Chapter 77: If You Think It's Expensive, I Think It's Expensive Too

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Spirit City.

Upon receiving Tang San's letter, the editor-in-chief of the Spirit Newspaper immediately went to the Pope's Palace and handed the letter to Bibi Dong.

As she read Tang San's theoretical descriptions of the impact of the environment on a spirit master's combat effectiveness, Bibi Dong nodded slightly. She knew how much a spirit master's strength could be enhanced by environmental factors.

Ordinary spirit fighting grounds were typically just bare stone blocks or slabs, and they were quite small. Even if they were about a hundred meters long and wide, they were still very restrictive for agility attack system spirit masters.

If the competition venues were more diverse, with deserts, swamps, forests, grasslands, rivers, and other terrains, it would increase the interest of the competition to a certain extent.

At the same time, a variety of environmental venues would also make it easier for the organizers to see if the spirit masters participating in the competition could reasonably apply their own abilities.

In the eyes of Titled Douluo like Bibi Dong, the strength or weakness of spirit abilities was actually irrelevant. What mattered was the quantity and quality of spirit power. Out of nine spirit abilities, basically only a few powerful ones would be used, and the rest would hardly be used at all.

However, for spirit masters who were not Titled Douluo, being able to reasonably apply different spirit abilities in different environments was crucial.

Bibi Dong had already thought that if the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament had multiple venues in the future, the future spirit masters would definitely pay more attention to training and adapting in multiple environments during their usual training.

In the future, the Spirit Hall could save a lot of training effort when recruiting spirit masters.

"He's really amazing." Bibi Dong asked the editor-in-chief of the Spirit Newspaper to publish it in tomorrow's Spirit Newspaper, and then called over Chrysanthemum Douluo, saying, "Tang San is very talented. I want to bring him here, but I'm worried that his talent will be worn away by the rigid teaching of the Spirit Academy. However, if he doesn't join the Spirit Hall for a day, I won't be at ease for a day. I always feel like something unexpected might happen."

Chrysanthemum Douluo understood and bowed, saying, "Your Majesty the Pope, Tang San's spirit is a mutated Blue Silver Grass, a plant-type spirit. My spirit is the Strange Chrysanthemum, also a plant-type spirit. Why don't I go and accept him as my disciple?"

"Do you think you have the ability to teach him?" Bibi Dong asked rhetorically, "With the arrogance of a genius, he won't acknowledge someone who is less knowledgeable than him, even if you are a Title Douluo."

Chrysanthemum Douluo's breath caught in his throat, but he didn't refute. After all, Tang San's talent was obvious to all. Not to mention his recent theories on the optimal spirit ring combination, the various factors affecting a spirit master's endurance of soul rings, and the role of whale glue, his earliest published theory on self-analysis and positioning of spirit masters had already quietly changed the lives of a large number of spirit masters on the continent.

In terms of strength, even if Tang San's second spirit ring was a thousand-year one, he was still just a Great Spirit Master.

However, in terms of his influence on the spirit masters of the entire continent, even the Pope in front of him couldn't catch up - after all, the Pope basically never left Spirit City, and other people's knowledge of the Pope was limited to knowing that she existed.

Now, the vast majority of spirit masters were grateful to Tang San for publishing his theories, which had changed their fates. In particular, agility attack system spirit masters had received unprecedented attention.

In the past, agility attack system spirit masters lacked attack power, and in spirit fights, they seemed to be just making up the numbers. In most cases, they were there to finish off the enemy when the power attack system and control system spirit masters were about to defeat the enemy. Their positioning was rather awkward.

However, now, Tang San had discovered a new role for agility attack system spirit masters: interference, assassination, and scouting. The first two had already been done by agility attack system spirit masters, but no one had accurately positioned them. The latter had directly improved the positioning of agility attack system spirit masters, and along the way, it had also raised the status of the Agility Clan on the continent.

It could be said that Tang San had become the idol of almost ninety percent of the agility attack system spirit masters on the continent. Moreover, because the Spirit Hall had not released Tang San's information, they all believed that Tang San was also an agility attack system spirit master.

After all, no one would have thought that he was an auxiliary system spirit master, and an auxiliary system spirit master whose spirit was Blue Silver Grass at that.

However, there were also people on the continent who opposed Tang San's theories.

For example, healing system spirit masters and food system spirit masters were very unhappy because Tang San had classified both of these types of spirit masters as auxiliary system spirit masters, creating two subcategories of auxiliary system spirit masters.

Originally, they could occupy two different systems and have a good reputation, but now, they had all become auxiliary system spirit masters.

Thinking of the recent news he had received about the spirit master world, Chrysanthemum Douluo couldn't help but sigh and thought to himself, "I'm really not qualified to teach such a disciple."

"What I mean is, you send someone to protect Tang San," Bibi Dong said. "Who do you think is suitable?"

"Ling Yan."

After thinking for a moment, Chrysanthemum Douluo mentioned a name.

"She's a seventy-eighth-rank Spirit Saint with the Wind Chime Bird spirit. Her speed is second only to the Swift of the Agility Clan, and she's only thirty years old now. She has the potential to break through to the Title Douluo level before she's fifty. However, her personality is a bit rash and impulsive."

"Let her go and protect Tang San. It'll be good for her to suppress her temper and cultivate her mind and character for a while."

Bibi Dong pondered for a moment and nodded, saying, "She does have that kind of temper, a bit impulsive. Let her go then. It'll be good for her to have more patience. That way, she can become a qualified scouting-type agility attack system spirit master."

The order was given.

Chrysanthemum Douluo told Ling Yan about this matter. Even if Ling Yan didn't want to go, she couldn't refuse...

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At the same time.

Nuoding City.

Tang San accepted Yang Long's order and prepared to help him forge a Dragon Pattern Spear that was exactly the same as his spirit.

"How well can you forge a spear with your forging skills?" Yang Long didn't know much about forging. Although he had read "Legend of the Dragon King" in his previous life, he had only skimmed through it and only remembered things like hundred-forging and thousand-forging.

"I can do thousand-forging." Tang San thought for a moment and answered truthfully.

"Okay, then thousand-forging."

Yang Long naturally hoped that the Dragon Pattern Spear he forged would be the best.

"Then the customer needs to pay more money." Tang San was very direct, "The five hundred gold soul coins you paid as a deposit is not enough."

Yang Long frowned, "How much of a deposit do you need?"

Tang San was not polite, "According to the market price of a thousand-forged weapon, one piece costs at least one hundred and twenty thousand gold soul coins. What you want is a spear, a long weapon, and it's more expensive, about two hundred and twenty thousand gold soul coins. The customer needs to pay at least one hundred and ten thousand gold soul coins as a deposit."

"Aren't you just robbing me?" Yang Long was furious. One hundred and ten thousand gold soul coins was just a deposit, and the final price was two hundred and twenty thousand. Was he a fool?

The entire Broken Clan didn't have that much money.

"Customer, don't be agitated, this is the market price for a finished thousand-forged weapon. Those are all divine weapons. This is already a discounted price."

Tang San signaled for the other party to calm down, "If you don't believe me, you can go to any blacksmith shop in the city and ask. They'll all give you this price. Thousand-forged metal isn't expensive, but thousand-forged weapons are. They're weapons that only the divine blacksmiths of Gengxin City can forge, not to mention that the customer wants the entire Dragon Pattern Spear to be thousand-forged."

"If you think it's expensive, I think it's expensive too."

Yang Long gritted his teeth in anger. He really wanted to take a watermelon knife and stab Tang San in the stomach. He tried to calm down and asked, "How much is the cheapest?"

"If the customer is willing to provide the metal himself, then it can be ten thousand gold soul coins cheaper."

Tang San revealed a merchant-like smile.

"After all, as you know, I need to make money, and the blacksmith shop where I work also needs income. After deducting the cost, we need to earn at least fifty percent, or else it's not worth it to spend so much time and effort to forge such a thousand-forged weapon. In the end, we only sell it for a price slightly higher than the cost. It's better to forge more tools like kitchen knives, scissors, and saws. At least those things can be sold for three to ten times the cost."

(End of chapter)