Luck—Chapter 3: Su Yuntao: What a Pity, It's a Useless Martial Soul
After Su Yuntao led the children to the center of the hall, he took out six black stones and a light blue crystal ball from his bag.
With some precise movements, he arranged the six black stones into a hexagon on the ground in the center of the hall. Then he pointed at Qi Lin, who was standing in front of the children, and waved his hand with a very kind smile.
"Little friend, your name is Qi Lin, right? Come over!"
Su Yuntao is Sisi's boyfriend, so he has heard Qi Lin's name many times from her.
When he first heard the name, he was a bit jealous, but after learning Qi Lin's age, he naturally couldn't be jealous anymore.
Besides, he was eager to meet the little guy whom he'd never met before.
Is there any special power in him that makes Sisi like him so much?
However, when Su Yuntao met Qi Lin, although he felt that Sisi's praise of Qi Lin was somewhat exaggerated, he did admit that Qi Lin had a comfortable and friendly temperament.
"I am Qi Lin, Master Su Yuntao. Can you tell me why Sister Sisi didn't come this year?"
Qi Lin walked to the middle of the hexagonal formation after hearing Su Yuntao's words, and, after a curious glance, asked politely.
Su Yuntao replied gently, "Sisi went to help her friend hunt for a soul ring this year, so she couldn't come."
"Soul Ring hunting?"
Qi Lin's eyes lit up suddenly. He realized, "Oh, that's why." The reason made sense.
"Yes, it's soul ring hunting. If you can awaken a martial soul, you can ask Sister Sisi to take you for soul ring hunting when you reach level ten in the future."
Su Yuntao smiled as he clapped his hands, activating the hexagonal formation.
Suddenly, the six black stones on the ground emitted a golden light, shining onto Qi Lin's body and enveloping him in a radiant glow.
Su Yuntao's eyes widened in excitement at the sight.
This is a big movement—it seems Qi Lin's martial soul could be quite good.
And as Qi Lin was bathed in the golden light, he suddenly felt a warm, pleasant feeling.
"So comfortable!"
Qi Lin whispered to himself, secretly thinking: 'What kind of martial soul can I awaken?'
His father was a sickle, and his mother was blue-silver grass—both had no soul power.
Theoretically, Qi Lin's martial soul should be either a sickle or a blue silver grass, with a high probability of having no soul power.
But Qi Lin's intuition told him that his martial soul must be mutated, and his soul power might not be low.
Sure enough, he sensed something in his palm, as if it wanted to burst out as soon as he finished thinking.
At this moment, Su Yuntao's voice suddenly sounded.
"Qi Lin, stretch out your right hand."
Qi Lin nodded and opened his palm.
The next moment, a small light blue sprout emerged from his hand, resembling a wild blue silver grass growing roadside.
Strangely, this blue-silver grass had four leaves at the tip.
Su Yuntao examined the sprout carefully for a few moments, and a look of disappointment flashed across his face.
"Alas, it seems your martial soul is a mutated blue-silver grass. This kind of mutation is often more useless than the original."
He looked at Qi Lin with a strange expression, sighing lightly with a hint of regret in his eyes.
On the Douluo Continent, most martial soul mutations are malignant. Moreover, Qi Lin's martial soul was mutated from blue silver grass—an especially common and weak martial soul.
"Come, test your soul power!"
"Although the chances of measuring soul power with a supposedly useless martial soul are extremely low, who knows?"
Because Sisi liked Qi Lin, Su Yuntao also loved him. Even if the test revealed that Qi Lin's martial soul was useless, his tone remained kind.
Qi Lin suddenly felt a surge of excitement.
Nothing else—because he just heard Su Yuntao say his martial soul was useless.
Brother Tao said it was useless, so he must be at least a God King, right?
Hehe~
Praise Brother Tao!
He stretched out his hand toward the blue crystal ball with a joyful face.
This move confused Brother Tao, who couldn't help but doubt himself.
'Did I say the right thing just now?'
'Why does he look so happy when I said his martial soul is useless?'
Qi Lin's smile didn't seem fake at all.
But before Su Yuntao could consider this further, the blue crystal ball suddenly radiated a dazzling blue halo.
"This..."
"You have soul power!"
"And it's... full innate soul power!"
"What's going on? Another full innate soul power?"
"When did full innate soul power become so worthless?"
"Or is the crystal ball malfunctioning?"
Su Yuntao quickly checked the crystal ball carefully but found nothing wrong.
"Nothing's wrong."
He muttered softly, though his eyes flickered as he looked at Qi Lin and Xiao Wu.
"This year is really strange. One after another, full innate soul power appears. But the results are either useless martial souls or only half-wasted ones."
In the Douluo Continent, people generally value the strength of the martial soul over innate soul power, which is considered secondary.
This is why, in the original story, two children with full innate soul power appeared in Nuoding City, but it didn't cause much of a stir.
Most other children awakened normal martial souls. Only one tested first-level innate soul power, and most of the useless martial souls had no innate soul power at all.
If another situation like Qi Lin and Xiao Wu had occurred, Su Yuntao would have doubted his own eyes.
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