"You, a Titled Douluo, are threatening a Five-ringed Soul King who can only fuse a Thousand-year Soul Ring when he reaches the Sixth Soul Ring. How come you can only stop threatening by slapping him when you feel something is wrong?"

Jing Hongchen said with a sneer, he now had some doubts about the IQ of this old Xuan.

"That was not a threat, Elder Xuan. It was a helpless choice to prevent the rise of the Angel Spirits again. You are not from Douluo Continent, so you don't know what the Douluo Continent was like ten thousand years ago. At that time, almost all the spirit masters on the entire Douluo Continent were slaves of the Spirit Hall. Elder Xuan just didn't want the evil forces like the Spirit Hall to appear on Douluo Continent again."

Yan Shaozhe, who knew how smart Xuan Lao was, quickly spoke up to explain to him, to prevent him from accidentally saying something extremely unfavorable to Shrek.

Hearing Yan Shaozhe's words, Xiao Qiang sneered. All soul masters are slaves of the Spirit Hall. The first time Xiao Qiang knew this statement was when Tang Wulin said it in Douluo Dalu III. But looking at Yan Shaozhe's situation, it was obvious that those bigwigs who had controlled the right to speak for thousands of years had been brainwashing others in this way.

"You said that the soul masters ten thousand years ago were all slaves of the Spirit Hall?" Xiao Qiang looked at Yan Shaozhe and asked.

Looking at Xiao Qiang, Yan Shaozhe wanted to slap him to death, but the Bupo Douluo beside him, Jing Hongchen in the distance, and two faint auras were telling Yan Shaozhe that he had no way to slap Xiao Qiang to death. In this situation, Yan Shaozhe could only speak to Xiao Qiang normally as his little friend.

"That's right. Ten thousand years ago, the Spirit Hall even forced those children who had not yet awakened to swear allegiance to the Spirit Hall, otherwise they would not be allowed to awaken their spirits."

"I won't talk about whether the people in power at the time of asking for loyalty to the Spirit Hall were still angel spirits. I just want to ask a question: did the Spirit Hall ask for money to help awaken spirits at that time?"

"How much does it cost to awaken the martial soul?" Yan Shaozhe said subconsciously. His father is a soul master himself, so when awakening is needed, he can just ask his father to help. Therefore, Yan Shaozhe did not spend any money when awakening his martial soul. But after he finished speaking, the whole venue fell silent.

Yan Shaozhe was confused when he felt the sudden silence in the venue, not knowing what was going on.

In his impression, it was true that awakening the martial soul did not require any money, but this strange silence seemed to be somewhat different from his idea.

As the owner of a top-level martial spirit, Yan Shaozhe, and even his father, had never been to the grassroots level. Naturally, they didn't know that the free awakening of martial spirits existed almost only in theory.

In theory, helping everyone on the continent awaken their martial spirits is a good thing for the country, and it can actually improve the country's combat power, but that kind of thing only exists in theory.

Ten thousand years ago, the Spirit Hall was able to have its spirit masters go to every remote village to help everyone awaken their spirits. This was because they themselves were angel spirits, and they needed to control the information of all spirit masters in order to identify which spirit masters might become evil spirit masters.

Either choose to guide it onto the right path, or kill it and turn it into the power of the Angel Martial Soul to help all the people on the continent awaken their martial souls. For the owners of the Angel Martial Soul, there is only one benefit and only one harm.

Therefore, the Angel Spirit needs to allow everyone in the entire continent to awaken their spirits for free, and the spirit masters they send out to awaken their spirits are all from commoner origins who joined the Spirit Hall. Su Yuntao's level 2 wolf is obviously from a commoner origin. Only with a commoner origin could he go to several villages every day to help a group of children awaken their spirits.

Because the soul masters who awakened their martial souls were of common origin themselves, they would be more empathetic with the children of common origin at the bottom of society. Coupled with the reward mechanism of the Spirit Hall, as long as they awakened a good martial soul and recommended it to the academy of the Spirit Hall, they would receive additional rewards.

The higher-ups need it, and the lower-ups also need it, and the interests of both sides are consistent, so the Spirit Hall can make it possible for all children across the continent to awaken their spirits.

But with the destruction of the Spirit Hall, the situation changed when the matter fell into the hands of the royal family.

Theoretically, awakening the martial soul does not cost money, but the royal family cannot go to every place to awaken the martial souls of everyone by themselves. Therefore, they need to assign the task of awakening the martial soul to the great nobles below, and the great nobles will assign it to the lesser nobles below. In the end, the ones who carry out the awakening of the martial souls are the retainers or slaves of the lesser nobles.

The most important and only thing that retainers and slaves need to do is to please their masters!

But how to understand the things arranged by the master? First, strength, second, money. Strength needs financial help to improve. In other words, the slaves of the small nobles only need money.

Money is obviously not enough to rely solely on rewards and pitiful salaries. When money is not enough, they must find ways to get more money. Whether it is for their own cultivation or for a better life, they need a lot of money. When money is not enough, they need to find new ways to make money.

Awakening martial spirits is obviously a good way to make money. If you pay, they will help you awaken. If you don't pay, they won't awaken you. Anyway, it's common to go to several villages and not be able to awaken a person with spirit power.

After all, the servants of those small nobles were also soul masters, and the common people below them generally did not dare to make trouble. In this case, awakening the martial soul became a safe and profitable way to make money.

In this case, the soul masters responsible for awakening martial spirits under the small nobles are a little more knowledgeable. They only need to give the bulk of their income to the butler, who then uses it to please his master. The master then gives the bulk of the money to the bigger nobles, who then use the money to practice or give it to the royal family. In this way, a chain of interests is formed that only makes the lowest-level people suffer, while everyone else benefits.

Everyone from the royal family to the servants of the petty nobles gained real profits in the form of hard cash. However, the decreasing number of people with awakened martial spirits gave the royal family a headache. However, the people sent out to investigate would eventually become members of this interest group, and the matter would end up in nothing.

As a person with an innate top-level martial soul and a representative of the top nobles, Yan Shaozhe naturally had no idea of ​​the hardships of those soul masters who had worked their way up from the bottom. Therefore, he had no reservations about the fact that the Spirit Hall had awakened martial souls for free ten thousand years ago.

But the result was that he accidentally angered the public.

As Yan Shaozhe said that it was free to awaken the spirit in the Spirit Hall, there was a strange silence followed by cursing from the entire audience.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

"What? Awakening your martial spirit doesn't cost money?"

"You must be mistaken. I spent a full ten gold soul coins at that time!"

"I spent eight. Now that you mention it, my awakening isn't that expensive."

"Shit! I spent twenty of them!"

"Just shut up, I spent thirty!"

"I only spent five gold soul coins, but that was what my sister got in exchange for marrying an old man! Why can the Spirit Hall awaken spirits for free! If she was born in that era, my sister wouldn't have to suffer so much!" A soul master who reached the level of soul master cried. Yan Shaozhe's words made his original filter for Shrek disappear.

It would be OK for some wealthy families to grit their teeth and give out a dozen or twenty gold soul coins, but for those who can barely make ends meet, if they are asked to pay for their martial soul awakening, they can only sell their children.

Yan Shaozhe: “…”

No, even if it costs money, why are you crying for a dozen or twenty gold soul coins? Even if the food in Shrek Canteen is a little better, it's not worth the price.

(End of this chapter)