Douluo Continent, Fasnuo Province, Notting City.
Inside the reception room on the first floor of Spirit Hall.
"Lin Mo, these are the Spirit proof and the work-study student certificate you requested."
The young man, dressed in the uniform of a Spirit Hall deacon, handed over the two documents he had prepared in advance.
His eyes were filled with undisguised envy as he looked at the child.
"Many thanks, Great Spirit Master Su Yuntao." Lin Mo reached out to take the documents, his heart filled with anticipation.
After flipping through them to verify that the information recorded was correct, he carefully tucked them away.
"I have troubled you, Great Spirit Master Su Yuntao."
Lin Mo thanked Su Yuntao once more.
Su Yuntao waved his hand dismissively.
Without lingering any further, Lin Mo turned, pushed open the door to the reception room, and left Spirit Hall.
The sunlight outside was somewhat blinding.
Lin Mo squinted, recalled the map in his mind, and began walking toward Notting Academy.
Not long after Lin Mo left the room, Sisi, the female companion beside Su Yuntao, noticed something off about him and asked:
"Yuntao, what's wrong? You seem to hold this child named Lin Mo in high regard."
"That goes without saying."
Su Yuntao said listlessly, "Do you remember what I mentioned to you before?
A while back, when I went to the orphanage to help the children of age awaken their spirits, I happened to encounter another special genius who awakened with Innate Full Spirit Power..."
Hearing this, Sisi's eyes lit up: "Are you saying this child is the one? What is his spirit, then?
It couldn't be another trash spirit like Blue Silver Grass, could it?"
"That's not it."
Su Yuntao shook his head, a look of confusion appearing in his eyes:
"His spirit should be a mutated beast spirit, but I can't determine exactly what it is..."
As he spoke, he couldn't help but recall the scene from a month ago when he awakened Lin Mo's spirit at the Notting Orphanage.
The situation during Lin Mo's awakening was extremely peculiar.
The scene during his awakening did not resemble that of a typical beast spirit master, where a phantom of the spirit appears behind them, nor did it resemble a tool spirit master, where the spirit manifests directly in their hands.
Instead, his entire body had been glowing.
If he hadn't personally tested that Lin Mo possessed Innate Full Spirit Power, he would have started to suspect that Lin Mo had no spirit at all due to a mutation.
He had presided over spirit awakening ceremonies for many children, but this was the first time he had encountered such a bizarre situation.
"However, the quality of his spirit should not be weak," Su Yuntao added.
"That's a given."
Sisi pursed her lips, her tone filled with justifiable envy: "That is Innate Full Spirit Power, after all; it's far stronger than the level two or three innate spirit power you or I have."
But as she said this, a hint of regret crept into her tone: "It's a pity that this kid came from a state-run orphanage."
Spirit Hall and the two great empires had long ago reached an agreement: Spirit Hall could recruit talent directly from the two empires, but this did not include those with such special backgrounds who were technically affiliated with the state.
A child like Lin Mo, who possessed such great talent, could not be recruited by Spirit Hall immediately upon awakening his spirit, as the empire would not allow it.
"Indeed." A note of regret also entered Su Yuntao's tone.
If he could have recommended a genius with Innate Full Spirit Power to join Spirit Hall, it would have been highly beneficial for his future promotion.
Spirit Hall had always been generous with rewards for deacons who discovered talent, let alone a genius of the Innate Full Spirit Power level.
It was just a pity that the imperial officials had long guarded against this, establishing that damned agreement.
This left Su Yuntao feeling particularly frustrated.
The feeling of watching a golden opportunity slip through his fingers was truly unbearable!
While Su Yuntao was feeling regretful, Lin Mo, who was currently heading toward Notting Academy, was in an exceptionally good mood.
His name was Lin Mo, and he was an orphan.
He was also a transmigrator.
In his previous life, he had unfortunately failed in a head-on collision with the Great Fortune.
After experiencing a period of chaos, he opened his eyes to find that he had transmigrated into this world known as the Douluo Continent.
At the age of three, he had begun to gradually awaken the memories of his past life.
After clarifying the cause and effect of what had happened to him, Lin Mo calmly accepted reality.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
He then waited patiently for the day of the Spirit Awakening.
A month ago, Su Yuntao represented Spirit Hall and came to Notting Orphanage to hold a Spirit Awakening ceremony for the children of age.
Lin Mo was the only one among them to awaken spirit power, and it was the extremely rare innate full spirit power at that.
Su Yuntao naturally had thoughts of recruiting him into Spirit Hall, but the Heaven Dou Empire officials had long since made an agreement with Spirit Hall.
Even if Spirit Hall truly wanted to recruit children who grew up in state-funded orphanages, they had to wait at least until the children finished their studies at the primary academy and possessed a certain level of independent judgment.
Moreover, orphans from Notting Orphanage who awakened spirit power were eligible to enter Notting Academy as work-study students.
Ultimately, the imperial officials did not want to sit by and watch Spirit Hall recruit talent so unscrupulously.
As for whether he could join Spirit Hall, Lin Mo himself was quite indifferent.
His Body Spirit was too unique!
Even within Spirit Hall, there was a high probability they didn't have what he wanted; it would be a different story if it were the Body Sect from ten thousand years later.
Full-body Body Spirit!
This was the powerful Body Spirit Lin Mo had awakened thanks to his innate full spirit power, but it was a pity he was born in the wrong era!
The moment Lin Mo figured out what his spirit was, his mood was complicated.
On one hand, he was excited to have awakened a powerful spirit, yet on the other, he felt helpless that research into Body Spirits in this era was practically zero.
Compared to other conventional spirits, the greatest advantage of a Body Spirit was its ability to undergo a second awakening, or even a more powerful third awakening!
However, the secret Body Sect techniques capable of stabilizing a second awakening were held by the Body Sect, which would only appear ten thousand years later.
This was the reason Lin Mo had been sighing for the past month about being born in the wrong era.
If this were ten thousand years later, with his innate full spirit power and full-body Body Spirit talent, as long as he could join the Body Sect, he would undoubtedly be of sect-leader caliber!
Unfortunately... born at the wrong time!
Before a Body Spirit completes its second awakening, the bonuses it provides to the host are inferior to conventional top-tier spirits.
Only after completing the second awakening can it fully surpass them.
But fortunately, Lin Mo was a transmigrator and possessed advantages different from others!
If heaven did not give birth to me, Lin Mo, the ages of Douluo would be as long as the night!
System, activate!
Unlike conventional Body Spirits, his Body Spirit came with an additional innate spirit talent called Inversion of Three upon awakening.
As a veteran anime enthusiast, Lin Mo was naturally very clear about what Inversion of Three was.
Inversion of Three was the legacy technique of the Three-One Sect from The Outcast.
It would be no exaggeration to call it the signature skill of the Three-One Sect.
Follow the flow to avoid the calamities of time, reverse the flow to attain the primordial power!
The ancestors of the Three-One Sect believed that after a person is born, the innate qi within their body manifests into the four limbs and hundred skeletons.
If one could reverse-refine their own limbs back into innate qi, they could ascend to immortality, and thus they created the Inversion of Three technique.
The technique consists of three stages in total.
The first stage involves filling the entire body with true qi to "qi-ify" the surface skin and flesh. Those who master this not only possess powerful physical attributes and the strength of dragons and tigers in every movement, but also gain extremely high recovery capabilities.
The second stage can qi-ify the tendons, bones, internal organs, and blood, allowing one to repair injuries by circulating qi.
The third stage is a theoretical realm within the Inversion of Three.
The Three-One Sect members believed that as long as one reached the third stage, they could achieve perfect qi-ification, possess heaven-defying abilities, and subsequently ascend to immortality.
Lin Mo, who had just awakened the Inversion of Three talent, was currently at the initial stage of the first level: qi-ifying the skin and flesh.
Of course, being in the Douluo Continent, he naturally had no true qi, so the power used for qi-ifying his skin and flesh was, of course, his spirit power.
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