Holy Soul Village!
Just as everyone imagined, this was the village where Tang San lived.
And today was the day of the annual martial soul awakening.
At this moment, inside Spirit Hall's village office in the center of the village-which was actually just an ordinary little wooden cabin-
The illustrious "Blind God King," Su Yuntao, was helping the children of Holy Soul Village awaken their martial souls.
Dressed in a fitted white outfit, Su Yuntao had already taken on the appearance of a werewolf, with two spirit rings, one white and one yellow, rising beneath his feet. He called for the six-year-old children before him to step, one after another, into the awakening formation formed by awakening stones.
Under Su Yuntao's guidance, these children of Holy Soul Village awakened their martial souls in succession. Some awakened vegetable martial souls, while others awakened tool martial souls...
But without exception, after undergoing Su Yuntao's specialized test, none of these children who had awakened their martial souls possessed any soul power.
On the Douluo Continent, even someone with only half a level of soul power could gradually increase it through daily meditation and cultivation. After reaching level ten, they could hunt down any spirit beast and absorb the spirit ring it produced to become a respected spirit master.
But without soul power, it was all over!
Having no soul power meant remaining an ordinary person for life, with no hope of ever turning their fortunes around.
As he continued awakening martial souls, a trace of weariness appeared on Su Yuntao's face. Looking at the last two children remaining, he immediately beckoned the thin, small child with an unremarkable appearance into the awakening formation.
This thin, small, ordinary-looking child was, naturally, the original protagonist of the Douluo Continent, Tang San.
Tang San stepped into the awakening formation and, under Su Yuntao's guidance, successfully awakened his martial soul: a little blade of vividly blue grass that looked delicate and frail.
At the sight of this grass martial soul, clear disappointment appeared on Su Yuntao's face:
"Blue silver grass. A trash martial soul!"
The Blind God King delivered his usual performance, mistaking Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor for blue silver grass. Of course, he could hardly be blamed; a white-robed deacon's knowledge was limited, after all.
Next, following the usual procedure, Su Yuntao tested Tang San's soul power.
Tang San placed his hand on the crystal ball, which immediately blazed with light, revealing his innate full soul power.
Su Yuntao's eyes instantly widened, his face utterly dumbfounded. Then, filled with regret, he said:
"Innate full soul power? It's actually innate full soul power! Child, what a pity. You possess innate full soul power, but unfortunately, your martial soul is only blue silver grass."
"A textbook trash martial soul like this can neither attack nor defend. It really has no prospects for development."
"Here, this is your Martial Soul Certificate. Go wait to the side. Once I've awakened the last child's martial soul, you can all leave."
Unlike the other children, Tang San showed no disappointment. He accepted the Martial Soul Certificate and calmly walked aside to wait.
At this moment, Su Yuntao looked at the last child, anticipation glimmering in his eyes. A smile appeared at the corners of his mouth as he said:
"Child, step into the awakening formation, and I'll awaken your martial soul. With such a tall, sturdy build, you're sure to awaken a powerful beast martial soul."
The protagonist always made his entrance last, of course!
Hearing Su Yuntao's call, the last child strode into the awakening formation.
This child was named Lu Chen. While the other six-year-olds stood no taller than 1.2 meters, he was a full 1.6 meters tall.
The outlines of his muscles were clearly visible beneath his thin clothes. He could absolutely be called extraordinarily gifted, so even Su Yuntao was full of anticipation for him.
A look of anticipation also appeared on Lu Chen's young face.
Martial soul awakening-this was unquestionably the most thrilling moment.
Seeing Lu Chen enter the awakening formation, Su Yuntao extended a wolf claw, placed it at the formation, and poured his own soul power into it.
At that instant, the awakening formation burst into light. The light surged into Lu Chen's body, causing a certain power within him to begin awakening.
With delighted surprise in his eyes, Lu Chen thought:
I can feel power surging up. Is that my martial soul?!
Time ticked by!
One minute!
Two minutes!
Three minutes!
Soon, three minutes had passed. Although the aura around Lu Chen kept growing stronger, his martial soul still had yet to appear.
Su Yuntao's face went pale. He felt that the soul power in his body had been completely squeezed dry:
"This is bad! This martial soul is too powerful. My soul power has been drained dry!"
He cried out in alarm, and as his soul power ran dry, his martial soul returned to his body as well.
Then Su Yuntao's legs buckled. He staggered backward several steps before finally landing on his backside on the floor.
His face was filled with unwillingness to accept this. If the awakening failed because of this and held back such a promising child, the loss would be far too great.
However, Lu Chen's martial soul awakening did not fail because of it. His awakening process continued.
Su Yuntao had already helped tear an opening for him. The rest of the martial soul awakening process was driven by Lu Chen's own soul power.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
An intense sense of pressure radiated from Lu Chen's body, enveloping the entire room. At this moment, everyone in the room had their attention fixed on him.
Lu Chen felt the power surging out from within him. There were actually two kinds: one relatively gentle, the other relatively sharp.
His heart gave a jolt. Could he have twin martial souls?
He discreetly clenched his right hand into a fist, then raised his left hand and completely released the power within him that was straining to emerge.
The next instant, a little blade of vividly blue grass, brimming with vitality, grew from his palm.
At the sight of this blade of grass, Su Yuntao completely lost his composure. All his expectations burst like bubbles, and he shrieked:
"How is this possible? It drained every bit of my soul power, only to awaken a trash martial soul-blue silver grass!"
Looking at the blade of blue silver grass in his left palm, Lu Chen felt no disappointment. Instead, he thought:
My first martial soul is blue silver grass? Then the second martial soul inside me should be the Black Iron Sickle.
Lu Chen had transmigrated here. Of his parents in this life, his mother's martial soul was blue silver grass, while his father's was the Black Iron Sickle.
Both were the most ordinary of martial souls, and his parents did not possess even a trace of soul power.
In fact, before his martial soul awakening, Lu Chen had already anticipated that the martial soul he awakened would be either blue silver grass or the Black Iron Sickle. Now he had awakened both martial souls at once.
Unless something unexpected was involved, this was all because of his gold finger.
Ever since birth, he had discovered that with every breath, he could draw the energy of heaven and earth into his body, where it became streams of warmth that nourished him.
He owed his current strong physique to this gold finger that made him stronger through breathing. It seemed those streams of warmth had nourished not only his body, but his martial souls as well.
That was why these two utterly ordinary martial souls had actually awakened at the same time.