Chapter 3
As Su Yuntao started the process with me a weird wave of... I guess the only way of saying is 'energy' entered my body.
Is this what Spirit Power is? So weird, but still comfortable. I instinctively close my eyes at the sensation, trying to capture the feeling of this energy.
This energy then concentrates in my lower abdome and I feel something surging.
Everything freezes as a heavenly voice echoes.
[Welcome to the Waifu Catalog]
... FUCK YEAH!
I have read webnovels with a system like that. It is filled with sex, cute girls, and power. Lots and lots of power, which is absolutely necessary if I intend to live in this world. This world is very much dangerous if the books are any indication.
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[Starting World: Douluo Dalu
Starting budget 955 'Extra' with 1 additional cost -1 [954]
Heritage: Dragon Heart -80 [874]
Bindings: Shroud of Power -80 [794]; Elemental Shroud -96 [698]; Elemental Loom -50 [648]; Deep Weave -25 [623]
Lures: Faerie Feast -10 [613]; Love Spot -20 [593]; Zenryoku Zenkai -20 [573]
Home Perks: Pocket Space -5 [568]; Pocket Apartment -20 [548]; Sweet Home -10 [538] All Roads Lead to Home -10 [528]; Grand Manor -20 [508]; Life's A Beach -10 [498]; Warehouse District -20 [478]
Discounted for duplicate talents +35 [513]
Talents: Body Talent x2 free [513]; Soul Talent free [513]; Everlasting Talent x2 free [513] Wild Talent x2 free [513]; Martial Talent x2 -10 [503]; Talent Sharing x2 [Soul Talent, Martial Talent] -20 [483]; Template Stacking I x2 [You have Crimsonbright Diagram of Nine Heavens, Nuwa Painting] -30 [453]; OC Donut Steel x2 [You have Xiao Yan, Thor powers] -40 [413]; Template Stacking II x4 [You [Crimsonbright Diagram of Nine Heavens], You [Nuwa Painting], You [Xiao Yan], You [Thor]] -80 [333]; Educational Talentᵈˡᶜ -5 [328]
Discounted for duplicate defenses +15 [343]
Defenses: Body Defense x3 free [343]; Wild Defense x4 free [343]; Creature Defense x2 free [343]; Trace Defense -50 [293]; Information Defense -25 [268]
Misc Perks: Universal Calibration -10 [258]; Sexual Calibration -2 [256]; Fertility Calibration I -2 [254]
Generic Waifu Perks: Paper Trail x4 [Mukuro Hoshimiya, Miku Izayoi, Yoshino Himekawa, Kotori Itsuka] -4 [250]
Companions bought -250 [0]: Mukuro Hoshimiya(T7)[buy] from Date A Live; Miku Izayoi(T6)[buy] from Date A Live; Kotori Itsuka(T6)[buy] from Date A Live; Yoshino Himekawa(T6)[buy] from Date A Live
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As I look at the information presented to me my eyes change as some memories come to me.
Yes, how could I forget? This is the world I personally selected to enter, the world of cultivation of Douluo Dalu. I can still remember some of the key points of the plot, and I can guess why I was born as the twin brother of Tang San.
The reason is Ah Yin, our mother. To be more precise, the shroud should have turned into a martial soul, but then comes the issue. Not any extra can have a justifiable affinity to nature to have this martial soul, so the number of people I could be born from is lower. Not only that, I also choose a Dragon Blood heritage, giving me the blood of the dragon race.
The only way for a human to have that sort of pure bloodline on a feasible level is if they are from the Blue Tyrant Family, or if they descend from a spirit beast which can evolve into a dragon form.
I didn't really had any deep thoughts on that when making my selection, which would also explain why I choose to have the template for Thor. Namely, it is the Thor from Shumatsu no Valkyrie as the man is an absolute beast and I was re-rereading the manga of Shumatsu no Valkyrie.
I guess no one in the Blue Tyrant Family had a child with someone with a plant or Life martial soul, so the only one I could become in a realistic fashion is the son of Tang Hao, the piece of shit.
As that information settled in, knowledge flowed into my mind. Namely, three things appeared clearly in it, or at least the start of them.
In the world of Battle Through the Heavens, the hero of the story and a genius alchemist like none other, Xiao Yan. His mastery over fire and alchemy is decidedly top notch, and the knowledge about it entered my mind as if a blueprint with the basics already drawn. It is only around the equivalent of a tier 4 alchemist knowledge and experience for now as well as the more basic powers he had at the start of his journey, but this is still quite a lot and I have access to the clear knowledge of higher levels he reached, even if not his experiences that I would have to figure on my own.
A great harvest indeed.
Next was the Crimsonbright Nine Heavens Diagram, a fiendgod body refining method. It baptizes the user each time they advance through the use of Sun and Moon tattoos naturally formed that grant a wisp of the powers of the Solar Star and Lunar Star upon them. It is somewhat time consuming and the toughest such method to train, but it can make one able to heal from a single drop of blood, obtain an extremely tiranical body, have the most perfect body, as well as obtain a body that can control fire and water easily. It is divided in 9 stages and if I can get to the final level I should become umbeatable by anyone who isn't a God King.
And third was the Nuwa Painting, a painting of Nuwa appearing in my mind. It may sound slightly weird, but such a painting is very practical as meditating in it would let me improve my mind considerably and protect it from invasive spiritual attacks. I am not sure how those work here, but this worked wonders in Desolate Era world and should be good here as well.
The waifus are all also very strong and beautiful, me being a secret fan of Date a Live in my previous life guiding me in my picks there. Looking at the information it seems like they will be sent my way in a short while one way or another since Paper Trail needs to make them have some degree of a past.
Time slowly started moving normally again and as it did so my spirit appeared.
It was a... green shroud. It wasn't decorated or anything like that, a rather plain green shroud if I was to describe it, the only interesting part of it was the sensation of pure life energy in it.
Unfortunately, Su Yuntao wasn't able to sense it so he could only sigh.
"Sigh, another waste spirit. Such a shroud like that can't be anything too good." He said and I frown and with a flicker of my hand the vegetation starts to change as it grows and trees start sprowling around us. The trees taking the forms I desire, even if it tire me a bit to do so.
Looking at my side I could see Tang San looking in my direction with envy, greed, and a hint of ruthlesnes in my direction. I glare at his direction when I saw the ruthlesnes, causing him to freeze for a moment and look to the side. Yeah, my Flora Shroud is better than your Blue Silver Emperor by several degrees as it basically makes me Hashirama, deal with it.
"Quick, test you spirit power." Su Yuntao was shocked at my spirit and after a while he pushed the measure device to my hands.
Catching it I feel my spirit power leaving my body and the device shines extremely brightly before it broke.
"... This, it can only mean... no, I need to be sure that the gem isn't just defective." Su Yuntao said before taking out a second gem. "This is my replacement measurement device, test it again."
It is a bit weird, but I don't really want to say no to him considering he came all the way to this small village to help us poor kids to awaken their martial souls. Besides, I do know that he isn't a bad person and if I can attract the attention of Spirit Hall then all the better.
As I pour my energy into the second device, it shined brightly again before it broke all over again.
Su Yuntao looked completely stumped before putting his hands on my shoulders and dropping to his knees as look me in the eyes.
"Child, would you be interested in joining our Spirit Hall? We have the greatest amount of resources and we can lead you further in your path to cultivation, we also work for the good of the citizens throughout the mainland!"
Hearing his words my eyes shine as that is exactly what I want.
"Yes, I want to join Spirit Hall." I said without hesitation.
Spirit Hall is decidedly the best route for me as far as I care. I have already all but given up on this world's family, which would be my only possible attatchment to make me hesitate. My brother is a bootlicker who is prone to violence and revenge against anyone who doesn't do as he wants, my mother died before I ever properly met her so I feel nothing for her, and my 'father' was a failure in every meaningful way and if he was dying on a desert of thirst I wouldn't spit in his general direction.
He truly is that bad in my eyes.
That I know that Spirit Hall is the decidedly force for good to this world and that would break away from the control of the nobles just makes this better.
"Uhm, mister Yuntao." Old Jack said, stepping forward. Su Yuntao turned to him and gestured for him to continue. "If little Ming follows you would little San still be eligible to enter the junior college as a work student?"
Su Yuntao waved him off and said.
"Sure, why not? Of course, if Tang Ming doesn't join spirit hall now he will be the one to become a working student since his innate talent is truly that of a once in a generation monster. And a martial soul like his, I do not have ever seen anything like it, not even heard of a martial soul that could change shapes so easily like that before it even have any spirit ring, it is above my level but it will surely be able to grow to such a level that Title Douluo would not be impossible! Letting Tang Ming go to waste to instead focus on Blue Silver Grass kid is absurd." Su Yuntao said and I can see Tang San frowning at the 'insult'. His hands twitching in a way as if he was thinking on how to kill Su Yuntao for saying something bad to him.
Seriously kid, the Blue Silver Grass spirit IS trash. No one ever cultivated it in so long, clearly the spirit has some problems and that cannot be denied. Your principles to kill anyone who goes against your ideals is what is absurd here, you are just lucky I don't bind and sell you off here and now since I don't desire to largely change the plot for the moment.
"I want to go to study in Spirit Hall." I said before deciding to show off a bit more, really make my value shine brighter as to make me more valued by Spirit Hall. Concentrating a bit I call on my second spirit.
The spirit begins to appear as a purple lion with wings. His furs are purple and white and he a red horn on his forehead which has a purple flame lit up. His claws are sharp and are a darker purple color than his fur. This should be the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, the beast whose Beast Fire I have, even if this feels like it isn't quite that beast. However, unlike the normal Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, this one has in its neck area 23 small seed like gems could be seen, they were the seeds for all the 23 types of Heavenly Flame! If he could make just one or two awaken, he would become who knows how strong. If he could get all of them, then even the Gods wouldn't be any threat to him.
"T-Twin spirits?" Su Yuntao said as his eyes began to almost shine. "Yes, you should definetly joining spirit hall. With your talent and twin spirits, it is almost like the second coming of the Saint Pontiff! No, it may be even more than that! Who knows, she might even take you as a disciple!"
Oh yeah, that sounds nice. Being the disciple of Bibi Dong sounds like a wonderful idea in several ways, especially since I actually feel like I have a third spirit, but I can't bring it out as I am not anywhere close to strong enough for it.
"Brother Ming, we should ask father about what to do." Tang San said and I scoffed at that. Asking life choices for that waste of cromosom Y? He'd likely say no or demand money for me being sent to Spirit Hall just so he could use said money for more booze, as if he was a slave trader selling his goods.
I would rather not give him the chance of selling me off as if a merchandise just to get more alcohol in his system, or just be denied to take this amazing chance just because the man wants to fuck with my life even more than when he nearly starved me to death several times when I was too small to go hunt for food while he drank entire days away.
"No need, brother San. Father rarely ever did anything to either of us, you may like to act as if he is better than he is, but for me the three years of taking care of his dirty laundry and taking care of him and you, the obviously favorite son, was enough compensation for carrying for us for the first few years. He wanted us both to be our own man, so this is me making my own decision regardless of his thoughts. I am joining Spirit Hall, and you better train well since I won't be around to protect you later on."
"Humph, I beat you last night." Tang San said and I just smirked.
"Sure, but that only happened because you knew your weird kung fu thing. Later, when I become strong, we will have a new fight and I will show you who is the stronger one." I said challengingly. I then nod to Su Yuntao and, after some talk with the old lady who took care of me in the small Spirit Hall pavilion where I expressed my appreciation for all she did for me, we boarded the carriage to Suoto City.
I am gonna live a better life next, not just be some abusive drunk's glorified servant.