"Innate soul power, rank three!"
"Talent, low-tier."
Sun Moon Empire, Shanhai City.
An old man glanced at the testing crystal and announced Su Yun's soul power level, along with the clan's corresponding assessment.
When they heard that his innate soul power was rank three, quite a few members of the Su Clan frowned, their lips moving, but ultimately said nothing.
After all, Su Yun was the son of the Su Clan's patriarch.
No one knew what they said in private, so calling him trash there was one thing. But the patriarch was watching from the raised platform. Calling his son trash to his face could only mean they no longer wanted a place in the clan.
Thus, even though Su Yun's innate soul power level was very low, no one stepped forward to call him trash with only rank-three innate soul power.
"Little brother, it's all right. Here in our Sun Moon Empire, innate soul power doesn't determine everything. Even with only rank-three innate soul power, you still have a chance of becoming strong. Besides, you have me."
Su Yun's older sister, Su Qingxue, rubbed his head as she spoke.
After saying that, Su Qingxue returned to her room.
She needed to cultivate hard. Ordinary resources would not be enough to bring someone with rank-three innate soul power up to a decent level of strength, and when it came to extraordinary resources in the Sun Moon Empire, there was only the Illustrious Virtue Hall.
The Su Clan was merely an earl's family without even a Titled Douluo. Expecting an earl's family to have any say in the Illustrious Virtue Hall was clearly unrealistic.
Thus, if she wanted pills produced by the Illustrious Virtue Hall, she could only find a way to obtain them herself.
Fortunately, Su Qingxue was quite talented. With rank-seven innate soul power, she could be considered an exceptionally outstanding genius in the Sun Moon Empire.
Moreover, Su Qingxue was currently thirteen, just the right age to participate in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament five years later.
As a seeded contestant for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament, she would receive a batch of good resources from the Sun Moon Empire.
After the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament ended, even if she did not win, she would still receive decent nurturing afterward as long as she performed well.
With the medicines she could obtain then, Su Qingxue was confident she could push Su Yun to the Soul Emperor level.
Once all the clan's children had finished having their soul power tested, Su Yun's father, Su Lie, called him into a room alone.
"There are five thousand gold soul coins in here. Go out and relax a little. As for your martial soul mutation, don't worry. Sea God Tang San's teacher, Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang, once said that there are no trash martial souls, only trash soul masters."
"Take Shrek. They've nurtured geniuses with very low innate soul power. For example..."
Su Lie had originally intended to give a few examples of people with very low innate soul power who later achieved high cultivation, to give Su Yun confidence.
But after saying "for example," he searched his memories for the geniuses with low innate soul power that Shrek had nurtured over the years, only to discover that he could not come up with a single example.
Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang had first said those words to Sea God Tang San.
But Sea God Tang San, with his twin martial souls and innate full soul power, hardly seemed to have anything to do with the word "trash."
Innate full soul power, twin martial souls, the continent's number-one tool martial soul, the Clear Sky Hammer-none of those terms seemed to have anything to do with a trash martial soul.
Then he thought about Shrek's admission requirements.
In the early days, applicants had to be twelve with soul power no lower than rank twenty. Now, the standards had been lowered somewhat: before turning twelve, they only needed soul power above rank fifteen.
Anyone who could cultivate to that level at that age hardly seemed to have anything to do with being trash.
Especially since, in the second year, when they turned twelve, they had to reach two rings to continue studying. Shrek's admission standards seemed to have been lowered a little, but...
They might as well not have been.
"Ahem. In short, you don't need to worry. Whatever happens, your dad is here."
"I'm the patriarch, after all. Whatever else, I can still protect my own son within the clan."
"All right, go on out. I'll be entering seclusion for a while. If you need anything, go to Su Ning. He can be trusted."
Su Lie had originally wanted to use Shrek's examples to teach Su Yun that even someone with weak innate soul power could still grow, but unfortunately, he had found no examples.
After thinking it over, rather than telling his son to work hard, it seemed a little more likely that he could work hard himself, become a Titled Douluo, and shelter his son.
After all, Su Lie had risen from a collateral branch to become patriarch precisely because his innate soul power was as high as rank eight, making him the clan's greatest genius in over three hundred years.
After being comforted by his sister and father, Su Yun returned to his residence, dismissed the servants, and sat alone in a chair. Then his soul simply floated out of his body.
Su Yun's martial soul had mutated, changing from the clan's cloud martial soul into a soul.
Though whether this counted as a mutation was perhaps debatable, because Su Yun had come to this world after dying in his previous life.
His soul had transmigrated here, then become his own martial soul during his martial soul awakening.
By the standards of the Douluo II era, a soul was a top-tier body martial soul. As long as he joined the Body Sect...
Su Yun shook his head, quickly dismissing the idea of joining the Body Sect.
Leaving aside how joining the Body Sect as someone from the Sun Moon Empire would constitute treason and bring disaster upon his clan, and whether a native-born Sun Moon Empire noble like Su Yun could earn the Body Sect's trust, the Body Sect itself was a pitfall that only looked appealing.
The Body Sect claimed that all body martial souls were one family, and Du Busi could even attack Shrek with the intention of forcibly taking Huo Yuhao, but that was because Huo Yuhao himself had both a body martial soul and an ultimate martial soul.
For a genius with slightly lesser talent, the treatment at the Body Sect was not even remotely as good as Shrek's.
Vina had twin martial souls, a brain and a snow lotus, making her an upgraded version of Huo Yuhao with only his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul. But what treatment had she received?
When she was only in the rank fifties, the Body Sect had already arranged soul rings for her-six at once, no less. Their reasoning was that although the Body Sect had plenty of resources, they could not devote them exclusively to one person.
Vina's originally excellent talent had been forcibly ruined by the Body Sect.
And Long Aotian, a promising future Super Douluo, had simply died on the battlefield in a muddle.
As for the Body Sect's ability to protect geniuses while they grew, all one could say was that Du Busi truly lived up to being from the same generation as the Supreme Elder. Their ways of doing things achieved the same result through different tunes.
Everyone who awakened a body martial soul was a disciple of the Body Sect. Yet Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo had spent so many years in the Outer Academy and had even competed in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament. The Body Sect had been watching them for a long time, but had never been seen trying to recruit them.
Shrek's specialty was double standards, while the Body Sect's was saying one thing and doing another.
Neither side was clearly a good choice. In fact, in terms of resources and how much importance they placed on geniuses, the Body Sect was not even as good as Shrek.
At least Shrek would not let students absorb soul rings for their second martial soul while still in the rank fifties. Though the Supreme Elder was unreliable, not a single one of the Shrek Seven Devils had died by the grand finale.
Looking at the Body Sect, all one could say was that Shrek was rotten, but the Body Sect was even worse by comparison.
"Good thing I didn't awaken just one body martial soul. I still have a choice."
Su Yun closed his eyes. Deep within his soul, he could sense a special existence. That was his true capital for growth.
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