The Undead Empire's Foundations, the Coming Apotheosis

Divine arts.

Their greatest strength was how quickly they could be learned and put into practice.

As long as one's faith was devout enough and one was not stupid, combat effectiveness could be developed rapidly.

Under the Sacred Monarch's guidance, the first divine art learned by these believers—the first to follow him in cultivating divine arts—was the Awakening Art.

As its name implied, the Awakening Art existed for Martial Soul Awakening.

It used the power of Holy Light to stimulate the soul, directly achieving the effect of awakening one's Martial Soul.

It not only eliminated the time-consuming, strenuous, and extremely deadly life-and-death stimulation, but also saved the time and materials needed to refine Awakening Stones.

Besides, this divine art could be practiced by grabbing anyone whose Martial Soul had yet to awaken.

Failure did not matter, while success meant one more Martial Soul wielder.

Why not?

Beyond its practical use and ease of learning, there was another benefit to practicing the Awakening Art from the outset.

It allowed them to train more while rapidly improving the natives' ability to protect themselves, incidentally boosting productivity as well.

Based on the Martial Soul Projection Theory and the results of practical investigation, it was not difficult to discover that even the natives of the New Continent awakened Martial Souls that already existed on the Douluo Continent.

Production tools such as hoes, sickles, and hammers; weapons such as sabers, spears, swords, and halberds; even Food System Martial Souls like steamed buns and candy beans—all of these also existed on New Continent Number One.

There were simply far too few of them.

Most awakenings were Beast Martial Souls and Plant Martial Souls. Weapon Martial Souls, Support Martial Souls, and Food System Martial Souls were exceedingly rare.

So far, not a single Body Martial Soul wielder