Douluo Dalu: Huo Yuhao Knows the Plot

Chapter 285: Awakening Hall

Within the Heavenly Court, the disciples and higher-ups were unaware that their esteemed leader had disappeared, and everything continued as usual.

However, compared to other sects, the Heavenly Court had a slightly larger influx of people. Firstly, there were soul masters from all over who had heard of its reputation and were coming to complete the procedures to join the Heavenly Court.

Secondly, the Heavenly Court's Introductory Hall also had a people-friendly branch hall called the Awakening Hall. As the name suggests, it was a hall dedicated to helping people awaken their martial souls.

Similar institutions were also distributed throughout the continent, mostly controlled by the major empires. Commoners could go to these awakening institutions to perform the martial soul awakening ceremony, but it was a paid service. The price for awakening a martial soul at the Spirit Hall ranged from five to ten gold soul coins.

A commoner's monthly income was only a few silver soul coins, and the cost of awakening a martial soul was the accumulation of several years of their savings. Therefore, families with many children often couldn't afford to pay for their children's martial soul awakening when they turned six years old.

However, the Heavenly Court's Awakening Hall was free and open to the public. As long as you came to the Heavenly Court, you could enjoy the benefit of awakening your martial soul for free.

Huo Yuhao planned to eventually separate the Awakening Hall from the Introductory Hall and make it an independent hall, expanding and strengthening it to discover more talents for the Heavenly Court.

However, as early as ten thousand years ago, the Spirit Hall had done something similar. At that time, they controlled a large number of commoner soul masters, suppressing the two major empires to the point where they couldn't raise their heads. From this, it could be seen that although commoners were humble, they were not to be underestimated.

Precisely because of this, after the Spirit Hall was destroyed, the major empires became even more severe in their suppression of commoners and extremely sensitive to anything that attempted to win over the hearts of the people.

In order not to arouse the empires' vigilance, Huo Yuhao placed the Awakening Hall under the Introductory Hall to express the illusion that he didn't care much about it, thus paralyzing the major empires.

But even so, the Heavenly Court's benevolent act of providing free martial soul awakenings quickly spread in the surrounding areas, and some commoners from nearby areas brought their children to the Heavenly Court.

And today was such a day. Outside the Awakening Hall under the Introductory Hall, many commoners formed a long queue, waiting to awaken their children's martial souls.

At this time, Zhou Qi brought a six or seven-year-old child to the Awakening Hall.

The disciple responsible for maintaining order recognized him and stepped forward to salute, saying, "Greetings, Hall Master."

The commoners in the queue also saluted one after another, shouting, "Greetings, Hall Master." They knew that the Heavenly Court had seven major halls, and even the weakest of those who could be called Hall Masters were Soul Saint experts.

Soul Saints were already in the middle to upper ranks in the soul master world, let alone these ordinary commoners.

"Everyone, please rise. There are not so many formalities within our Heavenly Court."

Zhou Qi first asked everyone to stand up, then looked at the disciple and said, "This is my son, Xiaoyang. He just had his sixth birthday not long ago, and I brought him here to awaken his martial soul."

The disciple stepped aside and made a gesture of invitation, saying, "Hall Master, please come in."

On the contrary, they felt that this Hall Master was very approachable and didn't put on any airs.

Zhou Qi didn't know that the habits he had developed in the business world had inadvertently earned the Heavenly Court a wave of goodwill.

Inside the awakening hall, Zhou Yang walked into the awakening formation according to the staff's instructions. Gradually, Zhou Yang felt a surge of energy, warm and comfortable, but soon it wasn't so pleasant. Pain came from all parts of his body.

Zhou Qi, who was on the side, was a little uneasy. His two older sons were already useless, so now he was counting on this younger one. He hoped that his innate soul power would be higher.

As for the martial soul, their Zhou family had been inheriting the Zhanmadao martial soul for nearly a thousand years without exception.

Under the gaze of Zhou Qi and the staff, a long blade suddenly appeared in Zhou Yang's hand. The blade was six feet long and slender.

Seeing this, Zhou Qi frowned slightly. The shape of the blade was no different from the Zhanmadao inherited by his family, but he just felt that something was different. He couldn't say exactly what it was.

Moreover, after the blade appeared, he actually felt a chill down his spine. The staff next to him had low cultivation and felt cold from head to toe at this moment.

"Ah!"

Just as everyone was shocked by the Zhanmadao martial soul, Zhou Yang suddenly cried out in pain, and his body, which had fallen to the ground, arched up like a shrimp. His hand loosened, and the long blade fell to the ground with a clang, cutting a gap in the ground.

"Xiaoyang!" Zhou Qi exclaimed and quickly stepped forward to check on his son's condition.

The others were also dumbfounded. Was he having a seizure? They had never heard of anyone awakening their martial soul and experiencing such a situation.

Zhou Qi probed his son's body with his soul power and detected a violent energy impacting his son's body. He didn't know what to do. After all, awakening a martial soul was the most crucial moment in a person's life, and he was worried that forcibly suppressing it would have some impact on his son.

But if this continued, his son's body might be burst by this energy.

Zhou Qi had no way, and the others had even less of a way.

Just as everyone was at a loss, they only felt a blur before their eyes, and a white-robed young man appeared in the field.

"Greetings, Your Excellency."

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, you..."

Before Zhou Qi could finish speaking, Huo Yuhao waved his hand to interrupt him.

Huo Yuhao's gaze fell on the Zhanmadao at the first moment, and Huo Yuhao's pupils shrank slightly.

What a strong murderous aura! Huo Yuhao was attracted by this pure murderous aura, but he didn't expect that such a murderous aura would come from the martial soul of a six-year-old child.

This was a fierce blade, as if it was born for killing, like the legendary God-Slaying Spear and Immortal-Slaughtering Sword.

Of course, this Zhanmadao only had the same nature, and its grade was still far behind.

Huo Yuhao's gaze at Zhou Yang changed again. Was this little guy afraid that he was a transmigrator with a system? Thinking of this, Huo Yuhao did not act immediately. He wanted to see if this guy was a transmigrator. If he was a transmigrator, then his system couldn't sit idly by and watch its host be killed.

"Your Excellency."

Seeing that Huo Yuhao didn't move, Zhou Qi was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

......

It seems that it is pure talent. After waiting for a while, seeing that Zhou Yang's condition not only did not improve, but turned sharply worse, Huo Yuhao temporarily dismissed his doubts about whether Zhou Yang was a transmigrator.

Moreover, if he delayed any longer, this little guy would probably really die. Huo Yuhao acted, only to see him point his finger forward remotely, and a white energy floated out and entered Zhou Yang's body.

Seeing this, Zhou Qi looked at his youngest son with concern.

Slowly, the painful expression on Zhou Yang's face disappeared, and his trembling body gradually calmed down. Perhaps because of the great consumption of energy, Zhou Yang had already fainted at this moment.

Zhou Qi stepped forward to check, and seeing that his son's expression was peaceful, and after checking his physical condition, he found that there was no problem, and he breathed a long sigh of relief.

This was his only remaining account, the hope of all his hopes, and he couldn't let anything happen.

At this time, Huo Yuhao's laughter came from his ear. "Hall Master Zhou, you have given birth to a good son, you are blessed."

Zhou Qi felt bitter in his heart. Where was the blessing? It was clearly almost a disaster.

"Please enlighten me, Your Excellency."

Huo Yuhao smiled and said, "You should be able to feel that your son's martial soul is far superior to yours, but his body is too weak to withstand the impact of the martial soul. In this case, there will probably be three situations."

"First, the martial soul mutates and weakens, just like the Sea God's teacher Yu Xiaogang in history."

Yu Xiaogang: "......" Who did I offend, and I was whipped again.

Zhou Qi's body shook when he heard this. Although that was the history of ten thousand years ago, because of the Sea God, Yu Xiaogang's name was still known to many people.

Yu Xiaogang was born in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and the martial soul he awakened should have mutated in a good direction, but because he was too useless, the martial soul eventually mutated into a pig-like creature that was neither pig nor dog. His innate soul power dropped directly to half a level, which was simply garbage among garbage.

Zhou Qi's heart skipped a beat, wouldn't his son also... ...

"The second result is that the martial soul is autonomously sealed, so as to protect the soul master."

As Huo Yuhao spoke, he thought of Bei Bei. As far as he knew, that guy should have awakened the top martial soul, the Light Holy Dragon, but out of self-protection mechanism, the martial soul degenerated into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.

But this was not a real degeneration. In fact, as long as Bei Bei cultivated normally, the martial soul could return to the Light Holy Dragon at the latest when he broke through to the Title Douluo. If there were some opportunities, it would be very possible to return in advance.

Everyone was silent when they heard this. Zhou Yang's situation was obviously inconsistent with this.

But Huo Yuhao said again: "The third situation, then the soul master can't bear the huge energy of the martial soul and dies."

Zhou Qi's expression changed when he heard this. His son was obviously in this state.

Seeing Zhou Qi's anxious expression, Huo Yuhao shook his head slightly, "You don't have to worry, I have already set up a seal in this little guy's body.

There will definitely be no accidents within half a year. After half a year, you bring him here, and I will reinforce the seal for him."