Registering as Soul Master Ye Xiu, Fiancée Su Yun'er

The morning sun rose high.

A figure hidden in the shadows returned to Holy Soul Village with the first light of dawn.

After lingering for a moment at the smithy,

the figure crossed the mountains again and vanished into the depths of a valley where a waterfall roared.

Inside the Kamui Dimension,

the black-clad youth seated cross-legged in the middle of a stone platform slowly opened his eyes, ending his cultivation.

It should be just about morning, right?

Ye Qiu thought to himself. He then stood, took some food from his bundle, and began to enjoy his breakfast.

He had spent a few minutes the previous night getting a rough grasp of the basics of using Dual Kamui.

First was his left eye's ability:

it could distort space at the focal point of his vision and suck a target into the Kamui Dimension, and it could also be used to attack.

The larger the target,

the more Soul Power Ye Qiu had to expend.

As for the Kamui in his right eye, he had to touch a target before he could use it, or he could transport parts of his own body into the alternate dimension to "pass through" an opponent's attacks.

The longer he remained intangible, the more Soul Power he needed.

Ye Qiu had already tested it.

At present, the maximum time he could keep his entire body intangible was exactly sixty-six seconds.

It seemed to increase by six seconds with each level he gained.

Besides,

as long as Ye Qiu maintained his Kamui Mangekyō state, he could activate intangibility subconsciously when faced with danger, without needing to think at all.

This was undoubtedly a divine life-saving skill!

With both eyes working together, offense and defense as one, and both long and short range covered, it could be called perfect!

The only blemish on an otherwise flawless jade was...

After playing around with it for a few minutes, Ye Qiu found that his eyes felt swollen and sore,

leaving him unsure whether to laugh or cry.

Wasn't the thing the system gave me a little too authentic?

It even has the side effect of blindness!

As for that,

Ye Qiu could only put up with it.

After all, his Sharingan Martial Soul was a Body Martial Soul.

He was using the Uchiha's power without having their bloodline...

It was already good enough

that he didn't run short of mana like Kakashi.

Besides, he now had Twin Martial Souls. With the Sharingan Martial Soul as a hidden trump card, he certainly wouldn't use it often.

Perhaps this drawback could be resolved in the future.

"Gulp-"

Ye Qiu poured another half-pot of water down his throat. Only then, full and satisfied, did he stand and wipe his mouth with his sleeve, his face full of eager anticipation.

Once he received his Soul Master allowance of one Gold Soul Coin and bought a few things,

he could go back to the village!

The reason Ye Qiu had stayed overnight in Nuoding City was the Soul Master allowance.

He had graduated without a hitch and become a Soul Master.

How could he not buy a few things to take home and have a proper celebration with Sister Yun'er?

Besides, Ye Qiu still remembered that Sister Yun'er had said she would give him a surprise once he became a true Soul Master.

He couldn't wait to return home in glory!

The next moment,

a bloody light shone in Ye Qiu's eyes, and an invisible vortex appeared, swallowing him up where he stood.

Ye Qiu returned to Nuoding City,

immediately put on his mask, and headed straight for the Spirit Hall Branch.

At his current age, there was naturally nothing remarkable about taking a simple assessment for advancement as a Soul Master.

Ye Qiu met Ma Xiunuo without any trouble and quickly completed his Soul Master registration,

receiving his Soul Master allowance for the month.

It was worth mentioning that

Ye Qiu registered under the name Ye Xiu.

After all, his Blue Silver Grass didn't have any Soul Rings attached to it yet,

so he could only show Ma Xiunuo his Sharingan Martial Soul.

Ye Qiu planned to attach a Soul Ring to his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul after he consumed an Immortal Herb.

When that time came,

the Soul Ring for his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul would certainly start at the thousand-year level!

By the time Ye Qiu left the Spirit Hall Branch,

he had acquired a round badge. The name Ye Xiu was engraved on the back, while the front bore two crossed thorns, representing his Soul Master rank.

His blood-red eyes lit up.

Ye Qiu casually placed the badge in his hand into the Kamui Dimension.

Southwest of Nuoding City.

Peach Blossom Village lived up to its name, surrounded as it was by peach trees.

Even the edges of the field ridges outside the village were lined with peach trees, which each household used to mark the boundaries of its farmland.

During the busy farming season, the villagers would also rest for a while beneath the peach trees.

The village's name was quite ordinary, and it had only a little over two hundred households, but it was considered prosperous among the villages near Nuoding City.

Peach Blossom Village wasn't far from Nuoding City,

only half an hour on foot.

As a result, its crops could easily be transported into the city and sold for a good price while still fresh.

That was also why Peach Blossom Village was relatively prosperous.

The peach harvest season

was when the villagers of Peach Blossom Village were busiest, but also happiest.

Beside a field over a hundred meters outside the village,

an invisible spatial vortex appeared, and Ye Qiu's figure emerged.

"Tsk..."

"I was off by that much?"

Ye Qiu looked at the fields around him, then shook his head as he gazed toward Peach Blossom Village.

He had come straight from Nuoding City.

He had intended to appear directly in the village, or near his front door.

He hadn't expected to nearly step into someone else's field.

Spatial teleportation through the Kamui Dimension also required coordinates.

Ye Qiu had relied on his memory to get here.

Going elsewhere wouldn't be so easy; he would have to scout the location first and pin down the coordinates.

It was nearly noon,

and few people were still out in the fields. Even those who were there were lying beneath the trees, waiting for their families to bring them food.

Ye Qiu didn't linger and headed straight for the village entrance. He had already pinned the badge he'd obtained from the Spirit Hall Branch to his chest, where it stood out in the sunlight.

It wasn't that Ye Qiu liked to show off; he had to do this...

Su Yun'er was six years older than him.

Her mother had died in childbirth, and her father had also passed away from illness six years ago.

She had been born with eyes as clear as ice and snow, and because her birth mother had died giving birth to her, she had naturally been branded as inauspicious.

She had no Soul Power,

and her Martial Soul was a pill as clear and flawless as her eyes.

When Father Su was alive, he had worked himself to the bone,

and with his wealth, which was among the best in the village, no one had dared bully her.

But after Father Su died, things were different.

As it happened,

six years ago, not long after Father Su died of illness,

Ye Qiu had successfully awakened his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and the Hokage Selection System.

Although he had only been born with level-one Innate Soul Power, he was the village's only promising sprout in decades and had every hope of becoming a revered Soul Master.

Because of that,

and because Ye Qiu was also an orphan,

Su Yun'er had come straight to his door after hearing about it, taking the initiative to propose marriage and offering to pay for his schooling.

A proposal like that-

Ye Qiu had never heard the like in his entire life!

Inauspicious? As far as Ye Qiu was concerned, she was practically an auspicious omen!

He had been living on the villagers' charity anyway,

and now a village belle and young woman of modest wealth was willing to throw herself at him and support him.

How could Ye Qiu possibly refuse?

For six years,

ever since the day Ye Qiu accepted Su Yun'er's proposal,

she had cared for him in every possible way whenever he came back on school breaks.

Sometimes he didn't even have to bathe himself.

They could be said to have depended on each other completely, and their feelings for each other had naturally shot up and up.

Even now,

whenever Ye Qiu remembered Su Yun'er, red-faced, telling him-still a little boy at the time—that she wanted to marry him, he couldn't help the corners of his mouth curling up.

The way she had looked, so shy and embarrassed, so timid yet so determined, had been simply adorable!

When Su Yun'er's lovely face flushed,

even her gorgeous eyes would take on a misty shade of pink.

She was simply breathtaking!

What kind of inauspicious person looks like that? Shouldn't her face be covered in red fur?