Flender was born into a family of traveling merchants.
His father frequently traveled to various places to buy and sell goods. Because he lacked long-term, stable clients and his business was not very large,
his father was not honest in his trade, often selling counterfeit and inferior products, and short-changing customers on the weight and quantity of goods. Such things happened regularly.
Also because his clients were not major nobles or powerful forces, but rather individual vendors, small merchants, and ordinary people, Flender's family had been in business for so long without facing retaliation.
Flender's father's personality also influenced him, fostering his later traits of stinginess, craftiness, and a tendency to take advantage of small gains.
The thing that truly changed their family was Flender's spirit awakening during his childhood.
He awakened innate level 8.5 Soul Power, and his Martial Soul was a Cat Hawk.
Flender's talent was already considered that of a genius across the entire Douluo Continent. As long as he grew up, married, and had descendants, their family could cast off the status of lowly merchants and become a noble Soul Master family (if Flender's father knew that Flender would love a woman and live out his life in solitude for her, his coffin lid would surely fly open from anger). Therefore, his formerly stingy father was not at all stingy when it came to cultivating Flender.
He spent a large sum of money, hired the best Soul Master team to hunt a Hundred-Year Spirit Ring for Flender, and paid for Flender to study at the best Soul Master Academy he could arrange.
At the Soul Master Academy, Flender first met the woman who made his heart flutter, Liu Erlong.
What brought the two together was the resonance of their Martial Souls with each other, and Martial