Su Yuntao's Jaw Drops! Good Luck and Bad Luck!

"Got it, got it." Huang Fei lifted his bowl and shoveled a mouthful of food in, saying indistinctly, "Tang San, what kind of Martial Soul do you think you'll awaken?"

Tang San thought for a moment and said earnestly, "Probably some kind of farming tool. My dad says the Martial Souls in our family aren't anything special."

Huang Fei nearly lost his composure.

What your dad calls "nothing special" refers to the Clear Sky Hammer.

The number one tool Martial Soul in the world.

But now is not the time to reveal that.

Huang Fei smiled, finished the last of his meal, and set the bowl down. "Let's go."

A dozen or so children had already gathered at the village entrance, all of them six years old.

Old Jack stood at the very front, next to a young man in a white robe; the emblem on his chest indicated he was from the Martial Soul Hall.

Su Yuntao.

Huang Fei recognized him at a glance.

In the original story, this guy was just a plot device, specifically responsible for awakening the protagonist's Martial Soul.

When Huang Fei and Tang San arrived, the awakening hadn't started yet.

"Stand behind me." Tang San habitually pulled him behind his back, shielding him from the front.

Huang Fei opened his mouth, wanting to say that he was actually much stronger than Tang San, but he thought better of it and kept his mouth shut, standing behind him.

The protagonist always appears last.

Su Yuntao went through the motions with a sense of ceremony, introducing himself.

Then, he began organizing the children into a line, one by one, to step forward and awaken their Martial Souls.

The first few children had ordinary farming tools, poultry, or similar things, and their soul power was mostly half a level or one level; Old Jack sighed repeatedly from the sidelines.

When it was Tang San's turn, Su Yuntao told him to place his hand on the Awakening Stone.

A blue light flared.

A stalk of Blue Silver Grass emerged from Tang San's palm, slender, delicate, and swaying gently in the breeze.

Su Yuntao frowned. "Blue Silver Grass, a trash Martial Soul. What a pity."

But the next second, his eyes widened sharply.

"Wait! This is Innate Full Soul Power?!"

Tang San was also stunned, looking down at the Blue Silver Grass in his palm with an expression of disbelief.

Old Jack was so excited his beard was trembling. "Innate Full Soul Power? Our Holy Soul Village has produced someone with Innate Full Soul Power?!"

All the children crowded around, chattering noisily.

Tang San was surrounded in the center, his expression shifting from shock to joy, and then to a faint sense of determination.

Huang Fei stood outside the crowd, not pushing his way in.

Ding! Target's current cultivation: Level 10. Host's current cultivation: Level 20. The gap remains unchanged.

The system prompt sounded, and Huang Fei felt no change in the soul power within his body.

Level twenty.

Still level twenty.

He didn't feel disappointed; instead, he smiled.

Because this meant the system's rules were stable.

Only when Tang San leveled up did he level up; if Tang San didn't move, he didn't move either.

Although the awakening didn't bring him any additional boost, As long as Tang San worked hard at his cultivation in the future, He would always be ten levels higher than Tang San.

Isn't that the most stable long-term meal ticket?

Huang Fei leaned against a nearby tree, watching Tang San surrounded by the children, the corners of his mouth curling upward slightly.

Tang San, keep working hard on your cultivation.

When it was Huang Fei's turn, the children had only just dispersed.

Su Yuntao was already somewhat exhausted, but he still went through the motions and told him to place his hand on the Awakening Stone.

Huang Fei's Martial Soul had long since been awakened, but he still came to join in the fun.

After all, he was six years old now; if he didn't come to awaken, it would be hard to explain later.

In any case, he could just control his Martial Soul and summon it from within his body.

A pale blue light lit up.

A stalk of Blue Silver Grass emerged from Huang Fei's palm.

Su Yuntao glanced at it, instinctively about to blurt out his standard line, "Blue Silver Grass, a trash martial soul," but the words caught in his throat and he suddenly paused.

This stalk of Blue Silver Grass... seemed a bit different?

It was thicker and sturdier than ordinary Blue Silver Grass, its leaves were broader and denser, its stem stood straighter, and the entire plant radiated a healthy, vibrant, emerald-green luster.

If Tang San's Blue Silver Grass was just a weed plucked from the roadside, then this one looked like... a meticulously cultivated variety.

But that was all.

It was still just Blue Silver Grass, lacking any characteristics of a mutated martial soul; there was no golden light, no flames, nothing that defied common sense.

"Blue Silver Grass."

Su Yuntao still said those three words, though his tone was somewhat uncertain: "Though the quality is rare, it's quite... robust."

He paused, then added: "I just don't know how the soul power is."

The Awakening Stone lit up again; this time, it was to test soul power.

The light flared.

It was very bright.

Su Yuntao's eyes widened slightly.

The intensity of this light was almost identical to that of the child named Tang San just a moment ago.

In a small place like Holy Soul Village, to encounter two cases of Innate Full Soul Power in a single day?

He looked at the intensity of the light, compared it against his experience, and reached a conclusion.

"Holy crap! Another Blue Silver Grass with Innate Full Soul Power!?"

Su Yuntao was dumbfounded.

Was today a day of good luck, or a day of bad luck?

The good luck was two cases of Innate Full Soul Power; the bad luck was that they were both the trash martial soul, Blue Silver Grass...

The heavens were toying with him!

This deacon of the Martial Soul Hall clearly did not realize that the light of Innate Level 10 soul power and Innate Level 20 soul power looked essentially the same to him.

After all, he had never seen Innate Level 20, and no literature had ever told him there was any difference between the two.

In everyone's understanding, Innate Full Soul Power was Level 10.

This was common knowledge.

So, when the light reached the level of Innate Full Soul Power, Su Yuntao's thinking stopped there; he wouldn't even consider anything higher.

Huang Fei quietly let out a sigh of relief.

Keep a low profile.

Must keep a low profile.

"A-another case of Innate Full Soul Power?"

Old Jack didn't know what to say anymore; the wrinkles on his face were trembling: "Our Holy Soul Village has produced two cases of Innate Full Soul Power in one day?"

The children erupted into an uproar once again.

"Blue Silver Grass again?"

"Why is his grass so much thicker than Tang San's?"

"It really grew so robustly..."

"Why does his Blue Silver Grass have soul power, but mine doesn't?"

"Exactly, why is the gap so big?"

Tang San squeezed back through the crowd, stared at the Blue Silver Grass in Huang Fei's palm for a long time, and said sincerely: "Huang Fei, your grass looks better than mine."

Huang Fei: "..."

That sounded a bit strange.

Tang San added: "And your soul power is full too; we're the same."

The same?

Huang Fei shook his head silently in his heart.

Not the same.

You are Level 10, I am Level 20.

Yours is Blue Silver Grass, mine will be Blue Silver Saint Emperor.

Your hammer is Clear Sky Hammer, mine is Sky-Shattering Hammer.

Your Mysterious Heaven Skill is at minor completion, mine is already at grand completion.

He looked at the excited Tang San beside him and suddenly felt a bit guilty.

Tang San would have to toil away at his cultivation for decades to come, pushing that "always ten levels higher" ceiling upward bit by bit.

Meanwhile, he only needed to eat, drink, and be merry to reap the rewards.

This script was truly unfair to Tang San.

But who told him to be a transmigrator.

Huang Fei patted Tang San on the shoulder, smiling with exceptional sincerity: "Little San, let's work hard together in the future."

You work hard at cultivation, and I'll work hard at enjoying life.

Tang San nodded vigorously, his eyes shining: "Mm! Let's do it together!"

Huang Fei turned his head to look at the distant sky, unable to suppress the upward curve of his lips.

Comfortable.