Martial Souls Appear-Twin Martial Souls?!

Familiar with how games worked, Yang Que quickly understood: there was something in his inventory, waiting for him to claim it!

He opened the inventory. Rows of slots appeared before him, with items in two slots at the top!

Supreme Heavenly Blood Fruit (yellow), ordinary. So the fruit I picked that day was a Supreme Heavenly Blood Fruit! I heard this medicinal herb is a natural miracle medicine for replenishing blood and one of the best aids for cultivating Soul Power. Yet the system only rates it ordinary? I thought it had vanished, but the system stored it in my inventory. I was heartbroken over nothing!

He looked at the large box in the next slot: [Novice Gift Pack] (A Novice Gift Pack has been granted to the host for using this system for the first time.)

Huh? There's a Novice Gift Pack too?

Yang Que did not get his hopes up. In the games he had played in his previous life, novice gift packs had always been full of junk, nothing worth showing off.

Still, even a mosquito was meat, however small. He did not have a coin to his name and could not even enter a draw, so he had better not ask for too much. If the pack helped him out of the starting village, that would be enough!

With that in mind, Yang Que opened the Novice Gift Pack without expecting much!

"Ding."

Novice Gift Pack opened successfully. Obtained: one Clearwind Sword (yellow), high grade; 1,000 Gold Coins; one Thousand-Year Soul Ring; Nine-Headed Demon Lion Martial Soul (gold), legendary; Jade-Suppressing Hades Body Art (red), high grade (first part); nine Body Tempering Pills; three Grand Wheel Draw chances...

"What?! Am I seeing this right?"

Yang Que's eyes widened until they nearly popped from their sockets. This was an incredible haul!

He slapped himself hard across the face twice to make sure he was not dreaming. Once he was certain, he could not help grinning like a fool. "Hehehe..." The fear Papa Ma had instilled in him all those years finally went up in smoke...

Yang Que hurriedly opened the Nine-Headed Demon Lion Martial Soul's description: Each of its heads possessed a different attribute. With nine attributes combined, it wielded incomparable power! His breathing quickened as he read. "Is this what a Golden Legend Martial Soul is like? Nine attributes? That's absurd! If each one had a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, couldn't I crush the heavens, the earth, and everything in between?"

He immediately selected Use!

A strange power surged into Yang Que's body. The moment the Martial Soul entered him, an earth-shaking roar swept across Holy Soul Village. Its terrifying pressure left every villager dazed, as though the end of the world had come. They trembled, afraid to move, convinced that a god had descended!

Tang Hao, asleep in his house, felt a power that made his Martial Soul shudder. His eyes snapped open. Looking toward the horizon, he seemed to see a lion-like Soul Beast with nine heads roaring at the sky, as if proclaiming its arrival!

Tang Hao sprang up and stepped outside, staring toward the horizon. "Such a powerful Soul Power fluctuation," he murmured. "What kind of Soul Beast is that? Or is it a Martial Soul? If it's a Martial Soul Awakening, what's with that power? Has Spirit Hall found us?" His face grew grave.

Yang Que had no idea what was happening outside. Lost in the rush of power his Martial Soul had brought him, he watched his level soar: five... six... eight... It quickly reached ten, but did not stop. Eleven... thirteen... At last, it settled at fifteen. With trembling fingers, he opened his status panel:

[Infinite Upgrade System]

[Host: Yang Que]

[Level: LV15]

[Title: Soul Master]

[Soul Power: 1200/15000]

[Gold Coins: 1000]

[Martial Soul: Nine-Headed Demon Lion]

[Weapon: Clearwind Sword]

[Art: Jade-Suppressing Hades Body Art] Red, high grade (first part)

"Wahaha! Xiao San only has innate level-ten Soul Power, but I'm already level fifteen! I really am the genius who'll crush all of Douluo Continent! Hehehe!"

Once the Martial Soul had merged with his body, the pressure sweeping through Holy Soul Village vanished. The villagers felt it disappear and assumed some powerful expert had merely passed by. Tang Hao stood in his doorway and murmured, "Perhaps it's time to leave. The children have grown up. It's time they repaid what they owe us..." Grave-faced and burdened with thoughts, he went back inside...

Meanwhile, on a planet far from Douluo Continent, crack! A kindly-looking old man crushed the cup in his hand in his excitement.

"Ever since Yang Zhanting vanished, our family head's line has finally produced another supreme Nine-Headed Demon Lion Bloodline. The Yang Family has an heir!" the old man murmured, gazing at the Nine-Headed Demon Lion statue in the center of the hall.

"Someone! Find our young master and bring him home!" the old man shouted, holding a wheel in his hand.

A burly, middle-aged man in red battle armor entered. "Yes! As the family head commands!"

"Zhanting! Is this your child?"

Yang Que, meanwhile, was still happily taking stock of his inventory...

Huh? The Clearwind Sword is yellow, high grade? A panel suddenly popped up: Weapons and pills were divided into four grades—heaven, earth, profound, and yellow—each with low, middle, and high ranks. After closing the panel, Yang Que marveled at the sword. This good, and it's only yellow grade? What a sword! What a sharp edge! A light, jade-green sword appeared in his hand. It'd be great for chopping firewood...

Uh, I mean killing Soul Beasts. Great for killing Soul Beasts... He had a powerful Martial Soul now. How could he think so small? Cheerfully, he turned to the next item!

Jade-Suppressing Hades Body Art, red, high grade (first part)? Is this a cultivation art? These have grades too? If there's a high grade, is there a low grade? Yang Que did not dwell on it and selected Learn. Power surged through him, seemingly without end. He punched the desk in front of him. Bang! It split apart. That had to be at least a hundred jin of force! And I only just learned the first part? If I mastered the whole art, couldn't I shatter mountains and rivers with a punch and pluck the sun and moon from the sky?

And what's this Body Tempering Pill? Yang Que opened its description: The Body Tempering Pill tempered the body and removed impurities, allowing the physique to reach a flawless state.

Th-this is a miracle medicine, isn't it?

He had heard of Alchemists on Douluo Continent. They held exalted positions, earned money like flowing water, and were not people anyone dared provoke casually. Their networks were vast, and they possessed one formidable skill: Alchemy. Pills made from inexpensive medicinal herbs often sold for tremendous sums. Some were even called royal Alchemists, supplying pills to royal family members to speed their cultivation!

Royal families retained their own Alchemists. The pills they produced were usually of high quality, as were the medicinal herbs they used, and few of those pills ever reached the outside world. From wandering Alchemists, though, people had learned that an Alchemist needed a fire-attribute Martial Soul to have a chance at making pills. Everyone on Douluo Continent knew the profession existed, and families hoped their children would awaken powerful fire-attribute Martial Souls and become Alchemists. That could keep a family prosperous for generations!

Yet for all he had learned, Yang Que had never heard of a pill that could remove impurities and make someone's physique flawless.

As expected—if it comes from the system, it has to be top-notch.

"Wahaha! Tremble, geniuses of Douluo Continent! Nothing can stop the rise of Yang Que! I hereby announce my arrival! Hahaha!"

"Hehe, and I've got three free draws. I'm at the peak of my life!"

Thrilled, Yang Que opened the draw and selected Draw. The pointer began spinning wildly around the wheel.

His heart pounded. Golden Legend, Golden Legend... he chanted frantically to himself.

Just as the pointer was about to stop on a gold slot, heaven seemed to play a joke on him. It shifted one space over and landed on a Hundred-Year Soul Ring...

What...? Is the fear of Papa Ma coming back?

I refuse to believe my luck's that bad! He selected Draw again. The pointer spun once more. As luck would have it, it looked ready to land on a Million-Year Soul Ring—then stopped on "Thank you for playing."

"Why, you—%#&%*!"

After a furious bout of swearing, he reluctantly selected Draw one last time. He no longer expected anything from his three chances. The pointer spun and finally landed on a Martial Soul slot: Soul-Slaying Sword Martial Soul (blue), rare.

Yang Que was overjoyed. Another Martial Soul! Did that mean he had Twin Martial Souls too?

He hurriedly opened his inventory and selected Use. A new energy entered his body, keen as a blade. Unfortunately, the Martial Soul had yet to awaken, so he could not summon it. He badly wanted to see what it looked like...

Yang Que quickly gathered himself. He was ready to make his mark on Douluo Continent, but first he needed to cultivate properly and reach innate level-twenty Soul Power! After his excitement faded, he calmed down and began to think.

Now that he had a cheat, he could not settle for being a layabout. The hope of growing stronger filled him with drive. Power seemed to course through his whole body, and the future looked bright...

Once he had made up his mind, Yang Que changed into training clothes and ran toward the hillside where he and Tang San usually chopped firewood and picked fruit...