Chapter 27: The Origins of the Seven Main Bodies
"There's no need to wait for graduation applications or anything like that. If you can return after absorbing a Spirit Ring, you can continue your studies. If you can't, you'll automatically drop out." Sun Qi glanced back at Star Luo City before departing with the Soul Hunting Group.
This Soul hunt was a massive undertaking. Aside from Sun Qi, who needed a second Spirit Ring, the other sixteen Soul Masters who requested a Spirit Ring all had third Spirit Rings.
Some offered a random third Spirit Ring, paying the base price for a third, while others offered the highest price.
While the former certainly had no choice, they were clearly opting for this large-scale Soul hunt with a savvy in mind. After all, large-scale Soul hunts like these are always accompanied by some high-paying individuals. These individuals often have to wait a long time, and encounter numerous Spirit Beasts. During this time, the Soul Hunting Group wouldn't hesitate to help hunt down any exceptional Spirit Beasts encountered along the way. Of course, the prerequisite was that they could snatch the Spirit Rings of these exceptional Spirit Beasts from among the dozen or so individuals, especially if these exceptional Spirit Beasts weren't already being sought after by those with higher bids.
Needless to say, the latter is similar to the Fire Blade Soul Hunting Group hired by Seal Sun Qi before, except that Seal Sun Qi hired them individually in the form of a small team with a small number of people, serving only him, which is more convenient. Of course, the price is also higher. Moreover, although it is said to be convenient, in fact, the members of the team will also collect materials in the Soul Hunting Forest along the way, and return to the surrounding villages and towns regularly to take action.
It was precisely this scale that had inspired Sun Qi to join this Soul hunting operation.
Seventeen people in total, not including Sun Qi, including Dai Mubai, who falsely requested a third-ring Soul, totaled sixteen third-ring Souls. En route, they would encounter numerous thousand-year-old Soul Beasts, giving Sun Qi ample opportunity to exploit them.
Even if he couldn't publicly reveal his target, he could, after leaving the group, return to the location of a severely injured, recently-reborn thousand-year-old Soul Beast suitable for him, finishing off the attack and absorbing a Spirit Ring on his own.
While the chances of such an encounter were truly low, that was the probability of catching a missed opportunity; the chances were slim to begin with.
"The key is finding a Soul Beast that's suitable for me and has just reached thousand-year-old. As for being seriously injured by the Soul Hunters, that's not a problem."
Sun Qi glanced at the three men at the front of the group.
All three leading the team were Soul Kings, with the captain being a high-level Soul King, reaching a Soul Power of Level 58!
The two vice-captains were also quite powerful, one at Level 56 and the other at Level 55.
All three of them were offensive-type Soul Masters!
A team equipped with three offensive-type Soul Kings, targeting only thousand-year-old Soul Beasts, could be a complete spree. As long as they didn't provoke Soul Beasts over five thousand years old, Sun Qi and his team would be largely safe.
Therefore, if an opposing Soul Beast misjudged the situation and attacked the Soul Hunters, it would likely be easily and severely damaged by the three Soul Kings.
Even without a sneak attack, if they simply fled before meeting them, even those barely over a thousand years old would be repelled by the three Soul Kings, suffering some level of injury.
This is also the prerequisite for Sun Qi to be able to exploit a missed opportunity.
Even so, the chances of snagging a missed opportunity are extremely low.
In short, Sun Qi has multiple plans in place.
Sun Qi's Eye, located in Soto City, is also ready, ready to assist Sun Qi in finding Soul Hunters.
Of the seven main bodies, the most successful are naturally the Twin main bodies, followed by the Armored main bodies, one apprenticed to the Pope, the other to the peak-level Douluo Gu Rong, and finally, the Eye main body.
Moreover, to a certain extent, the Eye's original form actually fared the best, as it possessed the greatest freedom.
All seven original forms were orphans. The Twins' parents were deacons of the Spirit Hall's main hall in Spirit City, allowing them to directly join the Spirit Hall, gain the Pope's attention, and become his apprentice. The Armored form was taken in by Qibao Village and joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. The Cloud form was adopted by Shui Bing'er's family in Tianshui City, and the Seal form inherited a portion of his parents' property in Heaven Dou City.
So, Sun Qi's background was relatively good.
The Stone Monkey's original form suffered the most, being born in Holy Soul Village.
The Golden Cudgel's original form at least lived in Star Luo City and was able to attend the Junior Soul Master Academy.
As for the Eye's original form, his father was the leader of a major underground gang in Soto City. He died before Sun Qi was born, and his mother died in childbirth. However, he still had an uncle who was a Soul Emperor, so the gang remained in their hands.
Crucially, the Eye's uncle was a prominent figure in Soto City, acting as a deterrent, while Sun Qi directly managed the gang.
This gave the Eye a great deal of freedom, allowing it to single-handedly manage a guild comprised of three Soul Kings, ten Soul Elders, and dozens of Soul Masters.
Soto City wasn't far from the Star Dou Great Forest, so after Jin Sun Qi stowed away, he could always seek help from Eye Sun Qi.
Sun Qi watched Dai Mubai from afar.
He thought, "Dai Mubai is only twelve years old, probably not even level 30 yet. This trip was likely a pure smuggling, crossing the Star Dou Great Forest with the Soul Hunters on their way to the Heaven Dou Empire."
He suspected that after entering the Heaven Dou Empire, Dai Mubai would simply end up in Soto City, then become enamored with Shrek Academy and join them to live a life of idleness.
"He already has a decadent air,"
Sun Qi observed from afar, not approaching to chat.
He didn't have a particularly favorable impression of Dai Mubai to begin with, so naturally, he had no desire to make friends.
"Huh?"
Sun Qi was suddenly taken aback.
Something happened.
It wasn't him, but Stone Monkey Sun Qi.
...
Notting City.
Stone Monkey Sun Qi was cultivating peacefully, but he always felt that Tang San's attitude towards him was not right.
He had bumped into Tang San many times while cultivating in the back mountains, and every time they met, Tang San's eyes were not right.
"I have found the way to death?"
Stone Monkey Sun Qi was speechless.
No way, could I get the way to death just by rejecting Yu Xiaogang a few times?
He didn't think Tang San would be like this, so after discovering this, he patiently continued to cultivate for a while. However, as the frequency of encounters with Tang San increased, he began to guard against it.
Today, he encountered an accident.
On his way to where he usually practiced stick techniques, he triggered a hidden weapon!
Sun Qi's face turned ugly.
If he hadn't been prudent and hadn't hidden the Phantom Clone of the Void Spirit every day after noticing something unusual, he would have been hit by a hidden weapon just now!
Looking at the withering Blue Silver Grass on the ground, Sun Qi was completely furious.
Not only did he set up hidden weapons, but he also used poison.
"I actually really entered the path of death?"
Sun Qi couldn't believe it.
"No, I can't take this loss."
Now that Tang Hao is gone, Sun Qi really can afford to offend Tang San.
First find out why Tang San attacked, and then retaliate!
"It must be a problem on Yu Xiaogang's side."
Sun Qi's eyes were dim, and he looked in the direction of the teaching building.
...
"Teacher, this is the situation."
Yu Xiaogang's face changed when he heard Tang San's description.
"You even used poison?"
Tang San nodded and said, "His Spirit is also an Out-of-Body Spirit, so I want to verify whether his Spirit will return to the Soul Master along with the Spirit if it is injured."
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