Gold-Rank Second Awakening of a Body Martial Soul

The moment they guessed that person's identity, everyone held their breath and focused on the unfolding scene.

In the image, a figure dressed in black nightclothes hurried through a sect whose buildings were mostly made of wood.

He clearly knew the sect extremely well, precisely avoiding its patrols and finding all manner of secret passages.

Eventually, the man in tight black clothing arrived at what appeared to be a scripture repository and took a book from inside.

The image froze, revealing four bold characters on the cover-"Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record."

"The Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record? Isn't that the master compendium of secret arts the Tang Sect is so proud of?" someone exclaimed.

Tang Ya's heart sank. The man in black nightclothes was almost certainly their ancestor, Tang San.

The scene continued. Tang San returned to his room and removed the mask covering his head.

"He looks just like him!"

At the sight of the face beneath the mask, everyone who had seen portraits of Tang San found him strangely familiar.

His face bore a seventy-percent resemblance to the Tang San of ten thousand years ago.

Perhaps his appearance reflected his heart, but this further proved that the man was Tang San.

Tang Ya's heart sank into the abyss. The Tang Sect Secret Arts she had taken such pride in really had been stolen by their ancestor.

Seeing this scene on the Sky Screen, Tang San involuntarily felt his face grow hot. After all, the man in the image was him.

The scene continued, now showing Tang San practicing the techniques within the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.

From Mysterious Jade Skill to Mysterious Jade Hand, then Purple Demon Eye, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, and finally the various throwing techniques and hidden weapons in Hundred Explanations of Hidden Weapons.

As members of the Tang Sect, Tang Ya and Bei Bei naturally recognized all of them.

They had learned them all, but they never could have imagined that their origins would be so disgraceful.

Finally, the scene ended at the moment when Tang San created the Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus and the sect's elders pursued him to kill him.

Immediately afterward, the Sky Screen's footage cut off abruptly.

"I never imagined that what the Sky Screen said was actually true.

"Wasn't Tang San upright and magnificent in the history books? How could he have been so disgraceful in his previous life, even stealing his sect's secret arts?"

"You can know a man's face without knowing his heart. History is written by the victors, and he happened to be the victor."

"Come to think of it, all those Tang Sect Secret Arts its members have always been so proud of were stolen. Why even call it the Tang Sect? Just call it the Thieves' Sect."

"I told you Tang San was no good. This is the perfect chance to find him. A divine position belongs to the virtuous."

In an instant, all manner of discussion and slander filled the air. Some even found themselves a righteous excuse to identify Tang San and seize his divine position.

A world in which only the Tang Sect's members suffered had come to pass.

At that moment, the Tang Sect seemed to have lost its claim to legitimacy. After all, even its secret arts had been stolen by Tang San.

"How could this happen? Why did it turn out like this?"

Tang Ya was utterly dazed, her head hanging as she murmured weakly.

Bei Bei and Huo Yuhao comforted her from the side.

Another person who seemed deeply dejected was Wang Dong, who stood beside them, looking as though she herself had been slandered.

Had the Sky Screen not already denied that she was Tang San, the others probably would have accused her again.

Less than three minutes into the discussion, the Sky Screen's voice rang out again.

Only six people were excited this time, yet they were enough to make everyone else burn with envy and resentment.

[Rewards for correct answers to the previous question will now be distributed.]

[The reward distribution method will change this time. Ordinary people may choose either awakening with innate full soul power or fifty additional years of life. Soul Masters will draw a random reward.]

As soon as the Sky Screen finished speaking, six beams of Seven-Colored Divine Light descended into the Sky Screen's space beneath everyone's envious gazes.

One landed squarely on Long Aotian.

A wooden spinning wheel appeared before Long Aotian. Its face was divided into four sections, with an arrow directly above it.

The first section read "Martial soul upgrade."

The second read "Heaven-gifted soul ring (its age can increase according to the maximum age you can absorb)."

The third read "Fifty additional years of life."

The fourth read "Random."

At the sight of these four rewards, Long Aotian's heart missed a beat before pounding wildly, ecstasy surging through him.

Every one of these rewards was immensely precious.

"Aotian, what reward did you receive?"

Just as Long Aotian was rejoicing, Du Busi's voice sounded beside him.

"I don't know yet, but I'll find out right away."

Without another word, Long Aotian willed the wheel to spin.

At last, beneath his anxious gaze, the pointer slowly settled on the random section.

At that moment, the air around Long Aotian abruptly froze.

A lustrous, jade-white light shone around him, and a silver-white humanoid phantom appeared behind him.

This was the state of a body martial soul's silver-rank second awakening.

At the sight, Du Busi was startled. He moved away from his disciple and watched in silence.

It was not over yet. The warm jade hue gradually faded, and the silver radiance began turning pure reddish gold.

Even the white humanoid phantom behind Long Aotian began to change, slowly radiating golden light from its entire body.

Its contours perfectly reproduced the patterns of human skin.

Golden light flowed over Long Aotian's entire body. His skin no longer had jade's warm luster, instead turning pure reddish gold.

Reddish-gold patterns spread beneath his skin like blood vessels.

"Is this a gold-rank second awakening of a body martial soul?!"

At that moment, Du Busi cried out, his eyes filled with disbelief.

As the current sect master of the Body Sect, he understood what this meant.

After all, even he, a rank-98 Super Douluo, had only barely achieved his gold-rank second awakening upon reaching rank 98.

Yet now his disciple, who had not even reached the strength of a Soul King, had completed a gold-rank second awakening.

This all but guaranteed that, as long as Long Aotian did not die prematurely, he would one day become a rank-99 Limit Douluo.

Although Long Aotian had already possessed exceptional talent, even he had not dared to be certain he could become a Limit Douluo.

Perhaps thanks to the Sky Screen, the normally arduous second awakening of a body martial soul had already ended.

Long Aotian seemed to have undergone a complete sublimation.

Aside from him, cries of astonishment also arose elsewhere in the Sky Screen's space.

Because too few people had answered correctly, Tang San still received no reward, so only six rewards were distributed this time.

Of the six recipients, two were ordinary people. One chose innate full soul power, while the other chose fifty additional years of life.

The person who chose fifty additional years of life was already so old and frail that even innate full soul power would have been of little use.

Thus, he chose the reward that suited him best.

Of the remaining four, three were Soul Masters. Long Aotian drew the random reward, while one of the other two drew fifty additional years of life and the other drew Martial Soul Evolution.

The final reward recipient was not a human, but a Soul Beast.

She was a Soul Beast of extraordinary beauty, even by human standards.

She was over three meters long and stood eight feet tall at the shoulder, her entire body covered in brilliant golden fur.

Beneath that golden fur, her whole body seemed like translucent crystal, possessing a wondrous texture.

Her overall form resembled a lion, but her four paws were like a dragon's claws, each resting upon a ball of golden flame.

Her muzzle was also somewhat longer than that of lion-type Soul Beasts, and beneath her fur there appeared to be fine, densely packed golden scales.

Besides her two ordinary eyes, she actually had a third. Her two ordinary eyes glimmered gold, while her vertical third eye radiated red-a red with an eerie, uncanny quality.

This Soul Beast was none other than the legendary Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.