At the sound of that familiar voice, Ye Qingzhou looked up and saw a young woman who bore a striking resemblance to him. He was overjoyed.
"Lingling, what are you doing back?"
The Lingling Ye Qingzhou spoke of was naturally the young woman before him, the daughter of his mother's older sister.
Seven years older than him, she attended Heaven Dou Royal Academy and was a Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster, a healing-type Soul Master.
Her Martial Soul was naturally the Nine Heart Begonia passed down through their family line.
Seeing the childlike smile on Ye Qingzhou's face, Ye Lingling smiled softly. "Your Martial Soul Awakening ceremony is tomorrow, so of course I had to come back as your big sister."
"Are you ready?"
"Of course." Ye Qingzhou nodded, his expression unusually serious. "I'm confident I'll have at least eight levels of Innate Soul Power."
He had been in this world for six years. He had neither a system nor the Mysterious Heaven Skill. Relying on the supplements his grandfather had given him, the quality of the Nine Heart Begonia, and the physique he'd built through daily training, eight or nine levels was already his limit.
Unless a miracle happened.
Ye Shuyuan came out of the clinic and watched the siblings chatting happily. He smiled.
"Lingling, take that basket full of cordyceps over there into the clinic."
"Okay, Grandpa." Ye Lingling nodded, went to the side entrance on the right, and carried the basket of cordyceps into the clinic.
Ye Qingzhou didn't sit idle either. By the right-hand entrance, besides the cordyceps, there were also ginseng, deer antler, lingzhi, and other medicinal herbs.
Ye Shuyuan had gathered all of them himself, traveling far and wide across much of the region.
The next morning.
Inside the Ye Family Clinic.
Ye Shuyuan, Ye Lingling, and Ye Qingzhou stood in the middle of the clinic.
In front of Ye Qingzhou was a six-pointed star formation, its six points carved into the floor.
Along with the formation, there was the Awakening Stone in Ye Shuyuan's hand.
Without either of these two things, Martial Soul Awakening could not be completed.
Ye Shuyuan would conduct Ye Qingzhou's entire Martial Soul Awakening himself; there was no need to go to a Spirit Hall branch.
Besides, in a national capital like Heaven Dou City, the Spirit Hall's main hall was little more than a decoration—a proper mascot.
Ye Shuyuan stroked his beard and spoke slowly. "Relax. There's no need to be nervous. Step into the formation."
He guided Ye Qingzhou, one step at a time, to the center of the six-pointed star.
Ye Qingzhou reached the middle of the formation and looked at Ye Shuyuan. "I'm not nervous, Grandpa."
That was what he said, but inside, he was a bundle of nerves.
As a transmigrator, even before he crossed over, he'd dreamed of awakening a Martial Soul and beating the stuffing out of Little Scumbag, surrounding himself with beautiful women, becoming a god, and uniting the world.
But after actually transmigrating here, all those dreams had crumbled. Once he awakened, he would either inherit his mother's Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul or inherit the Martial Soul of his father, who had never appeared in their family before.
No matter how often he asked, his grandfather never told him anything about his father.
It was as if he were deliberately keeping it a secret.
Still, Ye Qingzhou leaned toward the latter possibility.
There was an unwritten rule in the Soul Master World: support-type Soul Masters had to marry Power Attack System Soul Masters.
Romance between two support-type Soul Masters was a no-go.
Without even the ability to protect themselves, they would end up like the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
As soon as Ye Qingzhou reached the center of the formation, Soul Power surged around Ye Shuyuan. A mighty torrent of Soul Power welled forth, and a pink begonia flower floated in his hand.
Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, and black—the nine optimal Soul Rings appeared beneath Ye Shuyuan's feet one by one.
An aura of life enveloped the entire clinic.
He tossed out six pitch-black stones, and they landed on the six points of the formation.
A strand of emerald-green Soul Power sprang from the palm of Ye Shuyuan's hand like a thread, splitting into six strands that flowed into the pitch-black stones.
The moment his Soul Power entered them, the six-pointed star formation released a brilliant light that enveloped Ye Qingzhou.
Ye Lingling kept her eyes fixed on Ye Qingzhou, her gaze filled with concern for him.
As the light flashed, Ye Qingzhou, wrapped within it, felt warmth spread through his body. The comforting heat immediately loosened his tense muscles.
His left hand rose on its own, palm facing up.
Emerald-green Soul Power appeared in his palm.
Ye Shuyuan watched the change in Ye Qingzhou's hand with utmost seriousness. "This is..."
The next moment, the emerald-green Soul Power burst apart, and a translucent magnolia appeared in Ye Qingzhou's palm. Its nine overlapping petals looked as though they had been carved from creamy white jade.
At the sight, Ye Shuyuan's eyes widened. He gasped in astonishment.
"This... this is the magnolia, a gentleman among flowers!"
"A top-tier Plant-type Martial Soul!"
Even he, a Titled Douluo, had never expected the Martial Soul passed down through the Ye family to mutate into the legendary magnolia, one of the Four Gentlemen of Flowers!
The magnolia was in no way inferior in quality to the Nine Heart Begonia.
Could it be because of Qingzhou's father's Martial Soul...?
At that moment, he thought of Ye Qingzhou's father.
He had thought it would end there, but it wasn't over yet.
White Soul Power was now gathering in Ye Qingzhou's right hand.
This Soul Power carried a sacred aura from birth.
Behind Ye Qingzhou, the figure of a humanoid Martial Soul descended out of thin air.
This humanoid Martial Soul was strange indeed. Growing from its back was a pair of angel wings, found only in the Angel Martial Soul lineage, and it radiated the divine light unique to the Angel Martial Soul.
The appearance of the magnolia and the Angel Martial Soul left Ye Shuyuan and Ye Lingling utterly stunned.
"Twin Martial Souls!"
In all of history, this was the third person to possess Twin Martial Souls!
And the one who possessed these Twin Martial Souls was his grandson/her younger brother!
The shock was no less than seeing Dugu Bo, the weakest Titled Douluo, suddenly rise to become one of the strongest among the Titled Douluo.
They had never imagined that an Angel Martial Soul could coexist with a Plant-type Martial Soul.
Seeing the Angel Martial Soul, Ye Shuyuan immediately thought of Ye Qingzhou's father.
Ye Qingzhou stood rooted to the spot, staring blankly at the magnolia in his hand and the angel behind him—the Prayer Angel.
He could understand the magnolia. They were both Plant-type Martial Souls.
The Nine Heart Begonia mutating into a magnolia with nine overlapping petals made perfect sense.
But what was going on with this Angel Martial Soul?
Could his father—the one he had never met—possibly be Qian Xunji?
Holy crap, if that were true, wouldn't the sky come crashing down on him?
His brain couldn't keep up anymore. It really couldn't.
Suddenly.
Without warning, a beam of divine light descended from the sky above the clinic.
The divine light passed through the clinic's roof and fell upon Ye Qingzhou.
The light was dazzling. Even Ye Shuyuan, powerful as a Titled Douluo, couldn't look directly at it—let alone Ye Lingling.
"This power is so strong..." Even the erudite Ye Shuyuan couldn't find words to describe the divine light enveloping Ye Qingzhou.
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