Unyielding Soul Spirit

"Come on, Uncle will take you to choose a Soul Spirit."

The serious atmosphere dissipated, and Su Wuyan grinned cheerfully.

"With your current Mental Power and Body Strength, Xiao Qiu, it'll be fine even if your first Soul Spirit is a Thousand Year Soul Spirit."

"A Thousand Year Soul Spirit?"

In this era, absorbing a Soul Spirit no longer placed such high demands on a Soul Master's Body Strength as it had in the past. Mental Power was what mattered most.

Mental Power was divided into the Spirit Origin Realm, Spirit Connection Realm, Spirit Sea Realm, Spirit Abyss Realm, Spirit Domain Realm, and the Divine Origin Realm, which reached the level of gods.

333's Mental Power had already far surpassed the Spirit Origin Realm and was at the Spirit Connection Realm. It was enough for Su Qiu to absorb a Thousand Year Soul Spirit.

The moment the two stepped out of the awakening room, a Spirit Pagoda staff member hurried over and asked hesitantly, "Dragon Sparrow, may I ask what that pillar of light just now was?"

Dragon Sparrow was Su Wuyan's title.

"Oh, I just made a breakthrough. It's nothing important." Su Wuyan waved a hand, his cheerful smile making the excuse seem quite convincing.

"Whew, sorry for disturbing you, Your Excellency." The staff member sighed in relief. He had thought something had happened. So the Tower Master had caused the commotion—then it was nothing strange. He had not connected it to a Martial Soul awakening; after all, no awakening in all these years had ever produced such an anomaly.

"It's fine. Go get back to work."

After the staff member left, Su Wuyan turned around with a smile. "Xiao Qiu, you don't blame Uncle for stealing your thunder, do you?"

"As long as you're happy." Su Qiu did not care.

"Actually, I did it for your sake. Wood in the Forest is never a good thing." He spoke lightly. "It would be even worse if word reached the Tower Master."

"You mean Qian Gu Dong Feng?"

The only person Su Wuyan, a branch Tower Master, would call the Tower Master was Qian Gu Dong Feng.

"That's right. Qian Gu Dong Feng is no good person." Su Wuyan narrowed his eyes slightly, his tone hostile. "A somewhat talented genius is fine, but if one is too talented, he becomes wary. Either serve as his dog, or be suppressed by him."

"He also meddles in every department, fighting for power."

Su Wuyan let out a sneer. "Heh, he thinks he's so clever, treating us all like fools."

"He doesn't realize that we simply can't be bothered to fight him. Sigh, the Spirit Pagoda will sooner or later be ruined by his hands."

"That's true." Su Qiu agreed. He had forgotten some of the details from the Original Work, but he still remembered Qian Gu Dong Feng somewhat. He truly was not a good man.

"Let's go. Today, Uncle calls the shots—pick any Soul Spirit you want from this tower!"

There was one more thing Su Wuyan did not say. Over the past two years, because he had paid special attention to matters involving Evil Soul Masters, he had discovered something strange: the Spirit Pagoda's efforts against Evil Soul Masters had recently weakened somewhat.

Although the tower had policies offering reasonable explanations, he could not shake the feeling that something bad was coming.

Along the way, Su Qiu silently considered what kind of Soul Spirit he should choose.

For a Soul Master, choosing a Soul Spirit was of utmost importance. One wrong step could plant the seeds of future failure.

But for Su Qiu, Soul Spirits might not be as important as he had imagined.

He could feel that his Holy Sword and Holy Spear Martial Souls did not have a strong need for Soul Skills. They came with Treasure Release.

Treasure Release was his strongest means of attack. Its power was tied to his Soul Power cultivation and the degree to which the Thirteen Restraints had been released.

So long as he did not get stuck at a level, he would be fine. Soul Spirit Soul Skills could at most determine his lower limit.

Sensing his two Martial Souls, Su Qiu wavered between the Sword of Promised Victory and the Shining Spear of the End, unable to decide which one to cultivate first.

The Holy Sword had the Thirteen Restraints.

The Holy Spear had them too. Its restraints had been modeled after the Holy Sword's, likewise numbering thirteen.

"I'll cultivate the Sword of Promised Victory first."

Although the Holy Sword and Holy Spear held the same status, there was still a difference in power.

No matter what, the Holy Sword was specialized in destroying enemies. The Holy Spear's purpose was more to anchor the world, so its offensive power was surely inferior.

"Then choosing a Soul Spirit will be simple."

Su Qiu made his decision. He would try to choose a Soul Spirit that could grant him an enhancement-type Soul Skill.

Flashy offensive Soul Skills could not raise his upper limit, so enhancement Soul Skills were the best choice, strengthening his own attributes.

Once his physical attributes were enhanced, Su Qiu only needed to serve as a vessel for the Holy Sword. He could leave the rest to it.

They arrived in a special room made of pure white metal.

Su Wuyan switched on the screen and searched through Soul Spirits one after another.

"Xiao Qiu, which Martial Soul do you plan to cultivate first?"

"The Holy Sword."

"That sword?" After thinking for a moment, Su Wuyan selected a Soul Spirit.

It was a wolf-type Soul Beast. Its fur had a blue-violet base, interwoven with delicate, brilliant patterns. The patterns glowed faintly, like twinkling starlight.

"A one-thousand-one-hundred-year Star Brilliance Wolf. It is an exceptionally powerful light-attribute Soul Beast. Their formidable hunting talent even made them abandon the pack habits of wolves and live alone."

Hearing his uncle's introduction, Su Qiu asked, "Can it give me an enhancement-type Soul Skill?"

"Most likely not."

"No, no."

They switched to another Soul Beast. White scales covered its entire body like armor. A slight movement of its enormous body made the ground tremble. It was visibly a Mountain Dragon Type Soul Beast.

"A White Armored Mountain Dragon, with fifteen hundred years of cultivation..."

"A dragon-type?" Before the other man could finish, Su Qiu shook his head repeatedly. "No, no."

"Then look at this one: a Titan Giant Ape, one of the strongest Soul Beasts in terms of raw power. It combines offense and defense, and is extremely powerful."

This one was pretty good, but it somehow did not feel right for him. "No, no."

Su Wuyan could not take it anymore. "You brat, you don't want this one, and you don't want that one. What exactly are you looking for?"

"These are all the decent Thousand Year Soul Spirits in the Eastsea City Spirit Pagoda."

"Uncle, don't you have an Unyielding Soul Spirit?" Su Qiu finally revealed his true intention.

He did not have high requirements for a Soul Spirit, and enhancement-type Soul Skills were hard to come by. In that case, he might as well choose an Unyielding Soul Spirit directly.

In this era where bloodlines reigned supreme, choosing an Unyielding Soul Spirit would at least ensure that he would not cower just because his opponent had a noble bloodline.

"An Unyielding Soul Spirit?" Su Wuyan stared blankly at Su Qiu. Countless thoughts flashed through his mind before he finally said decisively, "Fine!"

The figure of a Soul Beast tearing through the skies appeared on the screen. Its wingspan exceeded ten meters. Its body resembled an eagle's, but was more robust, its taut muscles like forged steel and brimming with explosive strength.

"Rending Sky Screaming Vulture!"

"One of the overlord Soul Beasts of the skies. This one only has twelve hundred years of cultivation."

"A Hundred Thousand Year Rending Sky Screaming Vulture could truly blot out the sky and cover the earth. What a pity. Now, it can only manifest at the Hundred Thousand Year level in the form of a Soul Spirit."

"Perhaps ten thousand years ago, one could have seen its complete form."

"Even with only a little over a thousand years of cultivation, a Rending Sky Screaming Vulture possesses considerable intelligence. Taming one is extremely difficult."

"This is the one." Su Qiu fell for it at first sight. Such a cool Soul Spirit was meant to be his.