An Unexpected Soul Spirit

Spiritual Power, Innate Soul Power, and Martial Souls were all things Old Long had mentioned before.

"Oh, right. If you go test your Soul Power later, I can suppress it for you."

"Suppress it?"

"Yes. There's a Spirit Pagoda in this world. You should decide later—don't go now."

"Oh, you mean Soul Spirits, right?"

"That's right. When you buy one for the first time, if they test you, they can't find that your level is too high."

That was why Soul Masters with powerful Spiritual Power did not need excessively high Innate Soul Power, as long as it reached Level Seven or above.

That would give them the potential to advance to Soul Sage, or even go further and challenge the realms of Soul Douluo and Titled Douluo. Naturally, the Spirit Pagoda was willing to invest in them early and bring them under its wing.

However, he had deliberately claimed to have only Level Four Soul Power, while his Spiritual Power was like this. Yet the Spirit Transfer Master sensed the gloominess and uncertainty of his Martial Soul, so he did not make an exception and invite him.

"Now, it depends on your luck."

After leaving the room where they had tested Spiritual Power, the Spirit Transfer Master led Tang Wu Lin and Wu Yang Jin directly into an adjacent room. Na'er wanted to watch this time as well, and the Spirit Transfer Master had no objection, so he brought her along.

The room for drawing Soul Spirits was much larger. After entering, they found that there were not many things inside.

What caught their eyes was a massive machine three meters tall and six meters wide. Inside it were many spherical objects about a foot in diameter, each giving off a faint glow.

(It's basically a lottery machine, or a gacha machine, right? They're kind of similar.)

The Spirit Transfer Master pointed at the two buttons in front of the machine and checked it over.

"The green button starts it, and the red button stops it. Once you're ready, you can begin."

Hmm, this was pretty interesting. Wu Yang Jin found the machine fascinating. It felt like he had seen something like it somewhere before.

As he looked at the machine before them, he could hear Tang Wu Lin's Emperor Engine speeding up, its sound growing louder.

Moreover, his Homeroom Teacher, Lin Xi Meng, had said that the quality of a Soul Spirit would determine a Soul Master's strength to a great extent.

Although Wu Yang Jin felt that did not apply to him, nor did it apply to Tang Wu Lin. He did not know why.

So, if a Soul Spirit was too weak, the Soul Skills it granted a Soul Master would also be weak. A Soul Master could possess no more than nine Soul Skills in their lifetime, yet those who could truly reach nine rings were exceedingly rare.

That was the thinking of ordinary people, though. But who, or how many people, could reach the God Realm?

What was meant to come would always come. No matter what you did, you could not avoid it. Want to hide? No chance.

Tang Wu Lin gritted his teeth and slammed the green button.

The spheres inside the machine began to spin. More than a hundred Soul Spirit spheres started slowly circling along their tracks, their speed becoming incredibly fast.

It's definitely a gacha machine. No doubt about it, Wu Yang Jin thought.

This press might very well determine his fate on the path of a Soul Master! At that moment, Wu Yang Jin patted him on the shoulder. Tang Wu Lin turned back to look at Wu Yang Jin, then nodded.

"Bang!"

A Soul Spirit sphere dropped from the machine's exit and rolled into a metal box beside Tang Wu Lin. Afterward, the Spirit Transfer Master told Tang Wu Lin how to open it.

Tang Wu Lin could clearly sense a tiny flicker of life within the Soul Spirit sphere. Then, the Soul Spirit inside moved faintly.

Just then, the glow emitted by the Soul Spirit sphere turned white. A circle of brighter light flashed at its center, and the entire sphere slowly opened from the middle.

It was only about ten centimeters long, not even as big as the finger of a seven-year-old child like Wu Yang Jin.

Its entire body was yellowish-green, with a little yellow around the horn-like part on its head. Only by looking extremely carefully could one make out the tiny diamond-shaped scales covering its body.

A Grass Snake. Unlike other creatures, it was actually a harmless little animal. Though it was a snake, it could absolutely be considered one of the weakest beings of its kind.

An adult Grass Snake could grow twenty to thirty centimeters long, as thick as a finger, and fed on weak insects.

Dreams were beautiful, but reality was so cruel. This Grass Snake was weak—or perhaps it should be called defective.

The Spirit Transfer Master actually knew the origin of this Soul Spirit before him. Without a doubt, this Grass Snake was the defective product he had mentioned.

After seeing it, the Spirit Transfer Master first said something to Tang Wu Lin, giving his assessment of the Soul Spirit.

"I can confirm that it is a Soul Spirit. It's just rather weak. Child, you can decide whether you want to fuse with it," the Spirit Transfer Master finally said.

Tang Wu Lin said nothing. He simply took a step and walked outside.

"Ah, um... Yang Jin, I'll wait for you outside!" Tang Wu Lin forced out a smile.

As Tang Wu Lin slowly walked out, Tang Zi Ran comforted him as well. He told Wu Yang Jin that it was fine and had him go choose his own Soul Spirit first.

After that, Wu Yang Jin carried out the same procedure, except...

As he made the same movements, the machine released a gentle yellow light that fell upon the Soul Spirit sphere.

Immediately afterward, the surface of the Soul Spirit sphere also began to emit a faint glow. The sphere gradually turned transparent and released the same faint aura of life.

But Wu Yang Jin could sense something—coldness...

It was not particularly cold. He simply felt that this was a Martial Soul suited to him. It had come.

"Hmm? Child, your luck is quite good. This is a hundred-year Soul Spirit called the Ice Crystal Green Scorpion. It's a Soul Spirit that happens to suit you perfectly. I've heard it's even related to the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion clan."

"Eh? Really? Thank you, sir."

Of course, Wu Yang Jin knew that was probably not the case. It seemed the other party did not know what kind of strange Soul Spirit this was either. Perhaps there really were some similarities, so he had mistaken it for one.

(You'll know who this Soul Spirit is after reading the description below. But I really couldn't change this description—I truly didn't know how to revise it. Please forgive me. Also, I already tried my best to alter the description according to the original text.)

This so-called Ice Crystal Green Scorpion was about one and a half meters long, and its body had two colors overall.

One was the color of ice, and the other was green.

Its head formed the foremost layer, while the first half of its body consisted of four overlapping layers around its silvery-white mouthparts, covered in protrusions shaped like hexagons.

Its two front pincers were each about a meter long. They bore hexagonal protrusions and a luster like diamonds.

Its eyes were yellow and hexagonal as well. Unlike an ordinary scorpion's long tail with many segments, its tail had only five segments in total.

Yet on the final segment was a tail hook covered with diamond-like granules. At its very tip, the hook gleamed with a silvery-white, mirror-like sheen.

"Hmm, not bad. Although it isn't a Thousand-Year Soul Spirit, with your luck, child, it won't be a problem in the future."

With that, the Spirit Transfer Master led Wu Yang Jin out of the room. Afterward, he brought him to Tang Wu Lin and the others, and Wu Yang Jin followed them back home.

After returning home, they naturally had different emotions. Wu Yang Jin was actually happy, because no matter how he looked at it, this scorpion was extraordinary.

Tang Wu Lin, however, was not the same. After all, over the course of the day, that Grass Snake had already been branded as weak.

"Brother, that Wulin..."

"It's okay, Na'er. You're so kind, worrying about Wulin too."

Na'er truly was a good child. More importantly, seeing the person closest to her brother so dejected made her feel sorry for him as well.