The First Soul Spirit: Auspicious Beast Capybara (Part 2)

"Indomitable Soul Spirit!?"

Before Leng Yaozhu could react, Bai Haoze and Bai Zhicen cried out first. The Saintess System beauties looked devastated, as if the words "absolutely not" were written across their faces.

They knew their own situation best. Indomitable Soul Spirits had earned their name because most would rather risk death than merge with Soul Masters. Quite a few Indomitable Soul Spirits had even burst apart the Soul Masters attempting to merge with them.

Whenever Leng Yaozhu went out on business, Zhao Xuanzhen was left in the care of the Bai Sisters. They had accompanied the boy all the way through his childhood and could not bear to watch him walk straight into danger. The Titan Giant Ape and Evil Eye were both top-tier Soul Spirits, enough to secure him a bright future. There was no need to risk his life challenging an Indomitable Soul Spirit.

"Beasts have unyielding souls; people have indomitable wills."

"Since ancient times, humans have conquered Soul Beasts," Zhao Xuanzhen said. "Big White Sister, Little White Sister, you should be more worried about that Soul Spirit."

"You, honestly... You've always had your own mind since you were little!"

The Bai Sisters sighed wistfully and gave up trying to persuade him. They were among the people who understood Zhao Xuanzhen best in the world. Once he made up his mind, he had to see it through!

Leng Yaozhu took everything in, silently thinking to herself:

My disciple Xuanzhen has the makings of an Extreme Douluo!

The comfortable environment of the Spirit Pagoda had not extinguished that naturally soaring heart of a powerhouse. Supreme talent layered atop a fearless will—Leng Yaozhu could practically see Zhao Xuanzhen's boundless future!

She respected Zhao Xuanzhen's wishes and swiftly used her authority as Spirit Pagoda Deputy Tower Master to filter the qualifying Soul Spirits. One Soul Beast after another flashed past, until a single remaining candidate shone brilliantly!

The ancient forest displayed on the Soul Guidance Screen revealed a Soul Beast. Its head was round and plump, its body streamlined, and its limbs short, thick, and sturdy. The black-and-white mark at the center of its brow proclaimed its Yin-Yang Attribute.

Most jaw-dropping of all was its current state. It was actually riding atop the head of a ten-thousand-year Golden Crocodile King, drifting along in perfect leisure!

"A... capybara?"

Zhao Xuanzhen's brain froze for two and a half seconds. Refusing to believe it, he looked again. That creature resembling a kiwi fruit with four chopsticks stuck into it really was a capybara!

"Spirit Water Porpoise, six hundred years of cultivation, Indomitable Soul Spirit Number Ninety-Nine," Leng Yaozhu said softly.

"This Soul Beast is very, very, very special. The Golden Crocodile King has such a violent and irritable temperament, yet it had unprecedentedly allowed another Soul Beast to step on its head.

"The Spirit Water Porpoise is the one and only Auspicious Beast among the countless Soul Spirits of the Spirit Pagoda!"

As she spoke, the Spirit Water Porpoise leisurely climbed down from the Golden Crocodile King and mounted the Green Shadow God Hawk instead.

It rode the Golden Crocodile across the waves and mounted the green hawk to soar into the skies!

That was the bearing of an Auspicious Beast!

"Several thousand years ago, the Final War erupted. The Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire fled overseas in defeat, while the victorious Sun Moon Empire established the Sun Moon Federation. Douluo Continent entered a new stage of peaceful development."

Leng Yaozhu said, "Even after Douluo Continent was unified, the human world never stopped advancing. It continued researching Soul Guidance Technology, while mecha and Battle Armor technology gradually matured. Fierce Beasts were no longer objects of terror.

"Soul Master Scholars believed the core reason for the Soul Beasts' decline was Soul Guidance Technology, but some proposed another view: fortune.

"The Soul Beasts' decline was actually caused by the Emperor Auspicious Beast sacrificing herself to Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao. The fortune of the Soul Beasts was devoured by humanity's fortune. From then on, humanity prospered in everything, while Soul Beasts never recovered.

"Of course, Soul Beasts had not failed to attempt self-rescue. For instance, Beast God Di Tian tried to cultivate a second Emperor Auspicious Beast..."

"Wishful thinking," Zhao Xuanzhen cut straight to the point. "An Emperor Auspicious Beast is a born sovereign, unique under heaven and earth."

"Yes." Leng Yaozhu's voice deepened. "Xingdou failed. Di Tian could not nurture a second Emperor Auspicious Beast, but during that process, he discovered an Auspicious Beast capable of sheltering an entire forest—the Spirit Water Porpoise.

"The Spirit Water Porpoise's auspiciousness naturally cannot compare to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's, but it far surpasses creatures like the Golden Hawksbill Turtle. Once its cultivation breaks through one hundred thousand years, it can stabilize a portion of the Soul Beast Clan's fortune. It was the last straw the Star Dou Great Forest could grasp."

"Now, it has fallen into the Spirit Pagoda's hands," Zhao Xuanzhen said.

"To obtain more high quality Soul Spirits, the Spirit Transferring Tower Master of that generation joined forces with the Sun Moon Federation to launch a surprise attack on the Star Dou Great Forest." Leng Yaozhu's expression turned solemn.

"All of the Spirit Pagoda's Title Douluos joined the battle. The Head and Deputy Hall Masters of the War God Hall, along with the Eighteen War Gods, all took the field. Four of the Eight Great Legions were deployed, and many forces across the continent answered the call.

"Those not of our kind are sure to have different hearts. Besides, the Xingdou Fierce Beasts had launched beast tides more than once. That battle could be considered humanity's crushing counterattack against the Star Dou Great Forest.

"Among the Xingdou Fierce Beasts, only Di Tian had condensed a Dual Soul Core. Yet among the combatants were six Extreme Douluos in Four-Word Battle Armor, as well as more than thirty Title Douluos in Three-Word Battle Armor.

"The enhancement Battle Armor granted Soul Masters was truly astonishing. Even Di Tian, the Number One Fierce Beast Under Heaven, was defeated under the siege of Extreme Douluos.

"Humanity did not wish to fight the Fierce Beasts to mutual destruction, so both sides ceased hostilities and reached an agreement. The Fierce Beasts swore never to leave the Core Zone to harm humanity. Humanity preserved the Core Zone of the Star Dou Great Forest, but after the war, abducted a huge number of Soul Beasts to turn into Soul Spirits.

"After that battle, the Star Dou Great Forest no longer had the Auspicious Beast Spirit Water Porpoise, while the Spirit Pagoda gained Indomitable Soul Spirit Number Ninety-Nine."

The Bai Sisters exchanged glances and saw the wistfulness on each other's faces. They had personally seen the high walls built by the Spirit Pagoda. The Star Dou Great Forest had been penned in by humanity. Sooner or later, humanity would wage war again. When that time came, the Xingdou Fierce Beasts would either die in battle and yield Soul Rings and Soul Bones, or become Soul Spirits dependent on Soul Masters.

Zhao Xuanzhen's expression was difficult to read. What Leng Yaozhu described was the bloody history from the Peerless Tang Sect to the Legend of the Dragon King Era, a history of endless hatred.

"Auspicious Beasts often innately awaken strange and powerful abilities, such as the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's Destiny Power and the Golden Hawksbill Turtle's Invincible Shield. The Spirit Water Porpoise possesses Yin-Yang Attributes close to the ultimate level. One of its innate abilities is called Stability, allowing it to ignore Bloodline Suppression from any creature."

At that, Zhao Xuanzhen's eyes suddenly lit up. Leng Yaozhu knew her disciple had indeed been tempted, so she directly grabbed the Spirit Water Porpoise off the Green Shadow God Hawk and brought it into the room.

"The Spirit Water Porpoise's body is tougher than that of ordinary Soul Beasts, and its Mental strength is its greatest strength. At six hundred years of cultivation, it can already establish a Mental Connection with a Soul Master and communicate without barriers.

"At the level of an Auspicious Beast, only the Head and Deputy Tower Master of the Spirit Pagoda have the authority to deploy it.

"Because the Spirit Water Porpoise's attributes are so powerful, and its Auspicious Fortune can bless its host with success in all things, two or three Spirit Pagoda Soul Masters with Yin-Yang Attributes once tried to merge with it. Without exception, they were fiercely rejected by the Spirit Water Porpoise.

"When a Soul Beast resists a Soul Spirit Contract, it is a life-threatening matter, so they painfully gave up. Xuanzhen, your teacher respects your choice. I only suggest that you communicate with the Spirit Water Porpoise mentally first and persuade it to merge with you as much as possible."

"I'll give it a try."

As he guided a strand of Mental strength toward the Spirit Water Porpoise, memories from Zhao Xuanzhen's past life surfaced in his mind. Speaking of which, would a capybara really have an emotion as intense as fierce rejection?

"Hello, Spirit Water Porpoise."

"Hello, human."

The mental connection succeeded, and the Spirit Water Porpoise's voice entered Zhao Xuanzhen's ears. It was soft and gentle, with barely any rise or fall in tone.

"I want you to become my Soul Spirit."

"No."

The human got straight to the point, and the porpoise refused just as directly.

An Indomitable Soul Spirit, huh? It really was indomitable...

Zhao Xuanzhen's gaze grew serious. With its Stability talent alone, capable of ignoring Bloodline Suppression, the Spirit Water Porpoise stood out enough. Not to mention that its abilities suited him perfectly!

True Self Release!

Plan B activated. Lure it in with his aura—get into the bowl already!

"Tun Tun," Zhao Xuanzhen coaxed, "you and I are a perfect match. Together, we can explore the Way of Yin Yang. Wouldn't that be a hundred times better than being confined in Virtual Space?"

"You'd better not."

The Spirit Water Porpoise glanced at someone surnamed Zhao, remaining as unmoved as a stone. At this point in the past, those Soul Masters had all chosen to give up. An Auspicious Beast was precious, but life was more precious!

"What if I insist?"

Courtesy first, force afterward. Zhao Xuanzhen stepped closer, his shadow falling over the Spirit Water Porpoise. His eyes fixed on it with naked intensity. Anyone could sense the unyielding will within them—he had plenty of strength and plenty of methods!

That wolfish, tigerish gaze—more vicious than a sickle, greedier than a mouse finding rice, fiercer than a dog spotting shit—made the Spirit Water Porpoise's body stiffen.

"If you insist on forcing it..."

After a moment of confrontation, the Spirit Water Porpoise slowly spoke:

"Fine."

Who said capybaras were unyielding? This capybara was way too soft!

Let me answer everyone's questions here. This is a genius-protagonist story with no system, a complete outline, and around six female leads. The Silver Dragon King is simply too good not to have, so Gu Yue and Na'er's situation will differ somewhat from the original. After all, no one wants their wife to have been someone else's childhood sweetheart. A reasonable explanation will be provided when the time comes.

The protagonist's Original Martial Soul is True Self, with Yin-Yang Attributes. His cheat is the Taoist arts and Bagua Qimen from his past life. In the future, he will not take the body cultivator path of proving the Dao through strength alone. Proving the Dao through strength is great, but cultivating body, spirit, and attributes together gives the protagonist an even broader horizon.

There will be four Soul Spirits. The first Soul Spirit is an Auspicious Beast Capybara whose ability is greater than the Golden Hawksbill Turtle's but less than the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's. The second Soul Spirit is a Yin-Yang Attribute Soul Beast that appeared in the original series, and some of you have already guessed it.

Don't worry about original characters. There will only be a few passersby added to fill in the setting. Legend of the Dragon King is much more complicated than Peerless Tang Sect, and the protagonist starts at the Spirit Pagoda, completely unlike starting with Angel Glory or the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Clan.

During the new-book period, updates will be 4,000 words every day at noon. Thank you all for your support. ∽