Choosing a Soul Spirit

Su Ming shifted his gaze away from the various strange soul spirit eggs and looked at the man standing with his back to him.

The man turned around.

His face was imposing, stern without needing anger. He looked exceptionally strict. Though he was not using Soul Power, the natural energy of heaven and earth around him revolved around him of its own accord.

"Greetings, Tower Master."

"Mm, you are Su Ming?"

Zhang Tianyang sized Su Ming up and nodded.

Su Ming stood respectfully where he was, without making any inappropriate movements.

"You possess Innate Full Soul Power, so you can directly fuse with your first Soul Spirit." Zhang Tianyang said, "Are you certain your Martial Soul is Elemental Control? Check your Martial Soul's traits again, then select a suitable Soul Spirit."

Following Zhang Tianyang's instructions, Su Ming genuinely tried once more.

Multicolored elements flickered around him.

The Soul Power within his body was drawn out, after which elements of various colors began gathering around him.

Blue, red, yellow, and green—water, fire, earth, and wind. The four elements revolved around him.

Zhang Tianyang's pupils contracted slightly.

"How is the Soul Power Consumption?"

Su Ming thought for a moment. "If I only maintain this state, I can keep it up for three hours."

"Very good!"

He affirmed Su Ming's ability to control the elements.

By sensing it, he could tell that Su Ming was mobilizing external Elemental Power. This was crucial. It was an exceptionally formidable type among elemental Soul Masters.

Those capable of mobilizing external Elemental Power not only consumed less power when using Soul Skills, but their attacks were also more powerful. They were not limited by the total amount of Soul Power they possessed.

"Are there any other elements?" Zhang Tianyang asked casually.

"There should be," Su Ming said.

He closed his eyes and focused completely on mobilizing the more difficult Elemental Power.

A black and a white elemental Light Cluster condensed into being. They revolved outside the four elements of water, fire, earth, and wind, forming a black-and-white ring.

Zhang Tianyang was secretly astonished as well.

Six elements.

He looked at Su Ming and gestured for him to continue trying, anticipation rising in his heart.

Was there a Space Element?

Under his expectant gaze, a silver radiance slowly emerged before Su Ming.

Space Element!

He had mastered all seven great elements. What kind of absurd Martial Soul was this?

This was not merely having the aptitude for controlling seven elements, requiring him to obtain Soul Rings one by one to gain Soul Skills for controlling each corresponding element. This was an innate talent he could use the moment his Martial Soul awakened!

"Excellent, excellent!"

Zhang Tianyang praised him repeatedly.

He was extremely satisfied with Su Ming's performance.

"Since there was no mistake in judging your Martial Soul's abilities, you can now choose a Soul Spirit." He pointed at the differently colored soul spirit eggs behind him and said, "These are the most precious batch of Soul Spirits in the Sky Sea City Spirit Tower. Some special Soul Spirits are stored here as well. You may look around first."

Su Ming nodded silently.

In truth, while fully focused, he had just sensed another existence similar to an element. It was ethereal and seemingly nonexistent, intertwined with space yet even more concealed—or rather, it was not concealed. It merely showed faint traces because it was too deeply entangled with space, while in reality, no such element existed.

He had guessed what it was.

It was the Time Attribute.

Time had no corresponding Elemental Power, yet it was a genuine attribute, deeply intertwined with space.

Even without a corresponding element, being able to sense its corresponding attribute could only mean that his body possessed exceptionally outstanding talent in the Time Attribute!

As for why he possessed the Time Attribute, Su Ming had a good idea.

He did not tell Zhang Tianyang about it. Instead, he began carefully studying the Soul Spirits here. With Tower Master Zhang Tianyang personally explaining them, Su Ming was astonished to learn about the many rare Soul Spirits.

Every Soul Spirit here was enough to create a genius.

Create, not match.

"This is the advantage of Soul Spirits. Many age-appropriate Soul Beasts can be transformed into Soul Spirits. These can already be considered the Sky Sea City Spirit Tower's accumulation over the past ten thousand years."

Zhang Tianyang's words were already rather tactful.

In truth, he meant that the path of Soul Spirits had taken Soul Masters' exploitation and oppression of Soul Beasts to the extreme.

Especially in terms of age, during the Soul Beast Great Extinction over these ten thousand years, the Spirit Pagoda had captured more Soul Spirits than the total number of all Soul Beasts on the continent ten thousand years ago.

For low-age Soul Spirits, the Spirit Pagoda had preserved a vast number of juvenile Soul Spirits.

Encounter a juvenile Super Soul Beast that had not gone extinct at a low age?

Transform it into a Soul Spirit, sparing it ten thousand years of arduous cultivation. It only needed a dozen or so years to grow to more than three hundred years of cultivation, then it could be kept until a Soul Master needed it later.

When new juveniles were born, they would simply capture them again.

From hundred-year to thousand-year Soul Spirits, as long as they were not ten-thousand-year Soul Spirits, the Spirit Pagoda would never lack rare Soul Spirits. The more powerful the Soul Beast, the faster it cultivated. A hundred years could match a thousand years, and a thousand years could match ten thousand years.

Calculating carefully, over ten thousand years, before the Great Extinction began, the Spirit Pagoda only needed to feign harmony with the Soul Beasts for three thousand years before it could harvest ten batches of ordinary Soul Beast Soul Spirits around three hundred years old, as well as one to three harvests of ordinary Soul Beast Soul Spirits under three thousand years old.

If they were Soul Beasts with powerful bloodlines, it would be even more outrageous.

Of course, as it developed, the Spirit Pagoda's ambitions grew greater. No longer content with transforming existing Soul Beasts into Soul Spirits, it gradually began walking the path of a creator, researching Artificial Spirits!

Artificial Spirits required a vast Soul Beast database, so the Spirit Pagoda began slaughtering Soul Beasts on a massive scale and building a genetic database of Soul Beasts. It could then replicate these Soul Beast Soul Spirits and even use those genes to recombine them itself, creating entirely new Life.

In fact, over the years, the Spirit Pagoda had indeed created many unprecedented Soul Spirits. Some possessed innate flaws and could not even fully display the effects of their template Soul Beasts. Others were incredibly heaven-defying, belonging to entirely new species. They accompanied Soul Masters through battle after battle, following them from hundred-year Soul Spirits all the way to becoming ten-thousand-year Spirit Souls, providing their Soul Masters with tremendous aid.

Su Ming arrived at a corner of the Rare Spirit Soul Room.

The Soul Spirits placed here were all Artificial Spirits, products developed by the Sky Sea City Spirit Tower's Research Institute. Some were good, some were bad, and even more were unknown.

Zhang Tianyang noticed that Su Ming's gaze had fixed on one of the Soul Spirits.

That Soul Spirit was a cluster of brilliant golden light. The scene within could not be seen. It seemed that the Soul Spirit itself was simply a mass of golden radiance.

He remembered this Artificial Spirit and said to Su Ming, "This Soul Spirit was a key project of the Research Institute several years ago. Back then, there was an abnormal disturbance in the natural energy of heaven and earth within the East Sea region. The Research Institute's people guessed that it was a naturally conceived Soul Beast, similar to the Heavenly Snow Woman. At the time, the Research Institute interrupted its formation, sealed and compressed the natural energy of heaven and earth in that space, and used it as a foundation for modification. By a fortunate coincidence, this Light Cluster condensed."

"Tests show that this Soul Spirit's Soul Power Fluctuation belongs to a three-hundred-year level, so its age is suitable for you. However, it should still be in an unformed state. After fusing with a Soul Master, it may take on the form most compatible with that Soul Master, or it may have no reaction whatsoever."

Zhang Tianyang gave Su Ming a very serious warning.

"If you absorb this Soul Spirit, you must be prepared to gamble."