The Dayun Took Him Away, a Dayun Martial Soul Brought Him Back

Taken Away by Big Luck, Brought by the Big Luck Martial Soul

Deep at night, a rugged, winding dirt road ran through the remote, barren mountains along the border.

"As long as I hit the brakes and get over this slope, I'll be at the destination..."

Lu Yuan chanted silently in his heart, pressing his foot down toward the brake pedal.

Suddenly, he felt his brake offer zero resistance at all.

He pressed it all the way to the floor, but it still did not work.

The ten-ton Big Luck heavy truck ran faster and faster on the slope.

"Did the air brakes blow!?"

Lu Yuan's pupils constricted, and his heart turned half-cold in an instant.

He gripped the steering wheel tightly, wanting to steady the vehicle body, but the fully loaded Big Luck, driven by momentum, was like a runaway beast.

Forty yards, sixty yards, eighty yards...

The trees along the roadside retreated at high speed, and the front of the truck accelerated into violent jolts.

Ahead was a sharp turn.

If he failed to make the turn, it would be a bottomless mountain cliff.

Madness filled the depths of Lu Yuan's eyes, and he spun the steering wheel hard.

Yet the heavy truck still failed to turn, crashing through the roadside guardrail, and the cab, along with the entire cargo compartment, plummeted toward the mountain cliff.

"Crash!!!"

The deafening roar shook heaven and earth.

Lu Yuan opened his eyes, and a wave of memories flooded into his mind.

He kept his original name, Lu Yuan.

He was the village guardian of Fallen Soul Village on the southwestern border of the Heaven Dou Empire, with neither father nor mother.

The villagers considered him somewhat pitiful and occasionally gave him a bite to eat, which was how he managed not to starve to death.

Everyone in the village called him an "idiot."

This was because the original owner had been slow-witted and dull-eyed since childhood; he was often bullied by his peers yet did not know how to resist, only ever smiling foolishly.

Lu Yuan's mouth twitched.

In his past life, driving a Big Luck had worked him to the bone, and every coin he earned was hard-earned blood and sweat money as he struggled and strived for a livelihood.

Awakening from this sleep, he had directly become an "idiot village guardian" whom his parents did not want and the entire village despised?

Right at that moment, the sound of hurried footsteps suddenly came from outside.

A group of children rushed over, covered in dirt and wearing coarse cloth garments, holding lumps of mud in their hands.

The chubby leader was the strongest among this group of children and also belonged to the one who bullied the original owner the most viciously.

He chuckled, "Idiot! You're actually still sleeping in! Hurry up and get up to be our horse to ride!"

"That's right! That's right!"

"Idiot, if you don't get up, we'll... we'll throw you into the mountain ditch to feed the spirit beasts!"

Just as the words fell, a fist-sized lump of mud smashed toward the direction of Lu Yuan's head.

Lu Yuan's gaze narrowed, and he quickly dodged.

The lump of mud brushed past his cheek and smashed against the mud wall behind him with a slap.

He raised his head, his gaze icy cold.

If he were the hot-tempered driver from his past life, he would have gotten up and kicked this chubby kid flying.

Yet he calmed down quickly.

This was not his world.

On Douluo Continent, Soul Masters reigned supreme and held overwhelming power.

He was an orphan who could not even eat his fill, and beating up a few kids was useless.

However, provoking the adults in the village would only add unnecessary trouble for himself.

He pulled a foolish, naive smile and stood up from the ground.

Seeing his foolish appearance, the chubby kid cursed him as "useless," and after throwing the stones in his hand, he led the people away to play elsewhere.

Lu Yuan walked out of the dilapidated house and sat on the stone beside the crooked-necked tree at the entrance of the village.

He narrowed his eyes, looking at this village full of primitive atmosphere.

Everything was still incomparably real.

At that moment, a commotion came from the direction of the village entrance.

A middle-aged man wearing plain white robes and carrying a stern expression walked slowly into the village, surrounded by a group of villagers.

The middle-aged man held a Crystal Ball in his hand, his steps composed and his every gesture carrying an aura that felt entirely out of place in this remote village.

"Awakening Ceremony! Hurry, hurry! Call over all the children of the right age!" Su Yuntao said to the village chief and the others.

The village chief, a withered old man of forty or fifty, nodded and bowed with a flattering smile.

The villagers gathered around one after another, their faces filled with awe and nervousness.

However, the villagers quickly hurried off to fetch their own children.

Lu Yuan sat on a stone, unmoving.

Awakening ceremony?

He knew of this Su Yuntao from the original work as a member of Spirit Hall, responsible for traveling to various villages across the empire to awaken Martial Souls.

Lu Yuan knew that in a world where Martial Souls were supreme, wanting to survive or even stand out meant that awakening a Martial Soul was only the first threshold.

In ten minutes, the children of the village were mostly gathered.

A dozen half-grown children stood in the open space, looking nervous and expectant, even anxiously scratching their ears and cheeks.

Su Yuntao couldn't be bothered with idle talk; with a point of his finger, a golden light lit up.

In the center of the open space, an archaic Awakening Platform rose, shimmering with brilliant light.

"One by one, put your hands on it," Su Yuntao said in a flat tone.

The first child stepped forward.

On the platform, the light suddenly brightened.

"Sickle Martial Soul, Innate Soul Power... Level One! Not bad, you can walk the path of a soul master." Su Yuntao nodded slightly.

"Ah! My son! My son is soul master material!" Hearing this, a farm woman became so excited she burst into tears on the spot.

The subsequent children stepped forward in turn, some with hoes, others with shovels.

Yet most people's Martial Souls were unremarkable.

Su Yuntao showed no impatience, maintaining a faint smile.

Soon, the dozen or so children had all been tested, leaving only Lu Yuan.

Su Yuntao asked indifferently, "Is there anyone else?"

The village chief shook his head, then suddenly realized something and pointed a finger at Lu Yuan in the corner. "Yes, yes, yes... There... there's also him! He's the village watcher of our place, it's just that his head is a bit... hehe..."

Su Yuntao glanced at Lu Yuan and said casually, "You, come over."

Lu Yuan stood up and walked over.

None of the villagers made way for him, their eyes revealing disgust and mockery.

Several children even secretly pushed him from behind and ridiculed him.

"Idiot, can you even awaken a Martial Soul?"

"I reckon your Martial Soul is just a blade of grass, a piece of trash grass that can't even support a blade!"

Lu Yuan walked up to the Awakening Platform and placed his palm on it.

The moment his palm pressed against the cold platform, an icy sensation instantly rushed over him, causing his pupils to constrict and making him feel dizzily as if he were gripping the steering wheel of a Big Luck heavy truck, wondering if he had returned to Blue Planet after all.

I am going to drive up from the bottom of the cliff!

Yet that wasn't it!

The next second, a vast and boundless power seemed to surge fiercely from inside the Awakening Platform.

Following his palm, it rushed straight to the crown of his head!

Hum!!

A dazzling golden light soared into the sky!

The brilliance was so intense it illuminated more than half of the village!

Everyone was dumbfounded.

At the same time, the dazzling pillar of light engulfed Lu Yuan's entire figure.

"This... this soul power fluctuation!?"

Su Yuntao's pupils shrank sharply.

He had presided over awakenings for so many years, seeing those with extraordinary talent as well as trash Martial Souls.

Yet a light as massive and dazzling as this was the first time he had ever witnessed it!

Could it be Innate Full Soul Power!?

Or some world-shaking Martial Soul!?

Had he encountered a genius by coming to this village today?

The previously noisy plaza fell instantly silent as still water.

The light came quickly and faded just as fast.

A shape was resting in the palm of Lu Yuan's hand.

It was a tattered handcart with twisted shafts, and even its wheels looked wobbly and frail.

Su Yuntao's face turned ashen. "A Handcart Martial Soul."

He reached out to test Lu Yuan's Soul Power on his shoulder, his expression sinking further. "Innate Soul Power, zero."

The entire hall fell into dead silence at first, before erupting into roaring laughter.

"Hahahaha! A handcart?! A house-building Handcart Martial Soul?!"

"Shit, and here I thought he was some earth-shattering genius, only to awaken a manure cart!"

"An idiot is an idiot through and through, even his Martial Soul is utter trash!"

"Get lost, get lost! Don't take up space and make a fool of yourself!"

"An idiot's Innate Soul Power really is zero, he won't even touch the threshold of a Soul Master in this lifetime!"