I Have One More Ring Than Others

"Another one driven stupid by the blow! It's too hard for commoners to change their fate! That's why I joined Spirit Hall long ago."

Su Yuntao shook his head, turned, and headed outside. There was no need to waste any more time.

"Wait, my Soul Power hasn't been tested yet!"

Seeing Su Yuntao about to leave, Tang Jiu hurriedly stopped him. He still wanted another surprise. According to Master, Twin Martial Souls would definitely come with Innate Full Soul Power, but what if he had Innate Soul Power at level twenty, like Qian Renxue?

Or maybe even Innate Soul Power at level thirty, letting him reach the pinnacle of life right away?

A surprise was still worth looking forward to.

"What's the point of testing it? Even if you have Innate Full Soul Power, what can a mutated useless martial soul achieve? It would only waste your talent," Su Yuntao snorted.

Tang Jiu was truly angry this time. Your arrogance was your own business, but constantly feeding people poisonous motivational nonsense was crossing the line. First, he had lashed out at kind Old Jack, then he had fed Tang San the same poisonous nonsense.

To be honest, if Tang San had not been a strong man in his past life, Su Yuntao might have crushed his fighting spirit.

Tang Jiu's face turned cold, and he immediately fired back, "You're just a level twenty-six cannon fodder. What do you know about the power of Innate Full Soul Power? Even if Third Brother's martial soul is Blue Silver Grass, as long as he can cultivate, once he reaches Soul Sage, he won't even need one finger to crush a tiny Soul Grandmaster like you! Remember this: there are only useless soul masters, never useless martial souls!"

"Blue Silver Grass, that useless martial soul, can cultivate to Soul Sage? Then I'd have become a Titled Douluo long ago!" Su Yuntao sneered.

"Just because you can't do it doesn't mean others can't! Don't use your narrow-minded values to pollute other people's dreams and ambitions. If you can't do it, that only proves you're useless—it doesn't mean this is a dead end! I'm telling you, Blue Silver Grass can become the strongest martial soul too!" Tang Jiu shot back.

The surrounding children were dumbfounded. Tang Jiu was usually rather frightening when he carried that huge hammer, but this was a noble soul master. How could country children from commoner families dare offend him?

"You dare call me useless! Boy, I'll teach you the most important rule for surviving in this world: you must learn to respect the strong!" Su Yuntao felt Tang Jiu's words were far too vicious. He had to teach this brat a lesson.

Soul Power pressed down on Tang Jiu. "Kneel!"

"Fuck you!"

Tang Jiu was furious. In his previous life, he had spent every day courting death, his adrenaline constantly surging. He often got carried away and did all kinds of unbelievable things. He had even risked his life fighting cannibals. He had never feared anyone. What he loved most was that thrill between life and death!

Gritting his teeth, he lifted the Casting Hammer, which was as tall as he was, and hurled it at Su Yuntao.

"You dare hurt Little Jiu! Extreme Demon Eye!"

The instant Su Yuntao made his move, Tang San had judged him an enemy according to the general outline of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record. The Extreme Demon Eye activated, catching Su Yuntao's movements as a pebble shot straight toward his eye.

Tang San was an absolute expert, and his timing was perfect. Just as Tang Jiu's flying Casting Hammer was about to strike, Su Yuntao dodged the pebble, leaving himself completely defenseless against Tang Jiu's hammer!

Bang!

The two-hundred-pound Casting Hammer carried terrifying momentum as it struck Su Yuntao squarely in the chest, sending the careless level twenty-six Battle Spirit Master flying backward and smashing heavily into the wall. If Su Yuntao had not been in Beast Spirit possession, that blow would have broken his ribs!

Even so, he did not feel well. There was surely a hammer-shaped bruise on his chest. Just as Su Yuntao was about to seriously teach the two boys a lesson, a heavy cough rang out. Soul Power like a tidal wave crashed into his heart like a massive hammer. His chest tightened, and blood rushed up his throat.

To maintain his cool and aloof image, Su Yuntao forcibly swallowed the mouthful of blood.

"Huh, that sounded like Dad just now." Tang San felt that the imposing voice seemed strangely familiar.

"Probably not. The old man usually feels like he only has one more breath than a corpse. How could he sound so full of vigor?"

Tang Jiu hurriedly covered for him. Tang Hao's identity could not be exposed casually. He had killed the previous Pope, and Tang Jiu did not want to be hunted down by a group of Titled Douluo before he had even begun making his way through this world!

Su Yuntao understood now that this village contained an expert. That person had nearly made him cough up blood with Soul Power alone. It was terrifying, and he only wanted to leave as soon as possible.

He took out the crystal ball and tested Tang Jiu's Soul Power. Though Tang San had prepared him somewhat, when the crystal ball lit up again, he still stared with his mouth hanging open in shock.

"Another Innate Full Soul Power!"

At that moment, Su Yuntao was utterly devastated. He would absolutely not admit that his own Innate Soul Power had only been level two! Comparing people really could make one furious. Awakening a damn egg could still result in Innate Full Soul Power—was this egg supposed to fly into the sky or something?

When Su Yuntao walked out of the Spirit Hall Branch with a dark face, Old Jack hurried after him to ask. Full of sour jealousy, Su Yuntao said, "They both have Innate Full Soul Power!"

"Really?" Old Jack nearly jumped into the air.

"Unfortunately, they both have useless martial souls! What a waste of such good talent," Su Yuntao added viciously.

Old Jack nearly choked to death on one breath. Sighing mournfully, he saw Su Yuntao off, then personally escorted Tang Jiu and Tang San home before launching into a round of complaints at Tang Hao.

"You slovenly bastard, it's all your fault! You didn't pass down a good martial soul to them!"

"What did they awaken?" Tang Hao asked.

"Blue Silver Grass."

Tang Hao's body immediately stiffened, and a trace of bitterness appeared on his face. Seeing this, Old Jack snorted. "See? Even you know you should be ashamed. It would have been fine even if they'd awakened a hammer!"

Tang Hao's face turned completely dark. Pointing at the door, he said, "Get out!"

"Such a waste of two fine seedlings!" Old Jack glared at Tang Hao, then slowly left.

"Dad, I actually awakened a hammer," Tang San said.

Tang Hao's expression worsened. He had just been about to scold him when he saw the hammer martial soul in Tang San's left hand. He froze completely. "Twin Martial Souls!"

He pulled Tang San into an embrace, tears streaming down his face. "Son, my good son!"

At that moment, Tang San finally felt that he truly was his father's biological son! Yet he could not understand why his father was crying so sadly.

"Um, Dad, I awakened Twin Martial Souls too!" Tang Jiu said, immediately activating his martial souls. At the very least, he wanted the well-traveled Clear Sky Douluo to take a look and see what this thing was.

"This is an egg?" Tang Hao looked at it, somewhat speechless, then turned to Tang Jiu. "Little Jiu, where is your other martial soul?"

"Dad, you can't see it either? It's on my right hand—a transparent ring of light!"

"A ring of light?" Tang Hao was even more confused. He had a faint guess about the egg and could understand it somewhat, but what was this ring of light?

"Can you describe exactly what this ring of light looks like?" Tang Hao asked.

"I realized it seems exactly the same as a spirit ring, except it has no color! Do you think it could actually be a spirit ring?" Tang Jiu asked expectantly.

"A martial soul that is a spirit ring? How is that possible?" Tang Hao was stunned by the guess. If a spirit ring were a martial soul, that would be utterly heaven-defying!

After all, martial souls had inherent functions. Food martial souls could be eaten, sword martial souls could cut down enemies—so if a Spirit Ring Spirit were placed around one's body, would that not instantly give him one more ring than everyone else?