Martial Soul Heavenly Thunder Bamboo, Mortal Sign-in System

Nuoding Academy, Dean's Office.

A young boy dressed in cyan robes stood before the Nuoding Dean, quietly awaiting the final review.

"Li Han, six years old, work-study student from Green Bamboo Village.

Your martial soul is Lone Bamboo, and your Innate Soul Power is actually level six?

How strange.

This Lone Bamboo is barely any better than a trash martial soul like Blue Silver Grass, right?

To think it could possess level six Innate Soul Power.

In the entire Nuoding Academy, there are hardly any geniuses with level six Innate Soul Power.

Little one, may I see your martial soul?"

After reading the martial soul certificate in his hand, the Nuoding Dean cast a curious gaze toward Li Han, his face showing a hint of intrigue.

"Of course, Dean."

Upon hearing this, Li Han opened his right hand. As soul power surged in his palm, a vibrant green bamboo stalk less than three centimeters long appeared, bearing a seven or eight-point resemblance to a Lone Bamboo.

"Although there are slight differences from a Lone Bamboo, it is indeed a Lone Bamboo.

What a pity. With level six Innate Soul Power, if your martial soul weren't a Lone Bamboo, you would have had a chance to become a Soul Saint in the future."

The Dean shook his head slightly, his face full of regret.

"The documents are in order. Little one, from now on, you are a first-year student at my Nuoding Academy.

Cultivate diligently. Once you break through to level ten, the school will send someone to help you hunt for a soul ring."

Li Han was overjoyed upon hearing this and immediately bowed, saying, "Thank you, Dean!"

Ding, congratulations to the host for joining the Seven Profound Sect. Check-in successful. The journey of mortal cultivation has officially begun. Reward: Blinking Sword Technique.

Li Han's eyes lit up instantly. At the same time, a massive influx of information flooded his mind, causing a sharp pain that soon subsided.

Blinking Sword Technique!

A top-tier secret art of assassination.

Executing the Blinking Sword Technique requires no internal energy, only physical stamina; it could be called the most suitable technique for a mortal.

Its core lies in utilizing light, terrain, and visual illusions to create openings, specifically targeting blind spots to overcome the strong with the weak, taking an enemy's life in the blink of an eye—hence the name Blinking Sword Technique.

Therefore, it requires the practitioner to have five senses far exceeding those of an ordinary person, otherwise, one cannot even enter the threshold.

For a mortal, this is difficult, but for a cultivator, it is not.

The Blinking Sword Technique also contains exquisite martial arts such as the Smoke-Drifting Steps, Cartilage Technique, Breath Concealment Art, Secret Chamber Assassination Method, and Disguise and Concealment Art, all of which are extremely practical.

The Smoke-Drifting Steps, in particular, is the cream of the crop.

It can be executed using only physical strength, providing agile movement and excellent evasion capabilities during combat.

Both before and after his cultivation, Han Li relied on this light-body technique to escape danger time and again.

In the world of cultivation, it might not be much, but here in the Douluo Continent, it is definitely not inferior to Tang San's Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and perhaps even stronger.

Li Han rubbed his temples to digest the lingering pain, his heart filled with both distress and excitement.

"This system finally shows some activity, but it still hasn't fixed its habit of getting the location wrong.

This isn't A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality; it's the Douluo Continent!

And this place isn't the Seven Profound Sect, but Nuoding Academy!"

Li Han complained internally, but the system remained silent.

He had grown accustomed to this over the past few days.

He was originally from Blue Star, having accidentally transmigrated to the Douluo Continent and becoming an orphan in Green Bamboo Village.

Several days ago, he awakened his martial soul under the guidance of the blind Douluo Su Yuntao, and at the same time, he recovered his memories from his past life, finally realizing who he truly was.

The so-called Lone Bamboo martial soul was, in reality, the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo, one of the three great divine woods from A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality.

The white specks of light currently lingering on it were actually the embryonic form of the Evil-Warding Divine Thunder.

Logically, such a divine wood should have more than just level six Innate Soul Power.

However, Li Han speculated that this level six was not Innate Soul Power, but the age of the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo.

Because he was six years old, the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo was only six years old, so his Innate Soul Power was naturally only level six.

As his soul power increased, the quality of the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo would likely continue to improve.

If it broke through ten thousand years, it would become the Golden Thunder Bamboo, a true divine wood capable of rivaling or even surpassing god-level martial souls!

In other words, his martial soul possessed a trait that no other martial soul had: it could evolve!

The higher the age, the stronger the quality.

And this age could be increased not only through time but also through cultivation and the stacking of soul rings.

A ten-thousand-year Golden Thunder Bamboo was within reach.

With the awakening of his martial soul, the system arrived as well.

The system was named the Mortal Sign-in System; as long as he signed in at locations or with people related to mortals, he could obtain rewards.

But this was the Douluo Continent!

Where was he supposed to find mortal-related locations or people?

Li Han was originally distressed, but the system chimed in again, defining the Green Bamboo Village where he was born as the Green Ox Village where Han Li was born.

The sign-in was successful instantly, and he obtained the Everlasting Spring Technique.

At that moment, Li Han knew that his system was, in all likelihood, directionally challenged.

However, it didn't matter.

As long as there were tangible rewards, it was fine.

With an Innate Soul Power of level six, Li Han naturally secured the work-study student quota for Green Bamboo Village and arrived here.

The dean did not know what Li Han was thinking at this moment; he continued, "Go to the office next door and find Teacher Mo Hen."

"He is the teacher specifically responsible for managing you work-study students."

"If you have any problems in the future, you can go directly to him."

"Yes, Dean."

The dean waved his hand, signaling for Li Han to leave.

Li Han did not linger, going straight to the room next door to find Mo Hen.

Mo Hen glanced at the documents Li Han handed over, slightly surprised; clearly, he had not expected Li Han's Innate Soul Power to be this high.

But upon seeing that his martial soul was Lone Bamboo, he lost interest.

"Li Han, is it? There is currently a librarian position open at the school library."

"The daily work involves cleaning and organizing books."

"The work will be a bit tiring, but the pay is fifteen copper soul coins a day."

"Of course, you must clean it thoroughly, otherwise your pay will be deducted."

"If you slack off too many times, I will revoke your status as a work-study student, understand?"

"I understand, Teacher Mo Hen."

Li Han was delighted to hear this, not expecting to be assigned such a good position.

If one were to ask what attracted Li Han most to Nuoding Academy?

It certainly wasn't these teachers, who were at most level forty or fifty, but rather soul master theory.

More accurately, it was knowledge about soul beasts.

And cleaning the library would clearly allow him to better absorb knowledge about soul beasts.

Possessing the Mortal System, even if he cultivated on his own, he would not be inferior to any genius.

But limited by the rules of this world, he needed to hunt soul beasts and obtain soul rings to break through his bottlenecks.

And to hunt soul beasts and absorb soul rings, judging the age of a soul beast was extremely important.

Otherwise, if the age was too low, it would be a loss; if the age was too high, he would be burst to death—these were all major issues.

Li Han naturally did not think Nuoding Academy would have information on high-level soul beasts, but information on some hundred-year or thousand-year soul beasts would certainly exist.

Before he reached level thirty, this information would be sufficient.

As for the so-called theory master Yu Xiaogang who lived in Nuoding Academy, Li Han did not intend to provoke him.

Firstly, in Li Han's view, the man's theories were too risky.

They were not entirely true, nor entirely false; half-true and half-false was the most insidious kind.

Secondly, he had his own secrets and it was not suitable for anyone to know his cultivation process.

Thirdly, Yu Xiaogang might not even look favorably upon a commoner soul master like him with level six Innate Soul Power.

Although Yu Xiaogang wanted to prove his theories and the saying "there are no trash martial souls, only trash soul masters," he would not truly choose a mediocre person to prove it, but would instead choose a genius with Innate Full Soul Power.

He would leave that blessing to Tang San; he wouldn't join in the fun.