Indomitable Soul Spirit

"Good grief..."

An Lan's heart gave a slight jolt.

After all, he'd spent six years being personally tutored by two beautiful masters. At a single glance, he recognized the origins of the first Soul Spirit.

Had his teacher... emptied the Phoenix Family's coffers?

It was a dragon-type Soul Beast, its delicate body as if carved from colored glass. Its wings were as thin as cicada wings, yet shimmered with specks of starlight, while a pale golden haze of life swirled around it. Its horns were crystal-clear, and its pair of beastly eyes glittered like a brilliant galaxy, lively but concealing a hint of wariness.

Nine hundred years old: a Sprite Dragon!

The darling of the wind, with dragon blood, affinity for the elements, and four attributes—life, space, mental, and wind. Utterly graceful.

An absolute, top-tier Soul Beast, perfect in every way, without a single weakness.

An Lan shook his head gently, delivering a death sentence to the Sprite Dragon on the spot, though a trace of undisguised regret flickered in his eyes.

In Season 3, with two dragon ancestors, one gold and one silver, looming overhead, the meta was incredibly hostile to dragons. No matter how foolish he might be, he wouldn't absorb a dragon-type Soul Spirit.

He turned to the other Soul Beast beside it.

It was a wolf-type Soul Beast, its fur half blue and half scarlet. Thousand-year-old ice covered its left side, while undying demonic flames burned on its right. Its strong body looked as if it had been forged by the gods, and a fierce aura surged toward him.

Ice-Flame Demon Wolf, Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire, with a cultivation of twelve hundred years.

Thousand-year ice and flame, a demonic flame heavenly wolf!

It excelled at both offense and defense, moved with peerless speed, and was a rare Soul Beast Realm creature with two ultimate attributes. Its fearsome reputation was well-earned.

"Fire and ice from the same source... If Soul Masters on the continent with ice or fire attributes found out, they'd go absolutely crazy," An Lan thought.

After all, these two attributes both complemented and countered each other. Before God of Emotions Rong Nianbing ascended to godhood, fire and ice from the same source had been one of his greatest assets in the early days.

His gaze shifted again. The third Soul Spirit was the strangest, but also the easiest to identify.

A huge eyeball floated in midair, silver-white all over, with tentacles dangling around it. Its mental power was so condensed it seemed almost tangible.

An Evil Eye, a purely mental-type Soul Beast, with a cultivation of fifteen hundred years.

The Evil Eye Clan, also known as the Evil Eye Tyrant Clan, was the continent's top mental-type Soul Beast clan. There was no other.

Ten thousand years ago, the Evil Eye Tyrant ruler—the Evil Emperor—had cultivated for seven hundred and ninety thousand years. He ranked second among the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, second only to the Beast God Di Tian. He had even grasped a trace of the laws of time and space, and his ultimate technique, Light of Time and Space, had once grievously wounded Di Tian.

"An ordinary Evil Eye wouldn't be something the teacher brought out specially. This one's probably a descendant of the Evil Emperor." An Lan clicked his tongue in amazement and looked at the other Soul Beasts.

Titan Giant Ape, out!

Blue Silver King, out!

Thunder Saint Eagle, out!

Thorn Dragon, out!

One by one, the continent's top Soul Beasts—rare Soul Spirits countless Soul Masters would fight tooth and nail to claim—were eliminated in An Lan's eyes.

He looked around and fell silent.

He had to admit, his teacher had spared no expense. Every Soul Spirit before him was a rare treasure, and several were so precious that their owners would rather destroy them than let them fall into an outsider's hands.

They covered almost every path of cultivation: elemental, mental, offense-focused, defensive, agility-focused, support... everything was there.

Even without knowing what his Martial Soul was, Leng Qingning had been meticulous to an astonishing degree. No matter what Martial Soul he awakened, there was sure to be a suitable Soul Spirit among these, and one with impressive stats at that.

But An Lan still felt something was missing.

So many top-tier Soul Spirits lay before him, yet not one stirred a true longing in his heart.

The Sprite Dragon was the one he liked best, but it was still a dragon, and the meta had its restrictions.

Noticing the disappointment between An Lan's brows, Leng Qingning asked, puzzled, "What is it? You don't like any of these Soul Spirits?"

"They just don't quite feel right." An Lan nodded frankly and explained what he wanted. "Teacher, my Martial Soul is the Red Edge Spear, and it focuses on killing. I want a boosting Soul Skill, and it has to have a mental attribute. I can't waste my innate mental power of 250.5."

After a pause, he added, "Ideally, it should also ignore bloodline suppression."

Hearing this string of demands, Leng Qingning shot him an exasperated glance. "Should we throw in an innate domain while we're at it?"

"Can we?" An Lan's eyes lit up, and he looked at her expectantly.

Leng Qingning furrowed her brows, falling into thought. "Let me think."

Since he didn't like even these Soul Spirits, she would have to use the Indomitable Soul Spirit she had kept in reserve.

As the name suggested, Indomitable Soul Spirits were rebellious by nature and would rather die than fuse with a Soul Master.

Every Indomitable Soul Spirit had a record of bursting a Soul Master's mental sea. They were a hundred times more dangerous than ordinary Soul Spirits.

She hadn't brought one out at first because she didn't want An Lan to take that risk for no reason.

The Sprite Dragon was the best choice she had painstakingly selected for An Lan. It was one of the Leng Family's most prized Soul Spirit reserves.

In her view, no matter what Martial Soul An Lan awakened, the Sprite Dragon would suit him perfectly. She hadn't expected him to reject even that.

And, as it happened, the Indomitable Soul Spirit she had kept in reserve was a perfect match for An Lan's demands.

The hopeful look in her young disciple's eyes struck Le Lingzhao right in the heart.

She glanced at Leng Qingning, whose brows were tightly knit, and immediately spoke up. "Isn't little An Lan just looking for a Soul Spirit that can provide a boosting Soul Skill, has a mental attribute, isn't afraid of bloodline suppression, and comes with its own domain? What's the big deal? Just give it to him."

Seeing Le Lingzhao making trouble for her, Leng Qingning helplessly rubbed her temples. "Do you want to listen to what you're saying?"

An Lan was a little embarrassed, too. He hadn't thought much of his demands while listing them, but hearing them all together, they really were pretty outrageous.

Did a Soul Spirit like that even exist on the continent?

Leng Qingning sighed ruefully, trying to change An Lan's mind. "My disciple, why not think it over? I think the Sprite Dragon is excellent. Its bloodline and potential are both top-tier, and it meets your requirements in almost every way."

"No." Seeing a chance to get what he wanted, An Lan shook his head like a rattle, utterly resolute.

Le Lingzhao immediately sensed something was wrong.

Judging by Leng Qingning's reaction, she clearly had a Soul Spirit like that.

She cared about An Lan no less than Le Lingzhao did. If Leng Qingning had a treasure like this, she'd never keep it hidden instead of bringing it out for An Lan.

There could be only one reason for her hesitation—it was extremely dangerous!

"Indomitable Soul Spirit!"

The words exploded in Le Lingzhao's mind.

At that thought, she couldn't sit still. She immediately joined forces with Leng Qingning and gently coaxed him. "Good disciple, your second master thinks the Sprite Dragon is wonderful, too. It has potential and looks—why don't we just pick it?"

Her gaze met Leng Qingning's, and they came to an understanding in an instant.

With An Lan's powerful Martial Soul and the two of them backing him, he could reach the continent's peak with any one of these Soul Spirits.

Indomitable Soul Spirits were too risky. There was no need to take that chance.