In the year 21073 of the Douluo Calendar, the Star-Chasing Chamber of Commerce officially established the Law Seeker Forum.
Ningguang, the master of the Star-Chasing Chamber of Commerce, set the rule in the Law Seeker Forum that the accomplished should be revered as teachers. As the founder, she initiated the very first post, which was currently being uploaded to the forum in the form of a live broadcast.
In the video, Ningguang was as noble and elegant as ever. Her platinum-blonde hair was pinned up by a black-gold hairpin and split at the back, cascading down to her calves. She sat upright in a classic armchair, wearing a cheongsam woven in gold, white, and black, her features as beautiful as a painting.
Holding a golden round fan in one hand to partially veil her face, she revealed only her vermilion eyes, sparking boundless imagination. In her other hand, a piece of paper enveloped in a faint golden light materialized.
Natal Divine Ability--【Oath Contract】.
Subsequently, the audience heard Ningguang's gentle and refined voice introduce:
"As everyone knows, I do not possess any talent as a soul master. Even my so-called martial soul is merely a rock. After the recent paradigm shift in global laws, the laws of the world have been altered. Terms like Law Seeker, mana, and Natal Divine Ability--these novel concepts have emerged before the world.
The predecessor of a Natal Divine Ability is a divine ability seed. It evolves from the most significant period of time rooted deep within a Law Seeker's heart. It is nurtured by one's aptitude and disposition, taking root and sprouting within the Law Seeker's soul.
I, Ningguang, am untalented and just a merchant. Ever since discovering in my childhood that I lacked the aptitude of a soul master, I abandoned the so-called cultivation. I established a contract with myself, vowing to carve out a place for myself in academia. I threw myself into learning, allowing knowledge to enrich my life, and indeed achieved some success in the academic world.
But later, I found that academia was not my ultimate destination. I then ventured into a field that interested me. At that time, I established another contract with myself: I would build an enterprise in commerce. And once again, I fulfilled my contract with myself, successfully climbing to the top as a mere mortal.
Contracts have accompanied me throughout my life. After the world underwent its great change, I awakened my own Natal Divine Ability. It complements my martial soul. Upon gaining mana, my soul power, which had shown no movement for many years, followed suit. Mana seems to have helped me complete my body's deficiencies. There will be a specialized study on this later...
Subsequently, in accordance with the 'Law' represented by my divine ability, and combined with the martial soul oaths frequently sworn in the soul master world--where violators would have their martial souls shattered--
I obtained my own exclusive 'Law'--【Oath Contract】. It is no longer solely attached to my divine ability. Under the intertwining of mana and soul power, anyone can forge a contract with another. One only needs..."
The master of the Star-Chasing Chamber of Commerce, the wealthiest individual on the entire continent, was explaining the existence known as 'Law' to the general public.
As long as one awakened their own Natal Divine Ability, they could pass it down through the Law, based on their understanding of that divine ability.
Within the Sacred Angel Clan of the Southern Military Region.
The contemporary Angel Douluo, Yue Zhengen, looked at the forum video before him like an old man struggling to read a smartphone.
"Who is this? A Natal Divine Ability... even I haven't awakened such a thing, yet an ordinary person has? An ordinary person without soul power at that? On what grounds?"
"Hey, hey! Old man, you're just being ignorant. She is a model representative of federal women, the synonym for wealth, a walking gold soul coin! Someone estimated that if she risked her entire net worth, she could buy Shrek City!" Yue Leshu, who was Yue Zhengyu's mother, immediately introduced upon hearing her father being so poorly informed.
"Buy Shrek City... She is the master of the Star-Chasing Chamber of Commerce?" Yue Zhengen rubbed his head and thought about it. To accumulate such vast wealth, he must know of her.
Money was merely the tangible manifestation of 'value'. It possessed value, yet it possessed no value; it was both indispensable to this era and the thing this era lacked the least.
With power naturally came money, the two were reciprocal. And in this world, with strength came power, and with power came money. This was the perspective through which someone in his position viewed the world.
However, this money would only exist within a certain scope. It was impossible to directly purchase Shrek City, where every inch of land was worth its weight in gold. Such an amount was too staggering; to possess such wealth, one would need at least a God-level combat power as a deterrent.
Take the wealthiest Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as an example. It could also buy Shrek City, but that was a wealth accumulation inherited over twenty thousand years. It was accumulated across twenty thousand consecutive years with a Super Douluo or above guarding it in every generation, supplemented by several Titled Douluos.
An ordinary person could not guard such immense wealth. Clearly, any tiger or wolf in the Federation could bully her at will and turn her into a money bag, yet she had guarded it, and by the looks of it, she did so with room to spare.
In Yue Zhengen's memory, there was only one place. The Sui Yuan of that 'Martial Soul' who had interfaced with Limit Douluos like them back then, and who later utterly thrashed the Spirit of the Plane that had threatened the Douluo Plane for nearly six thousand years, eventually perishing together with the Abyssal Sovereign. Furthermore, it seemed the Spirit of the Plane also had transactions with him...
"Then she is quite a formidable woman. Is she married?"
Political marriage was a very normal means of forging alliances. For these cold-blooded politicians, love was just an emotion, merely a part of life. Love was very beautiful, but that was all.
Even though Chen Xinjie deeply loved Long Yeyue, he still had a wife and even a pair of children; everyone was like this.
It was so for Tang Chen in the Douluo I era, and so for Qian Daoliu, but none of this stopped them from loving others.
If merely courting someone could split half of the Spirit Pagoda, then he believed many people would be willing. After all, not everyone was Yun Ming.
Before Yue Leshu could answer, their attention was drawn to a young child brought over by Ningguang in the live broadcast before them.
Brimming with heroic spirit, with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, her black-gold eyes paired with a small face made her clearly a beautiful prospect. Of course, she was just vibrant and beautiful, which was nothing astonishing.
However, after her entire stature was revealed, ordinary people would only feel that this person looked very comfortable, perhaps thinking she was good-looking, with very bright eyes and the like.
But for those like them who had already reached the pinnacle of Limit Douluo, their eyes would widen. With just one glance, they could discern her martial soul!
It was a marvelous feeling. Upon seeing her, one knew what her martial soul was, not by relying on eyesight or the like, but because a voice simply emerged within their heart.
A 'Body' martial soul! The martial soul was her, and she was the martial soul. This sense of being perfectly integrated carried a very powerful impact!
This child had already achieved one of the two necessities to cultivate to Limit Douluo: a one-hundred-percent compatibility with one's own martial soul, where one's disposition could already align with the martial soul.
Furthermore, reaching the stage where I am the martial soul and the martial soul is me allowed one to advance to Limit Douluo.
Even though they could only watch through a screen, they could feel that her bones and muscles were robust, and her basic skills were utterly solid.
However, upon seeing the bronze mask tied to her waist, any thought of taking her as a disciple extinguished. They couldn't win, they really couldn't win.
Although that person looked like he had been struck dead by the so-called 'Punishment of the Laws of Karma', what if? It was better not to court death.
"Next, let Hei Loulan demonstrate how to use the Law to manufacture a contract..."
Watching this young girl gather mana in both hands, going from unfamiliar to proficient in just a moment, constructing a contract with a rock color distinct from Ningguang's, they were all rendered momentarily speechless.
Subsequently, as if reflecting, Hei Loulan looked at the contract in her hand. Then, a spiritual power contract, a soul power contract, and even a blood contract were constructed by her between the flicks of her fingers.
Countless Titled Douluos watching the live broadcast fell silent. They all quietly watched the entire process, beginning to use mana, soul power, and spiritual power to construct contracts. But looking at the executed contracts, some succeeded and some failed, yet most merely sighed quietly.
On the surface, they had all once been geniuses who grasped things at first glance and inferred three new things from one instance, but now, it seemed they were no longer so.
"A new era is coming. This will be the era of young people... while we... might be somewhat outdated."
A sense of desolation spread throughout their bodies...