Dai Yuhao: I Swear by My Martial Soul-From Today On, I Join the Holy Spirit Cult and Will Be a Holy Spirit Man for Life!

Star Luo City, the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, and the surrounding hills.

Black rain poured down, drumming loudly as Dai Yuhao, who had yet to change his name to Huo Yuhao, knelt on the muddy hillside with both hands covered in blood.

He mechanically dug at the earth, his small face pale and blank. His fingernails had split, and blood mixed with rainwater as it seeped into the soil. Every scoop felt like he was digging into his own heart.

"Mother, go in peace. Once I reach the tenth level, I'll leave this place and go to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt down a Soul Ring. I'll become a Soul Master—a Soul Master capable of taking revenge for you..."

Weak from years of malnutrition, Dai Yuhao murmured in a hoarse voice that hardly sounded like a boy's. Deep hatred filled his dark-blue eyes.

"That Duchess who drove us mother and son into the woodshed, that second young master of the White Tiger Duke, Dai Huabin, who kicked you, all those people in the White Tiger Duke's Mansion who kicked us when we were down, and that White Tiger Duke who has always ignored us..."

Dai Yuhao counted off the villains in his memories one by one. His fists, slick with blood, clenched tightly. Hatred filled his chest and burst forth with his voice.

"I won't spare anyone who has hurt you! I'll become stronger. I have to become stronger. One day, I'll prove to that man that I can do everything he can do. I'll trample everyone in the White Tiger Duke's Mansion beneath my feet!

"Right now, I'm nothing more than an ant the White Tiger Duke's Mansion can crush at will. After I leave, I'll work desperately to grow stronger. I'll spend ten years, twenty years,