Ye Chen

Heaven Dou Empire, Fasinuo Province, Notting City.

In a small courtyard in the south of the city, a little boy was running laps around the walls, training his body.

"Phew, I'm exhausted. Time to rest for a while."

Having run for quite some time, the little boy was running out of stamina and decided to take a break.

Though he was resting, he did not forget to stretch his limbs.

The reason he persisted in training was naturally because he knew that a strong physique would be of tremendous help to his future growth.

The little boy was named Ye Chen. He was a transmigrator from Blue Star who had accidentally died suddenly after staying up late watching anime.

Perhaps because he had not drunk the legendary Meng Po's Soup, he had arrived on Douluo Continent with the memories of his past life intact.

Ye Chen had been extremely excited to transmigrate to Douluo Continent because it possessed the extraordinary profession of Spirit Masters.

As long as one became a Spirit Master, one could possess extraordinary power that ordinary people did not have.

If a Spirit Master could obtain the Ninth Soul Ring and advance to become a Titled Douluo, they would become a revered Eminence worshipped by countless people, and even their lifespan would increase dramatically.

If one could even become a Deity, not only would they gain immense power, but they would also possess an endless lifespan.

Power and longevity made Ye Chen, a chuunibyou youth who loved novels and anime, Hot-Blooded. Not to mention that there were plenty of fair-skinned beauties on the continent.

However, he knew that becoming a Titled Douluo Eminence, let alone a Deity, was incredibly difficult.

Looking across the entire Douluo Continent and its billions of living beings, there were only a few dozen people whose Soul Power had reached the realm of Titled Douluo.

As for Deities, within the past ten thousand years, Ye Chen only knew of the Sea God. Hmm, perhaps the Angel God had also become a Deity within the past ten thousand years? He was not too sure about that.

Still, in another twenty years or so, three Deities would appear on the continent in succession.

But that probably had nothing to do with Ye Chen. After all, whether he could cultivate into a Titled Douluo or even a Deity in the future would depend on talent far surpassing that of ordinary geniuses.

And whether one had good talent or not was greatly related to whether one's parents were powerful.

Generally speaking, if one's parents had strong talent and high strength, their children would not be too bad either.

If one's parents lacked talent and possessed meager strength, then there was basically no hope.

Of course, this was not absolute. With enough people, there would always be a few exceptions, but that was generally how it worked.

Ye Chen's parents had only been minor Three-Ring Soul Grandmasters. Although they had counted as notable figures in a remote little city like Notting City, they were nothing when viewed across the entire Douluo Continent.

Moreover, everyone knew that being a protagonist's parents was a high-risk profession.

Notting City was located not far from the border between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire, and the powerful Star Luo Empire had always wanted to annex the Heaven Dou Empire.

Although the two great empires would not launch large-scale wars near Notting City, minor conflicts still occurred from time to time.

Sure enough, Ye Chen's parents had perished in one such minor conflict last year.

Damn war!

Thinking of his unfortunate parents, Ye Chen cursed inwardly.

The bloodiest thing he had done in his previous life was probably tugging on a chicken's wings and legs while killing it. When his parents' bloody corpses had been brought back by their comrades for burial, the young Ye Chen had completely broken down.

Ye Chen could not forget such a deep hatred. However, he did not even know who his enemies were, so he could only pin the blame on the Star Luo Empire.

Once I succeed in cultivation, I will definitely destroy the Star Luo Empire!

Hatred gleamed in Ye Chen's bright eyes.

However, barring any surprises, he would not live to see that day.

His parents' Martial Souls and talents had both been utterly ordinary, so Ye Chen's own talent was most likely the same.

But it was not as though there was no way to take revenge. As a modern person, Ye Chen could not claim to be proficient in firearms, weapons of war, but he did have some understanding of them and knew their general principles.

Ye Chen planned that if he could not become an expert in the future, he would join Spirit Hall and unlock the firearms technology tree for them, strengthening their military power.

In any case, Pope Bibi Dong harbored ambitions of unifying the continent. The Star Luo Empire was an obstacle she could not avoid, so she could take revenge for Ye Chen along the way.

The Zhuge Divine Crossbow that Tang San had tinkered with in the original story posed a huge threat to Four-Ring Soul Elders. Even an ordinary bolt-action rifle from Ye Chen's previous life should be able to blow someone's head apart with a single shot, right?

After making such a huge contribution, if he took the mature Pope to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to seize the immortal herbs, reaching the level of Titled Douluo should not be a problem at all.

However, that was only the worst-case scenario. If his talent was outstanding and he could become an expert, Ye Chen would not need to do that.

After all, although Douluo Continent was only known as the "bottom rung of xuanhuan," it was also a world where great power belonged to individuals. The strongest experts could not be resisted by low-level Spirit Masters or ordinary people.

Everything depends on the Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony three days from now!

Thinking that Spirit Hall would, three days later, conduct its monthly free awakening of Martial Souls for commoner children, Ye Chen's eyes filled with anticipation.

Unlike a tiny village such as Holy Soul Village, where Spirit Hall's Martial Soul Awakening Envoy only visited once a year, Notting City had a dedicated Martial Soul Awakening Envoy every month who awakened Martial Souls for commoner children free of charge.

It was not that Ye Chen lacked Gold Soul Coins and had to wait for the free awakening.

His parents had served in the Heaven Dou Empire's military and had earned considerable wages. After they died in battle, the military had also given Ye Chen some compensation.

No official would dare embezzle compensation issued by the military. One reason was that there was supervision, while the other was that there might be consequences later.

"Never despise a poor youth" was a saying that made sense.

If the orphan failed to awaken Innate Soul Power in the future and could not become a Spirit Master, only living as an ordinary person, then it would be fine. Nothing could go wrong.

But if the orphan later possessed good talent and became a high-level Spirit Master, then they would be utterly doomed.

They would not even need to become particularly strong. As long as they possessed two or three levels of Innate Soul Power and could become a three- or four-ring Spirit Master, that would be enough.

Because Spirit Masters above the Soul Ancestor level would certainly not care about such a small amount of compensation.

However, Ye Chen had no intention of paying someone to awaken his Martial Soul in advance. He had only recently turned six, and even if he paid for an early awakening, he would only gain a few extra days of cultivation.

The other reason was that there were not many savings at home, and he needed to keep them for his future living expenses.

I hope that in three days, I can awaken Innate Full Soul Power and Twin Martial Souls too!

Although Ye Chen knew there was a ninety percent chance that he could not awaken such powerful talent, one had to have something to hope for in life, didn't they?