Chapter 1: The Awakened Martial Soul
On the Nine Heavens Continent, martial arts reign supreme. Even weak martial artists possess thousands or tens of thousands of pounds of force, capable of splitting rocks and shattering stone tablets. Powerful martial artists can sever rivers and cleave apart mountains. And there are Martial Emperors who can pierce the heavens and roam the void.
Martial arts determine fate and decide life and death. The weak are bullied; the strong look down upon the world.
The Martial Soul is an innate talent of every person born on the Nine Heavens Continent, the very soul of a martial artist. One could say that a martial artist's achievements are closely tied to their Martial Soul.
There are countless types of Martial Souls: natural Martial Souls like flame, ice essence, hurricane, and lightning; weapon Martial Souls like blades, spears, swords, and halberds; beast Martial Souls like the White Tiger, Mad Rhinoceros, Violent Ape, and Dragon Serpent. Of course, there are also many powerful mutant Martial Souls, such as the Berserker Martial Soul and the Undying Martial Soul. A Martial Soul can evolve and grow stronger as the martial artist's power increases.
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Yangzhou City, Lin Family Estate.
Lin Feng opened his eyes and stared at the antique room before him—a room both unfamiliar and familiar. A helpless, bitter smile appeared on his face.
"I suppose this counts as surviving a great disaster," Lin Feng muttered to himself. The bitter smile vanished, replaced by a faint grin at the corners of his mouth.
That's right, Lin Feng had transmigrated. He was originally a senior university student from Jiangnan City in Huaxia Country on Earth. After a car accident, he crossed over to the Nine Heavens Continent, inhabiting the body of a family disciple who shared his name.
Lin Feng was a bit frustrated, but not because of the transmigration. On Earth, he was an orphan, raised by his grandfather. Overworked and exhausted, his grandfather had finally closed his eyes in peace the moment he saw Lin Feng's university acceptance letter. He left behind a few tens of thousands in savings—a generous sum by rural standards—for Lin Feng's tuition. It was because he held onto this inheritance for Lin Feng that he delayed his own medical treatment.
Lin Feng had always worked hard. He studied while working part-time, earning the highest scholarships every year. He wanted to change his fate through his own efforts and fulfill his grandfather's wishes. But gradually, Lin Feng came to understand that in an era where connections mattered, hard work didn't guarantee success.
During his senior year internship, the company held a banquet at a hotel. At the party, a rich kid got a female intern classmate drunk. The other employees tacitly left the scene. Lin Feng knew what was about to happen, so he stopped it.
The result was that four years of his hard work went down the drain. He was expelled from school on charges of sexually assaulting a female classmate, with solid evidence—the female classmate herself had testified against him.
The other result was that he ended up in a lawsuit. The female classmate he had helped and the rich kid sued him together. With witnesses and physical evidence, Lin Feng, who had neither money nor influence, didn't even need to go to trial. His life was practically sealed: ten or so years in prison, then complete disconnection from society.
When he saw the rich kid and that female classmate joyfully embracing, cuddling in an Audi car, Lin Feng stole a car and, with a smile, rammed it into the Audi. He could still vaguely recall those two terrified and filthy faces—the filth of this corrupt world.
In his past life, Lin Feng had no attachments left, so he wasn't upset about the transmigration. What frustrated him was that he had transmigrated into a useless young master—a young master with a trash Martial Soul.
This Lin Family young master, who shared his name, was originally an outer disciple of the Cloud Sea Sect. At the sect, he was bullied by his own cousin, beaten to the point of injury, and then kicked out of the sect half-dead. It was precisely because of this that Lin Feng could take advantage of the situation and transmigrate into his body.
"Since I've been given a second life, I will never let tragedy repeat itself." Lying in bed, Lin Feng clenched his fists and said to the lingering remnant soul that was reluctant to completely disperse: "Don't worry. From now on, you are me, and I am you. I will never allow myself to be bullied again."
Having merged with most of the original Lin Feng's soul, Lin Feng now clearly understood what kind of world he was in. The strong are revered. As long as you are powerful enough, any authority must bow before you, including the supreme imperial power.
To become a martial arts powerhouse, one needs not only superior talent but also the heart of a strong person and an incredibly resilient will. The former young master Lin Feng was somewhat cowardly, but the current him was different. Having lived two lives, endured hardship, and faced the test of death, his will was far more tenacious than that of the young master Lin Feng.
As if sensing Lin Feng's strong will, that remnant soul gradually weakened until, finally, the two souls perfectly merged.
"Boom!" The moment the souls merged, Lin Feng felt his soul tremble, directly knocking him unconscious.
He didn't know how long it was before Lin Feng opened his eyes again. Frowning slightly, he carefully sensed the stirring of that soul.
Sitting up, Lin Feng focused his mind. Instantly, a special aura spread through the space. Lin Feng felt himself enveloped by a hazy, illusory shadow—a black shadow.
"Did you hear? That waste Lin Feng still hasn't woken up. I'd say he's probably dead already."
"Heh, a waste like him might as well die sooner. He's a disgrace to our Lin family."
From a distance, the voices of two people talking reached Lin Feng's ears. Lin Feng didn't get angry, but instead showed a strange expression. The voices were clearly coming from far away, yet he could hear them clearly. Not only that, but any sound within several hundred meters seemed unable to escape his ears.
Moreover, Lin Feng found that his eyesight had improved, and even his thinking seemed much sharper. Many things he hadn't understood about martial arts suddenly became clear.
Focusing his mind again, the shadow of a small snake appeared behind Lin Feng, its tiny body coiled up. This was the trash Martial Soul he was mocked for. He didn't know what kind of snake it was, but it couldn't enhance his abilities.
"Twin Martial Souls!"
But at this moment, Lin Feng wasn't at all upset about the small snake Martial Soul. Instead, he looked somewhat dazed, and then a brilliant smile spread across his face. That's right, the black shadow behind him was a Martial Soul—a newly awakened one. Although he didn't yet know what this shadow Martial Soul was, combined with the small snake shadow Martial Soul, he now possessed two Martial Souls.
A possessor of two Martial Souls is called a Twin Martial Soul user. On the continent, martial artists with Twin Martial Souls are all geniuses. And Lin Feng, who was called a waste, now had Twin Martial Souls.
"I'll call you the Darkness Martial Soul for now." Lin Feng smiled slightly. He had probably obtained Twin Martial Souls because of the soul fusion. His soul was the fusion of two people's souls, so having Twin Martial Souls wasn't strange. As for the ability of this Martial Soul, from what he could tell so far, it seemed to enhance his physical attributes.
Closing his eyes, Lin Feng began to meditate and cultivate. The world's natural energy flowed through his limbs and bones, tempering his flesh and nourishing his Martial Soul.
Two hours later, Lin Feng stopped cultivating. A stream of milky-white turbid qi sprayed from his nostrils. He felt refreshed all over, indescribably comfortable, and even the soreness in his body had disappeared.
"So this is martial cultivation. It's amazing." Lin Feng looked at his fists. He clenched them tightly, and crackling sounds rang out, full of power.
His cultivation speed seemed much faster than in his memories. Lin Feng walked out of the room. Before him was a large courtyard with wooden stakes and huge stone pillars—all used for his training.
Walking up to a stone pillar, Lin Feng activated his martial technique, Ninefold Wave. Instantly, his fist wind howled, cutting through the air, as if layers of waves were distorting space.
"Ha!"
At that moment, Lin Feng let out a loud shout. He sank his waist, pulled in his abdomen, and threw a punch. The fierce, domineering fist struck the stone pillar like a meteor. A thunderous roar rang out, and the stone pillar directly shattered into a pile of rubble and dust, scattering across the ground.
Not only that, but the fist wind continued forward after breaking the stone pillar. Several explosive sounds echoed through the air. Layers of air waves surged forward, crashing into another stone pillar. Another explosion sounded, and the huge stone pillar, two meters away, shattered one after the other.
"That should be over six thousand pounds of force." Lin Feng was very satisfied with this result. His strength had now recovered to its peak, the Fifth Layer of Qi Martial Realm. And the martial technique he cultivated, Ninefold Wave, had become stronger, breaking through to the Sixth Wave. That was why he could unleash six thousand pounds of force at the Fifth Layer of Qi Martial Realm.
"It seems the Darkness Martial Soul not only enhances my vision and hearing but also improves my cultivation speed and comprehension." Lin Feng smiled slightly. In the past, besides his Martial Soul, the reasons he was called a waste were his slow cultivation and poor comprehension. Talented people his age had already reached the Sixth Layer of Qi Martial Realm or higher, while he was only at the Fifth Layer. Moreover, his ability to comprehend martial techniques was mediocre. Even though he only cultivated the Ninefold Wave technique, he had been stuck at the Fifth Wave and couldn't break through, earning him ridicule.
But now, the martial arts aptitude he had worried about seemed to no longer be an issue with the birth of the Darkness Martial Soul.
A Martial Soul that could comprehensively improve martial arts qualities—it seemed the Darkness Martial Soul was no ordinary Martial Soul.
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