Hearing Lu Yuan's soul power level, then considering that he looked less than nine years old, all seven members of the Imperial Fighting Team widened their eyes.
"Ahem." Qin Ming cleared his throat.
"Lu Yuan's circumstances are rather unusual. His Highness the Crown Prince discovered that his mutated martial soul allows him to cultivate soul power three times faster than an ordinary soul master. That is how he became a Soul Elder at such a young age."
So that was it!
Only after hearing Qin Ming's explanation did the seven members of the Imperial Fighting Team understand.
Still, with a cultivation speed so far beyond ordinary soul masters, surely there had to be a price to pay in his martial soul's combat power. So young and lacking battle experience, he might well be a talent doomed to an early end, a seedling pulled upward in a misguided attempt to make it grow.
"I wonder how well he can fight." Dugu Yan looked Lu Yuan up and down, sizing up this genius soul master who cultivated so quickly.
As her relationship with Yu Tianheng developed, it was not just Yu Yuanzhen, Thunder Douluo and head of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, who was playing matchmaker. Her grandfather, Dugu Bo, also encouraged her to take that step.
The reason, naturally, was that Dugu Bo was suffering a backlash from the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison accumulated in his body. Now, he could no longer even hold on to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, which he had originally used to suppress the poison. He feared Dugu Yan would fail to find a dependable backer before he died.
Another reason was that, as a member of the Jade Phosphorus Snake Family's youngest generation, Dugu Yan had an increasingly severe buildup of Jade