Douluo's ice devil Yuhao

Chapter 549 Martial Spirit Awakening

Douling Empire, southern border.

This was the small town where the remnants of the Holy Spirit Church had chosen to hide their whereabouts. Unfortunately, before they could start over, it completely disappeared from the continent.

However, the Holy Spirit Church did perish, but the soil where the Holy Spirit Church was born has never changed. Evil soul masters will not disappear just because the Holy Spirit Church is gone.

At this moment, in the center of a small town outside the city, a lot of adults and children gathered around a slightly spacious building. Judging from their clothes, they were naturally residents of the surrounding villages.

For these farmers, there are few major events that are worth such fanfare. Today is one of the few major events, the martial spirit awakening ceremony.

Huo Yuhao stood outside the crowd, using spiritual detection to sense the awakening situation and carefully observing the children who were about to awaken their martial spirits.

They were either curious or nervous, and their eyes revealed excitement. For them, who were only six years old, they did not realize the importance of martial spirit awakening to their future life.

Huo Yuhao's attention swept over these children one by one. He could see the result without waiting for the ceremony to officially begin.

Most of these children from farming families are ordinary people without any fluctuations in soul power. Occasionally, one or two of them have slight fluctuations in soul power, which are also between half level and one level.

Their parents did not expect their children to awaken their soul power and become soul masters in the future. As long as their martial souls could be used as farm tools to help with production and labor, they would be satisfied.

Huo Yuhao’s attention is now all focused on a special child.

He was a boy who was not very sociable, wearing simple coarse cloth. While other children gathered together to chatter and play, he stood away from the crowd, alone, with no excitement in his eyes, as if he had no interest in the results of the next martial spirit awakening.

He didn't have any parents with him and seemed all alone, but he didn't care.

Everyone else just thought he was an ordinary kid with a withdrawn personality, but Huo Yuhao was the only one who cared about him extremely.

Because only in his body, a kind of abundant soul power fluctuation is constantly brewing, waiting to burst out at the same time as the martial soul awakens. But this soul power fluctuation is not the point, but his body also exudes a very special dark aura.

Ordinary people and low-level soul masters cannot feel it, but Huo Yuhao is extremely sensitive to it. This is the sign of the evil martial soul.

He was the extremely calm boy that Huo Yuhao met when he put an end to the Holy Spirit Sect. The purpose of Huo Yuhao's visit to the Douluo Empire this time was to bring back all of these children who might have evil martial spirits at once.

The protagonists today are those children, and no one will pay attention to Huo Yuhao, an outsider.

Seeing that the time was almost up, an old man with withered skin and thin body said in a deep voice: "Okay, we are almost ready, let's start the martial soul awakening."

"This year, our town has invited Master Chen from the city to come and awaken the children of each family. Please come door to door in the order of each village."

Everyone echoed: "Yes, Mayor."

After he finished speaking, he made a gesture of invitation with great respect. A young soul master who looked to be in his thirties came out, took out the awakening stone and crystal ball and placed them, motioning each family to line up.

Next came the work of Master Chen. One child after another began the awakening ceremony under his guidance.

The first one to awaken was a little girl. She seemed to be developing faster than the other children and did not look like she was six years old.

As the light gradually converged, a small knife only five or six inches long appeared in his hand.

"Knife, weapon spirit." Master Chen said mechanically.

He handed the crystal ball to the girl again, but there was no response.

"No soul power, next one."

The little girl walked away somewhat disappointed, followed by the next child who couldn't wait.

Huo Yuhao frowned, feeling a little confused. At this time, the mayor next to him walked straight towards him and asked, "Young man, you are not a local, right?"

As the mayor walked over, the boy also looked over here.

Huo Yuhao smiled and nodded: "I heard that there is a martial spirit awakening ceremony here, so I came to take a look and see if I can take away some talented children to train."

The mayor's eyes widened slightly, and he asked in a surprised tone: "You, are you a soul master?"

“I guess so.” Huo Yuhao said casually.

The mayor's expression was extremely excited, but he soon smiled bitterly and said, "Master Soul Master, you have come to the wrong place. There are not many talented children in a small place like ours. Only five or six people can go to the junior college every year."

“Maybe there will be some promising children.” Huo Yuhao glanced at the children waiting and asked, “Mayor, I see that some of your children are not six years old, but seven or eight years old. Why are they awakening only now?”

The mayor sighed and said, "Soul Master, you don't know that in a small place like ours, there are no promising soul masters. Even the junior college will not come to our group of children to awaken."

"Every few years the town collects money to invite spirit masters from the city. Many spirit masters think it's troublesome and a waste of time, and simply don't care about it."

Huo Yuhao nodded. Since they basically had no soul power anyway, whether they awakened or not actually had little impact on these children.

The scary thing is that if some children with soul power really appear, they will waste so much time if they awaken one or two years later. One or two years means a difference of one or two levels of soul power, which is especially important for these children with congenital deficiencies.

The awakening ceremony continued, and Huo Yuhao discovered that the boy did not seem to care about the other awakening children and was always observing him.

"Martial Soul, Blue Silver Grass, Innate Zero Soul Power."

Another disappointed child.

Compared to tools that can be used for labor, blue silver grass is really useless.

"Blue Silver Grass." The mayor said with some emotion, "Legend has it that the martial spirit of Sea God Tang San ten thousand years ago was the weak Blue Silver Grass."

“Maybe that’s not Blue Silver Grass at all.” The one who refuted was not Huo Yuhao, but the boy who had been silent the whole time.

Huo Yuhao looked at him in surprise: "Why do you think so?"

"Because I have never heard of another strong man with Blue Silver Grass spirit." The boy answered straightforwardly.

The mayor was a little angry when he heard this: "Xiaofeng, that's the legendary Sea God, how can you say that?"

Huo Yuhao asked with interest: "Oh? Do you believe in Poseidon?"

The boy said calmly, "Why should I believe him?"

"Because you believe in him, he will protect you."

"Then I might as well trust the mayor." The boy said calmly, "Because the mayor really took me in."

Hearing this, the anger on the mayor's haggard face froze, and soon turned into a helpless sigh. He waved his hand and said, "Xiao Feng, don't say such things again in the future."

"Get ready and wake up after the others."

"Oh."

The boy responded calmly and prepared to walk towards the other children who were waiting, about five or six left.

At this time, Huo Yuhao smiled and said, "Old Mayor, there is no need to wait. How about I awaken the martial spirit for this child?"

The mayor was startled and stammered, "Soul Master, our town cannot afford a soul master like you."

"No reward required, just consider it as a destiny between me and this child."

The mayor said gratefully: "Well, thank you very much, Master Soul Master."

"Come with me."

Huo Yuhao glanced at the boy, who understood what he meant and followed him towards a forest in the distance.

Before Huo Yuhao could speak, the boy spoke first: “You really came here for me.”

Huo Yuhao was not surprised by his reaction: "Do you still remember me?"

"I can't forget it after seeing it once." The boy said calmly, "Are you also attracted by my talent? Just like those people."

The group of people he was referring to was the Holy Spirit Church.

The boy displayed a calmness that was not expected of a six-year-old, causing Huo Yuhao to wonder if this was precocity caused by his evil martial spirit.

Huo Yuhao took out the tools for awakening and did not hide his purpose: "I do like your talent, but I am different from those human traffickers. I will not force you, and I will give you corresponding benefits and resources."

The boy shook his head and said, "I can go with you, but not for the so-called benefits. It's because you saved me."

Huo Yuhao became more and more curious about this boy. He sneered and said, "Stretch out your right hand."

Countless points of light emanated from the awakening stone, and along with a fluctuation of soul power, a purple-black halo gradually emanated from the boy's body.

He stretched out his right hand, palm facing up, and the purple-black light gradually condensed into a long shadow in his hand. Along with the shadow, there was also an increasingly dense cold air.

"Weapon spirit?"

Even Huo Yuhao couldn't help but feel a little surprised. This was the first time he saw the Evil Martial Soul awakening, and it was definitely not an ordinary Evil Martial Soul.

At this moment, the boy showed a trace of discomfort on his face, as if his physical strength was being severely consumed. This was not seen during the awakening process of other children.

This strong evil intent seemed to have been suppressed for a long time, eager to start a massacre the moment it erupted. But at the moment it descended into the world, it suddenly began to restrain itself instinctively.

Huo Yuhao stared at the weapon in the boy’s hand, and gray light threads appeared on the surface of his body.

Finally, the boy gasped and looked at the purple-black weapon that had taken shape in his hand.

This was a huge trident, completely black in color. At the age of six, he could not hold it at all. The moment it took shape, he used it like a crutch, standing it on the ground with the sharp edge facing upwards, and only then could he barely stand.

"Try your soul power." Huo Yuhao handed the prepared crystal ball to his other hand.

The evil spirit in the boy immediately found an outlet to vent, and continued to flow into the crystal ball, soon filling it up. The crystal ball, filled with evil spirit power, emitted a purple-black light, like a dazzling purple-black gem.

This was the first time Huo Yuhao encountered such a situation. He could not judge the level of his innate soul power by the color. He judged the soul power fluctuations through perception, and then told the boy: "Congratulations, you have full innate soul power. Put away your martial soul."

The boy then put away his martial spirit, and the purple-black light and the evil intent in his body also dissipated completely.

The awakening of the martial soul alone made such a big noise. Fortunately, there were no outsiders, and Huo Yuhao was there to control the situation. Not to mention that he was beaten as an evil soul master on the spot, there was at least a rumor that he was possessed by a demon.

Huo Yuhao looked at the boy: "What's your name?"

The boy quickly regained his composure and replied calmly, "My name is Qianfeng."

(End of this chapter)