Awakening in the Twelfth Year, the Deserted Island Martial Soul Finally Matures

"I, Yu Xiaogang, have studied martial souls my entire life, and I've never seen such a useless trash martial soul like yours. Starting today, you are no longer my disciple."

Shrek Academy.

Yu Xiaogang looked at the senior disciple he had once treated as his greatest treasure, his face filled with extreme disgust.

Chu Xiu looked in disbelief, his expression bitter as he asked, "Teacher, have you really given up on me?"

"Don't call me teacher."

Yu Xiaogang snorted coldly, "How much energy did I waste to research your martial soul? Now I finally understand."

"This martial soul of yours is naturally born trash; it only looks intimidating and cannot be cultivated at all."

Twelve years ago, Chu Xiu was selected by Spirit Hall from a remote little mountain village due to his heaven-defying performance of innate level 30 full Soul Power.

You must know, for every 10 levels of Soul Power.

One needed to acquire a spirit ring first in order to continue increasing one's cultivation.

Throughout the entire continent, apart from the Seraphim martial soul which could break this restriction, even innate level 10 full Soul Power was already an extremely heaven-defying talent.

Spirit Hall had originally planned to cultivate Chu Xiu as a key asset.

Yet Chu Xiu, who knew the direction of the Douluo world, chose to join the protagonist group and prepared to lie down and become a god.

However, he never expected.

Although his innate level 30 full Soul Power was heaven-defying, his martial soul was super trashy.

Chu Xiu's martial soul was a Deserted Island.

From its appearance, it was extremely massive. The overall shape was circular, with a towering mountain range at the center, dense and towering forests covering the mountain from top to bottom, and a circle of sandy beach at the outermost edge.

Not only was it majestic, but the scenery was also picturesque.

At the time, no matter who it was, anyone who had witnessed Chu Xiu's martial soul unconditionally concluded that he was the person chosen by the heavens and possessed the potential to become a god.

Yu Xiaogang was no exception.

Upon learning that Chu Xiu had come with a reputation to seek him out and take him as a master, Yu Xiaogang cried from emotional excitement on the spot, stating that he would treat Chu Xiu as his own biological son for the rest of his life.

In the beginning, Yu Xiaogang truly acted that way.

In order to help Chu Xiu find a high-tier spirit ring, he personally took him deep into the forest to hunt spirit beasts.

However, very soon, he discovered something was wrong with Chu Xiu's martial soul.

This Deserted Island martial soul was all show and no substance, yet it couldn't absorb spirit rings.

Yu Xiaogang refused to accept this and was even quite excited; the more special the Deserted Island martial soul was, the more it proved that it could not be compared to other martial souls.

And it could even better prove the importance of him, this theory master.

Once a suitable spirit ring was found for the Deserted Island martial soul, it would be able to greatly prove that he, this master, was not a joke, and that those theories of his were also earth-shattering truths.

Yet as year after year passed.

From his initial full passion, to later taking in his second disciple Tang San, Yu Xiaogang began to neglect and ignore him.

Finally,

today, he uttered those words he had long wanted to say.

"I, your truly great master, can even make Blue Silver Grass become a control-system battle soul master under my hands, yet your trash Deserted Island martial soul alone has consistently been unable to absorb a spirit ring for twelve years."

"It's me who isn't worthy of being your teacher. You should leave; don't let me see you again in the future."

Yu Xiaogang snorted coldly, ignoring Chu Xiu anymore, and turned to walk away into the distance.

Chu Xiu never expected that the Yu Xiaogang who cared for his disciples in the anime would also have such a cold and ruthless side.

Only until this moment did he understand.

To Yu Xiaogang, there was no master-disciple affection between them at all; he was merely a martial soul researcher, fond of Chu Xiu's special martial soul.

Once he discovered his martial soul was useless, he naturally would hate everyone and everything associated with him.

Going through two lifetimes just the same, I was still too foolish and too naive.

Chu Xiu thought of his junior fellow apprentice Tang San, and couldn't help revealing a bitter smile.

Ever since he became Yu Xiaogang's disciple, it didn't take long for Tang San to snatch away the exclusive favor that originally belonged to him.

Furthermore, after his Purple Demon Eyes broke through, he discovered that Xiao Wu was a spirit beast, yet he actually schemed and plotted to befriend Xiao Wu.

To the extent that Xiao Wu was injured for him multiple times, and even took the initiative to sacrifice herself for him some time ago.

With such scheming, Chu Xiu couldn't learn it even if he tried.

Since there is a Tang, why must there be a Chu?

Damn heavens, you had me transmigrate into this world and even gave me innate level 30 full Soul Power, could it be just to make me a foil for Tang San?

I refuse to accept this!

The emotions Chu Xiu had suppressed for twelve years finally erupted.

Right at that moment, a mechanical voice abruptly sounded from his mind.

[Host adulthood detected, survival deserted island martial soul officially activated!]

Chu Xiu jolted awake in spirit.

Deserted Island Martial Soul?

Was this the true name of his martial soul?

As it turned out, his martial soul was not trash; it simply required him to reach adulthood before it could activate.

Yet...

What on earth was the reason for this?

[The Deserted Island Martial Soul is a unique, exclusive special martial soul belonging solely to transmigrators. The martial soul's owner can pull others in to survive together, and establish bonds with them during the survival process.]

[When the bond value reaches 100, the user can copy all of the other person's martial souls, spirit rings, spirit skills, spirit power, spirit bones, and even combat experience.]

[Every time the Deserted Island increases in spirit power by 10 ranks, the user can copy all abilities of one co-survivor, which is equivalent to obtaining one spirit ring.]

[Current spirit power is rank 30, allowing a maximum of three co-survivors to be pulled in simultaneously!]

Hearing this, Chu Xiu grew thoroughly excited.

His Deserted Island Martial Soul actually acquired spirit rings through this method.

A single co-survivor could provide him with a spirit ring, yet that spirit ring could encompass all of the other person's abilities.

Martial souls, spirit rings, spirit skills, and even combat intelligence and experience could be copied.

If he reached the Titled Douluo level,

wouldn't that mean he could possess nine martial souls and eighty-one spirit rings and spirit skills?

Damn, this is heaven-defying.

Turns out I am the protagonist after all. Tang San, you stole this protagonist's spotlight for ten years, and now it is time to pay it back to me.

Chu Xiu burst out laughing.

Yu Xiaogang, who was walking away, heard his loud laughter and turned back to sneer dismissively.

Driven mad by the blow? What a useless piece of trash.

Compared to Little San, he is simply heaven and earth. How could I have been blind enough to take on such trash as a disciple?

Yu Xiaogang shook his head and sighed, not lingering a moment longer as he continued walking into the distance.

Chu Xiu watched his gradually disappearing back, a cold sneer forming at the corners of his lips.

Previously, Chu Xiu had worn a filter of a benevolent master for Yu Xiaogang, believing everything he did was for his own good. Thinking back on it now, he realized Yu Xiaogang had simply been using him for experiments.

If a spirit master absorbed an unsuitable spirit ring, there was a chance they could explode and die.

Yet Yu Xiaogang not only indiscriminately made him use various spirit rings and absorb them, but he even had him absorb a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast for his first spirit ring.

Had his Deserted Island Martial Soul not been locked at the time, wouldn't he have been tortured to death as Yu Xiaogang's guinea pig long ago?

Yu Xiaogang, you just wait. Sooner or later, I will trample both you and Tang San under my feet.

Chu Xiu took a deep breath.

He continued listening to the voice in his mind.

It was currently prompting the rules of island survival.

[One, including the owner of the survival sea island, the martial souls, spirit bones, and spirit power of all survivors will be temporarily masked, making them no different from ordinary people.]

[Two, unknown dangers exist on the sea island, but there are also many opportunities; proper exploration will aid in survival.]

[Three, spirit power and other gains harvested on the sea island will increase after returning to the real world, but recovery-type and body-strengthening spiritual herbs and fruits will provide real-time enhancements upon consumption.]

[Four, all survivors cannot carry any survival items, including personal belongings...]

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[Nine, when a co-survivor's bond value reaches 100 points, they can be allowed to return to the Douluo Continent, or be brought back to the deserted island at any time.]

[Ten, if a co-survivor dies, another person can be pulled into the deserted island. If the deserted island's master dies, everyone will be permanently trapped on the deserted island.]