Douluo Continent, Aolai City.
"Wulin, it's your turn to awaken your Martial Soul."
"Okay."
Tang Wulin answered, then froze in confusion.
He stared blankly at the unfamiliar surroundings.
I transmigrated? And became Tang Wulin?
Tang Wulin immediately recalled his memories from his previous life. He had read all of Douluo Continent, but he really wasn't familiar with Douluo II or Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King. He only knew a few scattered bits from Douyin.
Tang Wulin had the Trash Martial Soul Blue Silver Grass. If not for his Golden Dragon King Bloodline, he would have been utterly useless. His wife was Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena, and in the end, the two died together for love.
As for everything that happened in between, he didn't have a clue!
Oh, right, he knew one more thing: Tang Wulin's life was incredibly miserable.
At the thought of living such a miserable life, Tang Wulin felt a little upset. I may be the protagonist, but I really don't want this protagonist's fate.
It's too miserable!
Tang Wulin followed the teacher into the Martial Soul Awakening room.
It was a small room, with Soul Power crystals densely embedded in all four walls, arranged in a formation pattern he couldn't understand.
Tang Wulin came to the center and waited for the teacher to awaken his Martial Soul.
He felt calm, or perhaps he had simply resigned himself to his fate.
In his previous life, he had read the first part of "Douluo Continent" and couldn't have been more familiar with the classic Martial Soul Awakening scene.
Tang San had awakened Blue Silver Grass and the Clear Sky Hammer, Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power.
And Tang Wulin? Blue Silver Grass and level-three Innate Soul Power. In the original story, his Martial Soul had been judged a Trash Martial Soul, and he had relied entirely on his Golden Dragon King Bloodline to defy the heavens and change his fate through sheer force. His starting conditions could be called hell difficulty.
"Anyway, it's just Blue Silver Grass and level-three Soul Power. I'm only going through the motions."
The Golden Dragon King Bloodline was a good thing, but the process of undoing its seal was too painful.
He sighed inwardly. It was a pity he hadn't read the book; he knew so little that he couldn't even lay plans or plot for opportunities.
The awakening master formed hand seals and gave a low shout. Soul Power poured from her palms into the stone platform.
Pale blue light suddenly flared, spreading from the edge of the stone platform to the walls. It finally gathered into a dazzling pillar of white light that fell straight from the ceiling, enveloping Tang Wulin completely.
Tang Wulin felt his entire body go numb.
Then, pain suddenly struck.
Tang Wulin's vision went white, and he nearly dropped to his knees.
He clenched his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead.
A golden pattern emerged between his eyebrows.
At the same time, a vast surge of power burst forth from his lower abdomen.
The awakening master's expression changed.
"This is... Innate Full Soul Power?!"
In a small place like Aolai City, there might not be a single promising talent with Innate Full Soul Power in more than a decade.
Tang Wulin had no energy to pay attention to the awakening master's expression. The power that had suddenly surged up inside him was leaving him utterly disoriented.
He knew it was the power of the Golden Dragon King Bloodline.
Just then,
A phantom appeared behind him, growing clearer and clearer.
It was a rabbit, pink and fluffy all over, with two long ears standing upright and a pair of red eyes flickering within the phantom.
The rabbit had a slender, graceful figure, and its short tail formed a little ball of fluff behind it. It looked adorable.
The awakening master frowned.
"This is... a rabbit? A pink rabbit?"
"A Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul!"
"Soft Bone Douluo Xiao Wu, one of the original Shrek Seven Devils twenty thousand years ago, had this very Martial Soul."
"It's just a pity that, since Xiao Wu, no one else has been able to reach her level of strength with this Martial Soul."
The awakening master silently gave the Martial Soul a poor rating. Xiao Wu had been formidable, but that hadn't had much to do with her Martial Soul.
Tang Wulin, however, paid no attention to the awakening master's expression.
He was completely stunned.
"A Soft Bone Rabbit?"
He screamed wildly in his heart. Others might not recognize it, but he did!
In the first part of Douluo Continent, which he had read in his previous life, Xiao Wu's Martial Soul was the Soft Bone Rabbit!
A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form, the owner of the Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul!
It had the most fiendish mechanics: teleportation, invincibility, intangibility, and the lethal Eight-Stage Throw!
"My Martial Soul is the Soft Bone Rabbit? Not the Trash Martial Soul Blue Silver Grass?"
The awakening master didn't think much of the Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul, but Tang Wulin was overjoyed. Wasn't this better than that garbage Blue Silver Grass?
The surprises weren't over yet.
Just as Tang Wulin was reeling from the revelation of the Soft Bone Rabbit, he felt an unusual fluctuation in his right palm.
It was as if he were holding a beating heart in his hand.
He opened his right hand instinctively.
It was in the shape of a hammer, pitch-black all over, with a cylindrical head.
A peculiar light shone on the hammer's surface, and a faint pattern coiled around its head.
Tang Wulin stared at the hammer in his palm, his mind completely blank.
The Clear Sky Hammer.
The greatest tool Martial Soul under heaven in the first part of Douluo Continent, renowned throughout the world for its ultimate strength and destructive power.
Tang Chen had used it to become invincible on land.
Tang Hao had used it to clash head-on with Qian Xunji's Angel Martial Soul.
Every generation's Clear Sky Douluo was invincible among those of the same rank.
And now, in his right palm, he held just such a hammer.
"Twin Martial Souls..."
Tang Wulin finally came to his senses.
His Martial Souls weren't Blue Silver Grass at all, but the Soft Bone Rabbit and the Clear Sky Hammer.
One had ultimate mechanics; the other had ultimate strength.
"What the hell kind of god-tier start is this?!"
In the original story, Tang Wulin had Blue Silver Grass and level-three Soul Power, and had only climbed his way up by fighting desperately every step of the way.
And him?
Innate Full Soul Power, the Soft Bone Rabbit, and the Clear Sky Hammer. Even the male lead of a power-fantasy novel couldn't ask for more, could he?
Just as Tang Wulin was rejoicing, a voice suddenly appeared in his mind.
"After ten thousand years, my Tang Family finally has a descendant again!"
Tang Wulin froze and looked around, but no one had appeared.
Was I hearing things?
The awakening master looked at the pink rabbit behind Tang Wulin and the little black hammer in his palm. She opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say.
"Twin... Twin Martial Souls?"
Her voice trembled slightly.
Twin Martial Souls!
Something big was about to happen in Aolai City.
Tang Wulin took a deep breath, suppressed the wild joy in his heart, and tried to put on a bewildered expression, acting as though he knew nothing.
He raised his head and looked at the awakening master with an innocent gaze. "Teacher, are my Martial Souls really powerful?"
The awakening master was silent for three seconds.
"Powerful? They aren't just powerful, they're extraordinarily powerful!"
"Let's... let's go outside first."
Tang Wulin nodded obediently and followed the awakening master out of the awakening room.
In the corridor, sunlight streamed through the windows, falling on his youthful face.
So what if I've transmigrated as Tang Wulin? So what about the Golden Dragon King's seal? So what about Gu Yuena?
In this life, I have the Soft Bone Rabbit in my left hand and the Clear Sky Hammer in my right.
Trash Martial Soul, level-three Innate Soul Power-you can all go to hell.
"Blue Silver Grass? Whoever wants that thing can have it."
"I, Tang Wulin, will forge my own path from this day forward."