Unable to Summon a Martial Soul?

"Big Sister Bi Ji, you don't need to persuade me anymore. My mind is made up."

"Jiuxiao, Soul Beast Humanization isn't as easy for a soul beast as you think. You know what happened to that Soft Bone Rabbit Emperor outside after she took human form."

Two figures stood beside the Lake of Life in the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest.

One was golden yellow from head to toe, with a distinctive head of spiky golden hair.

Beside him stood a breathtakingly beautiful woman.

She had long jade-green hair and gentle emerald eyes, and wore a pale-green gauze dress.

Faint motes of life drifted around her. Her manner was warm and tender, making it impossible to dislike her.

She was one of the Star Dou Great Forest's ferocious beasts-the Emerald Swan, Bi Ji.

Jin Jiuxiao let out a wistful sigh. "Big Sister Bi Ji, I have a reason I have to do this."

Many, many years had passed since he transmigrated to the Douluo Continent.

Jin Jiuxiao wasn't human. He had arrived as a soul beast... no, as a spirit.

Or, more precisely, after transmigrating, he had become Rey-and a juvenile Rey at that!

That's right, the Thunder God Rey from Seer!

As for where he had arrived... unfortunately, it was the Star Dou Great Forest.

He had barely settled in for two days and only just familiarized himself with his powers when a three-thousand-year soul beast came knocking.

With everything he had, he barely managed to unleash an incomplete Extreme Lightning Thousand Birds and kill it.

Bi Ji, who happened to be passing by, witnessed the entire scene. She approached to examine him and discovered that he was highly intelligent, belonged to a soul beast species she had never seen, and possessed astonishing combat strength...

So she brought Jin Jiuxiao back to the Lake of Life.

By then, he was utterly exhausted and passed out in Bi Ji's arms.

Heaven knew, when he opened his eyes to find a group of ferocious beasts surrounding him, Jin Jiuxiao nearly thought he was done for...

Only after hearing their conversation did he learn that Bi Ji had brought him back to the Lake of Life.

Once he revealed his exceptional intelligence and ability to speak, the other ferocious beasts grew interested as well.

With less than a thousand years of cultivation, he had killed a three-thousand-year soul beast, possessed such remarkable intelligence, and could even speak!

With Bi Ji's recommendation, he stayed at the Lake of Life.

Not long ago, his cultivation had successfully broken through to a hundred thousand years!

Two events-the death of the Soft Bone Rabbit Emperor after taking human form, and a hundred-thousand-year soft bone rabbit choosing to transform a few days earlier-confirmed which timeline he was in.

It was the Douluo I era.

After thinking it over for several days, he decided to take human form and enter the human world himself.

That led to the earlier scene. Bi Ji believed Soul Beast Humanization was too dangerous and didn't want him taking such a risk.

When Bi Ji heard the little cub she had raised for so many years claim that he had a reason he had to go, she immediately grabbed Jin Jiuxiao's ear. "What? Think you're strong enough now, your wings have grown firm, and you can go fluttering about outside?"

"Once you take human form, you'll have to start all over again. The strength you have now will be gone!"

In her eyes, Jin Jiuxiao was simply entering his rebellious phase.

After spending so long at the Lake of Life, he wanted to go outside.

Bi Ji's scolding also drew the attention of the other ferocious beasts.

They emerged from the lakebed one after another.

"What's going on here?" Xiong Jun was the first to ask.

"Uncle Xiong Jun, save me!" Jin Jiuxiao cried out the moment he spotted him.

Xiong Jun's human form was a burly, bald man with dark-gold skin.

Over all these years, aside from Bi Ji and the Hell Demon Dragon King, Zi JI, Xiong Jun had become the closest to Jin Jiuxiao.

Under Jin Jiuxiao's influence, Xiong Jun's temperament had also changed considerably.

Seeing Bi Ji holding Jin Jiuxiao by the ear, Xiong Jun was about to speak again when she shot him a glare.

"Ahem..." Xiong Jun swallowed what he had been about to say and rephrased it. "Little Jiuxiao, did you upset your Big Sister Bi Ji?"

He still couldn't afford to anger Bi Ji. What if she refused to heal him after he sparred with Di Tian?

He would truly suffer then.

Before Jin Jiuxiao could answer, Bi Ji snorted and answered Xiong Jun herself. "Jiuxiao wants to take human form and enter the human world."

"Why do you think I'm so angry?"

The smile froze on the alluring woman with long violet-black hair standing beside Xiong Jun. A trace of anger flashed through her purple, slit-pupiled dragon eyes.

In a flash, she appeared on Jin Jiuxiao's other side and grabbed his other ear. "Little Brother Jiuxiao, tell your big sister~ Why do you want to go to the human world~?"

"Are you tired of Bi Ji and me? Hmm?"

Zi JI's tone was teasing, but the pressure of her fingers didn't ease in the slightest.

Now Jin Jiuxiao genuinely felt the pain. "Big Sister Zi JI, let's talk this out, let's talk! Can you please keep your hands to yourself?"

Although Bi Ji had many years of cultivation, she wasn't a strong fighter. Her specialty was healing.

Besides, Bi Ji wouldn't really use much force. She was only expressing her displeasure.

Zi JI was another matter entirely. She was the Hell Demon Dragon King, and her strength was formidable.

Put simply, her grip was stronger than Bi Ji's.

The Scarlet King clicked his tongue twice. "Little Jiuxiao, hurry up and apologize to your two dear big sisters. Maybe they'll let go."

The Myriad Demon King didn't understand either and echoed the Scarlet King. "Little Jiuxiao, are you sure you don't just want to go out and play? With your strength, you could easily survive the Tribulation Lightning at two hundred thousand or even three hundred thousand years."

In his view, Jin Jiuxiao had absolutely no need to enter the human world.

The little fellow was terrifyingly strong. With a hundred thousand years of cultivation, he could already trade blows evenly with the Scarlet King.

Of course, the Scarlet King wasn't using his full strength.

Even so, his combat strength already equaled that of a three-hundred-thousand-year ferocious beast.

With Jin Jiuxiao's strength, surviving the next two Tribulation Lightning strikes and steadily cultivating to four hundred thousand years would pose no problem at all.

"I really am not going out to play." Jin Jiuxiao glanced left and right. "Big Sister Zi JI, Big Sister Bi Ji, I really have something to do."

In the end, Di Tian spoke. "Bi Ji, Zi JI, let go of Jiuxiao first."

"You'd better give me a reasonable explanation." With a huff, Bi Ji released him.

Zi JI let go as well, but her eyes darted about, and no one knew what she was thinking.

"Phew, saved." Jin Jiuxiao breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you, Uncle Di Tian."

Di Tian's human form was a tall, straight-backed middle-aged man.

His face was stern and imposing, and his brilliant golden slit pupils were even more arresting.

Clad in a black robe patterned with dark-gold dragons, he radiated authority without needing to show anger.

"Jiuxiao, the Myriad Demon King is right. With your strength, if you keep growing, even surviving the five-hundred-thousand-year Tribulation Lightning would be nothing difficult."

"Yet now you want to enter the human world. Give me a reason."

In Di Tian's eyes, Jin Jiuxiao was not merely a junior, but a promising talent who could become a true pillar of the soul beasts.

Once Jin Jiuxiao matured, his strength would certainly surpass all the other ferocious beasts.

He would become the second-strongest ferocious beast, beneath only Di Tian himself.

Incidentally, because of Jin Jiuxiao's presence, Di Tian had stationed the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape on the outskirts of the Lake of Life. Without a special reason, they were forbidden to set even one foot into the lake.

The area around the Lake of Life was where Jin Jiuxiao, Bi Ji, and Zi JI lived.

The others usually "cultivated" beneath the Lake of Life.

Occasionally, they would come up to visit Jin Jiuxiao.

Once Di Tian spoke, all the other ferocious beasts fell silent.

Di Tian was the true ruler of the Star Dou Great Forest. He could also be called-the Beast God.

"Uncle Di Tian, would you believe me if I said I was a spirit from another world?" Jin Jiuxiao didn't directly say he had transmigrated. Instead, he began with his current identity.

"In that other world, my name was Rey, and I was the guardian deity of Helka Star."

"People had another name for me: the legendary spirit-Thunder God Rey."

He also brought up Rey's original identity.

These words weren't a lie.

Rey truly was the guardian deity of Helka Star, and people indeed called him the legendary spirit, Thunder God Rey.

Di Tian stared at Jin Jiuxiao, weighing the credibility of those words.

He couldn't detect the slightest panic or unusual reaction on Jin Jiuxiao's face. In other words... those words were most likely true.

When Bi Ji brought him back, Jin Jiuxiao had only been a juvenile.

He already possessed exceptional intelligence, a reasonably mature disposition, and extraordinary strength.

If he was a God Level soul beast from another world, reincarnated with his memories intact, that would make sense.

And Jin Jiuxiao's subsequent cultivation and progress hadn't differed much from those of soul beasts.

His strength simply increased much faster than that of ordinary soul beasts.

Di Tian knew that other planes and worlds existed.

And the rules of each plane and world differed somewhat.

After sorting through his thoughts, Di Tian gave his answer. "I believe you. But you are also a member of the Soul Beast Clan."

In Di Tian's view, spirits were essentially similar to soul beasts.

Only their names and terms differed.

Those words undoubtedly made Di Tian's stance clear.

After living together for so many years, he had seen exactly what kind of person Jin Jiuxiao was.

I believe your explanation, and I believe where you came from, but that doesn't change the fact that you are weak right now.

In Di Tian's eyes, Jin Jiuxiao's current strength was indeed very weak.

Even if you are the reincarnation of another world's Thunder God, your strength hasn't returned to its peak.

If anything, this raised Di Tian's opinion of Jin Jiuxiao another notch.

Another world's Thunder God is still a god, isn't he? How weak could he possibly be?

As long as he cultivated steadily, he would surely reach Di Tian's level.

Of course Di Tian couldn't bear to let Jin Jiuxiao leave.

Jin Jiuxiao nodded slightly, showing that he agreed with Di Tian.

Having lived with them for thousands of years, he had long since grown attached to them.

This is the Douluo I timeline, which means there's still time for everything!

Tang San hasn't become a god yet. In fact, he only awakened his martial soul recently.

When Di Tian saw Jin Jiuxiao nod, he knew that the boy truly accepted his identity as a member of the Soul Beast Clan.

"Tell me your reason."

The conversation had returned to the original question.

If Jin Jiuxiao's reason couldn't convince Di Tian, Di Tian would never let him enter the human world.

"While I was being reincarnated into this plane, I saw a god. He wore demonic armor covered in blood-red coloring and held a sword."

"He felt intensely murderous, and his presence was overwhelming."

"He intercepted a soul from another world, then vanished."

After hearing Jin Jiuxiao's description, how could Di Tian not know who that god was?

Only one fit those characteristics!

He clenched his fists. "The Asura God..."

In that instant, many thoughts raced through Di Tian's mind.

The other ferocious beasts didn't dare interrupt.

Only after a long while did Di Tian speak. "Jiuxiao, the god you described is called the Asura God. You suspect that he intended to bring a soul from another world to the Douluo Continent, correct?"

"Yes. I thought it might be a successor he chose or something, so I wanted to take a look in the human world."

This part was pure fabrication on Jin Jiuxiao's part, but his purpose was genuine.

He wanted to enter the human world because of Tang San.

Once Tang San became a god, the Divine Realm would sooner or later become the Tang Realm, and Di Tian and the others would all suffer for it.

Some would die, others would sacrifice themselves, and all would become stepping stones for the Tang family's ascension to godhood.

Tang San would also leave the Douluo Continent in utter chaos.

He was already here, and he had come to the Douluo Continent in Rey's body. He had also spent so long with Di Tian and the others.

How could he possibly accept such an outcome?

If I keep cultivating like this, will I end up becoming another stepping stone for the Tang family's ascension to godhood?

Refuse to submit, and die!

After receiving Jin Jiuxiao's confirmation, Di Tian began recalling whether any exceptionally outstanding human experts had appeared since Jin Jiuxiao arrived in this world.

The only ones worthy of mention were the three Limit Douluos from back then.

But one had gone to Sea God Island, another was the Great Enshrined of Spirit Hall, and the last had vanished altogether.

Clearly, none of them fit.

That meant the Asura God hadn't yet arranged for that soul to complete its reincarnation.

Jin Jiuxiao's purpose was to investigate the identity of this reincarnated person.

Because that person was highly likely to be the successor chosen by the Asura God.

At that thought, Di Tian took a deep breath. "I can agree to let you enter the human world."

He took out an object and tossed it to Jin Jiuxiao. "But you must carry this with you."

Jin Jiuxiao caught it and looked down.

It was a reverse scale, still carrying a trace of warmth. "Uncle Di Tian, this is...?"

This reverse scale couldn't be...

"Take it. If you encounter danger, pour your soul power into it, and I'll tear through space to reach you."

Di Tian had no desire to see such a promising young talent perish in the human world.

"Thank you, Uncle Di Tian!" Jin Jiuxiao beamed with delight.

In the era of Douluo I, Di Tian already stood among the very ceilings of power on the Douluo Continent.

With Di Tian's protection, he no longer had to worry about those Titled Douluo setting their sights on him.

To make your way in the world, you needed powerful backing and connections.

"Mm, go ahead and begin, then."

Jin Jiuxiao wasted no words and immediately sat down cross-legged.

After quite some time, "Rey's" figure vanished, replaced by a human child who looked about six years old.

His most striking feature, his golden hair, remained unchanged.

Seeing Jin Jiuxiao in human form, Zi JI muttered softly, "He's pretty cute. This might not be so bad."

The words had barely left her mouth when Bi Ji elbowed her.

Di Tian paid no attention to their little antics and reminded Jin Jiuxiao, "Mm, it worked. Jiuxiao, now that you've taken human form, your martial soul is your original body."

"Every ten levels, you can condense a soul ring yourself. There's no need to hunt soul beasts."

"But in the human world, you'll need to put on a bit of a dis-"

"Uncle Di Tian, I think... I can't summon my martial soul."

Jin Jiuxiao's words interrupted Di Tian's instructions.

"???"

Not only Di Tian, but the other ferocious beasts were also dumbfounded.

With Soul Beast Humanization, how could it be unable to summon its martial soul?