First Soul Spirit, Auspicious Beast Capybara (Part 1)

Chapter 3: First Spirit Soul, Auspicious Beast Capybara (Part 1)

"A God-level Original Martial Soul."

Zhao Xuanzhen clenched his fist. The martial soul that the Body Sect had fantasized about for generations as a counterpart to the Dragon God—True Self—seemed terrifyingly powerful. But...

He turned his head slightly to look at Leng Yaozhu, whose face was flushed red with excitement. Amazing Wisdom...

Teacher, are you slandering the Silver Dragon King?

Sensing her disciple's blatantly strange gaze, Leng Yaozhu cleared her throat and, in half a second, resumed the dignified bearing of a Spirit Pagoda Deputy Tower Master, saying:

"Xuanzhen, you have Innate Full Soul Power. I'll take you to fuse your first Spirit Soul directly."

"Alright, teacher."

Zhao Xuanzhen agreed, silently calculating which spirit beast to choose along the way.

With one hundred and eighty-eight points of Spirit Connection Realm mental strength, plus his status as the sole personal disciple of the Sky Phoenix Douluo, he would certainly not be forced to fuse a ten-year man-made grass snake like Tang Wulin. The thousands of spirit souls stored at Spirit Transmission Tower Headquarters were his to pick from.

The first spirit soul was the foundation of a soul master's entire life. The more options there were, the more cautious one had to be.

The advantage of starting at the Spirit Transmission Tower was the spirit souls and the Spirit Ascension Platform. A spirit soul's cultivation level was not the primary consideration. Referencing the old Tower Master, Qiangu Dieting, who had forcibly raised all his soul rings to nine reds through the Spirit Ascension Platform, the spirit soul's strength and compatibility were what truly mattered.

Unlike fixed Beast Martial Souls and Tool Martial Souls, an Original Martial Soul symbolized the soul master themselves, and humans possessed infinite potential. Strength, speed, spirit, attributes—all were viable paths. What Zhao Xuanzhen had to do was, among countless intersecting great roads, unwaveringly walk down one!

Seeing Zhao Xuanzhen in the midst of a brainstorming session, Leng Yaozhu and the Bai Sisters did not disturb him. The four of them silently left the awakening room, and the elevator went straight down to the Spirit Transmission Tower Headquarters' underground.

The underground space was a spacious hall. Dozens of staff members were busily dispatching spirit souls to the Major Spirit Transmission Tower Branches. On the other side of the hall were numerous metal passages, each guarded by high-level soul masters with imposing auras.

As the deputy tower master who stood above all but one, Leng Yaozhu's face was the best pass. Under the ninety-degree bow of the guards, she led the three juniors into the blood-red corridor at the center.

After advancing several dozen meters, they entered another elevator, continued descending for over ten seconds, and when they reappeared, the four of them were in a circular room.

The room was a pure white metal structure. A ring of massive Soul Guidance Screens hung on the walls, displaying a lush green world, with spirit beast images flickering across them from time to time.

"Xuanzhen's first time in here," Leng Yaozhu said with a smile. "This is the virtual space where the Spirit Transmission Tower stores spirit souls, simulating the living environment of the ancient Star Dou Great Forest.

I'll pick a few out first. See if any spirit soul catches your eye."

With that, Leng Yaozhu performed a series of practiced operations. In the sky above the virtual world, giant hands like unstoppable gods appeared, grabbing several spirit beasts and presenting them one by one before Zhao Xuanzhen.

"Starting with the big guns right off the bat..."

Having struggled for six years, Zhao Xuanzhen instantly identified the first spirit beast's species, and the corner of his eye couldn't help but twitch.

An ape-type spirit beast, its entire body covered in pitch-black fur as dark as ink. Its limbs were packed with muscles more terrifying than granite, bulging like small hills. Its lantern-sized, crystal-yellow beast eyes blazed with ferocious light, showing no fear from being controlled.

Six hundred years, Titan Giant Ape!

Child of the Earth, one of the kings of strength in the spirit beast world, with no weaknesses in attack or defense—an absolute top-tier spirit beast!

Zhao Xuanzhen nodded and shifted his gaze to the side.

A silver eye floated in midair, its appearance extremely eerie. It looked like a balloon, covered in brown patterns all around, with two silver tentacles hanging limply to the ground.

Evil Eye, a Mental System Soul Beast, five hundred years of cultivation!

The Evil Eye Clan, also known as the Evil Eye Tyrant Clan, was the face of the mental attribute. Ten thousand years ago, on the Douluo Continent's top ten ferocious beasts ranking, the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler was second only to the Beast God Di Tian!

After careful observation, Zhao Xuanzhen suddenly realized that this Evil Eye was a rare pure mental attribute type, sharing the same origin as the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler!

"Eighty percent chance it's an Evil Emperor Descendant, the first spirit soul that mental system soul masters on the continent dream of..." Zhao Xuanzhen clicked his tongue in wonder.

The third spirit soul had the sharpest aura. Its body was covered in a thick stratum corneum, embedded with dense, razor-sharp black thorns. Under the sunlight, the thorns gleamed coldly, easily capable of piercing armor.

Eight hundred years Thorn Dragon, Dragon Clan bloodline, Space Attribute!

OUT!

Zhao Xuanzhen directly eliminated the Thorn Dragon.

Spirit souls and soul masters influenced each other. He had barely awakened a martial soul that wasn't suppressed by the Golden Silver Dragon King from birth; absorbing a Dragon Clan spirit beast would be a direct explosion!

"Let me see the last one. Oh, a Twin Cyclops Giant?"

Thousand-year Twin Cyclops Giant!

Its massive humanoid form exceeded three meters, its body covered in black and white two-colored fur. Two cyclops heads sat on its shoulders, their eyes constantly releasing captivating light.

Among the four spirit beasts, the Twin Cyclops Giant had the highest cultivation but the lowest bloodline. Yet Zhao Xuanzhen sensed a familiar flavor from it.

"Buzz—"

True Self Martial Soul possessed, a strand of black hair turned pale. Behind Zhao Xuanzhen, a massive Taiji Yin Yang diagram appeared. Seeing this, the Twin Cyclops Giant froze, and its two cyclops eyes instantly showed a fawning expression, constantly throwing flirtatious glances at Zhao Xuanzhen!

"It seems the Twin Cyclops Giant really likes you," Leng Yaozhu said teasingly. "And it's female, too."

"Mm." Zhao Xuanzhen clenched his fist. "It's eliminated."

Have you ever seen a Machoke?

Have you ever seen a female Machoke throwing flirtatious glances?

Alright, stop releasing that damn charm!

Just thinking about this thing following him for life, Zhao Xuanzhen would rather fuse with the Titan Giant Ape!

Bai Haoze and Bai Zhicen, standing to the side, glanced at the Twin Cyclops Giant with some wariness and strongly approved of Zhao Xuanzhen's wise decision.

Zhao Xuanzhen swept his gaze across the four soul spirits from left to right, falling into contemplation. Leng Yaozhu truly was a veteran of the Spirit Pagoda; the soul spirits she had selected each had their own merits.

The Titan Giant Ape signified that the future of the True Self Martial Soul lay in physical strength and defense, the Evil Eye focused on mental strength, and the Thorn Dragon leaned toward speed.

Leng Yaozhu's mind was meticulous and sharp—she had even considered Zhao Xuanzhen's Yin-Yang Attribute. The Twin Cyclops Giant possessed a Yin-Yang Attribute unmatched across the continent, one in ten thousand.

This was precisely why the Twin Cyclops Giant had pulled out all the stops to tempt Zhao Xuanzhen. True Self's Yin-Yang Attribute surpassed its own; fusing with Zhao Xuanzhen would guarantee a hundred percent bloodline evolution!

After a long pause, Zhao Xuanzhen sighed and asked, "Teacher, does the Spirit Pagoda have any other soul spirits suitable for me?"

Leng Yaozhu was puzzled. "These four soul beasts cover almost every path of cultivation. You didn't take a liking to any of them?"

"Each one falls short in some way." Zhao Xuanzhen was frank. "True Self is an extremely comprehensive martial soul. The first soul spirit lays the foundation for a soul master's entire life. Focusing solely on body, spirit, speed, or attribute would be a waste of talent.

Teacher, I hope my first soul spirit can match True Self's Yin-Yang Attribute while also possessing a certain degree of physical and mental ability—something like the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff's Overlord Domain, which ignores bloodline suppression as a priority.

With my mental strength, fusing with a two-thousand-year soul spirit is no problem. Please filter by that limit of cultivation, including those that resist forming contracts with Human Soul Masters...

The Indomitable Soul Spirit!"