When everyone had entered the wooden hut, the large door was closed once again.
Arriving at the center of the room, Su Yuntao wasted no time with unnecessary words.
He directly took out six pitch-black stones from his carry-on bag and arranged them into a hexagonal formation on the ground.
“Lone Wolf, possess!”
With a low shout, Su Yuntao’s body suddenly swelled.
Hair sprouted all over, and his eyes gleamed with a green light.
At the same time, two spirit rings rose beneath his feet—one white, one yellow.
“Ah!”
Several of the more timid children screamed in fright, their bodies instinctively shrinking backward.
Though Lu Yuan had been mentally prepared, witnessing this oppressive scene with his own eyes still caused his heartbeat to quicken involuntarily.
“So this is the power of a spirit master?
Truly, ordinary people are as insignificant as ants before a spirit master.”
“Don’t panic!”
As he spoke, Su Yuntao shifted backward by a pace, just enough to put some distance between himself and the children.
Then he said in a soothing tone:
“I am your guide.
Now, come up one by one and stand inside the formation.”
The children standing at the front looked at each other hesitantly.
They wanted to step forward but didn’t dare, each of them lingering in indecision.
Helpless, Su Yuntao had no choice but to call out names himself.
The awakening ceremony began.
The first child walked unsteadily into the hexagram pattern.
Then Su Yuntao channeled his spirit power, and a warm energy was released from the six stones, forming a pale golden light that enveloped the child.
In the next moment, a pair of scissors appeared in the child’s hand.
Following protocol, Su Yuntao picked up a blue crystal ball and handed it to the boy.
“Scissors, no spirit power.
Next.” Su Yuntao’s face was expressionless.
The second, the third…
“Hoe, no spirit power.”
“Blue Silver Grass, no spirit power.”
The disappointment in Su Yuntao’s eyes grew thicker and thicker.
He had already visited nine villages.
Apart from encountering a Blue Silver Grass with innate full spirit power in Shenghun Village (Tang San), the rest were all ordinary people without spirit power.
“Next.” Like a wind-up machine, Su Yuntao repeated the same motions and similar words.
Finally, it was Lu Yuan’s turn.
He took a deep breath and stepped into the hexagram formation.
“Don’t be afraid, child!” Perhaps because Lu Yuan had a pleasing appearance, or perhaps for some other reason—even Su Yuntao himself didn’t know why—his tone was unusually gentle.
Standing outside the formation, he encouraged in a low voice: “Close your eyes and feel the warmth flowing inside your body.”
Following Su Yuntao’s instructions, Lu Yuan closed his eyes.
Instantly, a surge of warm energy poured into his body from the black stones beneath his feet, flowing through his meridians and circulating throughout his entire being.
The sensation wasn’t painful at all; rather, it was like soaking in a hot spring on a winter’s day—so comfortable it made one want to moan.
“Stretch out your right hand.” Su Yuntao’s voice sounded by his ear.
Lu Yuan slowly extended his right hand.
In his palm, a wisp of gray-black light began to condense.
Su Yuntao glanced at it and subconsciously swallowed.
The color of this light, the fluctuation of this energy—could it be that this child truly would become a spirit master?
In that instant, the heavens and earth underwent a bizarre transformation!
Above the Douluo Continent, the previously clear sky was now shrouded by a mass of black clouds.
The oppressive, dark clouds covered half the planet.
…
The Divine Realm.
Sensing a terrifying pressure approaching, the five enforcers of the Divine Realm immediately gathered at the Divine Realm’s central hub.
The Evil and Good God Kings and the others: “Destruction, Asura, what have you two done this time?
I just felt like the Divine Realm was about to collapse.”
Rolling his eyes at the Evil God King, the Destruction God King said impatiently: “You should be asking Asura.
It’s whatever he’s been messing with that nearly destroyed the Divine Realm.”
Meeting Destruction’s furious gaze, the Asura God, who had been unjustly accused, replied in no polite tone: “Destruction, if you’re going to speak, bring evidence.
When have I ever done anything to harm the Divine Realm?”
Destruction let out a contemptuous laugh and pointed at the Douluo Star below, now covered in black clouds: “Heh, a dignified enforcer of the Divine Realm, breaking the very laws you’re supposed to uphold—do I need to remind you of that little incident last time?”
Following the direction Destruction pointed, the Asura God truly felt like a man covered in mud who couldn’t explain himself—bitter and speechless.
“Hmph, I don’t understand what you’re talking about.
And this black fog wasn’t caused by me.” As an enforcer, he knew well that the more he said, the more mistakes he’d make.
So he merely snorted coldly, denying Destruction’s accusation, and offered no further explanation.
The black fog came and went quickly.
Just as the several God Kings were arguing among themselves, the black mist dispersed in an instant.
The five God Kings scanned the Douluo Star back and forth over a dozen times but ultimately found no abnormality.
Left with no choice, they could only suspend their investigation for the time being.
Meanwhile, on the Douluo Star.
The three divine inheritance sites also felt an extremely powerful pressure.
However, no one else seemed to sense anything at all.
It was as if this pressure was directed only at the gods and their inheritors.
In order to uncover the source of this pressure, the Spirit Hall and Sea God Island issued the exact same message at the exact same time.
“Search for the source of the strange pressure!”
Qian Daoliu, Bo Saixi, Bibi Dong: “Yes!
×3”
…
However, when the light completely faded, a gray-black humanoid figure and a crow suddenly appeared behind Lu Yuan.
This figure…
was tall and slender, standing straight as a spear, utterly motionless.
It radiated an icy coldness, majesty, and an overwhelming sense of oppression.
Just one look at it made one’s hair stand on end.
Its face was as sharply defined as if carved by a knife—high brow bones, deep-set eye sockets, and pitch-black, hollow eyes that revealed coldness and indifference.
The crow, meanwhile, stood quietly on the figure’s shoulder, appearing harmless and motionless, like nothing more than an ornament.
Complete silence fell over the room.
Su Yuntao was stunned.
The watching children were stunned as well.
“Th-this…
what kind of martial soul is this?” Su Yuntao’s Adam’s apple bobbed up and down, his body unconsciously taking two steps back, his voice carrying a slight tremor.
“A beast martial soul?
Why does it feel like the oppression from this martial soul is even stronger than that of those elders from the Spirit Hall branches?”
Lu Yuan sensed the information transmitted from the martial soul behind him.
A humanoid martial soul?
Kula?
As if struck by a realization, Lu Yuan felt even more elated than if he had won a fifty-million jackpot.
The upward curl of his lips simply could not be suppressed.
As a transmigrator who had watched Rainbow Sea Star, how could he not recognize the name “Kula”?
That phrase—”To be continued!”—had deceived his entire childhood!
What was Kula?
The major boss from the early stages of Rainbow Sea Star!
If it weren’t for McDonald’s protagonist halo combined with the extreme cold weather, how could Kula have possibly been defeated?
This was a powerhouse capable of bombarding half a planet!
“Ahem.” To cover up the fact that he had just been startled, Su Yuntao forced himself to stay calm and instantly resumed his stern expression.
“Little friend, what is this martial soul of yours?
What is its name?”
By now, Lu Yuan was already lost in his own world, fantasizing about ascending to the Divine Realm and ruling over the entire Douluo cosmic plane.
He couldn’t hear a single word Su Yuntao was saying.
Noticing that Lu Yuan seemed to be in a daze, Su Yuntao looked again at the gray figure—but the oppressive pressure was gone, as if it were merely the most ordinary of ordinary martial souls.
Gently patting Lu Yuan’s shoulder, Su Yuntao called out again.
“Hm?” Sensing someone patting him, Lu Yuan snapped back to reality.
Smiling at Su Yuntao, he asked in confusion, “What is it, Sir Su Yuntao?”
Seeing this, Su Yuntao wore a somewhat helpless expression and repeated his question.
“Little friend, what martial soul did you awaken?”
Lu Yuan pinched his chin with his right hand, thinking for a moment, before slowly speaking.
“Hmm…
to answer you, Master Su, the only information my martial soul transmitted to me was a name—Kula!
It seems somewhat similar to your martial soul, though mine is humanoid.”
“Beast martial soul, Kula?”
He repeated these words over and over in his mind, racking his brain for a long while but failing to find a clear answer from his past memories.
In the end, he had no choice but to give up on further exploration.
He paused for a moment and once again took out that blue crystal ball.
“No matter what it is, let’s test your spirit power first.
Place your hand on it.”