Martial Soul Awakening, Nine Bend Vine Dragon!

The Lin Duke Mansion occupied a vast area. The Awakening Room was neither particularly close to nor particularly far from the wooden house.

Even so, walking from the wooden house to the Awakening Room took nearly half an hour.

Six years had passed since the day he crossed over.

After finally waiting until today, Lin Rong had long been eager to awaken his martial soul. Naturally, he would not walk there himself.

The Old Butler understood what the young master was thinking, so he picked up Lin Rong and hurried toward the Awakening Room while channeling his Soul Power.

The Awakening Room had been built at the very center of the Manor, where the main residence stood.

Martial soul awakening was a private affair. For the sake of confidentiality, the Awakening Room had been built entirely from Iron Essence, making it completely sealed.

Twelve Night Luminescent Pearls were embedded in the ceiling to provide illumination.

At the exact center of the floor, six round black stones had been arranged in sequence, forming a Hexagonal Array.

Rather than an Awakening Room, this place looked more like a secret chamber.

After entering the Awakening Room, Lin Rong could not help thinking this.

"All right, young master. Stand in the center of the array!"

Once Lin Rong stood in the designated position, the martial soul awakening ritual officially began.

Countless rays of starlight appeared around the Old Butler, gathering in midair into a White Jade Star Disk. Eight stars shimmered upon the disk, alternating between bright and dim, dazzling beyond compare.

At the same time, eight Soul Rings—two yellow, two purple, and four black—appeared beneath the Old Butler's feet in the order of yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black.

The Star Disc had mutated from the ordinary Shi Mo martial soul and was a top-tier star-type martial soul.

In the year Lin Rong was born, the Old Butler, Yu Yuan, had been fifty-nine years old and possessed eighty-four levels of Soul Power. Six years later, at sixty-five, his Soul Power had reached level eighty-six, making him a control-type Soul Douluo.

The Old Butler clapped his hands, and six azure-white streams of light shot from his palms into the six black stones in the array.

In the next moment, the six black stones burst forth with hazy golden radiance, forming a pale golden barrier that enveloped Lin Rong.

Immediately afterward, golden specks continuously floated out of the six black stones and entered Lin Rong's body without missing a single one.

Lin Rong felt warm and comfortable all over. The warm aura seeped into his body, allowing him to clearly sense a slight fluctuation in the power within him.

Then, guided by the warm aura, that power surged entirely toward his right palm.

At that moment, Lin Rong subconsciously raised his right hand. Azure-green radiance seeped from his palm, accompanied by a dragon's roar that resounded throughout the Awakening Room.

Several breaths later, the azure-green radiance faded.

A Banyan Forest floated above his palm. The Banyan Tree at the center was the main body, while the other banyan trees were subsidiary plants.

A root from the Banyan Tree's trunk had transformed into an azure true dragon, coiling around it like a living creature.

At the same time, an azure-green halo radiated from Lin Rong, swiftly covering the entire Awakening Room.

Inside the Awakening Room, Lin Rong and the Old Butler wore different expressions, but both revealed varying degrees of shock.

"A Mutated Martial Soul!" The Old Butler carefully examined the scene before him and muttered:

"It possesses the characteristics of both the Dragon Soul Vine and the Thousand Leaf Banyan. Is this a fused mutation?"

"That dragon's roar just now, along with this Talent Domain—this must undoubtedly be a beneficial mutation!"

"Young master, quickly test how many levels of Innate Soul Power you have!"

As he spoke, the Old Butler took a Blue Crystal Ball from his Soul Tool and held it out before the young master with both hands.

In the center of the array, Lin Rong also recovered from his shock. He reached out with both hands and accepted the Blue Crystal Ball. At once, an enormous suction force erupted from within it, and the power in his body surged out as if it had found an outlet.

Moments later, a blue light appeared at the bottom of the crystal ball. In the blink of an eye, it filled the entire sphere. It looked like a natural blue crystal, shining brilliantly.

"Innate Full Soul Power! Just as expected!"

Two voices rang out almost simultaneously.

Unlike Lin Rong, who remained calm, the Old Butler gazed at the crystal ball with a face full of gratification. Out of habit, he naturally reached out and stroked the young master's long black hair.

"The Lin Family has an heir. This old servant can finally die content!"

After a moment, the Old Butler withdrew his hand without leaving a trace, steadied his emotions, and suggested gently:

"Young master, why don't you give this Mutated Martial Soul a name?"

"A name?" The instant Lin Rong saw his martial soul, he had already arrived at an answer. Thus, he replied to the Old Butler:

"The Banyan Tree's roots transformed into a Dragon Soul and coiled around the trunk, winding and twisting in nine bends. Why not call it the Nine Bend Vine Dragon?"

"​Nine Bend Vine Dragon?" After hearing this, the Old Butler stroked his beard and praised it. "Not bad. That is an excellent name!"

Indeed, even Lin Rong himself had never expected to awaken such a martial soul.

The Nine Bend Vine Dragon had been created through the fused mutation of the Dragon Soul Vine and the Thousand Leaf Banyan.

The martial soul came with the Talent Domain—Vine Dragon.

The Talent Domain had three stages. At present, the Vine Dragon Domain had only just awakened and was at the first stage: within the domain, all attributes of allies increased by ten percent, while all attributes of enemies decreased by ten percent.

The Vine Dragon Domain's exclusive effect—Life Dragon Soul: Within the domain's range, all attacks received by the user would be converted into pure life force after a certain period of time to restore the user. At the same time, vitality, Soul Power, and mental power could be converted freely among one another without loss.

Lin Rong speculated that the Marrow Cleansing Scripture had played an indispensable role in allowing the two martial souls to fuse and mutate into the Nine Bend Vine Dragon.

Now that his martial soul had awakened, some plans could finally be set in motion.

According to the timeline, when Lin Rong had been four months old in his mother's womb, Qian Xunji and Tang Hao had fought that battle.

Tang San had been born during that battle. Since humans carried children for ten months, he had been born six months after Tang San—half a year younger than little Tang San.

In the original story, after Tang San awakened his martial soul, three months would pass before Nuoding Academy opened.

After graduating six years later, he would go to Shrek Academy. Not long after school began, he would break through to level thirty in the Star Dou Great Forest at the age of twelve years and seven months.

From this, it could be calculated that Tang San had been approximately six years and four months old when he awakened his martial soul.

Lin Rong had just turned six today, meaning Tang San was currently only six and a half. Only two months had passed since his martial soul awakening, so he should still be in Holy Spirit Village, working as a blacksmith.

Holy Spirit Village.

After finishing his cultivation of the Purple Demon Eye on the hill outside the village, Tang San was rushing toward the western side of the village using the Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.

Before long, he arrived in front of three adobe houses.

Inside, Tang Hao was still the same as ever, waiting for his son to finish cooking and call him up to eat.

After the time it took to burn one incense stick, Tang San finished putting away the pots, bowls, and utensils. He entered another adobe house and placed a piece of raw iron into the forging furnace.

That piece of raw iron had originally been fifty centimeters on each side. After nearly two months of forging by Tang San, it had already become close to the size of a fist.

"The closer it gets to the limit, the harder it is to remove the impurities completely." Tang San pulled the bellows and thought:

"However, this hammer technique is truly miraculous. It can borrow force to strike with force, allowing the raw iron to continue shedding impurities even after being forged to this point."

"Clang! Clang! Clang!" Tang San swung the iron hammer and used the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer to forge. The sounds of striking iron rang out one after another.

"It should take another half a month before this piece of raw iron can be completely forged."

"When the time comes, I'll use this Iron Mother refined from raw iron to create a Tang Sect Hidden Weapon—the first Tang Sect Hidden Weapon in this otherworld!"

At the thought of this, Tang San could not suppress the excitement in his eyes.

One day, the name of the Tang Sect would shake the world in this otherworld, and he, Tang San, would accomplish it all!

The speed of Soul Power cultivation was linked not only to Innate Soul Power but also to the following factors:

1. Martial soul classification

Battle martial souls > auxiliary martial souls > Food System martial souls

2. Whether one cultivated diligently

Someone as Slothful as Oscar in the early stages had Innate Full Soul Power and reached level thirty at fourteen.

Excluding the two levels of Soul Power added by two Soul Rings, he had increased by eighteen levels over eight years, averaging 2.25 levels per year.

Someone as diligent as Zhu Zhuqing had seven levels of Innate Soul Power and reached level twenty-seven at twelve.

Excluding the two levels of Soul Power added by two Soul Rings, she had increased by eighteen levels over six years, averaging three levels per year.

3. Cultivation environment

For example: the Mimicry Cultivation Environment

4. External pressure

Feng Xiaotian had Innate Full Soul Power and reached level forty-four at twenty-four. After cultivating in Hurricane Valley for five years, he reached level sixty-one at twenty-nine.

Excluding the two levels added by two Soul Rings, he had increased by fifteen levels in five years, averaging three levels per year.

5. Immortal Grade Medicinal Herb

For example: the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid.