Douluo 2: This Dragon God has too much martial virtue

Dragon City, Central Street.

Zhang Lexuan went out with Jiang Nannan early in the morning. After a period of recuperation, her body had almost recovered, but the two Titled Douluo were out and had not returned. Jiang Nannan didn't know what to do with her, so she had to let her stay at home. After all, it was just one more mouth to feed.

Zhang Lexuan is also very self-aware. Jiang Nannan did not restrict her from going out, but also told her that it is better not to leave Longcheng casually, otherwise it will be bad for everyone. So Zhang Lexuan offered to help Jiang Nannan and Jiang's mother do something within her ability, and she was embarrassed to stay at someone else's house and eat and drink for free.

"There are a lot more people coming to Longcheng these days. Are they going to hold some activities?" Zhang Lexuan noticed that the city was extremely lively. Among the bustling crowd, there were many outsiders wearing different clothes, but they all had one thing in common: they were dressed simply, looked dusty, and were all middle-aged people with children.

In the past, Shrek City would hold some celebrations, but the attendees were all dignitaries and wealthy businessmen, and ordinary people never had tickets to enter.

"It's a very important day." Jiang Nannan blinked, "It's the annual awakening day."

Zhang Lexuan froze in place, staring at Jiang Nannan in disbelief, "Martial Soul Awakening?"

"Ah."

"Free?" Nowadays, awakening the martial soul requires a fee, starting at at least ten gold soul coins. This is a huge expense for ordinary people. Moreover, after the martial soul awakens, there is no guarantee that there will be a companion soul power. This is simply a gamble.

All, or nothing.

But if ordinary people can flock here from all directions, it only means that the martial soul awakening here is sufficiently favorable, and the bet is affordable for them and completely profitable for them.

"Yes." Jiang Nannan nodded as a matter of course, "Any questions? But I'm just here to help. The Soul Awakening Ceremony has always been hosted by the Qiangu Family. If you have any opinions, you can raise them with the current head of the Qiangu Family. It's useless to raise them with me."

"Is this... imitating the Spirit Hall from ten thousand years ago?" Zhang Lexuan thought of the Soul Hunting Forest outside Dragon City. She asked the question in as calm a tone as possible, as if she was just curious.

"I don't know, but the Spirit Hall is too old, isn't it?" Jiang Nannan frowned, "The spirit awakening of the Sun Moon Empire has been popularized by all the people. I don't understand what's wrong with this?"

"Ah! I get it, Miss. I heard that you are from an aristocratic family, so you don't know how hard life is for common people. Your so-called Shrek Supervisory Group is also high and mighty, and has done a lot of things to interfere in other countries' internal affairs, but has never paid any attention to those struggling common people!" Jiang Nannan crossed her arms, her eyes full of mockery, "My mother gave all the family savings to those soul masters in order to awaken my martial spirit. They are used to serving people according to their tastes, and the fee is up to them to set at will. Do you think ten gold soul coins are enough? Twenty! Those bastards took twenty gold soul coins from my mother!"

"You are also a spirit master now." Zhang Lexuan frowned slightly, "Why do you have such great hostility towards them?"

"I just hate them!" Jiang Nannan sneered, "You haven't been looked at like merchandise by them, have you? Because you are a noble, and the senior sister of the inner courtyard of the first academy on the continent. Oh no, I almost forgot, you are Beibei's child bride. No matter how many titles you have, they can't cover up the fact that you are a gift given to Beibei by Dragon God Douluo."

Zhang Lexuan couldn't refute. Once the topic of nobles and commoners came up, Jiang Nannan's aggressiveness would be easily aroused. No wonder she hated Xu Sanshi so much. Why wasn't the young master of Xuanming Sect considered a noble?

"Will the Heavenly Soul Empire allow you to do this? The royal family probably wouldn't want too many soul masters of civilian origin to seize their resources."

"So the voluntary martial spirit awakening is only held in Dragon City. Maybe it's the result of a compromise between the predecessors and the empire. But that's not my concern. I only know that only the inheritors of the major sects are most likely to become spirit masters. It's too difficult for ordinary people." Jiang Nannan turned her back. "Everyone has a martial spirit, but even among a thousand people, not one person can have spirit power along with the martial spirit. I'm lucky to have full innate spirit power, but most people can only be mediocre. You won't understand the feeling of not being able to rise up and having to spend your life in a muddle."

"That's not what I meant. I don't think you're doing anything wrong. You don't have to equate Beibei's ideas with mine. I just think there's a lot of resistance to doing this!" A trace of pain flashed in Zhang Lexuan's eyes. "Do you know why the reputation of the Body Sect was worse than that of the Evil Spirit Master? Do you think the beast tide thousands of years ago is all there is to it?"

"What does this have to do with the Body Sect?" Jiang Nannan asked curiously.

"They awakened the martial spirits for civilian children earlier and more radically than you did, in order to select the martial spirits they wanted. So they were suppressed by various forces. After Poseidon and his companions destroyed the Spirit Hall, they ordered the abolition of all the rules and regulations of the Spirit Hall. What is the difference between the move of the Body Sect and the Spirit Hall back then?" Zhang Lexuan was even more distressed. "This may be a bit too much, but my position does not allow me to raise any objections."

"Actually, there is still a difference. The Body Sect didn't force the major empires to give subsidies to civilian spirit masters, did it? Damn Shrek Academy, if the Spirit Hall was still there, how much money could I make a year?!" Jiang Nannan has always been sharp-tongued. Since Zhang Lexuan insisted on holding on to the Spirit Hall, she might as well argue with her.

Moreover, due to her poor childhood, Jiang Nannan has grown into a money-grubber. She roughly calculated in her mind that if the Spirit Hall had not been destroyed, she would have received a certain subsidy every month from the age of six until she broke through to the Soul Sect. If she had saved that money, she might not have had to sell herself to save her mother. Her mother's illness was almost incurable because she had delayed it for too long!

If she had not happened to meet the Pavilion Master and Scorpion Tiger Douluo going to Xuanming Sect to trade soul beast blood, she would have given herself to that guy who disgusted her and would never be able to face her mother again, right?

The street in front of the Central Square was already crowded early this morning, with parents bringing their children to participate in the awakening.

Even if they are common people from the lowest social classes, as long as they know about the existence of martial souls, there is no one who does not expect their children to have their martial souls awaken and soul power appear at the same time on the day of their sixth-year awakening day. That may very likely change the child's life and even benefit the entire family.