After a round of tiresome, well-worn mutual flattery, Flender arrived at the village's reasonably well-appointed Spirit Hall.
"Everyone, line up. Let's get this over with quickly!"
Flender summoned his martial soul, the Cat Owl, and gave the children their instructions after completing his possession.
Watching the seven soul rings around Flender-two yellow, two purple, and three black-Ma Youjiao nodded in satisfaction, thoughts running through his mind.
He was terribly envious of the village three villages over, which had produced a Soul Master with innate full soul power. Apparently, the martial soul was some sort of sausage, and this very Soul Saint had helped awaken it.
Whether the gold soul coins from their five villages would serve their intended purpose depended on whether Grass Chicken Village could produce a Soul Master this time!
"Martial soul: white chicken. No soul power. Next!"
"Martial soul: black chicken. No soul power. Next!"
"Martial soul: Blue Silver Grass. No soul power. Next!"
"Martial soul: white duck. No soul power. Next!"
"Martial soul: black duck. No soul power. Next!"
The awakening ceremony Flender presided over proceeded swiftly. Before long, all twenty-six children from White Chicken Village, Black Chicken Village, White Duck Village, and Black Duck Village had completed their awakenings, but the results were not what Ma Youjiao had hoped for.
Now it was the last village's turn: Grass Chicken Village.
Flender rolled his neck and looked at the little chubby boy at the front of Grass Chicken Village's line. After another deft round of procedures, Flender said, "A fire chicken mutated from a common chicken. Soul power..."
Before he could finish, the Blue Crystal Ball, which had been touched hundreds of times, shone with a dazzling light, suggesting innate soul power of about rank nine.
"Hmm?" Flender took off his glasses, wiped them, and looked