After the fall of the Spirit Hall ten thousand years ago, the two empires also tried free spirit awakening for a while, but they gave up after a few years.
The reason is that it's a thankless task. Although spirit masters can indeed make them play a greater role in the war, the probability of ordinary people awakening a being with innate spirit power is pitifully low.
In the year when Tang San awakened his spirit in his previous life, he and Xiao Wu were the only ones in several villages around Notting City who enrolled as work-study students. Xiao Wu was a 100,000-year spirit beast, and his father Tang Hao was a titled Douluo, and his mother was a 100,000-year spirit beast. In addition, with Xuantian Gong, he was completely out of the category of civilians.
Among real civilians, it is enough to burn incense if one out of twenty can awaken innate spirit power.
This is the first reason. The proportion of people who can awaken innate spirit power is too low. Without innate spirit power, awakening spirit is completely in vain, and the combat power is almost the same as that of ordinary people.
Secondly, even if he really has innate soul power, his future achievements will be very limited.
Soul masters' talents are inherited just like their martial souls. Children born to two civilians without soul power will not have very high innate soul power unless their martial souls mutate.
It is completely foreseeable that this kind of innate soul power talent, which is generally one or two levels, will stop at one or two rings in the future.
You should know that the master ten thousand years ago was the son of the leader of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect. As one of the top three sects, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect, with such a powerful sect power, could not use resources to raise his cultivation to soul master with half-level innate soul power. In comparison, other ordinary people would probably have lower achievements without the support of a sect's resources.
And a master of level 29 would have a hard time fighting a hundred-year soul beast. If they really had to fight, they would not be much better than the well-trained soldiers who formed an army. After all, the martial souls among soul masters are of various types, and they are not much better when they really cooperate.
A force of one hundred soul kings may be able to match an army of thousands of people, but a force of one hundred great soul masters is nothing.
Third, soul masters do not necessarily obey orders.
The two empires' free awakening of soul masters is naturally to prepare for war, but soul masters may not necessarily join the army. If they want to fight for their lives, the price they pay is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers, which further reduces the benefits of free awakening of martial spirits.
Under various factors, the two empires will naturally not awaken martial spirits for free in every village like the Wuhun Hall.
Of course, if the road to becoming a soul master is completely blocked, it may cause a backlash from civilians, so the paid awakening is naturally born.
As long as the price of this seemingly rigidly needed thing is set at a level that most people need to save money for a long time and try their best to buy, this backlash can be greatly alleviated and civilians can be divided.
Whenever someone raises an objection that the cost of awakening a martial soul is too expensive, another group of people who have already spent money to awaken will come out to criticize. After all, they have already spent money. If the price is reduced, won't they suffer a loss?
When they compromise, their positions have already changed.
And in order to facilitate the nobles and the royal family to better control the group of soul masters, two free ways to awaken martial souls, joining the nobles or the army, were born.
Even so, there are still a considerable number of ordinary people who have not awakened martial souls. Among them, there are many who have good parents like Tang San, or whose parents have died and grandparents are bedridden. This kind of thing is not uncommon in some remote villages. The burden of the family falls entirely on the children. Even if they don't have to pay anything, they can't leave the village for several days to go to the town to awaken their martial souls.
Of course, Tang San doesn't care about all this. He is not in a very good mood at the moment.
If it were him in his previous life, he would never have thought that he would be reborn again and even have difficulty awakening his martial soul.
It was naturally impossible to join the nobles as a servant or join the army, and the only thing left was to pay for awakening. His father could not be relied on for the money, so he could only go out and see if he could make some money.
He couldn't help but feel irritated when he thought of this. The quality of this body was much worse than his previous life. Although he had not awakened, he could vaguely feel that his innate soul power was only about one or two levels. He was already slow to practice Xuantian Gong at the age of six, and he had to divide his energy to make money.
Fortunately, after experiencing his previous life, his understanding of Xuantian Gong has improved a bit. Now that he is in a big city, he can buy some herbs to assist in his practice, which can speed up a lot.
There are no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters!
At this moment, he recalled the teachings of his teacher ten thousand years ago in his mind, like a shot of cardiotonic injection, and he rekindled his raging fighting spirit.
Even if he is reborn again, what can he do? He, Tang San, will still reach the top of the world!
Although Huo Yuhao was the one who caused all this, compared to seeking revenge on Huo Yuhao, becoming a god again was the most important thing. After all, even if he avenged himself, without the godhood, his life span would only be a few hundred years at most, which he absolutely could not accept.
Even if he had this idea, he currently had no idea how to become a god.
You have to know that the channel for ascending to the God Realm in the current Douluo plane has been controlled by his former self, and it is impossible to become a god through normal means.
Should I reveal my identity, let Tang San of the God Realm notice me, and then pass down the position of God to me?
As soon as this method appeared in my mind, it was rejected by Tang San. Just kidding, although on the surface he was righteous and said that managing the God Realm was too tiring and wanted to pass the position down.
But this kind of thing can be fooled to others, but naturally he can't fool himself.
Let alone the position of Shura God, he would not let go even if it was the position of Sea God.
If Tang San of the God Realm knew that he was the future Tang San, the only thing he would do was to find ways to make himself die in the lower realm, and he would never allow another self to exist.
He didn't know if he could return to the original time and space, but it seemed that there was little hope. He had to make plans to stay in this time and space forever.
If he became a god, would he have to watch another self and Xiao Wu being intimate?
Impossible.
He would never share Xiao Wu with another person, even if that person was his former self. From the beginning, he and Tang San of the God Realm would not be in the same camp.
In order to become a god and to snatch Xiao Wu back, he must kill Tang San of the God Realm in this time and space and take his place.
Thinking of this, he looked inward at his spiritual space. After seeing a golden trident quietly floating in it, he became more and more irritated.
When he fought Huo Yuhao before his rebirth, the Shura power was exhausted, and he temporarily switched the god position with Xiao Wu, causing him to enter the time and space turbulence as the Sea God, and the golden trident was reborn here with his soul.
If he had known earlier, he would have been reborn with the Shura god position, so that he might have a more powerful Shura sword.
But things have already happened, and he can't complain about the world. Even if he has a divine weapon, he dare not use it easily. Once Tang San of the God Realm finds out that he also has a trident, the worst result is that he realizes his identity.
Even if he cannot do it openly due to the rules of the God Realm, he will definitely use other methods. Before he truly has the ability to protect himself, he must not use this artifact.