Rise from a Low-class Family to Martial Artist

In the courtyard.

Upon hearing Lin Chen inquiring about the Martial Soul, Yin Yue paused for a moment of silence.

Lin Chen did not interrupt, quietly waiting.

After a while, Yin Yue looked at Lin Chen: ”Soul, Martial Path Will, Divine Soul, Innate Level Martial Path Will, Martial Soul, Martial Soul Map... this is a system, but most Martial Artists can only stay at the Divine Soul step.”

”Martial Artists below the Innate are souls, able to bear the Martial Path Will.”

”Martial Artists at the Innate Realm are Divine Souls, able to bear the Innate Level Martial Path Will.”

Upon hearing Yin Yue say this, Lin Chen’s eyes lit up, and he asked: ”So the Martial Soul belongs to the Myriad Phenomena Realm experts?”

”No.”

Yin Yue shook her head: ”Even Myriad Phenomena Realm experts don’t necessarily possess a Martial Soul. Among the five recorded to have had a Martial Soul in our clan’s records, three were not Myriad Phenomena Realm Martial Artists...”

”The Martial Soul has little to do with the Realm, it is more related to the Divine Soul.”

Lin Chen’s mouth twitched slightly; this statement seemed contradictory.

The Martial Soul is only related to the Divine Soul, yet the higher the Realm, the stronger the Divine Soul.

”I know what you’re thinking, you might feel I’m speaking in contradictions? But that’s just the way it is, many Myriad Phenomena Realm experts don’t necessarily have a Martial Soul. To condense a Martial Soul, it’s not just about having a strong Divine Soul, but also about having a unique Divine Soul.”

Yin Yue looked at Lin Chen, her small mouth opening and closing: ”According to our clan’s records, relying solely on the strength of the Divine Soul to condense a Martial Soul, our ancestors estimated that even a Myriad Phenomena Realm expert’s Divine Soul isn’t sufficient.”

Upon hearing Yin Yue’s explanation, Lin Chen realized and understood the meaning behind her words.

A sufficiently strong Divine Soul can indeed condense a Martial Soul, but this ”strength” standard is so high that even the Myriad Phenomena Realm falls short.

Relying on the strength of the Divine Soul to condense a Martial Soul is not a viable path.

”Those with a Martial Soul are often because their Divine Soul is different from others; in the Flame Dynasty Martial Arts Realm’s words, it is called an Abnormal Soul. As for why some Martial Artists possess an Abnormal Soul, even our ancestors couldn’t find the reason...”

”These individuals with a unique Divine Soul do not necessarily all have a Martial Soul; in fact, many with an Abnormal Soul cannot even enter the Innate Realm...”

When Yin Yue spoke of this, she looked at Lin Chen with a bit of oddity in her gaze: ”Our ancestors once spent nearly a century specialized in researching those naturally foolish infants, finding they actually possess an Abnormal Soul, either because their Divine Soul was too strong at birth hence the body couldn’t bear it, or because the Divine Soul was too weak...”

”Idiots have abnormal souls?”

Lin Chen’s mouth twitched slightly, feeling unsure whether to take pride or gloom in having an Abnormal Soul.

”Our ancestors once gathered a hundred such infants, nurturing them from a young age, but these naturally foolish individuals couldn’t cultivate at all, because they couldn’t even understand words. Even giving them all sorts of soul-repairing spirit medicine, either it was ineffective, or if effective, their souls became indistinguishable from ordinary people.”

”Those with naturally unique Divine Souls find cultivation extremely difficult; most who manage successful cultivation despite an Abnormal Soul are due to postnatal causes. But you are an exception, being born with an Abnormal Divine Soul and swiftly reaching the Innate Second Realm; it’s not an exaggeration to call you heaven’s favored child.”

”I was born with an Abnormal Divine Soul?”

Lin Chen looked puzzled; how did Yin Yue come to this conclusion?

Yin Yue took a deep look at Lin Chen; during her time in Linhu Village, she had learned about Lin Chen’s experiences from the other villagers’ accounts.

In the villagers’ words, Lin Chen had always exhibited traits different from other children in the village from an early age.

While other children were still fiddling with the dirt, Lin Chen often sat by the lake deep in thought alone.

At three, he ventured into the lake; by five, he could catch fish barehanded in the lake, and by seven, he was the best in the village at fishing in the water.

After ten, he had even more remarkable feats, able to fight a ten-foot-long big fish in the water for a two-hour session...

In short, more of a prodigy than a prodigy...

To Yin Yue, this explained Lin Chen’s exceptional Divine Soul, though Lin Chen was a lucky one who didn’t become dull-witted due to the Abnormal Soul...

”I learned about your childhood experiences from your village’s villagers and came to this judgment.”

After hearing that Yin Yue came to her conclusion through tales of his childhood by villagers, Lin Chen’s expression immediately turned peculiar.

The mouths of villagers tell deceitful tales.

He knew how villagers described his childhood to outsiders; had he not confirmed they spoke of him, he might have thought they spoke of another person.

Born with anomalies, wisdom at a tender age...

Basically, linking every wonder story from the tales onto himself.

In summary, emphasizing point: This child is extraordinary from a young age!

Lin Chen had pondered the reasons for such made-up tales about his childhood by the villagers and indeed managed to analyze some reasons.

The common people believe in destiny!

In their eyes, those big figures have naturally good fates, exhibited by being different from ordinary people since young, comforting themselves that they cannot become big figures not due to their inadequacy but because they lack such destiny.

The second reason is to satisfy vanity and to garner attention; the more absurd the tale, the more people like to hear it.

Once figures rise to prominence, everyone knows the present but not the past. If prior to fame they’re the same as ordinary folks, there’s no appeal in retelling.

Lin Chen had witnessed villagers’ skill in this area; he wasn’t the only one exaggeratedly praised by villagers. Before his soul’s arrival, villagers boasted of his father-in-law also, made him seem innately extraordinary, making Lin Chen initially believe it, until his parents told him the truth, that his father-in-law was like any ordinary youth before entering the Martial Arts Hall, devoid of remarkable traits.