Martial Soul and System

The corner of Chen Mo's mouth twitched as he stood nearby. Naturally, he knew Lin Yaodong.

For no other reason than the name Lin Yaodong, Chen Mo had been willing to get to know him. He had originally wondered whether Lin Yaodong was a transmigrator like himself, but after getting to know him, he realized that he was a native. His name being Lin Yaodong was a complete coincidence. He also had two younger brothers, Lin Yaonan and Lin Yaoxi.

As for that classic line of Uncle Dong's, Chen Mo had naturally taught it to him. Lin Yaodong had lost count of how many vicious beatings he had taken for it, but he still never tired of saying it.

At the very least, Chen Mo had never imagined that he would dare say something like that here.

He sure had guts!

He would probably get another serving of bamboo-rod stir-fried pork when he got home, and Father Lin would have to part with another sum of money. This beating would probably be even worse.

Feilin: Forget it. You paid me plenty, so I'll forgive you this time. If there's a next time, you'll... you'll have to pay more.

Feilin: "Hehe, you're quite the joker, little fellow."

Feilin: "Second, Chen Mo."

Phew!

It was his turn. Whether he was a dragon or a worm would be decided in this one attempt.

Beside him, Father Chen and Mother Chen clasped their hands tightly.

The six black Awakening Stones shone, enveloping Chen Mo's entire body in light.

What a strange feeling.

What the hell? This is my Martial Soul? A deck of playing cards?

What use is this thing to me? Playing Fight the Landlord?

A plane?

A joker bomb?

I've only got one card left.

Just thinking about it, Chen Mo felt that the whole scene was a little off.

At that moment, Feilin's authoritative voice rang out. "Hold out your right hand."

Chen Mo hesitated for a moment, then held out his right hand. A deck of playing cards floated above his palm.

An ugly daughter-in-law had to meet her parents-in-law sooner or later.

Feilin was a little disappointed. After all, Feilin had taken the money.

Did he take after his father? That makes his chances of awakening Soul Power even lower. And even if he does awaken Soul Power, a box can't compare to a kitchen knife.

Besides, the box this child awakened is made of paper. Sure enough, Martial Souls ultimately depend on bloodline. No matter how clever you are, it's all for nothing if your bloodline isn't good enough.

Feilin paused. "Martial Soul: paper box. Come, child, put your hand on the crystal."

A paper box?

Chen Mo froze.

That was true. This was the Douluo Continent, not Blue Star. Playing cards simply didn't exist here.

Could I end up becoming the Douluo Continent's gambling... gambling saint, or even its god of gamblers?

Of course, they simply didn't know what they were looking at, and Chen Mo had no need to explain it to them.

He turned and placed his hand on the crystal. As he did, the crystal gave off a faint blue light.

At the same time, excitement and astonishment appeared on Chen Mo's face.

I really do have a system!

When Soul Power appeared in his body, the system awakened, and his Martial Soul was actually part of the system as well.

Feilin was pleasantly surprised. He actually awakened Innate Soul Power, and it's level three. Good. Now I can feel much more at ease about taking the money.

Feilin sounded noticeably pleased. "Congratulations, child. You can become a Soul Master in the future."

Feilin said happily, "Chen Mo, six years old, Martial Soul: paper box, Innate Soul Power: level three. This is your Martial Soul certificate and letter of recommendation. Keep them safe. You'll need them to study at a Soul Master Academy and become a Soul Master in the future."

Chen Mo thanked Feilin politely.

"Thank you, Lord Feilin."

Feilin: Sure enough, you can't lump everyone together. He's much more polite than that brat just now.

Level three. It's actually level three!

Chen He was so excited that his hands trembled. He cried out in his heart, Finally, finally, my Chen family is finally going to have a Soul Master!

Overjoyed, Chen He said, "Thank you, Lord Feilin. In a few days, I will surely pay you a visit to offer my thanks..."

Chen He: Haha, a Soul Master! My son can become a Soul Master! In the future, my Chen family will be a Soul Master family too. I finally won't have to live in fear anymore.

With a Soul Master, my Chen family will never have to watch other people's faces again. With level-three Innate Soul Power, he'll very likely become a three-ring Soul Elder someday, and Little Mo is naturally clever. He might even have a chance of becoming a Soul King.

A Soul King! Haha, there aren't more than a few Soul Kings in all of Haier City, are there? Haha!

My son has the makings of a Soul King!

After walking out of Spirit Hall, Chen He happily lifted Chen Mo high into the air.

Chen He beamed. "Tell me, what do you want? As long as I can do it, I'll give you whatever you want."

Li Xiao chided him with a smile. "Careful. Look at you, don't scare the child. Momo, what would you like to eat? Mommy will make you anything..."

Chen Mo could completely understand how thrilled and excited his parents were. For ordinary commoners on the Douluo Continent, Martial Soul Awakening was their only chance to change their social class.

This world was far from kind to ordinary people. Even as a textbook rich second-generation heir, Chen Mo hadn't had a particularly good time here.

Bully men and force myself on women? I'm the fucking one getting bullied.

Things were different from Blue Star. On Blue Star, money made you the boss. On Douluo Star, nobles were the bosses, and Soul Masters were the big bosses.

The Chen family might look wealthy now, but their monthly income was actually split thirty-seventy. The noble lord took seventy percent, while the Chen family got at most thirty. Even then, the Chen family had begged him to take it.

They were fucking begging for food on their knees.

However, that situation would end once Chen Mo grew up. That was also why his parents were so proud and excited.

Time flew, and a month passed. Under his mother Li Xiao's guidance, Chen Mo learned how to meditate to increase his Soul Power and successfully completed his enrollment at Haier Junior Soul Master Academy.

However, after a month, Chen Mo was still at level three.

There was nothing he could do. Meditation was just too lousy.

In fact, Soul Power would increase even without meditation, only particularly slowly. While meditating, a person could concentrate and keep their mind free of distracting thoughts, allowing them to better absorb energy from the outside world and slowly increase their Soul Power.

If the body simply absorbed energy from the outside world passively without cultivation, and that speed was counted as one, meditation could increase it to three to five times as much.

No wonder Innate Soul Power determines the heights a person can reach. So that's how it works. Those geniuses with Innate Full Soul Power must cultivate several times faster than me even without meditating, right?

How the hell am I supposed to play this game?!

Besides, Chen Mo felt that meditation was somewhat unreliable. The meditation method his mother had taught him seemed inferior even to those on Blue Star.

Fuck!

If I didn't have a system, how the hell would I play this game?

Even if he worked himself to the bone for a lifetime, he might not reach the Soul King level. There was nothing to be done about it. Meditation methods simply couldn't widen the gap between Soul Masters.

The main factor that widened the gap between Soul Masters was still Innate Soul Power. The higher one's Innate Soul Power, the more sensitive one was to energy.

Those with high Innate Soul Power could cultivate faster through their bodies' instinctive absorption alone, even without cultivating, than those with low Innate Soul Power who worked themselves to the bone cultivating every day.

Those with high Innate Soul Power really could grow stronger just lying down. If they put in a little effort and cultivated once every three to five days, others probably wouldn't even be able to see their taillights.

They could grow stronger even without cultivating. No wonder he could sign in and obtain a seventh-tier experience card at most in this world.

The seventh tier!

In theory, the highest reward the system could provide through sign-ins was a tenth-tier experience card. Every world where one could obtain a tenth-tier experience card was a top-tier world, such as the Primordial World, a top-tier Great Thousand World.

Through the system, Chen Mo learned that worlds were generally divided into three categories: Small Thousand Worlds, Middle Thousand Worlds, and Great Thousand Worlds.

Worlds of the fifth tier and below were all Small Thousand Worlds. In such a world, one could reach the fifth tier at most and could not attain longevity.

Middle Thousand Worlds had an upper limit of the sixth or seventh tier. The sixth tier counted as ageless longevity, with lifespans that could reach hundreds of millions of years. Sixth-tier experts rarely died of old age.

Only the seventh tier offered true ageless immortality: as long as the world endured, so would they. They could live from the birth of a world until the moment it was destroyed. Of course, being beaten to death was another matter.

Great Thousand Worlds had an upper limit of the eighth, ninth, or tenth tier. Eighth-tier experts would not die even if their world was destroyed. Every one of them could roam the long river of time, free and unfettered. Of course, that was limited to their own world. They were equivalent to Daluo Golden Immortals of the Primordial World.

Upon reaching the eighth tier, one could theoretically travel to other worlds. That was also why they would not die even if their world was destroyed. If the world was gone, so be it. At worst, they could break through the barrier between worlds and flee to another one.

And on the Douluo Continent, Chen Mo could sign in and obtain a seventh-tier experience card. That meant the Douluo World could theoretically reach the seventh tier.

Is the Douluo World's combat power really that high? Gods who can be shot dead by Hidden Weapons?

Even if you were caught in a sneak attack, that's still far too pathetic. Calling you a fifth-tier expert would already be giving you too much credit.

Before long, however, Chen Mo figured it out. If the people were no good, the world couldn't be blamed for it. In a world where one could passively absorb the energy of heaven and earth to slowly increase one's cultivation even without cultivating, a low world level would be what truly made no sense.

If this world's level weren't high enough and its energy abundant enough, how could anyone hope to become extraordinary with those meditation methods? They would be dreaming.

Originally, Chen Mo had thought he alone was special, his body constantly absorbing energy and slowly making him stronger. He had even thought it was one of the cheats the system had given him.

But his mother, Li Xiao, had told him that every Soul Master was actually like that. Even without meditation, their body's Soul Power would slowly increase.

That was also why Innate Soul Power could determine a person's upper limit.

Even though meditation could speed things up, only the first two or three hours produced the best results. The longer one meditated, the worse the effect became. After eight or nine hours, it was essentially ineffective.

Chen Mo had no doubt that if a genuine cultivation technique could be produced, every Soul Master on the Douluo Continent would probably become an expert above the Soul Saint level.

Fortunately, Chen Mo had a Sign-In System. He would surely get cultivation techniques and the like.

Chen Mo's Sign-In System currently had daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, ten-year, and hundred-year sign-ins.

Each daily sign-in gave Chen Mo a daily treasure chest and an experience card. The experience card was randomly selected from ten cards, nine of which were first-tier cards, with only one second-tier card.