Golden Finger on the Soul

[Fan Xian: ?]

[Su Haoming: Can't help it, I just can't compete with them!]

[Fan Xian: You've misunderstood. What I meant was, you've only decided to give up now?]

[Su Haoming: ...]

[Fan Xian: Tell me, then. What kind of blow did you suffer?]

[Su Haoming: What else could it be? Just now, I told my cousin the information Brother Lin had given me. The moment he heard it, he immediately reasoned his way from the Soul Returning Incense to the hidden burial site of the missing bride. Every clue and detail matched exactly what Brother Lin had said.]

[Fan Xian: As expected of Duke Di's disciple. Truly impressive!]

[Su Haoming: Impressive, right? Yet such an impressive disciple of Duke Di is still only the Chang'an County Lieutenant!]

[Su Haoming: When I think about how the Imperial Court is full of old schemers even smarter than Elder Brother, I feel uneasy all over.]

[Fan Xian: So you want to become a Taoist priest?]

[Su Haoming: With the identity of a Taoist priest, it won't be strange if I know Taoist arts, right?]

[Fan Xian: True enough...]

[Fan Xian: With your current strength, you might even be able to ask the emperor to make you Imperial Preceptor!]

[Su Haoming: Imperial Preceptor...]

[Su Haoming: I hadn't considered that.]

[Lin Yu: I wouldn't advise you to do that either.]

[Lin Yu: After all, you aren't alone, nor do you lack roots or backing. If you rashly make some big moves, it's easy to drag your friends and family into it.]

[Su Haoming: Mm, I understand.]

[Fan Xian: I was joking...]

[Lin Yu: No, you don't understand.]

[Lin Yu: What I mean is, you don't need to take risks using Su Haoming's identity.]

[Lin Yu: If you want to make big moves, just create a new identity!]

[Su Haoming: ...So that's what you meant.]

[Su Haoming: But I've lost interest in the Imperial Court now. Rather than tying myself down there, I'd rather travel the world with my cousin and the others, just like in the original work, and roam free!]

[Su Haoming: Fame, fortune, and rank—my goal now is to cultivate myself, nourish my qi, attain the Dao, and live forever!]

[Fan Xian: That works too—play to your strengths and avoid your weaknesses~]

[Su Haoming: Right!]

[Su Haoming: Besides, I've discovered that the Tang Gui World has quite a few good things. If I happen to find any while traveling the world, I'll give them to Brother Lin to look at. Maybe they'll prove useful?]

[Fan Xian: ...Will they really be useful?]

[Lin Yu: They will.]

[Lin Yu: I remember that the Tang Gui World has quite a few rare treasures and exotic beasts, as well as miraculous artifacts such as the Nine Great Strange Pearls.]

[Lin Yu: I'm somewhat interested in things like that. If you can get your hands on them, you can come to me for a trade.]

[Su Haoming: No, don't mention trading.]

[Su Haoming: As long as Brother Lin wants it, I'd give it to you for free!]

[Lin Yu: That's not necessary...]

After chatting for a few more moments, Su Haoming closed the Chat Group and looked in the direction his cousin had departed, his expression somewhat complicated.

To be honest, when Duke Di had refused to take him as a disciple, he had been somewhat jealous of his cousin, Su Wuming.

But as he grew older, he gradually came to realize the gap between himself and his cousin.

That gap stemmed from Su Wuming's keen insight into the details of cases. It was not something a little knowledge from his previous life could possibly make up for.

Since that was the case, so be it!

With the Chat Group, he did not need to follow in Elder Brother's footsteps.

Before Lu Lingfeng joined the team, he would become the sharp sword at Elder Brother's side!

With that thought, Su Haoming suddenly felt refreshed, as though the heavens had broadened and the earth expanded before him.

Everything suddenly became clear, as if he had entered an entirely new world.

At the same time, the Spiritual Root within him bloomed with a faint, shimmering glow.

The Magic Power vortex within his Dantian Qi Sea accelerated, completely digesting the food he had eaten earlier in the Castle and transforming it into a new stream of Magic Power that flowed into his Ren and Du Meridians and Dantian Qi Sea.

In an instant, an intense hunger flooded his mind.

Su Haoming froze briefly, then hurried into the kitchen and swept clean every bit of food he could find.

Once the hunger subsided somewhat, he closed his eyes and carefully sensed the Magic Power vortex within him, only to discover that his maximum Magic Power had increased by roughly a quarter at once!

What was going on?

Su Haoming looked surprised and hurriedly opened the Chat Group to ask.

[Lin Yu: Oh?]

[Lin Yu: Something like that happened?]

[Su Haoming: Brother Lin, you didn't anticipate this either?]

[Lin Yu: Not exactly.]

[Lin Yu: I simply didn't know what specific form it would take.]

[Su Haoming: What do you mean?]

[Lin Yu: It means your souls themselves possess a certain uniqueness.]

[Lin Yu: I discovered this when I implanted your Spiritual Roots, but at the time, I didn't know what effects this uniqueness would bring. I could only be sure that it would benefit you.]

[Lin Yu: As for what happened to you, it was likely a change in your state of mind that affected your soul and spiritual power, making the traits of your spiritual power more compatible with your wind Spiritual Root...]

[Fan Xian: Like a so-called moment of enlightenment?]

[Lin Yu: Exactly!]

[Su Haoming: That sounds like a good thing.]

[Lin Yu: Judging by the results, it certainly is.]

[Lin Yu: And for me, this is a brand-new discovery as well. Thanks, Little Su!]

[Su Haoming: You're too polite, Brother Lin. I'm the one who should be thanking you!]

In Frieren World, Lin Yu sat in a high-backed chair with the Holy Scripture in hand, watching the Chat Group with a smile.

As members of the Chat Group, Yun Ye and Su Haoming's souls were both deeply bound to it.

Lin Yu himself was the same, but because his Main Body Consciousness was far too vast, the Chat Group could not influence his will. As a result, it had displayed no functions beyond chatting.

It was only after Yun Ye and Su Haoming came before him in person that he belatedly realized the Chat Group seemed to be more than just a chat terminal bound to the soul. It was also a cheat related to the soul and spiritual power!

According to Lin Yu's observations, this thing had removed the restrictions on the members' souls and raised the upper limit of their spiritual power growth, granting every member almost limitless adaptability and potential.

Simply put, it had given the members extraordinary talent in both soul and spirit.

As long as their bodies met the prerequisites, the members could cultivate almost any power system!

As for Su Haoming's earlier state of enlightenment, it was merely a small manifestation of this talent...

Sure enough, nothing was better suited to perfecting this Path of Transcendence than the members of the Chat Group!

As the creator of this Path of Transcendence, Lin Yu greatly looked forward to their future performances.

Of course, that did not mean he would stop his local experiments. After all, the members could only broaden the upper limits of this power system; they could not solve the issue of the threshold and lower limits for native lifeforms.

Therefore, the longevity experiments on native lifeforms continued.

In Lin Yu's vision, the newborns of the Sydong family were merely the first batch of cultivators. More residents would join them in the future.

Perhaps several centuries from now, every resident of Spine Peak Territory would embark on this path of cultivation, becoming an entirely new race in which everyone possessed great power and long lives...

Of course, that was all for later!

Before the newborns of Spine Peak Territory grew up healthy, Lin Yu could only keep his attention on these little group members.

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