Innate Full Soul Power

"Seven-Orifice Lotus Seed? I've never heard of that! You didn't make up that name, did you?"

The deacon was puzzled. The name sounded rather unusual. How could an ordinary lotus seed dare call itself that?

Then he suddenly thought of another possibility: it might be a mutated Lotus Seed Martial Soul. No wonder he had never seen it before.

That had to be it.

This explanation perfectly accounted for why he did not recognize this Martial Soul.

Lin Feng froze, silently grumbling, Did you hear yourself? What do you mean, I made it up?

He did not even know how to refute that, because he had no idea what was going on himself.

"There's nothing special about it, though?"

He could not figure it out. He really could not.

Clearly, this had touched upon a gap in his knowledge.

Since he could not understand it, then by convention, it would naturally be treated as a useless Martial Soul.

He had worked hard, rushing through several villages, yet had not found even one child capable of cultivation. This trip had been for nothing.

After asking his questions, he shook his head to himself and made to leave.

He could not even be bothered to continue with the Soul Power test.

Lin Feng grew anxious at once. From the look of it, was he not planning to test his Soul Power?

How could that be allowed? Why was he being treated differently?

He quickly raised a hand and shouted:

"Um, Lord Soul Master, please wait! You haven't tested my Soul Power yet..."

How could his Martial Soul possibly be useless? He could not accept that.

He only had this one chance. Missing it would be troublesome.

The deacon glanced at Lin Feng, a flicker of impatience passing through his eyes.

But when he saw the hopeful look in Lin Feng's eyes, it seemed to stir what little sense of responsibility he had left. In the end, he still took out the crystal ball.

Fine, he would test it. It would only take a moment anyway.

"Here, put your hand on it..."

Something unexpected happened.

"Hum..."

The previously dim crystal ball suddenly erupted with an extraordinarily dazzling blue radiance.

The light instantly filled the entire little room. To the other children without Soul Power, it was even somewhat blinding.

"Ah!"

"My eyes!"

"So bright!"

A burst of noisy chatter followed.

The Spirit Hall deacon's eyes widened round, his mouth slightly agape, his face full of disbelief.

"Full Soul Power? Innate Full Soul Power? This... this makes no sense!"

How could an ordinary lotus seed possess Innate Full Soul Power?

After hearing that he possessed Innate Full Soul Power, the most excited person was undoubtedly Lin Feng himself.

Relief. Now he could finally relax.

His transmigration had not been in vain.

He knew it. His Martial Soul was definitely no ordinary thing.

Right now, he wanted to see the expression on the Spirit Hall deacon's face. Would it be shocked, or shocked?

A surge of satisfaction at proving everyone wrong suddenly rose in his heart.

He simply stood there quietly, watching the speechless Spirit Hall deacon.

After pondering for a while, the deacon took out paper and pen, asked Lin Feng for some basic information, and then filled out a Spirit Hall certificate.

"Here, kid. Keep this safe. You can take this certificate and enroll in a school..."

Even after thinking it over, the deacon still did not take this child with Full Soul Power seriously.

So what if he had Full Soul Power? That lotus seed had already been labeled a useless Martial Soul in his mind.

In ordinary people's eyes, Soul Masters could not possibly make mistakes.

If he changed his mind now, would that not be slapping himself in the face?

Lin Feng did not really care about the deacon's reaction.

As long as he had the certificate and the chance to enroll, that was enough. He did not need to ask for more.

He was only curious why, despite possessing Innate Full Soul Power, he had not received even a token invitation to join Spirit Hall.

At least make a gesture of it, right?

It felt as though something was missing. It was truly frustrating.

He had even thought that if possible, joining Spirit Hall would not be a bad choice.

At the very least, his future livelihood would be secure.

Now, it seemed there was no hope. They simply had not thought much of him.

He looked over the certificate, and after seeing the deacon's signature, his expression became quite strange.

So this Lord Soul Master's name was Su Yuntao.

He had a title: Blind Douluo.

Well, never mind then.

Shenma Village had not produced a Soul Master capable of cultivation for several decades.

Thus, the news that Lin Feng could cultivate became a major event in Shenma Village...

In the six years since coming to this world, the days before school began were the most luxurious period Lin Feng had ever experienced.

Overnight, the villagers collectively became enthusiastic, treating him like a young master.

They sent every kind of delicious food to his home in generous quantities.

He had meat at every meal and ate his fill every day. His complexion visibly became rosier.

And so, he idled away his days in the village until school began.

After enrolling.

As an orphan, Lin Feng had no source of income, and his life remained heartbreakingly impoverished.

Although his status as a work-study student exempted him from tuition, he still had to pay for his meals himself.

The meager subsidy from Spirit Hall, along with the old village chief's occasional assistance, became what he relied on to survive.

Living on cheap food, he struggled through the six years of cultural and theoretical classes at the junior Soul Master Academy.

During those years, hunger was a constant companion.

Going hungry for two days out of every three was normal. When he truly had nothing to eat, he could only gulp down cold water to fool his empty stomach.

Winter was especially difficult. The cold water he swallowed seemed to freeze instantly into icy shards in his stomach, making his entire body shiver.

He was so thin that he was little more than skin and bones. Even stray dogs by the roadside disdainfully walked around him.

In the dead of night, he would curl up on his cold bed and silently complain:

Why hadn't I encountered a benefactor descending from the heavens like the Protagonists in storybooks? Was my fate not miserable enough?

Was that kind of treatment truly a privilege reserved for the Protagonist group?

He felt like a shadow deliberately forgotten in some corner, utterly without presence.

Just like the most ordinary passerby.

Even though he had enrolled with the talent of Innate Full Soul Power, the arrogance ingrained in those students from noble families made them disdain commoners, let alone befriend them.

For a time, Lin Feng felt completely out of place among them simply because he was not wealthy enough.

He was proud as well. Since that was how things were, he could not be bothered to curry favor with those little brats who looked down their noses at everyone.

This impoverished and lonely life continued until his Martial Soul began to reveal its edge. Only then did the academy's upper ranks take some notice of him, and his life improved slightly.

After successfully attaching his first Soul Ring, his Martial Soul underwent its first change.

A second pattern quietly lit up on that Seven-Orifice Lotus Seed, and the golden light on its surface grew a little richer!

This change initially surprised Lin Feng, but it also gave him a vague new expectation for his Martial Soul.

It was not until he attached his second Soul Ring that he gained a more complete understanding of the Seven-Orifice Lotus Seed Martial Soul.

He had always believed that his Martial Soul was extraordinary, and that was indeed the case. It was even a hidden, top-tier growth-type Martial Soul!

With every Soul Ring successfully attached and every breakthrough beyond a Soul Ring rank limit, the Seven-Orifice Lotus Seed Martial Soul would light up one additional pattern. Every pattern illuminated would directly double his basic strength and cultivation speed from their original baseline!

By the time he broke through to Soul Grandmaster, the Seven-Orifice Lotus Seed Martial Soul had already lit up three patterns.

This meant that his strength and cultivation speed were already three times those of others!

With these enhancements, Lin Feng rapidly overtook everyone on the curve.

Whether in Actual Combat ability or the speed at which his Soul Power increased, he far surpassed his peers and gradually earned the title of genius within the academy.

The academy finally began to truly value him, exempting him from menial duties and providing some support for his daily life, essentially a special scholarship.

Only then did his precarious, impoverished life finally gain a little breathing room, sparing him from struggling to survive through hunger and cold.