Chapter 4: Supreme Martial Soul — Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan
Finally, after an unknown amount of time passed, the system's voice sounded again:
"Ding... Activation complete. Host has adapted to soul power rules."
Instantly, the Central Wu Earth Qi in Zhou Chen's body became silent. The soul power pressure that originally filled the entire secret room also vanished without a trace, leaving only a golden crystal ball covered in cracks on its surface.
As for Su Yuntao and Tang San, they were currently panting heavily like survivors of a disaster. The look in their eyes when looking at Zhou Chen was full of shock, as well as faint fear!
The three people remained silent like this, and the atmosphere gradually solidified.
After a long time, the somewhat awkward Zhou Chen took the lead in breaking the silence. He looked at Su Yuntao and asked: "My soul power, is it finished measuring?"
"O... of course it is finished measuring."
Su Yuntao was stunned for a moment. Immediately, he looked at the golden crystal ball covered in cracks on the table and said hesitantly: "It is just that the soul power crystal has already been destroyed. I cannot determine your soul power rank."
According to common sense, even if a person had Innate Full Soul Power, the maximum was only rank 10. But how could a mere rank 10 soul power cause the soul power crystal to be nearly shattered and suppress him, a Level 26 Great Spirit Master, to the point of being unable to move?
Although it was hard to believe, Su Yuntao still had a terrifying guess: the innate soul power of this kid before him probably far exceeded rank 10!
"Phew..."
Letting out a long sigh, Su Yuntao, who was shocked in his heart, did not forget his duty as a tool man. He pointed to the six black stones forming a circle on the ground and said slowly: "Little friend, stand inside. It is time to awaken your Martial Soul."
"En."
Zhou Chen took two steps forward and stood amidst the six black stones.
"Focus your mind, I am starting."
Reminding him once, Su Yuntao slapped the ground. Six streams of green soul power were injected into the six black stones. In a split second, a pale golden light mask rose again.
The next moment, many golden light spots emanated from the light mask, constantly penetrating into Zhou Chen's body. Waves of warm energy made the Central Wu Earth Qi inside his body begin to become active!
"As expected!"
Su Yuntao's eyes instantly became blazing because the golden light spots appearing beside Zhou Chen were far denser than those of ordinary people by a thousand or ten thousand times!
If this kid's Martial Soul quality was as powerful as his soul power, then he must rope him into the Spirit Hall. In this way, he would be considered to have made a great contribution, and promotion would be in sight!
Boom!!
A golden pillar of light reaching through heaven and earth descended from the sky, instantly blasting through the dome of the Spirit Hall and shrouding Zhou Chen's entire person within it!
The next moment, Zhou Chen, whose whole body was bathed in golden light, gradually suspended in the air. Coupled with his handsome face and a suit of noble purple clothes, he simply did not look like a mortal creature.
"This... is that pillar of light!"
Tang San looked blankly at this scene and murmured.
A few days ago, he had seen the same golden pillar of light land in Zhou Chen's residence. It was just that the situation at that time was far less magnificent than it was now!!
As for Su Yuntao, he had long been shocked to the point of being speechless. His mouth was wide open, and strange clucking sounds came from his throat.
"Ding... Host's Martial Soul has awakened. Please check."
Accompanied by the system notification sound, a huge humanoid light shadow emitting golden rays slowly squeezed out of Zhou Chen's body!
As soon as the humanoid light shadow appeared, the nearby sky turned completely dark, pitch-black like ink. The only light remaining was that golden pillar of light connecting heaven and earth.
Immediately after, streaks of golden lightning flashed across the vast sky. Amidst bursts of thunder, large patches of pale golden auspicious clouds were generated!
"Why did the sky turn dark?"
"What is that pillar of light?"
"That is the direction of the Spirit Hall!"
Facing such a grand phenomenon, inside Nuoding City, countless people began to wonder, question, and then panic.
Crack!!
Suddenly, thunder and lightning resounded for a thousand miles. A huge bolt of golden lightning was seen striking directly at the dome of the Nuoding City Spirit Hall, completely flipping over that heavy stone dome!
Then, the lightning's momentum did not diminish. It smashed the Seraphim Statue, which was over ten meters high inside the hall, into powder!!
This seemed like a signal!
The next moment, Zhou Chen suddenly opened his eyes. The huge humanoid light shadow behind him immediately burst out circles of golden light waves. And a pressure as vigorous as a mountain and as vast as the firmament also spread along with it!
Instantly, Su Yuntao and Tang San were knocked unconscious by that powerful pressure!
And this was just the beginning!
The next second, with the Spirit Hall as the center, hundreds of thousands of people in the entire Nuoding City all fainted under this tyrannical and peerless pressure!
In the streets and alleys, countless pedestrians fainted on the ground neatly like waves!
Only Soul Masters above rank 30 could barely maintain consciousness, but they could only lie on the ground, unable to move.
"Is this... the wrath of a God?"
Inside the Spirit Branch Hall, the Spirit Ancestor with a soul power as high as rank 47, the Bishop of Nuoding City, Cassis, was looking at all this suddenness with horror.
Beside him, a dozen Spirit Hall deacons had fallen in disorder. Only a few deacons with soul power above rank 30 maintained consciousness, but they could only lie there like vegetative people.
Only Cassis himself could still stand!
But he could merely stand and nothing more...
West of the city.
Here sat the only primary Soul Master academy in Nuoding City, Nuoding Academy.
At this time, hundreds of teachers and students in the entire Nuoding Academy had almost all fainted. Only a middle-aged man who looked to be in his fifties was still forcibly resisting that soul power pressure permeating the whole city.
He was the dean of the academy and also a powerhouse ranked in the top three in Nuoding City, a rank 42 Spirit Ancestor.
"That pillar of light... what exactly is it?"
The middle-aged man gazed at that golden pillar of light connecting heaven and earth, his eyes full of horror.
Extremely uneasy in his heart, he glanced at the desk beside him, where a thin figure had fainted.
"Wait for Xiaogang to wake up and ask him. After all, he is from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan..."
In the city, in a blacksmith shop belonging to Zhou Chen.
A middle-aged man was gazing with burning eyes at that golden pillar of light reaching through heaven and earth, his eyes filled with doubt.
The man was about fifty years old, tall and burly. Bronze skin was revealed under his damaged robe. His face was covered with a layer of sallowness, his hair was messy, and he had stubble, looking very sloppy.
He was Tang San's father, the Haotian Douluo, Tang Hao!
The tyrannical pressure emitted by Zhou Chen was completely ineffective against him, a Titled Douluo.
"A very strange pressure... Although the intensity is not high and a Spirit Ancestor above rank 40 is enough to resist it, its range can unexpectedly cover the entire city! This... seems somewhat similar to the God Domain of the Slaughter City."
Tang Hao muttered to himself in a low voice and smiled bitterly in his heart. He had also seen that golden pillar of light before; it definitely had something to do with little Zhou Chen.
"Go to the Spirit Hall to take a look."
Tang Hao sighed in a low voice. With a slight sway of his body, his whole person had already disappeared.
Although he was not a responsible father, since such a big thing happened, he definitely had to go see how his son Tang San was.
Of course, he would also go see that kid Zhou Chen in passing...
At the same time.
Zhou Chen, shrouded in the golden pillar of light, was turning around and staring quietly at that huge golden humanoid Martial Soul.
At this time, the golden humanoid Martial Soul was wrapped in a layer of rich golden light, so its face and figure were all blurred. Only a pair of eyes shining like stars were looking at Zhou Chen across the air.
After a long time, when the golden light gradually dispersed, Zhou Chen finally saw the appearance of this humanoid Martial Soul clearly.
Then he... turned pale with shock!
At this time, although the face of the golden humanoid Martial Soul was still blurred, its figure had changed greatly.
Above its head, it wore a jade crown with twelve tassels. On its body, it wore an apricot-yellow gilded imperial robe.
On the robe, there were nine five-clawed golden dragons winding around. Phantoms of mountains, rivers, grass, trees, flying fish, walking beasts, sun, moon, and stars also emerged around it!
That momentum, deep as an abyss, immediately made eight words emerge in Zhou Chen's mind:
Above heaven and below earth, I alone am supreme!
"System, what exactly is this Martial Soul?"
Although this Martial Soul had majestic power and was glittering with gold, looking like a top-tier Martial Soul at first glance. However, in the Martial Soul Illustrated Handbook he read last night, there was no similar Martial Soul.
"Ding... Host, your Martial Soul shares the same origin as the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon. It is one of the Five Emperors, known as Emperor Hong, the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan!"
As soon as these words came out, Zhou Chen only felt a burst of dizziness. No wonder such a powerful phenomenon of heaven and earth was triggered when he awakened his Martial Soul!
His Martial Soul was unexpectedly the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan of legends, who governed the five qis, planted the five grains, soothed the myriad people, measured the four directions, cast a sword at Shouyang, and ascended riding a dragon?