Douluo Continent: God Descends

Chapter 48 The Tower Master of the Spirit Pagoda in Tianhai City

The fact that Lu Xingchen brought four children to the Spirit Pagoda to purchase soul spirits has been reported to higher-ups by the Spirit Pagoda steward who received them.

At this moment, detailed information on the identities, martial spirits, and soul power levels of the group from the Tianhai Orphanage has been presented to Li Mengjie, the Witch Douluo and master of the Spirit Pagoda in Tianhai City.

"As expected, it has attracted the attention of the higher-ups at the Spirit Pagoda."

Lu Xingchen looked down at the words on the paper, his eyes showing no surprise, but rather an expression of "as expected".

Going to the Spirit Pagoda to purchase spirits requires spirit masters to provide complete identity information for registration, and Rosalia and the others' age and spirit type could not be hidden at all.

Four children, all only six years old, have already reached the level ten soul power required to match the initial soul spirit. This situation would be enough to attract attention anywhere.

Even if it wasn't innate full soul power, it must have been top-tier innate soul power at level eight or nine, otherwise it would have been impossible to break through the level ten threshold at such a young age.

As a super power, the Spirit Pagoda is naturally highly sensitive to genius soul masters, so it is only natural that it would report this matter to the higher-ups.

As he pondered, the pen continued to write "0-01," and more information was written on the paper:

[Li Mengjie's eyes flashed with obvious surprise as she reviewed the intelligence report. Tianhai Orphanage was clearly just an inconspicuous small orphanage, with no record of ever training a genius Soul Master.]

The sudden appearance of four exceptionally talented children aroused her curiosity.

The Spirit Pagoda's intelligence network is extremely efficient. Lu Xingchen and his group left the Spirit Pagoda in the afternoon, and by evening, detailed information about the Tianhai Orphanage had been compiled into a booklet.

From the orphanage's establishment date and daily operations to the recent attack by the Grim Reaper, everything was clearly recorded in the intelligence, with almost nothing missing.

However, Li Mengjie only glanced at the matter of the Grim Reaper's surprise attack and then casually ignored it.

[A Soul King-level evil Soul Master, plus a "minor conflict" resulting in the loss of only a second-ring Great Soul Master, is not worth her personal attention as the Master of the Spirit Pagoda. Such matters are handled by her subordinates, and she need not expend her energy.]

[Upon turning to the last page of the intelligence report, Li Mengjie's personal information came into view.]

When she saw the description "Six-year-old Soul Master with one ring, awakened her Martial Soul ahead of schedule, and reached the Spiritual Connection Realm in mental power," a hint of interest appeared in her previously indifferent eyes.

"Five six-year-old Soul Masters at the first ring, one of whom even awakened his Martial Soul ahead of time. Interesting." Li Mengjie's gaze lingered on Lu Xingchen's name for a moment before she closed the entire intelligence report.

[Then, Li Mengjie calmly instructed the servants outside the door: "Have your men keep a close eye on the movements of the Tianhai Orphanage. If a suitable opportunity arises, provide them with some assistance and try to win them over to the Spirit Pagoda."]

After giving her instructions, Li Mengjie picked up the documents on the table again and continued working on the pile of paperwork, as if the brief incident had never happened.

"You're just trying to get your subordinates to pay attention and cultivate relationships; you don't actually intend to personally take on apprentices?"

Lu Xingchen frowned slightly as he looked at the last paragraph written in "0-01," a hint of doubt creeping into his mind. "Is this Witch Douluo uninterested in taking on a disciple, or does she have other considerations?"

He was no stranger to the name "Witch Douluo Li Mengjie". As the tower master of the Spirit Pagoda in Tianhai City, Li Mengjie's resume was illustrious.

She once served as one of the four Spirit Masters, and even though she has now retired from the position, she is still one of the thirty-six councilors of the Spirit Tower, wielding considerable influence within the entire Spirit Tower system.

However, Li Mengjie has many more titles than these. What makes her even more famous is the title "Witch Douluo," which carries a somewhat terrifying connotation.

In the world of Soul Masters, the name "Li Mengjie" might be unfamiliar to many, but as long as "Witch Douluo" is mentioned, older Soul Masters will subconsciously show a look of fear.

The reason is simple: when Li Mengjie was young, she was rejected in public by a man who was in love with her because of her ugly appearance. This experience completely changed her personality.

Since then, she has become sinister and extreme, especially during her time as a spirit messenger, when she developed a penchant for "playing with men".

Her martial soul is extremely peculiar—she calls herself "Celestial Maiden," but people in the soul master world prefer to call her "Witch."

This is a special type of spirit, possessing abilities similar to clones and exhibiting characteristics of dual personality. It can unleash exquisite control skills and possesses powerful close-combat burst damage, making it an extremely rare dual-type spirit combining strong offense and control.

Back then, Li Mengjie used the alluring power inherent in her martial soul to manipulate countless male soul masters at will.

She would first use her charm to create a facade of gentleness and beauty, attracting her target to fall in love. Once the other person was deeply in love, she would suddenly reveal her true appearance, deriving a morbid sense of satisfaction from the other person's fear, disappointment, pain, and other negative emotions.

According to incomplete statistics, dozens of male soul masters were mentally destroyed by her back then, including some well-known young talents.

What shocked the Soul Master world even more was that Li Mengjie was extremely audacious, actually extending her evil clutches to the students of Shrek Academy.

Shrek Academy is known for its protectiveness of its own. Upon learning that its student had been humiliated, it was immediately enraged and dispatched a powerful expert to the Spirit Pagoda headquarters, demanding that they hand over Li Mengjie and give Shrek an explanation.

Faced with Shrek Academy's tough stance, the Spirit Pagoda initially acted very forcefully, refusing to hand over Li Mengjie on the grounds that "although Li Mengjie played with other people's feelings, she did not harm their lives and therefore did not violate the Federation's Soul Master Regulations," attempting to suppress the matter.

Shrek Academy, however, did not buy into this and adopted a tough stance of "either hand over the person or start a war."

At that time, Shrek Academy was at its peak. Although the Spirit Pagoda was powerful, it was unwilling to completely break ties with Shrek Academy for the sake of Li Mengjie.

In the end, the Spirit Pagoda chose to back down, but did not hand over Li Mengjie. Instead, it removed her from her position as a Spirit Summoner and promised to keep her under strict control to ensure she would not misbehave again.

The sensational "witch scandal" has finally subsided.

Lu Xingchen had seen pictures of this Witch Douluo on the official website of the Spirit Pagoda, and she was indeed quite ugly.

"Fine, if you don't want to take on apprentices, then you don't have to, as long as there's no obvious malice."

Lu Xingchen put "0-01" back into his arms, his eyes gradually returning to calm.

Geniuses with innate full soul power are indeed rare, but a soul master who can become a titled Douluo must have innate soul power that is not low.

Given the nature of these titled Douluo, even if they wanted to take on disciples, they would first examine the disciple's character or see if the other party's martial soul was suitable for inheriting their mantle.

Apart from those who are all alone, most Title Douluo have their own families, and even if they want to take on disciples, they tend to choose from their families.

Unless someone truly suits one's taste, it's rare for a Title Douluo to directly accept another as a disciple.

(PS: The author wasn't lying about this. In the original novel, Tang Wulin's grandmaster, the Crimson Dragon Douluo, was single, as was his blacksmithing teacher, Feng Wuyu.)

(Yunming and Yali had no children, and Na'er was indeed very likable, which is why they took her as a disciple.)

(Leng Yaozhu is also single, and her decision to take Gu Yue as her disciple is likely due to factors related to her martial spirit and Gu Yue's personality.)