Chapter 2 Innate Soul Power Level 1
Dai Yuhao also came to his senses at this moment, and was stunned for a moment when he looked at the kitten in front of him who was curiously looking around.
It really does look like a miniature white tiger, ignoring the meow it just made.
"Butler, is my martial spirit... the Evil-Eyed White Tiger?"
Although this was Dai Yuhao's first time awakening his martial soul, he had still studied the basic theories of martial souls.
A martial spirit can be anything—common objects and tools in daily life, diverse creatures on the continent, or even a part of a person themselves.
As a top-tier beast spirit inherited from the Duke's lineage, Dai Yuhao knew exactly what the Evil-Eyed White Tiger spirit looked like. Now, however, he was so disappointed to see that his spirit wasn't what he had imagined that he was so disillusioned that he couldn't accept reality for a moment.
Moreover, looking at the kitten in front of him that resembled the Evil-Eyed White Tiger in some ways, Dai Yuhao still had a glimmer of hope that his own martial soul might also be considered the Evil-Eyed White Tiger!
The butler carefully examined Dai Yuhao's martial soul and had some guesses in mind, but he still needed to check the information to verify them.
"Put away your martial spirit first, and then come with me to a place."
"How do I retrieve my martial soul?"
Dai Yuhao stared at the kitten in front of him, at a loss for what to do.
"The martial spirit is a part of your body. With a thought, you can retract it just like you control your body normally."
Following the butler's explanation, Dai Yuhao quickly found a way to retrieve his martial soul. With a thought, he retrieved it back into his body amidst the kitten's bewildered gaze, leaving behind a long-echoing meow in the air.
The butler led Dai Yuhao out of the side hall, through the garden corridor, and to a heavy, ancient warehouse.
"Wait for me here, don't wander off."
The butler took out the key to the storeroom, opened the door, and went inside. Dai Yuhao observed from the doorway that the room was filled with shelves upon shelves of books, and the butler began searching among them.
This is the Duke's library, where many documents are stored. The reason the steward came here is, of course, to investigate the secret of Dai Yuhao's martial spirit.
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Upon finding the area related to martial spirits, the butler took down a thick book and began to peruse it. After finding the records he wanted, he nodded slightly, confirming his idea.
The butler put the books back in their place, left the library, closed the door, and stood in front of Dai Yuhao with a barely perceptible look of regret on his face.
"Dai Yuhao, it's a pity that your martial soul is not the Evil Eye White Tiger, but a mutated martial soul."
"ah..."
Dai Yuhao opened his mouth, but he didn't have the strength to say the rest. His hands fell limply to his sides, and his whole body hunched over.
Dai Yuhao's mutated martial soul is not an isolated case in Douluo Continent; such detached beast martial souls are recorded everywhere. The most famous example is the Grandmaster who taught Thousand Hands Asura Tang San ten thousand years ago. His martial soul was also this mutated martial soul, which mutated from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon into a weak martial soul named Luo Sanpao.
However, this kind of martial soul is not uncultivable; there have been powerful individuals in history with detached beast martial souls. The main reason is that those powerful individuals had innate full soul power when their martial souls awakened, and only their strong talent could support them in cultivating to the level of a powerful expert.
The butler looked at the dejected Dai Yuhao. Although his martial soul had awakened, his soul power had not yet been tested. If his awakened soul power level was high, it wasn't impossible to nurture him.
"Don't be discouraged. You have one last chance. If your innate soul power level is high, I will also report your information to His Excellency the Duke."
Upon hearing this, Dai Yuhao suddenly looked up, as if he were someone in the water grasping at the last straw, his eyes filled with longing.
At this moment, the butler took out the crystal ball used to test soul power levels and handed it to Dai Yuhao.
"Come on, put your hands on it."
Dai Yuhao wiped the cold sweat from his palms with the cloth on his chest and nervously placed his hand on the crystal ball handed to him by the butler.
As soon as his palm touched the crystal ball, Dai Yuhao immediately felt a huge suction force coming from it, firmly sticking his small hand to it. It felt as if something inside his body was being sucked into the crystal ball along his arm.
The crystal ball that had absorbed the power from Dai Yuhao's body flashed with a faint light, almost instantly, before becoming the first of the ten small lights on the base to light up with a faint blue glow.
Sigh~
Seeing this, the butler couldn't help but sigh.
He has soul power, but only a little, at level one of innate soul power.
This essentially sealed Dai Yuhao's future; his potential ceiling might only be around that of a Great Soul Master. After all, even the legendary Yu Xiaogang, who possessed only half a level of innate soul power ten thousand years ago, only reached level 29 after decades of cultivation. It was only with the help of Tang San, the Thousand-Handed Asura, and the consumption of rare and precious treasures that he was able to break through further, and even then, he only reached a mid-level.
"Your innate soul power level is level one. I'm sorry, Dai Yuhao, you have no value in being nurtured."
The butler's words pierced Dai Yuhao's heart. Today was his sixth birthday, and also the day his martial spirit awakened. But everything he was experiencing now felt like a nightmare, gripping his heart tightly, causing his vision to go black and him to faint.
This was a huge blow to a six-year-old child. Even if Dai Yuhao was precocious and sensible, he understood that this awakening of his martial soul was his only chance to change his family's status in the Duke's mansion.
The greater the hope, the deeper the disappointment.
Sigh~
The butler sighed again and reached out to catch the unconscious Dai Yuhao. He beckoned to an old servant and said to him, "Take Young Master Dai back to his mother."
"yes."
The servant took Dai Yuhao and carried him back to the servants' courtyard. The other servants around him, seeing the unconscious Dai Yuhao, began to whisper among themselves.
"What's going on? He fainted during his Martial Soul Awakening?"
"Judging from the situation, he probably didn't inherit the Duke's martial spirit. That must have been a huge blow to him."
"I guess so. If he had really awakened the Evil-Eyed White Tiger Martial Soul, they would probably have been taken out of the woodshed by now. Why would they send him back? Tsk tsk tsk!"
"Then their family is in big trouble. His mother's health was already poor, and she probably won't last much longer."
Ignoring the whispers around him, the old servant knocked on the wooden door of the woodshed.
Hearing the noise, the person inside opened the wooden door with a creak. The pale-faced Huo Yun'er saw Dai Yuhao lying in the old servant's arms, her expression tightening. She quickly took him from him and asked anxiously:
"What's wrong with Yuhao? Wasn't he supposed to be awakening his martial soul?"
The old servant stayed by the steward's side and told Huo Yun'er everything that had happened. "He was so shocked that he fainted, but he's fine. He'll probably wake up naturally after a while."
After saying that, he left.
Huo Yun'er returned to bed and tenderly hugged Dai Yuhao in her arms, murmuring, "Yuhao, no matter what, you are my most beloved child. Mom only hopes that you can live a peaceful life."
[end of the chapter]