Showing Off in Front of Others

Tang Hao nodded slightly. In truth, he was well aware that a clever man like Su Yun Tao would never do anything foolish.

"Young Friend Su, I have one more question. How did you come to know everything about me and my wife, Ah Yin? I am familiar with all the high-ranking members of the Martial Soul Hall, and there is no one surnamed Su among them. It is unlikely that your elders were high-level soul masters."

"Furthermore, given your talent and rank, it would be impossible for you to access the highest-level secrets within the Martial Soul Hall. Even if you had accessed the records of what happened back then, how did you manage to find my hiding place?"

Su Yun Tao remained expressionless, his face calm. He instantly entered an ethereal state; he knew the time had come to show off before others.

"Haotian Douluo, the reason I know all of this is actually just a deduction."

"A deduction?" Tang Hao asked, puzzled.

"Haotian Douluo, today when I was performing the martial soul awakening for your son, Tang San, he possessed Innate Full Soul Power!"

Tang Hao's pupils constricted, then he said decisively, "Even if my son has Innate Full Soul Power, you could not possibly have deduced all of this!"

Su Yun Tao said slowly, "What shocked me most was not your son's Innate Full Soul Power, but the martial soul he awakened!"

"Oh? Even if my son's martial soul is the Clear Sky Hammer, you still couldn't have inferred so much!"

"No!" Su Yun Tao said calmly. "Your son's martial soul is Blue Silver Grass!"

Tang Hao's body trembled slightly. Hearing the words Blue Silver Grass, he was reminded of everything he had shared with Ah Yin. Those memories were once so beautiful, yet so despairing.

"Your Excellency, the outside world has always believed that the martial soul determines talent and the level of innate soul power. But in truth, you and I both know that it is not the martial soul that determines talent, but talent that determines the martial soul!"

"The higher the innate soul power level, the higher the affinity with heaven and earth. Before a soul master begins to cultivate, one can judge the strength of their talent through the level of their innate soul power."

"I have perused countless documents in the Martial Soul Hall. By organizing this data, I reached a conclusion: as long as a person's talent is high enough, their martial soul can evolve. Conversely, if a person's talent is too low, their martial soul can likewise degenerate!"

Tang Hao's expression turned solemn. The performance of the young soul master before him surprised him more and more.

"Contrary to popular belief, martial soul mutation actually has a very high probability of enhancement. In fact, many high-level soul masters among us commoners possess martial souls that evolved. Spiders can become Spider Emperors, common chickens can become phoenixes, and chrysanthemums can become the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum!"

"It is only because the right to speak on this continent does not lie with those at the bottom that people feel martial soul mutation usually leads to weakness. The Clear Sky Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect, into which you were born, possess the powerful Clear Sky Hammer and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial souls, which also have very strong downward compatibility!"

"One can have Innate Full Soul Power and possess a Clear Sky Hammer, or have level five or six soul power and still possess a Clear Sky Hammer. Due to your bloodline, your direct descendants are innately far superior to commoners! But while sect bloodlines can determine the lower limit, they cannot change the upper limit much."

"Because the Clear Sky Hammer and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial souls are too powerful, there have been almost no evolutions in hundreds of years. The legendary Emperor Heaven Hammer and Golden Sacred Dragon have rarely appeared in centuries, because to reach that level, even Innate Full Soul Power is not enough; one must possess talent exceeding Innate Full Soul Power to evolve these two martial souls."

"Clearly, the probability of such a monster appearing is far lower than that of a waste. Perhaps only the martial soul of your great-grandfather, Tang Chen, was the Emperor Heaven Hammer. Even with your talent, Your Excellency, you could only bring the Clear Sky Hammer to its peak, but could not force it to evolve!"

"Within the great sects, there are almost no examples of martial soul evolution, but there are quite a few examples of degeneration. Even some direct sect disciples with gifted talent, despite having the purest blood flowing through their veins, could not compensate for their own low innate talent. That is why it is generally accepted in the soul master world that martial soul mutation leading to weakness is the norm!"

Su Yun Tao's expression turned somewhat strange as he said this. Bloodline power could enhance talent, and this was even more true for the core disciples of great sects. Yet, the Grandmaster's Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon was reduced to nothing but a tail—such talent was truly unprecedented. If the direct bloodline power of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon had been even slightly weaker, he wouldn't even have been able to become a soul master!

"Young Friend Su, your theory is very correct. That you could reach such a conclusion through the analysis of basic data, given your strength and status, truly surprises this Tang. However, you still haven't answered me: how do you know everything about me and Ah Yin?"

Su Yun Tao smiled. "When I was researching martial souls, I read many documents. One of them recorded that the famous Clear Sky Douluo on this continent had a wife who was a Blue Silver Grass soul master, and she became a six-ringed Soul Emperor at a young age!"

"To be able to cultivate to a six-ringed Soul Emperor at such a young age means her innate soul power level could not possibly have been low. With such talent, there were only two possibilities for her Blue Silver Grass martial soul. The first is that her Blue Silver Grass carried powerful attributes like lightning, fire, light, or darkness, but the records clearly stated it was Blue Silver Grass! It did not mention any anomalies!"

"Therefore, I deduced that the second possibility was highly likely! Your wife's Blue Silver Grass martial soul looked like ordinary Blue Silver Grass on the surface, but in reality, its essence was vastly different! This led those who did not deeply understand your wife to fail to see the truth within, simply writing down the words 'Blue Silver Grass'."

"Just now, when I was awakening your son's martial soul, his situation was very similar to that of the female soul master from the past. Thus, I made a bold conjecture: perhaps he is the child of that female soul master, and his father is you! The famous Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Hao!"

Tang Hao's expression was blank. He could never have imagined that a mere Soul Grand Master could infer so much from the subtle clues hidden within the most basic of records!

"Young Friend Su, this Tang is impressed. I never expected you to possess such ability; it truly leaves this Tang filled with emotion. Although strength is the currency of this continent, your wisdom, Young Friend Su, has truly opened my eyes. Although your talent is insufficient, I believe you will surely achieve great things in the future."

"However, this Tang still has questions. Even if you deduced that Xiao San was the child of Ah Yin and me, and subsequently found me, how did you come to know everything about our past? This Tang is truly puzzled!"