Chapter 1 Awakening
Douluo Continent, southwest of Tiandou Empire, Fasno Province.
Hetan Village, a simple and plain name, is a small village with only more than 200 households outside Xiyuehua City in Fasno Province. It is named because there is a river beach not far from the village. By
the river, a small figure sat on a flat stone, wearing a straw hat and holding a thin bamboo pole in his hand. The sunlight shined through the gaps in the leaves, scattering on his body in patches, forming patches of light, swaying gently with the breeze, and a cool breeze appeared in the warmth brought by the sunlight.
The child's eyes were focused on the water, waiting for the signal that the fish was hooked. Occasionally, a dragonfly flew over the water, causing circles of ripples, and the child's eyes moved with it, but he soon returned to the state of concentration on fishing, because it was related to whether he could have an extra meal today.
Suddenly, there was a slight fluctuation on the water, and the bamboo pole in his hand could also feel a pulling force. The child's heartbeat accelerated, and then he raised the bamboo pole in his hand instantly, and a small fish was instantly taken out of the water.
Looking at the fish still jumping around on the grass, the child wearing a straw hat caught the fish and put it into the bucket he was carrying. Looking at the fish in the bucket, he couldn't help but smile on his young face.
Looking at the fish in the bucket, he seemed to remember something. The smile on the child's face slowly disappeared, and a little sadness hung on his young face.
"Unconsciously, it has been six years. I don't know if I can awaken my soul power after coming here." The child looked up at the sky, and his young face showed an expression that did not match his age.
Obviously, this child does not belong to this world. As for how he came here, even he himself does not know.
He just took a nap after work and opened his eyes and became a baby. It tasted like Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly, but this dream has been six years and he has not woken up yet. Gradually, he also accepted this reality.
He was raised by the villagers of Hetan Village since he was a child. When he saw that many villagers could summon objects out of thin air to serve as their labor tools, he knew that he had come to an extraordinary world.
A few years later, when he could speak, he knew where he had come to.
Douluo Continent, the legendary fantasy floor tile, is the most unfriendly world to civilian players. Without golden fingers and inheritance, they are not even cannon fodder. The only chance for civilians is to rely on the possibility of mutation when awakening their martial spirits.
The child stood there, looking at the fish in the bucket with a little fascination. His name is Shi Yi. In his previous life, he was an orphan like now. This is also the name given to him by the dean. In the words of the dean, his surname is Shi. When he was picked up, it was the year of Yi Hai. Hai is the zodiac sign, so he took the name of the heavenly stem. Yi can also be extended to mean inferior, inferior to Jia but only second to Jia. The position of Yi also matches his fate. The right position conforms to the doctrine of the mean, so he was named Shi Yi.
At that time, he was still a child and didn't know what the doctrine of the mean was, what his fate was, he only knew that Jia was better than Yi, but when he grew up, studied, and worked, he gradually realized that this right position was not easy to achieve. Yi may represent the upper limit of ordinary people, and also the upper limit of most people.
Many people try their best but still cannot reach the position of B grade. A person's fate has already determined the highest point that this person can reach, which is more obvious in this world. However, when Shi Yi came to this strange yet familiar world, his fate was changed to a certain extent. This is also the variable that the dean often mentioned in his memory.
"There are fifty great ways, forty-nine heavenly evolutions, and one of them is human escape. Maybe I can catch the only variable."
Just as Shi Yi was recalling the past and wandering in the sky, the fish was flopping in the bucket. The hand that had just caught the fish was full of mucus, so he accidentally overturned the bucket in his hand, and the only fish in the bucket also followed the gushing water and drilled into the river beach.
Shi Yi was slightly startled, looking at the disappearing fish, his young face did not show any anxiety but a smile.
"Xiao Yi, stop fishing, the soul master is almost here." A dry, hoarse and slightly anxious shout sounded in Shi Yi's ears.
Shi Yi turned around and saw a hunched figure not far away looking at him. This figure was none other than Li Changshou, the village chief of Hetan. As the village chief, he had naturally helped Shi Yi.
"Grandpa Changshou, I'm coming!" Shi Yi shouted, not even having time to pack his things. His childish voice carried a hint of excitement and anticipation.
Recently, the Spirit Hall was awakening the children of school age in the villages near Yuehua City. There was no specific time for their arrival. Shi Yi only knew that every spring the Spirit Hall would come to villages like theirs to awaken the children of school age.
Since Shi Yi could walk, he had witnessed four spirit awakening ceremonies, but this small village with only 200 households had not seen a spirit master for several years, which showed how difficult it was to awaken.
The little figure ran to the hunched body, Shi Yi took the old man's slightly withered hand and said, "Grandpa Changshou, let's go."
Feeling the warmth of Shi Yi's palm, the old man's turbid eyes fell on Shi Yi, and a smile appeared on his wrinkled face. He nodded slightly and said softly, "Let's go. The soul master is still waiting. Xiao Yi is so smart, maybe he can awaken his soul power."
"Then I'll borrow your good words." Shi Yi smiled and walked slowly with the old man, expecting but not impatient.
"Oh, haha...you, I don't know where you learned these words at such a young age." Li Changshou smiled and shook his head and said.
Shi Yi didn't answer, but just smiled in agreement and walked slowly towards the village with the old man.
No one would dislike a smart child. As an orphan in his previous life, Shi Yi had been struggling in society for many years, and flattery was just the most basic thing.
The precocious Shi Yi even made many residents of Hetan Village want to adopt him, but Shi Yi fooled them in an ignorant way. It was not that he had any opinions about the villagers, but that he was an orphan in his previous life and had long been accustomed to living alone. Parents were an extremely unfamiliar word to him. Shi Yi also understood that he had long lost the ability to trust others unconditionally.
Everyone wears a mask more or less in real life. It often costs a certain price to get closer to a person and get to know him better. Now the villagers still have goodwill towards him. Shi Yi thinks that there is nothing wrong with maintaining the current relationship with the villagers. If he has the ability, he will also repay the villagers' kindness one by one.
Shi Yi took the village chief by the hand and followed the winding path to gradually see the smoke from the cooking. The two greeted each other all the way and slowly walked towards the wooden house located in the center of the village. This is the Wuhun Hall in the village. It does not need people from the Wuhun Hall to build it. The residents in each village will spontaneously work together to build it, because this wooden house may be the place where the goddess of luck descends and takes them to change their destiny.
The exterior wall of the wooden house was stained with a light brown color by the years, and the roof was covered with thick moss, which looked quite simple. As soon as Shi Yi approached, he heard the chattering of the children. Shi Yi stopped and waited for the arrival of the soul master with the village chief grandfather beside him.
Soon, a young man came into the village with a package. He looked to be in his twenties, with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, and a handsome appearance. He was wearing a white suit, a black cloak on his back, and a fist-sized soul word in the center of his chest. This is the standard dress of the direct staff of the Spirit Hall.
"Hello, respected Master of the Battle Spirit, I am sorry to bother you again this time." Li Changshou bowed to the young man, and Shi Yi also supported him and bowed together.
The man said nothing and nodded arrogantly, as a return gesture.
"I don't have much time, let's get started." The young man urged.
"Master Soul Master, please." Upon hearing this, Li Changshou also hurriedly took Shi Yi's hand and invited the young man into the wooden house.
Shi Yi looked at the back of the young man slowly entering. This young man has been here for four years. It seems that he is the soul master in charge of this village. They don't even know what the young man's name is. Obviously, the young man likes the title of Master Soul Master.
When Li Changshou led the young man in, the children immediately quieted down and naturally lined up in a row, looking at the young man expectantly. Shi Yi glanced at Li Changshou and slowly walked to the edge of the team. Li Changshou also hunched over and slowly left the wooden house, as if he was afraid of disturbing this important ceremony.
A trace of disdain flashed across the young man's face, his brows slightly wrinkled, and he quickly began to open the package in his hand. The wooden house is not used on weekdays, that is, on the day of awakening, the villagers will spontaneously clean it, and there will naturally be a musty smell of wood.
The young man quickly arranged a hexagonal black stone formation on the ground. Shi Yi looked at the black stones on the ground with curiosity, and his tender little hands couldn't help but pinch them, because he knew that in this world where martial spirits determine everything, he would soon be able to see his own fate.
"I will call your name later, stand at this center point." The young man said to the children lightly.
The wooden house was not very bright, but there were a few beams of light shining in from the window. The young man stood in the dark, and his arrogant look made the children a little scared. Hearing the young man's words, the children nodded timidly, and some of the less courageous ones seemed to be scared and dared not respond.
Seeing this, Shi Yi bowed slightly to the young man, "Yes, Master Soul Master."
The young man looked at Shi Yi with a flash of surprise in his eyes, and then heard the next sentence, "The village chief said that Master Soul Master is a good person, you don't have to be afraid."
The young man who heard this also endured his temper and forced a smile and nodded, saying, "Children, brother is here to help you awaken your martial spirits, don't be afraid."
Then, the young man waved his hand and shouted, "Summon, spear."
An extremely ordinary iron spear appeared in the young man's hand, the whole body was black, the spear head was sharp and flashing with metallic luster, and with the appearance of the spear, the young man also played a gun flower in a very showy way.
This made Shi Yi, a social animal who lived in modern civilization in his previous life, feel extremely second-year, and his little toes couldn't help but secretly clicked in embarrassment, but Shi Yi still clapped his hands to show his face. The children beside him looked at the young man's tender eyes full of expectations and admiration, and clapped with Shi Yi.
After the young man's embarrassing performance, the children were no longer afraid. They all obediently followed the young man's instructions.
As the first child slowly walked into the awakening array, the whole wooden house was sometimes bright and sometimes dim. The children also seemed very conscious and followed one after another.
"Sickle... come and test your soul power... without soul power... you can't become a soul master..."
"Blue Silver Grass? You don't need to test it. A useless martial soul has no soul power."
"Hammer... Moonlight Flower... Fan... Shovel..."
The children who awakened these martial souls returned to the team one by one with a look of disappointment. Shi Yi's face was full of emotion when he saw the disappointment on the children's faces. No matter in which world, changing one's fate is an extremely difficult thing.
"Next." It seemed that because of the continuous activation of the awakening array, the young man's face had a little more fatigue, and there was also an impatient tone in his voice.
Shi Yi slowly walked into the awakening array with his eyes closed, as if he was welcoming the arrival of his own destiny. The familiar green light lit up, and his body was surrounded by a layer of faint light. Shi Yi only felt a warm feeling rising.
As time went by, the light became brighter and brighter. Shi Yi could clearly feel something in his right hand, as if it was about to break out of his body. As his heartbeat gradually accelerated, this feeling became stronger and stronger.
Suddenly, there was a slight movement in his palm, which made him tremble all over. "Alive?"
Shi Yi opened his eyes suddenly, and a trace of fear flashed in his eyes. An ant appeared in the palm of his right hand. Its body was slightly larger and slender than a normal ant, with a large head, a pair of compound eyes and long antennae.
The young man also looked at the ant in Shi Yi's hand with great surprise. As a soul master, he certainly noticed that the "martial soul" in Shi Yi's hand was a living thing. Even if he had never seen the martial soul of such a living thing, he could understand that Shi Yi's martial soul had mutated.
"It's actually a mutated martial soul, but it's a pity that it's just an ordinary ant." The young man looked at Shi Yi and sighed.
Shi Yi looked at his palm, and a trace of excitement flashed in his heart. Even if his martial soul was an ant, as long as it mutated, most people could generally awaken their soul power, and his situation seemed to be very similar to Yu Xiaogang.
Shi Yi never expected to awaken some amazing martial spirit, because he knew that it was unrealistic. According to his understanding of Douluo Continent, powerful martial spirits should be passed down through generations of soul masters.
Every family has a genius in the first generation, and the martial spirit will grow with the cultivation of the soul master. Then the martial spirit passed down to the next generation will also have some characteristics obtained by the ancestors through their own efforts to improve their cultivation and add soul rings.
"Let's test the soul power. I don't know what kind of mutation this is, but according to my experience, as long as there is a mutation in the martial spirit, there will be some soul power." The young man whispered to Shi Yi.
Shi Yi nodded and said, "Thank you, brother."
After that, Shi Yi slowly placed his hand on the blue crystal ball in front of the young man.
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(End of this chapter)