The golden monkey rose, brandishing his mighty staff; the jade heavens cleared of dust for ten thousand miles.
Today we cheered for the Great Sage Sun, for the demonic mist had returned once more.
Douluo Continent, Shrek City!
"Child, step forward."
Six years since I transmigrated. Is it finally my turn to awaken my martial soul?
Hearing the old man ahead of him, Qiangu Qitian slipped into a momentary daze.
He was a transmigrator. Six years ago, an accident involving a heavy truck had killed him, and he had unexpectedly arrived in this world.
He had been born into the Qiangu Clan, a secluded clan on the verge of collapse. Shortly after his birth, his parents had died on a mission to pursue evil soul masters. Just as he was about to become an orphan and face a sky-shattering start to life,
he had fortunately been found and adopted by his distant uncle, Wang Yan, who had brought him to Shrek City.
Now, time had flown by, and it was finally his turn to awaken his martial soul.
Qiangu Qitian had known for a long time what martial soul he would awaken.
Their Qiangu Clan descended from Qian Jun Douluo, Spirit Hall's Sixth Revered Elder ten thousand years ago, and their inherited martial soul was the Coiling Dragon Staff.
The Coiling Dragon Staff was a special martial soul that lay between high-grade and super-grade. If a dragon soul inhabited the staff when it awakened, its quality could reach the level of a super-grade martial soul. If it was merely a Coiling Dragon Staff, its quality would only be high-grade.
In a sense, awakening the Coiling Dragon Staff martial soul was a second gamble.
With good luck, one could awaken a Coiling Dragon Staff inhabited by a dragon soul. Provided one did not die young, one was destined to rise above others and become one of the continent's greatest powerhouses.
Conversely, if the awakened Coiling Dragon Staff had no dragon soul within it, one would essentially end up at his uncle Wang Yan's level. Their innate soul power would not exceed rank six, and they would never become a Titled Douluo in their lifetime. Even reaching Soul Douluo would be difficult.
According to his uncle Wang Yan, their Qiangu Clan had declined entirely because no one had awakened a Coiling Dragon Staff inhabited by a dragon soul for dozens of generations. That thought weighed on Qiangu Qitian.
He had come to the Douluo Continent, and in the era of Douluo II at that. Without powerful talent from the outset, there was practically no chance of rising under a certain Sea God's watchful gaze. After all, not everyone was like Huo Yuhao, who could walk out the door and receive the sacrifice of a million-year soul beast.
"Child, close your eyes and carefully sense the martial soul inside your body. Try to draw it out."
Suppressing his inner agitation, Qiangu Qitian listened to the voice beside him and immediately closed his eyes. He tried to sense the changes in his body and began guiding the martial soul within him.
No amount of thinking would help. Once his martial soul awakened, everything would be set. He only hoped he would not end up like Yu Xiaogang, with a martial soul that mutated into something useless.
Even awakening an ordinary Coiling Dragon Staff would be far better than awakening a useless mutated martial soul with no soul power.
After all, on the Douluo Continent, only becoming a soul master offered a chance to control one's own fate. An ordinary person without even a trace of soul power might be devoured by an evil soul master, flesh and all, at any moment.
In the Douluo I era ten thousand years ago, ordinary people had still had a way to survive. But in the Douluo II era, evil soul masters ran rampant, and ordinary people could lose their lives at any time.
As for why evil soul masters had suddenly become so rampant, that story began with the side effects of a certain Sea God, pure as ice and spotless as jade, destroying the evil Slaughter City.
As his thoughts wandered, Qiangu Qitian absorbed a great deal of soul power. He felt as though his entire body were soaking in a hot spring, warm from head to toe, yet also as though he were soaring freely through the sky, every part of him brimming with exhilaration.
Suddenly, he could not tell whether it was an illusion, but Qiangu Qitian faintly glimpsed a hundred-meter divine dragon suffused with righteous energy. There was not a trace of malice anywhere on its body. It seemed to be at one with heaven and earth, and merely looking at it inspired reverence.
"Is this the Break Evil Dragon?"
The sight before him made Qiangu Qitian murmur to himself.
From what he knew, the Break Evil Dragon was an extraordinarily special kind of dragon!
An anomaly among the Dragon Clan, it was born of heaven and nurtured by earth, formed from the righteous energy between heaven and earth, and beyond the Dragon God's control!
Although it was not truly a member of the Dragon Clan, it possessed the ability to dispel all evil.
The Break Evil Dragon could be called an exceptionally unique existence.
When the Break Evil Dragon's dragon soul inhabited a Coiling Dragon Staff, it also provided a significant boost in battle. No matter how powerful the enemy, as long as the wielder maintained an indomitable spirit, he could unleash strength far beyond his own.
"Come forth, Coiling Dragon Staff!"
As the Break Evil Dragon before him vanished, Qiangu Qitian snapped his eyes open. The next instant, a long staff appeared directly in his hand!
The moment the staff appeared, a dragon's roar faintly echoed between heaven and earth!
The long staff was dark brown from end to end, with golden dragon-shaped engravings coiling across the surfaces of both tips. It felt slightly cool in his hand, and an urge to battle heaven and move earth suddenly surged in Qiangu Qitian's heart.
So this is my martial soul—the finest Coiling Dragon Staff, inhabited by the Break Evil Dragon!
At the martial soul awakening site, dragon qi billowed, and dragon roars rang out one after another!
"Is this a Coiling Dragon Staff?" The man helping Qiangu Qitian awaken his martial soul was a teacher from the Shrek Outer Court. As he looked at Qiangu Qitian's martial soul, a puzzled expression crossed his face.
As a fellow teacher in the Outer Academy, he had seen Wang Yan's Coiling Dragon Staff. It was merely an ordinary iron staff engraved with dragon patterns, a high-grade martial soul at most. It possessed none of the imposing might of Qiangu Qitian's.
Yet Qiangu Qitian's Coiling Dragon Staff was completely different from Wang Yan's. Not only was its presence immensely powerful, it even radiated an indomitable conviction!
At this level, it was unquestionably a super-grade martial soul!
"Child, is your martial soul the Coiling Dragon Staff?"
Looking at the Coiling Dragon Staff in Qiangu Qitian's hand, the old man overseeing the awakening could not help asking curiously.
It clearly looked exactly like Wang Yan's Coiling Dragon Staff, yet the difference in their imposing might was like heaven and earth. Judging by his experience, he felt certain that this child's martial soul had mutated.
And it had to be a beneficial mutation!
"Grandpa, the martial soul I awakened is indeed the Coiling Dragon Staff!"
"So it really is the Coiling Dragon Staff. It seems we're in luck. Shrek is about to gain another little genius!"
"Come, let's test your soul power!"
Sensing the pressure radiating from the Coiling Dragon Staff in Qiangu Qitian's hand, the old man gave a kindly smile. He immediately reached out and handed Qiangu Qitian a blue crystal ball.
The next instant!
As Qiangu Qitian placed his hand on the crystal ball, the entire sphere burst into an incomparably dazzling radiance.
Golden light illuminated the crystal ball completely, leaving not the slightest gap.
At the dazzling light pouring from the crystal ball, the old man's eyes widened, his face filled with utter astonishment!
This was innate full soul power!