Connecting the Clues
Ling Yi's thinking is based on his memories of his past life.
With the Spirit Hall's numerous branch halls, sub-halls, and main halls scattered throughout the Douluo Continent, and the lure of providing Gold Soul Coin as a subsidy to all registered One-Ring Soul Master, it was enough to attract 99% of the commoner Soul Master on the continent to register their information.
If Ling Yi were the leader of the Spirit Hall, he would definitely issue such an order: pay close attention to all geniuses who registered as One-Ring Soul Master at the age of six, especially those who are orphans without parents!
In the vast Douluo Continent, only one in a hundred children of the right age can awaken Innate Soul Power and possess the aptitude for cultivation.
Those who can Martial Soul Awakening at the age of six and become One-Ring Soul Master in the same year either have Innate Full Soul Power or have Innate Soul Power of level eight or nine or above!
Excluding children whose Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony were presided over by deacons of the Spirit Hall, those who had no record of Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony and who supplemented their awakening information when registering One-Ring Soul Master are extremely rare, perhaps one in ten thousand across the Douluo Continent.
Of course, it cannot be ruled out that some Soul Master families arrange their own awakening ceremonies, and some wealthy ordinary families hire Soul Master at a low cost to Martial Soul Awakening on their sixth birthday. These possibilities are not nonexistent.
Simply Innate Full Soul Power is like having one's ancestral graves emitting auspicious smoke, a super benign mutation of the Martial Soul.
The Martial Soul Awakening did not go through the [Spirit Hall], which can be said to be to avoid delaying the awakening time due to unified awakening.
With these two factors combined, perhaps only a handful of people in the Douluo Continent will appear every few decades or centuries.
But if we add the fact that he was an orphan without parents, then all of this should no longer be a coincidence.
The power of Martial Soul ultimately comes from bloodline inheritance; no one can appear on this continent without any blood relatives.
Unless, of course, it's not human.
Ling Yi wasn't sure if the leaders of the Spirit Hall could think of this, but Ling Yi felt that if he had such a powerful force, he could capture almost any transformed Soul Beast that came out of the Douluo Continent.
After all, the restrictions imposed on Soul Beast Transformation are practically leaving them no way out.
Before Maturity Stage of level 60, they are nowhere to hide in the eyes of powerhouses above the Soul Douluo level. Yet, they still need to come into contact with humans and sense their aura in order to cultivate. Otherwise, they cannot make progress. How can this be so ridiculous?!
Unless these Soul Beast Transformation, remain holed up in some remote village or small county town, earning a meager income to support themselves, as long as the other party dares to show their face, Ling Yi can use the process of elimination to send his subordinates Soul Douluo and Titled Douluo, to meet and have tea with those marked genius Soul Master every year, and the story will be pretty much over.
Therefore, when he was in Heaven Dou City, Ling Yi deliberately took Ah Yin, who had no Soul Beast aura at the time, to the Martial Soul Temple to borrow books after he used the Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and met the Platinum Bishop Sa Fan Desa Sar.
Although Ah Yin was quite frightened by the Soul Douluo- level Sa Fan Desa, she had the precedent of the Tie Futu and managed to suppress her fear of turning around and running away. Ah Yin stood by unharmed and watched Ling Yi and Sa Fan Desa chatting and laughing.
Ah Yin had previously registered her Soul Master information at the Spirit Hall Branch in Luyin City. If someone in the Spirit Hall had indeed thought of Ling Yi's process of elimination, then Ah Yin's secret as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form would very likely be exposed to the Spirit Hall.
However, with the endorsement of the powerful and influential Soul Douluo Sa Fan Desa, the Four Platinum Bishop, the possibility of Ah Yin being Soul Beast would be greatly reduced, and she might even be directly labeled as a pure human.
In other words, there is still no definite understanding of the strength of Titled Douluo. Otherwise, Ling Yi would have been willing to try taking Ah Yin to show off in front of Titled Douluo.
Well, just thinking about it, we still need to play it safe. We should always be cautious and never be arrogant.
The Minor Concentration of mental state allows Ling Yi to have a calm mind and free from distracting thoughts, but sometimes Ling Yi will let his thoughts run wild, allowing himself to experience the various emotional fluctuations of being born as a human being.
Although he found a character who appeared to be a background figure from the original novel—the one who didn't appear in person but only in dialogue and became Bibi Dong's Soul Ring Xiao Wu, Ling Yi didn't deliberately try to find her.
Nowadays, Ling Yi is no longer an unknown nobody in the Douluo Continent, both in terms of identity and status. His every move is enough to attract the attention of some interested people.
It's fine if you meet by chance in the vast sea of people, but if you reveal any deliberate signs, it's one thing if that "Ah Rou" is a human Soul Master, but if she really is a 100,000-year-old "Soft Bone Rabbit" in human form, this big gift package will not be able to wait for Bibi Dong to open it in the future, but will be eaten by someone else more than 20 years in advance.
"Let me think... Tang San was born in Douluo Calendar 2631, Martial Soul Awakening in 2637..."
Ling Yi tapped his fingers rhythmically on the windowsill, silently calculating: 'It was also in this year that Tang San enrolled in the Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, where he met Xiao Wu, who was supposedly the same age but Xiao Wu a month younger than him...'
At the end of the first semester, the two returned to Holy Soul Village. Tang Hao left a letter and ran away. When they recognized each other as siblings, Tang San mentioned that he was born in January and Xiao Wu in August.
"In the Douluo Continent, academies generally start school in September. Xiao Wu's birthday is in August, which means she took human form in August of the 2637th year of the Douluo Calendar, becoming a six-year-old human girl."
"If we consider the flashback scenes of Bibi Dong hunting down Xiao Wu's mother in the anime, Xiao Wu's mother's death should also have occurred in August. Using her ' Soul Skill: Invincible Golden Body ' and ' Soul Skill: Teleportation,' she was able to temporarily contend with Yue Guan and Gui Mei, two Titled Douluo, indicating she possessed at least the strength of Soul Emperor!"
"As for being killed by Bibi Dong's ' Soul Skill: Eternal Creation ' without even using his Martial Soul Avatar, either he wasn't Soul Saint enough, or he didn't have time?"
"It's currently Douluo Calendar 2615, 22 years until Douluo Calendar 37... Registered in 2010... Human age is six... Became Grand Soul Master in 2012, eight years old... So this year is eleven... Will I be thirty-three in Douluo Calendar 37?"
"Tang Hao Soul Ancestor at fifteen, Soul King at twenty, and Soul Emperor at twenty-four. In the original novel, he apparently became Soul Saint at thirty. Even with the amplification of two inherited Soul Bone from the Clear Sky Sect, his talent is still at the ceiling level in the Douluo Continent."
"As a human transformed from Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, his talent shouldn't be inferior to Tang Hao's. At most, his cultivation resources might be lacking. So, at thirty-three years old... level seventy? Should he return to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for his Seventh Soul Ring?"
Connecting the fragments of information in his mind, Ling Yi's vacant gaze suddenly sharpened, then returned to calm and peacefulness.
"Never mind that. Right now, let's help Shelly hunt for a suitable Fifth Soul Ring. Once Shelly becomes Soul King and puts on the ' Azure Wood Battle Armor,' she should truly possess the combat power of Soul Emperor."
As for that Ah Rou... um?!
Ling Yi looked down at the empty street below, and saw a figure slowly approaching at the end of the bluestone-paved road.
To be continued tomorrow, goodnight everyone~