Soul King

This excuse was practically perfunctory. Even when Resak heard it for the first time, he could not help frowning slightly.

Yet Yan's situation truly had no precedent. Just as he had said, he possessed four Soul Rings beyond their age limits, with his third Soul Ring even reaching the unprecedented ten-thousand-year level.

Such talent genuinely seemed capable of triggering Martial Soul Evolution.

Moreover, Yan's Martial Soul form had indeed changed. In particular, the fire-element power now possessed by the Flame Overlord carried an overbearing force that seemed capable of incinerating all things.

Even advanced fire-element Soul Masters facing Yan could at most wield sixty or seventy percent of their strength. Their flames were severely suppressed and simply could not display their proper might.

Soul Masters of other attributes fared somewhat better, but Yan's Ultimate Fire was simply too powerful, leaving them almost entirely suppressed.

The sheer power displayed by those flames was nearly even more astonishing than the sacred flames of the Six-Winged Angel.

Yan insisted that his Martial Soul had evolved, and whether they wished to accept it or not, they had no choice but to do so.

Spirit Hall even specifically dispatched Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo together to inspect Yan's condition.

Yue Guan was exceptionally sensitive to the aura of immortal herbs, yet under Yan's deliberate concealment, he could only return empty-handed.

In the end, they could only acknowledge Yan's explanation.

And so, just after Yan passed the threshold of fourteen, the youngest Soul King in the history of Spirit Hall—and indeed the entire Soul Master world—was born.

Fourteen years old, a Soul King.

When that age became linked with that title, the impact was enough to leave anyone who heard it speechless before plunging them into a long, almost absurd daze.

Looking through Spirit Hall's ten thousand years of collected records and the continent's long history, when had there ever been such a shocking account?

Among ordinary geniuses, reaching Soul Grandmaster at fourteen was already exceedingly rare.

For supreme prodigies, such as the Pope's personal disciples, reaching Soul Elder at fourteen would already be enough to shake the upper ranks.

Yet Yan, a boy born a commoner with no distinguished background whatsoever, had single-handedly raised the definition of genius to a height that filled others with despair.

Spirit Hall had long held the view that, due to their extraordinary talent and strength far surpassing their peers, Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena should be known together as Spirit Hall's Golden Generation.

Compared to the other geniuses of Spirit Hall's younger generation, Xie Yue and Hu Liena could indeed be considered part of the Golden Generation.

But the talent and strength Yan displayed now completely overwhelmed the two of them. Among the three, he alone was the true Golden Generation.

The strength of a Soul King was already enough to serve as a teacher in an academy.

Within Pope Palace, Bibi Dong held the detailed report on Yan jointly signed by Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo.

Her fingertips lingered for a long time over the line: "The quality of his flames appears to have undergone sublimation and qualitative transformation. They can naturally suppress advanced Soul Masters of the same attribute and possess extremely strong resistance against different attributes."

She raised her deep eyes and looked toward the rolling sea of clouds beyond the hall. Only after a long while did she slowly say, "This child will surely achieve great things. His future is limitless."

Those words were like a final verdict, laying an unshakable foundation for Yan's standing within Spirit Hall.

At the same time, they meant that this Pope of Spirit Hall, who had already accepted the divine trial and would one day inherit the Rakshasa God's divine position, had finally been shaken by the talent and strength Yan displayed.

She had even begun to consider in secret whether Yan might have a chance of becoming a god in the future if he could maintain the pace at which his talent and strength had grown.

Meanwhile, within Spirit Hall's Advanced Academy, the help the academy could offer Yan had become negligible.

After breaking through to Soul King, Yan had completely become an extraordinary presence within Spirit Hall's Advanced Academy.

Spirit Hall's training of Yan was no longer limited to Spirit Hall's Advanced Academy.

Chrysanthemum Douluo took him to train in Death Canyon, a secret cultivation ground controlled by Spirit Hall.

It was Spirit Hall's most brutal testing ground, with no rules and no protection.

The soul beasts wandering within, influenced by the special environment, were far more bloodthirsty, cunning, and powerful than their counterparts outside.

Then there was the extreme natural environment, which at times was even more dangerous than the bloodthirsty soul beasts.

The half-year trial had once caused Yan quite a few difficulties.

But it proved highly effective in tempering his fist techniques and movement techniques.

Through his understanding of the Flame Fall Fist Technique, Yan not only raised Flame Fall to tenfold force.

He also used the Ultimate Fire and the fiery artistic conception contained within the Flame Fall Fist Technique to further perfect his Red Lotus Domain.

Although he was still some distance from breaking through to the second level of his domain, its power had increased once more.

Afterward, under Spirit Hall's arrangements, Yan entered a Soul Master corps affiliated with Spirit Hall to undergo various forms of training.

He also went deep into Spirit Hall's subordinate Sub-Halls and main halls, gaining a thorough understanding of the rules governing Spirit Hall's operations within the cities.

This was no longer simply training Yan as a genius.

They were training Yan as one of Spirit Hall's future upper echelons.

Yan clearly sensed this change and did not reject it.

It was only a pity that throughout this training, Yan had never heard anything about Slaughter City.

Or rather, his apparent understanding of Slaughter City, like that of everyone else in Spirit Hall, remained limited to knowing it as a gathering place for Fallen Soul Masters.

Neither Bibi Dong nor Yue Guan had ever mentioned the deeper secrets concerning Slaughter City and the Hell Slaughter Arena.

This meant they had no intention of allowing Yan to obtain Divine Slaughter's Domain.

Yan knew that the so-called Divine Slaughter's Domain was far more than merely a domain.

On the surface, it was Slaughter City's reward for Soul Masters who achieved one hundred victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena.

In truth, it was a method used by the Asura God to select an inheritor.

Although Slaughter City had been invaded by the Rakshasa God, the true purpose of Divine Slaughter's Domain had never changed.

After Tang Chen's death in the original story, Tang San was noticed by the Asura God precisely because of Divine Slaughter's Domain and was ultimately chosen as the inheritor of the divine position.

Yan believed that perhaps Bibi Dong also understood the true significance behind the existence of Slaughter City and Divine Slaughter's Domain.

He even suspected that Bibi Dong had most likely obtained the Rakshasa God's inheritance in Slaughter City.

Does she think I am unqualified, or does she still intend to send Hu Liena to Slaughter City for training?

Yan thought to himself.

In the original story, although going to Slaughter City for training had been Hu Liena's own request, Bibi Dong's ready agreement might also have reflected her hope that Hu Liena could catch the Asura God's attention.

The continent was vast, but Spirit Hall possessed quite a bit of information on Slaughter City.

Although its secrecy level was high and ordinary people found it difficult to access.

Given Yan's current special status, he undoubtedly had the qualifications to consult Slaughter City's records, yet he had never done so.

For one thing, he did not want to draw Bibi Dong's attention. For another, Yan also harbored doubts.

Given the Asura God's status as a God King, if he turned his gaze upon Yan, would he discover Yan's abnormality?