Chapter 1: The Spiritual Youth (2)

  Soul power from level 1 to level 10 all belongs to the category of soul masters. When the martial soul awakens, the stronger the innate soul power that appears, the better the talent will be after becoming a soul master, and the cultivation speed will also be faster. If the soul power is at level 10 when awakened, it means having the best innate full soul power, also known as a genius soul master, as long as the martial soul itself is not too bad, there will be considerable achievements.

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

  Unfortunately, Huo Yuhao's martial soul had undergone an extremely rare variation.

  Lingyuan, this is Huo Yu Hao's Martial Soul.

  In the category of martial souls, there is a small classification that does not belong to either tool martial soul or beast martial soul, it is called innate martial soul. It refers to the martial soul being part of the body after awakening, such as hands and feet.

  Almost all Body Soul Masters are extremely powerful, but the probability of their appearance is also extremely small. They can be said to be above Beast Soul and Tool Soul, so once they appear, they will be highly valued.

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

  The location of the emergence of Ling Wu's soul is naturally in the eyes, and it is also an extremely rare spiritual attribute soul. Normally, Huo Yuhao should have received great attention. Unfortunately, there are two points that constrained his development. When he awakened to his martial soul, his innate soul power was only at level one, which can be said to be extremely poor in talent, and his cultivation speed must be slow. The second point is even more fatal: spiritual attribute souls are rare, and spiritual attribute soul beasts are also extremely rare. Every time a Soul Master's cultivation reaches the bottleneck of every ten levels, they must hunt and kill a soul beast that matches their own attributes to obtain a soul ring and achieve a breakthrough.

  Soul Ring is not only a necessary item for breaking through bottlenecks, but also provides a skill to Soul Masters, which is also the root of their strength.

  Two constraints had almost predetermined that Huo Yu Hao would never amount to anything in his life.

  But anyway, as the son of a duke, he still got the simplest way to cultivate his soul power. And for a long time afterwards, it was also proved that his talent in cultivation was really too bad.

  In the Duke's mansion, even some servants' children, as long as they have a martial soul awakened at birth, can reach Soul Force level 10 within three years at most, and go from being a lowly Soul Apprentice to challenging the rank of Soul Master.

  Ke Huo Yu Hao is already eleven years old, and it took him a full five years for his soul power to barely reach level ten. Moreover, the effort he put in over these five years was almost three times that of his peers!

  After his mother's death, Huo Yu Hao stayed in the Duke's Mansion for another year. He was still young and had no means of living if he left the mansion, so he could only suppress all his hatred and grievances in his heart. And under the pressure of life, his heart grew much faster than that of his peers.

  His mother told Huo Yuhao that if he wanted to stand out, the only possibility was to become a Soul Master. Even as an ordinary Soul Master, one would have a much higher status than ordinary people on the continent.

  Just yesterday, Huo Yu Hao had finally managed to cultivate his soul power to the tenth level after five years of arduous effort, despite having an extremely poor innate talent. This was also the day he had set for himself to leave the Duke's Manor.

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

  On the Douluo Continent, the level of a Soul Beast is divided according to its years of existence. The ability of a Soul Ring is closely related to the number of years a Soul Beast has lived and the beast's own abilities.

  Soul beasts are generally divided into ten-year soul beasts, hundred-year soul beasts, thousand-year soul beasts, ten-thousand year soul beasts and hundred-thousand year soul beasts.

  Soul Masters must personally hunt and kill Soul Beasts in order to obtain a Soul Ring from their bodies after they die.

  Continuing to stay in the Duke's mansion, Huo Yu Hao knew that he had no chance of getting a soul ring. There was simply no one who would help him there. Therefore, even though he knew that going alone to find a spiritual soul beast could be said to be nine deaths and one life, but relying on a kind of newborn calf not fearing tigers' courage, he forcibly left the Duke's mansion.

  He headed north, and soon he stepped onto the official road. Although Huo Yu Hao was still young, in order to achieve his goal of obtaining a Soul Ring, he had already begun making preparations long ago. In his small backpack, aside from a change of clothes, there were also some dry rations and a bit of money that his mother had saved up over the years by doing chores around the mansion, as well as a short knife. Most importantly, there was also a simple map of the continent.

  The Duke's Mansion and Xīng Luó City are both located in the north-central part of the Xīng Luó Empire, while the place where Huò Yǔ Hào chose to hunt for soul beasts is in the northern part of the Xīng Luó Empire, bordering the Tiān Huán Empire's Xīng Dòu Great Forest. In this forest, which occupies almost an entire province, live a vast variety of soul beasts, including super-class existences.

  If someone knew that the eleven-year-old Huo Yu Hao, without a master or elder accompanying him, dared to venture into the Starry Sky Great Forest alone, they would definitely be shocked by his overconfidence. Without even having a soul skill, he wouldn't stand a chance against a ten-year-old soul beast!

  The road was straight, and Huo Yu Hao Yan walked quickly along the side of the road. Although he was young, he was already a tenth-level soul master, with physical strength far surpassing that of ordinary adults.

  As he walked forward, Huo Yu Hao gazed into the distance. If one looked closely, they would discover that his deep blue eyes became even clearer in an instant, with a faint glow flickering within them.

  Since the awakening of his spiritual eyes, Huo Yu Hao discovered that his vision far surpassed that of ordinary people. Up close, he could see many details that others couldn't make out clearly, and from a distance, he could see more than twice as far as an average person.

  As his soul power increased, his eyesight continued to improve. It was precisely because of the changes that occurred in his body as his cultivation increased that he became even more determined by what his mother had said: a Soul Master, he must become a Soul Master.

  "Mom said that if I could have a soul ring, then I would be a control-type battle soul master. My martial soul isn't bad, but my talent is poor, so I'll use more time than others to cultivate."

  With this firm belief, Huo Yuhao continued to move forward and cultivate. When he was thirsty, he would find some mountain spring water to drink. When he was hungry, he would eat some of the coarse biscuits he had brought with him. Except for rushing on the road, he would sit in meditation, and at his age, he could rush three hundred miles a day, which was indeed a miracle.

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

  Since the end of the war between Douluo Continent and Dayan Continent, the continent has undergone thousands of years of evolution, and currency is completely unified. One gold soul coin is equal to ten silver soul coins, which is equal to 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. So Xiaoyu Hao knew a considerable number of plant species. Many times, he couldn't even bear to buy the cheapest coarse cake, and instead looked for something to eat from the roadside woods during his journey.