Douluo Continent, Heaven Dou Empire, Nuoding City, Sword Dao Village.
The midday sunlight poured unreservedly onto a boulder, warming the six-year-old child lying on it.
The boy's name was Lu Xuan. With a blade of Blue Silver Grass between his lips, he gazed at the sky in utter boredom.
Sword Dao Village, as its name suggested, was a village that revered the way of the sword.
Here, almost every household awakened sword-type martial souls.
Wahaha!
Have you ever seen the sky at four in the morning?
I have.
Lu Xuan was a transmigrator.
Who gets it, folks? I ran into a damn Dayun truck that just had to take me transmigrating.
Lu Xuan had originally been a soon-to-be college student who had just finished his college entrance exams and was staying up late gaming at home.
At four in the morning, he went to the kitchen to pour himself some water, only for...
Bang-
A deafening crash rang out, and the entire building shook violently.
Lu Xuan watched helplessly as a Dayun truck with flashing high beams soared into the sky, coming for him alone!
Then...
Lu Xuan heard a single sentence.
"Today's KPI is complete. Time to head back and report!"
Then his consciousness scattered.
When he opened his eyes again, he had become a bawling infant waiting to be fed.
Lu Xuan was actually quite adaptable. He accepted being sent flying by a Dayun truck, and he accepted transmigrating and being reborn.
But whenever he woke from dreams at midnight, he couldn't help wanting to point at the heavens and curse up a storm.
Who the hell gets run over and killed by a Dayun truck on the sixth floor?!
Gradually, Lu Xuan picked up quite a bit of information from his parents' conversations and learned that he had arrived in the world of Douluo Continent.
After all, it was simply too obvious, with all the talk of martial souls and soul rings.
Originally, he had taken the attitude that since he was already here, he might as well settle in, and wanted to live a peaceful life here.
Because he didn't seem to have a protagonist's fate.
His parents were neither a pair of powerhouses nor both dead, and no cheat had awakened for him either.
His father had an ordinary iron sword martial soul and level 3 innate soul power.
His mother had an ordinary soft sword martial soul and level 2 innate soul power.
But, as luck would have it, when he was two and a half years old...
His mother unexpectedly broke through the level 20 bottleneck.
Overjoyed, his parents entrusted him to a neighbor and set off together for the Soul Beast Forest to hunt for a soul ring.
Then they never came back.
The villagers were simple and kind. A meal from one household, a piece of clothing from another-with that, they managed to raise Lu Xuan to the age of six.
Everything at home remained unchanged, except that the two adults who would smile and call his name affectionately were gone forever.
"Just when I wanted to lie low and live out my life peacefully, my parents got sacrificed to the heavens... Could I really have gotten the protagonist's script?"
Lu Xuan stared blankly in silence, a trace of wistfulness beyond his years flashing through his eyes.
Lu Xuan continued staring blankly in silence, and gradually, his stomach began to growl.
"It's noon already!"
Lu Xuan's hunger alarm was always accurate. Whenever it rang, it was mealtime.
Man was iron and food was steel; miss a meal, and hunger would make itself felt.
No one could stop him from digging in.
Lu Xuan jumped down from the boulder and headed home.
That morning, Grandpa Village Chief had come to tell him that a Spirit Hall deacon would arrive tomorrow to conduct martial soul awakenings.
"Tomorrow's martial soul awakening day, huh? I wonder what martial soul I'll awaken. It'll most likely be a sword too. If only it were the Seven Kill Sword."
Along the way, Lu Xuan indulged in some fanciful imaginings about tomorrow's martial soul awakening.
For Lu Xuan, the sword martial soul that had left the deepest impression was the Seven Kill Sword. Whether in the comic or the animation, it looked so cool!
Looking cool was a lifelong affair!
But that sort of thing was only worth dreaming about. After all, in his previous life, Han Xin had a line: "Don't dream impossible dreams!"
Early the next morning.
Grandpa Village Chief came to take Lu Xuan to his martial soul awakening.
Lu Xuan had gotten ready early. After all, he hadn't slept all night.
On Douluo Continent, martial soul awakening concerned a person's entire life.
With such a major life event weighing on him, he couldn't sleep at all.
The experienced Grandpa Village Chief saw Lu Xuan's condition at a glance.
Almost every child about to undergo martial soul awakening had experienced this state.
The old village chief didn't say much. He had once been the same way himself.
Some things were most interesting when experienced personally.
Led by Grandpa Village Chief, he arrived at the Spirit Hall in the center of the village.
Yes, even an old Soul Ancestor like the village chief had no method of awakening martial souls and still needed Spirit Hall to help.
After all, the martial soul awakening stones were held firmly in the hands of the major powers.
Only because Spirit Hall existed did commoners have a chance to awaken their martial souls.
Although Spirit Hall was a villainous organization in the novel.
In the eyes of commoners, however, Spirit Hall's prestige and standing surpassed even those of the two great empires and the Upper Three Sects.
They genuinely did things for commoners.
Martial soul awakenings, Soul Master subsidies, and all sorts of other things.
Although Spirit Hall was a villainous faction in the original story, in the eyes of commoners, they were practically living bodhisattvas.
Speaking of Spirit Hall, he had heard a piece of news.
This very year, Spirit Hall's new Supreme Pontiff had ascended the throne.
The previous Supreme Pontiff had gone to capture a Clear Sky Sect disciple who had illicit relations with a soul beast, then lost his life.
That news had allowed him to confirm his timeline completely.
"Hello, everyone. My name is Su Mingyuan, a level 28 Soul Grandmaster. I'll be helping you awaken your martial souls."
Inside the wooden building, a gentle-faced, middle-aged man in his thirties greeted the children with a smile.
Su Mingyuan? That name... Could he be related to Su Yuntao?
Lu Xuan silently muttered to himself. Especially after seeing the man summon his Lone Wolf martial soul, his suspicions reached their peak.
The ceremony proceeded in an orderly fashion. After several children met with disappointment and tears, it was finally Lu Xuan's turn.
"Child, don't be nervous. Come stand in the middle." Su Mingyuan gently reassured him, encouragement in his eyes.
Lu Xuan took a deep breath and stepped into the formation.
Su Mingyuan's hands struck out rapidly, sending six streams of green light precisely into the six black awakening stones on the ground.
Hum-
A pale golden dome of light rose from the ground, enveloping Lu Xuan entirely.
In an instant, Lu Xuan felt as though he were soaking in warm water. A warm current surged wildly through his limbs and every part of his body, as though something were about to break out of its cocoon within him!
Just then, a sudden change occurred!
[Ding! Host detected awakening a martial soul...]
An ethereal mechanical voice, devoid of any emotion, exploded in Lu Xuan's mind without warning!
It startled Lu Xuan, but his cheat seemed to have arrived, meow~
The next second, an irresistible force violently tugged at his consciousness, dragging it down into a pitch-black space where he couldn't see his hand in front of his face.
In the darkness, a virtual screen glowing a ghostly blue abruptly appeared, cold characters flickering across it:
[Please select four of the following nine options as your beginner's package:] 1. Twin martial souls talent 2. Level 20 innate soul power 3. Random god-level martial soul (if the twin martial souls talent is selected, two will be randomly granted) 4. Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone 5. Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring 6. Yu Xiaogang's invincible theories 7. Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record 8. Soul Tool Creation Method 9. Succubus constitution.
Lu Xuan: Something weird seems to have slipped in.
But that doesn't matter.
1, 2, and 3-those three options are absolutely mandatory.
A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone... An innocent man becomes guilty by possessing a precious jade. How could I not understand that principle? Not choosing it.
A Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring...
He had no idea how it would be distributed. If it could be installed without risk, that would be fine.
But if he had to absorb it himself... then forget it. He would die!
Option 6, what garbage. Automatically skip.
7, the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record... doesn't feel as good as 8.
As for the succubus constitution, it didn't seem very useful.
He decisively chose 1, 2, 3, and 8.
[Selection confirmed. Rewards distributed.]
As soon as Lu Xuan finished choosing, he was ruthlessly kicked straight out of that mysterious space.
Boom-!!!
A tremendous crash erupted, as though it would tear the firmament apart!
The formerly pale golden awakening dome shattered instantly!
Two utterly different yet equally terrifying lights suddenly burst from Lu Xuan's small body!
On the left was a scarlet like mountains of corpses and seas of blood, carrying a suffocating aura of slaughter and judgment.
On the right was a dazzling emerald-gold, radiating a vast, unceasing vitality that nurtured all things!
Like furious dragons, the two pillars of light tore through the wooden building's roof and shot straight into the clouds, dyeing the entire sky an eerie red and green!
Violent blasts of air instantly sent the surrounding tables and chairs flying!
"This... this pressure... A miracle! This is a miracle!!!"
The terrifying aura forced Su Mingyuan straight to his knees. His eyes went round, his entire body trembled violently, and his voice was filled with irrepressible shock.
Meanwhile, deep within the Worship Hall in Spirit City.
Beneath the enormous Angel God Statue, a figure dressed in plain gray abruptly stopped praying.
He suddenly opened his eyes. His brilliant golden eyes seemed capable of piercing the void as he stared fixedly in the direction of Nuoding City.
"This aura... God-level martial souls I've never encountered before, and two of them!"
Qian Daoliu's brows knitted tightly, murderous intent and a desire to recruit intertwining in his eyes.
"This child must join our Spirit Hall! If he cannot be put to my use, he will surely become a formidable enemy on Xue'er's path to godhood!"
Inside the Papal Palace.
Bibi Dong, who had only recently ascended the throne, abruptly rose from the Supreme Pontiff's throne, scepter in hand.
Bathed in the red and green light, her exquisite face appeared especially bewitching.
"Hahaha... God-level martial souls? This era really is getting more and more interesting!"
Madness and ambition flashed in Bibi Dong's eyes.
"But whoever you are, the first to become a god will certainly be me!"
Deep within the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.
Within an isolated alternate space, a silver-white dragon as enormous as a mountain slowly opened her huge, amethyst-like eyes.
She raised her noble head, her gaze seeming to pierce the barriers of space as she looked toward the two pillars of light soaring into the sky.
"A nauseating aura... Asura, and Life?"
The Silver Dragon King gave a low, cold snort, and the lake water churned violently in response.
Then she closed her eyes again, her enormous body sinking once more into a long slumber, leaving only a barely audible murmur echoing through the space.
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