Had the Goddess of Life Cheated, or Had the Asura God Become the Other Man?

The strange phenomena in heaven and earth gradually faded, and the violent air currents they had brought finally settled.

Lu Xuan opened his eyes and looked at the roofs torn off around him and the wreckage strewn across the ground.

Lu Xuan: ...

Nobody had told him awakening a divine-grade martial soul would cause such a huge commotion!

These special effects were a bit too much.

Was this really not going to cause serious trouble?

Where's the system? Weren't you here just now? Boss, come out and save me!

This kid feels like he's about to die!

Still, he had to admit, this pair of martial souls looked pretty cool.

Lu Xuan lowered his head, his eyes blazing as he stared at the martial souls in his left and right hands.

His right hand loosely held a blood-red longsword.

Its blade was long and slender, engraved with ancient, eerie dark-gold patterns.

Merely looking at it, he could feel a murderous intent like mountains of corpses and seas of blood crashing toward him.

Is this really not an Evil Soul Master thing?

(They were called Fallen Ones in Douluo I, but here they'll all be called Evil Soul Masters for consistency.)

Lu Xuan was a little nervous. After all, the Six-Winged Angel existed in this era!

Still, beneath the slaughter, there was also a faint sense of judgment. This probably didn't count as an evil martial soul, right?

Then he looked at his left hand.

His left hand held a translucent emerald-green scepter, with a heart-like golden gemstone embedded at its tip.

It radiated such dense life energy that even the surrounding Blue Silver Grass grew rapidly, nearly entangling Lu Xuan.

The martial soul in his left hand looked thoroughly righteous, and badass-plus.

When he needed it, it definitely wouldn't vanish into uselessness.

The martial souls in his left and right hands were the Life Scepter and the Asura God Sword, respectively.

Lu Xuan had received all the information about his martial souls the instant they awakened.

(Patching a bug here. Surely awakening a martial soul that had never appeared before couldn't mean having to figure out its abilities yourself.)

But...

How did the Asura God Sword awaken alongside the Life Scepter?!

Had the Goddess of Life cheated, or had the Asura God become the other man?

Lu Xuan went numb.

Still, he had to admit, with these two martial souls awakened, wasn't his divine position already in the bag?

Asura God + Goddess of Life.

How could I possibly lose?

God King Tang, huh? You're exactly who I'm going to beat up!

"Keh keh keh!" Lu Xuan let out a sugary laugh.

Beside him, Su Mingyuan had only just recovered from the shock Lu Xuan had given him.

His legs felt a little weak as he took out a blue crystal ball for testing soul power with trembling hands.

Su Mingyuan's voice turned shrill with extreme excitement. "Come, child, put your hand on it and test your soul power!"

"Oh, okay!" Lu Xuan nodded.

Then he looked at his occupied hands and turned to Su Mingyuan.

He was a little helpless right now!

He had only just awakened his martial souls. He didn't know how to withdraw them yet!

"Control them with your thoughts," Su Mingyuan told Lu Xuan, only then remembering.

After some fumbling, Lu Xuan finally withdrew his martial souls into his body.

Then he obediently extended a small, fair hand and pressed it against the blue crystal ball.

In an instant, a terrifying suction came from the crystal ball.

Immediately afterward, the previously dim blue crystal ball erupted with an intensely dazzling light.

Blue crystal ball: Oh no, this is more than I can hold! Boo-hoo, I'm going to burst!

Crack-

A crisp cracking sound rang out.

The next moment.

A muffled bang echoed through the hall.

The entire crystal ball actually burst apart.

It turned into countless tiny grains of blue powder that drifted down.

Su Mingyuan was stunned.

This testing crystal could measure up to rank-ten soul power!

And Lu Xuan had simply overloaded it until it burst?

Could this child's soul power have exceeded the limit a Soul Master's innate soul power could reach?

While Su Mingyuan fell into shock once more, Lu Xuan silently withdrew his hand.

He looked at Su Mingyuan with large, innocent eyes.

You're the one who told me to put my hand on it. I did, and it broke, so don't make me pay for it.

Su Mingyuan took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the excitement that was almost leaping out of his throat, and grabbed Lu Xuan...

Refining him in an instant!

Ahem, no, that wasn't right.

He grabbed Lu Xuan's shoulders. "Good child, would you like to join Spirit Hall? With your talent, the kind seen only once in ten thousand years, Spirit Hall will absolutely pour every resource into cultivating you!"

Su Mingyuan's eyes were practically glowing green with greed.

As long as he brought this peerless genius back to Spirit Hall, he would definitely receive a lavish reward from His Holiness the Pope.

He instantly felt that his future, and that of his descendants, was brilliantly bright!

"Sure!" Lu Xuan nodded without hesitation.

Under the current circumstances, was there any faction more worth joining than Spirit Hall? The answer was no.

Although Spirit Hall had lunatics, love-addled fools, and great philanthropists.

Looking across the entire Douluo Continent, there really wasn't another faction that could clash head-on with Spirit Hall.

Besides, Spirit Hall also had Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, the "Immortal Herb Encyclopedia."

Although Lu Xuan knew the location of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and the names of the immortal herbs.

If he really had to munch on them himself, what if he ate the wrong one and croaked?

Moreover, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had most likely already been messed with by Poison Douluo.

It was good to enjoy the shade beneath a great tree. As long as he used Spirit Hall's resources to grow faster, then found a divine trial and rapidly became a god, he could happily ascend to the Divine Realm and watch the drama.

So he decided to take his talents to Spirit Hall!

Upon learning that Lu Xuan would join Spirit Hall, the old village chief wept tears of excitement and said "Good!" three times in succession.

Before his departure, the old man shakily held Lu Xuan's hand and gave him just one reminder. "Good child, if you get tired out there, come back. This will always be your home!"

That very day, Lu Xuan said goodbye to everyone in Sword Dao Village and followed Su Mingyuan to the Spirit Hall Branch in Nuoding City.

When Branch Hall Master Ma Xiu Si heard about this, he nearly fell out of his chair in shock and hurriedly instructed Su Mingyuan to take good care of Lu Xuan.

Immediately afterward, he hastily wrote a letter, sending the news to the Spirit Hall Main Hall in Heaven Dou City.

As though it had sprouted wings, the news began traveling up through the ranks.

From the Nuoding City branch to the Heaven Dou City main hall.

Finally, a red-robed bishop personally escorted it back to Spirit City.

It took three days in total before it reached Bibi Dong's hands.

Inside the Pope's Hall, Bibi Dong reclined languidly on her throne, her long, slender fingers gently stroking the sealed letter as a meaningful sneer curved across her exquisite face.

"Twin martial souls, phenomena in heaven and earth upon awakening, and he even burst a testing crystal ball with an upper limit of rank ten?"

She narrowed her eyes slightly, purple light swirling in their depths.

Presumably, the phenomenon a few days earlier, which had shot into the clouds and shaken heaven and earth.

Had been triggered by the child in the sealed letter.

"Gui Mei!" Bibi Dong called coldly.

In the shadows of the great hall, a ghostlike figure silently emerged and bowed slightly, his hoarse voice ringing out. "At your service!"

"As you command!" Ghost Douluo turned into a mass of black shadow and instantly vanished.

However, Bibi Dong had ultimately been one step too late. Too many procedures had their drawbacks as well.

On the very day Lu Xuan awakened, Qian Daoliu, who lived secluded within the Worship Hall, had bypassed the Pope's Hall altogether.

He ordered the Third Offering, Azure Luan Douluo, to personally head to Nuoding City and bring the child back.

And so.

On the second day after Lu Xuan awakened his martial souls.

A luan's cry that pierced the clouds suddenly rang out above the Spirit Hall Branch in Nuoding City.

The phantom of an enormous azure bird, blotting out the sky and sun, enveloped the entire city.

The terrifying pressure unique to a Super Douluo made every Soul Master in the city tremble.

A handsome young man in azure robes, with a lofty, aloof bearing, descended from the sky.

Looking down from above, Azure Luan Douluo produced the token identifying him as an Offering and asked Ma Xiu Si below, "Members of Spirit Hall, where is the child who caused yesterday's phenomena in heaven and earth?"

"Reporting to the elder, he's right here in our Spirit Hall Branch. I'll bring him over at once!" Ma Xiu Si said shakily, then hurriedly brought Lu Xuan out.

"Mm. Spirit Hall won't forget you. Await your rewards!" Azure Luan Douluo said indifferently.

With that, he swept his wide sleeve, scooped up the utterly bewildered Lu Xuan, and vanished into the horizon as a streak of azure light.

It was not until the third day that Gui Mei, acting on Bibi Dong's orders, finally arrived at the Nuoding City branch.

Inside the hall, Ma Xiu Si stood to one side, his entire body drenched in sweat.

It clearly wasn't raining, so why was he soaked all over?

Ma Xiu Si was practically in tears. Only yesterday, one formidable lord had come and taken the child away.

Why had another Titled Douluo elder come today?!

"What did you say?!" The black mist around Gui Mei churned violently, his voice carrying a bone-chilling cold. "Someone carrying a Worship Hall token took him away?!"

Upon learning that the Worship Hall had already snatched Lu Xuan away, Gui Mei knew full well that this matter had exceeded his authority to handle.

Not daring to delay for even a moment, he immediately turned into a black shadow and shot into the sky, rushing back to Spirit City at top speed to report the matter to Bibi Dong.