Chapter 778: Civilian Spirit Masters Are Not Civilians

Civilian soul master.

Quan Li was once a civilian soul master.

However, the term "commoner soul master" is actually a pseudo-term.

The total number of soul masters in the entire continent is only over 100,000.

Compared to the entire population, the number of soul masters accounts for only a very small proportion.

Precisely because of its scarcity and uniqueness, at the moment of awakening the innate soul power, whether they are the so-called aristocratic soul masters or civilian soul masters, they have already stood at the top position of human society.

From this moment on, even if he was a civilian before, he will gain a new identity, soul master.

In Douluo Continent, soul masters should be the term that is in opposition to civilians.

Of course, on the mainland, soul masters who came from poor backgrounds could not obtain the same level of educational resources as the nobles or royal soul masters who previously held a monopoly.

But this kind of injustice is just the inequality within the soul master world.

If we look at the entire human society, compared to the inequality within soul masters, the gap between soul masters and non-soul masters is truly shocking.

A soul master who basically does not produce anything and does not create any value will receive free subsidies from the state starting from the moment he is promoted to soul master.

Even a soul warrior who has not obtained a soul ring can receive a subsidy of one gold soul coin every month.

With dozens of copper soul coins, you can have a box lunch with meat and vegetables. Converted into RMB from the original world, one copper soul coin is basically equivalent to one yuan.

One gold soul coin = one hundred silver soul coins = ten thousand bronze soul coins.

In other words, a soul warrior can receive a free subsidy equivalent to 120,000 yuan a year.

As for the higher level soul masters, great soul masters, their subsidies will be ten times higher than the previous level.

That is 1.2 million and 12 million.

Among the 100,000 soul masters, soul masters in these three realms account for the vast majority. If we want to supply at least five-digit soul masters every year, the number will be astronomical.

But the money that the country and the Spirit Hall invest in soul masters did not fall from the sky.

In this feudal society where the level of productivity is only at the level of the Middle Ages in the previous life, where does so much money come from?

The answer is self-evident.

These funds must come from the lowest level of mortals, those ordinary people who have not been able to awaken their innate soul power and are unable to practice.

It is from the hard work of this group of ordinary people that a portion of the harvest is taken to support the soul master class above them.

Of course, soul masters do not get this privilege for nothing.

Just like aristocrats are not born aristocrats, they all made considerable contributions in the beginning, so they were named as privileged class.

However, with the development of human history, this small group of privileged people began to become increasingly greedy, and regarded the power granted by the people as their rightful power.

In this case, they would never think about giving back to the country and the people.

Unlike previous lives, facing the oppression of the feudal system, as fellow mortals, the oppressed can still throw out their blood and resist with their lives.

But in Douluo Continent, this group of lower-class mortals not only have the huge mountain of feudalism pressing down on their heads, but above them there is actually a huge mountain called Soul Master.

This mountain is so heavy that even if mortals shed a lot of blood, it would be difficult to move it.

It’s because the gap between soul masters and mortals is too huge.

Take Dugu Bo as an example, a Titled Douluo with poison attribute, fighting against an army of hundreds of thousands or even millions of mortals. Who will be the winner in the end?

In Douluo Continent, the answer is very simple.

That is Dugu Bosheng!

Such a desperate contrast is also the reason why there has been no major social changes in the history of the entire Douluo Continent in the past thousand years.

Among them, the Spirit Hall satisfied the emotions of the general public who were unwilling to continue to be oppressed, which enabled it to rapidly expand its influence under the noses of the two empires and grow to its current level.

According to Quan Yi's observation, the Spirit Hall has indeed broken the monopoly and exclusiveness of awakening spirits, and opened up a channel for the struggling civilians to rise.

However, the irony is that this group of soul masters who awaken from the common people will lose their commoner status the moment they transform into the privileged class and turn into soul masters who exploit the common people.

What’s even more terrifying is that this transformation begins at the age of six. Six-year-old children are still unable to work, so how can they remember the hardships of civilians?

On his way across the continent, Quan Yi had seen countless times various stone tablets erected in front of dilapidated villages, each of which was engraved with the name of a soul master or the title of a soul master's level.

Soul Saint Village, Soul Emperor Village, Soul King Village.

These stone tablets must have embodied the villagers' most simple expectations.

However, Quan Yi rarely saw such a village becoming wealthy because of the emergence of a soul master in the village.

You can't blame them for being ruthless.

After all, the resources needed for the growth of a civilian soul master cannot be provided by a single village.

Soul masters who have grown up in the soul master group since the age of six, especially civilian soul masters, know best that even in the soul master world, the gap between soul masters will be even greater.

The small world of soul masters will form a more strict hierarchical order due to the level of their martial souls, the level of their soul power, and the configuration of their soul rings.

In this small pyramid, civilian soul masters must devote more resources and efforts if they want to continue climbing up.

At this stage, their own background not only fails to become a strong support, but may even become a burden that drags them down.

Under this reality, the Spirit Hall, just like it was awakening the spirits of ordinary people, once again extended an olive branch to talented civilian spirit masters.

They use even greater resources to attract and train civilian soul masters who want to continue to climb up.

And these soul masters trained by the Spirit Hall will naturally be grateful to the Spirit Hall after they grow up.

When they grow up, their vision becomes higher and they no longer look down on common people. Even if it is to prevent their soul master bloodline from being polluted, they will only look for soul master partners.

In this way, civilian soul masters, after just one generation of transformation, will completely shed the title of civilians.

The Spirit Hall is indeed very fair, especially to spirit masters.

But are they fair to the common people?

The answer must be no.

Without oppression, how could the people be grateful to the Spirit Hall?

Without a strictly hierarchical pyramid, how can they continue to exploit the surplus value of mortals as a matter of course to support the top soul masters?

If they abandon this strict order, face up to the contributions of the grassroots people, and place the people's status on the same level as soul masters, then Bibi Dong's authority and faith as the Pope, which is respected by everyone, will collapse in an instant.

By then, soul masters will no longer be the noblest profession in the entire continent, but will instead become the most despised blood-sucking insects.

In Wuhun City, low-level soul masters are waiters, what about civilians?