"This is…"
Gu Na'er was about to speak when a sudden commotion erupted outside.
"Hurry, hurry! The Spirit Master is here!"
"Please, sir, help my child awaken their Spirit! We will be forever grateful for your great kindness."
"Everyone, kneel before the esteemed Spirit Master!"
Dozens of similar pleas followed one after another.
Listening to the voices that were doing their utmost to beg, Gu Na'er felt extremely uncomfortable and slightly puzzled.
Awaken Spirits? Doesn't the Spirit Hall, and now the Spirit Master Guild, offer free Spirit awakenings? Why are they begging like this?
She got up, walked out of the room, and looked outside.
In the next instant, she froze completely, her limbs unresponsive.
She saw hundreds of villagers in tattered clothes, leading their children, kneeling neatly on both sides of the road.
Each person held up the best thing they could offer: eggs, ducks, geese, lambs, herbs, and even rations.
Although their hearts were aching, they could only force a smile, afraid of offending the other party.
In the middle of them, a Spirit Master with a white and a yellow spirit ring rotating beneath his feet was full of disdain and mockery.
"Spirit awakening is a major event that determines one's fate, and you want me to help with these broken trinkets?
What? Do you take me for a fool?
Twenty gold coins, not a single one less."
"Wasn't it ten coins in previous years?"
"Awakening a Spirit is indeed ten coins, but I've traveled such a long way.
This godforsaken place of yours is worthless; the travel expenses alone are worth ten coins."
Gu Na'er couldn't help but widen her eyes.
Within the Celestial Empire, there is a special department called the Audit Department, directly under the control of Qian Renxue's grandfather, Grand Tutor Qian Daoliu.
Its main responsibility is to conduct secondary audits of abnormal items in the financial expenditures of official agencies in various regions, and to issue statistical reports on civil affairs, including population, land, finance, taxation, and commercial activities as key areas.
In the year since its establishment, almost every report has caused a stir within the Empire.
Therefore, even she, a noble who had never been to the common people, clearly knew what ten gold coins meant to ordinary people.
A craftsman with his own skills and a stable job would probably need ten years of being free from illness and disaster, working from dawn till dusk, to accumulate that much.
Tang San worked in a blacksmith shop in Nuoding City, swinging the Disturbance Cloak until it smoked, and his monthly salary was only one silver coin.
…
On the other side, Ning Rongrong appeared at a junior Spirit Master academy.
As soon as she revealed her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Spirit, she immediately attracted countless students and teachers to watch.
The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda is a new form evolved for the second time after the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda contracted the Qiluo Tulip Soul Spirit.
Not only is its support ability heaven-defying, and it can now attack and defend, but its appearance has also greatly increased, becoming magnificent.
"What Spirit is this? It's so beautiful."
"Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda."
"Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda? What is that? Is it a defense system or a control system?"
"You don't even know the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda? You should have heard of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, right?
The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda is evolved from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, with stronger support abilities."
"Never heard of it."
Seeing everyone around shaking their heads in unison, with thick doubts on their faces,
as if saying, is the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda very famous? Why should I have heard of it?
Ning Rongrong's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and she had an extremely bad premonition.
Could it be that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School has declined or even disappeared?
…
Qian Renxue was also at a Spirit Master academy.
Through the textbooks she received, she quickly learned that the Time node she appeared in was probably ten thousand years later, and that Nangong Lingyun did not exist ten thousand years ago.
The most prominent figure was a man named Tang San.
These were indeed surprising, but barely acceptable.
However, immediately after, seeing the content further on,
she was instantly paralyzed, her face stunned, and her mouth wide open for a long time.
The textbooks of this era actually claimed that "Martial Soul Ten Core Competitiveness" was an epoch-making masterpiece of the entire Spirit Master system, and used words such as groundbreaking, illuminating the future, first breaking ignorance, and the Light of the Spirit Master to describe it.
It was as if Spirit Masters before Yu Xiaogang were all cultivating randomly.
And when she saw the specific content of the so-called epoch-making masterpiece, Qian Renxue couldn't hold back any longer.
1. Everyone can awaken their Spirit at the age of six, but they may not necessarily possess spirit power.
Isn't this just taking off your pants to fart?
The Spirit Master system has existed for more than three million years.
Do you need to discover that Spirits can be awakened at the age of six? Did people awaken at the age of three or ten before?
2. The level of Innate Soul Power is directly proportional to the strength of the Spirit.
Same as above!
3. There are only Tool Spirit and Beast Spirit; there are no others.
Don't they even know about Body Martial Soul, Elemental Spirit, Divinity Spirit, or Divine Beast Spirit?
This is simply wrong.
4. Every Spirit Master and Spirit has its own development direction.
Correct nonsense.
5. Spirit Mimicry Theory: Plant Spirits do not necessarily need to absorb spirit rings produced by plant Spirit Beasts; spirit rings from Beast Spirits can also be absorbed.
This one is the funniest.
You can survive by eating shit, but why do you still need to eat rice?
Attaching Beast Spirit rings to Plant Spirits can indeed be done, but it is completely not worth the loss.
It will bring great harm to the evolution of Spirit quality, the development of abilities, and the enhancement of skill effects and the Spirit Master's physical and mental qualities.
6. The spirit ring bottleneck cannot prevent the Spirit Master's spirit power from continuing to increase, but they just cannot enter the next level without the guidance of the spirit ring.
Also correct nonsense.
Is the Cultivation speed of a Spirit Emperor the same as that of a Spirit Saint? Is the Cultivation speed the same after reaching a bottleneck and breaking through the bottleneck?
According to you, why doesn't anyone never attach a spirit ring and Cultivate to level ninety before attaching all hundred-thousand-year spirit rings?
7. There is no such thing as a useless Spirit, only a useless Spirit Master.
emmmmm…
The only correct theory proves that Yu Xiaogang is indeed an ultimate waste.
8. Only the person who personally kills the target Spirit Beast can absorb the spirit ring produced by this Spirit Beast.
Nonsense!
9. Spirit Heterologous Fusion Theory: Different Spirits can also undergo Spirit Fusion Skill training.
Nonsense among nonsense!
There is also the tenth point, which is the maximum age limit for spirit ring absorption: 423 years for the first ring, 764 years for the second ring, 1,760 years for the third ring, 5,000 years for the fourth ring, and 12,000 years for the fifth ring…
I can't even be bothered to comment on this.
The Spirit quality, physical fitness, and mental force intensity of different Spirit Masters are different.
The bloodline level and attribute compatibility of the Spirit Beasts absorbed by each person are also different.
There cannot be a unified spirit ring age standard at all.
After reading these "epoch-making" theories, Qian Renxue only felt that her brain was not enough.
Such a thing can actually be hyped up? And it is brazenly written in textbooks for everyone to learn?