Huang Tian opened the System Mall and found the Martial Soul Module. He searched for Blue Silver Grass, and thousands of similar Martial Souls instantly appeared on the interface.
After filtering out anything below top-tier, he was left with over a hundred super-quality options.
The higher the rank of a Martial Soul, the more numerous and comprehensive its abilities, attributes, and traits. The original Blue Silver Emperor, for example, had seven or eight attributes and traits, including life, devouring, plants, mental power, control, and resilience.
Many of the versions sold by the system had also gained abilities and attributes that the original Blue Silver Emperor didn't possess, such as parasitism, illusion, and toxins—skills found in other plants.
Any one attribute, or several of them, reaching super level was enough for a Martial Soul to be classed as super.
Huang Tian knew what he wanted. He quickly picked out a super Blue Silver Emperor priced at 1.5 million.
Its two main attributes, life and devouring, were both at super level, and nearly divine—just one rank below god-level. The life attribute had even gained an additional Ultimate Attribute.
But its other attributes, such as plants, mental power, control, and resilience, weren't as necessary or important, so they remained at top-tier.
Maxing out all of them would cost another 1.5 million. It wasn't worth weakening his Second Martial Soul for that.
Martial Souls could evolve. Once his wallet was fuller and money was no longer an issue, he could look for ways to strengthen it.
After browsing through the abilities of the other super Blue Silver Emperor versions for over ten minutes, he confirmed that none was a better fit.
Without hesitation, Huang Tian placed his order and paid.
Soon, a strange warmth surged through his body. It felt as if he were soaking in warm water; even his bones tingled with a pleasant itch, and he could barely keep himself from groaning.
The warmth continued for five or six minutes before gradually fading.
Huang Tian jumped off the kang, stretched, kicked his legs, and felt the muscles in his arms, testing them with curiosity.
Although he still couldn't call upon his Martial Soul's power, he could clearly feel that his physique had undergone a qualitative change.
His fatigue vanished, and his whole body felt as if it were brimming with endless strength. Even his skin seemed to have grown a little fairer.
Feeling the vitality coursing through him, Huang Tian couldn't help secretly gloating.
The original Blue Silver Emperor was only top-tier overall. That meant he now had a higher bloodline than Tang San, who was half-human and half-Soul Beast. It wasn't even impossible that he might surpass Ah Yin.
Ah Yin had cultivated herself into a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Her power was weak and impure, unlike his, which had all come from the system. It was solid and pure.
The two couldn't be compared at all.
With the Blue Silver Emperor taken care of, Huang Tian soon turned his attention to his Body Martial Soul.
He followed the same process, setting several filters: god-level quality, a body and soul that came together with it, Ultimate Destruction and Ultimate Mental attributes, and a price between five million and 8.52 million.
This time, even more options met his basic requirements than there had been for Blue Silver Grass. There were over five hundred in total.
To his delight, many were special physiques from other novels and films.
For instance, there was an extremely, extremely, extremely, extremely low-tier version of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body.
Huang Tian wasn't taken in by the name. He filtered out anything below seven million again and carefully inspected the abilities, attributes, and traits of every option that remained.
After buying the super Blue Silver Emperor, he still had 8,502,173 points. He only needed to keep between one hundred thousand and five hundred thousand on hand for emergencies. He planned to spend the rest.
Soon, one option caught his interest.
It had ten god-level attributes. Those accompanying the body were destruction, annihilation, speed, strength and explosive power, stability, and defense. Those accompanying the spirit were illusion, creation, control, perception, and space.
Each attribute came with several god-level abilities and traits.
Huang Tian knew that annihilation and destruction combined to form destruction—the core power of the Golden Dragon King. Creation and life combined to form genesis, the core power of the Silver Dragon King.
Together with the Blue Silver Emperor, this was practically a low-tier version of the peak Dragon God.
Perhaps the Dragon God hadn't initially possessed such an extravagant array of abilities. Many of them had likely been discovered and cultivated later.
According to Douluo lore, Martial Souls originated from the Dragon God's blood. The ultimate answer should therefore be the Dragon God.
But its price was just as impressive: exactly 8.5 million.
Huang Tian patiently examined the other options that met his requirements. Each had its own specialties and signature abilities, but none suited him as well.
After a little thought, he painfully selected confirm. The best steel had to be used on the blade.
Twenty thousand Achievement Points were enough to deal with most ordinary dangers. Once Nuoding Academy opened and he met Xiao Wu, he could give her one too and earn a fresh deposit.
This time, it felt nothing like the last one. The instant he selected confirm, it was as if flames were scorching his entire body. Agonizing pain tore through every cell, inside and out.
His consciousness plunged into a void. He didn't know how long it took before he suddenly came to, only to find his clothes soaked with sweat.
Huang Tian crawled up from the ground. His body had left a human-shaped wet imprint on the floor, and water dripped from his sleeves.
He didn't have time to complain. A tremendous joy swept over him.
As expected of a god-level Martial Soul. His body was the same size, but even before awakening its power, his strength had doubled out of nowhere. His muscles were firmer, his bones tougher, his movements quicker, and his reactions sharper.
The current him could probably beat the version of himself from half an hour ago without even letting him touch his clothes.
He took out a washbasin and poured in more than half a basin of cold water. The temperature would normally have felt freezing, but when he soaked in it, he felt nothing unusual. It was actually quite comfortable.
After washing up, he was just about to go to sleep when a mosquito buzzed past his eyes.
Feeling how sharp his eyesight had become, Huang Tian had a sudden idea. He shot out two fingers. The mosquito sensed danger and zigzagged away at full speed, but he still caught it neatly between them.
Then he picked off the other three mosquitoes in the room, taking each down with a single move.
It was just a small thing, yet Huang Tian was so excited he felt like he'd won a great battle. He was even more thrilled than he'd been by his sudden increase in strength.
In his previous life, mosquitoes had always tormented him. Sometimes he'd hear one buzzing nearby while holding a bug zapper, yet he couldn't find it no matter how long he looked.
The night passed without incident. At dawn the next day, Huang Tian woke earlier than usual.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a graceful figure in a blue dress sitting at the head of the kang. He jolted in fright.
With his improved eyesight, he could clearly make out the indulgent, auntie-like smile on her face despite the dim light.
It took him several seconds to understand what was going on.
Huang Tian was thrilled inside, but he shrank back into the corner by the wall and asked respectfully, with a hint of apprehension in his voice:
"Hello, may I ask who you are...?"
"My name is Gu Yue'er. Starting today, I'll be your master. Good boy, why don't you call me Master?"
"Gu Yue'er?"
"Not Gu Yuena?"
"Had this woman already split off and created Na'er?"
As his thoughts raced, some of the apprehension faded from Huang Tian's face, replaced by fresh confusion.
"Um...
I haven't awakened my Martial Soul yet, and both my parents had ordinary Martial Souls."
"Brat, if I tell you to call me that, then do it. Why are you asking so many questions?"
"Master."
"Brat?"
"Fine, fine, fine."
"Just you wait. Once I grow up, I'll beat you until you're on your knees calling me Daddy. And I'll write your name backward!"
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