Recording the Moment of Martial Soul Awakening

When Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Romantina, and Wang Sheng arrived at Nuoding City Square, it was already crowded with people.

Fortunately, ordinary students and work-study students had secured their spots early, allowing them to squeeze to the front.

In Nuoding City, the location where the Spirit Hall helps eligible children awaken their Martial Soul is not inside the Spirit Hall Branch, but rather in the plaza.

After all, parents are always present when helping eligible children awaken their Martial Soul. If the location were inside the Spirit Hall, with Nuoding City having a much larger population than a small rural village, the number of eligible children would exceed two hundred each year, and their parents would crowd the area around the Spirit Hall.

To avoid traffic congestion, Ma Xiunuo placed the location for awakening his Martial Soul in the center of Nuoding City's square, and the city lord of Nuoding City would also lead a team to maintain order.

In the past, it was Xiao Lang who maintained order.

But now—

But the man became Romanyac.

However, the people of the city have a great fondness for Romanyac. After all, Romanyac has always been very approachable. Now that he has become the city lord, he has reduced the city's taxes by nearly 40%, which has earned him widespread praise.

"Quiet down, everyone!"

Ma Xiunuo released his Martial Soul and Soul Ring —Soul Ring one white and one yellow—which immediately silenced the noisy crowd around him.

This is not out of fear of Ma Xiunuo's strength, but out of heartfelt respect for Ma Xiunuo himself.

In Nuoding City, Ma Xiunuo hadn't accomplished anything particularly remarkable, but he was kind and sincere, and quite familiar with the city's residents. In fact, most of the parents present had their Martial Soul awakened with Ma Xiunuo's help when they were young! Now, their children still needed Ma Xiunuo's help to awaken their Martial Soul!

"The Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony shall now begin!"

Immediately afterwards, Ma Xiunuo let the first child enter the circle of Awakening Stone that had already been set up.

Unlike Su Yuntao, who only brought six Awakening Stones, Ma Xiunuo used thirty-six Awakening Stone to awaken people.

This confirms Zhou Qing's previous conjecture: each Awakening Stone has the same function, and using multiple Awakening Stone together can effectively help Soul Master save Soul Power while maximizing the effect.

Seeing this, Zhou Qing patted Romantina, indicating that she could change to another person.

In an instant, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm went online and used the skills of Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing. After Romantina herself controlled the Qi Field Power, she used the Soul Skill, and the Soul Ring did not necessarily have to be fully exposed. It could be made to float inside the brain, that is, on the outer side of the brain inside the skull.

This is a phenomenon that only Soul Master like Zhou Qing and Romantina, whose Martial Soul can overlap with the organs in their bodies, can achieve.

For other Soul Master to release Soul Ring Skill without revealing their Soul Ring, they might need to reach Soul Power Level of 95 or higher and have a sufficient understanding of their Martial Soul.

Case Study: Sword Douluo! When he uses the Seven Kill Sword, he can integrate nine Soul Ring into the sword's body, thus concealing the Soul Ring!

With the ability to Spiritual Sharing, Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu clearly saw what the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had detected:

After the golden light entered the child's body, it touched the barrier of the Soul Palace, causing it to ripple.

Then—

Wave!

In the darkness, Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Romantina, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm —all those who could witness this process—heard the voice emanating from the Soul Beast Soul Palace.

And then—

The Soul Palace shattered, but the fragments turned into a mist-like substance that gradually dissipated and disappeared from Zhou Qing and the others' sight.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Spiritual Power could no longer detect its specific traces.

However, Zhou Qing keenly noticed that after those fragments turned into mist, the process of dissipation did not seem to directly disintegrate, but rather spread towards the Meridians throughout the body.

Based on this, is it possible to make a conjecture:

After the Soul Palace shattered, did it not dissipate but instead attach itself to the human body's meridians in another form, becoming a bridge for communication between humans and their Martial Soul?

This explains why humans can perceive their Martial Soul through meditation and thus sense how the Martial Soul drives the Innate Soul Power to circulate within the corresponding Meridians.

It is precisely because the Soul Palace is attached to the Meridians of the human body in another form that a bridge for communication and connection between the two is formed.

"Did you get the result you wanted?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked.

"Only one, that's too little data."

Collecting as much data as possible is naturally a good idea.

If Romantina hadn't had a low Soul Power Level and her Brain Martial Soul hadn't yet matured, the data of these nearly two hundred eligible children would have been recorded.

When the data reached the ninety-third child, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm returned its body to Romantina.

Because the data collected afterward was mostly similar, and because Romantina's body had been occupied by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm for a long time, and she had used the skills of Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing for an extended period of time, her Meridians were somewhat swollen and painful, and she could only recover through rest.

Fortunately, the situation that these ninety-three children exhibited at the moment of their Martial Soul Awakening was enough to confirm Zhou Qing's previous conjecture.

The place where Martial Soul is nurtured, the Soul Palace, connects with the air, the Heaven and Earth Energy, and even the entire world when the infant takes its first breath. This causes the Martial Soul seed inherited from the parents to form a womb-like shape in another space parallel to the material world, transforming into the Soul Palace.

The Soul Palace, on the other hand, can actively extract the Heaven and Earth Energy contained in the air inhaled by an infant through the infant's instinctive breathing, thereby nurturing the Martial Soul Seed and allowing it to Solidification.

When an infant grows to around six years old, their Martial Soul has matured to the point where it is ready to be "born." If this birth period is missed, the spirit will die in the womb.

The moment Martial Soul "born," that is, awakened—

There might be a possibility of spontaneous awakening, but without the golden light emitted by the Awakening Stone, the Martial Soul itself would likely need to break through the Soul Palace...

From this perspective, the Awakening Stone and the golden light it emits seem to function similarly to performing a "cesarean section" on Martial Soul?

With this in mind, Zhou Qing did not dismiss it as a distraction, since it really was very similar to a cesarean section.

Without this "cesarean section," the vast majority of Martial Soul would likely have died in the womb due to their inability to awaken on their own...

Let's get back to the main topic.

When Martial Soul Awakening, the Soul Palace that nurtures it is not rendered useless. Instead, it transforms into another invisible, intangible, and imperceptible existence, merging into the body's Meridians, allowing the human Spiritual Power to perceive the existence of the Martial Soul through this medium.

"If you describe it like that, it feels somewhat similar to the nine invisible channels between the Martial Soul and the Soul Ring," Tang San pondered. "Those nine channels that connect the Martial Soul and the Soul Ring, extending from the fine lines, are essentially also invisible and intangible. They may be something like a membrane formed under the combined effect of the Martial Soul and the Soul Ring."