Marrow Cleansing Scripture

At dawn, the sky was still dim.

Mist shrouded the Manor, drifting everywhere and making it seem as unreal as a fairyland.

Along both sides of the street, rows of green plants had sprouted new buds at some point. Their verdant color was full of vitality in the early spring.

Drip~

The cold dew of the spring night fell from the tips of the green leaves onto the soil, silently nourishing the earth beneath the trees.

Deep within the Manor, between two Banyan Trees, stood a three-story wooden house. Its ancient outer walls were covered in blue-green vines, exuding both the weight of time and the vitality of life.

On the second floor, beside the window, a young child sat cross-legged on the bed.

The child was about six years old. He wore moon-white sleeping robes, and his long black hair fell loosely behind him. His young, delicate face was clear and handsome as he sat barefoot on the bed with his eyes closed in meditation.

After a few breaths, faint footsteps could be heard outside the room.

"Click~" The wooden door was pushed open.

"Duke, the Martial Soul awakening ceremony is ready. Please change clothes."

The voice was old yet steady. Hearing it, the child opened his eyes and looked ahead.

Before him stood an old man in black robes. His complexion was ruddy, and his beard and hair were gray-white. He held a tray in both hands, upon which rested a complete set of sky-blue silk robes.

Seeing this, the child gave a slight nod before helplessly saying:

"Grandpa Yu, didn't I tell you?"

"When outsiders are present, you call me Duke, and I call you Uncle Yu. When we're alone, you call me Little Young Master, and I call you Grandpa Yu."

"How could you forget again?"

"Haha!" Hearing this, the old man in black robes smiled gently and explained:

"Little Young Master, there are two major events today. One is your sixth birthday, and the other is your Martial Soul awakening."

"As the steward of the Duke Mansion and you are the Duke of the Duke Mansion, it is only proper that I address you as Duke."

As he spoke, the old man in black robes approached the bed and helped the child change his clothes.

The child's surname was Lin, and his given name was Rong. He was the master of this Manor—the Lin Duke Mansion. The old man in black robes, meanwhile, was the steward of the Duke Mansion, named Yu Yuan.

The Lin Family had a prominent background and was the hereditary Duke of the Heaven Dou Empire.

The family's inherited Martial Soul was the Dragon Soul Vine, a top-grade Plant System Martial Soul.

Top-grade Martial Souls were always accompanied by Innate Soul Power, and it would never be lower than Rank Five. Rank Seven or Eight also appeared quite often.

Thus, every two or three generations, the Lin Family would produce a Soul Douluo.

The most recent Soul Douluo of the Lin Family had been Lin Rong's grandfather. His Soul Power had reached Rank Eighty-Five, but he had already passed away before Lin Rong was born.

As a result, the position of Duke of the Lin Family was inherited by Lin Rong's father. However, his father encountered a beast tide while hunting soul beasts and died an unfortunate death.

Fortunately, Lin Rong's mother had remained in the Duke Mansion to recuperate during her pregnancy, allowing her to escape the disaster. Because his father had died, Lin Rong automatically inherited the hereditary title of Duke of the Lin Family before he was even born.

In the end, after her husband's death, his mother became depressed during her pregnancy. Her sorrow eventually made her ill, and shortly after giving birth to him, she went underground to keep his father company.

From then on, only Lin Rong remained of the Lin Family.

Fortunately, the Old Butler, Yu Yuan, was utterly loyal to his duties. Not only did he manage every affair of the Duke Mansion, but he had also personally raised and cared for his young master, Lin Rong.

The Lin Family had a long heritage and owned numerous industries, yet no one had taken advantage of its decline to seize its family assets.

The reason for this was that the Lin Family's Old Butler, Yu Yuan, was also a powerful Soul Douluo. Although the current Duke of the Lin Family, Lin Rong, was still young, no one dared to offend him.

"Grandpa Yu." Lin Rong sat upright on the bed and looked down at the Old Butler as he asked softly:

"What Martial Soul do you think I'll awaken?"

"Martial Soul inheritance comes from one's parents." The Old Butler's hands did not stop as he put shoes and socks on the Little Young Master. His tone was gentle and unhurried as he answered:

"Your parents inherited the Dragon Soul Vine and the Thousand Leaf Banyan respectively. The former is a top-grade Martial Soul, while the latter is a high-grade Martial Soul."

"In Martial Soul inheritance, the strong are respected. Therefore, Little Young Master, you will most likely awaken the Dragon Soul Vine."

"Of course, the Dragon Soul Vine and the Thousand Leaf Banyan are not far apart in quality, satisfying the requirements for awakening Twin Martial Souls. Therefore, Little Young Master, you may also awaken both the Dragon Soul Vine and the Thousand Leaf Banyan."

Twin Martial Souls? Was that all?

Lin Rong narrowed his eyes and thought:

"That makes sense. Unless I awaken a Mutated Martial Soul, Twin Martial Souls are indeed the best possible result."

"Besides, most Mutated Martial Souls are malignant mutations. Only a very small number are beneficial mutations."

"The lower the quality of a Martial Soul, the lower the probability of a malignant mutation. The higher the quality of a Martial Soul, the lower the probability of a beneficial mutation."

"But I cultivated the Marrow Cleansing Scripture. Perhaps my Martial Soul might undergo a beneficial mutation."

The Marrow Cleansing Scripture was one of the many scriptures of the Dragon Nation on Blue Star.

Lin Rong knew the Marrow Cleansing Scripture because he was not originally from this world, but a Transmigrator.

In his daily life, aside from enjoying novels, he liked outdoor rock climbing.

His transmigration had happened because he lost his grip during a climb and fell. Immediately afterward, everything went black, and he lost consciousness.

When Lin Rong regained consciousness, he had become a fetus.

The fetus was less than a month old, so his own consciousness was extremely weak. Of the twelve hours in a day, he spent more than eleven asleep.

When he was awake, he would occasionally hear some indistinct words. Although he could not understand them, he somehow grasped their meaning.

From those indistinct words, Lin Rong extracted several key terms, such as "Martial Soul," "Spirit Hall," "Pope," and "Clear Sky Sect"...

This made him realize that he had transmigrated to the Douluo Continent, specifically the timeline of Douluo I.

On the Douluo Continent, Martial Souls reigned supreme.

Everyone in this world possessed a Martial Soul, but only those who awakened Innate Soul Power were qualified to become soul masters.

In most cases, the quality of one's Martial Soul determined whether one possessed Innate Soul Power.

Martial Souls were inherited through bloodlines. After countless years of survival of the fittest, commoners who wished to awaken Innate Soul Power had only one option: their Martial Soul had to undergo a beneficial mutation.

However, Martial Soul mutations were one in ten thousand, let alone beneficial mutations.

Therefore, very few commoners could awaken Innate Soul Power.

At this thought, Lin Rong's heart sank.

What if he had been born into a commoner family in this life and failed to awaken Innate Soul Power? Even if he knew the plot and the opportunities to come, it would be of no use.

Because of this, Lin Rong had no choice but to silently work hard and think of a solution while still in his mother's womb.

During that time, he greatly envied Tang San, who had brought the cheat-like Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record with him when he transmigrated. It not only contained many supreme techniques, such as the Mysterious Heaven Skill and the Purple Demon Eye, but also knowledge of medicine and poison, including detailed records of Immortal Grade Medicinal Herbs.

However, this also reminded Lin Rong that he could perhaps try cultivating the scriptures from his memories of his previous life.

In his previous life, driven by interest, he had memorized quite a few scriptures from the Daoist and Buddhist traditions.

The scriptures were simply too obscure and difficult to understand, so he could only memorize them by rote. After several days without reviewing them, he would forget almost everything.

The only exception was the Marrow Cleansing Scripture. He had memorized it on the very day before transmigrating, so the scripture remained complete in his memory.

From then on, Lin Rong began cultivating the Marrow Cleansing Scripture.

At the beginning of his cultivation, he could not detect any effect at all.

During this period, Lin Rong also heard people address his mother as the "Duchess." Knowing that he would definitely awaken Innate Soul Power barring any accident, he had considered giving up on cultivating the Marrow Cleansing Scripture several times.

But there was nothing else for him to do in his mother's womb, so he persevered.

Several months later, the fetus had taken shape, and Lin Rong finally began to feel the effects while cultivating the Marrow Cleansing Scripture.

Once he saw that it was effective, he became especially dedicated to cultivating the Marrow Cleansing Scripture.

Because a fetus naturally possessed innate fetal breathing, Lin Rong progressed smoothly throughout his cultivation without encountering any obstacles. Before he was born, he had already opened all the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.

Thinking of this, he felt exceptionally refreshed, and he was also utterly confident:

"I don't know whether my Martial Soul will undergo a beneficial mutation!"

"But with all eight innate meridians opened, if this aptitude doesn't result in Innate Full Soul Power, then Innate Full Soul Power doesn't exist in this world!"

The original Douluo setting contradicted itself. To preserve the logic, I can only downplay the contradictory settings of Douluo I as much as possible while using only the worldview of Douluo I.

The settings from the later Douluo II, III, and IV will not be adopted at all.

For example: Soul Core, the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, Dragon Valley, Silver Dragon King...

None of these exist in this book.