The Second Martial Soul, a Star Gate Connecting to the Motherland!

The Second Martial Soul, a Star Gate Connecting to the Motherland!

Heaven Dou Empire

Nuoding City

A young man stood in front of the Nuoding City branch hall. His filthy T-shirt and close-cropped hair made him stand out like a sore thumb among the people around him. Tears streamed down his face as he trembled with excitement.

"I'm finally here. I'm finally here!"

Huo Si hadn't belonged to this world. An accident had sent him to Douluo Continent, but he hadn't taken over someone else's body or been reborn. He had arrived in his own body.

No system. No cheat. And no money.

Half a month ago, he'd arrived in Douluo Continent and found himself in a village deep in the mountains. To make his way out, he'd gone three days on just nine meals, fought wild dogs for scraps, and narrowly escaped death at the hands of Soul Beasts. He'd endured that life for a full half month.

But seeing Nuoding City's branch hall and the sign above the Spirit Hall, Huo Si burst into tears.

"It was worth it! It was all worth it! This life was worth living!"

Thinking of the advantage he had from knowing the story, he decided to awaken his Martial Soul and join the Spirit Hall, where he could support Qian Renxue and rise to the top by letting her keep him.

At the thought, Huo Si couldn't wait another second. He dashed into the Spirit Hall.

Two and a half hours later, Huo Si followed a young male deacon out, looking utterly dejected.

"There really isn't any way?"

"I could join the Spirit Hall, too! I'm useful!"

"Please, Deacon, help me out. Once I get back on my feet, I'll never forget your kindness!"

The deacon shook his head regretfully.

"You're too old. Besides, the Spirit Hall doesn't recruit Soul Masters below the Soul Grandmaster rank."

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A female deacon dressed in luxurious robes glanced at Huo Si's beggar's rags and ripped jeans, her face full of scorn.

"Yuntao, who's that?"

The two walked farther away, their conversation carrying back to him. Huo Si lowered his head in shame.

"Someone who came to awaken his Martial Soul at twenty-one."

"And his Martial Soul is a Trash Martial Soul called Finger Snake."

Hearing "Trash Martial Soul," Sisi looked even more contemptuous.

"A snake as thick as a finger."

Sisi couldn't hold back and suddenly burst out laughing.

"Ah, it's just a pity he has Innate Full Soul Power."

Sisi's smile stiffened.

"So what if he really does have Innate Full Soul Power?"

"He's already past the golden age for cultivation, and his Martial Soul is a useless little thing no bigger than a thumb. Even if he gets a Soul Ring and becomes a Soul Master, he'll just waste the Spirit Hall's Gold Soul Coins."

The jeers and insults drifted farther away. Huo Si clenched his fists, his eyes bloodshot.

On his right hand lay a tiny snake, no bigger than his thumb, gazing up at him with pitiful eyes.

"Trash Martial Soul, Trash Martial Soul—so what if it's a Trash Martial Soul? I still have Innate Full Soul Power!"

As he said it, Huo Si looked at the tiny snake in his hand, his heart suddenly uncertain.

But there was no changing the outcome. His path to joining the Spirit Hall, clinging to Qian Renxue, and being kept by her was over.

Still, being a Soul Master was one of the most respected paths in Douluo Continent. He absolutely couldn't give up.

"Deacon Yuntao... Deacon Yuntao?"

"Su Yuntao?"

"Blind Douluo!"

Huo Si suddenly lifted his head as if struck by an idea, his eyes blazing.

The legendary jinx of a mentor... Nuoding City.

"Right! The Nuoding Junior Spirit Master Academy. Yu Xiaogang is still there. Maybe he can change my Trash Martial Soul!"

"The legendary master of theory can't be that useless, can he?"

Don't ask why he thought Yu Xiaogang could help when Yu Xiaogang himself was a trash Soul Master who couldn't break through level thirty in his entire life.

Huo Si had Innate Full Soul Power, while Yu Xiaogang had only half a level. That was the difference between heaven and earth. Maybe there was still a chance?

Huo Si was like a drowning man grabbing the last straw, desperately reaching for any remedy.

Nuoding Junior Spirit Master Academy.

"Grandmaster, someone's here to see you. I heard he's a genius with Innate Full Soul Power, and he wants to ask your advice."

At the words "Innate Full Soul Power" and "ask your advice," Yu Xiaogang hurried over, his face flushed with excitement.

"Finally! At last, someone recognizes the brilliance of my theories!"

But when Yu Xiaogang reached the gate and saw Huo Si dressed like a beggar, with nobody else around, his face instantly froze.

"Where's the child?"

"Where's the genius with Innate Full Soul Power?"

Watching Yu Xiaogang's excitement, Huo Si awkwardly raised his right hand.

"I'm the one."

Yu Xiaogang's mouth twitched repeatedly at Huo Si's words.

"What's your Martial Soul?"

Huo Si slowly raised his right hand. When Grandmaster saw the thumb-sized snake in his hand, his face darkened completely, red with fury, his defenses in ruins.

Rumble, crack—!

His mind automatically blocked out the curses aimed at his ancestors for eighteen generations.

Spit flew like raindrops, while humiliation and insults surged like a tide, gradually drowning Huo Si.

In an alley

Huo Si's fists clenched again and again as despair welled up inside him.

"Was my coming here a mistake?"

"If you gave me the gift of Innate Full Soul Power, why give me this body in my twenties? And if you gave me this body, why give me such a useless Martial Soul!"

The tiny snake in his right hand gazed at him pitifully. As if sensing Huo Si's resentment, it timidly brushed against his hand.

The force that had been keeping Huo Si going finally drained away.

Despair and resentment filled his heart.

The world spun before his eyes... Just as his body was about to collapse, a dazzling star gate slowly appeared in his mind.

The star gate slowly opened, and a brilliant golden light emerged.

"Baozi! Baozi! Steamed buns!"

"Fruit! Fruit! Three yuan a jin, ten yuan for three jin!"

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Looking at the modern street and the familiar clothes worn by the people around him, Huo Si gritted his teeth. A brilliant golden light blazed in his eyes. He summoned the last of his strength and, somehow finding a little more, slowly stood up.

Staggering toward a baozi shop, he grabbed a bun and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Water!"

"Water!!"

"I need water!!!"

The unbearable resentment in his heart, Yu Xiaogang's mockery and insults, Sisi's disgusted gaze and contemptuous tone—all of it became fuel for his grief and rage.

"You're the genius with Innate Full Soul Power?"

"You good-for-nothing! What gives you the right to call yourself a genius with Innate Full Soul Power?"

"Look at you, you're over twenty, and you've only just reached level ten. And you have a Beast Martial Soul, too. Didn't your mother teach you to be honest? You're a bastard raised without a mother!"

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"Proof? Do you think I'm an idiot? You're over twenty and only level ten. You went to the Spirit Hall to awaken your Martial Soul again, and you expect me to believe this was your first awakening?"

"You could awaken your Martial Soul a hundred more times, and history still wouldn't record you as a genius with Innate Full Soul Power!"

Food caught in his throat. Huo Si took the soy milk tremblingly from the terrified shopkeeper.

Huo Si's eyes were bloodshot. The words he'd shouted in defiance still rang in his ears.

"You only had half a level of Innate Soul Power, and you're practically halfway into your grave. Even if I'm twenty with level ten Soul Power, you still can't compare to me."

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"I'm trash, so I get to be right. You're trash, so I get to curse you! You useless piece of junk. I'm a master of Soul Master theory! How many people beg me to solve their Martial Soul problems?"

"I have knowledge. What do you have?"

"Those ripped pants?"

After filling his stomach, Huo Si looked at the tiny snake in his right hand and suddenly threw his head back, laughing.

"Heh... heh, hahahaha!"

"One Martial Soul becomes two! The Second Martial Soul is the Plane Star Gate, connected to the motherland behind it!"

"The Spirit Hall looked down on me because they're blind! Yu Xiaogang looked down on me because he's a fool!"

Huo Si laughed like a madman, ignoring the people inside and outside the shop pointing at him. He threw his head back and shouted those ridiculously over-the-top lines.

"I'll climb, step by step, all the way to the top!"

"I'll show everyone who looked down on me, mocked me, and cursed me that even a little snake will have its day to turn into a dragon!"