Awakening Martial Souls, Destructive Life

Six years flew by.

Zi Yao, once a child, had grown into an immature young boy. He had inherited the God of Destruction's white hair and purple eyes, with delicate, adorable features. He was practically the kind of cute little boy beloved by young and old alike.

Beside him, a twin-tailed little girl with emerald hair and golden eyes clung tightly to him. Her pretty face was filled with blissful serenity, and glistening drool at the corner of her mouth was about to drip onto his face.

"Xue'er, Xiao Yao, hehe, stop competing for my affection..."

Black lines appeared across Zi Yao's forehead.

There was no need to think about it. Just hearing those lines told him what Ice Empress was dreaming about.

He leaned close to Ice Empress's ear and whispered, "Sister Bing'er, Sister Xue'er is here."

Ice Empress immediately jolted awake, hurriedly wiping the drool from the corner of her mouth.

Seeing Zi Yao struggle to hold back his laughter, she instantly realized what had happened and snapped, "You little brat, you actually dared to tease me? You're asking for a beating!"

She pounced on Zi Yao and pinned him beneath her, and the two immediately began fooling around.

"Enough. Stop messing around. Today is the day Xiao Yao awakens his Martial Soul."

Snow Empress suddenly appeared, dressed in a pure-white ice gown. There was a trace of displeasure on her aloof, peerlessly beautiful face.

Ice Empress's petite build had its advantages. When she played around with Zi Yao, they looked as though they were the same age.

Snow Empress could not do that. Even when she shrank herself to her smallest height, she was still nearly two meters tall, vastly different from Xiao Yao, who was only six. Even when holding him while sleeping, she had to be extremely careful, much less ride on him and play around like Ice Empress did.

She took out six awakening stones and infused them with soul power.

The Six-Star Array blazed brightly.

Zi Yao stepped into the star array. Specks of golden light entered his body, circulating through his meridians and acupoints.

The golden light eventually gathered on the backs of his hands, gradually condensing into Martial Soul patterns.

On his left hand was an inverted brownish-gold V-shaped mark, overflowing with the purest Life Origin Power.

On his right hand was a black-red triangular mark, containing the purest Destruction Origin Power.

Have the two great Origin Powers within my body become Twin Martial Souls...?

His heart turned solemn.

He who wished to wear the crown must bear its weight.

There was no denying that these two powers were immensely strong, but if they ever fell out of balance and ran wild within his body, he would die without a burial place. Even if the two God Kings intervened, they would be unable to save him.

After all, once fused, these two powers would become the authority of creation itself, already half a step beyond the limits of a God King.

"What powerful forces!"

Even the usually composed Snow Empress lost her composure.

As one with the Extreme Ice attribute, she could be considered among the continent's very best when it came to elemental origins.

Yet before these Origin Powers, she seemed utterly insignificant.

Whether it was the green light from his left hand or the purple light from his right, both seemed capable of affecting her. This alone showed how incredibly high the status of these two Origin Powers was.

Suddenly, the two Origin Powers in his hands began climbing from the backs of his hands, until even half of his body was covered in brownish-gold and Purple Black patterns.

The heavens and earth immediately erupted with strange phenomena. Purple and green formed a gigantic vortex, as though it would swallow the entire Extreme North.

"Ah!!"

The irreconcilable struggle between the two forces inside his body left him in unbearable agony.

He tried to mediate them with soul power, only to discover it was completely useless. A battle between two God King-level origins was simply beyond his control.

He also understood why the two Origin Powers were fighting.

When Soul Masters awakened their Martial Souls, it generally happened through the bloodline and power within their bodies.

He possessed two Origin Powers, so awakening Twin Martial Souls was only natural.

The best-case scenario for Twin Martial Souls was for their attributes to be similar and complementary.

Bibi Dong's twin Spider Emperor Martial Souls were like that.

Tang San's Twin Martial Souls were not theoretically a particularly good match, and his Innate Full Soul Power had also been cultivated through the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

As for his own Twin Martial Souls, they were even more incompatible than fire and water. Neither would submit to the other, and both wanted to completely suppress the other and become the sole Martial Soul of this body.

"Xue'er, what should we do?"

The usually fierce and domineering Ice Empress was completely flustered.

At this moment, it was not merely because of the promise she had made to that Mysterious Person.

More importantly, over the six years they had spent together, she and Zi Yao had formed a deep bond.

Soul Beast cultivation was often dull and monotonous; they followed the law of natural selection, where the strong preyed upon the weak.

Yet the appearance of this adorable little fellow, Zi Yao, had undoubtedly given her a touch more human emotion. For the first time, she cared about a living being other than the Snow Empress.

"I..."

The Snow Empress was equally at a loss.

In the end, she hardened her heart and summoned her own Origin Power—Extreme Ice—in an attempt to suppress the conflict between the two powers.

Her Extreme Ice was indeed formidable; even a Limit Douluo would find it difficult to withstand.

But it was only Extreme Ice at the mortal level. Without being elevated by divine power from the God Realm, it did not even have the right to shake a God King-level origin.

The leaking Destruction Power even invaded her origin, causing her to cough up a mouthful of blood.

"Xue'er!"

"I'm fine. I just need to rest for a while."

The Snow Empress wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, her eyes fixed tightly on the two powers within Zi Yao's body as though searching for a solution.

Zi Yao, trapped in agony, was also thinking frantically.

Direct contact between two opposing Origin Powers would cause them to run rampant. Could he find a vessel for them, allowing the two Origin Powers to remain apart for the time being?

Once he became stronger in the future, he could then search for a way to fuse Destructive Life.

At this critical moment, he tentatively used his Spiritual Power to observe the Tai Chi diagram in his mind, trying to use it to temporarily calm the conflict between the two origins.

Everything in the world was divided into Yin and Yang, and Tai Chi was undoubtedly the supreme method of balancing Yin and Yang.

Gradually, the origins of the two Martial Souls both settled down, each occupying one of his hands, though neither formed the image of a Martial Soul.

Zi Yao frowned, unable to understand what was happening.

If not for the conflict between the two Origin Powers, he should have awakened his parents' Super Divine Weapons—the Ancient Life Tree and the Scepter of Destruction—as two super god-level Martial Souls.

Unfortunately, their conflict was too severe, even interrupting the process through which his Bloodline Power condensed his Martial Souls.

Yet once the two great Martial Souls successfully condensed, the balance he had painstakingly created with Tai Chi would instantly collapse, and the two origins would inevitably make his body explode.

In truth, he had descended from the God Realm. The origins of Life Destruction were his true talent; the so-called Martial Souls were merely the rigid cultivation rules of this plane.

Under normal circumstances, in other lower planes, he could have become a powerhouse of his generation by relying solely on the two great Origin Powers.

"Xiao Yao, what is this?" the Snow Empress asked as she stepped forward worriedly.

Zi Yao truthfully explained everything.

"Then doesn't that mean you have no Martial Soul? Are you going to cultivate like us Soul Beasts? But you don't have that much lifespan..."

The Ice Empress looked astonished.

A Human Soul Master without a Martial Soul—this was probably the first time such a thing had existed since the dawn of creation!

"It's fine. Even without a Martial Soul, I can still cultivate Soul Power normally."

"As for a Martial Soul... I know of a rather special Soul Beast. It might be able to help me condense one."

Zi Yao said calmly.

He planned to find a vessel for the two Origin Powers so they would not have to clash head-on. Once his strength increased in the future, he could consider how to fuse Destructive Life into one.

He was too weak right now, utterly unable to control and suppress the two origins.

He knew that the current Douluo Continent had a Soul Beast that was exceptionally suitable. If he absorbed it, it would surely be able to temporarily contain the two origins.