"Catgirl... facial cleanser? What kind of martial soul is this?"
"Catgirl... milk? Is it a food-type martial soul like cow's milk?"
On the Douluo Continent, inside the Spirit Hall where martial souls were awakened in Holy Soul Village.
Su Yuntao looked in bewilderment at the young child before him.
A pure white, cylindrical plastic bottle had appeared in the child's hand.
The plastic bottle even had a pump nozzle.
With a gentle press, it looked as though something might come out.
There seemed to be nothing strange about a bottle alone.
But printed on the upper part of this bottle was a chibi catgirl's head, drawn in simple black line art, with fluffy cat ears, long, voluminous hair, wide, round eyes, and a faint smile at the corners of her mouth.
The art style was soft and adorable!
Beneath the catgirl were large, bold black words: Catgirl Facial Cleanser.
There was also a line of incomprehensible English text.
At the very bottom was a line of small print: Catgirl amino acid two-in-one hydrating facial cleanser.
The well-informed Su Yuntao could tell at a glance that this should be a product from some brand.
Similar things existed on the Douluo Continent, too, with heaps of advertisements like these along the streets of prosperous cities.
People said there were countless martial souls, that the Douluo Continent held every conceivable wonder, and that anything could become a martial soul.
But they had never imagined that a commercial product could become a martial soul, too.
In all his years awakening martial souls for commoners' children, this was the first time Su Yuntao had seen anything like this.
Still, he did not find it strange. After all, all sorts of bizarre martial souls whose names no one knew appeared every year.
"Holy fucking shit! If you're awakening my martial soul, at least give me a good one!"
Meanwhile, the owner of the newly awakened Catgirl Facial Cleanser martial soul widened his eyes the instant he saw it appear in his palm.
He recalled an unpleasant episode from his past.
His name was Luo Li, and he was a transmigrator.
Because his name sounded a lot like "loli," people were always teasing him.
Funnily enough, Luo Li's roommate had given him a bottle of Catgirl Facial Cleanser on his birthday.
He had thought it was just a meme.
Who could have imagined... that, goddammit, after using it, he really would become a catgirl?
Then his roommate had chased Luo Li like mad for eight streets.
In the end, he had died of exhaustion in the street and transmigrated to the Douluo Continent.
Luo Li had read the original Douluo Continent novel, as well as its comic and animated adaptations.
With my knowledge of the original, I'll definitely be able to become a god easily in this world and gain eternal life.
He was not picky about his martial soul, either, as long as it was not too outrageous.
He had waited six whole years before the day of his martial soul awakening finally arrived.
But why is it Catgirl Facial Cleanser?
How am I supposed to become a god with this thing?
Luo Li could not think of any offensive or support abilities it might have.
Could this Catgirl Facial Cleanser turn people into catgirls, just like the one I used in my previous life?
At that thought, Luo Li's slightly shadowed eyes beneath his hair curved faintly.
The corners of his mouth curled up involuntarily.
Hehehe~
It can turn people into catgirls~
Who could resist thinking about such an interesting premise?
Especially now, when the goddesses of the Douluo Continent had already surfaced in Luo Li's mind.
Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong, Hu Liena-all of them as catgirls.
He could even turn Tang San, Tang Hao, Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo... all into catgirls...
Just thinking about it filled him with excitement.
Who cares whether I become a god in the end? Having the time of my life is what'll keep heartburn away!
"Child, is there anything special about your Catgirl Facial Cleanser martial soul?"
"What happens when you drink it?"
Seeing Luo Li smile, Su Yuntao thought he had learned of some incredible ability from his martial soul and could not resist asking.
Only then did Luo Li suppress his excitement, rub his nose, and say:
"My martial soul isn't for drinking. It's for washing your face. Washing with it can make your skin really nice."
"Catgirl... facial... cleanser. So it isn't a catgirl's milk. Washing your face takes the crown?"
"I've heard of bathing in cow's milk, but washing your face with catgirl milk..."
"Martial souls truly are vast and profound."
Realization dawned on Su Yuntao, and then he shook his head with immense regret.
"What a pity. Even if this martial soul awakens soul power and you become a soul master, it won't be much use..."
Because Luo Li was not the last person waiting to awaken his martial soul.
Su Yuntao therefore did not simply give up on testing Luo Li's soul power, as he had when he saw that Tang San only had a Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
Luo Li took the crystal ball, his heart utterly unruffled.
How could a transmigrator like me possibly have no soul power?
Sure enough, the moment Luo Li's hand touched the crystal ball, an incredibly captivating, dazzling light shone within the blue crystal.
The light was so bright it could practically blind people's damn eyes.
It formed an immense contrast with the children who had touched the crystal ball earlier without provoking the slightest reaction.
The other children from Holy Soul Village around him also cast incredibly envious looks his way.
They did not know what it meant for the crystal ball to shine so brightly, but they knew this.
As long as someone could make the crystal ball light up, it meant they had soul power and could become a lord soul master.
A bright future lay ahead.
Among the crowd was a rather short little boy.
He wore tattered hemp clothes covered in patches.
Seeing the crystal ball light up in Luo Li's hands, he also cast an intensely curious look over.
Is this the soul power that lets people become soul masters?
I wonder how it differs from the internal power of my Mysterious Heaven Skill.
Meanwhile, seeing the brightness of the crystal ball in Luo Li's hands, Su Yuntao was so excited he nearly flew off the ground.
His trembling hands seized the crystal ball Luo Li held.
He looked at Luo Li as though looking at a monster.
His mouth trembled like a shaking sieve as he spoke:
"Heavens, it's actually innate full soul power!"
"This is the highest soul power anyone can innately achieve during martial soul awakening!"
The other children around them saw Su Yuntao's surprised, shocked, and even envious gaze.
They instantly understood just how powerful a martial soul Luo Li had awakened.
Even Tang San, at the back of the crowd, frowned slightly.
With his experience of living two lifetimes, he understood more clearly than those children.
Innate full soul power means the highest talent in this world, much like the so-called innate sacred body in my world.
"What a pity... A Catgirl Facial Cleanser martial soul-what use is washing your face?"
"If only it were catgirl milk that you could drink, you could be trained into a food-type soul master."
"Ah... I think this martial soul of yours could sit at the same table as Blue Silver Grass."
Soon, an immensely disappointed expression appeared on Su Yuntao's face, and he lamented repeatedly.
Innate full soul power! Why did it have to appear on such a useless martial soul?
Holy fucking shit.
After hearing that, Luo Li's mouth twitched involuntarily.
Su Yuntao really lives up to the title of Blind Douluo.
A martial soul's innate soul power was directly proportional to its quality.
A martial soul with innate full soul power had already proven that it was extraordinary.
Still, this works, too.
Treat mine as a trash martial soul, just like Tang San's Blue Silver Grass.
Then those big shots from Spirit Hall won't take me away for now.
Next, Su Yuntao left Luo Li to one side, and it was Tang San's turn to awaken his martial soul.
Tang San's result had not changed at all.
Blue Silver Grass with innate full soul power sent Su Yuntao's heart rising and plunging like a roller coaster that day.
He felt as though he was going to develop heart disease.
How did this tiny Holy Soul Village suddenly produce two people with innate full soul power?
Yet both of them have the worst martial souls.
In the end, Su Yuntao left Holy Soul Village with immensely complicated feelings.
After learning the truth, Old Jack also looked very disappointed.
But when he learned that Luo Li and Tang San only needed to absorb one soul ring to become soul masters, he was overjoyed again.
In their eyes, being able to become a soul master was the luckiest thing of all.
Luo Li, of course, was going to become a soul master.
But Tang San...
He had now developed a strong interest in martial souls.
Especially since this martial soul was connected to his own Mysterious Heaven Skill.
But when Old Jack asked, Tang San still did not give a direct, affirmative answer about whether he wanted to become a soul master.
He had to go home and ask that useless father of his first.
How ridiculous.
In his previous life, he had been in the Tang Sect.
The Tang Sect had taken him in and raised him.
To him, the Tang Sect was his parent.
But the Tang Sect back then had not given Tang San all its cultivation techniques and hidden weapons.
So Tang San had committed the grave offense of stealing them.
And now?
Whether he cultivates or not?
He needs his father's approval for that?
When Tang San suffered unfair treatment from Daddy Tang Sect, he dared to steal.
Luo Li did not dare imagine whether, after suffering setbacks on the Douluo Continent, Tang San would resent his father Tang Hao for not letting him cultivate.
Would he declare that Tang Hao, too, had a way of courting death?
But that had little to do with Luo Li.
His martial soul had now awakened, and its side effect could even turn others into catgirls.
He had ten thousand ideas in his head right then.
Above all, he wanted to see Tang San as a little catgirl.
He had not forgotten the many novels he had read in his previous life where Tang San became a woman.
There were even ones where he gave birth.
Unfortunately, they had eventually been censored, and being unable to read them was a great regret.
Now that he had transmigrated to the Douluo Continent, he was absolutely going to get a taste of little sister Tang San.
And so he went along to Tang San's home.
Tang Hao did not allow Tang San to become a soul master.
Old Jack gave Tang Hao a vicious tongue-lashing.
Tang San, however, thought Tang Hao was right, then moved to see the angry Old Jack out.
At that moment, Luo Li stepped forward and glared at Tang San with the exasperation of someone lamenting iron's failure to become steel, angrily cursing:
"Holy fucking shit, Little Tang San, you're being a fool!"
"You're just as muddleheaded and stupid as that filthy, useless pig of yours who does nothing but drink all day!"
Tang San had been insulted, and his father in particular had been insulted along with him.
His eyes instantly widened, and he clenched his fists.
But before Tang San could think of a retort, Luo Li stepped forward and grabbed his shoulders.
Luo Li squeezed his frail body, tenderness appearing in his eyes along with anger toward Tang Hao, and said:
"Little Tang San, look how weak your body has become!"
"Holy fucking shit, you're almost half a head shorter than other kids your age."
"Look, your little face is filthy, too."
"Living like this, anyone who didn't know your family situation would think you had neither a father nor a mother!"
"What parents would let their own child grow up like this?"
"Little Tang San, that useless dad of yours doesn't deserve to be a father at all."
"He's even less fit to be a mentor in life! He's nothing but pure trash!"
After hearing Luo Li's words, Tang San wilted.
He knew better than anyone what his father was like.
Even if his father were a bit useless, the sort who couldn't earn enough to support the family but was still willing to give it his all, he could have accepted that.
But his father had the ability to earn more money, yet never did.
Instead, he spent most of what he earned on booze.
And whenever he drank, he got dead drunk, leaving Tang San, a mere half-grown child, to look after him.
Before Tang San could react, Luo Li grabbed his arm and pulled him outside, saying as he went:
"Holy shit, Little Tang San, let me tell you."
"If you stay in this house, you'll be done for sooner or later."
"I'm telling you, all we need to do now is absorb a Soul Ring each, and we can become Soul Masters and get high-paying jobs."
"We'll earn more in a day than that trash Tang Hao earns from a whole year of smithing!"
"If you ask me, that useless dad of yours doesn't see you as his son at all. He treats you like a servant, a lackey."
"He doesn't want you to have a good life. He wants to keep you chained to his side like a dog, looking after him forever."
"Hmph! I'd say he's already courting death!"
There was no telling what Tang San was thinking at that moment.
In any case, he didn't refuse Luo Li and let him pull him out of the house.
He was deeply conflicted, too, and Luo Li had pointed out the greatest point of contention between him and Tang Hao right now.
Seeing that he had successfully pulled Tang San out, Luo Li secretly rejoiced.
Once they reached the stream outside Holy Soul Village, Luo Li took out his Catgirl Facial Cleanser Martial Soul and handed it to Tang San, saying:
"Little Tang San, look how dirty your face is."
"If you apply my Catgirl Facial Cleanser to your face when you wash, it can make your skin fairer, more hydrated, and more supple."
"Come on, come on, hurry up and wash."
"Let your big brother see how pretty you look, all fair and clean."