As for the panel displaying detailed information about himself and Charmander that he had checked earlier, it was a new ability Lin Mo had only discovered after awakening his memories of his previous life at age three.
It was a special talent unique to him, allowing him to see his specific circumstances and condition directly.
The information simply appeared in the form of a "panel" that Lin Mo could accept and understand.
But that was all it could do. It could only display detailed information about himself and Charmander.
According to the information on the panel, he and Charmander shared their Soul Power, and once his Soul Power Level reached ten, Charmander's Pokémon Egg would hatch.
Moreover, his other Martial Soul, the heart Body Martial Soul that included his blood, was a Martial Soul capable of evolving, just like Charmander.
Unlike Charmander's Pokémon Egg, whose clear hatching requirements specified the exact Soul Power Level needed, the evolution requirements listed for his heart Body Martial Soul were unknown.
This meant that his heart Martial Soul could indeed evolve, but how? He would have to explore that himself.
From what Lin Mo knew, the heart Martial Soul was undoubtedly one of the finest Body Martial Souls.
Unlike other types of Martial Souls, the standard for judging a Body Martial Soul's strength was quite simple and direct: how important that body part was to the human body.
The more important it was, the higher the quality of the Body Martial Soul.
People missing arms or legs could still live, though their quality of life was worse than that of an ordinary person, but he had never seen anyone survive after losing their heart and all the blood in their body.
From that perspective, a Body Martial Soul consisting of the heart and blood was undoubtedly one of the finest Body Martial Souls.
Meanwhile, Su Yuntao soon finished conducting the Martial Soul Awakening ceremony for the other children.
As expected, only disappointment awaited him. Lucky children like Tang San of Holy Soul Village and Lin Mo of Soul Emperor Village, who possessed Soul Power despite awakening Trash Martial Souls, were ultimately few and far between.
The Martial Souls awakened by the other children in Soul Emperor Village were all Trash Martial Souls without any Soul Power.
After releasing his Martial Soul Possession, a somewhat weary Su Yuntao packed everything away and returned it to the bundle he carried with him.
Then he turned, pushed open Spirit Hall's creaking wooden door, and walked out.
Village Chief Lin and the other parents, who had been waiting anxiously outside, immediately came forward to meet him.
Amid the villagers' jostling, the village chief was unsurprisingly chosen as their representative to speak on everyone's behalf.
He asked, "Respected Battle Soul Master Su Yuntao, how talented are the children in our village? Did any of them awaken Soul Power and gain the hope of becoming a Soul Master?"
Hearing the village chief's anxious words, Su Yuntao hesitated for a moment before instinctively turning his gaze toward Lin Mo, his tone somewhat odd:
"There is one, and his talent is quite good. Innate Soul Power of rank six... but the Martial Soul he awakened is truly rather strange. It should be a Trash Martial Soul... it doesn't look edible, either."
If it were edible, rank-six Innate Soul Power would make him an exceptionally promising Food System Soul Master.
However, Food-type Martial Souls that could serve as food were vastly different from ordinary Martial Souls, and this egg clearly was not a Food-type Martial Soul.
In terms of talent alone, Lin Mo's rank-six Innate Soul Power far surpassed his own, but the Trash Martial Soul he had awakened undoubtedly placed a severe limit on his future possibilities.
At that thought, Su Yuntao shook his head helplessly. Just like that Blue Silver Grass Soul Master with Innate Full Soul Power, their Martial Souls were a tremendous drag on their talent!
After hearing Su Yuntao's words, the village chief and the villagers followed his gaze toward Lin Mo, seeing both him and the strangely patterned egg cradled in his arms.
For a moment, the villagers exchanged glances, their faces filled with disbelief and regret.
Some shook their heads and sighed, while others murmured:
"Rank-six Soul Power... how did he end up awakening an egg?"
"This child really has a bitter lot in life. He finally gets a little talent, only for his Martial Soul to be a useless Trash Martial Soul..."
Su Yuntao could not help letting out a heavy sigh as well, his voice thick with regret:
"What a pity. What a terrible pity! If he had a Tool Martial Soul or Beast Martial Soul with even a little use, this child would surely achieve great things with his rank-six Innate Soul Power!"
Their expressions also grew strange, and their gazes held a few more traces of pity as they looked at Lin Mo.
Why was this child so unlucky? Being abandoned by his parents at the roadside shortly after birth was bad enough.
He had finally awakened rank-six Innate Soul Power during his Martial Soul Awakening, so why had he awakened an egg?
What use was an egg? And this egg did not even look edible, did it?
It felt even worse than the sickles, hoes, and other Martial Souls the other children had awakened. Those might be farming tools, but at least they had some offensive power...
Limited by their own knowledge, as far as they understood, the Martial Souls most humans could possess were already fixed at awakening and could never change throughout their lives.
Thus, they naturally could not connect an egg with hatching...
But regardless of what they thought, the village chief and the villagers spoke only words full of comfort.
They comforted Lin Mo, telling him not to be disappointed and that he would certainly become a powerful Soul Master in the future, and other such things.
Finally, amid the villagers' chatter, the village chief coughed heavily twice, drawing everyone's attention to himself.
"Tell Grandpa, do you want to become a Soul Master?"
At those words, Lin Mo froze for a moment, but soon hugged the egg in his arms even tighter and nodded with an utterly resolute expression. "Yes!"
"All right, then. I'll go speak with the chiefs of the other two villages and try to secure the work-study student place our three villages share for you.
"In three months, Grandpa will take you to Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy to study! Once you're at the academy, you must study and cultivate diligently.
"If you become a Soul Master in the future, our village will be able to bask in your reflected glory, too."
"Your Innate Soul Power is rank six! If you cultivate diligently, you'll have a fair chance of surpassing that Soul Emperor ancestor in the future."
Hearing the village chief's words, Lin Mo's eyes immediately lit up. This would save him a great deal of trouble.
Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy was quite a good place for him to go at present.
Now, his Martial Souls had successfully awakened, and he had found Charmander again.
It was time to make long-term plans for his future and cultivation.
Since he had transmigrated to the Douluo Continent, his longest-term goal was certainly to cultivate to godhood. There was no question about that.
But becoming a god was not something he could accomplish in a single stride.
His short-term goal still had to focus on cultivating Soul Power. He needed to seize the time and raise his Soul Power to rank ten first, then hatch Charmander.
Only with Charmander would he possess some ability to protect himself.
As for the period before his Soul Power reached rank ten, Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy was indeed a good place to go.
He now needed not only a meditation method for cultivating Soul Power, but also urgently needed to learn about this world's culture, Martial Souls, Soul Beasts, and other subjects...
And with his current status, only at a junior Soul Master Academy could he gain access to these things naturally.
However, aside from cultivating Soul Power, other equally important matters awaited him.
That was finding a method for cultivating his Body Martial Soul.
He was currently in the era of the Douluo Continent, not the era of the Peerless Tang Sect. The Body Sect had yet to be founded, so naturally, there was nowhere to seek out the secret method for Body Martial Soul Second Awakening.
He could only rely on himself to explore it.
In the era of the Peerless Tang Sect ten thousand years later, the reason Body Martial Souls could become the meta was precisely their unique Body Martial Soul Second Awakening!
But right now, he did not have the Body Sect's secret method for Body Martial Soul Second Awakening.
If he wanted to achieve Body Martial Soul Second Awakening, Lin Mo could only slowly explore and search for it himself.
Moreover, he needed not only to find a method for Body Martial Soul Second Awakening, but also to seek the conditions required for his heart Body Martial Soul to evolve.
Truly, the burden was heavy and the road long.
This was also one of the reasons Lin Mo had chosen Charmander as his primary Martial Soul. Until he found the correct method for cultivating his Body Martial Soul, he still needed to prioritize a steady approach.
Besides, compared with an External Beast Martial Soul like Charmander, which was almost impossible to conceal, Lin Mo's Second Martial Soul, his Body Martial Soul, was clearly much easier to hide.
As long as he did not take the initiative to tell others that he possessed a Second Martial Soul, there was simply no way for them to notice that he had one.