Black Tower's Soul Spirit

"There's no need for that. We came here to buy a Soul Spirit in the first place. How could we possibly not pay for it?"

"Besides, even a more expensive Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit is within our family's means. A mere Thousand-Year Soul Spirit is nothing."

Yuan Bao'er naturally saw through the Soul Guide's attempt to sell them a favor, and she refused without hesitation.

Money was easy to repay, but favors were hard to return.

A Thousand-Year Soul Spirit might not mean much to an adult like Yuan Bao'er, but children could easily develop feelings of gratitude or indebtedness. In the future, that would make them easy targets for recruitment by the Spirit Pagoda.

Yuan Bao'er had always believed that a child should decide her own future, rather than being drawn into the whirlpool of a powerful faction so early in life, only to become unable to escape. For Black Tower's future not to be bound, she could not owe even the slightest favor!

"Very well. Please follow me, the three of you. I'll take you to where the Thousand-Year Soul Spirits are kept."

Since Yuan Bao'er had refused, the Soul Guide had no choice but to follow the procedure and lead them toward the Thousand-Year Soul Spirits. However, he had already uploaded the information about this child. He believed that someone from the Spirit Pagoda would be sent over before long.

After that, it would no longer be something a minor Soul Guide like him needed to worry about.

The moment the doors opened, the dazzling array of Soul Spirit spheres drew everyone's gaze. The two adults were fine, but the two children were utterly captivated by the gleaming objects. Even Mu Xi, who had been here once before, could not avoid it.

"This is where Hundred-Year Soul Spirits are stored. Every Hundred-Year Soul Spirit here is a premium specimen. If put on the market, each would sell for at least one million Federal Currency."

The Soul Guide's voice came from ahead. His tone was filled with pride, as though joining the powerful organization known as the Spirit Pagoda had made him tremendously excited.

"However, given this young lady's outstanding talent, Hundred-Year Soul Spirits are no longer suitable. Only Thousand-Year Soul Spirits are worthy of her."

"Hehe! Of course they are!"

Black Tower proudly raised her head again, prompting laughter from everyone around her. Mu Xi did the same, though her eyes seemed to contain another emotion as well.

"We're here! This is the room where Thousand-Year Soul Spirits are stored. There are quite a few high-grade Soul Spirits among them. Please follow me!"

Inside the enormous circular room was a ring-shaped corridor. A glowing Soul Spirit sphere was placed every meter along both sides of the corridor, with a moderately sized soul device screen before each sphere displaying detailed information about that Soul Spirit.

Judging by the size of the place, there were at least a hundred Thousand-Year Soul Spirits stored here!

"Could you explain this young lady's Martial Soul characteristics? If it's convenient, I can recommend a suitable Soul Spirit for her."

"It is naturally a Mental Power attribute. Please introduce some to us."

This did not surprise anyone. The child's abnormal Mental Power alone was enough to determine the attribute of her Martial Soul.

"Of course. Since it is a Mental Power attribute, how about this Purple Spirit Wolf?"

They arrived before a soul device screen, and the image of a Soul Beast immediately appeared. It was a small Soul Beast covered in dark purple fur, somewhat wolf-like in appearance.

"The Soul Rings and Soul Spirits produced by Purple Spirit Wolves can adapt to most Mental Power attribute Martial Souls. It is said that ten thousand years ago, Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao's third Soul Ring for his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul came from a Purple Spirit Wolf."

As an outstanding Soul Guide, he immediately recommended the best option the moment he opened his mouth. Combined with the prestige of Spirit Ice Douluo, almost no one would refuse.

"What do you think? I also feel that this Soul Beast is quite suitable."

It was not only the Soul Guide who thought so. Yuan Bao'er felt the same way. But to her surprise, Black Tower shook her head.

"Mom Bao Er, let's keep looking... I feel like there's a Soul Spirit here that is drawing me in, but it doesn't seem to be this one."

The other three were all stunned when she said that. Clearly, they had not expected Black Tower to say such a thing. But since the child had said so, they naturally had to continue.

"Very well, then let's keep looking."

"How about this mermaid? As a rare humanoid Soul Beast, we do not have many of her kind of Soul Spirit even in the Spirit Pagoda. She is also a top-tier Mental Power attribute Soul Spirit."

Looking at the unusual Soul Spirit before them, human from the waist up and fish from the waist down, both Yuan Bao'er and Mu Xi's eyes lit up. Compared to the purple beast-like Soul Beast from before, the mermaid was clearly much prettier and better suited to a girl.

After all, people were creatures who pursued beauty. If something like an Evil Eye, a terrifying-looking floating eyeball, hovered beside a girl, it would be downright creepy.

However, neither Black Tower nor Yao Lan, who was hidden within her body, was satisfied with this Soul Spirit. Its Mental Power was not even as strong as that wolf's!

Black Tower merely shook her head silently, then passed Yuan Bao'er and the Soul Guide and walked forward on her own.

"What is this?"

"Let's follow Black Tower first. She must have a reason for doing this!"

The Soul Guide was at a loss, but Yuan Bao'er quickly stopped him.

So her name was Black Tower? The Soul Guide remembered the name, then joined Yuan Bao'er in following slowly behind Black Tower.

As for Mu Xi at the very back, she looked at the three ahead of her, then at her sides and behind her, and could not help feeling a little awkward.

It seemed like she had come here for no reason at all. She had originally planned to help her little sister choose an excellent Soul Spirit, but her little sister had gone off to choose one herself?

"Well, Black Tower is a genius Dad chose... It's perfectly normal for her to be better than me." Mu Xi sighed helplessly. In the end, she said nothing and silently followed after the others.

As for Black Tower, who walked at the very front, she finally stopped after taking around twenty steps. She turned to look at the Soul Spirit sphere beside her. Clearly, she had found the Soul Spirit that had drawn her in.

"Please introduce this Soul Spirit to us!"

Seeing Black Tower stop, Yuan Bao'er immediately understood her choice and spoke to the Soul Guide beside her.

"Very well." The Soul Guide sighed and walked over to the soul device screen.

"This Soul Spirit is somewhat special. Its species is not Mental Power attribute, but earth attribute. It is called a Black Velvet Lion..."

"A Black Velvet Lion? But isn't it white? And why does it look so strange?" Before the Soul Guide could finish, Black Tower interrupted him. He did not get angry, however, and continued his explanation.

"Ordinary Black Velvet Lions are naturally black all over, but this one is a mutated Soul Spirit. It may contain a trace of Dragon Clan bloodline, which caused its appearance to change and even gave it a Mental Power attribute."

On the soul device screen, the figure of a Soul Beast gradually appeared. Its head and body resembled a lion's, while its rear had a dragon's tail. Its entire body was snow-white, and most importantly, it had a crystalline, translucent horn on its head.

It had an unusual sort of beauty overall!

Almost no one present recognized this Soul Beast, because Soul Beasts, like Martial Souls, could continuously mutate. No one in the world could recognize every Soul Beast.

But one person alone recognized the special nature of this Soul Spirit: Black Tower!

Because the moment she saw this Soul Spirit, she thought of a certain auspicious beast from myth and legend...

Bai Ze!

It was finally added to the database. So happy!