The heavens began with Douluo

The four-hundred-mile journey, for the Tiandou Royal Knights, all equipped with horses, would take at most one day if they marched at full strength.

However, marching with all their strength while fully armed will inevitably lead to exhaustion and can easily weaken the knights' combat effectiveness. If they are ambushed by Wuhun Palace midway, they may be unable to fight back.

Therefore, Zhou Yuan ordered to advance slowly, and it took him two and a half days to safely reach the destination of his trip, the Soul Hunting Forest.

The Soul Hunting Forest is an artificial forest created by the Tiandou Empire to provide soul rings for soul masters who are about to advance to the next level. There are fixed soul beasts in it for the soul masters to hunt for soul rings.

However, most of these soul beasts are ten years and one hundred years old, and few thousand-year soul beasts appear. As for soul beasts that are more than ten thousand years old, only the deepest parts of the large soul hunting forests can have them.

For example, the Soul Hunting Forest outside Barak City is a large Soul Hunting Forest, covering an area of ​​more than square kilometers. In the deepest center of the forest, there are more than ten thousand-year-old soul beasts.

The -year-old soul beast that Mr. Xuan hunted when he was promoted to Soul Emperor lives here.

Opening the defensive iron window installed on the carriage and lifting the outermost layer of black cloth, Zhou Yuan looked out and saw that the periphery of the soul-hunting forest was not as quiet and quiet as he imagined. What appeared in front of him was, instead, It's a chaotic market.

In the open space outside the forest, there are rows of wooden houses lined up row upon row. Various stalls selling food, weapons and armor, as well as soul masters issuing bounties and recruitment orders occupy both sides of the official road. All kinds of shouts come and go, making it extremely noisy. .

"Hunt the century-old soul beast Mandala Snake and hire a team of seven. Ordinary mercenaries have one gold soul coin each, and soul masters have ten gold soul coins."

"Count Canglan, a close relative of King Kundera, wants to advance to the forty-level soul sect, recruit a mercenary group as a guard, and hunt down the agile thousand-year soul beast for a commission of one thousand gold soul coins."

"Snake repellent powder is a must-have for adventures. It can mask your own smell and repel snakes, insects, rats, and ants. It sells for five gold soul coins per jar."

"It's so easy to make money as a soul master."

Hearing and seeing the prices shouted out by those shop stalls, Zhou Yuan understood that the prices of things here were extremely high even though he didn't know much about this world.

Just like a stall selling snake repellent powder just now, the price actually reached five gold soul coins. You know, one gold soul coin is equivalent to one hundred copper coins, which is equivalent to the expenses of an ordinary family for several months.

However, even a soul master who has obtained his first soul ring can still receive a gold soul coin from the Spirit Hall every month, not to mention high-level soul masters. In short, the soul master group is rich and willful, and can afford to spend

Zhou Yuan is also rich, so he has to spend his money wisely.

So, Zhou Yuan closed the iron window, looked at the short and sturdy Shi Feng and said, "Send someone to hire some mercenaries. We will pay five gold soul coins to hire one person. The soul master will give fifty gold soul coins to each person. The higher the level, the better." The more, no limit to the number of people, the more, the better.”

"As ordered."

Shi Feng decisively accepted the order, opened the iron door specially installed on the carriage by Zhou Yuan, got off the carriage, and called the knights next to him to recruit mercenaries together.

Zhou Yuan and his group of several hundred people had already been noticed by everyone in the "Soul Master Logistics Fair".

It’s impossible not to pay attention. Hundreds of tall horses, heavily armed knights in silver armor, and more than a dozen iron-clad carriages. This formation is the first time many people have seen this in their lives.

"Which great nobleman or direct descendant of which sect is coming to hunt for soul rings?"

"Look at the flag, it is related to the Tiandou royal family. There are hundreds of silver-armored cavalry, and maybe many accompanying soul masters. Could this be some prince?"

"Someone came out of the carriage, and he was a Soul Master at the Soul King level, hiss"

"Get rich, get rich, the royal family is really proud. They want to recruit mercenaries, five times the going price, no limit on quantity, pay a deposit of one gold soul coin first, and pay us the rest after they come out."

"Are they planning to kill all the soul beasts in this soul hunting forest?"

The sound of gasping for cold air came one after another, and the temperature in this area suddenly increased by degrees.

As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under a heavy reward. Even most people with some brains know that this hiring price, which is five times higher than the normal price, is definitely not easy to get. But who of the mercenaries gathered here are not money-hungry people who lick blood with their swords?

Therefore, in a short period of time, Zhou Yuan recruited more than mercenaries.

After the knights of the Royal Guards Cavalry had finished resting, Shi Feng and others had recruited more than people.

This made Zhou Yuan's team bloated and huge, and the gold soul coins he paid for it would be close to three thousand. For the Duke's Palace, this is also a "medium-meaning" deal.

But Zhou Yuan doesn't mind spending money. Anything that can be done with money is nothing. He also hopes to recruit more people.

After all, when it comes to cannon fodder, the more the better. Maybe if the cannon fodder reaches a certain level, the "assassins" from Wuhun Palace will not dare to come.

Inside the carriage.

Shi Feng, who had recruited so many cannon fodder for Zhou Yuan, was not at all proud of taking credit. He even reflected with some self-blame, "Your Highness, the mercenaries recruited are almost all ordinary people. The real soul masters only recruited seven." They are all idle soul masters who seem to have nothing to do with the various forces, but their levels are really low, and the highest one is only a twenty-sixth level great soul master."

Hearing this, Zhou Yuan was not surprised.

Don't look at the later stages of the original plot of Douluo Continent. It seems that there are as many soul masters as dogs, and the Soul Saint Soul Douluo is everywhere. In fact, the number of soul masters in the entire Douluo Continent is not even one thousandth of the total population.

In other words, only one soul master will emerge among thousands of people.

And the combat power of a soul master is worthy of the nobility and rarity of this profession.

The ten-level soul masters and the twenty-something great soul masters may not be very powerful in combat, but after entering the thirty-level soul master realm, a fully armed squadron of fifty people from the Tiandou Empire may not be able to fight. Get a Soul Lord.

Therefore, every soul master who has reached the third-ring soul master can be ennobled and become a baron as long as he is willing to join the Tiandou Empire. The higher the strength, the higher the noble title.

For example, most of the more than twenty soul masters in the Duke's Palace have noble titles. It's just that they have no fiefdom, no background or property, so they can only hang out with the Duke's Palace in the hope of getting all the above in the future.

Therefore, Zhou Yuan currently cannot recruit soul masters above level at all. How could he come to the Soul Hunting Forest to work as a mercenary without having a noble title? How could it be possible?

If a group of forty or fifty level Soul Sect Soul Kings were casually recruited now, Zhou Yuan would first wonder if these people had ulterior motives and were spies sent by the Spirit Hall.