There might be some bugs in that claim, but I think it still makes a certain amount of sense.
After all, the other planes under the God Realm's jurisdiction don't have things like Martial Souls or Spirit Rings.
Besides, Martial Souls are pretty lackluster. After becoming a god, they basically become useless. No matter how you looked at them, they seemed like some imperfect transitional product formed later on.
Wasn't Little Scumbag like that in the original story? In the early stages, the Clear Sky Hammer was praised to the heavens, supposedly capable of everything.
It even made me look forward to it for a while. But later on, especially after he obtained the Sea God Trident, the Clear Sky Hammer practically vanished. It appeared even less often than the Blue Silver Emperor.
That showed that the gameplay before level one hundred and after level one hundred were completely different. The disconnect was far too severe.
Speaking of that, I've got something else to complain about.
Douluo's whole system was just like the tropes in novels from twenty years ago: once you ascended, everything started over.
All the experience, combat power, and equipment you had before ascension became worthless afterward.
Honestly, if Tang San's Martial Soul had originally been a sword, and he had been good at using a sword or something, then inherited Asura God's Divine Position, I wouldn't have had anything to say.
But what was the reality? The reality was that Divine Position inheritances only looked at talent. If your talent was good enough, compatibility and all that nonsense didn't matter at all.
If that were all, the problem actually wouldn't be that serious. In fantasy worlds, geniuses always had privileges.
*But when it came to talent, that brought up another issue. The so-called talent on Douluo