Hearing old Dean Yu Zhen's words, Lin Xingyu made his choice without the slightest hesitation.
"I choose the third option. I'll sign a contract with the academy, and after I graduate, I'll come back to teach and repay the debt."
The three choices old Dean Yu Zhen had offered represented three different paths. If Lin Xingyu's family were a little more powerful, he would have chosen the first. But in this life, his father was only a Soul King. In Eastsea City, their chamber of commerce had a bit of fame, but if they truly had to repay this debt, it would be the kind that cut to the bone.
In the current era, even Super Douluo often could not gather a full set of Soul Bones, and this kind of precious External Soul Bone was even more of something with a price but no market. You could not buy it even if you wanted to. It was on the same level as a Hundred Thousand Years Soul Spirit, an item circulated only among Major Powers.
As for the second option, joining the Spirit Pagoda, it could indeed bring Lin Xingyu enormous benefits in the early stages. At the very least, with the Spirit Pagoda's welfare, Lin Xingyu should be able to freely enter the Spirit Ascension Platform to ascend his spirit. He probably would not lack a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit either, though getting a top-grade one would be somewhat difficult.
Joining the Spirit Pagoda also had its drawbacks. First, and most importantly, the Spirit Pagoda's core power had always been passed down within the Qian Gu Family, and those precious Soul Spirits they had collected were basically all in the Qian Gu Family's hands as well. Without the attraction of those precious Soul Spirits, why would Lin Xingyu go