Dashi said, "Under normal circumstances, a martial soul is inherited from either the father or the mother. This is inheritance through the family bloodline."
"But there are exceptions. When the parents' martial souls have a certain tendency to mutate, their descendants' martial souls may undergo mutations. These are mutated martial souls. Most mutations make them weaker, but there is a small chance they will become stronger."
To put it plainly, mutated martial souls were like the offspring of inbreeding: there was a high chance of producing an idiot, but also some chance of producing a genius with an extraordinarily high IQ.
As for whether Yu Dashi was one of those rare high-IQ geniuses or one of the far more common idiots...
Only he knew. Of course, all you handsome, dashing big-shot readers surely knew too.
Then Yu Dashi began explaining his theory about the maximum age of soul rings one could absorb. Faced with Yu Dashi's invincible barrage of hot air, our protagonist, Third Brother, had been bamboozled until he couldn't tell north from south.
Third Brother first put some distance between himself and Yu Dashi. Then he prostrated himself, knocking his head against the ground three times with resounding thumps, and said, "Please accept me as your disciple!"
And then came the first iconic scene of the Douluo Continent: "A teacher for a day (hidden weapons exposed), a father for life (I'm going to kill my father)!"
Yu Dashi smiled, a very satisfied smile. He bent down and pulled Third Brother up, saying, "Come along. I'll take you to register at the academic affairs office!"
At the same time, he inwardly breathed a sigh of relief. *Good heavens, I finally managed to hoodwink this little brat. I've already used four of my ten theories. If this kept going, I