CH 146
(nobody's POV)
Some time had passed and now, Ali, Zhuqing, Erlong Jiang Zhu along with the others were in the audience, watching the show.
But what was surprising and really left Ali speechless, was that the announcer girl was acting as a DJ just a while ago.
He had already decided to not focus on Douluo Dalu's screwed up technology, so he just enjoyed the song with girls.
After while of the song going on and everyone cheering as Ali swung his foot which was over his leg up and dog with the song, it ended while some cheers still went on.
Yu Xiaogang who was leaning on his cane while Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong were playing with Yu Chang, looked at the fights going on with Tang San beside him :"Shen Feng and Tian Shui schools will have battles today."
Tang San :"master, why do these five schools have soul masters of the same element in a team? Even though this can boost particular aspects, the weaknesses also become obvious.
Like Elephant Armoured school, it has strong defence and strength, but it has low agility and monotonous attack formula. It also lacks abilities to assistant and control."
Yu Xiaogang :"this is a struggle between balanced and extreme factions in the soul master's world.
The extreme faction believes that a soul master should develop his abilities in a single direction to an extreme.
However, the balanced faction believes that a soul master should develop his abilities in balance between attack and defence."
Flender :"it's different from the balanced nature of Xing Luo Empire. Most soul masters of Tian Dou Empire are the supporters of the extreme faction, just like the Li Tribe from Tai Long's family."
Tang San :"then, how about Martial Soul Hall?"
Yu Xiaogang :"Martial Soul Hall should be the fusion of both streams. It is the fused stream of extreme individuals and balanced teams. After many years of investigation, I found that this is the most suitable method to cultivate."
Hearing his way of talking, Ali couldn't help but roll his eyes :'what the fuck do you mean "after many years", gahba?
It's not rocket science! This bitch is saying as if it's something to brag about, dumbass. You should be ashamed that it took you years to realize such a simple truth.
Yeah, sure, strengthening yourself in all directions is a good thing, but that will lead to "jack of all trades, master of none" situation.
Meaning that even if you reach titled douluo rank one day, there will be a extreme soul master who will be stronger than you.
The only weakness of the extreme individual is that you will have a disadvantage against a certain branch.
But being at a disadvantage against one branch is far better than having to be careful against all of them.
But well, this Majesty doesn't need to be worried about all of that. After all, since I have 4 martial souls, I can take them all to an extreme of a branch.
Meaning that I will be a one man team in a sense. And my lovers all go at the extreme faction as well, so since we will be together forever, we will be an invincible team.
Dong'er is the control branch, Erlong is the storm attack branch, Zhuqing is the keen attack branch, Yuehua is the strengthening support, Nana is control branch, Jiang Zhu is the healing support.
And I can be the storm attack branch because of my Divine Devil martial soul and Majesty's Katana martial soul, control branch with my Majestic Purple Black Peony, and support branch with my Majesty's Nut. With this line up, we will be a force to be reckoned with.'
Flender :"it's right. The individual strength is preferred to go to an extreme. Weakness can be complemented by teammates."
Yu Xiaogang :"the teams of Martial Soul Hall did the same in every batch. The champions of previous batches were also taking by them."
Tang San :"with the authority of Martial Soul Hall, they can encourage the fusion of both streams to make everyone advanced, but why did they hide it confidentially?"
What he said, was so dumb, that it even left Ali speechless. Ali is someone who can never have his brain empty, his brain is always full of something.
It's not that he wants it to be like this, it's just the default setting for his brain. So it's a damn big achievement to leave his brain speechless.
He sighed as he deadpanned from his seat :"San'ge, with your logic, shouldn't you let the entire world know how to make your hidden weapons so that the support branch soul masters won't be defenceless? Or that the normal people won't be bullied by soul masters?"
And in response to his words, Tang San couldn't say anything as he just looked away without knowing what to say.
Ali sighed and shook his head with a roll of his eyes :'seriously, my brother or not, I hate this way of thinking.
He thinks that other people should share their knowledge and whatever makes them strong, but when it's his turn, he doesn't want to do it.
He better be thankful that he's my brother, if it was just a random person, I wouldn't have gave him a good ass uppercut with enough strength to break his chin for saying such a dumb thing.'
The girls weren't against Tang San normally, but even they couldn't stop themselves from thinking that he's stupid for what he said.
Ali put his leg that was on his other leg as he leaned forward after he put his forearms on his legs :"listen here, San'ge.
The world is run by power, nothing else. Money and status? All of those are bullshit which can be taken by power.
So tell me, when power is the absolute, why would someone be dumb enough to want to share the knowledge of obtaining that power?"
Even though Yu Xiaogang didn't like Ali very much, he still had to agree with him as he coughed to break the little argument :"cough cough, he's right, Xiao San.
The story behind is very complicated. You're still young. It's unnecessary to go deep on that. What you must do now is to improve your strengths as much as you can.
If you wish to become the champion, your only opponent will be the team of Martial Soul Hall.
Their strength is certainly far beyond Emperor Team and the five great elemental schools. Martial Soul Hall is much stronger that what you expect."
Tang San :"master, I'd like to go back to school first. My Heart Separation Control is not skillful yet.
I have to practice it more. You're right. It will be better to strengthen myself, rather than investigating others."
Yu Xiaogang :"alright then. Be careful on your way back."
While they talked, Ali had long sensed someone looking at them from afar. People looking at them was nothing abnormal, but looking at them with such a malice wasn't something normal.
As he subtly glanced at the person spying on them :'ah~, it's that guy from the Cang Hui school. The one dean Flender told us to be careful about.
I remember this part, the illusion using bastard will be trying to assassinate San'ge so that he won't be against the Cang Hui school.
But since me and Zhuqing are here this time, he targeted us since we are far stronger that San'ge. But he can't risk going after either of us since we are always together and so is Erlong.
This guy might have a reputation, but he won't take the risk of going against someone who is nearly a titled douluo.
So he is probably planning to go after San'ge and then waiting for a chance to go after one of us. Sigh, I guess I have to deal with the bitch.
After all, in the original, San'ge used his Yama's invitation or something to kill him, but this isn't the anime, so the soul masters aren't nerfed to the point where they would get harmed by those.
Especially since this guy is a soul saint. So I can't risk having San'ge harmed or worse, killed by him. Sigh, so annoying...'
Before Tang San could turn around and walk away, Ali put his hands on his knees and got up with a grunt.
As the others looked at him with confusion, Ali tilted his neck and cracked :"I have something to do, so I'mma leave too."
Zhuqing and Erlong also wanted to get up :"we'll come along to-" but we're stopped by Ali putting his hand on their shoulders :"nah, I just want to be alone and get over with it quickly, so no need for you two to tire yourselves."
Erlong and Zhuqing both had dated Ali for a long time, especially Erlong, so they both knew that behind his nonchalant facade, something serious was going on. They didn't miss the serious glint that flashed in Ali's eyes after all.
They also knew that Ali wasn't one to shy away from asking for help, so they weren't worried for him as Erlong tilted her head and asked :"are you sure? We can help you if you want."
Ali just chuckled as he pinched their cheeks gently and fondly before he nodded :"yeah, it's all good. There's no need to worry.
I will just take care of the matter quickly and then come back to you all. You all just enjoy watching the fights. Alright, see y'all later."
And so, Ali walked away without giving anyone a chance to speak. As he walked out and towards a random direction, he sighed :'seems like the gahba is coming along.'
After walking for a while, he saw a man pouring tea in a completely empty street. But as Ali walked, the man dropped his cup of tea and broke it.
Ali just continued on walking with paying him any attention as he kept his hands in his pockets :'hmph, seems like I'm already in his illusion.
well, since this guy has already screwed my day, might as well mess with him. Hmph, old son of a gahba.'
And so he kept walking. But when he turned, the same exact street and the man pouring himself a drink came to his sight.
But Ali didn't stop, he just continued on walking and didn't stop when the man dropped his cup "once again".
He just kept on walking, minding his own business. But the same thing happened again and the street with the man pouring himself a drink came into his view.
And Ali did the same thing as well, just walk while minding his business. He was a soul king now, nearly a soul emperor, so he noticed how the man's eyebrows frowned as he "accidentally" hit the cup on the table and dropped it on the ground.
But Ali was dead set on not being the one to start talking and just continued walking. Even the man was confused as he just kept repeating his actions :'what the hell??? Does this kid not realize what is happening???'
And once Ali turned on the turn again, the street came to his view again. But this time, the man finally decided to do something extra.
This time, when the cup of tea fell from the table, it didn't hit the ground. It just kept floating in the air along with the tea.
The man opened his mouth with a smug smirk to say something, but he was left speechless when Ali just nonchalantly walked behind him and continued without stopping.
As Ali made his fifth turn, he snorted in his mind :'five is my lucky number, so I'mma take care of your bitch ass this time.'
As Ali kept walking, he took his right hand out of his pocket and put his hair behind his ear as the cup dropped.
And just like before, it kept floating. But this time, the man smugly said :"no need to try, you've already fallen into my tra-*BOOM*"