"This is…?"
Gu Na'er was just about to speak when a burst of noise suddenly came from outside.
"Hurry, hurry—the Soul Master lord is here!"
"Please, my lord, help awaken my child's martial soul. Our whole family will be grateful to you for a lifetime!"
"Everyone, kneel before the honored Soul Master lord!"
Dozens of similar pleas rang out one after another.
Listening to those voices, filled to the brim with desperate supplication, Gu Na'er suddenly felt extremely uncomfortable inside—along with a trace of confusion.
Martial soul awakening?Wasn't the Spirit Hall—now the Soul Master Guild—providing free awakenings?Why was there such desperate begging?
She stood up and walked out of the room to look outside.
In the next instant, her entire body froze in place, limbs refusing to obey her.
She saw over a hundred ragged villagers leading their children, all kneeling neatly on both sides of the road.
Every single person held high the best thing they could possibly offer—eggs, ducks and geese, lambs, medicinal herbs, even their own rations.
Their hearts were clearly aching, yet they still forced smiles onto their faces, terrified of displeasing the other party.
And among them stood a Soul Master, two soul rings—a white one and a yellow one—rotating beneath his feet.
His face was filled with disdain and mockery.
"Martial soul awakening decides your entire life's fate, and you want to use this pile of trash to beg me to help you?"
"What, you take me for a sucker?"
"Twenty gold soul coins. Not one coin less."
"Wasn't it ten coins in previous years?"
"Awakening the martial soul is ten, sure—but I had to travel all this way too. This godforsaken place where even birds don't shit—travel expenses are worth another ten."
Gu Na'er's eyes widened involuntarily.
Within the Heavenly Empire, there was a special department called the Audit Office, directly overseen by Qian Renxue's grandfather, the Grand Steward Qian Daoliu.
Its primary duties included secondary reviews of abnormal expenditures in regional and departmental finances, as well as issuing statistical reports on public conditions—population, land, taxation, commerce, and more.
In just one year since its establishment, almost every report had caused a major stir within the empire.
As a result, even someone like her—a noble who had never personally gone among the common people—clearly understood what ten gold soul coins meant to ordinary civilians.
A craftsman with his own trade and stable work would likely need ten full years—without illness or disaster, rising early and working late every single day—to save that much.
Tang San once worked at a blacksmith shop in Notting City, swinging the Chaotic Wind Hammer until it smoked—and his monthly wage was only one silver soul coin.
…
Elsewhere, Ning Rongrong appeared at a junior Soul Master academy.
The moment she revealed her Nine-Colored Glazed Pagoda martial soul, it immediately drew crowds of students and teachers.
The Nine-Colored Glazed Pagoda was a new form evolved from the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda after contracting the Qiluo Tulip Soul Spirit.
Not only were its support abilities heaven-defying, it could now attack and defend as well—and its appearance had skyrocketed in beauty, dazzling and magnificent.
"What kind of martial soul is that? It's so pretty."
"Nine-Colored Glazed Pagoda."
"What's a Nine-Colored Glazed Pagoda? Defense-type? Control-type?"
"You don't even know the Nine-Colored Glazed Pagoda? Then you've at least heard of the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, right? The Nine-Colored Glazed Pagoda evolved from it—it's even stronger as a support."
"Never heard of it."
Seeing everyone around her shake their heads in unison, faces filled with deep confusion—
As if saying: Is the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda famous? Why should we have heard of it?
Ning Rongrong's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
A terrible premonition surged up inside her.
Could it be that the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect had declined—or even disappeared?
…
Qian Renxue was also at a Soul Master academy.
From the teaching materials she had received, she quickly learned that the time she appeared in was roughly ten thousand years later—and that ten thousand years ago, there had been no Nangong Lingyun. The most famous figure was someone named Tang San.
That alone was shocking, but barely acceptable.
However, when she read further—
Her mind completely short-circuited.
Her mouth fell open in utter disbelief and stayed that way.
The textbooks of this era actually claimed that "The Ten Core Competencies of Martial Souls" was a revolutionary masterpiece of the entire Soul Master system—
Described with phrases like "opening heaven and earth," "illuminating the future," "first to dispel ignorance," and "the light of Soul Masters."
As if, before Yu Xiaogang, Soul Masters had all been cultivating blindly like idiots.
And when she finally read the so-called revolutionary content itself, Qian Renxue completely lost it.
Everyone can awaken a martial soul at six years old, but not everyone has soul power.
Isn't this just taking off your pants to fart?
The Soul Master system has existed for over three million years. Does awakening at six really need you to discover it?Were people in the past awakening at three or ten instead?
Innate soul power level is proportional to the strength of the martial soul.
Same nonsense!
Martial souls only include tool-type and beast-type. There are no others.
They don't even know about body martial souls, elemental martial souls, divine martial souls, or divine beast martial souls?
This is just flat-out wrong.
Each Soul Master and martial soul has its own development path.
Correct—but pure bullshit.
Martial Soul Mimicry Theory: plant martial souls don't necessarily need plant-type soul rings; beast soul rings can also be absorbed.
This one was the most laughable.
You can survive eating shit—but why would you choose that over food?
Yes, plant martial souls can absorb beast soul rings—but the cost far outweighs the benefit.
It severely damages martial soul evolution, ability development, skill effects, and even the Soul Master's physical and mental growth.
Soul ring bottlenecks do not stop soul power growth; without rings, you simply can't enter the next stage.
More correct nonsense.
Do Soul Emperors and Soul Sages cultivate at the same speed?Is cultivation speed the same before and after breaking a bottleneck?
If that were true, why doesn't anyone skip all soul rings, cultivate straight to level ninety, then attach ten-thousand-year rings all at once?
There are no trash martial souls, only trash Soul Masters.
Umm…
The only correct theory here—
Which proves Yu Xiaogang himself is the ultimate piece of trash.
Only the person who personally kills a soul beast can absorb the soul ring it produces.
Bullshit.
Martial soul heterogenous fusion theory: different martial souls can also train fusion skills.
Bullshit of the highest order.
As for the tenth point—
Maximum soul ring age limits:First ring: 423 yearsSecond ring: 764 yearsThird ring: 1,760 yearsFourth ring: 5,000 yearsFifth ring: 12,000 years…
This wasn't even worth commenting on.
Martial soul quality, physical strength, and mental power vary from person to person.
The bloodline level and attribute compatibility of absorbed soul beasts also differ.
There could never be a unified soul ring age standard.
After reading these so-called "epoch-making" theories, Qian Renxue felt her brain simply wasn't enough anymore.
How could something like this actually get hyped up—
And even be printed openly in textbooks for everyone to study?
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