Chapter 5: Starting with a Ten Thousand Souls Banner? Wouldn't that be a disaster?
Listening to the questions from the children around her, Qian Renxue also fell silent.
Although she didn't know how many peerless Douluo and peak Douluo there were in this era, she was sure that if the two worlds really fought, her era would definitely be the loser in the end, because the gap between the two sides was too huge.
Ye Qing didn't care what Qian Renxue thought. Instead, after reaching the destination, he stopped and extended his right hand to her.
"What?"
Seeing this scene, Qian Renxue couldn't help but be stunned. What was going on?
"I have no money!" Ye Qing replied.
"What does it have to do with me if you don't have money?" Qian Renxue frowned slightly and asked in a very strange tone.
"Don't you want to know what my spirit is?"
Ye Qing said confidently, "What if the reason for our meeting is related to my unawakened spirit?"
"It's indeed possible, but the question is, what do you want the money for? You can't awaken a spirit and still need to pay for it yourself, right?"
Qian Renxue narrowed her beautiful eyes slightly, and her pretty little face was full of confusion and suspicion, and she was obviously a little unconvinced.
Because ten thousand years ago, when the Spirit Hall was still in existence, the Spirit Hall basically took care of the awakening of the spirits of these civilians for free.
So logically speaking, after tens of thousands of years of development, their lives should have been better. However, what she never dreamed of was that their lives were even worse than ten thousand years ago. This was unbelievable!
"What else?" Ye Qing asked calmly.
"How much?"
Qian Renxue curled her lips and complained in a somewhat speechless manner: "It seems that the more you develop, the more backward you are. Your life is not as good as ours. At least awakening your spirit is free, and there are people who are dedicated to helping you."
"No, no, no, you're wrong!"
Facing Qian Renxue's teasing and complaints, Ye Qing shook his head and said softly, "Times are advancing, and society should be progressing, but this doesn't mean that the lives of the lower classes are also improving. After all, if I remember correctly, the biggest reason why people like me were able to awaken their spirits for free ten thousand years ago was because of the Spirit Hall. It was they who forcibly seized funds from the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire. And with the demise of the Spirit Hall, no one or any force has done so since then, not to mention the series of wars, large and small, that broke out in the meantime."
At this point, Ye Qing sighed softly, his tender little face filled with helplessness. He sighed, "Actually, for ordinary people like us, it doesn't matter who rules Douluo Continent. What matters is who can improve our lives and save us from the suffering of war."
"Yes!"
Qian Renxue's expression and tone changed upon hearing this. She nodded in agreement and said, "It is precisely because of this that our Spirit Hall has been able to develop so rapidly. You have to know that both the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire look down on ordinary civilians, so this gives the Spirit Hall an opportunity. After all, 20,000 years ago, whether it was the Sea God or our ancestral Angel God, they all relied on the power of faith to successfully break through to the level of a god."
You know, although there is a big difference between soul masters and ordinary people, not many people can become strong and possess the innate soul power that can be cultivated when awakening their spirits. Therefore, from ancient times to the present, the ratio of soul masters to ordinary people is basically in the thousands or tens of thousands.
Otherwise, with the Spirit Hall's background and combat power, why would she, the young master of the Priest Hall and the only heir to the Spirit Hall, go to the Heaven Dou Empire to carry out the undercover plan? Isn't it just to obtain the million-strong army controlled by the Heaven Dou royal family?
"It's no use talking any more now, let's get down to business first!"
After Ye Qing finished the topic, he took ten gold soul coins from Qian Renxue.
For Qian Renxue, money and resources are the least important things, so let alone ten, even if it's one thousand or even ten thousand, she won't even blink.
After paying the money, Ye Qing and Qian Renxue were taken to a closed room.
With the activation of the magic circle under his feet and the infusion of the awakening master's soul power, Ye Qing, who was originally emitting golden light, was instantly shrouded in darkness and evil.
Under the gaze of Qian Renxue and the awakening master, a large black banner appeared beside Ye Qing.
It was made of black cloth of an unknown material, a black as deep as the abyss, seemingly swallowing all light. Faint dark red lines snaked through it, like countless twisting blood vessels, exuding a chilling eeriness. The flagpole was crafted from thick white bones, their surface covered in densely packed runes. These runes shimmered with a faint green light and pulsed with life, as if telling the agonizing howls of a sealed soul.
The banner is inlaid with countless soul crystals of different sizes. These soul crystals are a strange purple-red color, and there seem to be souls struggling and twisting in pain inside.
Each soul crystal contained a powerful spiritual force, emitting a bone-chilling chill. At the edge of the banner hung rows of tiny skulls, their hollow eye sockets flickering with faint blue will-o'-the-wisp fire. Whenever a breeze blew, the skulls collided with each other, emitting a crisp yet heart-wrenching sound, like a death knell from hell, foreshadowing the arrival of death and despair.
The Ten Thousand Souls Banner, which was hated by everyone in the fantasy world, actually appeared in the Douluo Continent and became someone else's spirit.
"What kind of spirit is this? Why does it look weird?"
Qian Renxue narrowed her beautiful eyes slightly. Just as she was about to ask, she saw that something was wrong with the awakening master's face.
"Is your spirit the legendary Ten Thousand Souls Banner?"
After the awakening ceremony was over, the awakening master asked seriously.
"What Ten Thousand Souls Banner? Mine is called the Human Emperor Flag!"
Ye Qing's heart skipped a beat, and he understood what the other party meant and what he was going to do. He quickly shook his head to deny it.
It's over, it's over. I started with a Ten Thousand Souls Banner, and it's in the timeline of Douluo Dalu 2. Isn't this a disaster?
If it were ten thousand years ago, he would definitely have nothing to fear, because the standard for judging evil soul masters at that time was to see what the person did, instead of like this, as long as one had an evil spirit, he would be labeled an evil soul master.
"Human, the Human Emperor's flag?"
Upon hearing this name, not only the awakening master, but even Qian Renxue fell into silence.
[end of the chapter]