Lan Yu turned around and looked at the Martial Soul phantom, which looked exactly like him.
Except for the pair of curved dragon horns on its forehead.
"Dragonman? What kind of Martial Soul is that?"
Si Si couldn't help asking in confusion after hearing Lan Yu's exclamation.
"My Martial Soul is me." Lan Yu turned back and thumped his chest.
"This should be a Beast Martial Soul, right?" Si Si lowered her head and wrote on the Martial Soul certificate.
"Come, child. You should test your Innate Soul Power too. Since it's related to dragons, your Innate Soul Power shouldn't be low."
Lan Yu nodded and reached out to grasp the crystal ball. The next moment, a light identical to Tang Shan's illuminated the entire awakening room!
"Another Innate Full Soul Power!" Si Si was numb by now.
In a single day, this countryside village had awakened two children with dragon-related Martial Souls, and both had Innate Full Soul Power.
"Little brother, would you like to come back to Spirit Hall with your big sister? I can help persuade your mother," Si Si coaxed softly, leaning close to Lan Yu's ear.
Lan Yu turned his head, revealing the ear Si Si had breathed on, making it itch slightly.
"No, Deacon. Thank you for your kindness, but we still need to go home and ask Mom.
Si Si glanced at Tang Shan beside them, who was pouting jealously. She smiled and patted her head, her tone tinged with regret. "All right, handsome boy."
Given the opposing sides they belonged to, Lan Yu naturally couldn't accept Si Si's invitation.
"Innate Full Soul Power!" Old Tom cried out, clutching Lan Yu's little hand tightly.
"Wonderful! Our Holy Soul Village has actually produced two children with Innate Full Soul Power this year."
"Xiao Yu, the village happens to have a work-study student slot. Tomorrow, I'll go to the neighboring Emperor Soul Village and ask their village chief, Old Shuke, to hand over their work-study student slot for this year."
"Then you and your little sister can go to the city and study at Notting Academy." Old Tom waved his hand grandly, arranging everything.
After thanking Old Tom, Lan Yu ran over to Ah Yin, who was whispering with Tang Shan.
"Xiao Yu, come on. Let's go home and talk." Ah Yin patted Lan Yu's head and spoke gently.
The three of them returned home.
Ah Yin looked at Tang Shan, who seemed to want to say something but hesitated, and asked softly, "What is it, Xiao Shan?"
Tang Shan glanced at Lan Yu beside her, then opened her left hand. "Mom, Brother, besides the Haotian Flood Dragon, I have another Martial Soul."
As she spoke, golden light swirled in Tang Shan's right palm, and a Blue Silver Grass plant marked with deep silver streaks slowly appeared.
"Blue Silver King...?" Ah Yin blurted out when she saw Tang Shan's Second Martial Soul.
"Alas, I never thought you'd awaken the Blue Silver King, Xiao Shan. I don't know whether this is a blessing or a curse."
"Why do you say that, Mom?" Lan Yu heard Ah Yin murmuring and couldn't help asking.
What was going on in this world? Tang Shan had awakened the Blue Silver King instead of Blue Silver Grass. Could it be because Ah Yin was still alive?
And why would awakening the Blue Silver King bring disaster?
"Let me tell you a story." Ah Yin sighed deeply, her thoughts drifting far away.
"Long ago, Blue Silver Grass was the very definition of a Trash Martial Soul on the mainland. People believed that anyone who awakened Blue Silver Grass would have Innate Soul Power no higher than level two."
"But one Soul Master broke through that established belief. Her Innate Soul Power was actually as high as level eight. After years of hard cultivation, she finally broke through to become a Titled Douluo, the first Blue Silver Grass Douluo on the mainland.
And the instant she broke through to Titled Douluo, her Martial Soul evolved directly into the Blue Silver Emperor. To commemorate that moment, she decided to establish the Blue Silver Sacred Heart Sect and recruit every Blue Silver Grass Soul Master on the mainland."
"Isn't that a good thing, Mom?" Tang Shan blinked her little eyes.
"Mom, was there something wrong with that Blue Silver Grass Douluo herself?"
Lan Yu couldn't help thinking of the discussions about Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul he'd seen online in his previous life.
"That's right! Do you know what title that Blue Silver Grass Douluo had?"
Lan Yu and Tang Shan looked at each other and shook their heads.
"Undying!"
"She was known as the Undying Douluo. What an arrogant title! Her existence made every power on the mainland deeply wary. Fortunately, only one Blue Silver Emperor Douluo would appear in any given era, and the position could only be inherited by her blood descendants.
From then on, the Blue Silver Sacred Heart Sect secured its place as the number one sect on the Douluo Continent. Every sect master in the generations that followed was descended from the Undying Douluo, and every one of them possessed the Blue Silver Emperor. Yet the strongest among them had only ever reached level ninety-six.
The previous sect master had two daughters. The elder daughter's Innate Soul Power was level nine, resetting the innate limit for the Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul throughout the sect's history. She was even one level higher than the Undying Douluo had been back then. Everyone in the sect saw her as the next sect master and hoped she would reach the Undying Douluo's realm.
The younger daughter's Innate Soul Power was level eight. Her talent was also exceptional, but she paled in comparison to her elder sister. After all, only one Blue Silver Emperor could be born in any given era.
So the sect planned a cultivation path for the younger daughter that diverged from the traditional Blue Silver Grass path, intending to make her a support-type Douluo of the Blue Silver King lineage. With a Blue Silver King boosting her from the side, the elder daughter, as the Blue Silver Emperor, would have a chance to surpass the Undying Douluo and stand atop the mainland."
"Mom, are you that younger daughter?" Lan Yu had already more or less guessed the truth.
"That's right." Ah Yin nodded, her eyes filling with tears as she choked back a sob.
"That younger daughter was me. When I was sixteen, I traveled down the mountain with my big sister and met my beloved, Tang Hao. He was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast. We fell in love at first sight and pledged ourselves to each other in secret. My big sister trusted him to take care of me and returned to the sect alone.
But when I was pregnant with Xiao Shan, for some reason, a Titled Douluo from Spirit Hall set his sights on him.
He had long since passed the transformation stage and hidden his Soul Beast aura. That battle shook heaven and earth. In the end, A Hao sacrificed himself for me.
I thought that Titled Douluo would kill me in a fit of rage, but he only sighed, took the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and left!"
"Mom, who was that Titled Douluo?" Lan Yu thought for a moment, then asked in confusion.
"An Angel!"
It must have been Qian Daoliu! Qian Xunji alone probably couldn't have defeated Tang Hao with Ah Yin supporting him.
More importantly, Tang Hao had already passed the transformation stage. In theory, even a Titled Douluo shouldn't have been able to discover his identity.
Unless it was someone who had surpassed the Titled Douluo realm. The only one on the entire mainland whose Angel Martial Soul far surpassed that realm was Qian Daoliu, an Angel God Servant.
Thinking of this, Lan Yu couldn't help sighing.
This was rough! He had no idea how badly the plot could go off the rails.
"Mom, what does this have to do with my Blue Silver King?" Tang Shan looked at the Blue Silver King in her hand, her fair little face full of confusion.
Ah Yin stifled her sobs, patted Tang Shan's head, and continued, "My mother, the previous sect master of the Blue Silver Sacred Heart Sect, couldn't accept learning that the child she had carefully raised had fallen in love with a transformed Soul Beast. She died in a fit of rage! After my mother died, my big sister, who should have evolved into the Blue Silver Emperor and inherited the sect leadership, never evolved. Instead, I was the one who evolved, even though I was hiding in Holy Soul Village!
Heaven really knew how to toy with people!
When the various powers learned that the succession of this generation's Blue Silver Emperor had gone awry, they all turned against the sect. Without top-tier combat power, the sect was forced to go into hiding."
Watching Ah Yin cry without end, Lan Yu didn't know what to say. How could a Blue Silver Emperor Douluo be angered to death?!