Jiang Mingyang had high hopes for Ma Hongjun and Tang San.
After all, both had stood out in the original story.
Tang San had been the protagonist, though his reputation was terrible, while Ma Hongjun had been a supporting character said to possess the ultimate offensive power. Both ranked among the very best in talent and could become valuable allies in the future.
No matter how formidable a leader was, he could not handle everything himself. He needed one or two capable subordinates.
In fact, if Ma Hongjun and Tang San had lacked talent, Jiang Mingyang would have found it hard to value them, protagonist and important supporting character or not.
It was absurd, but in a world governed by a system as peculiar as Douluo Continent's, birth had already decided a person's entire future.
Someone of ordinary talent needed vast resources to achieve anything great.
In other words, top-tier resources had to make up the difference in aptitude.
So if Ma Hongjun and Tang San truly had ordinary talent, Jiang Mingyang might still have cared about them, but he could hardly have trained them as important subordinates.
In the end, pouring vast resources into their training simply would not have been worth it.
Jiang Mingyang felt rather helpless about Douluo Continent's rules. Bloodline mattered far too much here.
Even Battle Through the Heavens, where having a Battle Emperor for a father could carry someone straight to High-Rank Battle Saint, had not been this outrageous.
On Douluo Continent, a powerful Martial Soul did not necessarily mean high Innate Soul Power, but the level of Innate Soul Power was certainly tied to the Martial Soul's strength.
At the very least, few people who awakened the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul had Innate Soul Power below level three.
Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang, whose