Douluo Continent: Conflict descends, gods are slain and gods ascend!

About a month has passed since Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan awakened their martial souls. Although Xu's father has found some soul masters with true body martial souls, their cultivation levels aren't very high. He feels that hiring them to teach Yun Chen would be a waste of Yun Chen's talent. Since the death of Du Busi ten thousand years ago, the Body Sect has gradually declined. The old saying that all those with true body martial souls are one family has now become a joke.

Ultimately, he could only listen to some opinions from within his family and try to contact the Spirit Pagoda to see if he could get Yun Chen to join the Spirit Pagoda.

Today is the day that Xu's mother brought Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan to the Spirit Pagoda to choose soul spirits. And in this past month, a major event has occurred for Xu Xiaoyan. Actually, it's more accurate to say that this event happened during the awakening of Xu Xiaoyan's martial soul, rather than within this month. However, at that time, no one noticed that Xu Xiaoyan's ice staff was a mutated martial soul. Her ice staff would reveal different forms and possess different attributes at night.

This mutation greatly surprised Xu's parents. It was the first time such a phenomenon had occurred in the Xu family's history. Legend has it that their family's inherited martial spirit was once incredibly powerful, but over the long years and through generations of inheritance, it had degenerated into an ordinary ice staff martial spirit. Xu Xiaoyan's martial spirit mutation undoubtedly gave the Xu family hope for a resurgence.

Xu Xiaoyan's transformation has also led to a significant change in the Xu family's attitude towards her. Previously, the Xu family might have offered more support because she was the daughter of the family head and because of her talent. Now, it seems that they should undoubtedly offer their full support.

When Madam Xu led them to the Spirit Pagoda in the East Sea, staff members immediately came to greet them. Families like the Xu family naturally make reservations in advance before visiting the Spirit Pagoda. This saves them unnecessary trouble and ensures they receive the best service.

Led by the spirit medium, Yun Chen and his group arrived at the VIP room. Here, the spirit medium prepared a detailed catalog of spirits for them to choose from.

Although Xu Xiaoyan's martial soul had undergone mutation, the Xu family still felt that the traditional, conservative methods were best for its cultivation. Ultimately, the soul spirit she chose was one that her parents had selected for her, one suitable for a control-type development path.

On this point, Yun Chen had no intention of persuading her. Although Xu Xiaoyan's martial soul would undergo a complete transformation in the later stages, the soul skills she acquired in the early stages would also perform remarkably well after the martial soul mutated. He felt that developing step by step was fine. However, Xu Xiaoyan's second soul spirit, that little ice bear, was not quite suitable. It wouldn't be too late for him to help Xu Xiaoyan choose a more suitable soul spirit when that time came.

As for Yun Chen's own soul spirit, he chose one that could provide amplification-type soul skills. In the Douluo Continent, a cultivation world where combat relies primarily on soul skills, the higher the age of the soul ring, the more pronounced the effect of the soul skill. Although there are now Spirit Ascension Platforms that can ascend soul spirits and increase the age of soul rings, the resources required to raise all soul rings to over 100,000 years are simply enormous.

In Yun Chen's view, in the early stages, it's better to be conservative and choose amplification-type soul skills rather than focusing on offensive ones. As for combat methods, as a soul master with a primary martial soul, he naturally has to rely on his own fists and feet.

Even when choosing amplification-type soul skills, he tends to favor those that amplify all attributes or attack power. As long as his strength is high enough and his attack power is high enough, one punch is enough to secure victory.

Ultimately, on the advice of the spirit master, he chose a man-made spirit beast, the Blood Rage Lion Tiger, as his first spirit.

"The Bloodrage Lion-Tiger is an artificial soul beast cultivated by our Spirit Pagoda during its research on artificial soul spirits. High-age Bloodrage Lion-Tigers in the Spirit Ascension Platform are extremely powerful, not only comparable to the top soul beasts recorded in the history of Douluo Continent, but also possessing an indomitable will to fight and grow stronger with each battle. This kind of soul beast can provide not only powerful offensive soul skills, but also an amplification soul skill called Bloodrage. I think this kind of soul beast should meet your needs."

At this point, the Spirit Master paused slightly before continuing, "However, these kinds of spirit beasts are inherently ferocious. While they aren't as difficult to absorb as Unyielding Spirits, they are indeed more challenging than ordinary spirits. But this little guy has a type of Body Martial Spirit, so I think he could give it a try."

The Spirit Puppet Master originally intended to suggest that Yun Chen's martial soul was blood, which had some connection to the bloodthirsty attributes of the Blood Rage Lion Tiger, and that this might be successful. However, considering that this was, after all, a child brought by the Xu family, although the Xu family's status in the East Sea wasn't particularly high, they were still a political force in the region. Their Spirit Puppet Tower didn't need to fawn over them, but they also didn't want to offend them. They made everything clear, and whether or not to choose was up to Yun Chen himself.

After listening to the spirit medium's introduction, Madam Xu was somewhat worried that the spirit might not be of good quality. However, Yun Chen himself was quite satisfied with the artificial spirit and bought it. As for the price of two hundred-year-old spirits, the Xu family truly didn't care. Therefore, Yun Chen was very fortunate to have been adopted by the Xu family; otherwise, he would have had to learn a trade like Tang Wulin to earn money by buying spirits for himself.

After returning home, Yun Chen began absorbing his own soul spirit. The Bloodrage Lion-Tiger's soul spirit did indeed possess strong "characteristics" as the spirit master had described, but it was, after all, a man-made soul spirit, only a hundred-year-old one; how much influence could it possibly have?

It took Yun Chen about an hour to finally absorb the soul spirit. When the first yellow soul ring condensed beneath his feet, the first soul skill he obtained surprised him.

Soul Skill: "Blood Rage"

Effect: Enters Blood Rage state, gaining a 50% increase in all attributes and becoming completely immune to all negative status effects such as stun, hypnosis, immobilization, and slow.

Upon experiencing the effects of the soul skill, Yun Chen was completely stunned. How was this soul skill any different from the passive talent of his favorite game character from his past life? Just one word different!

"Could it be that this martial soul can make me develop in the direction of Maidemus? If I become a titled Douluo in the future, wouldn't I be able to call myself the Conflict Douluo?" Yun Chen thought to himself.

Seeing his beaming face, Xu's mother and Xu Xiaoyan exchanged bewildered glances. Finally, Xu Xiaoyan couldn't help but ask curiously, "Brother Chen, what's your first soul skill?"

"It's a very powerful soul skill! It amplifies all of your attributes by fifty percent!" Yun Chen replied.