Lin Yan: I Have Twin God-Tier Martial Souls! Su Hai Tao: Did You Fry Your Brain Eating Mushrooms?

Douluo Continent.

Donghai City, Spirit Transmission Tower, third-floor loan counter.

"Can't approve it."

Su Hai Tao didn't even look up, his fingers flipping through the file folder in his hands.

Lin Yan braced both hands against the counter and leaned forward, lowering his voice. "But I really awakened them. I'm not lying. My martial soul really is a god-tier spatial martial soul."

"Telling me won't help."

Su Hai Tao finally lifted his eyelids and pointed upward with his ballpoint pen.

A surveillance camera above them was blinking red.

"The Federation is governed by law now. Every loan has to be put on record. If I approve yours, I'll have to pack up and leave."

He turned Lin Yan's file around and heavily tapped the "Martial Soul" section with his index finger.

"If you ask me, kid, stop fantasizing. I personally oversaw the awakening of your martial soul. I didn't get it wrong... it really is a useless martial soul."

Su Hai Tao paused, leaned back in his chair, and looked Lin Yan up and down.

"A god-tier spatial martial soul? You ate too many mushrooms, kid. Did they mess up your brain?"

"Your dad has nothing but a rusty sickle, and your mom has a three-colored flower. The odds of those two martial souls mutating into a god-tier spatial martial soul..."

He smacked his lips.

"Are even lower than the odds of you eating one of those poisonous mushrooms you picked outside the city and getting a soul ring from it."

As he spoke, he pulled a newspaper from a drawer, unfolded it, and spread it across the desk.

The bold black headline on the front page read:

<Teen Accidentally Eats Highly Toxic Mushrooms, Falls Into Mental Confusion and Claims to Be the Creator God; Currently Rushed to the Hospital for Emergency Treatment.>

Young people are advised to stay away from wild mushrooms. Even cooked mushrooms may still be poisonous.

Though the photo had been mosaicked, that build and hairstyle were recognizable at a glance.

Su Hai Tao jabbed a finger at the picture. "That's you, isn't it?"

Lin Yan's eyelid twitched, and he immediately shook his head with righteous conviction. "No."

"..."

"I think you should check again."

Not giving Su Hai Tao the chance to press further, Lin Yan cut in first.

"How could I not know what my own martial soul is? Besides, I was born with full soul power. Maybe I really am a genius. I just don't have a soul ring right now, so I can't prove it."

"Then go get a soul ring!" Su Hai Tao interrupted him outright.

Lin Yan's voice instantly deflated. "If I had the money to get a soul ring, why would I come here for a loan? A ten-year soul spirit costs seventy thousand."

He let out a powerless sigh.

Other transmigrators hid their cheats as tightly as possible, terrified that someone might discover them.

But when it came to him, he had to run around trying to prove himself.

But the problem was... he really wasn't boasting.

The moment his martial souls awakened two years ago, he understood that he was destined to be invincible in this life.

Because not only had he been born with full soul power, he also possessed twin god-tier martial souls.

His first martial soul, "Space"—the embodiment of ultimate space, capable of folding dimensions and ignoring defenses.

His second martial soul, "Time"—the concept of ultimate time, capable of freezing the flow of years and reversing cause and effect.

Time was supreme, space was king; when fate did not emerge, causality ruled as emperor.

Once his abilities were fully developed, even Tang San, returning after his grand ten-thousand-year scheme, would get his face slapped swollen.

Unfortunately, neither time nor space could be observed with the naked eye.

So despite being born with full soul power, he had been labeled as having a "useless martial soul."

And his mother was a penny-pincher. Though she kept saying, "We'll discuss it when your father comes back," she had never intended to spend the money.

But things never went as people wished.

Father Lin had died on the Abyssal Battlefield, leaving behind a large compensation payment.

With nothing to do at home, Mother Lin had gotten carried away and decided to start a business.

She had joined some franchise called "Xuan Shi Tang Sect Wellness Tea."

They claimed it contained Tang Sect's exclusive secret medicine and could increase cultivation speed after drinking it.

In reality, it was just bitter roots and bark loaded with absurd amounts of sugar, then sold at outrageously high prices.

Eighty-eight yuan for a cup of milk tea. Who would buy that?

Franchise fees, renovations, inventory—within half a year, she had lost five hundred thousand.

His older sister couldn't stand it anymore. She stole all the family savings and ran away overnight, leaving behind only a letter angrily denouncing the pain of her family of origin.

With no other choice, Mother Lin took out another loan, bought a storefront, and continued messing around.

That was why Lin Yan still had no soul spirit.

He could only come to the Spirit Transmission Tower and try his luck.

But the one receiving him was still this blind Douluo.

Seeing Lin Yan still standing before the counter, Su Hai Tao completely ran out of patience and slapped the desk.

"You'd rather believe the delusion you got from eating mushrooms than believe an official Federation employee?"

"Besides, do you know my surname?"

He stood up and pointed at his own nose.

"I'm telling you, my surname is Su! The man who helped Sea God Tang San awaken his martial soul twenty thousand years ago was also surnamed Su!"

"He was my direct ancestor! Are you questioning my professionalism?"

"I'll tell you plainly: my judgment is absolutely never wrong. When a top-tier martial soul awakens, there are usually heavenly phenomena. You didn't have so much as a hair."

"You ate some mushrooms and came here trying to scam a loan? Get lost, get lost, get lost! Do you think the Spirit Transmission Tower is a charity?"

"If I dared approve it today, forget whether the money would arrive—I'd be packing up and getting out first!"

"So you really are descended from that blind Douluo."

Lin Yan's mouth twitched slightly.

Of course, he didn't say that out loud.

He glanced at Su Hai Tao's flushed face and knew that there was absolutely no chance of getting the loan approved today.

With a sigh, he turned and walked toward the door.

The boy was thin, and his school uniform had been washed until it had faded white.

Walking through the gleaming Spirit Transmission Tower lobby, he looked somewhat out of place.

"Wait."

Su Hai Tao's voice came from behind him.

Lin Yan turned back and saw Su Hai Tao pull two red banknotes from his wallet and stuff them into his hand.

"This two hundred is from me personally. Go buy yourself something good to eat."

Lin Yan froze for a moment.

Su Hai Tao had already turned away, reorganizing the files. His tone remained stiff. "Go on, go on. Don't just stand there."

Lin Yan clenched the two bills, warmth rising in his chest.

He opened his mouth, but in the end, he only said, "Thank you."

Summer in Donghai City was hot and humid.

Lin Yan pushed open the Spirit Transmission Tower's glass doors, and a wave of heat slammed into him like a wall.

He stood at the entrance, looked up at the glaring white sky, then touched his pocket.

Two hundred yuan.

What could two hundred yuan even do these days?

It wasn't enough for even one decent meal.

But for him, it was a sense of security his pockets had not held in a long time.

His phone rang.

When he took it out, it was a message from his mother.

"Did you... get the loan?"

The string of ellipses on the screen made Lin Yan pause.

He could roughly imagine her hand hesitating as she typed those words.

He called her directly.

"No."

Lin Yan stood on the steps outside the Spirit Transmission Tower, trying to keep his voice calm.

"Mom, I've thought about it. Maybe you should stop running that shop for now. It's losing money anyway."

"Sell the stuff and take out thirty thousand first. I'll buy a defective artificial soul spirit and become a soul master first."

"Once I become a soul master, I can find a job and help support the family."

The other end of the call fell silent for two seconds.

Then it exploded.