The title of First Killing Spear was not something Sima Yan had earned for himself, but something he had inherited.
This inheritance had not come from his grandfather, father, or master, but from a battle soul enshrined by the Battle Soul Hall.
What the Battle Soul Hall enshrined were the battle souls of commanders, marshals, and great generals who had tragically fallen in countless wars since ancient times.
The battle souls enshrined by the Battle Soul Hall differed from the Ancient God War Spirits enshrined by the Barbarian Spirit Hall.
The Ancient God War Spirits enshrined by the Barbarian Spirit Hall were beings whose origin spirits had survived after grave injuries or death. Relying on their powerful origin spirits and secret treasures, they concealed their auras through slumber to evade their enemies' pursuit.
At the same time, they used slumber to recover from their incomparably severe injuries over the long years. To put it bluntly, they were merely remnant souls.
Battle souls, however, were different. Not every commander or general possessed the qualifications to become one.
To become a battle soul, aside from being powerful oneself, one also needed tremendous influence and cohesion among the soldiers.
Only those generals whose blades pointed forth, whose banners led the way, and for whom ten thousand troops and horses charged forward one after another beneath a rain of arrows could possibly become battle souls after death.
A battle soul was more a kind of obsession, a kind of will.
After a general and the countless soldiers who followed him had died in battle, the accompanying priests of the Ancestral God Hall used Secret Arts to gather the obsessions and battle intent they held at death. Taking the general's will as its skeletal frame and the soldiers' battle intent and obsessions as its flesh