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Chapter 37: Encouragement
🕑 Added 2025-04-24 14:53:48 +0000 UTC“Heaven Dou Auction House?” Lu Buliang recalled the description of the auction house in the original novel. He vaguely remembered that only in the capitals of the two empires were there auction houses with the highest standards, where even soul bones were sold.
Various soul guides such as the “Dragon Abyss Boat” also appeared frequently at the auction.
Ye Lingling suggested: “Let’s find a store to have breakfast first. The auction house is open 24 hours a day, and you can go in at any time.”
“That’s true. Let’s go check it out after we finish eating.”
As he spoke, Lu Buliang had already found a shop.
The two walked into the store and found a seat in a corner.
The waiter came over and asked, “What would you like to eat, my two guests? Our breakfast is freshly made, and it’s affordable. Just order whatever you want, and it’s all you can eat!”
Ye Lingling ordered a bowl of noodles and a steamed bun.
Lu Buliang ordered ten bowls of noodles and ten plates of meat buns.
What the waiter said was right, the breakfast in the store was indeed freshly made. Fortunately, the chef who made breakfast had a food-related martial soul that made steamed buns. Although he had no soul power, he was able to make steamed buns very quickly thanks to the advantage of his martial soul.
Looking at the plates of meat buns piled up on the table and Lu Buliang eating noodles in big mouthfuls while stuffing meat buns into his mouth, Ye Lingling suddenly became nervous and sped up her originally slow eating speed, for fear that Lu Buliang would accidentally eat her share.
Before Ye Lingling had finished half of her meal, Lu Buliang had already finished ten bowls of noodles and ten plates of meat buns. In less than five minutes, they were all gone.
After becoming a soul master, Lu Buliang felt that not only his physical strength had changed, but also his eating speed and amount had changed. After eating so much, he was only 60% full now.
The waiter had seen that Lü Buliang and Ye Lingling were both gentlemen, and thought that they would not eat much, so he promised them “as much as you can eat”. But when he was clearing the dishes from Lü Buliang’s table, the waiter could not help but become worried. Looking at the simple blue clothes Lü Buliang was wearing, could it be that he encountered a commoner who was eating a free meal?
The dishes on the table were cleared, but Ye Lingling was still eating noodles.
Lu Buliang watched her eat quietly.
Ye Lingling was worried that her meal would be snatched away, so she asked, “How about I give you my share as well?”
“Don’t you like eating noodles?” Lu Buliang asked.
Ye Lingling shook her head, “I like it very much.”
Lu Buliang smiled and said, “I’ll give you something to eat when I have time.”
“You can also cook?” Ye Lingling asked curiously.
“Yes. I can do everything except giving birth to children.” What Lu Buliang said was true.
Ye Lingling also felt that Lu Buliang was good at everything, including support, control, and agility. He was also eloquent, and even Dugu Yan, who was known for her sharp tongue, was defeated by him.
“I envy you.” Ye Lingling suddenly said, “If I could be half as good as you, maybe my contribution to the team wouldn’t be limited to healing. In the last practical class, my role should have been to help Tianheng win, but he lost to you and Yanyan because of me. I feel so sorry for him. I made him suffer his first defeat in the practical class.”
At this point, Ye Lingling put down her chopsticks, and her originally calm expression became a little more gloomy. “Although you said that we are both equally good, just with different uses, but no matter what kind of battle it is, if you and I are enemies, I can’t be better than you, right? Compared to restoring physical strength, everyone prefers assistance to improve combat effectiveness.”
“This failure explains everything. The Nine-Hearted Begonia Martial Spirit may not be as powerful as everyone says.”
After a dejected sigh, Ye Lingling’s gloomy face returned to its usual coldness, and she said with relief: “Or maybe I shouldn’t compare myself with you. Otherwise, I’m asking for trouble. Yanyan is a good example.”
“You really shouldn’t compare yourself with me.” Lu Buliang said seriously, “Instead of comparing yourself with others, you should look at your own strength. Do you still remember the fight between Dugu Yan and me?”
“The reason why Dugu Yan lost to me twice is very simple. She had to compete with me and ignored her own shortcomings. After I enlightened her and asked her to master soul power control, she did it and made up for her shortcomings. That’s why she was able to control the Green Phosphorus Purple Poison so well during the last double soul battle. She was able to form a double control cooperation with me to defeat you and Yu Tianheng.”
“You only saw the supporting role my shadow spirit played in the battle, but you didn’t see Dugu Yan’s growth. In that two-person battle, if I was the shadow, Dugu Yan was the light. The stronger the light, the stronger the shadow. Because Dugu Yan has become stronger than before, my supporting effect on her is so good. In a team battle, the strong one is never the shadow spirit, but the object that the shadow spirit supports.”
After hearing what Lu Buliang said, Ye Lingling felt as if the clouds had been cleared and the sun had appeared. At that time, Dugu Yan did use a poisonous fog attack method that had never been seen before.
Before, Dugu Yan could only blindly release poisonous fog over a large area, but now, Dugu Yan can make poisonous fog appear in four directions of Yu Tianheng at the same time and prevent the poisonous fog from spreading outwards. This requires extremely strong control.
It seems that as a control-type soul master, Dugu Yan’s ability to control poisonous fog is indeed stronger than before.
“According to what you said, your shadow spirit has limitations just like my Nine Heart Begonia spirit.” Ye Lingling asked, “If no one needs the assistance of the shadow spirit, and no one becomes the light of the shadow spirit, then your shadow spirit will be useless?”
“No.” Lü Buliang said with a smile: “If no one can become the light of the shadow spirit, I will become the light myself. You can do the same.”
Ye Lingling shook her head, “Don’t be ridiculous. I am a pure support type, I don’t have combat abilities like you.”
“Being the light does not mean you have to be able to fight.” Lu Buliang said, “When your teammates are lost, your words of encouragement can rekindle their fighting spirit. With your encouragement, your teammates can see hope when they are on the verge of despair. Isn’t this the light?”
Ye Lingling smiled angrily, “If I go to encourage my teammates, then who will encourage me?”
“Me.” Lu Buliang replied, “I am talking so much nonsense here, do you think I have nothing better to do? I am encouraging you!”
It was just a simple sentence, but it hit the softest part of Ye Lingling’s heart hard.
In an instant, the confusion and bewilderment that had caused Yu Tianheng’s defeat in the past few days due to her own lack of ability seemed to have broken free from her shackles. Ye Lingling just stood there, looking at Lu Buliang, with a strange light in her eyes.
Even without Lu Buliang’s encouragement, Ye Lingling would have cheered herself up, but she didn’t hate the feeling of having someone willing to spend time to help her resolve the confusion in her heart. On the contrary, she liked this feeling, just like a flower likes to be watered.
Ye Lingling has been using the Nine-Hearted Begonia spirit to heal others, and has been encouraging her teammates to be tenacious and not give up easily.
At the same time, Ye Lingling also longed for her teammates to heal her and for others to give her all kinds of encouragement, but she just didn’t like to express it and didn’t say it out loud.
So Lü Buliang’s words, “I am encouraging you!”, hit Ye Lingling’s heart hard, as if a beam of light suddenly shone on a crabapple flower growing in a dark corner, so warm.
Lu Buliang looked into Ye Lingling’s eyes and asked, “You should feel my encouragement, right?”
Ye Lingling was really relieved this time, and a smile broke out on her cold face. “You accompanied me to Heaven Dou City under the guise of buying things at the auction. Was it just to encourage me? Was it Yanyan who asked you to give me psychological counseling?”
“No.” Lu Buliang shook his head. “I came to the Heaven Dou Auction House because I really had something to buy. Your mentality is much better than Dugu Yan’s. You don’t need anyone to enlighten you.”
“Thank you.” The strange light in Ye Lingling’s eyes did not disappear, and she stared quietly into Lu Buliang’s eyes.
“You’re welcome.” Lu Buliang smiled, “Just pay for today’s meal.”
