Yan Emperor Legacy, Innate Full Soul Power

"Flame Overlord martial soul, Innate Full Soul Power—Level Ten!"

Before the Awakening Stone at Spirit City Orphanage, Karls, the Soul King overseeing the ceremony, spoke in a deep voice that carried a rare tremor.

Before him, a red-haired youth slowly lowered his hand. The fiery patterns flowing beneath his skin due to his martial soul awakening quietly faded, leaving only a calmness in his eyes far beyond his years.

Level Ten. Innate Full Soul Power. A talent countless people dreamed of, yet it seemed incapable of stirring even the slightest ripple in the red-haired youth.

The room instantly erupted.

"Innate Full Soul Power? Our orphanage has produced someone with Innate Full Soul Power!"

"Flame Overlord—just hearing the name sounds so overbearing! That heat wave nearly knocked me over just now! Is this the suppression of a top-tier martial soul?"

"Xie Yue and Sister Nana only reached Level Nine..."

The watching children were flushed with excitement.

Most of them were orphaned children of soul masters, and they understood all too well what Innate Full Soul Power paired with a top-tier martial soul meant—it was a pass straight to the pinnacle of soul masters.

Xie Yue and Hu Liena, who had awakened early and been left waiting nearby, also stared intently at that figure.

Xie Yue's crimson eyes beneath his silver hair were filled with amazement. He said quietly, "Flame Overlord, dual fire-and-earth attributes. A top-tier martial soul combined with full innate soul power—Yan's future is limitless."

The difference between Level Nine and Innate Full Soul Power seemed to be only one level, but at the level of a Title Douluo, it might mean the difference between an ordinary Douluo and a Super Douluo.

Hu Liena said nothing, merely biting her lip.

Her pretty little face held a complicated expression—envy, shock, and a trace of grievance that even she herself had not noticed.

As she watched Yan calmly walk over, she recalled how, over the past year, he had increasingly avoided her. Either he went alone to the empty space in the rear courtyard to practice those strange postures, or he shut himself in the library for an entire afternoon.

"Brother," she asked softly, "does Yan hate me?"

Xie Yue gave a bitter smile. He did not know either.

Yan, who had once circled Nana all day long, had suddenly become like a different person a year ago.

Silent, solitary, frighteningly strong, with eyes so deep that no one could see through them.

Yan walked over and nodded at Xie Yue. His gaze swept over Hu Liena, but only touched upon her for an instant before moving away.

"Xie Yue, Nana."

His voice was calm, betraying no particular emotion.

After speaking, he moved to Xie Yue's other side, closed his eyes, and rested, as though the surrounding clamor had nothing to do with him.

Hu Liena clenched her tiny fists and turned her face away.

Yan could sense her emotions, yet he remained unmoved.

First, he did not want to concern himself with them. Second, he had to focus on suppressing the surging heat within his body, utterly different from Soul Power.

It was power from another world, now boiling from the stimulation of his martial soul awakening.

He was no longer the original Yan.

A year ago, he had transmigrated here as an ordinary young man from Blue Star, becoming one of Spirit Hall's future Golden Generation, while also foreseeing the bleak future of standing against Tang San, the child favored by destiny.

Just as he was considering how to break the deadlock, a second flood of memories, carrying boundless indignation and despair, crashed into his sea of consciousness.

They were the memories of a cosmic powerhouse from another world.

The Flame Emperor, the strongest member of the Yan God Clan in the world of Swallowed Star, a third-tier Lord of the Universe.

Defeated by Luo Feng, exiled to desolation, and ultimately annihilated in body and soul during the Reincarnation Cataclysm of the Primal Universe.

Only an undying obsession carrying all his memories and legacy crossed endless time and space, drawn here by Yan's Flame Overlord martial soul.

The Flame Emperor's consciousness had long since been worn away, but the remnant soul power contained within that obsession was still vast beyond measure to the current Yan.

That soul power, originating from the Flame Emperor's exceedingly high status, merged with Yan's mind and quietly transformed his soul and potential.

This was also the root of why he had awakened Innate Full Soul Power today. Otherwise, he would at most have possessed the same innate Level Nine Soul Power as Xie Yue and Hu Liena.

As one of the powerful races of the Swallowed World, the Yan God Clan was renowned throughout the universe not only because its leader, the Flame Emperor, was a Lord of the Universe, but also because of the clan's formidable physical gifts.

Over the year since obtaining the Yan Emperor Legacy, Yan had continuously cultivated the Yan God Body Refining Technique of the Yan God Clan, constantly strengthening his physique.

All of Yan's seemingly strange actions over the past year had stemmed from this.

The methods of the Swallowed World placed extremely high demands on comprehension and resources. The reason Yan occasionally went to the library was to search the books for body-refining resources he could use.

But the results had been meager. The orphanage library was simply too limited.

As for Hu Liena, Yan, who knew the plot of the original work, had long kept a respectful distance from her.

As Spirit Hall's future Saintess, her tendency to become love-struck could be said to be inherited directly from Bibi Dong.

Spirit Hall's Saintess line was simply too influential. Yan had no intention of becoming a simp as he had in the original work.

As for changing Hu Liena, he had neither the time nor the inclination.

He only wanted to seize this opportunity that transcended dimensions, use the Yan Emperor Legacy in this low-powered fantasy world to carve out a path to survival, and shatter that predetermined fate.

A year of bitter cultivation had begun to reveal its edge. Before his Soul Power had even begun, his physique was already complete.

He could feel the surging force beneath his flesh and skin, enough to clash head-on with a Power Attack Type Soul Grandmaster.

Even deeper within, the mental power that had continuously grown after merging with the Flame Emperor's remnant soul had made his soul strength far surpass that of his peers. He could even project it outward and vaguely sense the flow of surrounding energy.

The awakenings of the orphanage children continued.

Within Yan, who rested with his eyes closed, the Yan God Clan Cultivation Method was already circulating, calming the raging tide of energy caused by his martial soul awakening.

The cultivation systems of Douluo and Swallowed Star differed, yet beneath the vast foundation of the universe, both possessed Cosmic Origin Energy.

It was only that the cosmic energy of the Douluo World was far thinner than that of the Swallowed World.

Moreover, perhaps because he had not yet obtained a Soul Ring, his cultivation progress had slowed more and more as the year went on.

Yan guessed that this might be some sort of cultivation restriction brought about by the differences between the two world systems.

Perhaps only after obtaining his first Soul Ring would his cultivation speed recover.

The soul master awakenings soon ended. After all, this was an orphanage, and there were not many children of awakening age to begin with.

After the awakenings were complete, most of the children had awakened Soul Power. As one of Spirit Hall's reserve forces, they would naturally be taken back to a branch hall. Those who had failed to awaken Soul Power could only remain at the orphanage.

Both sides understood that from this moment onward, an insurmountable gulf had opened between their futures.

The children who had awakened Soul Power were personally taken by Karls to Spirit City's branch hall.

They would be raised as Spirit Hall's future soul masters and sent to Spirit Academy for instruction. After completing their studies and graduating, they would be assigned according to their strength and talent to Sub-Halls or branch halls in major cities, or would directly join Spirit Hall's own Soul Master Legion.