Soul Power Rose by 4 Ranks

In midair, the enormous Calamity Fish Saint King had fallen into a stalemate with Xue Bentao, Sa Shanghai, and Xu Xin. Their powers wove together in the air, checking one another and forming a subtle balance.

Xi Xi stared at the distant blood-colored swan. Its strange yet majestic appearance left doubt rising in her heart, and she asked, puzzled, "What is that?"

(Bo Saixi should still be called Xi Xi here. It suits her age at this time better.)

"That is the Blood Swan, a Mutated Swan Martial Soul." Chen Xiaojun walked out of the Corner Tower and came to Xi Xi's side, explaining, "Alongside the Emerald Swan and Saint Swan, it is one of the three great ninth-grade Mutated Martial Souls often awakened by the Heaven Dou Imperial Family."

Hearing this, Xi Xi could not help taking a few more looks at that blood-colored swan. She could feel its majestic aura, as if it were a creature from another world.

"Why does it look so much like Spirit Hall's Qian family's Blood Angel from the books?!"

"I don't know. Many powers suspect that the Heaven Dou Xue Family and the Angel Qian Family have some unclear relationship, or may even share the same source."

"Let's not talk about that." Chen Xiaojun continued explaining, "Although they are both Mutated Martial Souls, the Blood Swan is different from other Mutated Martial Souls. The branch inheritances of other types of Mutated Martial Souls mostly become independent, but as for awakeners of swan-type Martial Souls, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family will not let them leave the imperial family."

"Why?" Xi Xi asked curiously.

"Because they are the guarantee of the imperial family's combat strength," Chen Xiaojun answered briefly.

Strangely enough, the awakening rates of these swan-type Martial Soul awakeners were all irregular as