Innate Level Twenty?! Work-Study Student Tang San: Humiliation, Utter Humiliation!

After saying that, Su Yuntao did not linger. He pushed open the door and left.

Only the young Tang San remained where he stood, his fists clenched so tightly they had turned white.

[Real World Audience Seats]

Tang San watched himself being sentenced to "death" on the screen, yet a cold smile curled across his lips.

"Useless?

Hmph, Su Yuntao, you're merely a Soul Grandmaster in your twenties. What could you possibly know of my foundations?"

"I have the Mysterious Heaven Skill. I have Twin Martial Souls!

And in my left hand, I also have the Clear Sky Hammer!"

Tang San frantically consoled himself inwardly, trying to use those secrets to build up his sense of superiority.

Tang San looked toward the right side of the Heavenly Screen, his eyes blazing with a fierce desire to win.

"Tang Shan! Even if you are a God Son, even if you ride in a Nine Dragon Pulling Carriage, the limit of Soul Power is still Level Ten!

That is the iron law of the Douluo Continent!

And in this most crucial regard, I, Tang San, am absolutely no weaker than you!"

However, just as he had established this small psychological defense.

The Heavenly Screen on the right seemed determined to slap him in the face, erupting with a commotion ten thousand times more terrifying than the Nine Dragon Pulling Carriage from before!

[Current World · Clear Sky Sect · Awakening Plaza]

On the screen, Tang Shan slowly walked to the center of the Awakening Array beneath countless watchful eyes.

The one responsible for awakening his Martial Soul was not some Soul Grandmaster deacon, but his biological father—Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Hao!

Even Howling Sky Douluo Tang Xiao, the previous Sect Master Tang Tian, and several elders at the Titled Douluo level personally stood guard nearby!

Was this even an awakening ceremony? It was practically an altar for a god descending into the world!

"Shan'er, are you ready?"

Tang Hao looked at his son, his eyes full of affection and anticipation.

"Begin, Father."

Tang Shan smiled faintly, utterly composed.

As Tang Hao poured in his Soul Power, the Awakening Array instantly shone with dazzling light!

[BOOM—!!!]

This time, it was no longer a faint glow, but a golden pillar of light that shot straight into the heavens!

The entire Clear Sky Sect, even the skies within a hundred miles, changed color at that moment!

Within that golden radiance, an enormous hammer as black as ink slowly emerged, wrapped in golden lightning!

But that was not the end!

Beside the giant hammer, there was actually a crystalline Blue Silver Emperor, radiating rich vitality!

[Twin Martial Souls! Awakened Simultaneously!]

But that still was not the main point!

What truly left everyone breathless was that, with the appearance of those two Martial Souls, the specially made Crystal Ball used to test Soul Power shattered the instant Tang Shan placed his hand on it—

[CRACK!!!]

It broke!

It exploded directly into powder!

[Narration: Current World Tang Shan awakened his Martial Souls—Ultimate Destruction "Meteor Hammer" & Ultimate Life "Blue Silver Emperor"!]

[Innate Soul Power Level: Twenty! Innate Super Soul Power!]

Dead silence.

A deathly silence blanketed the entire Elite Tournament venue.

Tang San, who had just tried to preserve his last shred of dignity with "Twin Martial Souls" and the "Mysterious Heaven Skill," now looked as though a bolt from the blue had struck the crown of his head. His entire body was stiff as a stone statue.

"Tw... Twenty?"

Tang San's lips trembled. A dry clacking sound came from his throat, his eyes filled with confusion and existential doubt.

"Didn't Teacher say... Innate Full Soul Power was the limit for a Soul Master?"

"Didn't Teacher say... no one in this world had ever possessed Innate Soul Power above Level Ten?"

Tang San instinctively looked toward Yu Xiaogang beside him.

However, Yu Xiaogang, the so-called "Master" whose theories were supposedly unrivaled, looked even worse than Tang San at that moment.

Yu Xiaogang stared fixedly at the shattered Crystal Ball on the Heavenly Screen, cold sweat pouring down like rain as he muttered neurotically.

"Impossible... This doesn't conform to the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul... This defies common sense... The Heavenly Screen must be wrong, it must be..."

The theoretical system Master had been so proud of appeared utterly pale and powerless before that shattered Crystal Ball—almost laughable.

The gazes cast their way had originally been merely curious, but now they had turned into naked mockery aimed at the master and disciple pair.

Over there, they had "Ultimate Destruction" combined with "Ultimate Life," starting at Level Twenty and directly saving years of grueling cultivation for ordinary Soul Masters and even genius Soul Masters!

And what did you, Tang San, have?

You clung to a useless Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and had to rely on a stolen Mysterious Heaven Skill just to barely achieve Innate Full Soul Power, yet you actually took it as a trump card and felt proud of it?

"This is what a true favored son of heaven looks like..."

Ning Fengzhi looked at the high-spirited Tang Shan on the right side of the Heavenly Screen, his eyes full of envy.

"If such a genius had been born into my Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, I would have raised him even if it bankrupted the sect!"

Sword Douluo Chen Xin also nodded slightly, his gaze sharp.

"That mutated Meteor Hammer is the perfect fusion of destruction and strength. Its quality has likely already surpassed the original Clear Sky Hammer.

And that Blue Silver Emperor—its aura alone makes one feel brimming with life.

This child is terrifying beyond measure!"

Listening to the evaluations from the powerful figures around him, Tang San felt his chest tighten and sweetness rise in his throat. He nearly spat out a mouthful of blood.

The Twin Martial Souls he had been so proud of were like a counterfeit facing an authentic masterpiece before Tang Shan's already mutated and evolved supreme Martial Souls!

Yet the Heavenly Screen's "execution" was still continuing.

As the awakening ceremony concluded, the scene shifted once more. That icy mechanical voice hammered against Tang San's heart like a heavy mallet.

[Comparison Continues!]

[Event Four: Obtaining the First Soul Ring and Academy Life!]

[Original World: The Humiliation of a Work-Study Student VS Current World: The Young Sect Master's Training!]

The screen split into two.

[Original World]

After the awakening ceremony, Old Jack took the village's sole Work-Study Student quota and set out with Tang San for Nuoding City.

Along the way, Tang San carried a battered bundle filled with a few patched-up clothes.

Upon arriving at the gates of Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, his shabby attire caused the Gatekeeper to stop and harass him, hurling verbal insults at him.

"Get lost, get lost!

Where did this little beggar come from?

This is a Soul Master Academy, not a place for country bumpkins like you!"

The Gatekeeper's ugly face was magnified countless times on the Heavenly Screen.

The young Tang San swallowed his anger and humiliation, nearly attacking him. In the end, Master Yu Xiaogang appeared and resolved the situation.

After that, Tang San moved into the noisy, overcrowded Dorm Seven, fought a group of children over who would be the boss, and had to clean to offset his tuition.

To obtain his First Soul Ring, Master took him to the lowest-ranked Soul Hunting Forest.

The two had no powerful guards and could only wander cautiously around the outskirts, while also remaining wary of ambushes from other Soul Masters.

At night, they slept in tents and ate dry rations and radishes.

In the end, they finally encountered a four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake. The master and disciple were left in a miserable state, Master nearly lost his life, and they only barely managed to kill it after Tang San launched a sneak attack with hidden weapons.

Watching his dirty, bedraggled self risk his life for a mere century-old Soul Ring, Tang San closed his eyes in anguish.