Half an Unyielding Spirit Soul?

Lin Jin understood everything Mu Chen had said.

But since there was a better choice, and Lotus Flower Flame itself could temper the body, he naturally would not settle for second best.

"Teacher, I know what I'm doing."

After replying, Lin Jin looked ahead again once Mu Chen nodded.

All the purple thousand-year Spirit Souls were displayed before him.

However, there were differences even among thousand-year Spirit Souls.

He could not yet withstand a thousand-year Spirit Soul of excessively high quality.

That was beyond doubt.

Thus, his actual range of choices was not particularly large.

After looking them over, only five caught his interest.

The Millennium Crimson Flame Demon Fox, Millennium Sword-Spine Fire Wolf, Millennium Crimson Flame Demon Lotus, Millennium Flame Pupil, and a hundred-year Fire Spirit.

The Crimson Flame Demon Fox possessed both fire and spiritual attributes, making its value self-evident.

The Sword-Spine Fire Wolf, meanwhile, was exceptionally violent. If absorbed, the Soul Skill it produced would undoubtedly possess tremendous offensive power.

Although the Crimson Flame Demon Lotus was a plant-type Spirit Soul, the mere fact that it was a "lotus" made Lin Jin consider it.

It was clearly the most compatible with Lin Jin's Lotus Flower Flame Martial Soul as well.

Flame Pupil likewise possessed fire and spiritual attributes and was itself a mutant of the Evil Eye Clan.

The most famous member of that clan was naturally the Ferocious Beast ranked second ten thousand years ago—the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign.

As for the hundred-year Fire Spirit...

Lin Jin had noticed this Spirit Soul because it had no description and possessed a humanoid form.

Furthermore, its price was extremely high!

It cost even more than the other four thousand-year Spirit Souls he had his eye on.

That defied common sense and meant there had to be something unusual about this Spirit Soul.

Moreover, he could tell that this Fire Spirit was in a very abnormal state. A pitch-black power lingered around its body.

That power looked rather terrifying and was clearly eroding the Fire Spirit as well.

"What is this?"

Mu Chen frowned slightly and looked toward Meng Canglan.

Both of them were Spirit Douluo-level powerhouses, so they naturally noticed the five Spirit Souls Lin Jin had selected.

Meng Canglan's expression changed, and his brows drew tightly together.

That reaction made Lin Jin even more curious, and he turned his gaze toward him.

"Tower Master Meng?"

Mu Chen urged him.

"Alas."

Meng Canglan sighed. "This Spirit Soul should not have been here. I do not know whether someone below made an operational mistake or if there was some other reason, but it should have been sealed away."

Sealed away?

Mu Chen's expression changed, while genuine confusion appeared on Lin Jin's face.

There was such a thing as sealing one away?

Meng Canglan sighed again. "President Mu should know about Unyielding Spirit Souls, right?"

"This Fire Spirit is an Unyielding Spirit Soul?"

Mu Chen's eyes were full of disbelief, as if he wanted to say: Could an Unyielding Spirit Soul be this weak and appear in such a form?

Lin Jin was equally stunned.

Naturally, he knew about Unyielding Spirit Souls. Tang Wulin's Tyrant Dragon Spirit Soul was one.

Yet this mere hundred-year Fire Spirit did not look anything like an Unyielding Spirit Soul.

"More accurately, this Fire Spirit..."

"Or rather, this Fire Elemental Sprite cannot be considered a true Unyielding Spirit Soul."

Meng Canglan shook his head.

Fire Elemental Sprite!

Lin Jin's eyes lit up.

Meng Canglan continued, "It is not a pure Spirit Soul. It fused with a Martial Soul."

Mu Chen and Lin Jin both focused their gazes.

A Martial Soul and a Spirit Soul?

It was not strange for the two to fuse. Such a thing was already part of the current Spirit Master combat system.

But Meng Canglan's words made it easy to infer that this Fire Elemental Sprite had once fused with another Spirit Master. That Spirit Master had died, yet his Martial Soul had fused together with the entire Spirit Soul.

After a Spirit Master died, the Spirit Soul could indeed be preserved.

The Spirit Pagoda possessed that technology.

But for a deceased Spirit Master's Martial Soul to be stored after fusing with a Spirit Soul, such cases were probably rare.

Such a Spirit Soul could indeed be considered half an Unyielding Spirit Soul.

That was because such Spirit Souls were usually affected by their former masters and retained a certain degree of "consciousness."

For a later user to fuse with one would most likely bring more trouble than benefit.

The Fire Elemental Sprite before them was precisely like that, and the black energy on it clearly showed that it had also been contaminated.

Even if the fusion succeeded, it would likely affect the Spirit Master himself.

"The Fire Elemental Sprite was originally its former master's Martial Soul. At first, it was a Fire Spirit."

"And as you can see, this Fire Elemental Sprite has also suffered severe contamination. Otherwise, given its uniqueness, it should have been a ten-thousand-year Spirit Soul."

"That is why its price is so high."

"However, it probably cannot last much longer. When it was first preserved, it was at the peak thousand-year Spirit Soul level. It has since declined step by step to its current state, and its price has also been lowered continuously."

"But no one has ever been willing to choose it, and those who did all failed to fuse with it."

"That is why I said it counts as half an Unyielding Spirit Soul."

"Even I hope you will not choose it."

Meng Canglan's final sentence was directed at Lin Jin.

But as Lin Jin looked at the contaminated Fire Elemental Sprite, at this half-Unyielding Spirit Soul, his gaze grew increasingly fervent.

Contamination?

Wasn't this exactly his specialty?

Lotus Flower Flame possessed the power of purification!

Even if he purified it completely, the Fire Elemental Sprite probably would not recover much strength. After all, too much of its power had already dispersed as it declined.

What had dispersed was gone. It could not simply return.

But the Spirit Pagoda still had the Spirit Ascension Platform. Raising it back to the thousand-year or even ten-thousand-year level was not impossible.

Moreover, this Fire Elemental Sprite was simply too special. If he purified it, he might even benefit from it like Wang Tao had.

The possibility was high.

And if the Fire Elemental Sprite could become his Spirit Soul, it would definitely be even more suitable than the Crimson Flame Demon Lotus.

"I want this one."

Lin Jin did not hesitate in the slightest.

Meng Canglan froze, his brows knitting together.

He had already explained it so clearly, yet Lin Jin still chose this Spirit Soul.

This...

He did not know what to say.

Although he had abandoned his previous thoughts because of Zhen Hua's name,

he still did not want such a promising young talent, one he still had a chance to recruit, to be ruined.

Thus, he asked again with a faint hint of warning, "Are you sure you want to choose this Spirit Soul?"

At the same time, his gaze fell on Mu Chen, his meaning obvious: As his teacher, hurry up and persuade him!

Mu Chen frowned slightly. In truth, Lin Jin's choice had also taken him by surprise.

After all, during their month of contact, he had learned that Lin Jin was intelligent and had strong opinions of his own.

He should not casually choose an outcome that was clearly inferior.

Therefore, Mu Chen did not question him immediately.

He looked at Lin Jin, only to see Lin Jin clench his right hand into a fist and lightly tap it against his left palm.