Martial Soul Awakening

Xiao Tuo had not crossed over directly. Instead, someone had reincarnated him into the womb of a woman who had just become pregnant, where he grew anew as an embryo.

Ten months later, he was born crying.

It was the first time he had truly had a mother of his own. She was a remarkably beautiful woman, seemingly even a noble, but unfortunately, she did not love him.

After he was born, the woman abandoned him, leaving him outside a small village.

Fortunately, Xiao Tuo was lucky. The simple, honest elders of the village found him and raised him. He grew up eating from every household.

It was an extremely small village—one could scarcely even call it a village—because there were only six or seven households living together. None of them possessed soul power. They usually made their living by farming and growing vegetables, eating some of the crops themselves and taking the rest to the market to sell for extra income.

To repay the village, Xiao Tuo had begun helping them farm, sweep, clean, and handle odd jobs from the age of three. He was also an expert fisherman, often going out to catch large fish to share with everyone and improve their meals.

The villagers all said he was a little lucky star.

But good times did not last. One day, Evil Soul Masters suddenly came to the little village for reasons unknown and slaughtered all seven households. Xiao Tuo had been fishing by the river outside the village at the time. By the time he returned, the village had become a sea of flames.

Xiao Tuo's eyes immediately reddened. Having cultivated the Ghost Valley Skill, he sensed an incomparably sinister evil aura from the lingering traces. He instantly realized that this had to be the work of the Evil Soul Masters who had long existed on this continent.

Overwhelming hatred flooded his body. He swore that even if he had to scour heaven and earth, he would avenge this blood feud.

From then on, he lived alone. Xiao Tuo had always been stronger than other children, and by the age of four, he was already capable of supporting himself.

After all, he possessed peerless divine arts.

His body was new, but his soul was not. Every cultivation method Yuwen Tuo had taught him was firmly engraved in his mind.

The problem was that they were all immortal cultivation techniques. He discovered that Douluo Continent lacked spiritual energy, with nowhere near enough for immortal cultivation.

Tang San, ten thousand years ago, had also realized that the continent's so-called soul power was equivalent to inner force in a martial arts world.

Perhaps only the Divine Realm held even the slightest possibility of immortal cultivation.

On this continent, Xiao Tuo could not even achieve the most basic step of Spirit Guiding into the body. He could only change his cultivation method. After all, his previous life's Cultivation Power had not been weak. Even if he could not cultivate immortality, he could still rely on himself and create an inner cultivation method of his own based on immortal cultivation techniques.

In this world, superior inner cultivation was enough for him.

Thereafter, he practiced basic fist techniques to strengthen his physique while regulating his breath, adapting to his new body and gradually perfecting his inner cultivation method.

He had finally endured until the age of six, when he could at last do something extremely important: undergo Martial Soul Awakening.

Since this was Douluo Continent, he naturally had to awaken a Martial Soul. Unfortunately, it was no longer ten thousand years ago, and Spirit Hall no longer existed. Awakening a Martial Soul was no longer free. Fortunately, it was not too expensive—one hundred Copper Soul Coins, ten Silver Soul Coins, or one Gold Soul Coin. Xiao Tuo had saved money for years by selling fish, enough to pay for his own awakening.

What he did not expect was that this would be the beginning of another tragedy.

After arriving at a nearby city and finding the department specifically responsible for awakening Martial Souls, Xiao Tuo paid one hundred Copper Soul Coins. The official in charge of awakenings did not make things difficult for him, immediately taking out an Awakening Stone and setting up the awakening formation.

There was even a dedicated clerk handwriting the awakening record, while an Image Recording Soul Tool preserved the footage. Every procedure was perfectly proper. It was clear that the person handling awakenings here was very responsible.

"Come, child. Step into the formation. Don't be afraid, and don't resist. My name is Su Yunlang, a level-twenty-three assault-type Soul Grandmaster. I'll be responsible for your Martial Soul Awakening today. Martial Soul, possess me!" As he spoke, one white and one yellow soul ring rose from Su Yunlang's body. His body expanded several times over, and the fingers on his hands transformed into sharp claws. He looked exceptionally imposing. This was Beast Martial Soul possession.

His Martial Soul was the Lone Wolf.

Xiao Tuo's brow twitched. Su Yunlang? Lone Wolf Martial Soul? I really want to ask what relationship you have with Su Yuntao from ten thousand years ago. Could you be his descendant?

Just don't awaken some trash Martial Soul for me. Though I've heard that transmigrators whose Martial Souls were awakened by your ancestor all had the potential to soar to greatness if they got trash Martial Souls, I don't know whether you inherited your ancestor's special ability.

It would be more practical for you to awaken a powerful Martial Soul for me.

Seeing Xiao Tuo's stunned expression, Su Yunlang thought he had been frightened by the overwhelming presence of his Lone Wolf Martial Soul. He immediately smiled gently. "Child, I told you not to be afraid. This is my Lone Wolf Martial Soul. If you're lucky enough to awaken a Beast Martial Soul too, you'll be able to possess abilities like mine."

"Come, extend your right hand first!"

Xiao Tuo nodded and obediently extended his right hand. At once, countless points of light emerged from the six stones and surrounded him.

At that moment, with his eyes closed, Xiao Tuo felt as if he had entered a warm world. An aura flowed through his internal organs, limbs, and bones, filling him with indescribable comfort. His soul in particular was now bathed in a golden and crimson radiance.

At the same time, intense power surged within both his left and right hands, as though it wanted to shatter the shackles of his body and burst forth.

Twin Martial Souls? But they don't seem to have been inherited through bloodline. They were actually born from the depths of my soul. It seems they came from the power of my previous life. Xiao Tuo was calm by nature, and the emergence of Twin Martial Souls did not change his expression in the slightest.

He secretly used his mind to withdraw one of the Martial Souls, allowing only one to appear in his right hand.

It was a blazing flame without a fixed shape—simply pure fire.

Su Yunlang was instantly shocked. "This is... a Fire Element Martial Soul! At worst, it's still a superior Martial Soul!"

In this era, research into Martial Souls was no longer as shallow as it had once been.

There were no longer only Beast Martial Souls and Weapon Souls. Many more categories had appeared, such as Body Martial Souls.

Element Martial Souls were one such category. Among the current Shrek Seven Devils of Shrek Academy, there was a girl with an Ice Element Martial Soul. She was the control-type Soul Master among this generation's Shrek Seven Devils.

Thus, the appearance of a Soul Master with a Fire Element Martial Soul naturally thrilled Su Yunlang. It was virtually impossible for such a powerful Martial Soul to lack Innate Soul Power, and its level could not possibly be low.

Su Yunlang immediately took out a soul power testing stone for Xiao Tuo to test.

When Xiao Tuo pressed his palm against the testing stone, blue light immediately burst forth. The radiance filled the entire stone, yet it did not stop. Only when the stone cracked and exploded did Su Yunlang finally come back to his senses.

This testing stone was new, so there was no possibility that it had malfunctioned. Yet a child's soul power had actually burst it apart. There was only one possibility: this child's Innate Soul Power had already surpassed the maximum of level ten!