Delighted to Gain a Disciple Blessed by the Blind Douluo's Father, Part 2

Delighted to Gain a Disciple Blessed by the Blind Douluo's Father, Part 2

Ye Wen then pointed at Lan Lan, the little girl with the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, and said,

"Let's start with your Martial Soul, Lan Lan. Your Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul has Level 1 Innate Soul Power. That's perfectly normal.

"I once read about the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul in a book. Scholars have investigated it before, and the probability of Blue Silver Grass awakening with Innate Soul Power is less than three percent. You should be secretly delighted to have even this one level of Soul Power. After all, that makes you a one-in-a-hundred Blue Silver Grass genius, because Blue Silver Grass itself is at the very bottom among all Martial Souls."

Hearing Ye Wen's explanation, Lan Lan did not know whether to laugh or cry. Her Martial Soul was so terrible—she really was sorry about that.

But Ye Wen immediately continued, "You don't need to be so discouraged either. Blue Silver Grass may be weak, but it isn't completely useless. Precisely because it is weak, once it obtains Soul Rings, the evolution it can undergo is a massive leap that no other Martial Soul can achieve.

"And the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul has another advantage. Let me tell you: in a Soul Master's cultivation, there is something called a Mimic Cultivation Environment. It is generally exclusive to noble Soul Masters.

"This cultivation method simulates an environment, allowing what the Martial Soul represents to return to the place where it was originally meant to live. That greatly increases a Soul Master's cultivation speed. And with your Blue Silver Grass, you understand now, right?"

Seeing the clever look in Ye Wen's eyes, Lan Lan only half understood at first, then suddenly had an epiphany. She let out an "Oh."

"I understand!"

As for Village Chief Mike, he was completely lost. He refilled his cup of water. It tasted so good—just as expected of a Soul Master's water.

"So, when you cultivate in the future, try to find places where there is plenty of Blue Silver Grass. That will speed up your cultivation. The help won't be huge, but it should allow your cultivation speed to match that of a Soul Master with Level 2 or Level 3 Innate Soul Power. That may not amount to much in those big cities, but around Nuoding City, it would already be considered quite fast. If you persist every day without fail, you should barely be able to reach Level 30 and become a Soul Elder by around the age of thirty. At that point, a hundred Gold Soul Coins a month will let you live very comfortably."

Although there were still many terms Lan Lan could not understand, hearing that she could earn a hundred Gold Soul Coins at thirty filled her with excitement. So what if her Martial Soul was useless? As long as she could become a Soul Elder, she could still receive the stipend.

Huo Rui, standing nearby, had not expected there to be so many intricacies to cultivating a useless Martial Soul like Blue Silver Grass. But being naturally intelligent, she applied the cultivation plan Ye Wen had given Lan Lan to herself, only to realize that she seemed unable to find a similar way to improve. This made her feel rather distressed.

Ye Wen noticed Huo Rui's situation as well, but he did not hurry to explain. Instead, he took a sip of water to moisten his dry throat.

But Huo Rui could not wait. She hurried to Ye Wen's side, grabbed his arm with her little hands, and shook it as she pleaded anxiously,

"Big Brother, what about me? What about me?!"

At this moment, Village Chief Mike frowned and rebuked Huo He, "Xiao Rui, mind your manners."

Village Chief Mike was now completely convinced by Ye Wen. The village had produced Soul Masters before, but Ye Wen was the first he had ever seen who could speak so eloquently and lay out a cultivation plan even for a useless Martial Soul like Blue Silver Grass.

Especially after hearing that one could cultivate to become a Soul Elder and receive a hundred Gold Soul Coins every month, he could no longer remain calm. After all, whether Golden Wheat Village's entire annual harvest could sell for a hundred Gold Soul Coins was still questionable. Thus, he became even more respectful toward Ye Wen. This was respect for a learned man.

So, he felt that Huo Rui's wild-child behavior was disrespectful toward Ye Wen and wanted her to restrain herself.

However, Ye Wen waved his hand, signaling Village Chief Mike not to be so serious, and said gently,

"There's no need to hurry, Xiao Rui. Your talent is far greater than Blue Silver Grass's. As long as your Martial Soul cultivation is properly planned, even in the worst case, you will become a Soul Ancestor-level expert in the future. That is the fifth title among Soul Masters, an existence capable of ruling supreme around Nuoding City."

Upon hearing Ye Wen say this, little stars sparkled in Huo Rui's eyes as she began imagining how mighty she would be in the future.

But when she thought of how her Martial Soul was a heart, she could hardly pull out her own heart and throw it at people, could she? She would die too.

Children's thoughts were simply so plain and unadorned. Huo Rui immediately wilted again.

Seeing Huo Rui like this, Ye Wen scratched his head. Although he had grown up from childhood in this life, he still had an adult soul inside him. He truly had no way of fully grasping the thoughts of the little brats in this world, so he continued,

"But Xiao Rui, listen carefully. What I said was to properly plan your Martial Soul cultivation. You should know what kind of Martial Soul you have. If it is developed improperly, it will become a truly useless Martial Soul, and you may not even be able to break through to Soul Elder."

"Then how should I cultivate, Big Brother?"

Huo Rui looked at Ye Wen hopefully. In her eyes, Ye Wen could even devise a way for a useless Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul to cultivate to Soul Elder. Surely her Level 5 Innate Soul Power Heart Martial Soul could be developed with a fairly good cultivation method as well.

"Regarding that, although I would like to tell you directly, Soul Masters have their rules. For a useless Martial Soul like Lan Lan's, a little guidance is enough, because her future achievements will be very limited. But you are different. I cannot give you an excellent cultivation method for nothing. You must give me something of equal value in return.

"Because the rules of the Soul Master world forbid prying into others' cultivation methods. Every cultivation method is the crystallization of a Soul Master faction's wisdom. Either join a sect as a disciple or sign a contract of servitude; otherwise, ordinary Soul Masters will not teach you cultivation methods. And what you can learn in an academy are only the most basic cultivation methods. They may be fine for ordinary Martial Souls, but for a special Martial Soul like yours, they will only turn you into trash."

For the first time in her young life, the little girl was confronted with the harshness of this world. She could only clench the patched, tattered skirt in her fists and ask timidly,

"But I have nothing."

"No, you do." Ye Wen spoke decisively.

"Become my disciple. From this day onward, our lives and deaths will be bound together, and I will teach you the mysteries of your Martial Soul. In the future, you will become a Soul Saint at the very least.

"And I can tell you without hesitation: when it comes to your Martial Soul, no one in this world understands it better than I do."

Huo Rui was still too young to understand what taking a master meant in the Soul Master world. But having nothing, she said without the slightest hesitation,

"Alright. I'll take you as my master."

Seeing the determination in Huo Rui's eyes, Ye Wen's heart was moved as well.

He stood and walked over. Though he was only three years older than Huo Rui, Ye Wen was already nearly 1.7 meters tall. Like a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old older brother, he reached out and patted Huo Rui's head.

"Good. I, Ye Wen, accept you as my first disciple. From now on, you will call me Master."

"Yes, Master."