The Strongest Soul

“Hualala!”

The rumbling sound of water, the rising mist, a waterfall like a gigantic dragon, surging over a cliff of a thousand zhang, the water was pounding against Zheng Shiyi’s thin and weak body. Like a immensely mountain, it was crushing him, making even breathing uneasy.

However, Zheng Shiyi continued to bite his teeth and persist strenuously under the waterfall.

That’s because Zheng Shiyi knew, if he wanted to take back when he had lost, then he’d have to labor and sweat ten times or even a hundred times more than ordinary people.

What Zheng Shiyi lost was his martial soul.

All those who possess a martial soul were the favorites of the heaven and earth, not even a person in ten million would likely have one, however Zheng Shiyi was without a doubt one the luckiest among all of those lucky fellows.

What he had was the supreme martial soul! The martial soul of one of the ten overlords!

Just the qi that his martial soul give off would be enough to cause countless martial artists to prostrate themselves and serve him.

In the tens of millions of years history of Hanwu Continent, there was only a few who possessed a supreme martial soul. Each and every one of them ended up creating a legend.

Originally, Zheng Shiyi could become like them and become a legend in the Hanwu Continent.

But, one year ago...

The younger generation of the Zheng clan, every year they would partic.i.p.ate in a large compet.i.tion. The winner of the compet.i.tion would obtain the opportunity to enter the Deep Profound Sect to learn profound martial arts and become a disciple of the large Sect.

Last year was even more astonishing, before the compet.i.tion, news had arrived from the Deep Profound Sect saying that the winner of the Zheng clan’s compet.i.tion would likely become an internal disciple of the sect. 

The news shook the whole Zheng clan, everyone had thought that this internal disciple t.i.tle was especially set aside for Zheng Shiyi.

That’s because Zheng Shiyi possessed the supreme martial soul that was rarely seen once in a millennium.

No one had ever antic.i.p.ated that this internal disciple t.i.tle would bring Zheng Shiyi his greatest humiliation...

Before the compet.i.tion, the second to Zheng Shiyi, Zheng Song, quietly left for the ancestral land and told the news of Zheng Shiyi possessing a supreme martial soul to the number one genius of the ancestral land, Zheng Tianyu.

Zheng Tianyu rushed over that very night and, using only a tiny amount of his strength, held down the whole Zheng clan. Using extremely cruel methods, he forcefully s.n.a.t.c.hed away Zheng Shiyi’s supreme martial soul.

The genius have fallen to the realm of the mortals.

The former hope of the Zheng clan, Zheng Shiyi, henceforth was reduced into rubbish in everyone’s eyes.

At the time when Zheng Song entered the Deep Profound Sect, that face of a vile person accomplishing his ambition was like a whip, whipping Zheng Shiyi to endeavor with great effort.

“I will certainly take back the thing that I lost!”

Biting his teeth, Zheng Shiyi continued to resist the rapid flowing stream of water.

“Eight breathes, nine breathes, ten breathes…”

Zheng Shiyi knew that for every extra breath he stood underneath the waterfall, it signify that he had became stronger by a fraction compared to yesterday. Only until the twelfth breath did Zheng Shiyi finally became unable to resist the frantic waterfall. He was knocked flying by the falling water, he flew to a distance of over a dozen meters before finally falling on the water surface...

“I’ve reached twelve breaths…” Zheng Shiyi wiped away the lake water on his face, he looked to be in a sorry state, however, his eyes shined even brighter than usual. 

In a month, from eight breathes to twelve breathes, one day, I will certainly get back what was taken from me...

“Yoh, isn’t this our great genius? What, you secretly ran out here to play with water again?”

“Say guys, the great genius plays so hard everyday, would he die from overplaying one day?”

“Stop talking nonsense, the great genius would be mad if he heard that!”

“Aiya, I’m so scared, hahahaha….”

A couple youngsters of the Zheng clan pa.s.sed by, they saw Zheng Shiyi’s sorry state and started laughing one louder than the other. To these youngsters of ordinary talents, the clan genius that they used to only be able to look up at sinking into a condition lower than themselves was something they were ought to be happy about.

It’s just that, as a fallen genius, in this one year, Zheng Shiyi, had already grew accustomed to the coldness of others, the ridicule of these youngsters were not something that was even worth for him to take to heart, he merely wiped away the lake water on his hair, turned around and prepared to leave.

“Yoh, a piece of trash like you dared ignore us, are you looking down on us?”

However, the moment Zheng Shiyi turned around to leave, a youngster wearing white clothes, shrewd mouth and monkey-red cheeks suddenly stood in front of Zheng Shiyi.

Zheng Shiyi remembered that this youngster’s name was Zheng Shan, because of his pursue of Tang Wanxue, he had been causing Zheng Shiyi troubles constantly throughout this past year.

“Please excuse me.”

“Aiyo, putting up the air of a genius to me eh? Let me tell you, you’re nothing but garbage now, you better distance yourself from Tang Wanxue, else, even if Tang Wanxue were to protect you, your daddy here would still break your legs.”

“You?” With an indifferent expression, Zheng Shiyi laughed. “If my memory serves me correct, someone were bothering Little Xue Er and couple days ago and had a couple ribs of his broken by her, seems like he recovered pretty fast….”

“You better shut your mouth!” Zheng Shan wanted to embarra.s.s Zheng Shiyi but was instead embarra.s.sed by him. Immediately, he grew immensely angry. “A rubbish like without a martial soul like you! Not only are you useless, you’re also a coward who hides behind a woman!”

Zheng Shiyi was thinking about continuing to practice and didn’t want to bother talking rubbish with Zheng Shan and decided to just smile back at him to fire back at him. “Haha, you’re right. I am a coward, I love to be protected by Little Wanxue. If you have the ability, why don’t you try hiding behind her.” 

Zheng Shan saw Zheng Shiyi’s ‘if you have the ability, why don’t you try beating me up’ kind of mocking smile, he immediately clenched his fists, prepared to punch him and yelled. “Without your martial soul, you’re nothing but your mouth, bet you’re already scared witless! Stop trying to act tough in front of me!”

“Scared?” Zheng Shiyi gave Zheng Shan a side glare, within his stare was a flickering sense of pride. “I need to be scared of a fool like you? Even if I’m nothing but a mouth, I can still shame you into anger. You’re inferior to even rubbish!”

“Death seeker!” Zheng Shan bite down his teeth, in that same instant, his fist also came flying at Zheng Shiyi.

However right at this moment, a light-spirited yet furious voice suddenly sounded from a not so distant place. “Who are you calling a death seeker? Were your skin itchy for a beating?”

Following, a fairy-like girl in white appeared from where the sound originated from.

Tang Wanxue! This was a girl that’s so beautiful that her beauty could suffocate others, wherever she goes, she was able to attract the attention of everyone present.

The arrogance that Zheng Shan displayed turned into fear in an instant, as he saw the approach girl, his heart was shouting ‘not good.’ The place where he was previously beaten by this girl started to ache again.

“Zheng Shiyi! If you have the b.a.l.l.s, then continue to hide behind a girl everyday.” After leaving those words, Zheng Shan rapidly left with the rest of the youngsters.

Zheng Shiyi looked at Zheng Shan with a face beaming with smiles. “I’m afraid that if I were to do that, you’ll die from jealousy….”

Hearing those words, Zheng Shan stumbled and almost fell. 

Tang Wanxue walked toward Zheng Shiyi, she saw his dripping wet clothes that were full of mud because he fell, her heart was grieving beyond words.

With his talents, if it wasn’t for the fact that his martial soul was taken away, entering the Deep Profound Sect and becoming an internal disciple of the sect was something that’s certain for him.

However the Heavens were cruel, he was born into the branch family of the Zheng clan! In a single night, he was reduced into a rubbish from a genius. 

Zheng Shiyi looked at Tang Wanxue who had a hint of moisture in her eyes, he forced a smile on his face, I actually fell into a state where even this little girl pities me.

“Who bullied you? Look at how red your eyes are.” Zheng Shiyi raised his hand and wiped Tang Wanxue’s nose. “I’ll go and take revenge for you.”

Tang Wanxue pulled back her nose, with her mouth sticking out against the sky, her cuteness was completely shown. She said. “Who dared bully me? They were already very lucky for me to not bully them! I’m here to check you out; otherwise, if you were to be flush away by the waterfall, where can I find another big brother that’s so good to me like you?!”

Tang Wanxue’s face was br.i.m.m.i.n.g with happiness. 

Four years ago, when she was still a snot nosed little girl. 

The youngsters that were older than her not only didn’t like her, they also bullied her.

Only Zheng Shiyi didn’t care about the ridicules of others and became her best friend.

Falling from a genius into a rubbish, although Zheng Shiyi didn’t mention it, she knew that he must’ve been suffering.

Zheng Shiyi stroked her beautiful hair, “little girl, I could still manage such a tiny waterfall, you should go back!”

“En!”

Tang Wanxue knew that Zheng Shiyi had a stubborn temper, she knew that if she were to reveal too much of her intent, she would instead hurt his self-esteem. She promptly nodded, stood up and began to walk back home.

After they separated, Tang Wanxue didn’t leave, instead, she held up her fist toward Zheng Shiyi’s back. “Big brother Zheng Shiyi, I will certainly help you get your martial soul back!”
“Little girl, with the way you are now, it’s impossible for you to help him take his martial soul back.”

A white haired old man, out of nowhere, appeared behind w.a.n.g Xuerou’s back. He said. “Have you considered over it? Only when you agree to my proposal would you ne able to help him.”

“I...I…” Tang Wanxue said hesitantly. “Uncle Qin, can you let me think over it a bit longer?”

"Sigh! Fine!" Said Uncle Qin while sighing. "Following me is your most correct choice. If this kid really did have future prospects, he will naturally have great developments in the future and can come find you..."

Zheng Shiyi entered the courtyard, he looked at the people gathered there in curiosity, why were everyone gathered in the courtyard? Did something major happened?

The clan leader who seldom show his face, Zheng Desheng was pointing at a painting that was spread out by his hand. He was saying something to everyone.

"I have just received a message from the Heaven Supporting Sect stating that this person have stolen their treasure and entered the vacinity of our Heavenly Square City. They stated that they have dispatched people to search the whole area."

"Whomever that managed to catch this person, other than receiving great rewards, would also have a chance of becoming the Internal disciple of the Heaven Supporting Sect!"

"Become a disciple of the Heaven Supporting Sect?! I did not misheard, right?! "

Hearing those words, all the Zheng clan disciples grew astonished.

"The Heaven Supporting Sect was an immeasurable sect at par with the the Five Great Ancient Countries! They have a reputation as commanding a territory of ten thousand li and possessing top notch powers! They have existed in our Tianwu Continent for several millions of years, not mentioning becoming their disciple, just trying to have the opportunity to become one was already Immensely hard to come by!"

"They had always send people to recruited disciples from below, as as for as for the requirements of becoming a disciple, it was the pinnacle of harshness!"

"It was said that not likely for even a single person in a million to manage to meet their requirements."

"Furthermore, even If they were to become a disciple, they"ll only be external disciples! Only upon layers and layers of selection could one become an internal disciple!"

"Who would"ve expected that they would give out such a reward this time! Catching that man would allow one to bypa.s.s all processes and become an internal disciple!"

“Becoming an internal disciple of the Heaven Supporting Sect, this… this was simply reaching heaven in a single bound!”

“I must certainly capture that person!”

The eyes of the Zheng clan disciples were all shining brightly, they were all eager to catch that person.

Internal disciple of the Heaven Supporting Sect? Zheng Shiyi’s breath immediately turned heavy, if he could become the internal disciple of the grand sect that had existed forever, then he would’ve been able to easily crush Zheng Tianyu! Even the ancestral land would not dared to resist! I must pay carefully survey the picture!

Zheng Shiyi crammed into the front, he saw that the person in the picture was precisely the person in his room and immediately grew stunned.