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Su Yuntao was very happy.

"Xiao Wen, you won't lose out by joining Spirit Hall."

"What a pity that you wasted a year waiting for the chance at a Hundred-Year Soul Ring. Otherwise, with your talent, going to Spirit City's soul master academy for further study wouldn't have been a problem at all. That's where you could have enjoyed Spirit Hall's highest level of training. But even if you can't go to Spirit City, if you stay here at our branch, we'll still provide you with the best conditions we can."

When Su Yuntao learned that Su Wen had wasted a year without obtaining his First Soul Ring, he truly regretted not being more forceful on the day Su Wen awakened his martial soul and making him join Spirit Hall.

"Even though you spent a year looking for a reliable Soul Hunting Team, outside Soul Hunting Teams are unreliable in the end. I know a bit about all the Soul Hunting Teams in Notting City, and basically none of them have any real ability or insight."

"Right, you didn't pay a deposit, did you?"

Su Wen shook his head and said, "No."

Hiring a Soul Hunting Team had only been an excuse to begin with, so naturally there had been no deposit.

He had not expected Su Yuntao to Brainstorm the whole sequence of events himself and attribute the reason he had wasted a year of cultivation time to searching for a suitable Soul Hunting Team.

"Mm. Next, for your First Soul Ring, I'll find two other Deacons to help you obtain it."

Now that he was one of their own, and with talent like Su Wen's, joining Spirit Hall came with benefits. For now, that benefit could be helping him hunt a Hundred-Year Soul Ring.

And this hunt would also count as a mission for the branch. Su Yuntao and the other two Deacons could gain a certain amount of contribution points in the process as well.

"Do you have any target in mind?"

Su Yuntao wanted to understand Su Wen's intentions.

A Book Martial Soul—he did not know how to match it with a soul ring either, so he first wanted to see what Su Wen was planning.

Afterward, when he went to find Ma Xiunuo, he would ask again.

When soul masters of the Notting City Spirit Hall Branch obtained soul rings, they would all listen to Ma Xiunuo's opinion.

Su Wen immediately described his intentions.

"More Soul Power?"

Listening to Su Wen's broad direction, Su Yuntao sighed inwardly once again.

Without systematic guidance, ordinary soul masters really would take detours in their cultivation.

Fortunately, he had pulled this kid into Spirit Hall in time.

Otherwise, it would also have been very hard for this kid to find a suitable First Soul Ring.

"Let's go. We'll go to Grandmaster Ma Xiunuo's place to test your Soul Power and complete the final registration. Then you'll be an official member of Spirit Hall."

Su Yuntao brought Su Wen up to the second floor and knocked on the door outside one of the rooms.

"Come in." An aged voice came from inside.

"Grandmaster Ma Xiunuo."

"So it's Yuntao. What brings you to me?" Inside, an Old Man sitting behind a broad office desk looked up, saw Su Yuntao, and asked.

Ma Xiunuo also saw Su Wen.

"Grandmaster Ma Xiunuo, this is Su Wen. Two and a half years ago, I helped him awaken his martial soul. Now he's already cultivated to rank ten and is preparing to join our Spirit Hall."

"Oh?"

Ma Xiunuo's eyes lit up.

He had broken through to rank ten after awakening only two and a half years ago?

With this talent, he did not dare say Soul King, but Soul Ancestor should basically be no problem.

Although it was a branch of Spirit Hall, the Notting City Spirit Hall Branch only had many Deacons and did not even have a hall master.

Soul Elders disdained staying in a small place like Notting City, instead going to larger Spirit Hall sub-temples to develop.

Strictly speaking, Spirit Hall Branches like theirs were more small outposts established for awakening martial souls for ordinary people.

For a little fellow with the potential to become a Soul Ancestor to join the Spirit Hall Branch, Ma Xiunuo naturally held some expectations.

"Child, your name is Su Wen, yes?" Ma Xiunuo beckoned to Su Wen and asked.

Testing Soul Power, registering information.

After all the procedures were completed, Su Yuntao brought Su Wen to the library on the second floor.

"This is the branch's library. Inside are materials related to martial soul cultivation. A branch like ours may be lacking in terms of soul master staffing, but our materials are still complete, much richer than what Notting City Junior Soul Master Academy teaches."

Su Yuntao pointed at a row of bookshelves and said, "Over there is information on common soul beasts. When you have time, you can take a look and see if there are any soul beasts suitable for you. Unfortunately, even Grandmaster Ma Xiunuo isn't clear on how your Book Martial Soul should be cultivated. For now, we'll continue obtaining a soul ring according to your original plan. Having a bit more Soul Power isn't a bad thing."

Su Wen stepped forward, looked through the categories on the bookshelves, found the section on plant-type soul beasts, read the titles one by one, and selected his target.

Seeing this, Su Yuntao did not disturb him. He left the library, preparing to find Deacons who could go with them to hunt soul beasts.

"Soul Source Mushroom. Possesses powerful regenerative ability and can store a large amount of Soul Power."

"Heavenly Spirit Vine. Abundant Soul Power and extremely tough."

"Star Essence Grass. Converts Star Power and rapidly restores Soul Power."

"..."

The focus of Su Wen's selection was Plant Soul Beasts.

In the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul, one point stated that Beast Martial Souls could also absorb plant-type Soul Rings, and plant-type Martial Souls could also absorb the Soul Rings of animal-type Soul Beasts.

However, being able to absorb one was one thing; there was no need to absorb one just for the sake of it.

If a plant-type Martial Soul absorbed an animal-type Soul Ring, could it fully digest the origin within it?

Most likely, the Martial Soul's transformation only relied on the corresponding superior abilities of the animal-type Soul Beast to forcibly guide that change.

The toughness and poison of the Mandala Snake's body could strengthen Blue Silver Grass, but in the end, they were different species, so the strengthening would not be complete.

"I still need to find something suitable."

As long as it suited the Martial Soul's direction of development, it could not be called wrong.

After all, most Tool Martial Souls could not find a perfectly compatible Soul Beast. A hammer Martial Soul would never find a hammer Soul Beast.

"But my Book Martial Soul is a little different."

Books were connected to plants, so absorbing the Soul Ring of a plant-type Soul Beast would make it easier for Su Wen to absorb the Soul Power within the Soul Ring and evolve his Martial Soul.

"Although all these Soul Beasts look pretty good, they're all still missing something."

Su Wen continued flipping through the Soul Beast materials.

Time passed.

Since his Martial Soul was a book, Su Wen was extremely efficient at acquiring knowledge, especially when he did so through reading.

By merging his Martial Soul into the books, he only needed to sweep his eyes over the pages to understand large amounts of information.

Although he could not understand it instantly, his efficiency had still increased greatly.

In just half a day, Su Wen had read nearly half of the Soul Beast materials in the library.

"Xiao Wen."

Su Yuntao's voice came from the doorway.

Su Wen put the book in his hand back on the shelf and went to the door.

"Brother Tao."

"How is it? Found a suitable Soul Beast?"

"Mm, I have a few targets."

Su Yuntao waved his hand and said, "No need to rush. Try to find the one that suits you best."

"Oh, right. These two are the companions who'll be going with us to hunt Soul Beasts when the time comes." Su Yuntao stepped aside. Behind him stood two Spirit Masters, one man and one woman, both dressed in Spirit Hall Deacon uniforms.

"This is Si Si, my girlfriend. She's also a Soul Grandmaster, and her Martial Soul is a whip."

"This is Feng Yuan. His Martial Soul is Wind Baboon, and he also has the strongest frontal combat power among the three of us."