Chapter 23: Grand Soul Arena
“Can we participate?” Star was full of interest.
“Um, the mainstream Spirit Masters in this world are below Soul King, that is, below five soul rings. Spirit Masters with more than five soul rings are not only rare in number, but also hold high status, and rarely come to the Grand Soul Arena to participate in Soul Fighting.”
“In other words, the battles in the Grand Soul Arena are basically below five soul rings. With our strength, unless we hide our strength, we won’t be matched with opponents to fight us at all.” Meng Huaifeng said.
Speaking of which, it would be quite easy for them to hide their strength—just withdraw the imaginary energy used through the martial spirit, and the soul rings would correspondingly decrease.
However, they had to be careful not to accidentally use too much energy, because that would cause an extra soul ring to suddenly appear in front of everyone, and then no amount of explanations would clear it up—they’d just be chased across the continent as hundred thousand year soul beasts.
Of course, this didn’t affect them manipulating energy directly without relying on the martial spirit; that way, it wouldn’t affect the martial spirit, but they also wouldn’t receive amplification from the martial spirit.
“How much money for winning one match?” Star asked, her eyes shining.
“The higher the Soul Fighting level and the more consecutive wins, the more money you get for winning a match. I’m not clear on the exact amount; you have to ask the staff.” Meng Huaifeng really hadn’t remembered this minor detail.
“Let’s go participate in Soul Fighting!” Star took the lead.
“Hey! Isn’t participating in Soul Fighting just bullying people? Don’t you feel embarrassed?” March 7th called out to Star.
“No, I’ll just use power below five soul rings, that’s all?” Star had thick skin and said nonchalantly.
“I think it’s fine to participate.” Dan Heng spoke up.
March 7th looked at Dan Heng in disbelief: “You haven’t been influenced by Star, have you? You can do something like this?”
“As Star said, just control your own strength. Coming to this world, if you don’t experience its unique competitive events, you’ll inevitably have some regrets. More importantly, Huai Feng severely lacks practical combat experience, and the Grand Soul Arena is perfect for his training. You all can also use this to familiarize yourselves with your martial spirits.” Dan Heng explained.
“If I remember correctly, the Grand Soul Arena prohibits using external items; you can only use martial spirits to fight. That means none of us can use weapons—no spear, so how to practice spear technique?” Meng Huaifeng said.
“That’s perfect; this girl has long stopped wanting to use bow and arrow. Have you ever seen any big shot use a bow? I’ll just use Six Phases Ice to fight from now on; call me the Ice Magic Mentor.” March 7th also got excited. Participating in more Soul Fighting to train her ability to use Six Phases Ice might really turn her into a magic user someday.
There was such a rule? Dan Heng fell into thought.
His three main abilities—Cloud Chant Technique and Dragon Transformation—were all formed based on bloodline. Even if Meng Huaifeng practiced through clones, he himself couldn’t master them, so he just needed to get slightly familiar and let the clones apply them proficiently.
Only spear technique was something Meng Huaifeng should put real effort into, something he could truly master himself.
But the Grand Soul Arena didn’t allow weapons outside the martial spirit?
Having Meng Huaifeng use only the mobile phone martial spirit to participate in 1V1…
Dan Heng shook his head; it seemed pointless.
Most Soul Fighting was below five soul rings, so they definitely couldn’t show more than five soul rings. Without using the fifth soul skill or clone possession, Meng Huaifeng couldn’t use Cloud Chant Technique—how could he familiarize himself? Without weapons, he couldn’t practice Yunqi Spear Technique either.
No point.
“Isn’t there 2V2? You and March team up, sign up for 2V2. March can use Six Phases Ice to make you an ice spear, so you can practice Yunqi Spear Technique, and March can also get familiar with fighting purely with Six Phases Ice.” Dan Heng came up with an idea.
“Let’s go, let’s go participate in Soul Fighting.” March 7th grabbed Meng Huaifeng’s sleeve and ran toward the Grand Soul Arena.
The entire Grand Soul Arena had twenty-four sub-arenas, and each sub Soul Fighting arena was divided into different areas, including the Gambling Area and Life-and-Death Area as the two main categories, each further divided into three modes: one-on-one, two-on-two, and team battles. So, each sub Soul Fighting area had six isolated arenas.
The Grand Soul Arena’s business model could be said to have reached a very coordinated degree.
The four first asked the staff about Soul Fighting-related information. Soul King level Soul Fighting happened only once every few days, Soul Sect level battles didn’t exceed single digits per day and sometimes none at all; the mainstream of Soul Fighting was Soul Venerable and Great Soul Master level.
With their four people’s strength, whether opponents were Soul Sect or Soul Venerable made little difference—they were all very weak. So after some discussion, the four decided to disguise their strength at the Soul Venerable stage.
Soul Sect battles were too few; they might not match anyone all day, and more likely it’d be infighting among themselves.
Keep in mind, the Soul Fighting arena had rules: only one registration per battle mode per day.
If they wanted to fight their own people, they could find a remote place and go all out—why use the Grand Soul Arena?
Always fighting the same fixed opponents, once you figured out their patterns, the improvement in combat experience was minimal.
Better to participate in Soul Venerable level Soul Fighting: faster matching, more fights with different opponents, more beneficial for improving combat experience.
The four briefly familiarized themselves with maintaining their martial spirits at two yellow and one purple three soul rings, the maximum allowed energy use, then went to register first.
First time participating in Soul Fighting required registration before signing up.
“Please show your Spirit Master Manuals.” The staff’s words instantly silenced the four.
The Spirit Master Manual not only recorded the time of the Spirit Master’s martial spirit awakening and innate soul power, but also the time of each breakthrough registration.
Their Spirit Master Manuals only had the martial spirit awakening entry, dated yesterday. If they showed it, wouldn’t that expose them?
Seeing the four’s expressions, the staff understood and said, “No need to show the Spirit Master Manual. Please, the four of you, display your martial spirits and soul rings.”
As everyone knew, the major sects, two great empires, and Spirit Hall didn’t get along, so disciples secretly nurtured in sects and among nobles often weren’t registered at Spirit Hall—it was completely normal. The staff was used to it.
Hearing this, the four released their martial spirits one after another: uniformly two yellow and one purple, the optimal soul ring configuration.
“All Soul Venerables? Names, martial spirit names, soul power levels. Oh, want nicknames?” The staff took out paper and pen.
“Nickname? What’s the use?” March 7th asked.
“Hmm, sounds more imposing. If you want to hide your identities, you can notify our staff, and during Soul Fighting, they’ll only announce your nicknames.”
“Yes! I’m Galaxy Bat Man, Star, martial spirit Heart of Destruction, level 39.” The staff’s words hit Star’s weak spot directly.
