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"Mutated Martial Soul! It had to be a Mutated Martial Soul!"

The Spirit Master suddenly slapped his hand and shouted in the Awakening Room. He had finally realized it.

"Little friend, come over here and test your Companion Soul Power."

The Spirit Master spoke to Lin Xuan, barely managing to suppress some of his excitement.

Douluo Continent was so vast that some people's Martial Souls would inevitably mutate. However, the direction of such mutations could not be controlled; some were good, while others were bad.

Some soared to great heights because of their Mutated Martial Souls, while others plummeted because of them.

The most famous example was the teacher of the Tang Sect's founder from twenty thousand years ago.

It was said that Master's Martial Soul had undergone a reverse mutation, leaving his fate fraught with hardship. His Martial Soul was useless for anything besides farting, leaving him unable to break through Level Thirty for his entire life.

"Just place your hand on the Testing Device."

The Spirit Master took out a hemispherical instrument and spoke to Lin Xuan.

Under normal circumstances, he could roughly judge it with a glance given his cultivation. However, Mutated Martial Souls were somewhat special, and there had been cases of misjudgment before. The instrument was more reliable.

"Mm!"

Lin Xuan nodded and placed his hand on it.

He was somewhat nervous as well. This thing did not seem much better than Blue Silver Grass.

"Spirit Power Level Eight!"

"Little friend, your luck is pretty good. It's a positive mutation. Ordinary Azure Leaf Grass usually has no more than Level Three or Four Companion Soul Power, only slightly higher than Blue Silver Grass."

Looking at the test result on the instrument, the Spirit Master said with a smile.

"Thank you, Lord Spirit Master!"

Lin Xuan suppressed the disappointment in his heart and put on a smile as he thanked the man.

Sure enough, not everyone started out like Long Aotian. Innate Full Soul Power was something he could only dream about.

Still, Innate Soul Power Level Eight did not seem impossible to accept. At the very least, in a place like Aolai City, he was still a big fish in a small pond.

Then again, wasn't every transmigrator from the twenty-first century supposed to have a golden finger? Where was his cheat? Don't tell him the truck that sent him here had not come along with him!

"System, activate!"

Lin Xuan muttered unwillingly under his breath, but to his surprise, it actually came.

"Ding! System initializing..."

"Blue Planet Transmigrator System No. 10086—the Proficiency System—is at your service!"

A cold, mechanical electronic voice suddenly rang out in Lin Xuan's mind, leaving him utterly stunned.

*Damn it! You stupid System! ******! If I hadn't mentioned it, would you have just kept slacking off there?

Lin Xuan could not hold it in and politely cursed the System several times in his heart.

Unfortunately, the System did not seem very intelligent and had no intention of answering him.

"Little friend?"

At that moment, the Spirit Master beside him gently patted Lin Xuan on the shoulder, snapping him back to his senses.

"Oh, oh! I'm here. Lord Spirit Master, did you need something?"

Lin Xuan pulled a broad smile onto his face, and this one was genuine!

"Ahem! The awakening is complete!"

The Spirit Master pointed toward the door and said tactfully.

There was still a huge crowd waiting outside!

"Sorry! I got too excited just now!"

Lin Xuan bowed in apology.

"It's fine! We were the same when we underwent our first awakening. Little friend, your name is Lin Xuan, right? You have great talent. I hope you can become an outstanding Soul Master in the future."

The Spirit Master looked at Lin Xuan, a trace of reminiscence appearing in his eyes before he offered him a few more words of encouragement.

Spirit Masters! Spirit Masters! They traveled through towns and cities, awakening people's Martial Souls—it was all for the sake of passing things on.

No matter what kind of riffraff filled the upper ranks of the Spirit Pagoda, its existence truly benefited ordinary people, objectively taking the place of Spirit Hall from tens of thousands of years ago.

"I'll definitely become a Titled Douluo!"

Lin Xuan clenched his small fist and declared confidently.

With the System at his side, even becoming a god would be nothing much!

"Keep it up!"

The Spirit Master smiled and rubbed Lin Xuan's head. This little fellow's vigor was truly infectious.

"Then, Lord Spirit Master, I'll be leaving first."

Lin Xuan bowed to the Spirit Master, then turned and left.

After leaving the Awakening Room, Tang Ziran and Tang Wulin were already waiting for him outside.

Tang Wulin wore a dejected expression, clearly in a bad mood.

"Xiao Xuan, how did it go?"

Tang Ziran asked with a smile, while Tang Wulin also looked over.

"Nothing special. My Martial Soul is Azure Leaf Grass."

Lin Xuan said modestly. Seeing Tang Wulin like that, he figured he had better not rub salt in the wound.

"That's still pretty good. Every year, plenty of people fail to awaken a Martial Soul at all. Between the two of you, you can be considered little geniuses."

Tang Ziran comforted them. Clearly, he also thought that Lin Xuan, like Tang Wulin, had awakened a useless Martial Soul, so he did not spout any nonsense about useless Soul Masters.

"Come to think of it, you two brothers both have plant-type Martial Souls. One has Blue Silver Grass, and the other has Azure Leaf Grass. They're quite similar!"

Tang Ziran said as he led the two of them outside.

"Wulin, you awakened Blue Silver Grass? Isn't that the same Martial Soul as Tang Buddha... the Tang Sect Ancestor?"

Lin Xuan feigned surprise, but he nearly let the wrong name slip and hurriedly corrected himself.

Old Bi Deng was watching!

"Brother Xuan, stop trying to comfort me. The Tang Sect Ancestor's Martial Soul was the Blue Silver Emperor, not ordinary Blue Silver Grass."

Tang Wulin rolled his eyes, looking as though he were saying that he was not a child. Still, Lin Xuan's words had improved his mood quite a bit.

"Then you're mistaken. As far as I know, Tang San used Blue Silver Grass in his early days. It hadn't evolved into the Blue Silver Emperor back then. Maybe you'll encounter an opportunity like that someday too."

Lin Xuan said. He truly meant it.

In the original story, Tang San had not relied on his Martial Soul in the early stages. He had relied on those Tang Sect Ultimate Arts.

Tang Wulin said nothing, but the way his eyes sparkled showed that his favorability was shooting up.

After leaving Red Mountain Academy, Lin Xuan parted ways with the two of them.

Bang!

When Lin Xuan hurried back home, the first thing he did was lock his bedroom door.

He had run all the way back and was exhausted.

Lin Xuan picked up the kettle and gulped down half of it before summoning the system.

"System! What functions do you have?"

Lin Xuan asked impatiently. He had not been able to study the system at school.

"..."

After a stretch of silence, the system still displayed its cold panel without the slightest response.

"No instruction manual? Bad review!"

Lin Xuan grumbled, then had no choice but to tinker with the system himself.

Half a day later, Lin Xuan had finally figured it out.

This system was called the Proficiency System. As the name suggested, it had only one function: recording the skills Lin Xuan had learned.

Through continuous practice, Lin Xuan could gain corresponding proficiency. Once his proficiency was full, the skill would automatically advance. There were no so-called bottlenecks.

"Seems pretty decent!"

Lin Xuan blinked and immediately thought of several ways to use the system.

On the surface, it was a Proficiency System, but in reality, it was a golden key for breaking through bottlenecks.

"Let's try it!"

Lin Xuan got up and retrieved his long-hoarded "Imperial Sword" from the kitchen.

Thrust, chop, sweep upward, parry...

In the blink of an eye, the little wooden stick spun in Lin Xuan's hand as he smoothly performed a set of Basic Sword Techniques. Back in his previous life, when he was in university, Lin Xuan had joined a kendo club and knew a little about the fundamentals of swordsmanship.

Once he finished the set of Basic Sword Techniques, Lin Xuan summoned the System Panel again. Sure enough, there was an extra line of text.

Basic Sword Technique, Level 1 (1/100)

"Why did one round only give me one point? So stingy!"

Lin Xuan curled his lip. Doing this a hundred times would probably take him several days.

Complaints aside, Lin Xuan picked up the sword and began practicing again.

This time, his movements were clearly more precise and fluid. After completing the set, Lin Xuan felt warm all over, as if he were soaking in a hot spring. He felt none of the fatigue from practice that he had felt before.

Basic Sword Technique (2/100)

"Awesome! This effect is insanely good!"

Lin Xuan was so excited that he nearly jumped up.

In the past, even practicing ten times would not have produced results this good. The system clearly also boosted cultivation speed.

Reflect! He absolutely had to reflect!

How could he have just uttered such disrespectful words toward his System Daddy?