Triggering a treasure chest in Douluo Continent

Chapter 3 Martial Soul Awakening Liquid

"Beautiful, congratulations! It's just a pity..."

Seeing Su Yuntao leave, village chief Shi Gandang looked at the certificate in his hand again and again, and finally sighed helplessly before handing it to Li Meili.

"Thank you for your help, Village Chief."

Li Meili excitedly received the Martial Soul Certificate from Shi Gandang.

So what if it's a useless martial soul? For ordinary people, having soul power is already beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Amidst the congratulations of the crowd, Li Meili, head held high and chest out, carried Shi Quan and hurried home.

Before she even entered the house, her excited voice could already be heard from outside the courtyard.

Shi Jian, who was making clay sculptures in the clay sculpting room, suddenly stood up when he heard his wife's voice. The usually mature and steady man's face turned red with excitement when he saw the certificate of Shi Quan's martial soul in Li Meili's hand.

For ordinary people, the appearance of a child with a talent for soul power in the family is definitely something to celebrate for the whole family.

Li Meili quickly got to work, while Shi Quan's mind was entirely focused on the newly appeared system. Using cultivation as an excuse, he asked his parents not to disturb him, and then returned to his room alone.

"System, are you there?"

Back in his room, Shi Quan closed the doors and windows, and after confirming that no one was around, he called out softly.

"Ding! Treasure Chest Trigger System, at your service."

That familiar mechanical voice appeared in Shi Quan's mind again.

Upon hearing the voice again, Shi Quan's excitement was palpable, confirming that the previous voice was not his hallucination.

"System, can you explain your function?"

"Ding! When the host reaches or completes a certain event, object, or condition, the system will randomly trigger a corresponding treasure chest and open it for the host. The treasure chest will contain a reward that corresponds to the reward."

"To achieve or complete a specific thing, thing, or condition?"

After hearing the system's explanation, Shi Quan was still confused and continued to ask, "Does this mean I have to complete certain specific tasks before you'll give me a treasure chest as a reward?"

"Ding, the system will not assign any tasks, instructions, requirements or any other commands with any guiding function to the host. All treasure chest rewards need to be triggered by the host himself."

"Trigger automatically..." Shi Quan was speechless upon hearing these words and asked, "Then how do I trigger it?"

"Ding! When the host achieves or completes a certain specific task, thing, or condition..."

Hearing the mechanical voice of the system in his mind ring out again, Shi Quan's face darkened. Based on his experience with novels from his previous life, his system should be the kind of rigid robot system that has no intelligence and can only help him according to fixed settings.

Thinking of this, Shi Quan's eyes lit up with curiosity, and he asked, "System, where did you come from?"

"Ding! This system was born in the gap between time and space."

"A gap between time and space?"

Shi Quan was startled, his curiosity growing even stronger. He had asked the question subconsciously, but he hadn't expected the system to actually explain its origin.

"System, do you know why I transmigrated to the Douluo Continent?"

"Ding, the system is unable to query the host's origin."

Shi Quan frowned, then asked, "System, how did you get into me?"

"Ding, this system was brought out by the host when he passed through the gap between time and space."

"I brought him out?" Shi Quan felt more and more confused the more he asked. "System, do you mean you've been here since I was born?"

"Ding, yes, host."

"So it's been six years... and I've only triggered the treasure chest once?!" Shi Quan's face darkened completely. Just how ridiculous is this damn system's treasure chest setting? How could he not trigger it even once in six years?

After letting out a long sigh, Shi Quan gritted his teeth and asked, "System, what is the rift between time and space?"

"Ding, the gap between time and space is the gap between time and space."

Shi Quan: "..."

After a moment of silence.

Shi Quan now understands that no matter how much he asks, the system's answers will likely remain the same few. The system is a fixed program, and its current answers are also fixed. Whether they are true or not is uncertain.

The origin of this so-called system is also like this; the answer he knows now may have been deliberately set up by some higher being, who knows?

But this is not something Shi Quan can consider right now; to be so troubled would be nothing but worrying unnecessarily.

Shi Quan quickly brought his thoughts back. For him, the system was his only support for his rise to power. Rather than worrying about the existence and purpose behind the system, he should live in the present. After all, with his talent, it would be difficult enough to break through to the Great Soul Master level and live a peaceful life past a hundred years old.

As long as the system can help him live to a ripe old age and ascend to godhood, he's making a profit. He's not losing anything anyway. He doesn't have paranoia, so why should he think so much?

His two main things now are...

First, understand the system's rewards.

Second, figure out the trigger conditions for the system's treasure chests in order to get more rewards.

"System, how do I claim the rewards from the treasure chests I triggered earlier?"

Shi Quan's question rang directly in his mind. After a few questions, he realized that as long as he called out in his mind, the system would respond to him, and he didn't need to speak at all.

"Ding! The host can extract treasure chest rewards from the system space. All rewards triggered by the treasure chests will be stored in the system space for the host."

"System space?" Shi Quan's eyes lit up. This was an unexpected surprise. After triggering the treasure chest, he wouldn't have to worry about suddenly having something on him that would arouse suspicion. If it could also help him store things, it would be a free spatial soul tool.

"Open system space".

As soon as Shi Quan gave the order, he immediately found that a virtual screen appeared in front of him, just like a backpack slot in a game, but there was only one slot.

The grid contains a long, silver tube with a transparent, crystal-like glass panel in the center, through which a liquid with a faint golden glow can be seen. In the lower right corner, there is an X2 symbol indicating the quantity.

Shi Quan looked at it, and its name appeared directly in his mind as if it were a note.

Martial Soul Awakening Liquid: A super technological product originating from a future Douluo Continent, capable of helping users reawaken their Martial Soul and enhance their talents.

Instructions for use: Oral administration.

"Awakening one's own martial soul again? A second awakening of the martial soul? Or awakening another martial soul?"

Shi Quan's eyes lit up; either way, it would be of great help to him now.

Enhancing his own talent is especially important to him. You have to know that there are only a few things in Douluo Continent that can improve talent, such as immortal herbs or divine power to modify physique, and these are not things he can obtain right now.

One step behind means another step behind. He hadn't forgotten the information that the blind Douluo had revealed when he helped him awaken.

"Another Blue Silver Grass user with soul power."

This suggests that the Blind Douluo may have just awakened someone with the same martial soul as him, Blue Silver Grass, who also possesses soul power.

Without a doubt, that person is the protagonist, Tang San.

Although we don't know the exact location of Holy Soul Village, we can at least know the general timeline. Tang San is probably the same age as him.

With his innate first-level talent, he had no hope of reaching the peak, let alone facing the turbulent continent ahead. This Martial Soul Awakening Liquid could greatly improve his current predicament; at least it was one of the assets he could use to rise to power.

"I just don't know how effective this Martial Soul Awakening Liquid will be."

Shi Quan's attention was completely drawn to the Martial Soul Awakening Liquid in his system inventory.

"Extract one bottle of Martial Soul Awakening Liquid."

With a thought, the silver tube appeared directly in Shi Quan's hand. After looking it over, Shi Quan immediately noticed a conspicuous protruding switch on one corner of the tube.

With a gentle press, the silver tube opened, and a faint fragrance immediately filled the room, making people feel refreshed. Looking at the liquid shimmering with a faint golden light in the tube, Shi Quan did not hesitate and immediately poured all the liquid into his mouth in one gulp.

Glug glug.

The moment the golden liquid entered his mouth, Shi Quan immediately felt a strange fragrance wafting through his mouth and nose, making him shudder. Then, the golden liquid flowed like a warm current from his mouth into his stomach and then spread throughout his entire body.

This feeling was just like when he awakened his martial soul. He felt as if he was immersed in a golden world. He could clearly feel the warm currents flowing through his body. His body was like parched earth, gradually regaining its vitality under the nourishment of the golden liquid. It was as if something inside his body was about to break through the soil under the nourishment of this energy.

Click.

Shi Quan felt a sudden shattering sound in his mind, and a golden light burst forth from his body, quickly converging towards his left hand.

With a slight movement of his eyes, as the warmth within his body gradually faded, Shi Quan slowly opened his eyes and almost subconsciously looked at his left hand.

A clump of yellowish-brown soil was floating in his palm.

"It's actually twin martial souls!"

Shi Quan looked excitedly at the martial spirit in his left hand, and was immediately overjoyed.

As expected of a product from the system, it's bound to be of high quality.

A bottle of Martial Soul Awakening Liquid allowed his Martial Soul to awaken again, and he inherited his father's Martial Soul Legacy, Martial Soul Soil!

Moreover, with the awakening of his second martial soul, Shi Quan felt that his already limited soul power had increased by at least three times, meaning that his innate soul power was now close to level four.

A bottle of Martial Soul Awakening Liquid not only transformed him from a single Martial Soul into a twin Martial Soul, but also brought about a transformation in his talent.

He still had one more bottle of this Martial Soul Awakening Liquid.

Excited heart, trembling hands.

He put the empty bottle back into his system space, and an identical bottle of Martial Soul Awakening Liquid reappeared in Shi Quan's hand.

"Take off in one wave, Three Lives Martial Soul, charge!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Shi Quan opened the Martial Soul Awakening Liquid and gulped it down, swallowing every last drop of the golden liquid.

The effect of the Martial Soul Awakening Liquid is to awaken one's own Martial Soul again. The Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul is inherited from his mother, and the second awakening of the Earth Martial Soul is inherited from his father. The bloodline inheritance of both parents has been awakened.

Shi Quan was also somewhat curious: could this Martial Soul Awakening Liquid help him awaken a third Martial Soul, or even improve the quality of his two existing Martial Souls?

Sure enough, it was still that warm and familiar feeling, but this time it was different. As the warm energy flowed and nourished his meridians, he did not feel that something was being drawn out as before.

"It seems the Three Lives Martial Soul will remain just a pipe dream..."

Just as Shi Quan was thinking this, sensing the situation within his body, a sudden change occurred.

boom!

Shi Quan felt a sudden jolt in his consciousness, as if something had exploded in his mind. All the warm currents in his body seemed to have found an outlet, rushing madly towards his head.

Memories of past lives appeared in his mind like a reflection, constantly surfacing like a movie. All the events of the past were vivid in his mind at this moment, including happiness, sadness, resentment, and regret. All of them eventually converged into a single figure.

Shi Quan was completely lost in thought as he stared at the figure.

Because that is him.

To be precise, the figure resembled his past self.

The image disappeared, and everything returned to normal. Shi Quan slowly opened his eyes. He was surprisingly quiet, unlike the excitement he had expected.

The effects of the Martial Soul Awakening Liquid are indeed amazing.

Shi Quan has indeed achieved the Three Lives Martial Soul achievement.

What Shi Quan didn't expect was that his third martial soul was actually himself.

The physical body's martial soul, the physical body?

No.

Because Shi Quan's third martial soul is not his current self, but his past self.

Moreover, from his perception, his third martial soul is different from the original martial soul he knows. His third martial soul seems to be formed from his past life memories, emotions, and obsessions. It is just a thought, or a special manifestation of his soul. It does not belong to any part of the body. Instead, it is somewhat similar to Ghost Douluo's ghost martial soul.

But they are only similar, not the same at all.

If he remembered correctly, Ghost Douluo's martial soul, Ghostly Phantom, seemed to have been reborn after his soul re-entered his body following his death. His martial soul was his soul, and at that time, his soul belonged to the ghostly phantom. Ghost Douluo himself was not a living person, but a living dead, a state of being neither alive nor dead.

He was reborn, and his martial soul is not some kind of ghost or spirit.

"Why!"

With a long sigh, Shi Quan gradually came back to his senses. Six years after his rebirth, many things from his previous life had faded with time, but unexpectedly, this bottle of Martial Soul Awakening Liquid helped him recall all the events of his past life.

In his previous life, he was only twenty-seven, the prime of his life. Although ordinary, how could he be without relatives and friends, without any attachments? He inexplicably transmigrated like this. It would be a lie to say he didn't have any attachments, but he was powerless to change it and could only accept it. Six years of mental preparation almost caused him to fall back into the confusion and helplessness he felt when he first transmigrated...

(End of this chapter)