In the second battle, Wu Changkong found that all of his movements seemed to be anticipated by those seven children, making him unable to perform. If he hadn't raised his strength to five rings, he probably would have been even more awkward.
But he was very clear that the others couldn't do this. After the battle ended, he personally went to Huo Yuhao and experienced Spiritual Detection and Sharing. Then he understood, it was Huo Yuhao who had organized each attack.
The other's insight, basic combat skills, and vision simply could not be defined as those of a three-ring Spirit Elder. Wu Changkong highly suspected that if he suppressed his strength to the Soul King level and faced Huo Yuhao alone, it would take considerable effort to defeat him.
As for losing?
He was still very confident in himself. With such a large level gap, how could he lose?
Wu Changkong looked at the seven people in the training ground, who had been scattered and were practicing with each other. "But precisely because he is too perfect, there is a gap between him and the others. Only Gu Yuena can keep up with him."
"At least there's someone who can keep up, isn't there? When the really really strong individuals reach the end, which one of them doesn't fight alone? They're quite lucky, at least they have a rival by their side." Luo Yanglu smiled and shook his head.
Wu Changkong did not rebut this. He just looked seriously at Luo Yanglu. "They are disciples of the Eastsea Spirit Transmission Tower's Tower Master, right?"
In Eastsea, only that Title Douluo could teach such disciples.
Moreover, Carefree Douluo had a spiritual attribute martial soul, just like Huo Yuhao. If a Super Douluo had taught him combat skills, he could barely accept this outcome — well, he still couldn't quite accept it.
After all, his own teacher was also a Super Douluo.
"Not entirely." Luo Yanglu looked in Gu Yuena's direction.
"Gu Yuena is a disciple of Her Majesty Tianfeng Douluo. As for Yuhao — His Majesty Carefree Douluo plans to send Yuhao to headquarters. He has not taken him as a disciple."
Wu Changkong pressed his lips together and temporarily abandoned some of his thoughts.
Tianfeng Douluo was the Spirit Transmission Tower's Vice Tower Master. Although she had only obtained the position due to the legacy of her predecessors, she was not far from Level 99 now.
A disciple of a Level 98 Super Douluo, and a child whom a Level 95 Super Douluo did not dare to take as a disciple — that put an end to some ideas.
Within the Spirit Transmission Tower, they already had a bright future.
After the battle ended, the group of students ate lunch, then were led by Luo Yanglu and Wu Changkong to the Spirit Transmission Tower.
"Starting today, you can all go to the Spirit Elevation Platform to train every day."
Xu Xiaoyan's eyes widened. She exclaimed in surprise: "Is this true?"
Luo Yanglu smiled and nodded. Beside him, Wu Changkong raised an eyebrow, inwardly impressed by the Spirit Transmission Tower's generosity.
Seeing Luo Yanglu nod, Xu Xiaoyan was overjoyed.
She knew very well what the Spirit Elevation Platform was.
Although the feedback from the Spirit Soul contract allowed Inherited Spirit Souls to be passed down through generations and ascend step by step through that feedback,
the span from ten years to a hundred years was still manageable. From a hundred years to a thousand years, the difficulty level would increase greatly. A weak spirit master family would need to spend a long time grinding. From a thousand years to ten thousand years was even harder, not to mention from ten thousand years to a hundred thousand years.
It was precisely because of the appearance of the Spirit Elevation Platform that some small families, occasionally obtaining quotas, had more ten-thousand-year Inherited Spirit Souls. The benefits of entering the Spirit Elevation Platform were conceivable and conceivable.
As for hundred-thousand-year Inherited Spirit Souls — in Eastsea, at least, Xu Xiaoyan had never heard of any. Probably only other regions had that level of Inherited Spirit Soul.
And as Huo Yuhao knew, even within a large family, there wouldn't be many hundred-thousand-year Inherited Spirit Souls.
For most Title Douluos, reaching the Spirit Abyss realm in spiritual power was the limit. And the Spirit Abyss realm could only accommodate one hundred-thousand-year Spirit Soul or one Savage Beast Spirit Soul.
Under these circumstances, a Title Douluo who accommodated a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Soul could not — and did not dare —lift their own ten-thousand-year Spirit Soul to the hundred-thousand-year level. They could only leave it for their descendants to inherit and lift, and even then, the descendants had to be worthy enough.
And unlike the original work, with Inherited Spirit Souls, everyone wanted to do their best to elevate their Spirit Souls to higher years, to give their descendants a better foundation.
But relying on contract feedback to obtain a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Soul was quite difficult. So the major powers had all set their sights on the Spirit Elevation Platform.
And Elevation a hundred-thousand-year level Spirit Soul consumed a great deal of the Spirit Elevation Platform's spiritual energy. With so many strong individuals needing it, there were always some who couldn't get a turn. (Zhenhun: Not everyone is me.)
Due to various factors, even for some large families, hundred-thousand-year Inherited Spirit Souls were the core foundation of a spirit master family, not many in number.
The total number, however, was quite impressive, far exceeding that of the original work in this era.
As for Savage Beast Spirit Souls — they were no longer attainable through spirit elevation or contract feedback. Their numbers were very scarce!
Ten thousand years later, the Spirit Transmission Tower's artificial Spirit Souls could reach the hundred-thousand-year level. But because they couldn't simulate the Heavenly Tribulation, they couldn't reach the Savage Beast level. The current Spirit Transmission Tower faced a similar problem.
Was there a Spirit Soul that would be struck by its own Heavenly Tribulation?
There were no such examples, because they would not face a Heavenly Tribulation.
The problem lay right there. By becoming an Inherited Spirit Soul, a Spirit Soul was, in a sense, already immortal. It no longer had to suffer the torment of the Heavenly Tribulation.
But over time, it was discovered that it seemed all Savage Beasts had to undergo different Heavenly Tribulations to ascend to that level.
Without the Heavenly Tribulation, a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Soul could not advance to the Savage Beast level.
Just as a human without a spirit ring could not break through to the next stage, Spirit Souls faced the same problem. They would get stuck at a certain limit, unable to break through.
This was a difficulty that the Spirit Transmission Tower currently struggled to overcome. Some had proposed ideas such as artificial Heavenly Tribulations, bypassing the thunder tribulation, and so on. But there was still no research direction — they were still in the conceptual stage.
If this part of the rules was also related to the Dragon God, Huo Yuhao could only say that he was quite rigorous.
But there were still loopholes to be found.
After all, he had an example right beside him.
Right? Brother Skydream — the one who never experienced a single Heavenly Tribulation, who woke up from a nap and inexplicably became a million-year spirit beast?
"We're here."
Standing before the Spirit Transmission Tower, aside from the somewhat excited Xu Xiaoyan, the other students were very calm.
After all, in a sense, they were all internal personnel of the Spirit Transmission Tower. They had long been mentally prepared.
Entering the first floor, the Spirit Transmission Tower's floor was paved with dark gold stone. The natural textures on it were gorgeous and colorful, like flowing scrolls.
Looking up, huge stone columns rose straight up, steadily supporting the dome dozens of meters high. The most breathtaking thing was the colorful, lifelike murals on these stone columns and the dome.
These murals were resplendent and magnificent, depicting scenes and figures, as if recording a story. A rich historical atmosphere rushed toward them.
Among them were three figures — one person's face was somewhat blurry, a peerless beauty in white stood at his side, and in front was a handsome man in a black robe.
Tang Wulin was already familiar with it. He said to the few curious ones beside him:
"This is the mural of the First Generation Tower Master signing contracts with the Extreme North's Snow Empress and the Star Dou Great Forest's Emperor Tian — the beginning of a different path for humans and spirit beasts."
"But this scene had no other witnesses. It was actually depicted by Vice Tower Master Emperor Tian based on his recollection."
Wang Jinxi, hearing this, thought of his own Spirit Soul and silently gazed at the mural, as if paying homage.
This scene was, after all, the origin of the current flourishing scene of the Douluo Continent.
Zhang Yangzi said with some yearning: "I've heard that the several Tower Masters of the Spirit Transmission Tower are all the most top-level strong individuals on the continent. I wonder if we'll ever have the chance to meet them."
Tang Wulin smiled. "That's not something we can meet now. We need to show enough potential first."
"You sure know a lot." Xie Xie glanced at Tang Wulin and said quietly: "You joined the Spirit Transmission Tower too?"
"Yes!" Tang Wulin smiled and nodded.
On the other side, Huo Yuhao looked at Snow Empress in the mural for a moment, then looked away.
He had returned. They would meet again in the future.
Wu Changkong looked at the mural, his expression somewhat complicated, but still directed a respectful gaze at it.
Luo Yanglu chatted briefly with the receptionist, then led the group through without obstruction, taking an elevator down to the basement. He led them to a testing room.
"Before entering the Spirit Elevation Platform, let's first do a physical fitness test and a spiritual power test. That way, Teacher Wu and I will have a better understanding."
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