893: Say no to being a tool

“My name is Du Xingchen, a teacher, and now I'm completely bewildered.”

“Just now, I was clearly buying books at a bookstore, and I just happened to ask the owner for a phone number for my Sister. How did I directly transmigrate?!”

“I admit, it's not good for a Teacher to read web novels, but I'm helping a Student in my class avoid a pitfall.”

“There's a seriously ill Student in my class who wrote in his diary that he wanted to read this book. Calculating the time, it's almost time for that Child's surgery. As his Teacher, I'm buying it for him, preparing to give it to him as a gift when he's hospitalized after a successful surgery, as a little surprise.”

“Although the protagonist in this book has many behaviors that are extremely double-standard, selfish, hypocritical, disgusting, and negative, it's just a book, is there a problem with reading it?”

“Alright, for a Child whose worldview hasn't been fully established, there should be some influence, but it's not a crime worthy of this, right?”

“Making me transmigrate, what kind of thing is this?!”

...

Ten thousand thoughts flashed through his mind.

The next moment, Du Xingchen fell to the ground with a distorted face.

The ground was a patch of dirt, and around him were some beautiful, completely different from Blue Star's style, Little Grass and flowers.

“Pain, it's too painful!”

Du Xingchen roared in his heart at this moment.

He didn't understand what was happening to him, only feeling as if his Soul was being stripped away. That sensation of pain was something he had never experienced before!

He didn't know how long it had been.

Du Xingchen, who had just transmigrated and experienced such pain, gradually recovered.

“Little Du, how is it? Can you bear this kind of pain?”

Footsteps sounded nearby, and the flowers and plants on the ground were crushed.

Among these newcomers, one person spoke, bringing Du Xingchen back to his senses.

“Moyun, how about we forget it? Xingchen looks like he's not in good shape, I'm afraid he can't bear the upcoming formal operation.”

Among the newcomers, a more steady voice sounded.

Du Xingchen, who was half-dead from the pain, suddenly opened his eyes when he heard the name Moyun!

Moyun?!

Isn't this the name of the protagonist in the book 'Martial Soul World' that he just finished reading?

Taking two deep breaths, Du Xingchen also gradually realized that the pain was clearly fading as he concentrated his energy.

Getting up from the ground.

Du Xingchen could see six men and women in front of him.

They were all around twenty years old.

Two by two, three pairs of couples.

Since there is someone named Moyun here, then these six people are the protagonist group from the Martial Soul World!

“Xingchen, how do you feel? Shattering your Soul Card to help Moyun merge with the card condensed from a more Advanced exotic beast. Although doing this will make you permanently lose your fourth Soul Card, we will definitely find a more powerful thousand-year exotic beast for you later, and condense a card from that exotic beast's Soul to compensate you!”

In the crowd, the youth with a steady voice, who also appeared to be the oldest at a glance, spoke.

And this.

It immediately made Du Xingchen recall the memory of this scene from the book he had just finished reading!

If his guess was correct, he was one of the seven members of this protagonist group.

This is truly the World within that book, Martial Soul World!

In this World, there is a magical profession that all people on the continent yearn for.

It is called Soul Card Master!

To become a Soul Card Master, the necessary condition is to awaken a Martial Soul!

After Awakening a Martial Soul, you can search for exotic beasts, and by hunting them, condense a card using the Soul power within the exotic beast's body!

Exotic beasts of different ages form cards with different power and potential after death.

When the exotic beast card merges with your own Martial Soul, it forms a Soul Card. Then, only when you can use the power of the Soul Card can you be called a Soul Card Master!

And when the first Soul Card is fully mastered and developed to over 50%, you can start merging the second Soul Card, and so on, up to nine Soul Cards, reaching the peak of this World!

The situation Du Xingchen is currently facing.

According to the description in the plot.

The seven people in their protagonist group have all developed their third Soul Cards to over 80%, and it is time to search for their fourth cards.

The School, seeing that everyone's strength is not weak now, let everyone come together to one of the most dangerous exotic beast forests in this Martial Soul World, the Tianmu Great Forest, to find suitable cards for themselves.

This operation is led by Wen Xiucheng, the oldest and strongest.

In the time before, everyone had found satisfactory cards and absorbed them to form new Soul Cards.

Finally, only the protagonist Moyun's Soul Card was still undecided.

Until just now.

Everyone unexpectedly discovered a severely injured ten-thousand-year exotic beast, the Swallowing Gold Rat King!

With the combined efforts of the seven, they barely managed to kill the severely injured Rat King!

During this process, all seven suffered considerable injuries.

Originally, there was no need to take such a risk against a ten-thousand-year exotic beast, because even if they killed it, there would be no benefit to everyone.

The card condensed from a ten-thousand-year exotic beast is not something that people like them, who are looking for their fourth Soul Card, can merge and absorb!

But Moyun said he wanted to try.

So everyone, risking their lives, helped him take down this Rat King together.

However, when they were about to merge with the ten-thousand-year card condensed by the Rat King, Moyun said he couldn't bear such immense power.

He needed himself to help.

It is worth mentioning that Moyun came from another middle-thousand World, and before transmigrating, he was a theoretical master.

According to his theory, in this situation where he couldn't merge the Rat King card, as long as someone voluntarily shattered one of their Soul Cards of a thousand years or more, and used that pure energy to assist him, he could perfectly bear the power brought by the card condensed from this ten-thousand-year exotic beast!

The painful feeling Du Xingchen just experienced was a preliminary attempt at the situation of shattering a Soul Card!

According to the original plot.

After Captain Wen Xiucheng said this, Moyun should have spoken with feigned concern.

With this thought, Du Xingchen indeed heard the black-haired Man in the crowd, whose style was distinct and whose posture even faintly surpassed Captain Wen Xiucheng, say: “It seems this method was indeed not well thought out on my part. I didn't expect just trying it would make you so painful, Xingchen.”

“How about we forget it? I can do it myself.”

Moyun's words seemed to be self-blaming, but in reality, in front of so many people, he completely left no room for Du Xingchen to refuse!

Du Xingchen felt an indescribable strangeness.

In the original work, his identity was a member named Xingchen.

And when the plot reached this point, Xingchen's reply was like this: “It's okay! What is this pain? Moyun, you should go and absorb that ten-thousand-year card properly. I was not satisfied with this fourth Soul Card anyway, so if it shatters, it shatters. It just happens to be replaced!”

“If you succeed, then you will be the myth of our School!”

Xingchen in the original work had a look of indifference and righteousness on his face.

However, it never mentioned that shattering a Soul Card is something that directly damages the foundation, the Martial Soul, for a Soul Card Master!

If there were really no effects, everyone in the World could replace their Soul Cards at any time until they were satisfied.

But obviously, this is not possible.

To still support the protagonist Moyun so mindlessly, he was clearly just a stepping stone, a tool Man.

And Moyun himself never considered the people who shared difficulties with him as Brothers or teammates.

If their friendship had truly reached that point, it would be impossible to propose such a suggestion of sacrificing a Brother to complete himself!

Listening to Moyun's suggestion to forget it, Du Xingchen took two deep breaths of cold air, and then, with an expression no one had expected, he nodded heavily: “Indeed, this method is too painful. I feel a bit unbearable, so let's forget it.”

“How about you think of other methods, Moyun? Or maybe let Boss or Second Leader try to discard a Soul Card to help you?”

Du Xingchen had read the original work and knew the protagonist's character well. Of course, he couldn't sacrifice himself so selflessly to complete the other party.

If the other party was righteous, it would be understandable to sacrifice a little.

The key is, being this guy's Brother, besides being a foil, is just a tool Man!

After Du Xingchen's words were spoken, the surroundings suddenly fell silent.

Everyone didn't react for a moment.

It was like a warm neighbor casually saying to you, “Come over for dinner when you're free,” and you actually brought your family of over a dozen people to the neighbor's house for dinner that day...

It was the same suffocating feeling.

“Ding ~ Congratulations to the Host, for avoiding becoming a tool Man, successfully influencing the protagonist's Luck, the Ye Tian Card Drawing System is activated.”