Martial Soul Awakening, Heavenly Phenomenon

Holy Soul Village's awakening ceremony this year, like those in previous years, was filled with a stifling atmosphere.

Su Yuntao looked at the children lined up before him and went through the motions of setting up the awakening ceremony.

One by one, the children's names were called, and they underwent the same awakening.

Undoubtedly, whether their Martial Souls were sickles or Blue Silver Grass, not a single one possessed Soul Power.

"Next, Lin Ming."

A boy in a washed-out cloth shirt stepped forward. Though his expression was incredibly calm, Su Yuntao could see the worry hidden in his eyes.

Su Yuntao had seen this look too many times.

For a commoner, the probability of awakening Soul Power was simply too, too low.

"Extend your hand," Su Yuntao sighed.

Lin Ming extended his hand.

As Su Yuntao guided his Soul Power, a dazzling golden lightning bolt burst forth, illuminating the entire room as if it were daylight.

Everyone instinctively closed their eyes and raised their hands to shield them.

"What!" Su Yuntao recoiled violently, his Soul Grand Master aura flaring.

But it was no use.

At the same time, outside, the sky began to darken at a visible rate.

Dark clouds appeared out of nowhere from all directions, gradually condensing into thunderclouds crackling with golden lightning.

Golden lightning danced within the clouds, but there was no thunder.

An incredibly terrifying pressure swept across the entire continent.

Inside the room, the space behind Lin Qiu tore open with a rift.

A figure spanning heaven and earth slowly walked out from within.

Its head was adorned with a lightning-cross star crown, and its chest and knees were inlaid with golden crosses.

Golden pauldrons were worn on its body, and its arm and leg armor had silver-white patterns.

Its entire body radiated golden holy light, and the destructive lightning that filled its body was now incredibly docile.

Wings of lightning on its back slowly unfurled, and golden-colored lightning swords with arcs of electricity swirled around it.

Sacred Thunder Lei Yi.

"A... God-tier Martial Soul?" Su Yuntao's voice was hoarse, his legs weak.

The terrifying Martial Soul before him reminded him of the oldest existence within the Martial Soul Hall from the depths of his memory.

This phantom figure existed for only half a breath.

It lowered its gaze to Lin Ming and then began to disintegrate.

The disintegrating Sacred Thunder phantom did not simply vanish but contracted and reformed inward.

Its height shrank from sky-high to about three meters, and its body also underwent some changes.

King Lei Yi.

Yet, everyone present felt a sudden pressure.

The feeling made it difficult for them to breathe, and they could only stare at Lin Ming and his Martial Soul.

The moment King Lei Yi appeared, due to the arcs of electricity in the air, all the metal objects in the room trembled slightly.

Like soldiers awaiting orders.

The divine Sacred Thunder Lei Yi regressed into the regal King Lei Yi.

This also caused all the Martial Souls in the room to return to their bodies at that instant, even Su Yuntao's.

The phantom gaze of King Lei Yi swept over each child. When its gaze passed Tang San, the left hand within Tang San's sleeve trembled violently.

It wasn't fear, but a hidden power within him had been forcibly resonated with.

The phantom of King Lei Yi existed for only one breath.

Then his body collapsed again.

This time, its height reduced to two meters, and the six floating lightning swords dissipated into specks of lightning.

Thunder God Lei Yi.

Its aura regressed from royalty to guardianship. Its hands hung naturally at its sides, but the lightning flickering at its fingertips could still easily tear through steel.

It turned its head and met Lin Ming's gaze.

Lin Ming clearly felt a consciousness flow into his mind.

It was not language, but a pure inheritance imprint.

It contained the essence of lightning, the path of evolution...

The phantom of Thunder God Lei Yi reached out, as if to touch Lin Ming's shoulder, but before it could, it dissolved into countless golden light spots.

All the light spots converged inward, forming a violently fluctuating golden thunderball in the center of the room.

The thunderball was one meter in diameter, with fine arcs of electricity constantly exploding on its surface.

Three seconds later, the thunderball stretched and took shape.

A humanoid silhouette, about thirty centimeters tall and entirely composed of pure golden lightning, hovered beside Lin Ming.

It had no facial features, no clothes, not even clear details of its limbs.

It was like a water trace drawn in the air with water, except the water was liquid lightning.

But at the location of its eyes, two clusters of white-gold lightning fire burned quietly, gazing at the world.

The entire awakening process, from the descent of the holy lightning to its current form, took no more than ten breaths.

Yet, everyone in the room felt as if a long hour had passed.

The anomaly in the sky began to dissipate, and sunlight once again streamed down.

However, in a cave near Holy Soul Village, an unusual Blue Silver Grass tilted towards the direction of Holy Soul Village's Martial Soul awakening.

Inside the house, there was deathly silence. Outside, if not for Old Jack's intervention, the adults would have already rushed in.

Su Yuntao snapped back to reality. He took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the storm in his heart.

He held the crystal ball and placed it in front of Lin Ming.

"Test... test your Soul Power..." his voice still trembled.

Lin Qiu placed his hand on the crystal ball. A tiny crack appeared on the sphere, and it suddenly erupted with a powerful light.

But the light lasted only for an instant before it dimmed, becoming lusterless again.

Su Yuntao felt as if he had misread and quickly rubbed his eyes.

A faint light glowed on the crystal ball, pale white, barely illuminating the area around his palm.

"Innate Soul Power... Level one..."

Su Yuntao read out the result in disbelief, a sense of immense absurdity washing over him.

The world-destroying anomaly just now, those three increasingly terrifying phantoms, had ultimately awakened a Martial Soul with only Level one Innate Soul Power?

This was unreasonable!

But he tested it three times, and the result was the same.

Level one.

"So that's how it is."

Only Lin Ming knew the truth.

When his hand touched the crystal ball, the surging Soul Power within him was indeed stirred, an innate super Soul Power potent enough to shatter the crystal ball.

However, the moment the Soul Power was about to surge into the crystal ball, the Soul Power within him was simultaneously absorbed by Lei Yi beside him.

It wasn't devouring.

Lin Ming could feel that the vast innate Soul Power within him was now quietly flowing into Lei Yi's lightning body, completely merging with it.

And only enough Soul Power for Level one remained within him.

Moreover...

He glanced sideways at the lightning body.

He could clearly sense that the lightning body seemed more solidified than before.

"Martial Soul registration, Lin Ming, Martial Soul: Disembodied Lightning Humanoid Creature..."

"Does it have a name?"

Su Yuntao paused his recording, looked up at Lin Qiu, his eyes filled with unconcealed regret.

Why was the Innate Soul Power only Level one?

Why was it only Level one?

This was simply absurd.

As expected.

No matter how spectacular the phenomenon during the Martial Soul awakening, in the end, it was like that Master's, a waste Martial Soul.

It didn't even have a physical form.

"Lei Yi."

Lin Ming looked up and softly uttered the name.