Soul Land (Douluo Dalu)
CHAPTER 4
...Early in the day, Tang San returned with a fresh feeling from the mountain top to make breakfast....
...If not for the Mysterious Heaven skill that was unable to break through the barriers, Tang San believed, his progress in the other aspects would have been greater....
...Forging pig iron beams measuring fifty centimeters into the size of a fist; a task that seemed impossible at first, had been completed by Tang San half a month ago....
...With the style leveraging method that Tang Hao taught him, he was also able to perform over twenty-four hammer swings, each swing with perfect precision, including power control....
...Although all this time Tang Hao had never praised him, but because his father had occasionally unintentionally revealed it, Tang San knew that this method of hammering ended up having some small achievements, he said, and once again think that it is still important to rely on unrelenting practice ....
...It was a spring-laden arrow hidden in his sleeve....
...Tang San's artificial arrow arm was even equipped with a safety device, so there were no accidental injuries....
...A set of arm arrows was just like three arrows made to fit on a sleeve, even now it was without exception in Tang San's hands....
...The material for this arm arrow had eaten the coarse chunks of iron it had been hammering through for almost a hundred days....
...Just as Tang San sent the completed task to Tang Hao, when he held onto a piece of pig iron that was completely forged with a fist, the, he was surprised to find that a piece of pig iron that originally contained a lot of dirt had turned into a piece of iron mother, the real iron mother....
...In his previous life, let alone him, even if it was the Tang sect's best temp grandmaster, he couldn't achieve this method of forging an ordinary pig iron into an iron mother....
...This arrow arm on Tang San's wrist was made from that lump of iron mother....
...To actually make an arm arrow, including three small arrows ten centimeters inside, he used all the iron mothers he had....
...Speaking of forging, Tang San was no good; much inferior to Tang Hao....
...Ordinary arm arrows had a range of around fifteen meters or so, but the arm arrows created by Tang San could maintain an effective attack range of over thirty meters....
...If not for his size being too small, he still thought of giving the arrow spines an arm....
...The tapered arrow was spiral rifled, so when the arm arrow was launched it had even stronger piercing power....
...Making designs for hidden weapons, Tang San had always pursued perfection; even though this was only one ordinary arrow arm, nothing more....
...Even if he was an ordinary person, he could not say he was worried; only if he met a spirit teacher like Su Yuntao who could use spirits would his strength be far from sufficient....
...But with this arm arrow different, Tang San believed that depending on him, even if his true strength was not stronger than a spirit teacher, he had a way to deal with it all....
…...If the enemy knows you want to use it, like that, it is no longer a hidden weapon, but rather an open weapon....
...Tang San of course could not let his secret weapon become an open weapon....
...Tang Hao also never cared about what he used for this piece of iron mother, therefore this arm arrow was a secret of his own....
"Dad, let's eat. ”
...Tang San called out to the inner room....
...Unusually, Tang Hao who appeared every day when he heard about food was nowhere to be seen anywhere else today....
...Tang Hao was not in the room....
...When Tang San was in the middle of thinking about where Tang Hao could go, Tang Hao returned....
"Little San, where did you go so early?" Tang Hao asked coldly.
...Tang San said:...
“I went to exercise. Every morning I go running. ”
...This is not considered a lie, it really goes to 'exercise'....
"Oh. ”
...Tang Hao did not try to dig any deeper, and coldly said:...
“Today you will not practice forging anymore. Prepare your things, tomorrow old Jack will take you to the city of Nuoding. ”
...Tang San was stunned for a moment,...
“Nuoding City? Why is it there? ”
...The last time he went to Nuoding was about a year ago....
...Old Jack goes into town to shop, and takes him to let him experience it....
“Do you not want to learn the abilities of spirit masters? Old Jack can take you to the main spirit master academy of Nuoding city to become a working student. There you can learn whatever you want. ”
...Hearing his father's words, Tang San's pulse suddenly increased, and he found it hard to speak from the shock and excitement he felt....
"Dad, what changed your mind?"
...Tang Hao returned with a question:...
"Are you still going or not?"
...Tang San said:...
"But if I go, nothing will make you food. ”
...Now he already understood the reason why his father woke up this early; unexpectedly, was to meet the village elder Jack....
"Do I still need you to take care of me? You just leave. This is the path you choose. Every year the village of the Holy Spirit has a quota of one, do not waste it. I've submitted the Forging Method to you, so that you can find a job as an intern in a workshop in the city. That should be enough to cover tuition and food costs. ”
...Although Tang Hao's words were very indifferent, but the edge of Tang San's eyes still felt hot....
...For who knew how many months, even though Tang Hao treated her in a way that would of course never change, but Tang Hao taught her forging; the tall, pale man in front of his eyes had already given him the feeling of a father growing....
“Letting you go to Nuoding comes with terms. If you agree you can go. ”
"I promise . ”
...Tang San spoke without the slightest hesitation....
“You will promise easily even without asking what I asked for. As a man, promised things must be done, do not be a promising person lightly. ”
...Tang San spoke calmly:...
“No matter what dad asks me to do, I will promise. Father must have acted for my own good. ”
...Tang Hao panicked a little....
“From now on, no matter how you cultivate your spirit power, I want you to promise, you must not let your spirit hammer absorb any spirit rings, either, so much so that you can't let anyone else see it show up. Also, do not let others know that you have a twin spirit. Can you do this?"
...Tang San was stunned for a moment, "That silver blue grass spirit?"...
...Tang Hao said:...
“Spirit of blue silver grass that you can use at will, cultivate, exert any spirit is also not a problem. With twin spirits, both spirits did not need to rely on spirit rings to increase spirit power to be able to cultivate. As long as you have one spirit that has a spirit ring, the spirit power promotion barrier will disappear. ”
...Tang San said:...
"So in other words, from now on I only use the blue silver grass spirit, right?"
...Tang Hao nodded, though,...
"Only if you face a life-threatening situation. Otherwise, don't use that hammer. ”
“Alright, I promise you. ”
...From his point of view, cultivating a spirit or not, using a spirit ring, it was all fine, as long as he could find a way to break through the bottleneck of the Mysterious Heaven skill....
...To others it seemed, perhaps the blue silver grass was just a useless spirit, but Tang San had all along not become gloomy due to the silver blue grass....
...The blue silver grass was the internal strength of a Mysterious Heaven skill that was condensed with spirit power....
"Good, let's eat. ”
...In a house not much different from the destitute, Tang San had absolutely no good preparations....
...Pack those clothes with various sized patches that only take a few moments to complete....
...However, today she did not listen to Tang Hao merely orderly; a forging sound was still heard in her room....
...For the sake of being able to produce every kind of hidden weapon in the future, Tang San understood he could only rely on himself for everything....
...Especially for this type of hidden super weapon like the Buddha Fury Tang Lotus, errors in accuracy more than the slightest could not appear....
...It was also the first time since Tang San had arrived in this world he felt uneasy....
...Whether in the Tang sect or in the village of the Holy Spirit, he had never come out to undergo experience and training....
...Regarding this matter, he was really no different from the children....
...All this time he thought, how much brilliance could the outside world produce?...
...He told Tang San not to make a fuss and disturb his sleep when he went for a morning run the next morning....
...Not knowing if it was because recently his body was stronger and stronger compared to before, but Purple Demon Eye advanced very quickly; the leaf in his hand, even if it was the smallest line, was, he could clearly observe them....
...The requirement for Tang inner sect disciples was to enter the Details, which was enough to use hidden weapons....
...But he also knew, about the inner sect disciple of Tang practically Purple Demon Eye everyone could reach the detailed realm, but including the sect master of master Tang Da, no one could enter the next realm of Purple Demon Eye....
...After reaching Detail, the cultivation of Purple Demon Eye became extremely slow, and there should be no interference in the daily assimilation of eastern purple qi....
...Therefore, just like the Tang sect disciples after entering the detailed world, there were also very few who would continue cultivating....
...In legend, the Tang sect had an elder whose Purple Demon Eye reached the limit of Mustard seeds, but also had no particular outcome....
...Just compared to the detailed realm he saw was still a little clearer, that was all....
...Tang San's index and middle fingers slightly snapped, and the tree leaves spun, splitting the air as they flew forward...
...Just one meter away, the leaves only flew to a distance of one meter, then were already unable to maintain their rotational state when they stopped becoming hard....
“The effect is still too weak. ”
...He could not help but shake his head....
...Today was his departure from the village; he did not know when he could come to the top of this hill again....
...The aroma of porridge is very familiar....
...Before leaving the village, this was the last time he cooked for his father, so Tang San was certainly not lazy....
...Checking the firewood under the stove, adding water to the porridge, so that when his father later woke up he could drink hot porridge....
"Little San, let's go. Your father's empty bums can't get out of bed. ”
Old Jack called Tang San.
...Tang San made a silencing gesture towards Jack,...
"Grandfather, please shut up. I don't like to have his sleep disturbed the most. ”
...As he spoke, he took out a piece of burning charcoal from the stove, and on the ground wrote a few lines....
...He once again turned to his father's room, reluctant to part, and only then did he get up with a bundle of cloth on his back and quietly leave with Jack....
...In Tang Hao's eyes there was no trace of sleep....
...When he walked to the doorway, he could still vaguely see the frail bodies of old Jack and Tang San....
...Tang Hao stood there and did not move, even when Tang San's back and Jack's old village were already completely gone, he was still standing there blankly for a long time....
"Dad, Grandpa Jack and I left. You yourself must take good care of your body, drink less. Porridge in a pot, do not forget to eat. ”
...Looking at the direction that changed from the writing on the ground to the cooking pot from the iron to the side, Tang Hao walked quickly and swept open the lid of the pot with a single handle....
...With both hands he immediately raised the iron pot....
...Thanks to Tang San who had just added water, the porridge in the pot was still not boiled anymore, but Tang Hao regardless held the iron pot and poured it into his mouth, gulping down spit....
"Little San, do you hate parting with the village or still hate parting with that drunk old man of yours?"
Jack patted Tang San on the head, and asked with a smile.
"A little of both . ” Tang San replied in a low voice.
...Jack smiled slightly, and said:...
“Compared to these many fine grandchildren, you, my son are much smarter. It would be great if you were my granddaughter. That drunk Tang Hao was really lucky. Don't think too much; outside, heaven and earth are vast. In the academy you can get to know many friends. You can learn a lot of things. Once you become a spirit teacher, the State will give you a monthly salary, and at that time your family will also be able to live well. ”
...After all, Tang San was someone who obtained a second life, listening to Jack's words, his mood had already gradually recovered, and in his heart was an unbearable thirst for the outside world....
"Grandfather Jack, can you tell me about the academy? What place is that really? ”
...Jack smiled slightly, and said:...
“Academy is certainly a place to study. Although I never left, but for the most part I still understand. Our village has a quota to send one working student each year, but we have not sent working students for years to study. Working students still have a lot of favorable terms, tuition and accommodation waivers; simply paying for the food yourself is enough. On campus you can do simple work in exchange for edibles. For example, sweeping the classroom and so on. Speaking as a whole, to a student who works part-time and studies at the academy, is not much different from being free of cost. Regarding funding to study in the academy, it was not something that the poor could bear. ”
...Tang San said:...
“Dad told me, after I finally arrived at the academy to look for a blacksmith to work for. ”
"You? Doing manual work in the workshop? What joke is that? I see Tang Hao is completely insane. ”
...Old Jack said furiously,...
“How old are you? You still don't have the height of the forging hammer. What kind of workshop can accept you, this kind of disciple? Not to mention, blacksmiths were originally not really accepted as valued jobs, manual jobs also did not have much income. As long as you study properly in the academy, that is enough. ”
“Only, come to think of it, if you can have some achievements to talk about in the academy, that drunkard father of yours should give you some of his little savings. But after that the middle spirit master academy did not have a quota of working students that did require a lot of money to be able to study. The reward of a spirit teacher alone was far from enough. ”
...Since Tang San had innate full spirit power, old Jack had already seen him as a spirit teacher without hesitation....
“There is still an intermediate spirit master academy? And what was the difference compared to a basic spirit master academy? Both are academies, they both have to teach spirit teacher knowledge, right. ”
...Old Jack patiently explained:...
“Of course there is not only one type. The basic spirit master academy teaches some basic things, and you can also learn some educational courses. They only accept children who have just raised their spirits as students and the length of school is six years, so by the time they are twelve years old, if they have no prospect of speaking, they will have no chance to talk, they were also ordinary spirit teachers. But if their latent talents were good enough, the majority of people could choose to take advanced studies in the intermediate spirit master academy, continuing to study until they were eighteen. The middle spirit master academy taught some advanced things, but the difficulty of study increased tremendously. If they were unable to reach the academy's requirements, they would not have successfully graduated. This was different compared to a basic spirit master academy. ”
...Tang San said:...
"Like SD and intermediate, is anyone proficient?"
...Old Jack nodded, his eyes revealing a somewhat admiring glint,...
“You don't need to think about a high-tier spirit teacher academy because it's not something that can practically enter anyone. In our Heaven Dou Empire, there are only two high-level spirit master academies, and every year the number of students receiving is less than a hundred. It was the birthplace of a brilliant career. Even the nation spirit hall would strive to directly bestow a noble degree to any student who graduated from an advanced spirit master academy. ”
"Mulia? There's a good possibility. ” Tang San said, astonished.
Old Jack said:
"Of course . Spirit teachers were indeed the noblest of vocations, and advanced spirit teachers were more than that. But it's all talent. Therefore, for us laymen who dream of having a meteoric rise, becoming an advanced spirit teacher is definitely the best shortcut. Merely, coming from ordinary commoners, how many people have the ability to become great spirit teachers? Even if there was, without the help of a respectable clan it was extremely difficult to graduate from an advanced spirit master academy. ”
"The graduation test is his own business, so why is someone else's help needed?"
...Tang San was a bit confused....
...Old Jack sighed, and said:...
“This is the gap. The gap between the poor and the rich, between commoners and nobles. The graduation requirements of an elementary school spirit teacher are very simple: as long as the spirits reach the tenth rank, the teachers in the academy will guide you to obtain the spirit ring, and you can successfully advance your spirit teacher degree. This is certainly not difficult; as long as you have spirit power at the time of waking up, it is something that children can do. That said, advancing from spirit scholar to spirit master at rank ten spirit power was the easiest promotion. ”
“But in the middle spirit master academy it is different. In order to graduate from this place, the spirit must reach the twentieth rank and subsequently obtain a second spirit ring in order to be able to attain the title of spirit grandmaster. Rank tenth to rank twenty, was something that many spirit teachers could not accomplish in their entire lives. Also, after reaching the twentieth rank, in order to obtain spirit rings they would have to rely on their own strength to hunt and kill spirit beasts and obtain spirit rings. That's very dangerous indeed. If they were descended from noble families, and accompanied by family warriors, the danger was naturally much smaller. Spirit masters descended from ordinary people like us could only rely on themselves. ”
“The graduation requirements of an advanced spirit master academy are even more demanding. Only after passing the thirty rank bottleneck, and obtaining the third spirit ring, could the spirit grandmaster title be promoted to the old spirit title. They said that someone who surpassed the threshold of the thirtyth rank could be called a powerful great spirit master, a true noble. Going beyond is also difficult. Also, at the thirty rank obtaining a spirit ring did not seem to be the only restriction. To be specific, you should be able to learn when you reach the Academy. After all, of the students of that high-tier spirit master academy, the number that were still completely capable of graduating seemed to be only a third. ”
...After listening to old Jack, Tang San had a basic understanding of the spirit masters of the Douluo Continent....
“Grandfather Jack, didn't you say that there are ten titles of spirit masters? Students who graduated from the spirit teacher academy could become spirit elders, how could those degrees be obtained later on? ”
...Old Jack spoke with a wry smile:...
"I know how . Those who surpassed the title of spirit elders could all be called great figures, like spirit saints who came from our village who at that time were directly supported by the state. I have heard people say that cultivating a spirit master later on is very difficult, and also very dangerous. How many people have the original type of ability that can reach the top level of a Title Douluo? You can even say that it is unknown if such people exist in our Heaven Dou Empire and the current Star Luo Empire. ”
...Old Jack only had a simple bit of understanding of spirit teachers, nothing more....
...In particular, about spirit beasts, spirit rings and such things....
...From the village of the Holy Spirit to the city of Nuoding was certainly not far away; two people walking could reach it within half a day....
...Although the city of Nuoding was not considered a big city, as it was very close to the border of the Heaven Dou Empire, the city walls were still thickly built....
“Tang San ah! Soon grandfather will take you to the academy and then back. When you are alone in the academy You must listen to your teachers, you must not leave the academy without permission. When the semester is over, Grandpa Jack will be back to see you. It will be almost in the New Year. ”
...This was the first time Tang San had left home....
"Grandfather Jack, are you leaving soon?"
...Old Jack said with a wry smile:...
“Hotel is not for us poor people to live in. You have to try to win credit. When Grandfather sees you next time, I hope you are already a spirit teacher so that you can become the pride of our Holy Spirit Village. ”
...Nuoding's main spirit master academy was located in the western city of Nuoding....
...Old Jack asked the passerby several times directions, and finally Tang San was taken there....
...From a distance, they could already see a large arch gate....
...The arch was twenty meters wide, and over ten meters high, made of solid rock....
...Tang San saw they had been meticulously forged....
...Only from the gate could it be seen that in the Douluo Continent, the call of spirit teachers was extremely important....
...Old Jack carried Tang San walking to the front gate, and they were immediately stopped by the young gatekeeper, who was,...
"What the fuck? Is this a place that can be entered by villagers? ”
...Old Jack's clothes were considered bright and new in the village of the Holy Spirit, but when it arrived in the city of Nuoding, it really looked like a hick....
...The gatekeeper in his eyes looked somewhat disdainful....
"This? Brother, we came from the village of the Holy Spirit. This kid is our village student for the year, you know. We have to get through it. ”
...The gatekeeper frowned, and somewhat strangely said:...
“So the grass nest can still produce golden phoenix? A small village also had people with spirit power? But the academy does not have students working for many years. You can't fake it. ”
...Traces of fury flashed in the eyes of old Jack, but he still swallowed the humiliation and held out a certificate written by the spirit hall attendant Su Yuntao, handing it over to the gatekeeper....
“The spirit is blue silver grass? But still innate full spirit power? Silly, this really is the biggest joke in the world. I have been working as a gatekeeper in the academy for four years, and still haven't heard of a student with full innate spirit power. This brat's spirit is a blue silver grass, and it can still have full spirit power? I think this spirit hall certificate is definitely a forgery. ”
"You……"
...Even if Jack had a better temper, at this moment he was already unable to hold back....
“You deliberately made things difficult. All right, you wait and see. I'll go find the attendant of the master spirit hall. Little San, we're leaving. ”
...The spirit hall's certificate naturally could not be forged, which the gatekeeper knew....
...The so-called 'King Yama is better, than the little unreasonable demon', just this principle....
...Old Jack was a descendant of the village and even though he was a village elder, where could he learn these ways?...
...If someone from the spirit hall actually came, he could bear the responsibility....
...Of course, he believed that it was impossible for there to be a spirit hall person to ask questions for the sake of these two geese....
“What is the village of the Holy Spirit, I think the village of Beggars should also be similar. ”
"What did you say?"
...The words of the gatekeeper could be said to have attacked the greatest pride of his heart; originally this was the reason he was at odds with Tang Hao....
...This gatekeeper was now an outsider from the village, making it even more unbearable....
...Walking back a few steps, he glared at the gatekeeper....
...The gatekeeper jumped in fear because of the fierce old Jack, and could not help but take a step back....
"What's? Not sure ah, I said you were from a beggar village. What's wrong? You see this poor little spirit, all the clothes are completely patched. You are still looking for a place to beg, right? Our Nuoding Academy is not a charity. Quickly defeat, quick defeat. ”
...While speaking, the gatekeeper raised his left hand and pushed Jack's chest, which would chase the two men away....
...Similarly, with the left hand raised, the small, delicate hand barely managed to grab the hand of the gatekeeper, the left hand that was exerting to the right, and at the same time pushing the left hand of the gatekeeper....
...Simultaneously, the right foot of the small and skinny figure took a quick step forward, its sole coincidentally stepping behind the left foot of the gatekeeper, while raising its right hand, the, and with his left hand together pressed the hand of the gatekeeper down....
...The movement was extremely fast, the body at the same time moved forward, both hands swung the left hand of the gate guard while pushing forward....
...Behind the gatekeeper's left foot was just another foot, and although the foot was far from large, it was enough to achieve the right effect....
"Little San, you ……"
...The one who showed his skill was Tang San...
...The form he used was not even the secret knowledge of the Tang sect, originally in the world it was only the simplest form of martial art' Full Moon Pushing Window....
...Not only is he unable to reach the opponent's elbow, the hand that originally pushed the opponent's chest pushes against the lower abdomen....
...Although Tang San's people were not big, his physical strength was not at all small....
“Brotten boy, you want to die. ”
...Losing face from being overthrown by a child made the gatekeeper furious....
“Alright, keep your hands, ok. ”
...Just then, a somewhat hoarse voice rang out, stopping the movements of the gate guards....
...The gatekeeper was at first dazed for a moment, then immediately followed, the fury on his entire face suddenly turning into a lick....
"Grandmaster, you've returned. ”
...Apparently, this person appeared to be forty to fifty years old, with short black hair with three seven partings, a very ordinary appearance, both hands held behind his back....
...His body had some sort of strange manner, with both eyes half-opened, he looked rather sluggish and desperate....
...'The grandmaster' simply glanced at the gatekeeper, without noticing him, said to old Jack:...
"Old master, is it possible for me to take a look at the spirit hall certificate?"
...The grandmaster looked at the certificate, his gaze once again turning to Tang San, measuring it from top to bottom....
...For some reason, even though the grandmaster's gaze was clearly not sharp, Tang San had a feeling as if he saw it completely....
“There is nothing wrong with the certificate, old master, for this matter now let me apologize on behalf of the academy. Send this kid to me, ok. ”
