coin is equivalent to about one dollar in my previous life.
He's just Soul Elder, his strength is nothing to those noble lords. Although his life is much better than that of ordinary commoners, he is still exploited just as much as he always is.
While many Soul Elder do manage to obtain noble titles, are these nobles truly considered nobles?
You're overthinking it. How can a nobleman who doesn't even have a hereditary fiefdom be compared to a true noble lord?
Nobles without fiefdoms are false nobles. When Soul Master dies and his descendants fail to rise to prominence, everything he has will be devoured by those hereditary nobles, and everything will return to square one.
If you want to earn money and eat, you still have to kneel down and be subservient to the noble lords.
If you want to earn money while standing up, don't even think about it without the strength of Soul King.
As for Qingming: Soul King?
That's impossible.
His two levels of Innate Soul Power destined him to remain at the Soul Elder realm for the rest of his life. Even if he trained until he died, it would be difficult for him to break through to the Soul Elder. As for the Soul King realm, he could only dream about it.
There's no way around it; this world is just that cruel. Innate Soul Power and Martial Soul determine a person's future, and no matter how hard you try, it's useless.
Without excellent bloodlines or birth, your achievements in this life will be limited. No matter how hard you try, you can't reach the minimum level of those privileged individuals. This is truly despairing!
While there is some class Solidification on Blue Star, it's nothing compared to the Douluo Continent.
In the Douluo Continent, the son of a commoner will always be a commoner. If he wants to achieve upward social mobility, his ancestors' graves must be blessed with extraordinary luck, producing a Soul Master with Innate Soul Power of Level 4 or above, because only those with Innate Soul Power of Level 4 have the possibility of breaking through to Soul King.
Innate Soul Power is below level three, you can forget about breaking through to Soul King in this lifetime. In the thousand-year history of the Douluo Continent, only three people with Innate Soul Power below level three have broken through to Soul King.
As for the Soul Emperor, zero.
The Soul King is the minimum requirement to become a hereditary noble. Only by reaching this level can one potentially rise from the commoner class to the noble class.
Even if one doesn't want to associate with the nobility, one can still establish their own family and have the right to compete fairly with the noble forces.