Chapter 12: The Soul Hunt Begins: Precautions
In a small city like Notting City, the responsibility of the Martial Soul Hall is mainly to help the people in the city awaken the martial soul, and together with the patrol team of the City Lord's Mansion, form a team to patrol together to prevent the soul master from fighting on the streets.
As the hall master of the branch hall, Ma Xiunuo usually only needs to sort out the documents, record the level of the soul master, and distribute the golden soul coins, which is relatively leisurely.
Not to mention Su Yuntao, in addition to helping each village awaken the martial soul for a month every year, the rest of the time, that is, going on patrol with the patrol team.
Do it for half a month, rest for half a month.
I have to say that the work of the Wuhun Hall is quite good.
Both of them were free, so they naturally planned to accompany Tang San to hunt souls and pass the rest.
In addition, Sisi also followed.
It's not that she is also on vacation, but her cultivation has reached level twenty, and she happens to need a soul ring, so she asked for leave, and when she heard that Tang San was also going to hunt soul beasts, she planned to go together.
Ma Xiunuo took Tang San into the carriage, while Su Yuntao and Sisi took turns to take over the carriage.
The Soul Hunting Forest is not far from Notting City, but it also takes most of the day, and two people need to take turns to take over to ensure physical strength.
"Xiao Tang, I want to tell you, in the future of soul hunting, when choosing teammates, you must choose a reliable soul hunting team, such as: the kind of team with a relatively large reputation, those who are not well-known, it is best not to choose; Also, different soul hunting forests, the environment is different, and the soul beasts are also different, so be sure to talk to the locals more, some specific medicines, soul hunting equipment, only the outer towns of the soul hunting forest in the corresponding environment have. "Ma Xiunuo is very fond of Tang San, and for this reason, he talks about various precautions for soul hunting.
Although Tang San had memorized these by heart when he was reading the book, he still listened carefully to Ma Xiunuo's advice.
On this piece of Douluo Continent, the Soul Hunting Forest is not only the few that appeared in the original book, but there are many of them.
The most famous soul hunting forests are the Star Dou Great Forest, the Sunset Forest, the Storm Grand Canyon, and the Devil's Grand Canyon, and the rest of the soul hunting grounds where soul beasts exist are either small in scope, or the number of soul beasts is scarce, or they have not been explored by human soul masters to a specific approximate range.
For example: the Far North.
This place has not been explored, and I don't know how big it is.
To be honest, this is a real world, soul beasts have different attributes, some can breathe fire, some can control ice, and they must live in an environment that can make them feel comfortable.
The natural environment and the types of creatures are mutually influential, and the soul beast is also a kind of creature, but it has extraordinary power.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, there will be no fire-type soul beasts in the extreme north, and in the same way, those red-hot desert areas will not appear water-type soul beasts.
In addition to these wild Soul Hunting Forests, there are also Soul Hunting Forests that are jointly controlled by the two empires and the Martial Spirit Palace.
This part of the soul hunting forest, it is rumored that it was also a wild soul beast forest, and the scale is no less than that of the sunset forest, but with the development of human beings, the cutting of trees and the opening of roads, the area is getting smaller and smaller, and the powerful soul beasts in it have also migrated to the star fighter, sunset, or other soul beast gathering places suitable for survival.
Nowadays, in such a soul hunting forest, ten-year-old and hundred-year-old soul beasts can be seen everywhere, but thousand-year-old soul beasts are extremely rare.
Why?
In addition to the slow improvement rate of the soul beast's cultivation, more importantly, the Wuhun Hall will send people in every three or five years to inspect, capture and even kill the thousand-year-old soul beast, prevent it from escaping from the forest, impacting the nearby villages, or destroying the farmland.
However, for thousand-year-level plant soul beasts, the Martial Soul Hall will relax a little, after all, most plant soul beasts have not reached the 10,000-year level and cannot move.
As for the thousand-year-old animal soul beasts, if they can be captured, they will be captured as much as possible, after all, the Wuhun Hall is also aware that the number of soul beasts is decreasing.
If one day the soul beast becomes extinct, the soul master will no longer be able to practice, and this profession will no longer be so noble.
It's a pity that no one has been able to find such a way yet, and no one even thinks about it at all, but instinctively realizes that soul beasts cherish resources.
Half a day later, the carriage came to the Soul Hunting Forest.
This forest is called Notting Forest.
Notting City can have a junior academy because there is such a soul hunting forest not far from Notting City, if there is no soul beast forest, there will be no city nearby.
It can be said that the major forces on the Douluo Continent are all established by relying on the forests rich in soul beast resources, after all, most soul masters are not very fond of the adventures of the four seas as their home.
Outside Notting Forest, there is a small town, which is quite prosperous and lively, comparable to when Notting City holds a rally.
Most of the residents of this person are soul masters, but the highest is no more than the second-ring soul master, and the number of ordinary people is also quite a lot, but there are more people who are strong and strong, and three or two together, they are comparable to a first-ring soul master.
If the soul master is an auxiliary department, a healing department, and a food department, and there is no means to hide, such an ordinary man can even go head-to-head one-on-one.
According to Ma Xiunuo, there are quite a few soul masters and great soul masters who die in the hands of ordinary people, hundreds of them every year, and one year, the number is even nearly a thousand.
However, when the soul master's soul power reaches level 30 and becomes a soul venerable, the number of soul masters who die in the hands of ordinary people has plummeted, and in the past ten years, on average, there are only about three a year.
This is also normal, when the soul master and the great soul master are still low, the soul power is still low, and the soul skill is used once or twice, eight or nine times, and the soul power will be exhausted.
And after reaching the Soul Venerable level, the quality and quantity of soul power have been raised, and the body has also begun to receive the benefits of soul power nourishment, and it will be slowly strengthened, and it will be difficult for ordinary people to kill Soul Venerable, unless they use human lives.
"Little San, what do you think of this? Isn't it a little unaccustomed to your first visit? Su Yuntao asked.
"I'm really not used to this kind of bustle, but it's really prosperous here, and soul beasts are the world's largest resources." Tang San sighed, "Most of the soul masters here are born from the Soul Hunting Forest, and the nearby villages and cities are also slowly established because of the prosperity here. ”
"That's the truth, although there is no place for soul beasts, it is very safe, but there is no place for soul hunting forests, it must be very backward, there are no big cities, and there is no soul master academy, although the Wuhun Hall will also send people to those places to help awaken the martial soul, but those children with cultivation talent who are not willing to go with the Wuhun Hall basically can't go to the junior soul master academy." Ma Xiuno said, as if he remembered his past memories, and he also sighed.
Tang San nodded.
In the previous life, in the era of peace, there were still poor mountainous areas, and most of the children there could only stay in the mountains for the rest of their lives and could not go to school.
Not to mention this Douluo Continent, there will only be more poverty-stricken areas, I don't know how many children who have cultivation talents, but their talents are not high (innate soul power level one or two) because they can't go out of the mountains, they can't become soul masters, and they can't change their fate.
It's not that they are not allowed to go to school, but that they are not in a position to leave their poor homeland.
For children with only one or two levels of innate soul power, the soul masters sent by the Martial Soul Hall to awaken the martial soul, if they are not related, they will not normally be invited, but will only issue a certificate to give them the opportunity to study in the junior college.
Wuhun Hall does not refuse to come to the soul master, but at least it has to be a soul master.
No matter how bad it is, the innate soul power is a little higher, there is a third level, there is a hope to become a soul venerable, but you can make special moves, and you can eat in the local Wuhun Hall in the future.
To cultivate those children who are born with first- and second-level soul power, it is better to find strong ordinary people who have no soul power, train a little, and put on weapons and armor, which will play a role no less than that of a soul master on the battlefield.
At least these ordinary people have accepted their fate, and their obedience is definitely stronger than those who aspire to become soul masters, but their talents are only one or two levels.
"What's more, if you go to a big city in the future, the higher the probability of seeing a soul master." Ma Xiunuo changed his words and continued, describing to Tang San the place he was going to in the future······
Although I want to deny it, it is indeed true that things gather like and people are divided by groups.
Just like a small village like the Holy Soul Village, ordinary people can only meet the soul masters sent by the Martial Soul Hall to help awaken the martial soul every year when the children in the village awaken the martial soul.
And he, with innate soul power, walked into the world of soul masters, and he could see soul masters every day: Ma Xiunuo, Su Yuntao, Sisi, and various teachers, directors, and deans of Notting Academy... Well, the dean is not very common.
Afterwards, the four of them purchased some anti-mosquito powder and entered the Soul Hunting Forest.
The knight guarding was a member of the Wuhun Palace, and he was also a subordinate of Ma Xiunuo, so naturally he didn't dare to ask him for a warrant and let him go directly.
Privileges, as long as they are within the system, are everywhere.
"Second Soul Ring, what soul beast are you going to choose, Sister Sisi?" Tang San walked on the ground of the Soul Hunting Forest and found that there were not many dead branches and leaves on the ground, so he asked about Sisi's choice of soul ring.
As Su Yuntao's girlfriend, planning a soul ring for him can be regarded as repaying Su Yuntao's "kindness".
Moreover, he also received a lot of help from the Wuhun Palace, and Sisi was also a member of the Wuhun Palace, and there was no problem in helping each other.
"That's right, Sisi, tell me your choice, let Xiao San see if it's suitable? If it's not suitable, just change it, he's smart. Su Yuntao agreed, and then took himself as an example, "It's like my second soul technique, so that I can compete with a great soul master who is close to level 30." ”
Sisi was a little moved, and finally decided to believe Tang San, so he said: "Little San, my martial soul is a ribbon, there is no attack ability, the first soul skill chooses a mandala snake that is close to ninety years old, so that my martial soul has the ability to wind, and even carries some toxins, which can paralyze the enemy, according to this line of thought, my second soul ring, I want to make the range of entanglement wider, find a soul beast that can lengthen my ribbon, or make the ribbon differentiated... What do you think of my thoughts? ”
Entangle?
Tang San couldn't help but be in a trance.
I thought that if I didn't apprentice to Yu Xiaogang, I would go away from the mandala snake, but I didn't expect to "meet" again in such a way, I have to say, it's really fate.
This was also when Tang San was reading in the Martial Spirit Palace, he didn't ask about Sisi's soul skills, otherwise he wouldn't be so surprised.
"Sister Sisi, that ninety-year-old mandala snake, its soul ring not only brings you an entwined soul skill, but also increases the toughness of your martial soul, right?" Tang San asked.
"That's true, my ribbon martial soul was originally very brittle, and it broke when I pulled it, but after adding the soul ring of the mandala snake, it has a lot of toughness." Sisi nodded, "But the most important thing is to entangle this soul skill." ”
"Sister Sisi, my next words may be a little unpleasant, isn't it a bit of a waste to exchange a soul ring position for a winding soul skill?"
In order to make his statement more convincing, Tang San continued, "An ordinary person who has practiced with a rope for a few years can also lasso others. ”
"The ribbon martial soul can indeed be used to bind and wind, but the first soul ring, the most important thing should be to enhance the advantages of the ribbon, rather than rushing to entangle this soul skill."
"Although the martial soul is not a real thing, it also has similarities with real things, may I ask, Sister Sisi, what are the characteristics of the ribbon?"
Sisi thought for a moment and said, "Light, soft." ”
"That's right, it's the word gentle, and I'll ask you another question, what happens if a ribbon is suspended in the air and slashed with a sword?" Tang San affirmed these two characteristics of the ribbon and continued to ask.
"The ribbon is cut in two?" Sisi was a little unconfident, after all, she had never seen that scene.
"It may be that the question I asked did not give the prerequisites, the person wielding the sword is an ordinary person, and the sword is not a martial spirit, let alone a divine weapon, it is the most ordinary weapon."