Douluo: I Don't Want to Be a God, I Actually Became a God

Chapter 373 Soul Master and Soul Beast

The distance between Tiandou City and Xingdou Great Forest is not far. Even for high-level soul masters like Xiaowu and Yiyi, it would take them two or three days to catch up with them by relying on their physical bodies and running at full speed without sleep.

By this calculation, the round trip alone would take about four days, and the time they agreed to go out was only ten days.

Xiao Wu didn't feel tired from traveling, she just felt that the journey was too boring.

Generally speaking, the three of them would not pass through the town unless it was necessary, and would mostly go around the city wall and head to the next place.

Although the straight line is the shortest distance between the two points, if you want to enter the city...

Your identity needs to be checked and you need to pay the entrance fee. Before that, you have to queue in a long line that has been there since dawn.

Just thinking about it, Xiao Wu shook her head and refused.

Yu Yuyi naturally wouldn't ignore Xiao Wu's thoughts. Moreover, in order to keep their trip secret, they didn't even take Xinghuo's carriage. If anything was revealed when they entered the city, she could get herself into a rage.

"Then let's continue on our way."

There were three people present, one was a hundred thousand year old soul beast that turned into a human, one had soul beast bloodline greater than human bloodline, and the other was a non-human who was not a human at all. They had no objection to traveling at night.

For them, the danger from soul beasts is the least, followed by the danger from soul masters. The most dangerous thing is probably the road conditions and the lightless and moonless new moon night.

Fortunately, Xiao Wu had many years of experience in taking Yi Yi out for secret meals late at night, so these things that could be considered dangerous were not as difficult as them having to think about what to eat today.

Don't think about anything else, just rush onwards at full speed, and when you get tired, stop to rest for a while to restore your soul strength.

Relying on their physical strength which far exceeded that of ordinary soul masters, the three of them compressed a journey that would take two or three days into just one and a half days.

However, this day and a half did not mean that they went deep into the Star Dou Great Forest, but that the three of them arrived at the former site of Shrek Academy, where they had left so many memories.

Following the same path along the fields, they saw the commercial street which had undergone a great change after years of operation.

Once upon a time, this place only had the small store they ran, standing in an empty alley with no one around. On both sides were adobe bricks that had not yet been built, and their companions had not even started constructing the foundation.

Now there are so many more people, people, people.

There are so many that the word "people" almost becomes "crowd".

The crowded crowd was filled with the aroma of different foods.

"Fuck-"

The sound of dough being put into the frying pan can be heard clearly even in such a noisy place.

As the delicacy put into the frying pan gradually takes shape, the aroma of the food also rises along with the rich smell of oil.

The crowd began to stir.

Taking Yu Yuyi, Xiao Wu and Ran Sen who were forced to join them, they headed towards the store where the fried food had just come out of the pan.

There seemed to be shouts from other stores and shops around.

The fragmented and noisy voices make it difficult to hear clearly, and the only thing one can remember are those satisfied smiles.

"Ha, I finally got out. Yiyi, Xiao Sensen, are you guys okay?"

Xiao Wu held a friend in one hand, and looked at the crowd behind her with fear, saying: "I didn't expect that with so many people, even ordinary people would be more terrifying than the soul master's soul skills."

Yu Yuyi didn't know whether to laugh or cry as she listened to Xiao Wu's remarks, which would definitely be criticized by those mainstream spirit masters. She raised her hand and touched Xiao Wu's head in a soothing manner.

"Next time if we see too many people, we won't go in."

"But, places with a lot of people mean there's a lot of fun to watch~" Xiao Wu pouted. Although she was afraid of the crowds, she still loved to watch the fun.

Yu Yuyi was also helpless, "You." She poked Xiao Wu's forehead with her finger and just let her do whatever she wanted.

but……

"Xiao Wu, do you know the story of 'Ants kill elephants'?"

Xiao Wu shook her head in confusion.

"Ants biting elephants to death, is it a fight between soul beasts?"

"Well, not really. It was just an ordinary, small ant that even a child without the talent for soul training could kill with one finger. And it bit to death an elephant, which is also an animal but has no soul power."

While Yu Yuyi tried her best to eliminate the concept of soul beasts from the animal characters in the stories of idioms and proverbs she explained, she thought to herself that the saying "a swarm of ants can kill an elephant" did not seem to hold true in this world.

After all, if both sides in the battle are soul beasts, a one-on-one fight doesn't seem to be a problem.

Xiao Wu had never heard of this before. Her pink eyes lit up with curiosity and confusion: "But how can an ant that is not a soul beast bite an elephant to death? An elephant is so big, much bigger than an ant."

In Xiaowu's understanding, elephants' habitats are mostly close to water sources, and they live together in groups, so they rarely encounter natural enemies.

Even if there were, it would be difficult for lions, tigers, crocodiles and the like to get away with it in front of the numerically superior elephants, let alone the tiny ants.

It is rare for an ant to cultivate into a soul beast, let alone be able to fight against others.

If that were really the case, this ant soul beast would probably be more than ten thousand years old.

But what Yiyi told her now was that it was an ordinary little ant that bit an elephant to death, which was hard for her to imagine.

However, Xiao Wu still believed what Yu Yuyi said.

Yu Yuyi smiled, took Xiao Wu's hand to avoid the crowd, and waved to Ran Sen who was some distance behind.

"Xiao Wu, you also find it hard to believe, right?"

"It's not hard to believe. Of course I believe everything Yiyi said, but... I haven't seen it. I'm just a little curious."

Xiao Wu put her index finger and thumb together and made a little gesture.

Yu Yuyi felt warmed at heart when she heard Xiao Wu's unconditional trust.

As she led the two towards the inn near Starfire, she explained, "I've only learned about it. Look at how big an elephant is. The skin covering its surface is relatively difficult for ants to break through. No matter how you think about it, it seems impossible for tiny ants to break through the elephant's defenses."

"but……"

"There is no defense without weaknesses. The weaknesses of the elephants' fortress-like defense are easy to find: their long trunks and large ears."

"Yiyi, you seem to be coaxing a child~"

Yiyi was so adorable as she explained this sentence to her like telling a story.

Xiao Wu was so focused on repetition of words and the lovely Qingmei that she didn't pay much attention to what Yi Yi had just said.

Yu Yuyi puffed up her face in anger, and slapped the back of Xiao Wu's hand that was holding her in dissatisfaction, as if to teach this student a lesson for not paying attention.

But he didn't stop talking because he was angry.

"There are many delicate nerve endings in the trunk of an elephant. If an ant crawls in without paying attention, it will be difficult for the elephant to drive the ant out of the trunk. The elephant will be stimulated and bump around, and finally kill itself."

“Although ants kill elephants indirectly, it is also true.”

"And there is another kind, which is what I call 'ants can kill elephants'. As long as the number of ants is large enough, so many that they are killed by elephants one after another, and they are still as dark and dense as a black cloud, then no matter how powerful the defense is, it will be worn down by these tiny creatures."

"So..." Yu Yuyi slowly went back to what she wanted to tell Xiao Wu and the others at the beginning, "Don't underestimate ordinary people who are not soul masters. Over the past few hundred years, there are far more ordinary people than soul masters. They are like a colony of ants that continue to multiply and gather. The power they gather together is far greater than we imagine."

Her original world was dominated by humans for five thousand years after the Ragnarok of the Gods.

When floods occur, they pool their wisdom and use manpower to rebuild river courses and build dams; when famine occurs, they mobilize resources from all over the country to balance the needs of the victims; when earthquakes occur, they do not rely on gods, nor do they have any extraordinary powers.

They always rely on themselves, the thousands of years of history, and the traces of exploration left by their predecessors.

No extraordinary power is needed, miracles are born among ordinary people.

"Soul masters are just individuals who possess greater power and are more likely to become leaders. In the final analysis, there is no need to distinguish between soul masters and non-soul masters so clearly."

Because we are all human.

"If we have to make a distinction, soul masters and soul beasts are more like a group."

Yu Yuyi's words fell like thunder, shocking the only two listeners present.

Ransen opened his mouth and closed it again, wanting to say something, but no words came out.

Xiao Wu had no scruples about it and asked casually.

"Why?"

Yu Yuyi tapped her chin with her finger, thinking, "Don't you think our martial spirits are more like the embodiment of those spirit beasts?"

Soul masters and ordinary people, soul masters and soul beasts.

In fact, just looking at the literal meaning, it seems that the latter is more related than the former, not to mention the strange balance between soul masters and soul beasts.

If ordinary people are the most basic unit of existence, then soul masters are the best among ordinary people, possessing the potential for extraordinary powers. They continuously strengthen this extraordinary power through their understanding of the world, or the so-called "cultivation".

However, all extraordinary powers have an upper limit, and in order for soul masters to break through these limits, they need the soul rings of soul beasts.

So over time, a mutual hunting relationship was established between soul beasts and soul masters.

In order to achieve a breakthrough and gain more supernatural powers, soul masters hunt soul beasts and obtain soul rings; and soul beasts hunt soul masters in order to survive, or perhaps for other reasons such as hatred or nature.

If one day, ordinary people no longer have the talent to cultivate as soul masters, the potential of those so-called extraordinary powers will come to an abrupt end, and no one will cultivate anymore, what will happen to those soul beasts?

In other words, if all the soul beasts that provide soul rings for soul masters to improve their cultivation disappear, then will the other soul masters also follow suit and disappear into history?

Just like the gods of that world.

When the gods fell, the human race was at its peak.

I don’t know whether the former affects the latter, or the latter causes the former.

Yu Yuyi still couldn't sort out the order of the two events, just like she couldn't see the future of this world. Would the soul master disappear in time first, or would the soul beast become extinct first?

She had seen from Douluo's scattered and trivial memory fragments that the original "human" was actually transformed from a soul beast.

Those first generation 'humans' were actually the existence that resulted from the one hundred thousand year old soul beasts choosing another option.

So from the fundamental point of view, there is actually no difference between humans and soul beasts.

The so-called qualifications for practicing as a soul master are more like the power gained by returning to one's ancestral bloodline.

But as time went by, everyone forgot how they first appeared, and no one... no, it should be said that even if someone guessed it, due to the gradually increasing power of soul masters, the power of those soul master groups has remained silent.

Gradually, no one explored these things.

It's like everyone thinks it's natural for soul masters to advance, break through, and hunt soul beasts.

In fact, at the beginning, no one needs to go to this step.

Even if the breakthrough is very slow, it only takes time to accumulate, and you can always condense your soul ring on your own like a hundred thousand year soul beast that has transformed into a human.

It's just that desire is insatiable, there's always someone who takes the first step, and then ends up in this situation today.

The more Yu Yuyi thought about it, the more she felt that the current conflict between soul beasts and soul masters was a historical issue. If she and Douluo got involved, it would be like using the back of your hand to attack the palm of your hand, which did not make sense at all.

It would be fine if Douluo and she were on two different sides.

Can……

Douluo stood on her side unconditionally, which was really unfair to the other party.

So, Yu Yuyi decided not to get involved in either side.

As for the connection between soul beasts and soul masters, Yu Yuyi only gave Xiao Wu a brief reminder now.

After all, at this moment, even if both sides knew this history, they would not be able to escape from the increasingly acute contradictions.

There are fights between people, and there are even more fights between people and soul beasts.

She seemed to have copied this history out of the memory hall given by Douluo in the library in the Xinghuo basement. She would get it tomorrow morning after she had a rest and then give it to Xiaowu and Ransen.

She will support them no matter what decision they make.

Xiao Wu was still thinking about what Yi Yi said, "A soul master's spirit and spirit beast, indeed, my spirit after I turned into a human is my original form. Xiao Sen Sen, yours should be the same, right?"

Ransen nodded, "Yeah."

However, Xiao Wu had another question, "So, what are those twin martial spirits and mutant martial spirits? Mutated martial spirits can also connect with mutant soul beasts. Twin martial spirits, like Xiao San, could it be that he is a blue silver grass soul beast and a Clear Sky Hammer? And there are also many martial spirits related to farm tools, utensils, and food... Yiyi, I can't figure it out. I feel dizzy."

"Then do you want me to tell you the answer?" Yu Yuyi looked at Xiao Wu's wrinkled nose with amusement.

Xiao Wu nodded hurriedly.

"Okay. Actually, the answer is very simple."

"It's the mutated martial souls you mentioned, Xiao Wu. At the beginning, there may only be some regular martial souls that are similar to soul beasts. But martial soul inheritance has mutations and abnormal changes. Just like Hong Jun's evil fire phoenix, it mutated from a martial soul like 'chicken'. Food-type martial souls are rare because there are too few directions for this mutation. The Clear Sky Hammer and other tool-type martial souls are actually similar to this change."

"There is just one thing. Tools have the concept of 'spirit'. Just like how your 100,000-year-old soul beasts can transform into humans, Xiao Wu, those antique tools that have been used for a long time and well preserved will also gradually produce 'spirits' over the long river of time. Their existence is very weak and rare, and they are easily affected by many aspects. Therefore, compared to soul beasts that have transformed into humans after 100,000 years, they need to cultivate for a longer time."

"It may be a million years, or even longer. But if the 'spirits' become 'people', they will be more powerful than simple 'soul beasts' that have transformed into humans. Because this is the 'balance' in the rules."

Actually, one thing Yu Yuyi said was not entirely correct. The reason why Ma Hongjun's martial soul could transform into the 'Evil Fire Phoenix' was not only due to the mutation of the martial soul, but it was also possible that Ma Hongjun's bloodline contained the bloodline of the legendary soul beast 'Phoenix'.

However, due to the fact that the existence of legendary soul beasts such as the Phoenix is ​​not entirely certain in today's eyes, Yu Yuyi did not elaborate on this possibility with Xiao Wu and the others.

But Yu Yuyi knew that the so-called legendary soul beasts today—the phoenix and the dragon—had existed in the past.

But now I don’t know where he has disappeared to.

Douluo only had memories of the two soul beasts in their infancy, so where did they go after that? Douluo didn't care.

Yu Yuyi had no way of knowing.

The concept of soul masters and soul beasts can be considered a private setting.

I really only read the beginning of Touhou 2, and stopped reading it when I saw the protagonist was planning to have a harem. I only read about the subsequent settings on Baidu.

Therefore, everything that is unreasonable should be regarded as the author’s personal setting.