Learning a Flawed Cultivation Method Leads to Qi Deviation

As the two were making a ruckus, Su Yuntao cleared his throat, his gaze falling on the last six-year-old child, and announced loudly, "Next, Young Master Tang San, it's your turn!"

All eyes instantly snapped to Tang San.

Bibi Dong gently nodded at him and whispered, "Don't be afraid, go ahead."

Tang San clasped Bibi Dong's outstretched hand, his fingertips touching the warmth of her palm, and his heart instantly settled.

Gui Mengguan and Qian Gujue stepped forward and said in unison, "Third brother, believe in yourself. You will definitely awaken a powerful martial soul. Even if you awaken a trash martial soul, we will always protect you..."

"Understood, Mother. Understood, brothers."

He nodded slightly and slowly walked to the center of the formation. He extended his right hand, closed his eyes, concentrated, and awaited his martial soul.

Ever since he could remember, he had heard many strange things.

Students from classes other than the introductory class would hide from him and call him ugly nicknames; some elders in the Martial Soul Hall looked at him with an inexplicable wariness and distance; he had also read the Human Alliance Declaration, which had spread across the continent, in the library. Every word condemned the heretical transformed soul beasts and their children born with humans, calling them traitors to humanity, and their offspring as bastards that defiled the human bloodline, like those disgusting creatures called Wolf Bandits...

He had also asked his adoptive mother, Bibi Dong, who his biological parents were. Bibi Dong merely stroked his head and said that she would tell him when he grew up.

All he knew was that he was an orphan picked up by Bibi Dong in a desolate wilderness. It was Bibi Dong who gave him his name and his home. This cold yet gentle woman was his only mother.

He heard those rumors and forgot them, never taking them to heart, let alone delving into his own origins, until this moment--

As soon as he concentrated, a tender Blue Silver Grass first appeared in his palm. But the moment it appeared, it instantly erupted with a warm blue-gold light.

The originally slender grass blades became tough and long, covered with golden imperial patterns. A majestic aura, belonging to the king of plant-type martial souls, instantly spread out.

The smile on Su Yuntao's face froze. He leaned forward and stared with wide eyes for a long time before exclaiming in disbelief, "This isn't ordinary Blue Silver Grass! This is... Blue Silver Emperor! A top-tier plant-type martial soul!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the hall fell silent. Then, a deafening wave of discussion erupted.

"Blue Silver Emperor! It really is the Blue Silver Emperor!"

"As expected! As expected, it's a hybrid of human and beast! Otherwise, how could he awaken the Blue Silver Emperor martial soul?!"

"It was just a rumor before, but now it's confirmed! He is indeed the child born of a soul beast!"

Those discussions pierced him like needles. Tang San's eyes snapped open. Looking at the Blue Silver Emperor glowing with blue-gold light in his palm, his mind went blank, and he instantly understood everything.

So the whispers were true, the wary glances were true, and the ugly nicknames were true.

He was the child of the continent's most wanted traitor, Tang Hao, and the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin. He was the mixed-blood born between human and beast, carrying original sin in the eyes of the world.

He finally understood why, despite his obedience, good nature, and outstanding talent, so many people were hostile towards him; why he could grow up safely in the Martial Soul Hall, yet there were always people pointing fingers at him behind his back.

Such an identity, on the Douluo Continent, made him an outcast that everyone wanted to get rid of, a "bastard" explicitly condemned in the Human Alliance Declaration.

Let alone giving him the best education and highest resources, the fact that he could live until now without being killed on the spot was already a great honor.

And all of this was thanks to his mother, Bibi Dong.

It was this woman, with whom he shared no blood relation, who, despite the pressure from within the Martial Soul Hall, shielded him under her wings, gave him a stable home, and gave him all her warmth and love.

An indescribable bitterness and gratitude surged in his heart, followed by a bone-chilling disappointment and resentment towards his biological father, whom he had never met.

Since you dared to fall in love with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, since you dared to have a child, you should have done everything in your power to protect your lover and family.

But what about him? Instead of taking his wife and hiding, he made it known to the whole world.

When the old enshrinement elder advised him to turn back, not only did he not listen, but he went mad and killed the old enshrinement elder. In the end, he couldn't protect his wife, forcing her to sacrifice herself. He also casually abandoned his newborn child, causing him to bear the stigma of "mongrel" from birth and live in the malice of the world.

What also struck him as strange was why she sacrificed herself at that particular time.

It seemed problematic no matter how you looked at it. If you were plotting to obtain the soul ring and soul bone of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and you succeeded, why haven't you come forward to explain the situation until now? At least your reputation wouldn't be so terrible, and I would accept it.

The teacher in the introductory class had taught him the complete Three Cardinal Guides and Five Constant Virtues, saying, "The father is the guide for the son; if the father is not benevolent, the son flees to another land." He also taught him that "if the ruler is not benevolent, the minister is not loyal; if the father is not benevolent, the son is not filial."

But it wasn't that he always believed that only the father was the guide for the son.

The teacher had specifically mentioned that incomplete versions of classics should not be studied, otherwise, one would easily go astray. The same applied to the principles of being a human.

For example, "struggle against heaven" and "fight with heaven" differ by only one character, but their meanings are worlds apart.

In his words, learning incomplete cultivation methods could easily lead to going mad.

He agreed wholeheartedly.

While the debt of birth is undeniable, the debt of upbringing is equally important.

Now, it was Bibi Dong who gave him a new life and dignity.

So, in this life, he only had Bibi Dong as his mother.

Even if she was just an adoptive mother.

As for that irresponsible biological father, it was better not to acknowledge him.

Thinking of this, the panic in Tang San's eyes instantly vanished, leaving only determination.

He did not, like in his previous life, panic and hide his second martial soul.

This was his home, and beside him was the mother he would protect with all his might.

He couldn't let those who looked down on him laugh, nor could he let his mother be gossiped about because of him.

He saw his left palm erupt with dazzling black light again. The phantom of a pitch-black, immensely heavy hammer slowly appeared. The moment the hammer body appeared, it carried an unparalleled domineering pressure that made the entire awakening hall tremble slightly. It was the top-tier assault martial soul inherited by the Clear Sky Sect for ten thousand years—the Clear Sky Hammer!

"Twin Martial Souls! Another Twin Martial Souls!"

Su Yuntao leaped straight up, his voice cracking, "A tool martial soul! The Clear Sky Hammer! A top-tier assault-type tool martial soul! Blue Silver Emperor combined with the Clear Sky Hammer! Twin top-tier martial souls!"

The entire room fell into a deathly silence, followed immediately by an explosive uproar!

"Twin Martial Souls! Another case of Twin Martial Souls!"

"The Blue Silver Emperor! The Clear Sky Hammer! Inheriting the top-tier Martial Souls of both parents simultaneously! How is this even possible?!"

"Innate Soul Power! Quickly, test the Innate Soul Power!"

Su Yuntao fumbled in a panic to thrust the crystal ball toward Tang San, his hands trembling.

Tang San reached out his small hand and placed it gently upon the crystal ball.

PS: How should I put this...