Martial Soul, Eight Trigrams Furnace!

Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Main Hall.

"Brother Jiang Xuan, your martial soul is about to awaken. Can you tell me how you're feeling right now?"

Looking at Ning Rongrong's radiant smile, Jiang Xuan answered without hesitation:

"To gain it is my fortune; to lose it is my fate. No matter what martial soul awakens later, it won't affect my future growth, nor will it affect our relationship."

Upon hearing this, six-year-old Ning Rongrong's eyes brimmed with admiration.

Clearly, Jiang Xuan was the same age as her, yet he always said things that sounded so cool.

Beside them, Sword Douluo Chen Xin stroked his beard and smiled faintly.

"Good lad. Based on those words alone, this old man dares say your future achievements will never be low!"

Being praised so highly by a Super Douluo, an ordinary person would likely have been grinning from ear to ear. Yet Jiang Xuan merely scratched his head awkwardly.

"I was just talking nonsense. Grandpa Sword, please don't make fun of me."

Six years ago, Jiang Xuan had transmigrated to the Douluo Continent before birth, arriving in a remote little village.

A year ago, his parents in this world had died in an accident.

By chance, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's little princess, Ning Rongrong, had somehow run alone to the outskirts of the village and, by sheer misfortune, provoked a boar soul beast of around fifty years.

No strong protector had been at her side then. Terrified stiff by the vicious boar, she had collapsed to the ground and was about to be sent flying by its tusks.

Jiang Xuan happened to witness the scene. A surge of hot blood rushed to his head, and he appeared just in time to pull Ning Rongrong aside, helping her dodge the boar's charge. Then, using all his strength, he picked her up, slung her over his shoulder, and quickly climbed a nearby tree.

With its prey escaping, the boar flew into a rage and immediately rammed the tree with all its might. Fortunately, the tree was old and sturdy, its roots deeply entrenched. A boar with only fifty years of cultivation could make its branches shake at most; it could not knock the tree down.

Even so, Ning Rongrong had been frightened badly. After she curled up in Jiang Xuan's arms and cried for nearly half an hour, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, who had realized she was missing, finally arrived. With a single sword strike, he killed the boar and rescued them both.

Afterward, upon learning of Jiang Xuan's family circumstances, Chen Xin brought him directly back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as thanks. Seeing that Ning Rongrong was quite fond of him, he simply allowed Jiang Xuan to call him Grandpa.

Having transmigrated alone to the Douluo Continent, with neither cheats nor connections, Jiang Xuan naturally would not refuse when, at such a dangerous juncture, a powerful backer was willing to protect him.

Thus, Jiang Xuan spent a full year living in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Other than exercising, he spent his days playing with Ning Rongrong. As time passed, their relationship grew closer and closer, and they came to regard each other as siblings.

Until today, when both had turned six and Sword Douluo Chen Xin personally helped them awaken their martial souls.

After Ning Fengzhi arrived upon finishing his official duties, Chen Xin spoke.

"You two little ones, who wants to go first?"

"Let Rongrong go first. She's been waiting for this day for a long time."

As he spoke, Jiang Xuan casually patted Ning Rongrong's shoulder to encourage her.

"Then I won't stand on ceremony with you, Brother Jiang Xuan. Come on, Grandpa Sword. Rongrong is ready!"

Chen Xin nodded with a smile.

"Good. Then hold out your hand, close your eyes, and feel carefully."

Soul masters with lower soul power levels needed special formations to barely help others awaken their martial souls. But for someone of Chen Xin's strength, it took no more than a thought.

Very soon, when he saw the glazed little pagoda appear in Ning Rongrong's palm, a gleam of joy immediately flashed through his eyes.

"Martial soul, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. Innate soul power rank nine! As expected of our little princess. Wonderful!"

Upon learning that she had successfully inherited the sect's legacy martial soul, Ning Rongrong let out a relieved breath, then looked expectantly at Jiang Xuan.

"Brother Jiang Xuan, it's your turn!"

Though he had spoken so confidently just now, Jiang Xuan could not help but feel nervous when truly facing this moment.

After all, on the Douluo Continent, a martial soul awakening could genuinely determine the course of one's entire life.

After taking a deep breath, Jiang Xuan extended his hand to Chen Xin. Then, following the instructions, he closed his eyes and carefully sensed the sudden warm current within his body.

A moment later, guided by Chen Xin, the warm current gathered toward his palm, and his martial soul emerged with it.

"This is... a furnace?"

After seeing it clearly, a trace of pity unconsciously welled up in Chen Xin's gaze as he looked at Jiang Xuan.

It seemed this boy and Rongrong would remain brother and sister for the rest of their lives...

Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo Gu Rong, standing nearby, both sighed.

"Alas, a tool martial soul without combat ability..."

At that moment, only the innocent Ning Rongrong in the hall did not understand what Jiang Xuan's furnace-shaped martial soul signified. Instead, she was delighted that his martial soul resembled hers.

"Grandpa Sword! You haven't tested Brother Jiang Xuan's soul power level yet! Even I have innate rank-nine soul power, so Brother Jiang Xuan must be stronger than me!"

Hearing this, Chen Xin thought to himself:

Rongrong is still too naive. A tool martial soul with hardly any combat ability...

"Innate Full Soul Power! How is that possible?"

At those words, Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong, who had been somewhat regretful moments ago, instantly widened their eyes. Then they flashed to Jiang Xuan's side, each grabbing one of his arms and carefully sensing him.

A moment later, surprise appeared in both their eyes.

It really was Innate Full Soul Power!

What they needed to figure out now was whether Jiang Xuan's martial soul possessed any combat ability...

If it did, then their Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had truly found a treasure.

If it had no combat ability...

With Innate Full Soul Power, so long as it was not a useless martial soul, his future achievements could not possibly be low!

Jiang Xuan did not care in the slightest about what the others were thinking at that moment.

That was because, at the instant his martial soul successfully awakened, a panel visible only to him appeared within his spiritual sea.

[Congratulations, Host, on awakening your martial soul: Eight Trigrams Furnace]

[Special function: Unlocks after soul power reaches rank 20]

If Jiang Xuan was not mistaken, this was probably a system panel...

As for his martial soul...

Was it the Eight Trigrams Furnace he imagined?

Or did it merely share the same name...

Wait, according to his senses, he seemed able to use soul power to control the Eight Trigrams Furnace and ignite it automatically...

That flame seemed to be called...

Six-Ding Divine Flame!

Holy shit!

It really seemed to be Taishang Laojun's Eight Trigrams Furnace!

This thing could actually become his martial soul?

But the question was, if he already had such an awesome martial soul, why was there also a system panel that seemed to have been born alongside it?

Forget it...

No point thinking so much for now.

Since he had to wait until his soul power reached rank 20 to unlock the special function, he would need to wait at least several more years.

Until then, he should just cultivate honestly.