"Both teams, release your martial souls! The match will officially begin in thirty seconds!"
On the competition stage, at the referee's command, soul power surged around the fourteen members of Shrek Academy and the Second Team of the Heaven Dou Imperial Battle Team. Beast souls possessed their users, and tool souls manifested.
In an instant, numerous yellow and purple soul rings shone forth. But among these fourteen people, whose highest soul power level was no more than four rings, a single black ten-thousand-year soul ring stood out.
"A ten-thousand-year soul ring?!"
The seven members of the Vice Team were instantly stunned, their faces filled with disbelief.
The Shrek Team, which they had looked down upon, actually had three Four-Ring Soul Ancestor, and one of them even had a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring?!
At the same time, a wave of astonishment spread across the tens of thousands of spectators in the stands.
Although most of them were ordinary people without any soul power, those willing to pay high prices for tickets to watch the opening ceremony of the Soul Master Tournament were all wealthy individuals.
Even if they weren't soul masters, they had at least heard that the optimal soul ring configuration for a Four-Ring Soul Master was yellow, yellow, purple, purple. A black ten-thousand-year soul ring was something even many Five-Ring Soul Kings—important figures—might not possess!
"So it really is a ten-thousand-year soul ring!"
Looking at the ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring shining on Tang San's body, Mu Yang on the viewing platform thought to himself: As expected.
Tang San had been cultivating his Purple Demon Eye for years. Even though he lacked the Autumn Dew Tear, a rare immortal herb that enhanced spiritual power, by the time he reached level 40, his spiritual strength would still far surpass that of an ordinary level 50 soul master. This would be enough to withstand the soul shock caused by the residual will of a ten-thousand-year soul beast.
Moreover, with whale glue to enhance his physique, obtaining a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring wasn't impossible for him.
Not only was his fourth soul ring beyond the optimal configuration, but even his third soul ring wasn't the usual fifteen hundred years. Judging by its color, it was at least four thousand years old.
Additionally, Mu Yang observed carefully—among the fourteen competitors on stage, only one member of the Second Team, who looked older and was at level 38, had a normal soul ring configuration. The remaining thirteen all had soul rings exceeding the optimal age. Some had only one, while others had two overaged soul rings.
Among them, aside from Tang San's fourth soul ring, which had undergone a qualitative change, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing's second soul rings had also reached the thousand-year level, just like Mu Yang's.
As for the Heaven Dou Second Team member without an overaged soul ring, he was simply unlucky. He had just reached the Three-Ring Soul Elder level when Blazing Academy revealed the existence of whale glue to the major factions. However, due to his mediocre talent, even after nearly five and a half years, he still hadn't reached level 40 and thus couldn't obtain an overaged soul ring.
Otherwise, as students of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, all of whom were of noble birth, they certainly could afford whale glue.
"A ten-thousand-year soul ring? Interesting."
Looking at Tang San, who was shining with yellow, yellow, purple, and black soul rings, Huo Wu, who stood in the stands with her arms crossed, raised her delicate eyebrows in mild surprise.
Huo Wu herself had a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring, so she understood how strong one's body and spiritual power needed to be to withstand such a ring.
With whale glue enhancing a soul master's physique, meeting the physical requirement for a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring wasn't difficult. But reaching the necessary spiritual power threshold was another story.
For Tang San to have a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring, he had either refined a rare head soul bone or, like her, had a method to cultivate spiritual power.
However, Tang San's soul power level was too low—only a level 42 Soul Elder—and his martial soul was merely Blue Silver Grass, a trash martial soul. Under the flames of her Phoenix Fire Shadow martial soul, it would be utterly powerless. Otherwise, he would have been someone worth taking seriously as a rival.
But then again… how could a trash martial soul like Blue Silver Grass reach the Four-Ring Soul Ancestor Level? Could it be that this wasn't an ordinary Blue Silver Grass?!
"Xiao Yang, you know a lot. How do you think that guy from Shrek Academy managed to cultivate Blue Silver Grass to the Four-Ring level?"
Huo Wushuang voiced the question that had been troubling Huo Wu, directing it at Mu Yang.
Hearing this, the people nearby all turned to look at Mu Yang.
After a moment of thought, Mu Yang said, "That person doesn't look very old. Reaching the Four-Ring level at his age means his talent is definitely top-tier in this era.
A soul master with a powerful martial soul doesn't necessarily have high innate soul power. Just like how not every direct descendant of the Clear Sky Sect or the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan becomes a strong individual, though their lower limit is generally ensured to not be too low.
On the other hand, a soul master with a weak martial soul definitely wouldn't have high innate soul power. And Blue Silver Grass, which is known as a trash martial soul, is no exception.
That means either his Blue Silver Grass martial soul is fundamentally different from an ordinary Blue Silver Grass, or he possesses a second martial soul.
However, the prerequisite for twin martial souls is that both must be of similar quality. If his second martial soul was on par with Blue Silver Grass, that wouldn't be enough to awaken high innate soul power.
In other words, even if he doesn't have twin martial souls, his Blue Silver Grass martial soul must be extraordinary.
Of course, it's also possible that he originally had just an ordinary Blue Silver Grass martial soul but later gained a special opportunity that made such an unbelievable feat possible.
However, even if his cultivation talent drastically improved due to some special opportunity, his originally ordinary Blue Silver Grass martial soul would have become something far from ordinary as well."
By "special opportunity," he naturally meant things like external hacks or immortal herbs capable of altering fate.
As Mu Yang finished speaking, the people around him couldn't help but look confused.
Hmm… They didn't fully understand what he was saying, but it sounded very convincing.
Still, Mu Yang had a point. Cultivating a Blue Silver Grass martial soul to the Four-Ring Soul Ancestor level was an unprecedented feat among the countless Blue Silver Grass soul masters in the continent's history. This Blue Silver Grass was definitely not ordinary.
Fortunately, the Great Spirit Arena was noisy. Since the battle on stage had already begun, Tang San didn't hear Mu Yang's "deduction." Otherwise, if his secret had been exposed, he would undoubtedly label Mu Yang as someone who had "already chosen the path to death."
Of course, Mu Yang's reasoning was based on solid logic. Even without knowledge of the original story, a truly knowledgeable scholar could deduce the same conclusion.
As for how, in the original story, Yu Xiaogang insisted that Tang San's Blue Silver Grass martial soul was nothing special and that his innate full soul power came solely from his second martial soul, the Clear Sky Hammer—that was merely a result of Yu Xiaogang's limited knowledge.
After all, his argument outright contradicted the correct theory that twin martial souls must be of equal quality.
Still, it wasn't entirely Yu Xiaogang's fault for failing to see the truth. Before Tang San awakened his Emperor's Bloodline, his Blue Silver Grass did indeed appear no different from an ordinary one.
If Tang San hadn't had the best possible soul ring configurations—starting from his third soul ring, all of them exceeding the optimal age limit—and if he weren't proficient in various Tang Sect techniques and hidden weapons, then before awakening the Blue Silver Emperor's Bloodline, he would have been nothing more than a weakling among those of the same level.
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