Douluo: I, Innate Soul Power Nine Thousand Levels!

Chen Fan thought to himself.

Bibi Dong brought him to the training grounds.

A young girl was running hard across the field.

She was training her physical stamina.

The girl looked to be only eleven or twelve years old.

She wore the pure white uniform of Spirit Hall Academy, emblazoned with Spirit Hall's signature symbol.

A crown.

When the girl saw Bibi Dong and Chen Fan arrive, she stopped running and looked at them with a pair of bright, watery eyes.

Bibi Dong did not reprimand her. She was merely considering how to cultivate Chen Fan.

His Martial Soul was neither a Beast Martial Soul nor an Artifact Martial Soul. It was simply a strange book.

Furthermore, when Bibi Dong picked up the book and examined it, she found that it was completely empty.

It was a book without words!

Please choose a faction.

1. Join Spirit Hall and unify Douluo Continent. Mission reward: one page of Imperial Script appears in the Book of Darkness.

2. Join the Tang Sect Faction and assist the protagonist Tang San in achieving a legacy of eternal dominance. Mission reward: one page of Imperial Script in the Book of Darkness.

3. Join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, become its sect master, unify the world, and make support great again! Mission reward: one page of Imperial Script in the Book of Darkness.

4. Join the Soul Beast Faction and help the Silver Dragon King conquer the God Realm, becoming the King of the God Realm! Mission reward: one page of Imperial Script in the Book of Darkness.

Attention: Once chosen, the faction cannot be changed. The reward will be issued immediately after choosing a faction.

As Chen Fan sat to one side and met the girl's gaze, a system screen appeared before him.

There were four factions listed on it: Spirit Hall, the Tang Sect, support, and Soul Beasts.

To be honest, did Chen Fan even have a choice now?

He was a blank slate. Even with nine thousand levels of Soul Power, he did not know how to use it.

Bibi Dong had already brought him here. Could he refuse to join her?

His true thought was to make support great again.

No matter where they were, support-type Soul Masters were always the most miserable.

The spotlight of a protagonist would never fall on a support.

Besides, he felt that his Martial Soul seemed to be a support type, since the system had said so before.

The Martial Soul: Book of Darkness could cause other people's Martial Souls to undergo Martial Soul Degeneration.

Since it could weaken them, it could surely strengthen them too, right?

That was what Chen Fan thought.

He did not dare to be certain.

At this point, he could only abandon the idea of choosing support.

He chose the Spirit Hall faction.

Naturally, the first thing he had to do was ruthlessly crush Spirit Hall's future enemy, the Tang Sect.

Though it had not even been founded yet...

Faction selection successful. You have joined Spirit Hall and received one page of Imperial Script.

First mission: Obtain your First Soul Ring. Requirement: a Soft Bone Rabbit over fifty thousand years old. Reward: Soul Ring age increased by ninety thousand years.

At that moment, Chen Fan was stunned. Bibi Dong beside him was stunned as well.

The girl was equally bewildered.

Why was the boy across from her staring at her in a daze?

The girl knew that she was quite charming, but surely not to this extent?

She tilted her head slightly. She knew that this was the peerless genius her teacher had mentioned, the one with Innate Soul Power Level Ninety.

For some reason, whenever Chen Fan remained silent, he gave her an overwhelming sense of pressure.

"Damn, the very first mission wants me to get a Soft Bone Rabbit?"

"Why am I panicking? There are plenty of Soft Bone Rabbits. It doesn't necessarily have to be Xiao Wu."

Chen Fan let out a long breath.

But in the next moment, he became puzzled.

He looked at the panel again and silently read it word by word.

"Requirement: It must be a Fifty Thousand Years Soft Bone Rabbit!"

"Damn it, fifty thousand years? When the hell am I supposed to find one?"

"So Xiao Wu really is the more reliable choice."

Chen Fan naturally thought of Xiao Wu.

The female lead of Douluo Continent I.

Although he had loved eating spicy rabbit heads in his previous life, Xiao Wu was truly adorable. He could not bear to lay a hand on her. She was just too tempting!

"If I wanted to kill Xiao Wu, could I do it?"

"Could I use schemes to make her sacrifice herself for me?"

"That could work, but the bond between us would have to reach a terrifying level."

"Could I have someone from Spirit Hall capture her?"

Chen Fan stroked his chin as he pondered.

Just then, Bibi Dong placed his Book of Darkness before him.

"Little Chen, can you understand these words?"

Bibi Dong looked at Chen Fan and asked in confusion.

Strange, twisted characters had appeared on the Book of Darkness before him.

The Book of Darkness had originally contained no writing.

But because he had chosen a faction, words had appeared.

The system called them Imperial Script.

Since later missions did not offer Imperial Script as a reward, Chen Fan felt that what was recorded on it must not be simple.

"Cultivating Endless Vitality will allow the Martial Soul: Book of Darkness to obtain new power."

"The Power of Darkness will no longer merely cause people's Martial Souls or power to degenerate. It can also inflict Dark Power upon their Martial Souls and elevate them."

"However, those who undergo Dark Evolution will change. They must be chosen carefully. At best, their Martial Soul will shatter and their cultivation will return to zero. At worst, they will die on the spot. Furthermore, the Power of Darkness will curse their entire family through the power of their bloodline, until the curse is lifted nine hundred and ninety-nine years later."

Chen Fan read it aloud briefly.

Bibi Dong's willow brows rose. Why did it feel like Chen Fan was spouting nonsense?

Yet Chen Fan did not look like he was lying. His eyes were far too clear, innocent and pure!

"What does the power of degeneration mean?"

Bibi Dong moved closer to Chen Fan and asked in a low voice.

"My Martial Soul: Book of Darkness can release the Power of Darkness and cause a person's Martial Soul to degenerate. Literally speaking, if someone has an attribute-based Martial Soul, after being affected, it may lose its attribute power."

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Bibi Dong's eyes widened. For the first time, she revealed a look of shock before outsiders.

The girl beside them was also shaken. This was the first time she had seen her teacher in such a state.

"Little Chen, didn't you just awaken your Martial Soul? How do you understand it so well?"

Bibi Dong stared suspiciously at Chen Fan.

"Of course it's because of this book. That's what it says here."

Chen Fan pointed at a page of the Book of Darkness.

"I really have no idea how to train you now."

Bibi Dong pinched the bridge of her nose.

"How about I bring someone over so you can test your power on them?"

"No, you still don't understand how to use Soul Power. Nana, I'll leave this matter to you. Teach him the basics of Soul Power first. I'll go to the prison and bring a few people over."

Bibi Dong said.