Red Edge Spear, Immortal Shield, Slay All Immortal Kings and Destroy the Nine Heavens!

An Lan reached up to touch the spot where he had been kissed, coughed like a little adult, and decided that business was more important. He turned to look at Leng Qingning beside him and said with a straight face, "Great Master, you can make up for that kiss tonight."

That's right, he, An Lan, six years old, personal disciple of Leng Qingning, the branch master of the Spirit Pagoda in Shangling City, and a top-tier second-generation elite of the Douluo Continent, did not even have his own room at home.

Leng Qingning, who had been debating in her heart whether to prepare a separate room for An Lan, immediately decided to wait another two years before arranging one for him.

Leng Qingning smiled to herself; even though her precious disciple had already awakened his Martial Soul, he was still far from growing up, so there was no rush.

"I have a second Martial Soul."

An Lan's thoughts stirred, and as his soul power surged gently, a shield with a dark red body and ancient, primitive patterns floated before him.

The surface of the shield shimmered with a faint, cold light, echoing the fierce aura of the Red Edge Spear—it was none other than the Immortal Shield!

Since he had awakened the Red Edge Spear, the Immortal Shield naturally followed.

At the peak of the immortals, looking down upon the world, as long as I, An Lan, exist, the heavens shall remain!

Red Edge Spear, Immortal Shield, slaying Immortal Kings and destroying the nine heavens!

An Lan felt his blood surging, a majestic and domineering aura from the depths of his bloodline rushing straight to the firmament.

"Twin Martial Souls!"

A sharp glint flashed in Leng Qingning's eyes as she stared fixedly at the small shield in front of An Lan.

Without a doubt, this was a top-tier Martial Soul, not a bit weaker than the Red Edge Spear.

Her gaze shifted back and forth between the Red Edge Spear and the Immortal Shield; the two Martial Souls shared the same style and their auras were interdependent. Clearly, this was not a random combination like the Blue Silver Grass and the Clear Sky Hammer.

One for offense, one for defense—unrivaled in the world!

"This shield is called the Immortal Shield!"

Before Leng Qingning could even ask, An Lan proudly announced the name of his Martial Soul.

"Red Edge Spear, Immortal Shield..." Le Lingzhao murmured, her face full of suspicion.

The Red Edge Spear could barely be linked to the Evil-Breaking Spear, but this Immortal Shield could definitely not be explained by a simple Martial Soul mutation.

Had the Evil-Breaking Spear gone off the rails, or had the Photon Elf cheated?

Of course, this was just a joke in her heart.

Le Lingzhao had watched An Lan be born and had raised him with spiritual materials and medicinal baths; she was one hundred percent certain that An Lan was the biological child of her close friends, An Ze and Shi Lan.

After much thought, setting aside the secrets surrounding An Lan, the only logical explanation was that an ancestor in the bloodline of An Ze or Shi Lan had possessed a shield-type Martial Soul that had evolved and mutated.

Such a phenomenon was not unheard of; according to later scholars, Mu En, the Pavilion Master of the Sea God Pavilion at Shrek Academy ten thousand years ago, was one such case.

His Martial Soul, the Bright Sacred Dragon, originated from the Martial Soul of "Great Master" Yu Xiaogang, Luo Sanpao.

Luo Sanpao was originally an incomplete form of the Bright Sacred Dragon, but because "Great Master" was too incompetent, he failed to manifest it fully, and later added soul rings haphazardly, causing Luo Sanpao to remain stuck in its initial stage, never successfully evolving into the Bright Sacred Dragon.

And Yu Xiaogang had also successfully broken through to age 50 while still at level 29, becoming a legend of his generation.

"Good disciple, don't just be happy; let's test your Innate Soul Power and mental strength."

Le Lingzhao turned and walked toward a soul guidance testing device not far away, beckoning An Lan to follow.

Even without testing, she was certain that An Lan must have Innate Full Soul Power; what she was truly curious about was the extent of his innate mental strength.

An Lan followed instructions, putting on the helmet for testing mental strength and gently pressing his small hand onto a blue crystal ball.

"Release your soul power." Le Lingzhao activated the device, her eyes full of anticipation.

An Lan complied and channeled his soul power. The moment it left his body, it was frantically absorbed by the blue crystal ball, and a crimson light matching his attribute flickered within; at the same time, the helmet on his head emitted a faint hum, and the indicator lights on it lit up one by one.

The three pairs of eyes turned simultaneously toward the soul guidance screen to the side.

[Innate Soul Power: 10]

[Mental Strength: 250.5]

"As expected, Innate Full Soul Power."

"To think he is at the Spirit Connection Realm innately."

The voices of Leng Qingning and Le Lingzhao rang out at the same time. The surprise on their faces flashed only for a moment before settling into a sense of inevitability.

Little An Lan had the potential to become a god; mere Innate Full Soul Power and mental cultivation at the mid-stage of the Spirit Connection Realm were hardly worth making a fuss over.

In the current Douluo Continent, apart from those few fierce beasts in the Star Dou Small Forest, soul beasts were basically extinct.

In the past, for a soul master to cultivate, they only needed their physical body to meet the standard to fuse with high-year soul rings.

But now, if a soul master wanted to obtain a soul ring, they had to communicate with a soul spirit and form a contract, which added a threshold of mental strength.

On the continent, there were six major realms of mental strength for soul masters: Spirit Origin Realm, Spirit Connection Realm, Spirit Sea Realm, Spirit Abyss Realm, Spirit Domain Realm, and the legendary realm belonging to gods, the Spirit God Realm.

The Spirit Origin Realm was 1–100 points of mental strength, the most basic level, allowing for the contracting of hundred-year soul spirits.

The Spirit Connection Realm was 100–500 points, allowing for the contracting of thousand-year soul spirits.

This meant that with An Lan's innate Spirit Connection Realm mental cultivation, his first soul spirit could be a thousand-year soul spirit, putting him far ahead of other geniuses.

Moreover, it was worth mentioning that his mental strength of 250.5 points was at a perfectly awkward position, having just passed the halfway point of the Spirit Connection Realm, which could be called the late stage of the half-step Spirit Connection Realm.

An Lan stared at the glaring number 250.5 on the soul guidance screen and breathed a sigh of relief: Thank goodness, thank goodness, I almost ended up as a 250.

"Truly worthy of being my fine apprentice." Le Lingzhao helped An Lan remove his helmet and patted his head. "When I first awakened my martial soul, my spiritual power was only 50 points, not even a fraction of yours."

Leng Qingning parted her red lips slightly and said slowly, "The current strongest powerhouse on the Douluo Continent, the Sky-Prop Douluo Yun Ming, had an initial spiritual power of only eighty points and had not yet reached the Spirit Connection Realm."

Yun Ming, Pavilion Master of the Sea God Pavilion at Shrek Academy, became a Titled Douluo at 23 and a Limit Douluo at 31. His cultivation speed was unrivaled across the Douluo Continent, a talent that might not appear in ten thousand years, comparable even to Tang San and Huo Yuhao.

Even someone as stunning as Yun Ming is not even one-third as good as my apprentice, she thought to herself, a surge of inexplicable pleasure rising in her heart.

This pleasure of hers had nothing to do with the grievances and entanglements between her aunt Leng Yaozhu, Yun Ming, and Ya Li, but rather stemmed from making up for the regrets of her youth.

Although Tang San and Huo Yuhao were also legends, their eras were too distant, and they had already ascended to godhood, making them incomparable.

Yet Yun Ming was the "child of someone else's family" that every parent on the entire continent spoke of.

Every genius carries arrogance in their bones.

When Leng Qingning was young, whenever she showed the slightest hint of pride or complacency, the elders in her family would bring up Yun Ming to keep her in check.

She and Yun Ming were not of the same generation, but she had truly grown up in the shadow of his brilliance.

Although it was unkind to say, the moments she felt most relaxed during that time were when her aunt Leng Yaozhu was at home.

Because her aunt had once admired Yun Ming and was a romantic rival to Ya Li, and having been the loser in that relationship, no one in the family dared to mention their names in her presence.