Choosing a Soul Spirit

"The Spiritual Power test results are in: sixty-seven." When Qian Gu Die Ting spoke, his eyes were filled with disbelief.

The Spirit Origin Realm ranged from one to one hundred. Anything from sixty to ninety was already considered high-tier. In other words, Qian Gu Huang Yu had reached the high tier of the Spirit Origin Realm in Spiritual Power merely by awakening her martial soul.

Many people failed to achieve that even after obtaining their Second Soul Ring and becoming Soul Grand Masters.

Yet Qian Gu Huang Yu was not particularly surprised by this.

The Legendary Base Shining Shining's intelligence is far above that of humans. On top of that, its three heads possess separate consciousnesses. In the Douluo universe, it naturally has an advantage in Spiritual Power.

I remember that after Tang Wulin broke the Golden Dragon King's seal at the age of nine in the original story, his Spiritual Power was only sixty-six. This is a complete blowout.

Bei Gong Li's gaze was full of praise for Qian Gu Huang Yu. "With sixty-seven points, you can absorb one of the best Hundred-Year Soul Spirits."

"You're far stronger than this brat was back then."

Bei Gong Li did not forget to jab at Qian Gu Die Ting, who could only respond with a wry smile.

After the Spiritual Power test was complete, the next step was naturally choosing a Soul Spirit.

During the era of Legend of the Dragon King, the costs of a Soul Master's cultivation were outrageously high. A ten-year Soul Spirit cost seventy thousand Federation Coins, while a hundred-year Soul Spirit cost one million Federation Coins.

If you could not afford one, no problem—the Spirit Pagoda also offered the thoughtful service of randomly drawing a Soul Spirit for thirty thousand Federation Coins. Of course, the result could range from a defective Soul Spirit to a hundred-year Soul Spirit.

For example, little Tang Wulin had spent three years blacksmithing, and even after his entire family pooled their resources, they still could not afford a ten-year Soul Spirit. In the end, he happily drew a defective ten-year Soul Spirit.

When Qian Gu Huang Yu had idly browsed the Spirit Pagoda's documents before, they explicitly stated that Soul Spirit draws mostly yielded defective Soul Spirits. The so-called ten-year and hundred-year Soul Spirits were basically just advertising.

After all, under normal circumstances, no one would buy a defective Soul Spirit. A Soul Spirit draw was practically the same as openly telling you: thirty thousand for a random defective Soul Spirit. Buy it or don't.

Qian Gu Huang Yu had previously asked Qian Gu Die Ting about this. His answer had been, "The chance of drawing a hundred-year Soul Spirit is zero point seven percent."

That's actually higher than the odds of pulling a five-star in some mobile games. Seriously, I'm crying.

In short, if you had no money, what kind of Soul Master were you trying to be? Go get a job!

Back to the present.

Qian Gu Die Ting directly took out a copy of the <Spirit Pagoda Internal Employee Soul Spirit Purchase Index> and handed it to Qian Gu Huang Yu, allowing her to choose her first Soul Spirit.

As the child of a high-ranking Spirit Pagoda official, Qian Gu Huang Yu had naturally received training related to Soul Masters even before awakening her martial soul. There was no need for Qian Gu Die Ting to emphasize anything further.

This Soul Spirit index was extremely detailed. Not only did it list every Soul Spirit possessed by the Spirit Pagoda, but it also thoughtfully indicated where each one was located.

For instance, Qian Gu Huang Yu saw a two-thousand-year Wind Thunder Tiger marked as being on the fifth floor of the Soul Spirit Tower.

At last, Qian Gu Huang Yu found several Soul Spirits that interested her: the '300-Year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear,' the '500-Year Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon,' the 'Thousand-Year Light Holy Dragon,' the '10,000-Year Tyrant Dragon,' the '70,000-Year Demon Soul Great White Shark,' and the '100,000-Year Jade Swan.'

These are the real treasures! They even have Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. The Spirit Pagoda truly has deep pockets.

However, Qian Gu Huang Yu was puzzled to find that every one of them was enclosed within a silver frame. Not understanding what that meant, she asked Qian Gu Die Ting, "Father, what's the deal with these framed Soul Beasts? Are they unavailable?"

Qian Gu Die Ting laughed heartily, pride evident in his expression. "These are the Spirit Pagoda's true foundation—genuine, high-quality Soul Spirits. Once you join the Spirit Pagoda, you receive a Soul Spirit handbook that tells you what Soul Spirits the Spirit Pagoda possesses, how to acquire them, and how much they cost. You know about that." "But the truly high-quality Soul Spirits are not listed there, such as hundred-thousand-year red Soul Spirits and these Soul Spirits you see framed in silver. Only members of the Spirit Transmission Tower Council and the Consecration Hall can see the booklet you're holding."

In short, although they were all insiders, some were more insider than others and enjoyed better internal benefits.

Qian Gu Huang Yu did not comment on this. After all, it was the same everywhere. So-called core secrets!

No wonder these 'silver-framed Soul Spirits' have neither prices nor methods of acquisition listed. Since they're exclusively supplied internally, either someone takes them for free if they're chosen, or the required exchange items aren't convenient to write down.

After explaining, Qian Gu Die Ting asked, "Xiao Yu, have you decided which Soul Spirit you want?"

Qian Gu Huang Yu suddenly wanted to test her guess out of mischief. "Father, if I choose a Soul Spirit in a silver frame, how much would I have to pay? There aren't any prices written here."

Qian Gu Die Ting gently patted Qian Gu Huang Yu's shoulder and smiled. "What money? Xiao Yu, you don't need to spend money on any Soul Spirit you take from the Spirit Pagoda. You don't need to worry about that at all. It's all our family's property."

"Die Ting! Watch your words." Bei Gong Li abruptly interrupted Qian Gu Die Ting. Some things only needed to be understood; there was no need to say them aloud, nor could they be said aloud.

It was only because he had discovered that his daughter's talent was extraordinary, putting him in such a good mood, and because there were no outsiders present, that Qian Gu Die Ting had said something like, "It's all our family's property."

Qian Gu Huang Yu inwardly grumbled: The Spirit Pagoda was just like this. Ordinary Soul Masters only needed to obediently spend money and get fleeced. The Spirit Pagoda's lords had far more to consider—Soul Spirit draw rates, which Soul Spirits to display, and so on.

Qian Gu Die Ting realized he had misspoken. He laughed it off and let the matter pass, then continued asking Qian Gu Huang Yu, "So, Xiao Yu, which one caught your eye?"

"Years of cultivation aren't a problem. We have ways to deal with that," Bei Gong Li added.

For ordinary people, tickets to the Spirit Ascension Platform were incredibly hard to obtain. But for Qian Gu Die Ting, as long as he wished, he could have someone directly absorb spiritual energy to raise a Soul Spirit's Years of Cultivation, skipping the Spirit Ascension Platform entirely.

In fact, that was indeed the case. As far as Qian Gu Huang Yu knew, for Qian Gu Dong Feng, Qian Gu Qing Feng, and Leng Yao Zhu, the Spirit Ascension Platform was merely a place for training rather than a tool for raising Soul Spirits.

Qian Gu Huang Yu pointed at a 'silver-framed Soul Spirit.' "Electric Feather Crown Eagle, I choose you!"

Among the Soul Spirits Qian Gu Huang Yu could absorb, there were three she favored: the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, the Electric Feather Crown Eagle, and the Abyssal Thunder Shark.

But when she considered that she might encounter the Gold-Silver Dragon King in the future, Qian Gu Huang Yu immediately removed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon from the list of candidates.

If I really run into her, wouldn't I be completely countered to death?

As for the Abyssal Thunder Shark, who was Tang Wulin's father? Sea God Tang San!

Wouldn't it still be a free win for him if they encountered each other? And what if the Soul Spirit had ideas of its own and directly went off to bask in the Sea God's glory?

Then Qian Gu Huang Yu would end up as tragic as Zhang Geyang.