Chapter 153: 170.171. Tang San's Martial Soul Awakening
Hearing this, Ah Yin felt a surge of interest in her heart; there were simply too many doubts weighing on her mind.
She deeply felt that everything she had experienced was intricately linked to that child. Tang Hao might love her, but the true primary reason wasn't herself—it was that child. After all, his purposefulness was far too strong.
"Tell me, exactly why?"
Thus, Ah Yin learned of the web of conspiracy surrounding her (of course, she didn't know about the other layer of conspiracy).
It turned out that the Asura God had chosen an inheritor, and he gradually grew dissatisfied with children born from human bodies. So, he decided to use a soul beast as the mother to nurture a soul master with the Haotian Hammer martial soul as his excellent inheritor.
Thus, she, with attributes close to ultimate life affinity, was selected by the Asura God. It was under the Asura God's intervention that Ah Yin developed the idea of heading to the human world.
As for the other two, Tang Hao and Tang Xiao, they were the fathers chosen by the Asura God for the inheritor, to pass down the Haotian Hammer martial soul.
Although events afterward had some fluctuations, this matter still fell within the Asura God's expectations—the child was born smoothly.
Then Ah Yin saw the Asura God dispatch the Sea God to descend, summoning Tang San's soul from another world and having it possess and replace her precious son's soul.
After giving birth to Tang San and letting the otherworldly soul possess him, in the Asura God's eyes, she had no value left beyond her soul ring, soul bone, and position as the Blue Silver Emperor. Thus, in the Asura God's view, her death held even more value. So, he arranged a grand play, ultimately guiding her to sacrifice to that beast Tang Hao, vacating the Blue Silver Emperor position and soul bone for that possessing shameless villain.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, her love for Tang Xiao overcame the Asura God's control over her, and she temporarily changed the sacrifice target, which allowed...
And Tang Hao, precisely because he knew of the Asura God's plan, actively participated in the Killing Capital's trials to obtain the Killing God Domain, forcibly took her, and compelled her to give birth to the child for him.
Why was that beast Tang Hao so mad? So that's how it was. Wasn't the status of father to the God King enough to drive him insane?
After learning the truth, even more black qi swirled around Ah Yin's body.
"Jie jie jie, now you know the truth, right?" that eerie voice sneered. "Listen to my advice: soul beasts like you need to see things clearly. According to the Asura God's plan, you just need to pretend to be oblivious. Tang Hao will be the future father of the Asura God, and you the future mother. You two just act like a loving couple, and Tang San is a great filial son—what benefits could you possibly miss out on in the future?"
Hearing this, the black qi around Ah Yin's body surged out like a tidal wave. She questioned with extreme resentment, "You want me to pretend to be a loving couple with a rapist, and treat Tang San, that shameless possessor of my child's body, as my own??"
"Then what do you want to do?" the eerie voice asked.
"Tang San is not my son. Even in death, I won't acknowledge him. Asura God, Tang Hao, Tang San—even if I die, I will make them pay the price," Ah Yin said venomously.
"Very good, full of spirit. I have high hopes for you," that eerie voice said to Ah Yin.
A cold wind blew, and on the blue silver grass field, the stalk of golden-patterned blue silver grass belonging to Ah Yin suddenly vanished.
In Holy Soul Village, old Jack led a group of children to the Spirit Hall branch in Holy Soul Village to receive their awakenings from the Spirit Hall.
Tang Hao hid in the shadows. In the previous life, he had missed seeing Tang San's awakening; in this life, he wanted to witness Tang San's martial soul awakening.
As for Tang San, although he already knew the outcome of this martial soul awakening, he couldn't help but feel excited.
His martial souls were the Haotian Hammer and blue silver grass—two top-tier martial souls. The awakening of his martial soul meant that his legendary life as Tang San, his path of kingly conquest, began from this moment.
Tang San looked at the other little brats around him, a trace of pity flashing in his eyes. In the previous life, their martial souls were nothing but hoes, sickles, blue silver grass, and other waste martial souls; most of them couldn't even become soul masters in their lifetimes. Indeed, martial soul awakening changes fate—that's just chicken soup. Among ten thousand people, there might not even be one with a martial soul mutation. In the end, it still boiled down to the logic of dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes, and a rat's son will burrow holes.
My father is the world-renowned Haotian Douluo, and my mother is the hundred-thousand-year soul beast Blue Silver Emperor. I was born as the Brahmin of Brahmins, inheriting powerful martial souls. And you? What do you have? You're nothing but a bunch of Shudra untouchables.
At this moment, Tang San felt a sense of transcendent superiority in his heart.
He stood calmly in the line, proud and aloof.
The children around him gazed intently at Su Yuntao, eagerly awaiting the moment of their own martial soul awakenings.
The one who came was still Su Yuntao. He first explained the matters of martial soul awakening to the children and even demonstrated his own martial soul—the Lone Wolf.
"Alright, children, come one by one," Su Yuntao said.
Thus, the children lined up one after another, awakening their martial souls under Su Yuntao's hands.
Sickles, hoes, blue silver grass.
Su Yuntao shook his head regretfully, dismissing them one by one as waste martial souls.
After awakening the martial soul for a girl with blue silver grass, it finally came to Tang San's turn.
Tang San stepped forward. He looked at Su Yuntao and thought to himself: Spirit Hall, once I awaken my martial soul and ascend to godhood in the future, I, Tang San, will destroy your Spirit Hall—for my mother, for those wronged souls who died at your hands (Tang San used the Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus to kill over seventy Soul Saints, and had Dugu Bo massacre an entire city's soul masters; most in that city were soul masters who rose from the mud-legged masses—his ruthlessness was no less than Spirit Hall's). I'll seek justice.
He stood on the platform as Su Yuntao set up the martial soul awakening array. A golden light flashed, and Tang San instinctively clenched the soul seal in one hand while spreading the other. A stalk of blue silver grass appeared in his hand, and if one looked closely, they could see a faint golden pattern on the blue silver grass.
Tang Hao, hidden in the shadows, felt relieved upon seeing Tang San clench his arm.
Tang San's awakening hadn't produced any of those annoying variables this time. He had twin martial souls: the Haotian Hammer and Blue Silver Emperor. In the future, one would inherit the Sea God position, the other the Asura God position. With Tang San around, the future of the entire Douluo Continent, even the Douluo God Realm, would belong to our Tang family.
"Your martial soul is blue silver grass," Su Yuntao suddenly shivered and said. "Come, let me test your innate soul power."
Su Yuntao took out the crystal ball for testing soul power.
Eh, something feels off. But Tang San didn't dwell on it; after all, the memories of the previous life's martial soul awakening had long been forgotten in some obscure corner.
Tang San placed his hand on the crystal ball, and instantly, the entire Spirit Hall room was illuminated by the light released from the crystal ball.
Su Yuntao patted Tang San's shoulder and said, "Not bad, innate full soul power. Congratulations; as long as you obtain a soul ring, you can become a soul master."
The entire process had neither regret nor belittlement for Tang San's blue silver grass martial soul, nor did it lead to an invitation for Tang San to join Spirit Hall.
After awakening Tang San's martial soul, Su Yuntao wrote up the report and turned to leave.
Tang San stared blankly at Su Yuntao's departing figure, feeling like he had lost something.
God Realm, Asura God Hall.
Although the Asura God was under the surveillance of the God of Destruction, as long as he didn't interfere with the Douluo Continent, he could still check on the situation there.
How could he miss watching such a crucial moment as his big baby's martial soul awakening?
Seeing Tang San awaken the Blue Silver Prince and hide the Haotian Hammer martial soul, the Asura God nodded in satisfaction and said, "Good, worthy of being my chosen big baby—knows how to keep a trump card."
God Realm, Eternal God Hall.
The anomaly with Su Yuntao earlier was the result of Huo Yuhao's influence.
It's said that the Blind-Eyed God King turned one waste martial soul after another into god kings with his words—a mystical thing, but better to believe it exists than not. With me, old Huo, around, how can I let you little pipsqueak get that buff?
After closing the Book of Eternity, Huo Yuhao looked at all the children in that lower realm's Spirit Hall.
Throughout the entire martial soul awakening process, aside from Tang San, everyone had waste martial souls. These children who grew up in the same village as Tang San had their fates diverge from his starting this moment.
Every story instills a concept in you—what lesson does Tang San's story teach?
Actually, this story is just an ugly duckling tale.
The ugly duckling story tells you that you are a swan; even if you grow up among ducks, you remain a swan. Conversely, if you are a duck, you will always be a duck.
Huo Yuhao took out a martial soul factor injector that he had refined through repeated experiments and sneered, "But in my hands, I can turn a duck into a swan—or conversely, turn a swan into a duck. Hmph."
At the same time, in the Elder Hall, a grand martial soul awakening ceremony was also being held.
Although the worshippers had produced many children, only a few were born in the same year as Tang San: the descendant of the Light Edge Douluo, the descendant of the Golden Crocodile Douluo, the descendant of the Azure Luan Douluo, and some other elders' descendants undergoing awakening with them.
The first child to receive awakening was the grandson of the Ghost Leopard Douluo. He stepped onto the platform and entered the martial soul awakening array. As expected, he awakened the family-inherited martial soul, the Ghost Leopard.
When his hand touched the crystal ball, light immediately enveloped the entire Elder Hall.
"Zhang Hua, martial soul Ghost Leopard, full soul power."
The second child to receive martial soul awakening was the grandson of the Porcupine Douluo, Ci Ren. His martial soul awakened as Porcupine, with innate soul power at full level.
Then, one child after another underwent martial soul awakenings, all inheriting the excellent martial souls passed down from the elders. Surprisingly, their innate soul powers were all full soul power.
"This Mysterious Heaven Technique is indeed impressive; it can be cultivated before martial soul awakening, achieving acquired full soul power," the Azure Luan Worshipper said.
"But this Mysterious Heaven Technique is ultimately acquired cultivation. How do we confirm the child's true innate soul power?" the Lion Worshipper asked.
"This, we can't confirm for now; we can only infer from the child's subsequent acquired cultivation," the Golden Crocodile Douluo said.
Although the Mysterious Heaven Technique allows acquired cultivation, resulting in full soul power everywhere, it can't defy fate. It can only maximize potential based on soul master talent. If you've reached your limit, stagnation will still occur.
"Next, Qing Ming."
"Third brother, it's your son's turn," the Lion Worshipper nudged the Azure Luan Worshipper with his elbow.
Procreation held no appeal for the worshippers, but the allure of a hundred-thousand-year soul ring was irresistible. Thus, the Azure Luan Worshipper charged into battle for one, resulting in Qing Ming.
"I know," the Azure Luan Worshipper said.
A youth with green hair stepped onto the platform. As his martial soul awakened, a crisp bird cry echoed through the entire hall, and an Azure Luan Bird emerged behind him.
Azure Luan Bird, a top-tier beast martial soul; as expected, his tested soul power was full.
"Next, Guang Ning."
A girl emitting an icy aura, with flowing silver hair like the Light Edge Worshipper's, dressed like a porcelain doll, walked onto the platform. Her expression was cold, as if nothing interested her.
She was the daughter of the Light Edge Worshipper—yes, daughter.
The moment her martial soul awakened, the entire room was enveloped in chilling air, and an ice-blue, exquisitely shaped longbow appeared in her hand.
Similar to the Light Edge Divine Bow, but even colder.
She tested her soul power—again, full soul power.
"Next, Tian Yue."
It was the turn of the Second Worshipper's granddaughter. The worshippers held their breaths, watching the golden-haired girl step onto the awakening platform.
The Second Worshipper's granddaughter surely inherited the Second Worshipper's martial soul—it was just unknown whether it was the Golden Crocodile King or the Golden Crocodile martial soul.
In the Golden Crocodile clan, martial souls were basically Golden Crocodile. The Golden Crocodile martial soul was a top-tier one, on the same level as the White Tiger and Blue Electric Overlord Dragon beast martial souls. Its superior form was the Heavenly Crocodile's Golden Crocodile King, a powerful martial soul no less than the Blue Electric Overlord Dragon's superior Golden Holy Dragon martial soul. It was precisely because of this formidable martial soul that the Heavenly Crocodile became the foremost below the limits in this era where the cultivation system was not yet perfected—of course, now the Heavenly Crocodile had reached the limit. (In the current era, there are four limits; the foremost below the limits is the Body Sect Sect Master Huo Qi Qiang, followed by the 98th-level worshippers from Azure Luan to Light Edge.)
Unfortunately, like many powerful martial souls, the Golden Crocodile clan had a single lineage inheritance; otherwise, it wouldn't have given the Blue Electric Overlord Dragon the title of the world's top beast martial soul.
As the Heavenly Crocodile martial soul awakened, a golden giant crocodile let out an intimidating roar. Sensing the aura from Tian Yue that matched his own martial soul, the Heavenly Crocodile excitedly said, "It's the Golden Crocodile King! Hahaha, the Golden Crocodile King has reappeared."
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