Holy Soul Village was a small village of only two or three hundred people, so each year, usually just one Soul Master-ranked deacon from the Spirit Hall would visit the villages to awaken ordinary people's martial souls.
Although the Spirit Hall did this to seek out geniuses, everyone knew it was really just an act of charity.
The profession of Soul Master could not be open only to the rich and powerful. People across the entire continent had to be able to join its ranks.
Although calculation outweighed goodwill, there was no denying that the Spirit Hall was the only avenue through which those at the bottom of the Douluo Continent could rise in the world.
Before the Spirit Hall was established, no one would awaken ordinary people's martial souls for free, because there was no point in doing so.
Even if ordinary people awakened a martial soul, they generally had no soul power. Even those with soul power had poor aptitude and could not become powerful Soul Masters.
For people with ordinary martial souls, three rings were the limit.
On the Douluo Continent, no empire had a national policy of awakening martial souls for ordinary people.
Only those with powerful martial souls could become outstanding Soul Masters, and that required their parents' martial souls to be reasonably strong.
Only certain families with inherited martial souls could consistently produce powerful Soul Masters.
For ordinary people, the only path to greater strength was through martial soul mutation. But not even one person in a thousand would experience it.
Thus, aside from earning a good reputation, the Spirit Hall was essentially powering its free Martial Soul Awakenings for commoners with nothing but goodwill.
Nor could they simply wash their hands of people after awakening their martial souls. They also had to provide