stonecrandall Chapter 3 Awakening Day
Chapter 3 Awakening Day
Another ten thousand years have passed.
Over the past ten thousand years, the Sun and Moon Empire has unified the continent and established a federation. The rapid advancement of Soul Guidance Technology has greatly liberated and developed productive forces, and the living standards of ordinary people have improved visibly.
The simultaneous improvement in living standards and technological levels has led to an explosive growth in the Federation's population, resulting in more children needing to awaken their martial spirits and more soul masters needing soul spirits.
Therefore, the status of the Holy Spirit Church and the Spirit Pagoda has also risen accordingly.
Furthermore, because the relationship between martial spirits and soul spirits is inseparable, the branches of the Holy Spirit Cult and the Spirit Pagoda are located close to each other throughout the Federation.
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Donghai City.
A coastal city that has vigorously developed its marine economy, it is one of the major cities in the entire Douluo Federation.
For this reason, even though the number of Soul Masters in Donghai City is far less than that of the major inland cities, the branch of the Spirit Pagoda located here is still among the eighteen pillars of the Spirit Pagoda, making it one of the landmark buildings of Donghai City.
Another landmark building is the Holy Spirit Church branch, which is right next to the Spirit Pagoda—a solemn and majestic church called "Saint Donghai Church".
Like the eighteen pillars of the Spirit Pagoda, there are only eighteen churches in the entire Federation that possess the title of "Saint".
At this moment, the St. Donghai Church was bustling with people, mostly adults and children.
Today is the annual Awakening Day. Ordinary families living near the Holy Spirit Cult branch will bring their children to the church to awaken their martial spirit.
For ordinary families living far away, the Holy Spirit Church dispatches priests to various temporary outposts in cities, towns, and villages to awaken the martial spirit for their children free of charge.
Outside the Awakening Room, the clergy in charge of registration had just sent in a family of three when they saw a lonely little boy at the very front of the line.
"He's really handsome, even more handsome than I was when I was a child."
That was his first reaction, then he realized what was going on and asked with a puzzled look, "Little friend, why are you alone? Didn't your family come with you?"
Because the orphanage has dedicated priests who come to the children's homes to help them awaken their potential, even though the little boy came alone, he didn't think of him as an orphan. He simply assumed that the child in front of him had a falling out with his family.
"Big brother, I have no home and no family. I'm all alone today."
After speaking calmly, the little boy handed over his identification.
The staff member's expression hardened, and his eyes quickly scanned the information on the ID card. In that instant, he thought of many things.
An orphan abandoned the priest who came to his door and went alone to the St. East Sea Church to awaken his martial spirit, which shows how serious the exclusion and humiliation this child suffered in the orphanage was.
He himself was an orphan. Because of his good looks, he was ostracized and bullied in the orphanage until he awakened a martial soul with the attribute of light and was able to join the Holy Spirit Cult, which changed his situation.
Because of their similar childhood experiences, the staff looked at the little boy as if they saw their younger selves, their gazes softened, and their tone became gentle.
"Little Meng Xinghe, come here, let big brother take you to awaken your martial soul."
He sincerely hoped that the child could awaken a sacred or luminous martial soul with soul power, so that the Holy Spirit Cult could give the little boy a warm home.
Meng Xinghe only needed to glance at the staff member to know what he was thinking.
With 20,000 years of experience and wisdom, he doesn't need mind-reading to understand what most people in the world are thinking when faced with different situations.
His martial spirit does indeed contain the power of holiness and light, but the Holy Spirit Cult is not his choice; the Spirit Pagoda is.
The Holy Spirit Cult and the Spirit Pagoda were forces he directly supported and forces he indirectly supported, respectively.
Among them, the Holy Spirit Cult only recruits Soul Masters with Holy or Light attributes. Even after 20,000 years, the cult as a whole still leans towards the light. Although it has flaws, they are not serious.
Unlike the Spirit Pagoda, it doesn't have such strict restrictions on recruiting people. Because it controls the Soul Spirit technology, it attracts a large number of talented people to join, including people from various forces and major families. As a result, the internal forces are deeply intertwined, and there is constant open and covert struggle.
In summary, Meng Xinghe chose the Spirit Pagoda instead of the Holy Spirit Cult because the Holy Spirit Cult's positioning was not suitable as a stepping stone for him, while the Spirit Pagoda, with its mixed and diverse characters, was the most appropriate.
He had arranged everything well in advance.
Throughout these 20,000 years, Meng Xinghe never entered the world but was always involved in it, and his presence was behind every major historical event.
Meng Xinghe himself was already a million-year-old soul beast ten thousand years ago.
Unlike the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, a million-year-old soul beast that had never survived a single heavenly tribulation, he himself had genuinely survived nine heavenly tribulations in his million-year cultivation.
Two hundred thousand years, three hundred thousand years... up to a million years, Meng Xinghe survived all nine heavenly tribulations unscathed.
The celestial tribulation originated from the sky, and he possessed the original bloodline of Uranus, the sky god-king.
The tribulations that other soul beasts would avoid at all costs were like soaking in a hot spring for him; he had soaked in a hot spring nine times during the nine tribulations.
However, only those who truly reach the level of a million-year-old soul beast can perceive the restriction imposed by the rules of heaven and earth on soul beasts' inability to become gods.
Meng Xinghe felt like the Monkey King, but trapped under the Five Fingers Mountain. No matter how great his abilities were, he couldn't break free from its restraints.
At that moment, he felt a surge of joy and happiness, and he cursed the Dragon God's ancestors for eighteen generations.
You only know how painful it is when you experience it yourself!
Although he had long known of the Dragon God's extraordinary wisdom, only when he experienced it firsthand could he truly appreciate the Dragon God's defying nature.
Damn it, could the Dragon God have grown up eating Sanlu milk powder?
As expected, without divine pardon, soul beasts could not inherit divine positions. Just like Da Ming and Er Ming, the only way for soul beasts to become gods was to transform into human form and start over.
Leaving Douluo Star is useless; once a soul beast, always a soul beast.
Even though Di Tian was no longer on Douluo Star in Douluo IV, he still couldn't avoid the million-year heavenly tribulation.
This indicates that the laws established by the Dragon God are universally applicable throughout the universe.
Any non-human life form that comes to Douluo Star may be transformed into a soul beast. Once it becomes a soul beast, it will never be able to get rid of its soul beast identity unless it transforms into a human.
Beings like themselves and Xue Di, born of nature and nurtured by the earth, would be considered sacred beings in other worlds, but in Douluo Continent, they could only be soul beasts.
If it weren't for the fact that soul beasts cannot become gods, who would be willing to give up millions of years of cultivation to transform into human form and start over?
You can refuse to give up and wait for the Little Dragon God to be born... Wait my ass!
By the time that time comes, Tang San's family will have already established their dominance.
To turn the tables and become the master, it is impossible unless the true god Uranus leads his twelve Titan children in a mechanical descent into the Douluo Universe.