Your Mechanics Are Good, My Stats Are Strong.

"Huo Yuhao..."

Gu You looked at the colorful murals and murmured.

The murals simply recorded the story of Ice Spirit Douluo, a peerless genius of his generation, but he paid special attention to the mural on the dome.

It depicted eyes—Huo Yuhao's martial soul, Spirit Eyes.

He did not know why, but the Spirit Eyes mural gave him an eerie feeling, as if it were... watching him?

"What's wrong?"

Bai Haoze's voice came from up ahead.

"Nothing."

Gu You answered, cast one last look at the Spirit Eyes mural, and quickly caught up.

He had a premonition that something had set its sights on him.

As for what it was, he had no idea.

He could only hope the other party bore him no hostility. Right now, he was still too weak and had no ability to resist.

After that, Gu You followed Bai Haoze out of the first-floor hall and into a corridor.

At the end of the corridor was an elevator with a black symbol on it.

They took the elevator, and when the doors opened with a "ding," the two walked for another half a minute before arriving at a metal room.

Many soul tools were arranged inside the room, all of which seemed to be for testing soul masters.

"Come on, lie down on this bed."

Bai Haoze motioned for Gu You to lie on a metal bed.

Beside the metal bed was a soul tool with an electronic screen, and several soul-tool wires of different colors connected the device to a black helmet at the head of the bed.

Why did this look so much like something used for electrotherapy?

Gu You thought about it for a moment, but lay down anyway.

"Don't be nervous later. Relax your whole body. During the spiritual power test, you'll feel a slight dizziness. That's normal."

After saying this, Bai Haoze placed the black helmet over Gu You's head, then pressed the red button on the device beside him.

The spiritual power test began!

A faint humming sounded from the black helmet. Bai Haoze stared fixedly at the electronic screen, where numbers began to jump continuously.

26, 50...

So fast.

Just from the initial jumps, Bai Haoze's face already showed surprise.

In the blink of an eye, the number had reached over a hundred, with no sign of stopping.

This had already reached the early stage of the Spirit Connection Realm.

Bai Haoze rubbed his eyes to make sure he had not seen wrong.

What kind of monster was this?!

He remembered that when he first fused with his first soul spirit, he had been six years old, and at the time, his tested spiritual power had only been thirty-four. Even that had counted as relatively high among his peers.

Gu You's spiritual power was probably at least two or three hundred.

As expected of the talent the deputy tower master wanted to recruit!

His heart was excited, and his hands were trembling.

Right now, Bai Haoze only wanted to know one thing: exactly how much spiritual power Gu You had.

The numbers were still jumping.

168, 246, 300...

The Spirit Connection Realm was nearing the peak of the high stage.

Bai Haoze felt that he might need to sit down. Not because his legs had gone weak, but because his brain was having a little trouble keeping up.

The numbers jumped like a slot machine in a casino, each roll carrying a kind of arrogant "I'm not stopping, damn it" attitude.

Only when it reached five hundred did the number on the electronic screen stop jumping.

But it seemed that the numbers stopping was not actually a problem with the numbers themselves.

The soul tool supporting the electronic screen was now constantly emitting a buzzing current, while the screen flickered between glitches and normal display.

Bai Haoze leaned closer to the screen and narrowed his eyes. He absolutely refused to believe the number was only 500, but the number simply would not rise.

"Damn it, go up! Why aren't you going up?"

The screen flickered, then continued to die there, as if rolling its eyes.

Bai Haoze looked left and right. Gu You was still lying on the bed, and there was no one else around.

He withdrew his gaze and shook the electronic screen with both hands.

"Bzzzz—"

The buzzing crackle of electricity rang out, and the number on the screen jumped from five hundred to five hundred and three.

There was hope!

Bai Haoze's eyes lit up, and he increased the force of his shaking.

The numbers on the screen began to surge wildly. Five hundred and eighty, six hundred...

The numbers shot upward like a wild dog off its leash, and the smile on Bai Haoze's face grew wider and wider.

He would witness the birth of the next Sky-Prop Douluo, Yun Ming!

"Yes! That's it! Keep rising! Keep—"

Boom!!!

A deafening, jumbled roar rang out.

The soul device exploded.

After the explosion, clouds of black smoke sprayed from the gaps in the instrument's back cover.

Bai Haoze stood where he was, revealing a pitch-black face. He remained in the posture of holding the instrument with both hands, the smile on his face not yet withdrawn in time.

When Gu You heard the explosion, how could he dare keep lying on the bed? He hurriedly got up, the black helmet still fastened over his head.

What had happened?

"Are you all right?"

The first thing Gu You saw was Bai Haoze smoking with black fumes, so he called out tentatively.

"Cough, cough! Just pretend nothing happened."

Bai Haoze coughed out several mouthfuls of black smoke. As a Soul Sage-level powerhouse, an explosion of this degree could not harm his body in any way, but he had truly made a fool of himself.

Gu You took off the helmet. "The instrument broke?"

"The test is done. It's better that this piece of scrap metal broke. Six hundred it is."

Bai Haoze said irritably. This garbage instrument—next time he saw one, he would dismantle it on sight.

He looked at Gu You and continued.

"Your innate spiritual power is at the Spirit Sea Realm. A genius of a generation, a monster among monsters."

Innate Spirit Sea Realm?

Gu You sucked in a breath of cold air.

His martial soul had nothing to do with the spirit, so how could his innate spiritual power be so high? Was this really right?

Could it be that his soul, as a transmigrator, had exerted itself? Or was it because of his Golden Pupils?

But if he were to say he was shocked, there actually wasn't much of it. He was a transmigrator; if he did not have some special talent, then he would really be letting down the title of transmigrator.

Normally speaking, from the beginning of one origin to the renewal of all phenomena, spiritual power at the Spirit Origin Realm could fuse with a hundred-year soul spirit. Upon reaching the Spirit Connection Realm, when one arrived at the state where mind and spirit communicated and thought could reach its target, one could bear two hundred-year soul spirits or one thousand-year soul spirit.

The Spirit Sea Realm was even more abnormal. With the mind like a sea, vast and boundless, one could bear up to five hundred-year soul spirits, or three purple soul spirits, or one black soul spirit.

In other words, relying on his current spiritual power, Gu You could fuse with a ten-thousand-year soul spirit!

"Senior Spirit Envoy, with my spiritual power, can I attempt to fuse with the ten-thousand-year soul spirit inside my pagoda?"

Gu You asked Bai Haoze. He wanted to directly attempt to fuse with a ten-thousand-year soul spirit. If his first soul skill was ten-thousand-year, it was simply unimaginable. Among geniuses of the same generation, surely no one would dare argue against him.

Even so-called bloodline suppression, when faced with an amplification several times greater, would it not still be like an ant?

Your mechanics are good? Sorry, my stats are strong.

"For the sake of your safety, a thousand-year one is still better," Bai Haoze said after thinking for a moment. "A thousand-year one isn't necessarily worse than a ten-thousand-year one. You can try an Indomitable Soul Spirit."

"As for what an Indomitable Soul Spirit is, you may not understand yet. Our predecessors in the Spirit Transmission Pagoda stored away large numbers of soul spirits through the generations. Among these stored soul spirits, not every soul spirit can be fused with by a soul master. It was like this in ancient times, and it is still like this now."

"These soul spirits are called Indomitable Soul Spirits. They are all extremely special and powerful. Once a soul master tries to forcibly fuse with them, a life-threatening situation will occur."