My Martial Soul Is Called—Aperture!

Douluo Continent.

Dou Ling Empire.

Eastsea City.

Su Family Trading Firm.

"Xiaofan, stop sleeping. Today's your Martial Soul awakening."

A young man knocked on the door.

Hearing this, Su Fan, who had still been dreaming, abruptly opened his eyes. He sprang up from the bed, leapt to the floor, and threw open the door.

"Bro, let's go!"

The young man said helplessly, "Put your clothes on first."

"Oh, right."

Su Fan moved with swift steps, dug a formal outfit out of the wardrobe, quickly put it on, and ran back to the doorway.

"All done!"

Seeing Su Fan's eager expression, Su Tian could not help but shake his head helplessly.

"Xiaofan, don't place too much hope on your Martial Soul awakening. Our family never had any powerful Martial Soul bloodline to begin with."

Su Fan curled his lips at that.

"Bro, I haven't even awakened my Martial Soul yet. That's way too discouraging. What if my Martial Soul mutates?"

Having been reborn into this world after transmigrating to the Douluo Continent, he had been full of longing for cultivation.

Especially after learning about the current era, Su Fan's desire to cultivate had become even more urgent.

This was the most dangerous era of the Peerless Tang Sect!

Of course, the good news was that he was in the Dou Ling Empire. Among the Douluo Three Empires, it was situated in the rear and spared the suffering of war. Although social order was not particularly good, it was still far better than Star Luo. More importantly, he had not been born into a poor family—his family owned a trading firm.

His parents had both died, but no heavy burden rested on his shoulders because he had an adult older brother who had taken charge of the trading firm.

With his family's comfortable circumstances, Su Fan's Martial Soul awakening naturally went much more smoothly. He did not need to worry about the cost.

In this era, not everyone could awaken a Martial Soul.

"Um..."

Although Su Fan believed that, as a transmigrator, he ought to have been born extraordinary, Su Tian's reminder still left him feeling uneasy.

"Bro, when our family awakens Martial Souls, we're guaranteed to have Soul Power, right?"

Su Tian smiled.

"Of course. Although our family's Balloon Martial Soul has never had Innate Soul Power above level three, it has never fallen below level one either."

The so-called Balloon was not an inflated balloon, but a sphere formed from gas.

Su Fan let out a breath of relief.

Even without a mutation, he at least had a guaranteed minimum.

When they arrived in the living room, Su Tian took out six stones that emitted a faint golden glow.

That was right. Su Fan's Martial Soul would be awakened by his own older brother, Su Tian.

Su Tian released his Soul Power and poured it into the stones, causing them to float around Su Fan's body as faint golden motes gathered.

A sudden understanding struck Su Fan, and he spread open his right hand.

The light warped slightly as a transparent, thumb-sized spherical structure slowly formed above his palm.

"Huh? It really mutated?"

Su Tian was slightly surprised.

He extended his right hand. Above his palm floated a sphere filled with flowing air, as large as a human head, with a faint green glow flickering within it.

One was a ball formed from gathered airflow. The other distorted light and might even involve space!

Comparing the two spheres, a flash of delight appeared in Su Tian's eyes.

"Xiaofan, hurry and test your Soul Power."

Su Fan took a deep breath, suppressing the turmoil in his heart, and pressed his hand against the Compass Su Tian handed him.

Soul Power flowed in.

Innate Soul Power—

"1!"

Seeing the number on the Compass, the brightness in Su Tian's eyes dimmed.

Su Fan's brows furrowed slightly.

At that moment, he focused intently on sensing his Martial Soul and understanding its abilities.

This was...

Unlike the Balloon Martial Soul, which gathered airflow, Su Fan could sense that his Martial Soul seemed to faintly separate off a portion of space.

Of course, it did not create an independent space. It merely faintly separated the area of space where the sphere was located.

Nor was it sealed off.

Instead, it became a whole, and its function was—

"Organizing the world's ambient energy!"

A look of astonishment flashed through Su Fan's eyes.

What kind of Martial Soul was this?

However, when he thought of how this Martial Soul possessed only level one Innate Soul Power, Su Fan's heart sank somewhat.

Although he felt that his Martial Soul had mutated to gain a trace of spatial attributes, level one Innate Soul Power undoubtedly showed that this mutation had not been successful.

The mutation was beneficial, but incomplete.

With level one Innate Soul Power, could he cultivate at all?

Su Fan's gaze flickered repeatedly, and his expression shifted unpredictably.

Before awakening his Martial Soul, he had been able to make up his mind that even if he only had level one Innate Soul Power, he would rely on his own talent to cultivate the family's inherited Balloon Martial Soul to the pinnacle of the world.

But after truly awakening it, his heart became incomparably heavy.

That change in psychological pressure came simply from the fact that he had truly completed his Martial Soul awakening.

Under the same circumstances, he had once been filled with lofty ambition, but now he was somewhat hesitant.

The problem was that level one Innate Soul Power was simply too difficult to cultivate.

Huo Yuhao had been able to cultivate his level one Spirit Eye Martial Soul because he was the child of destiny. On top of that, the Spirit Eye had spiritual attributes and was also a Body Martial Soul.

As a Martial Soul with spiritual attributes, Huo Yuhao had suffered endless torment in the Duke Mansion since childhood. Under the stimulation of his will and emotions, perhaps his spiritual power had grown, driving his Soul Power upward as well.

Moreover, a Body Martial Soul was part of a soul master's body. Every increase in Soul Power would nourish the corresponding body part, which would in turn nourish the quality of the Martial Soul. With such continuous positive feedback, it was like stepping on one's own foot to rise into the air, until the Martial Soul underwent its second awakening and soared straight to the heavens.

Even if Huo Yuhao had not received such exaggerated feedback before level ten, by the time he cultivated to level nine, the quality of his Spirit Eye would no longer have been that of a Martial Soul with only level one Innate Soul Power.

Thinking of Huo Yuhao's example, Su Fan could not help but smile bitterly.

Spiritual attributes. A Body Martial Soul.

As he summarized the possible reasons why Huo Yuhao's early cultivation speed had been abnormal, a flash of inspiration suddenly crossed Su Fan's mind.

Wait—

"A Body Martial Soul!"

Su Fan lowered his head and looked at the thumb-sized spherical structure floating above his palm.

"If..."

He swallowed, thoughts churning through his mind.

Its quality was extremely low, possessing only level one Innate Soul Power. Even with a spatial mutation, it would be difficult to draw out much potential.

Its innate deficiency would become an eternal shackle on his Martial Soul.

But what if his Martial Soul could receive continuous nourishment like a Body Martial Soul?

"No, not like a Body Martial Soul. This is a Body Martial Soul!"

Su Fan looked down at the spherical structure in his palm.

He circulated his Soul Power and manifested his Martial Soul within his body, inside his meridians!

Instantly, the Soul Power flowing through the place where his Martial Soul was located abruptly accelerated.

A smile flashed in Su Fan's eyes.

"My Martial Soul is called Aperture!"

Su Tian was currently looking at his younger brother with a worried expression.

After testing his Soul Power Level, he had watched his younger brother's expression constantly change. He had been distressed for a long while before suddenly showing great delight.

"Xiaofan, are you okay?"

"Bro, I'm perfectly fine. My Martial Soul mutated perfectly!"

Hearing Su Fan say that, Su Tian scratched his head.

He wanted to point at the number "1" on the Compass screen and remind his younger brother that although the mutation was good, it had been interrupted and had not succeeded.

But after thinking about it, he decided not to.

Su Fan did not notice Su Tian's expression. He had already returned to his room on his own and begun studying his Martial Soul.

Just then, the path he would take in the future had already begun to faintly emerge in his heart.