As everyone knew.
Ancient texts were pretty abstract things, especially ones recording events from ten thousand years ago. Reading them was basically like looking at cave paintings that Upper Cave Men had carved into stone.
Oh, perhaps they were even more abstract than that.
It was more like a modern person flipping through recipes and suddenly coming across an ancient cookbook called the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
A bunch of people spent half their lives huddled together studying it, and their final conclusion was: what the fuck was any of this?
Never mind Ye Qing's mutated Dark Demon Evil God Tiger-even a normal Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had probably only ever been seen by Tang San on the entire Douluo Continent. Everything else was speculation and scattered scraps of records.
Even Ye Qing, an outsider, had no idea what sort of bizarre thing he had awakened, let alone locals like Mu En, who lacked an omniscient perspective.
But here was the thing.
Although Ye Qing had no idea what his Dark Demon Evil God Tiger martial soul had mutated into, he did know his innate abilities.
That knowledge had appeared automatically in his mind after his martial soul awakening, just as Soul Masters naturally knew what soul skills their soul rings and soul bones contained once they acquired them.
This sort of online-game-like mechanic certainly made it easier for Ye Qing to explore his martial soul.
Ultimate talents: Demon Possession, Heavenly God's Descent.
Yes, ultimate talents.
Ye Qing's martial soul was a tier-zero martial soul in this version of Peerless Tang Sect-an ultimate martial soul. Thanks to his ultimate talents, he also knew exactly which ultimate attribute he possessed.
Sacred.
The ultimate sacred attribute.
But that meant this martial soul's abilities had once again deviated from Ye Qing's original estimates.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger possessed six attributes: supreme evil, darkness, time, space, wind, and lightning. Its supreme evil attribute came from the Evil God in the Divine Realm, so its strength had to be divine-tier. The other five attributes were most likely ultimate.
Yet now, Ye Qing could likewise sense his six attributes, but only the sacred attribute was ultimate. The others all fell a little short.
An across-the-board downgrade?
Wasn't this Dark Demon Evil God Tiger supposed to have been strengthened by Tang San's Evil God power? How had it ended up being worse instead?
Ye Qing did not understand, but he was deeply shocked.
As for the effects of his ultimate talents, Ye Qing did not quite know what to make of them either. These abilities allowed him to switch between his current sacred white tiger form and his Dark Demon Evil God Tiger form.
However, every time he switched, he would need to find somewhere he would not be disturbed, because he was very vulnerable during the transformation.
His combat strength would drop by at least ninety percent.
Ye Qing had no desire to get mobbed by a group of people while he had no martial soul to use.
As for the martial soul's name...
Ye Qing glanced at that old geezer Ye Feng, who was staring at him with a burning gaze, and recalled the name he had just shouted in excitement: Radiant Sacred Tiger.
Fine. Radiant Sacred Tiger it was.
As long as I know you're called the Sacred Radiance Heavenly God Tiger, that's enough. That was right-Ye Qing had decided to name this martial soul the Sacred Radiance Heavenly God Tiger! Since his ultimate talents could turn it back into the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, how could it not have a matching name?
The white tiger silhouette behind Ye Qing seemed to have heard the name he had given it too. After throwing back its head and letting out a jubilant roar, it lunged into his body from behind.
Martial souls had a spirit of their own. That saying really was true.
The dazzling, sacred light gradually dimmed, and the signs of martial soul possession on Ye Qing's body slowly vanished. The pair of pure white, sacred wings on his back also withdrew into his body.
However, Ye Qing's appearance had undergone a tremendous change.
Most noticeably, his long black hair had turned a dazzling platinum, with only a single lock over his forehead remaining black. Yet even that lock was unnaturally black, so dark that it seemed capable of devouring light itself.
He had shot up in height, becoming almost as tall as Bei Bei, who had already obtained a soul ring. His somewhat immature body had filled out considerably too, and his muscles had become much more defined.
The greatest change, however, was in his little face, which still carried a trace of baby fat.
Ye Qing had always given people a cute, approachable impression before, but now his features radiated the sharpness and dominance unique to tiger-type Soul Masters.
Though the male tiger was young, his edge could not be concealed.
As for a detailed description of his appearance...
All you needed to know was that he was handsome. On the Douluo Continent, nobody with a powerful martial soul was ugly. Ye Qing's martial soul was pretty much the most badass martial soul of the Peerless Tang Sect era, so even if he was not the most handsome, he was not far off.
If you really could not picture it, just pick up a mirror and look at yourself. That should give you a pretty good idea of how handsome Ye Qing was.
Once the signs of martial soul possession had completely vanished from Ye Qing's body, Ye Feng hurried over and thrust a crystal orb into his hands.
"My dear grandson, hurry and test how much innate soul power you have!" Ye Feng's voice trembled with excitement.
Heaven knew.
The Shadow Tiger martial soul passed down through the Ye Family truly could not be considered powerful. Ye Feng's own innate soul power had only been a mere rank seven. With that sort of talent, if he had grown up on his own as a member of a small clan, the most he could have achieved would have been Soul Saint or Soul Douluo.
Had Ye Feng not joined Shrek Academy, receiving its abundant resources and cultivating with the Golden Tree's assistance, he could never have broken through to Title Douluo.
The Shadow Tiger's ceiling... was only that high.
Rank ninety-four was already the greatest height Ye Feng could reach in his lifetime. The threshold of Super Douluo was one he could never cross, no matter what he did. That was the shackle imposed by his martial soul, unless it evolved or he encountered some heaven-defying opportunity.
The "Radiant Sacred Tiger" martial soul Ye Qing had awakened had shown Ye Feng the hope of his family's rise!
As a Sea God Pavilion Elder, how could Ye Feng not know what Mu En's martial soul was?
Although the Radiant Sacred Tiger was weaker than the Radiant Sacred Dragon, the gap was not all that large. Mu En had been able to break through to the Limit, which meant the Radiant Sacred Tiger, being close to the Radiant Sacred Dragon's level, also had the potential to do so!
The Ye Family was destined to prosper!
Ye Qing looked at the crystal orb in his hands and fell silent for a moment, then tried to slowly channel the soul power within his body into it.
Using soul power for the first time was bound to be awkward. It took Ye Qing a little while before he successfully guided his soul power into the Soul Power Testing Orb.
Without any surprises, the crystal orb shone with dazzling light.
Golden light illuminated the entire crystal orb, leaving not a single gap.
Innate full soul power.
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