Chapter 1: Soul Awakening (Please collect)

Nottingham, Maple Leaf Village.

Today is a special day. Gu Yi got up early and came to the Wuhun Hall in the center of the village, waiting for the moment that would decide his fate.

Gu Yi looked at the simple Spirit Hall not far away and couldn't help feeling excited.

"It has been six years since I traveled to Douluo Continent. It is finally time for my martial spirit to awaken."

"I just don't know what my martial soul is, and what level my innate soul power is?"

Gu Yi is a time traveler from Earth. As for the reasons for his time travel, I will not elaborate on them.

After six years, Gu Yi already knew which world he had traveled to.

Douluo Continent, a world with unique martial spirits, a world jokingly called fantasy floor tiles and sewers by netizens.

In this world, everyone has the opportunity to awaken their martial spirit when they reach the age of six.

The martial spirits that humans can awaken are varied and varied, including tools like hammers and sickles, plants like blue silver grass and vines, and animals like wolves, tigers, and rabbits.

Even certain parts of the human body, such as limbs, organs, and tissues, can become martial spirits.

Therefore, martial souls can be roughly divided into two types: beast martial souls and weapon martial souls.

Among them, a small number of people, after awakening their martial souls, can possess innate soul power, embark on the path of cultivation, and become a noble soul master.

Moreover, innate soul power also determines a person's talent.

The higher the innate soul power, the higher the achievements that can be achieved in the future.

It can be said that the awakening of the martial soul is the most important ceremony on the Douluo Continent, which determines a person's future destiny and is countless times more important than the college entrance examination on Earth!
So Gu Yi is looking forward to the next awakening of his martial soul.

Like most time travelers, Gu Yi is an orphan.

When he was two or three years old, his parents in this life unfortunately died in an accident while out collecting herbs.

Gu Yi was able to survive all these years thanks to the help from the villagers of Maple Leaf Village.

Gu Yi is also very sensible.

Normally, the young Gu Yi would help the villagers and do things within his ability.

For example, cleaning the house and yard, watering the vegetable garden, fetching water for the elderly with limited mobility, helping to herd sheep and cattle, etc.

When he was four years old, Gu Yi started to go out to collect herbs based on the books on medicinal materials left by his parents.

——The Gu family has been collecting herbal medicines in Maple Leaf Village for generations. They are also rural doctors who can treat minor illnesses and injuries for the villagers.

In this way, relying on the medicinal herbs he occasionally collected, Gu Yi was able to earn some soul coins and no longer needed help from the villagers, so he could support himself.

Over the years, Gu Yi has been preparing for the awakening of his martial soul. He constantly exercises his body on a daily basis and regulates his body with diet and medicine, just to make his innate soul power higher and not be dragged down by his physique or malnutrition.

Now the day of awakening has finally come!
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Time passed little by little, and several other children of appropriate age in Maple Leaf Village also came to the outside of the Spirit Hall under the guidance of their parents and waited like Gu Yi.

When the sun was high in the sky, the old chief of Maple Leaf Village came with a handsome young man in a white suit and a black cloak behind him.

The village chief smiled and told the young man something.

Gu Yi looked over and found a word "Soul" in the center of the young man's chest, indicating his identity as a direct subordinate of the Spirit Hall.

Obviously, he is the soul master responsible for awakening the martial spirits for everyone in Maple Leaf Village for free this year.

The young man led Gu Yi and other children of the same age into the Spirit Hall and said with a smile: "Children, my name is Su Yuntao, a level 26 Great Spirit Master, and I am your guide. Now I will help you awaken your spirits. Remember, don't be afraid no matter what happens."

Gu Yi's spirits perked up, his eyes sparkled, and he thought to himself, "It seems that he is the legendary blind god king Su Yuntao."

Gu Yi, who has read the original Douluo novel and various fan fictions, is naturally familiar with this famous blind god king on the Douluo Continent.

I wonder how many people who awakened their martial spirits through him and were called "wasted martial spirits" became gods...

Under Su Yuntao's guidance, the children of Maple Leaf Village awakened their martial spirits one after another.

"Martial Soul, hoe, no innate soul power"

"Martial Soul, Maple Leaf, has no innate soul power"

"Martial Soul, Blue Silver Grass..."

Most of the children in Maple Leaf Village have useless martial spirits, and none of them has innate soul power or the talent to become a soul master.

This made Su Yuntao, who was in charge of awakening, look disappointed.

Su Yuntao sighed: "It is really too unlikely for ordinary people to produce a soul master seed, far less than those soul master families."

Soon it was the last person's turn, Gu Yi.

Following the experience of the previous few people, Gu Yi walked directly into the center of the hexagram formation composed of six black stones.

Su Yuntao, whose face was pale due to excessive consumption of soul power, perked up and input six soul powers into the hexagram formation again.

A light golden light emerged, forming a light shield that enveloped Gu Yi.

Gu Yi only felt a warm breath filling his whole body, just like soaking in a hot spring, which was very real.

He also felt that this breath was gradually drawing out the latent power in his body.

Bo~
A crisp sound appeared in Gu Yi's mind, and the warm breath flowed into his right hand, emitting a blood-red glow.

Su Yuntao was confused and uncertain, "Is this... blood?"

I saw something appear on Gu Yi's right palm. It was a small ball of blood, which was rippling slightly like water waves and emitting a faint smell of blood.

"Blood Martial Spirit!"

Even Su Yuntao, a great spirit master of the Spirit Hall who had awakened many spirits and was "well-informed", was somewhat stunned at this moment.

He didn't expect that there would be someone whose martial spirit was blood.

Can things inside the human body also become martial spirits?

Is this blood martial soul considered a beast martial soul or a weapon martial soul?

Suddenly, Su Yuntao had a flash of inspiration and remembered a book about martial spirits that he had read in the library of the Spirit Hall a few years ago.

"No, it seems that there is such a kind of martial soul, which seems to be called the main body martial soul."

"But the main body's martial spirits are all useless martial spirits."

Su Yuntao recalled what was written in the book. The body spirit was a special kind of spirit, a spirit formed by a part of the human body. However, the body spirit's enhancement of a person's strength, speed, etc. was not as good as the beast spirit that could possess the spirit and possess the power of a wild beast.

In terms of defense, it is not as good as the weapon spirit that can be used outside the body and does not affect the soul master.

A soul master with a true spirit can easily suffer damage to his spirit if he is not careful during battle.

Because the martial soul battles they engage in require the use of part of their bodies, if the martial soul is injured, it is equivalent to physical injury.

Therefore, in this era, the main body spirit is basically the same as the blue silver grass, maple leaf and other spirits.

For example, the blood spirit of the child in front of him, what can it do?
Can you use a drop of blood to hit someone?
Can the blood block his claws after he is possessed by the Lone Wolf?

It is even worse than the blue silver grass. After all, the blue silver grass can be used to feed pigs.

If you can't attack when you need to, and can't defend when you need to, this is not a waste of martial spirit. Then what is a waste of martial spirit?

Thinking of this, Su Yuntao couldn't help but show a hint of disappointment on his face.

"Another useless martial spirit, the bloody martial spirit."

Hearing this, Gu Yi disagreed.

The original martial soul is a useless martial soul?

Perhaps this is the perception of soul masters in this era.

But Gu Yi knew clearly that it was because the current martial soul masters had not undergone a second awakening of their martial souls.

Once the main body's martial soul awakens for the second time, its quality and power will be greatly improved.

Ten thousand years later, the Body Sect, founded by the Body Martial Soul Master, relied on this unique skill to become one of the most powerful forces in the Douluo Continent, and many Titled Douluos emerged.

This shows how powerful the original martial soul is.

Besides, who said that Gu Yi only had the blood spirit?

Although Su Yuntao was a little disappointed, he still performed his duties conscientiously and did not forget to help Gu Yi complete the last step of the martial soul awakening ceremony.

"Well, let's test whether you have innate soul power."

After all, not long ago, when the martial spirit was awakened in another village, there was a child who awakened a useless martial spirit of Blue Silver Grass and possessed full innate soul power.

Who knows, maybe this little guy in front of me also has soul power.

Gu Yi nodded obediently, and first followed the method taught by Su Yuntao to control the blood clot in the palm of his hand and absorb it into his body, and then placed his little hand on the crystal ball.

Gu Yi's body trembled, and he felt a suction force emerging from the crystal ball, sucking the energy in his body into it.

Su Yuntao looked at the crystal ball emitting the familiar dazzling light and could no longer hold back his performance.

"Innately full of soul power!!"

"How come there is another one with full innate soul power, and he also has a useless martial soul!"

Su Yuntao was devastated.

Originally, the fact that he awakened two geniuses with innate full soul power was something worth bragging about for the rest of his life.

After reporting this matter to the Spirit Hall, you can also gain considerable credit.

Who knows, he might be able to become a senior deacon of the Notting City Wuhun Branch Hall with this achievement, and he might even be able to successfully propose to Sisi.

But he didn't expect that the two geniuses both possessed useless martial spirits, which made Su Yuntao very disappointed.

However, having full innate soul power is always better than having no soul power at all.

They only need to absorb one spirit ring to become a one-ring spirit master.

Su Yuntao cheered up, opened a martial spirit certificate for Gu Yi, and casually extended an invitation to Gu Yi.

"Child, are you willing to join my Spirit Hall?"

Gu Yi was immersed in the surprise of his innate full soul power at the moment. Hearing Su Yuntao's question, he came back to his senses, thought for a moment, shook his head and refused:

"Master, I would like to ask my family for their opinion and decide not to join the Spirit Hall for the time being."

Su Yuntao didn't care. After all, Gu Yi was really young and he needed to ask his family.

He believed that with the reputation of the Spirit Hall, Gu Yi's family would definitely let Gu Yi join after knowing about it.

Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that Gu Yi was an orphan.

Su Yuntao nodded and said, "Well, if you have figured it out and are willing to join the Spirit Hall, you can find me at the Spirit Hall in Notting City."

……

Looking at Su Yuntao's receding figure, Gu Yi's expression was calm.

The old village chief 'Tom' standing by seemed much more excited.

There hasn't been a person with innate soul power in Maple Leaf Village for many years. Now that a genius with innate soul power like Gu Yi has appeared, how can Tom not be excited.

"I didn't expect that Xiao Yi has soul power and can become a respected soul master. If the Gu family knew about this, they would be extremely pleased in the underworld."

Old Tom looked at Gu Yi, who was sensible, and sighed in his heart.

Old Tom touched Gu Yi's head and said with a smile: "Xiao Yi, do you want to go to the Soul Master Academy to learn the soul master's cultivation methods and various knowledge?"

Gu Yi nodded: "Well, I do."

Old Tom said, "Well, I'll talk to the village chiefs of several nearby villages and I'll give you this year's work-study student quota."

Maple Leaf Village is not like Holy Soul Village. In the past, when a Soul Saint appeared, the village could have a place for a work-study student.

They share one quota among several nearby villages. Every year after the martial spirit awakens, the village where a child with soul master talent appears will use this quota.

Gu Yi quickly thanked him: "Thank you, Grandpa Tom."

Gu Yi's current net worth totals only four or five Silver Soul Coins.

If there were no places for work-study students, Gu Yi's family would not have the money to study at Notting College.

If there are places for work-study students, Gu Yi won’t have to worry about tuition fees at least.

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(End of this chapter)