"So That's How It Is. There really is a lot of knowledge and many hidden details on Douluo Continent," Chen Xiaojun said with a sigh.
"Exactly. Back when your brother chose his third soul ring, the reason he chose a Gale Wolf type was to gain the speed boost of an Azure Gale Grey Wolf or Hurricane Wolf, as well as cutting and charging power.
"But the Lightning Wind Shadow Peng was even better. Besides having a speed boost and wind-type cutting and piercing, it also had the destructive Destruction Power brought by the Lightning Attribute."
"So my brother is walking the path of a strength type Power Attack Type? The first two were State Skills, enhancement skills. This third soul ring looks like an attack skill, but in reality it's also an enhancement skill," Chen Xiaojun said as he thought it through, his tone carrying basic certainty.
"Very good. I'm glad you can understand that much. Is there anything else you're confused about?" Chen Yu looked at Chen Xiaojun approvingly.
"Mm, I have a question, but I don't know whether I should ask."
"Go on. Between the two of us, grandfather and grandson, what can't be asked?" Chen Yu stood with his hands clasped behind his back, looking at Chen Xiaojun with a beaming smile.
"Well... wasn't great-uncle Yun Xiao a little sensitive yesterday?"
"Heh, you child. Smart people always think a lot, and their flaw is also that they think too much. Your granduncle is the same. It's fine. As long as we talked things through, it's all right. We just needed him to feel our attitude. After all, we've had decades of friendship."
"He is your great uncle's adopted son, true childhood sweethearts with your grandma Han Xin, and also one of us Chen Clan people," Chen Yu said with emotion.
Chen Xiaojun scratched the back of his head, a little embarrassed. "It's like this. Why is Uncle Chen Chen surnamed Chen?"
"Haha, that? Actually, Chen Chen falls under the Martial Soul Inheritance Agreement. You know that on Douluo Continent, women from Advanced Martial Soul and Top Martial Soul families like ours generally don't marry out, in order to ensure their martial souls don't flow outside.
"Because families like these all have considerable influence, whether as sects, aristocratic families, or nobles, and have enough internal talent to absorb them. As long as the children born awaken the inherited martial soul, they can return to the main lineage and principal branch.
"But there are always exceptions. It might be a marriage alliance, it might be to win someone over, or it might be true love. There will always be some women who marry out. So certain tacit agreements appeared.
"Later on, they developed into formal agreements to apply to situations like this. The main content of this agreement is equivalence.
"The specific clauses are as follows:
"Clause One: If the child awakens the man's inherited martial soul, they are included in the man's family. If they awaken the woman's inherited martial soul, they are permitted to return to the woman's family, and the child takes the woman's surname. This mainly guarantees the woman's family's martial soul rights.
"Clause Two: If the child undergoes a mutation, and it is clearly a beneficial mutation based on the woman's side, it is handled in the same way as awakening the woman's inherited martial soul. If it is a mutation based on the man's side, then it belongs to the man's family.
"Clause Three: If the martial soul the child awakens is a Mutated Martial Soul different from both sides, the handling method is discussed separately. In principle, this leans toward handling it as belonging to the man's family.
"Clause Four: If the man's family is unwilling to include the child in the family for some reason, the woman's family may choose to accept them.
"Clause Five: Special circumstances are discussed separately.
"Your granduncle's situation was like this. It's true that he grew up in the Chen Clan from childhood, but the Wind Cloud Fan was also a renowned martial soul back then. When your great-granduncle was still alive, it had already been agreed that if he wanted to marry your Grandma Han Xin, they would follow this agreement.
"In fact, if he wanted to marry any woman from a high-level Martial Soul Family, it would be the same. He understood the principles in this regard.
"Later, Chen Chen awakened the Seven Kill Sword, so he took the surname Chen. And his second son still inherited his Wind Cloud Fan, so it could be considered a happy ending for everyone."
"Ah, great-uncle Yun Xiao has another son?" Chen Xiaojun could not help asking in surprise.
Chen Yu gently stroked Chen Xiaojun's head and smiled. "Yes. Chen Clan women who cultivate the Seven Kill Sword don't progress as quickly as men, don't reach as high a level, and don't have as heavy a killing aura, so the erosion of their bodies is far less than that of Chen Clan men.
"Because they were childhood sweethearts, the two of them married early. Your Grandma Han Xin married at twenty-nine.
"They have a second son named Ling Xinghe. He'll be turning thirty soon this year. He's currently working under your second uncle Chen Zhang and hasn't been back for several years."
"I see. Then will he come back for this year's Clan Celebration? I've never met him." Chen Xiaojun could not help feeling curious and asked with interest.
"He might. And it isn't just Chen Chen. The same applied to you. Back then, if the martial soul you awakened had been a mutation belonging to the Seven-Colored Bracelet, you would have had to take the surname Ye," Chen Yu said calmly.
"Ah, Mother is also from a great inherited clan?" Chen Xiaojun asked in great surprise.
"Of course. Xiu Xin's family has been on good terms with ours for generations. The Nine Heart Begonia Ye Family is a famous noble clan under heaven!" Chen Yu said with a chuckle.
"Nine Heart Begonia? No, Grandpa, Mother's martial soul is the Seven-Colored Begonia Bracelet, and that's an Equipment Martial Soul. It has nothing to do with Plant Martial Souls." Chen Xiaojun's head was a little muddled as he asked in confusion.
Chen Yu found it a little strange that his daughter-in-law had never told him about this, so he said solemnly to Chen Xiaojun, "The Nine Heart Begonia is a Top Martial Soul that only two people in the entire world can possess at the same time. How could that be enough for the entire distinguished Ye Family to pass down?
"The Seven-Colored Begonia Bracelet your mother awakened is the Ye Family's second-ranked Top Martial Soul. Though its healing is not as powerful as the Nine Heart Begonia, it is a dual-type martial soul with both healing and support, ranked at the seventh grade. Even if judged purely by healing, it is still among the top ten martial souls under heaven.
"In the Ye Family's direct main lineage, if the awakened martial soul isn't the Nine Heart Begonia, then it is the Seven-Colored Begonia Bracelet. Because the Nine Heart Begonia is inherited by a single body, the Seven-Colored Begonia Bracelet is actually the Ye Family's principal inheritance.
"It is precisely by relying on these two martial souls that the Ye Family established itself in one stroke as the number one family within the Medical Alliance, one of the strongest major neutral organizations under heaven, becoming the Number One Under Heaven medical noble clan, referred to as the Begonia Ye Family.
"Of course, the Ye Family also has several Advanced Martial Souls, such as the Diamond Begonia, Iron Cross Begonia, and Pear Blossom Begonia. And they are different from our Chen Clan, which scattered all the Branch Families and Separate Lineages with Mutated Martial Souls to guard against risk."
Hearing this, Chen Xiaojun sighed deeply. "They're that formidable! But Grandpa, your grandson still doesn't quite understand.
"From what Grandpa means, the Seven-Colored Begonia Bracelet and the Nine Heart Begonia are both the Ye Family's top inheritances. If the awakened martial soul isn't the Nine Heart Begonia, then it's the Seven-Colored Begonia Bracelet.
"Then here's the question: the Seven-Colored Begonia Bracelet is an Equipment Martial Soul. How is it interwoven and inherited together with a Plant Martial Soul like the Nine Heart Begonia?"
Chen Yu said with some uncertainty, "I don't know about that, but perhaps it's because the number of Nine Heart Begonias is restricted by heaven and earth, or perhaps it has something to do with a special ability of the Seven-Colored Begonia Bracelet."
"What special ability?" Chen Xiaojun pressed.
"Do you know about Tool Martial Soul Beast Transformation?"
Chen Xiaojun was very familiar with this point. "I do. It seems to be a type of martial soul that lies between a Beast Martial Soul and a Tool Martial Soul. Although they are defined as Tool Martial Souls, they can exert the power of Beast Martial Souls.
"A Tool Martial Soul that can truly fuse the two is called Tool Martial Soul Beast Transformation. It has two forms. Generally, after Beast Transformation, the Martial Soul Avatar of such a Tool Martial Soul will become the form of a Beast Martial Soul rather than the form of a Tool Martial Soul. Of course, it can also transform into the form of a Tool Martial Soul."
Chen Yu could not help nodding. "Correct. Well said. Martial souls of this kind, such as the Serpent Spear She Family under Spirit Hall, the Silas Kingdom Serpent Staff Chao Family, as well as the White Dragon Spear, Emerald Demon Dagger, Nine Phoenix Auspicious Xiao, and so on, are basically all Top Martial Souls.
"Similarly, there is also a type of Top Martial Soul that combines tools and plants, known as Tool Martial Soul Plant Transformation. It lies between Equipment Martial Souls and Plant Martial Souls, and is likewise a Top Martial Soul.
"Your mother's Seven-Colored Begonia Bracelet is a representative of this type of martial soul, so it is also a kind of begonia. In fact, your mother has several soul skills involving the plant transformation of the begonia bracelet. You saw them yesterday too."
"I see." Chen Xiaojun spoke thoughtfully.
"For the specifics, you can ask your mother yourself." Chen Yu saw that it was almost time to gather at the Ancestral Hall, so he said, "It's about time. Come with Grandpa to the Ancestral Hall."
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