Chapter 4

Soul Power from level one to ten all falls under the category of Soul Disciple. When a martial soul awakens, the stronger the innate soul power that appears, the better the talent for becoming a Soul Master, and the faster the cultivation speed will be. If the soul power is at level ten during awakening, that is the best innate full soul power, also known as a genius Soul Master. As long as the martial soul itself is not too poor, there will be significant achievements.

Although Huo Yuhao was the son of a duke, he did not inherit the powerful martial soul of the ducal lineage. Otherwise, even if the duchess did not like him, as long as he had the ducal lineage's martial soul, he would have to report it to the duke, and from then on, Huo Yuhao and his mother's fate would change.

Unfortunately, Huo Yuhao's martial soul underwent an extremely rare mutation.

Spirit Eyes—this was Huo Yuhao's martial soul.

In the classification of martial souls, there is a small category that is neither a tool martial soul nor a beast martial soul, known as the body martial soul. This means that the martial soul that awakens is a part of the body, such as a hand or a foot.

Almost all body martial souls are very powerful, but their appearance rate is extremely low, making them exist above beast martial souls and tool martial souls. Therefore, they are highly valued once they appear.

Unfortunately, Huo Yuhao's martial soul was an exception.

The Spirit Eyes martial soul appeared in the eyes, and it was an extremely rare mental attribute martial soul. Normally, Huo Yuhao should have been highly valued. Unfortunately, two factors constrained his development. When his martial soul awakened, his innate soul power was only at level one, indicating extremely poor talent, and his cultivation speed would inevitably be very slow. The second point was even more fatal: mental attributes are not only rare in martial souls, but mental attribute soul beasts are also extremely rare. Every Soul Master must hunt a soul beast that matches their attribute when they reach a bottleneck at every ten levels to obtain a soul ring and break through.

Soul rings are not only essential for breaking through bottlenecks but also provide a skill to the Soul Master, which is the root of their power.

These two constraints almost determined that Huo Yuhao would never achieve anything in his life.

However, no matter what, he was still the son of a duke and ultimately received the simplest soul power cultivation method. For a long time afterward, it was proven that his talent in cultivation was indeed very poor.

In the duke's mansion, even the children of some servants, as long as they had a martial soul awaken innately, could reach level ten soul power in at most three years, advancing from the lowest level of Soul Disciple to the level of Soul Master.

But Huo Yuhao was already eleven years old and had spent five years to barely reach level ten soul power. Moreover, in these five years, the effort he put in was almost three times that of his peers!

After his mother's death, Huo Yuhao stayed in the duke's mansion for another year. He was still young, and leaving the duke's mansion without any means of living was impossible, so he had to suppress all his hatred and委屈 in his heart. Under the pressure of life, his mind matured much faster than that of his peers.

His mother told Huo Yuhao that the only way to rise to prominence was to become a Soul Master. Even if he were just an ordinary Soul Master, he would have a much higher status on the continent than an ordinary person.

Just yesterday, Huo Yuhao, through five years of hard work, managed to cultivate his soul power to level ten despite his poor talent. This was also the day he had set for himself to leave the duke's mansion.

He needed a soul ring, even the lowest-level ten-year soul ring would do! That way, he could become a true Soul Master and have a skill of his own.

On the Douluo Continent, the levels of soul beasts are classified based on their age. The abilities of soul rings are closely related to the age and inherent abilities of the soul beasts.

Generally, soul beasts are uniformly classified as ten-year, hundred-year, thousand-year, ten-thousand-year, and hundred-thousand-year soul beasts.

A Soul Master must personally hunt a soul beast to obtain a soul ring from its body after it dies.

If Huo Yuhao continued to stay in the duke's mansion, he knew he would have no chance of obtaining a soul ring. There, no one would help him. Therefore, even though he knew that going alone to find a mental attribute soul beast was almost certain death, he left the duke's mansion with the bravery of a young bull not fearing the tiger.

Heading north, he soon stepped onto the main road. Although Huo Yuhao was still young, he had been preparing for a long time to achieve his goal of obtaining a soul ring. In his small backpack, besides a set of spare clothes, there were some dry rations, a little money his mother had saved from doing odd jobs in the mansion, and a short knife. Most importantly, there was a simple map of the continent.

The duke's mansion and Star Luo City were located in the central-northern part of the Star Luo Empire. The place Huo Yuhao chose to hunt soul beasts was in the northern part of the Star Luo Empire, in the Star Dou Great Forest, which borders the Tian Hou Empire. In this forest, which almost covers the size of a province, there live various types of soul beasts, including some super existences.

If anyone knew that the eleven-year-old Huo Yuhao dared to go to the Star Dou Great Forest alone without the company of a teacher or elder, they would be shocked by his overconfidence. Without any soul skills, he might not even be able to defeat a ten-year soul beast!

The road was straight, and Huo Yuhao walked quickly along the roadside. Although he was young, he was already a level ten Soul Disciple, with better stamina than most adults.

As he walked, Huo Yuhao looked far into the distance. If you looked closely, you could see that his deep blue eyes instantly became clearer, with a faint glow.

Since the awakening of his Spirit Eyes, Huo Yuhao discovered that his vision far exceeded that of ordinary people. Up close, he could see many details that others could not, and from a distance, he could see more than twice as far as an ordinary person.

As his soul power increased, his vision continued to improve. The changes in his body as his cultivation progressed made him even more determined to become a Soul Master, as his mother had said.

"Mom said that if I could have a soul ring, then I would be a control-type battle Soul Master. My martial soul is not bad; if my talent is poor, I will put in more time and effort than others."

With this firm belief, Huo Yuhao continued to cultivate while traveling. When he was thirsty, he would find some mountain spring water to drink, and when he was hungry, he would eat the coarse bread he had brought with him. Besides traveling, he would sit and meditate. At his age, he could travel three hundred miles in a day, which was nothing short of a miracle.

He had only seven silver soul coins and five copper soul coins, and he was extremely frugal with his money.

After the war between the Douluo Continent and the Rizhao Continent ended, the currency on the continent was completely unified: one gold soul coin equals ten silver soul coins, which equals one hundred copper soul coins.

When he was young, his mother would occasionally take him out of the duke's mansion to find some fruits and wild vegetables in the forest outside to make him eat better. Therefore, Huo Yuhao knew quite a few types of plants. Many times, he would not even buy the cheapest coarse bread but would find something to eat in the roadside forest while traveling.

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