Saint Guide Village

Douluo Continent!

A peaceful little village on the border of the Sun Moon Empire, near the Ming Dou Mountain Range.

Saint Guide Village! Legend had it that a Class 7 soul engineer had once come from here, and that was how it got its name.

Evening!

Inside a cramped thatched cottage.

A little boy of six or seven with golden hair was looking miserable as he begged a blond girl of eleven or twelve for mercy.

"Sis, can you not make me eat this whale glue!~"

"It tastes absolutely awful!"

Every time the little boy said a sentence, the blond girl beside him scooped up a spoonful of the sticky substance in his bowl and stuffed it into his mouth.

"No! Ye Fan, you are one of the only two remaining bloodline inheritors of the angel clan!"

"If your foundation isn't built firmly, how will you restore the glory of our ancestor, the Angel God, in the future?"

"Have you forgotten the heavy responsibility of reviving the entire angel clan?"

"Have you forgotten the blood feud of our parents dying horribly at the hands of evil soul masters to protect us?"

"Are you going to turn your back on the oath we swore together before our parents' memorial tablets back then?"

Strangely, the little boy who had originally resisted swallowing the whale glue stopped resisting those foul-tasting mouthfuls after hearing his blond sister's stern scolding.

Instead, he snatched the spoon from his blond sister's hand and began gulping down the disgusting whale glue on his own.

The little boy was named Ye Fan, a person from Blue Star who had accidentally crossed over to Douluo Continent and become the younger brother of Ye Guyi, an inheritor of the Angel God Qian Renxue's lineage.

Not long after he was born, their parents had been brutally killed by evil soul masters, and it was his sister Ye Guyi who had rescued him from a pile of corpses.

Over the years, it had been his sister who had led him again and again in breaking out of the encirclements of evil soul masters trying to kill them.

It could be said that without his sister Ye Guyi, there would be no Ye Fan as he was now.

Because of that, Ye Fan respected his sister Ye Guyi immensely, and at the same time, he loathed and hated evil soul masters from the bottom of his heart.

Seeing that Ye Fan no longer resisted swallowing the whale glue, Ye Guyi finally revealed a bright smile.

Looking at Ye Guyi, whose smile was as lovely as a blooming flower, Ye Fan subconsciously praised her. "Sis, you're so beautiful! I wonder which family's big brother will be lucky enough to get you in the future."

Ye Guyi scolded him with a smile. "You, honestly. You're still so little, but you sure know a lot!"

Hearing this, Ye Fan retorted, "Sis, I'm not little anymore. After tonight, I'll be six!"

"I'll be old enough to awaken my martial soul on the Sun Moon Continent!"

Ye Guyi could not win against Ye Fan, so she scolded him with a laugh.

"Yes, yes, yes!"

"Our little Fan isn't little anymore!"

"Tomorrow evening, your sister will help you awaken your martial soul and let you become a soul master just like me."

Hearing this, Ye Fan immediately cheered and jumped up.

"Oh yeah!"

The next day, early morning!

The sun rose over Saint Guide Village as usual.

As she did every day, Ye Guyi took a large amount of fresh water from her soul tool and handed it to Ye Fan.

She had him deliver it each day to every household in Saint Guide Village.

Saint Guide Village did not have many people, only sixty or seventy households, but it was located halfway up a mountain, so the issue of water had always troubled them.

Ye Guyi had Ye Fan deliver water to the farming households here every day. On one hand, she wanted Ye Fan's daily life to be less boring.

On the other hand, it was so he could trade with the farmers for daily necessities.

The final reason, and the most important one, was that she hoped he could use this task to train his body, better absorb the whale glue he swallowed every day, and help him obtain soul rings of a higher age when he absorbed soul rings in the future.

Perhaps because he knew he would awaken his martial soul today, Ye Fan was incredibly excited right now.

Ye Fan looked at Ye Guyi with an excited expression and said, "Don't worry, Sis. I guarantee I'll complete the mission!"

"Remember the promise you made me!"

Hearing this, Ye Guyi smiled gently and said, "I know, I know! Hurry up and go!"

"Don't keep them waiting!"

Ye Guyi watched as Ye Fan pushed the water bucket away.

Then her own figure flashed, and she disappeared from where she stood.

It could be seen that Ye Fan got along quite well with the local farmers.

After exchanging water for supplies, farmers kept inviting him to stay for a meal.

"Xiao Fan, here to deliver today's water? Come have a taste of Uncle Wang's grilled fish!"

"Thank you, Uncle Wang! There are still dozens of homes after this, so I won't eat here!"

Scenes like this kept happening.

The final household was an old grandmother with a black-haired little girl of six or seven.

One old and one young, the two of them usually lived on the village's support. Ye Fan was kindhearted and always delivered water to them for free, though of course he always left them for last.

Ye Fan had just set the water down when the black-haired little girl walked over with a shy look and called sweetly to the little boy, "Brother Xiao Fan, this is for you!"

Before Ye Fan could react, a woven scarf had appeared in his hands. One glance told him the little girl had woven it herself.

The little girl was very pretty, and Ye Fan had always treated her like a little sister.

Just as Ye Fan was about to put down the little girl's gift, she had already hidden behind the old grandmother.

In the end, it was the old grandmother who spoke. "Xiao Fan, just accept it! Saint Guide Village sits on high ground, so daily water use isn't easy. Thanks to you and your sister's arrival, our village's daily water problem was solved!"

"This old woman has no ability and can't hunt. The only thing I can offer is my weaving craft. This scarf today was woven for you personally by that girl Xiao Ya!"

As the old grandmother spoke, her face was full of kindness, while Xiao Ya shyly stole glances at Ye Fan. Only when she saw Ye Fan finally accept the scarf she had given him did she let out a faint breath of relief.

Hearing that, Ye Fan stopped refusing and simply treated it as payment from the old grandmother and Xiao Ya for delivering water to them these days.

Ye Fan did not think too much about it and pushed the water barrel back to where he lived.

By now, it was nearly noon.

After lunch, Ye Fan carried a firewood knife on his back and went up the mountain to chop wood. The mountain breeze was cool and faint, and the forest was lush and green.

He was bending over to pick up dead branches when he suddenly glimpsed several dark figures flitting rapidly through the woods. Their movement techniques were mysterious, and their tracks were hidden. They were definitely not ordinary villagers.

"Strange. That holy aura was in this direction. How could it just disappear?"

Faintly, Ye Fan also heard the voices of those people talking.

His heart tightened. Remembering his sister's warning, he did not dare rashly spy on them or follow. He immediately slowed his movements, turned around quietly, and went down the mountain, quickly retreating back to Saint Guide Village. There, he waited silently for Ye Guyi to return, planning to tell her the truth about what had happened.

At dusk, Ye Guyi returned.

Ye Fan immediately went up to her and called affectionately, "Sister, you're back!"

"Let me tell you, today I saw..."

Before Ye Fan could finish, he saw that Ye Guyi was covered in wounds.

"Sister, what happened to you?"

Ye Fan did not dare delay and was about to help Ye Guyi to the bed.

But Ye Guyi waved a hand and said, "I'm fine. Little brother, I'll awaken your martial soul right now. We're leaving Saint Guide Village tonight!"

Hearing that, Ye Fan finally connected the black-clad men he had encountered during the day with his sister, Ye Guyi.

"Sister, were those black-clad men today evil soul masters? Were they tracking you?"

Ye Guyi did not answer directly. Instead, she took two items from her soul tool.

Ye Fan looked over and saw that they were precisely the awakening array and awakening crystal ball used on the Douluo Continent to awaken a child's martial soul.

Looking at the things in Ye Guyi's hands, Ye Fan's eyes instantly lit up.