Making a Spectacle of Himself

Tang Hao nodded slightly. He knew very well that someone as clever as Su Yuntao wouldn't do anything stupid.

"Little Friend Su, I have one more question. How did you learn everything about my wife, Ah Yin, and me? I know all the senior figures in Spirit Hall, and none of them are surnamed Su. It's unlikely that your elder is a high-level Soul Master!"

"With your talent and rank, there's no way you could have access to Spirit Hall's highest-level secrets! And even if you had read all the records Spirit Hall kept back then, how did you find my hiding place?"

Su Yuntao remained expressionless, perfectly calm. In an instant, he entered a state of tranquil detachment. He knew his chance to make a spectacle of himself had arrived!

"Haotian Douluo, the reason I know all of this is that I simply deduced it!"

"Deduced it?" Tang Hao asked, puzzled.

"Haotian Douluo, today, when I performed Martial Soul Awakening for your son, Tang San, he turned out to have Innate Full Soul Power!"

Tang Hao's pupils contracted. Then he said firmly, "Even if my son has Innate Full Soul Power, you still couldn't have deduced all of this!"

Su Yuntao spoke slowly. "What shocked me most wasn't 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 couldn't have inferred so much."

"No!" Su Yuntao said calmly. "Your son's Martial Soul is Blue Silver Grass!"

Tang Hao's body trembled faintly. Hearing the words "Blue Silver Grass" brought back everything he had shared with Ah Yin. Those memories had been so beautiful, and so filled with despair!

"Douluo, people have always believed that a Martial Soul determines one's talent and Innate Soul Power level. But you and I both know that it isn't the Martial Soul that determines one's talent. It's talent that determines one's Martial Soul!"

"The higher a person's Innate Soul Power, the greater their affinity with heaven and earth. Before a Soul Master begins training, you can judge the strength of their talent by their Innate Soul Power!"

"I've looked through countless Spirit Hall records and organized all the data. From it, I reached a conclusion: if someone's talent is high enough, their Martial Soul can evolve. Likewise, if someone's talent is too low, their Martial Soul can regress!"

Tang Hao's expression turned solemn. The young Soul Master before him kept surprising him more and more.

"Contrary to what people outside believe, Martial Soul Mutations are far more likely to strengthen a Martial Soul than weaken it. In fact, the higher-ranked Soul Masters among us commoners all have evolved Martial Souls. A spider can become the Spider Emperor, a barnyard chicken can become a phoenix, and a chrysanthemum can become a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum!"

"It's only because the people at the bottom have no say on the mainland that everyone gets the impression Martial Soul Mutations usually make a Martial Soul weaker! The Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect that you were born into have inherited the powerful Clear Sky Hammer and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Souls, which are also highly adaptable!"

"Someone with Innate Full Soul Power can awaken a Clear Sky Hammer, but so can someone with only level five or six Innate Soul Power. Because of their bloodlines, your direct descendants start far ahead of commoners! But a sect's bloodline can determine the floor; it can't raise the ceiling by much!"

"The Clear Sky Hammer and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Souls are so powerful that in hundreds of years, almost none have evolved. The legendary Emperor Heaven Hammer and Golden Sacred Dragon have appeared only once in a blue moon. To reach that level, even Innate Full Soul Power isn't enough. A talent that surpasses Innate Full Soul Power is needed to evolve either of those Martial Souls!"

"Clearly, the chance of a monster like that appearing is far smaller than the chance of a good-for-nothing being born. Perhaps only your great-grandfather, old Master Tang Chen, had the Emperor Heaven Hammer. Even with your talent, Douluo, you could only bring your Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul to its peak. You couldn't make it evolve!"

"There are almost no examples of Martial Soul Evolution within the great sects, but there are still plenty of cases of Martial Soul regression. Some direct descendants of the sects have astonishing talent and the purest blood flowing through their veins, yet even that can't make up for their own lack of ability. That's why the Soul Master World has come to regard weak Martial Soul Mutations as the norm!"

At this point, Su Yuntao's expression turned rather strange. Bloodline power could enhance talent, and the closer a disciple was to the heart of a great sect, the more this was true. Yet Master's fine Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon had been reduced to nothing but a backside. Such talent was truly unprecedented. If the bloodline power of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's direct descendants were even a little weaker, he wouldn't have been able to become a Soul Master at all!

"Little Friend Su, your theory is sound. With your strength and position, you managed to reach this conclusion just by analyzing some basic information. That truly surprises me, Tang. But you haven't answered my question. How did you learn everything about Ah Yin and me?"

Su Yuntao smiled. "While researching Martial Souls, I consulted many records. One of them said that the wife of the renowned Clear Sky Douluo was a female Soul Master with Blue Silver Grass, and that she became a Six-Ring Soul Emperor at a very young age."

"If she could reach the rank of Six-Ring Soul Emperor at such a young age, her Innate Soul Power level definitely couldn't have been low. With talent like that, there were only two possibilities for her Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul. First, her Blue Silver Grass had gained powerful attributes, such as thunderbolt, fire, light, or darkness. But the records explicitly identified it as Blue Silver Grass, with no unusual properties mentioned!"

"So that left the second possibility, which was far more likely! On the surface, your wife's Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul looked just like ordinary Blue Silver Grass, but inside, it was completely different! That's why anyone who didn't know her well couldn't see what lay beneath the surface. They could only write down the three simple words 'Blue Silver Grass'!"

"When I performed Martial Soul Awakening for your son just now, Tang San's situation was very similar to that female Soul Master's. So I made a bold deduction: perhaps he was that female Soul Master's child, and his father was you—the renowned Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Hao!"

Tang Hao stared blankly. He never would have imagined that a mere Soul Grandmaster could piece together scattered clues from the most basic records and deduce so much!

"Little Friend Su, I admire you. I never expected you to have such an ability. It truly leaves me deeply impressed. Although strength is the currency that rules the mainland, your wisdom has opened my eyes. Your talent may be lacking, but I believe you'll achieve great things in the future."

"Still, I have one question. Even if you deduced that Xiao San was Ah Yin's and my child, and then found me, how did you learn everything that happened between Ah Yin and me? I truly don't understand!"