Douluo Dalu (III): Pilot Project
Jiang ZhiYou stared at his martial soul - no, it should be called spirit soul - blankly.
Everyone gathered around the tournament stage watched on silently, all frozen to the spot and unsure of what was going on.
Fine, spiderweb cracks extended their reaches upon his spirit soul, until it resembled a fragile porcelain ornament on the verge of shattering - and it did, as the pieces exploded outward, refracting hundreds of images, as if reciting a farewell of the memories in its life.
"Ah!"
An intense pain suddenly tore at Jiang Zhiyou's spiritual sea, but that couldn't compare to the final image imprinted in his sight.
In Jiang Zhiyou's eyes, he could not forget how his spiritual soul stared quietly into his with sentience.
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In this world of technical advancement, soul beasts were pushed to their last refuge: the Great Douluo Star Forest, on the brink of extinction by the human race.
Buildings touched the clouds, soul cars raced the streets, spirit souls became common, and the development of battle armor and mecha brought forth a new direction of power among soul masters.
In such an era lived a boy named Jiang Zhiyou. He lived with his two loving parents in a middle-class household, and luckily awakened his Wind Sparrow martial soul and innate rank 4 soul power, thus allowing him to step on the path of soul masters. Although he didn't have much presence in class, he didn't mind, preferring to read his precious novels instead.
Until one day, he laid his eyes upon Tang Wulin, and for the first time in his life, wanted to write a book.
However, in order to follow the model main character for his novel, Jiang Zhiyou must rack his brains on how to get strong despite his mediocre talents. Along the way, he gets dragged into incidents after incidents - becoming the class placement defender in Eastsea Academy, getting involved in a bet to become a second-rank mecha circuit inscriber in six-months time, uncovering the evil soul master's plot...
...and uncovering secrets to his own birth and past.
How did it come to this, when all he wanted to do was write a novel?
Notes: A pilot project, meaning impulsively posting, without knowing if I'll consistently schedule any updates. Here for your interest if you're interested. I'm basically rewriting this from an old, unpublished fanfic.