Spirit Ascension Platform

"Tell me, Gu You, are you willing to become my personal disciple?"

Seeing the shock in Gu You's eyes, Leng Yaozhu smiled and said those words.

Bai Haoze and Bai Zhicen, who had come along with Leng Yaozhu, exchanged a glance and tactfully withdrew.

"I am!"

Gu You agreed without the slightest hesitation.

Heaven Phoenix Titled Douluo had personally come to meet him. If he refused, that would really be not knowing what was good for him.

Besides, agreeing brought endless benefits—a Super Douluo would be protecting his path.

From now on, his journey as a soul master would surely be smooth and unobstructed!

"From today onward, you are my, Leng Yaozhu's, personal disciple. There's no need for any formal apprenticeship ceremony."

The weight hanging over Leng Yaozhu's heart finally fell away. The matter of taking Gu You as her disciple was now settled, and no one could change it.

"Teacher, my tested spiritual power is at the Spirit Sea Realm. I want to fuse with a thousand-year-level Indomitable Soul Spirit. With the strength of my spiritual power, my two martial souls can be cultivated at the same time, but I choose Creation Heaven Phoenix as my main martial soul."

Gu You continued. From the moment he called her teacher, Leng Yaozhu could be considered completely tied to him.

What? His tested spiritual power was at the Spirit Sea Realm?

Leng Yaozhu wondered if she had misheard. Innate Spirit Sea Realm spiritual power—was her disciple sure he wasn't fooling her?

She released part of her spiritual power, deciding to examine him.

Countless transparent threads surged toward Gu You.

The next moment, Gu You felt a strange energy envelop his mind, but it quickly vanished.

It really was true. What kind of monster was this?

After finishing her examination, Leng Yaozhu sucked in a breath of cold air. With her spiritual power newly at the Spirit Domain Realm, she had no problem examining spiritual power below the Spirit Abyss Realm.

Gu You's spiritual state was precisely the manifestation of a mind like an ocean, boundless as a vast sea.

This was a little too terrifying. It was abnormal. He was definitely the soul scholar with the best tested spiritual power in the Spirit Transmission Pagoda in ten thousand years. Even those who possessed spiritual martial souls could not compare.

Could it be because of those golden eyes?

Leng Yaozhu studied Gu You's eyes. They were a brilliant, molten-lava gold. She had noticed them before in Gu You's photograph.

Heterochromatic pupils did not surprise her. After all, there were plenty of people with unusual pupils on the continent, and she herself had them too, only hers were red, so she had not paid much attention.

But now, after staring directly at the Golden Pupils for a while, she could sense an inexplicable pressure. Perhaps there really was something strange about them.

This examination left Leng Yaozhu unsure how to continue. After thinking it over, she said, "With your current level of spiritual power, an Indomitable Soul Spirit is a good choice, and it is enough to support your cultivation of twin martial souls. Come with me. We'll fuse the soul spirit."

"Then I'll trouble you, Teacher."

As soon as Gu You heard they were going to fuse the soul spirit, he could hardly wait.

Following Leng Yaozhu, Gu You rode an elevator that kept descending.

"Can you tell Teacher why you chose Creation Heaven Phoenix as your main martial soul? The destructive power of the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon is extremely powerful. I still haven't seen your second martial soul, so I can't judge whether it's suitable to be your main martial soul."

During the elevator's descent, Leng Yaozhu asked him.

Although Gu You's spiritual power was sufficient to support the cultivation of twin martial souls, he still had to choose a main martial soul. Concealing a secondary martial soul had always been essential for hiding one's strength and methods.

"Teacher, to the outside world, you are Heaven Phoenix Titled Douluo. As your disciple, I naturally have to cultivate a martial soul related to the phoenix and bring glory to you. I also don't plan to hide the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon. This time, I'll fuse a first soul spirit with both of them. As for appearances, my choice will always be to focus on Creation Heaven Phoenix."

Gu You explained in response.

Hearing his explanation, Leng Yaozhu gave a soft laugh. "That reason does please Teacher quite a bit."

"But I don't understand your Creation Heaven Phoenix. Before you fuse the soul spirit later, release it for me to see."

"All right, Teacher."

Gu You nodded.

When the elevator doors opened, what entered his view was a dim metal corridor.

"I'll take you into the Spirit Ascension Platform in a moment. As for Indomitable Soul Spirits, the cost of storing them individually is far too great, so they can only be placed inside the Spirit Ascension Platform..."

Gu You followed Leng Yaozhu forward. Along the way, she spoke a few words from time to time.

Afterward, the lights in the metal corridor gradually turned on until everything was brightly illuminated, and they entered a spacious hall.

There were several staff members in the hall. Behind them were passageways made of metal structures.

Leng Yaozhu ignored the staff. Under the shocked gazes of everyone present, she brought Gu You toward one of the corridors.

The corridor was very long, but at the end was a metal door.

Leng Yaozhu took out a peculiarly styled platinum card and swiped it against the door, opening it.

Gu You saw the scene inside.

Calling the interior an underground world would not be an exaggeration at all.

Various instruments were arranged there, the most numerous among them being soul-guided liquid screens. Reflected on the screens were scene after scene of a forest.

A dozen or so staff members were operating and debugging the equipment.

"I'm taking this child into the Spirit Ascension Platform to fuse with an Indomitable Soul Spirit. With my cultivation, I can only enter the High-Level Spirit Ascension Platform. But I'll suppress my cultivation, so entering the intermediate level isn't too much, is it?"

Leng Yaozhu pointed at Gu You and spoke to the utterly baffled staff member who had come forward to receive them.

The staff member broke out in a cold sweat under Leng Yaozhu's question. Not just him—everyone present was practically drenched.

Who here didn't know Heaven Phoenix Titled Douluo? As members of the Spirit Transmission Pagoda, even if they had never seen her in person, they had seen her photo.

Why had there been no news at all that Heaven Phoenix Titled Douluo was personally visiting the East Sea Spirit Transmission Pagoda? If they failed to receive her properly, they were in for real suffering.

"As the deputy pagoda master commands!"

All the staff members present bowed respectfully.

"Go prepare. Two cabins for the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform."

Leng Yaozhu waved her hand, and the leading reception staff member withdrew.

"Do you know about the Spirit Ascension Platform?"

She asked Gu You.

That question stumped Gu You. If he said he knew, then he knew—but how was a six-year-old orphan supposed to know that?

Forget it. He'd play dumb first.

Seeing Gu You's "confused" expression, Leng Yaozhu gave a simple explanation.

"The Spirit Ascension Platform can be understood as a virtual world, created by the Spirit Transmission Pagoda using a great deal of spatial technology. Before entering, the first thing you need to note is that the Spirit Ascension Platform is not a completely virtual world."

"Only after you experience it will you understand how extraordinary the Spirit Ascension Platform is. The reason it isn't completely virtual is that injuries suffered inside will produce mental feedback, amounting to thirty percent of real mental pain."

At this point, Leng Yaozhu seemed to think of something else, and her fiery red eyes lit up.

"Also, killing soul beasts inside will grant spirit ascension energy equal to one-tenth of the corresponding soul beast's age, which can be used to increase your soul spirit's age. That reminds me—you can choose to fuse with a thousand-year Indomitable Soul Spirit now, and your teacher will take you through the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform and slaughter everything, directly raising your Indomitable Soul Spirit to ten thousand years."

"But after that, your second martial soul won't be able to fuse with a soul spirit. What do you think? Will you choose one ten-thousand-year-level Indomitable Soul Spirit, or two thousand-year Indomitable Soul Spirits?"