"Clan leader! We found the child!"
As Yu Yuanzhen and the elders waited with growing impatience, the clan elders sent to investigate Yu Tiansheng finally brought back good news.
The two elders in the lead rushed into the hall, each carrying a child.
The younger child had the same half-black, half-white hair as the Yu Tiansheng described by the Celestial Screen.
The other child was slightly older, looking no more than six, with a full head of black hair and a hint of wariness in his small eyes.
"This younger child must be the Yu Tiansheng mentioned by the Celestial Screen. He looks exactly like what it showed."
"The older child is Tiansheng's elder brother, Yu Tianming. He just turned six this year and is waiting for the clan to hold its martial soul awakening ceremony."
"These two are the children of the late second elder's grandson, but the couple died in an accident a few years ago. The clan is providing for them now..."
"Ahem!" Yu Yuanzhen coughed twice, interrupting the elder's endless chatter, and studied the child named Yu Tianming.
Although everyone standing in the hall was a trustworthy member of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, some things were still better known to as few people as possible.
"Don't be afraid, child. We're all your family." Yu Yuanzhen made himself as warm and approachable as he could, then personally took the younger Yu Tiansheng from the other elder and held him in his arms.
"...Uncle Clan Leader." His dark eyes cautiously swept over his surroundings. Staring at Yu Tiansheng, who neither cried nor fussed in Yu Yuanzhen's arms, Yu Tianming ventured a greeting.
"Hahaha! Good, good boy."
"We'll awaken your martial soul for you separately and give you and your brother a better life."
With that, Yu Yuanzhen freed one hand and waved it. Several clan elders personally stepped forward to bring over the materials needed for the awakening ceremony.
Before long, everything needed to awaken a martial soul had been set up.
The person in charge of this special awakening ceremony was none other than Yu Yuanzhen's younger brother, the Soul Douluo powerhouse, Yu Luomian.
After receiving his elder brother's approval, Yu Luomian drew a deep breath and stepped forward.
"Martial Soul Possession!"
A dazzling blue light abruptly flared between Yu Luomian's brows. Then it instantly spread across his entire body, and streaks of blue-violet lightning burst forth.
Yu Luomian's entire body was covered in thick blue-violet dragon scales. Thick, twisted dragon horns crowned his head, a pair of enormous membranous dragon wings grew from his back, and his ten fingers became razor-sharp dragon claws. A pair of golden-blue slit pupils gazed at the child before him.
"Come, child. Feel it carefully."
"..."
Glancing up once more at his younger brother in the clan leader's arms, Yu Tianming said nothing. He simply stepped forward quietly and walked into the center of the awakening array.
Good lad. That composure alone is impressive, Yu Luomian could not help praising inwardly.
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon was a dragon, after all. Every year, when the officiating deacon underwent martial soul possession, several children would be frightened to tears. Someone as quiet as Yu Tianming was exceedingly rare.
Yu Luomian moved his dragon claws slightly. Several Awakening Stones rose into the air, simultaneously emitting rays of pale golden light that enveloped Yu Tianming's small body.
"Roar!!"
The instant the golden radiance touched Yu Tianming's body, a dragon's roar shook the heavens.
As Yu Tianming extended his right hand, an enormous dragon soul spread its wings and appeared over his body, fully displaying its draconic might.
At the same time, streams of black-violet electrical ions gathered, coiling ferociously around Yu Tianming like thick laser beams.
"An exceptionally pure Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul! Check his soul power, quickly!!"
"Heavens! It's innate full soul power! The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan has produced a true dragon!!!"
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"Tsk, tsk. Looks like the Celestial Screen genre really is a dimensional strike in a world without modern communications."
Inside the Microcosm he had created himself, Zhong Xuan, a self-proclaimed tool, propped up his chin and watched the illusory screen before him with shining eyes.
Awesome!! This is exactly what I wanted to see!
The way these ignorant natives look like they've never seen the world when confronted with something they can't understand is simply... beyond words!
To better watch the fun, and to create it.
Zhong Xuan had used truth points to handcraft himself a "monitor," making it convenient to observe the entire Douluo Continent in real time.
"Looks like I've beaten God King Tang to turning the whole continent into my backyard."
Yu Tianming and Yu Tiansheng, two characters who did not exist in the original story, had naturally been manifested by Zhong Xuan using truth points.
In a world like the Douluo Continent, where ignorant people were as plentiful as fine hairs, the Celestial Screen genre was practically a Truth Points harvester.
The Celestial Screen broadcast events Zhong Xuan had fabricated. Though those fabricated events had yet to become real, most people already believed they were true.
Even if the top Soul Masters did not follow the crowd in believing, the vast numbers of lower-level Soul Masters and ordinary people could still provide considerable truth points.
Zhong Xuan then used those truth points to selectively manifest the fabricated content. Even manifesting just a few of the characters could still prove the Celestial Screen's authenticity.
This move could be called stepping on his right foot with his left and taking flight from a standstill.
"But the manifested characters' backgrounds seem a little too monotonous and repetitive..." Zhong Xuan glanced at the characters he planned to manifest next and frowned.
"Whatever. Who says there have to be so many rules?"
"Smart people all like to believe what they want to believe. I can just give them a few clues, let them come up with the answers themselves, and copy those. Wouldn't that do?"
Zhong Xuan was here to watch the fun and, along the way, experience a life he had never lived before-not to clock in for work.
He could accept being a tool for the Celestial Screen genre, but he would not force himself to do any particular thing to perfection.
Turning the False into the Real was already an enormous cheat. There was no need to get too hung up on grinding out ever-higher quality manifested characters.
If inspiration struck him, that was one thing. If he forced himself when he had no inspiration, wouldn't that just be working?
Still grinding after transmigrating?
"Right, I'll need to manifest a mind-reading item later, too."
"Come to think of it, if this were some novel, with the way I'm doing things, I probably wouldn't get any scenes for hundreds of chapters after this."
"But simply creating geniuses like this is a bit too repetitive. After a while, there won't be much fun in it... ah! Wait." A flash of inspiration struck Zhong Xuan, and a good idea suddenly came to him. "I have a plan!"
"But first, I still need to establish a rough picture of the world for these natives. When the time comes... hehehe!"
"Just thinking about it is exciting!"
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