Douluo Continent: The Ice King's Resurrection

Chapter 76, Section 75: Snow Jade Dragon

Knowing Ling Bingtian's decision, Yuquan Village acted with the fastest speed of its life.

In half an hour, they had set up a simple platform for Ling Bingtian to use when awakening his martial soul.

This move left Ling Bingtian both amused and exasperated. Martial Soul Awakening didn't need to be so complicated; providing a quiet, open environment would suffice.

However, since the villagers had built the platform so enthusiastically, Ling Bingtian naturally wouldn't waste it; it would be good to give the children some sense of ceremony.

After setting up the awakening stones and awakening array on the stage, Ling Bingtian asked Wang Dayu and Yuan Chao to maintain order, and then asked the children from Yuquan Village to prepare to come up on stage so that he could awaken their martial souls.

Wang Dayu and Yuan Chao were equally decisive, unleashing their martial spirits, with three yellow and two purple spirit rings rising up behind them.

The Soul Lord's aura was released, immediately silencing the previously noisy crowd. Under the organization of the two, they quietly watched their child undergo the most important turning point in his life.

Village Chief Xie's legs stopped shaking, and his back straightened. At Ling Bingtian's signal, he urged the twenty-odd children standing beside him to awaken their martial spirits one by one.

The moment the first child stepped onto the stage, Ling Bingtian's heart sank. This was because the child was probably around the same age as himself, yet was only now having the chance to awaken his martial spirit.

Dragon City's reputation wasn't too bad throughout the entire Heavenly Soul Empire, but Ling Bingtian never expected that there would be children around 10 years old in Dragon City who hadn't awakened their martial souls.

Without saying much, Ling Bingtian gave a gentle smile to the reserved-looking boy in front of him and began his martial soul awakening.

Soul power output, golden light shines out, merges with the golden light, and the martial soul emerges.

Looking at the ordinary sickle in the boy's hand, Ling Bingtian knew that his future would be similar to that of his parents.

He took out a soul power crystal ball and had the boy test his innate soul power. As expected, the boy was unable to light up the crystal ball.

Under the disappointed gazes of a couple in the audience, the boy excitedly stepped down from the small platform. In any case, having a martial spirit would provide some assistance to his life.

Ling Bingtian did not ask for a rest. With his current level 39 Soul Master cultivation and the bonus of innate level 15 Soul Power, awakening all the children in the audience at once would not consume much of his Soul Power.

One by one, the children came up, but almost none of them had a happy ending.

The vast majority of children awaken ordinary martial souls such as sickles, hoes, and axes, and do not possess innate soul power.

Several children even awakened useless martial souls like Blue Silver Grass, which is frustrating.

When only three people remained to awaken their martial souls, Ling Bingtian finally awakened a somewhat decent one.

A boy who looks to be about 7 or 8 years old has awakened a snake staff and his innate soul power has reached level three, making him qualified to cultivate.

This caused his parents, who were watching him awaken his martial spirit, to cheer loudly and start dancing with excitement.

Ling Bingtian could understand their excitement; a Soul Master with cultivation qualifications could potentially change the fate of their entire family.

Although reaching level ten and obtaining a soul ring are both problems, there's still hope, isn't there?

The next two teenagers awakened martial souls of a scythe and a hammer, respectively, neither of which possessed innate soul power.

So, only one person is left.

Ling Bingtian turned his head and saw Village Chief Xie whispering something in the ear of the last girl. It was obvious that his relationship with this girl was unusual, and she might be one of Village Chief Xie's nieces or nephews.

In fact, Ling Bingtian's guess was correct.

The last girl to appear was none other than Village Chief Xie's granddaughter, who was also Chef Xie's daughter.

Village Chief Xie specially arranged for her to awaken her martial soul last, because he had heard that the great Sea God from ten thousand years ago was the last to awaken his martial soul and made a name for himself.

After giving the girl a few final words of advice, Village Chief Xie let her go upstairs.

Ling Bingtian glanced at the girl who came up and realized that she was different from the other girls who had just come up.

As the village chief's granddaughter, she shouldn't have to do such heavy work, so her skin was much fairer than other girls who were tanned. She had a delicate and youthful face and looked to be about 5 or 6 years old.

No wonder Village Chief Xie risked being killed to repeatedly beg Wu Xin to awaken his martial soul; it turns out his granddaughter had reached the age for it.

Ling Bingtian understood the reason why Village Chief Xie had pleaded earlier, so he didn't say anything more. Just as he was about to awaken the girl's powers, an unexpected scene unfolded.

When the girl arrived in front of him, she knelt down and said loudly in a childish but firm voice, "Thank you, sir, for saving my father's life!" After saying that, she kowtowed to Ling Bingtian.

Seeing the girl kneel down, Ling Bingtian, who had intended to help her up, refrained from doing so after hearing her words and accepted her kneeling. However, he dodged her kowtow.

Receiving a kneeling in gratitude for saving his father is nothing, but Ling Bingtian still finds it hard to accept being forced to kowtow.

Seeing that the girl wanted to kowtow again, Ling Bingtian quickly stopped her and told her to prepare to awaken her martial soul.

Seeing that the girl seemed somewhat tempted, Ling Bingtian slightly hardened his expression and made her stand up immediately, no longer daring to kowtow.

"Phew—" Ling Bingtian also breathed a sigh of relief. Having come from modern society in his previous life, he really couldn't stand this kind of feudalistic kneeling ceremony.

Without saying anything more, Ling Bingtian had the girl stand inside the awakening array and began to awaken her martial soul by activating the soul power within his body.

Strands of golden light emerged from the Awakening Stone and quickly flowed into the girl's body, drawing upon the martial spirit hidden within her.

Under everyone's gaze, the girl closed her eyes and, under Ling Bingtian's command, extended her right hand, releasing her martial soul with the help of the awakening stone.

A soft dragon's roar resounded, and to the astonishment of everyone present, patches of snow-white scales, resembling precious jade, grew from the girl's exposed skin, and her body grew slightly taller.

Most strangely, small clumps of snow began to gather around the girl.

Ling Bingtian looked at the girl in surprise. With his experience, he could naturally recognize what kind of martial spirit the girl had awakened.

The Snow Jade Dragon, a high-level beast spirit and one of the sub-dragon species!

This is a sub-dragon species that lives in the forests and around jade mines. It has extremely fast movement speed and good attack ability. It is an omnivorous creature that even eats jade.

High-quality jade is also the best supplement for them to strengthen themselves.

"Unexpectedly, a Soul Master with a benignly mutated sub-dragon martial soul could awaken in an ordinary little village."

This was unexpected by Ling Bingtian, but that was that.

They're just high-level beast spirits. Wang Dayu and Yuan Chao even have top-level beast spirits, and their spirits also have the ability to control the elements.

But for Village Chief Xie, this was a momentous event. Seeing the strange changes in his granddaughter, the experienced Village Chief Xie knew that his family might have really hit the jackpot.

If Ling Bingtian hadn't been still up there, Village Chief Xie would have rushed up to hug his granddaughter with a roar.

Ling Bingtian was slightly surprised, but quickly recovered and asked the girl a question.

"Little sister, what's your name?"

Sensing the strange changes within herself, the girl instinctively answered Ling Bingtian's question, "My name is Xie Yuwei."

"Good name. Place your hand on this soul guidance ball and test your innate soul power level."

Ling Bingtian responded to Xie Yuwei, then picked up the soul guidance ball beside him and handed it to her.

These are additional test soul tools produced since the Ling family loosened its control over soul tools.

The soul tool in Ling Bingtian's hand can test the soul power level of people below level 40.

Xie Yuwei subconsciously took the soul guidance ball, felt the suction force on it, and released the strange power that had accumulated in her body.

"Drip-drip-drip-"

As Xie Yuwei moved, the numbers on the soul-guided sphere gradually increased.

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