Yet who could have imagined that a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Master would suddenly erupt with such terrifying combat power?
This was an exceedingly rare sight, even across the entirety of the Douluo Continent.
Staring at the seven-colored longsword in Ning Rongrong's hand, Qin Ming was unable to make sense of it.
"Is it a twin martial soul… or simply a weapon?"
"If it's a weapon, then it must be a soul tool capable of channeling soul power for attacks. But if it's a twin martial soul, then there were no soul rings flashing just now—meaning it should be a self-created soul skill…"
"When did the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect produce such a monster of a genius?"
A support-type Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Master suddenly displaying formidable combat power, and even helping her teammates secure a kill at the very start of the match—this maneuver instantly lit up the audience. Cheers and applause erupted from the stands.
At this moment, Xiao Yan shifted his attention to Yu Tianheng, the legitimate Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master.
After activating his martial soul, a blue lightning emblem appeared on Yu Tianheng's forehead. His right arm had expanded grotesquely, bursting apart his sleeve and transforming entirely.
The arm had become incomparably thick, covered in blue-violet scales. His hand had turned into a claw, while serpentine arcs of blue-purple lightning continuously gathered and surged along his arm.
From Rongrong, Xiao Yan had already learned some information regarding Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Masters.
The soul rings they acquired had to come from sub-dragon-type soul beasts. Starting from level thirty, each additional soul ring would cause another dragon-like feature to manifest on their bodies whenever their martial soul was activated.
Xiao Yan sighed softly.
"What a truly unfathomable martial soul."
Judging by the characteristics of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, once such a Soul Master reached level ninety and became a Titled Douluo, activating their martial soul would most likely result in them transforming into an actual dragon—or at least something extremely close to one.
As Xiao Yan learned more and more about Soul Masters, a hypothesis gradually formed in his mind—one that most people would find utterly absurd.
The people of the Douluo Continent might not be pure-blood humans at all.
They might not even be human.
Once this thought emerged, it stubbornly refused to fade.
The history of Soul Masters spanned only around a thousand years. Before that, not even considering distant soul beasts, just Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape alone—both hundred-thousand-year soul beasts—would have been enough to slaughter ordinary humans with ease.
Sometimes, Xiao Yan wondered whether there was a possibility that the "humans" of the Douluo Continent had originally been hundred-thousand-year soul beasts that chose to transform.
Such a theory would never be accepted by the people of Douluo.
But unlike the relatively primitive inhabitants of this world, Xiao Yan had received a certain level of education. While not an expert, he knew that modern research suggested that humans evolved from fish—humans did not simply appear fully formed.
In an environment like the Douluo Continent, filled with terrifying soul beasts, if pure-blood humans truly existed from the beginning, the fact that they hadn't gone extinct would itself be a miracle.
In Xiao Yan's hypothesis:
A very long time ago—at least a hundred thousand years in the past—the Douluo Continent was dominated entirely by soul beasts. They were the mainstream, perhaps even the only intelligent life forms. At that time, hundred-thousand-year soul beasts were abundant.
As these soul beasts cultivated to the hundred-thousand-year threshold, many of them chose to undergo transformation, becoming the first generation of humans.
Their original species became their martial souls.
As generations passed, the martial souls of these transformed soul beasts mutated. Thus, weapon-type martial souls emerged.
These mutations may have originated from transformed soul beasts that naturally possessed weapons—such as saber-toothed beasts—or from plant-type soul beasts with sharp, offensive characteristics.
Thus, transformed soul beasts came to possess both beast-type and weapon-type martial souls, with plant-type martial souls categorized under weapon-type martial souls.
At the very beginning, these transformed soul beasts cultivated by condensing their own soul rings.
However, with continued bloodline dilution through reproduction, their descendants gradually lost this ability and could only cultivate by hunting soul beasts and absorbing soul rings.
Soul beasts, as a species, were never harmonious—wolves ate sheep, tigers hunted deer, rabbits consumed grass. Predation was natural.
Killing soul beasts carried no psychological burden.
This marked the first stage.
Later, the situation of transformed soul beasts worsened. Not only could they no longer condense soul rings, but even the strength of their martial soul bloodlines could not be fully preserved.
Bloodline degradation became severe. Large numbers of transformed soul beast lineages weakened, generation after generation becoming trash.
Transformed soul beasts had lifespans of only around a hundred years. Once the original generation capable of self-condensing soul rings died out, the transformed soul beast population expanded further—yet all of them now needed to hunt soul beasts to cultivate.
This kind of slaughter was far more terrifying than simple predation.
To select appropriate soul rings, massive numbers of soul beasts would be exterminated in a single sweep.
Thus, irreconcilable conflict arose between transformed soul beasts and ordinary soul beasts.
This ushered in the second stage—the first large-scale war on the Douluo Continent.
Mountains collapsed, the land shattered, and countless records and inheritances were lost.
But one thing was certain: the transformed soul beasts, with their faster cultivation of elites, ultimately emerged victorious.
Yet they did not wipe out the soul beasts entirely. For cultivation purposes, they preserved three great forests as soul beast habitats, while seizing vast territories for themselves.
From that point onward, transformed soul beasts completely referred to themselves as "humans." They expanded their domains, and families and nations were established.
Still, the inherent defects remained. Aside from a few powerful martial souls, bloodline degradation continued. Over time, most descendants lost even the ability to cultivate. Those who retained it became known as Soul Masters.
After the passage of countless years, this problem improved somewhat—but it never fully disappeared.
Even Soul Masters with identical martial souls exhibited vastly different innate soul power talents.
The improvement lay in the survival of lineages such as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect—top sects that endured through generations without losing their inheritance.
Thus, the world gradually reached its current state—the third stage.
During this long period of recuperation, soul beasts—lacking written history—forgot the causes of the ancient war. Yet instinctively, they developed resistance to transformation.
Both ancient super soul beasts and newly emerged hundred-thousand-year soul beasts rarely chose to transform.
As this theory concluded, Xiao Yan shook his head.
Aside from himself, no one would believe such madness. If he told even one other person, they would surely think him insane.
His gaze swept past Yu Tianheng and finally landed on the Bi-Phoenix Serpent Soul Master of the Imperial Team.
Earlier, he had sensed the presence of snake venom. He hadn't expected it to be emanating from this woman herself.
He recalled how "Master" once claimed that beast-type martial souls struggled to attach poison-type soul rings, since the Soul Master would likely be poisoned before succeeding.
Now it seemed that Master hadn't been entirely wrong.
The Bi-Phoenix Serpent's venom had poisoned the girl herself. Even without activating her martial soul, a deadly toxin radiated from her body. That she had survived until now was nothing short of a miracle.
The tragedy was that martial souls could be inherited. If her child also possessed the Bi-Phoenix Serpent martial soul, longevity would be unlikely.
"An interesting team," Xiao Yan murmured with a faint smile.
"Seven members—two of them have problematic martial souls."
He then focused his perception toward Ye Lingling of the Nine Heart Begonia.
She was a girl dressed entirely in black, even her face veiled in dark gauze. Her figure was slender, and waterfall-like blue hair cascaded down her back.
Her eyes, the same shade of blue as her hair, showed no emotion whatsoever. From her, one could sense only solitude and desolation.
Using his spiritual perception and monitoring her pulse, Xiao Yan slowly shook his head.
After a thorough examination, he found no illness within her body.
The problem with the Nine Heart Begonia martial soul was clearly far more complex than Ma Hongjun's Evil Fire Phoenix or Dugu Yan's Bi-Phoenix Serpent.
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