Xu Yuan's Second Soul Spirit

"What? You're asking for leave again?" Shen Yi looked at Xu Yuan.

She felt that Xu Yuan was taking leave a little too frequently.

Last time was understandable. He had merely gone to Heaven Dou City and returned quickly.

But this time, Xu Yuan actually said he might need to take a week, or even two weeks, off.

And the timing wasn't even fixed!

How could she possibly tolerate that?

He had been enrolled for less than half a year.

The academy did have regular breaks, but he was still taking leave far too often.

"Yes, I need to fuse with a new Soul Spirit." Xu Yuan only revealed the general reason.

Saying that he was fusing with a new Soul Spirit still left plenty of room for interpretation.

After all, even if he used his Brain Martial Soul, his brain would not manifest externally. With two Purple Soul Rings forming outside his body and the Five Elements Spear Spirit in his hand, no one could tell that he was using his Brain Martial Soul.

That would not expose the fact that he possessed Twin Martial Souls.

"Fusing with a new Soul Spirit? Aren't you—"

Shen Yi's first thought was that Xu Yuan had broken through Level 20 and needed a second Soul Ring.

Then came her second thought: why was Xu Yuan not having his second Soul Ring bestowed by his previous Soul Spirit?

Then she widened her eyes and stared at Xu Yuan.

"If I remember correctly, your first Soul Spirit was a Thousand Year Soul Spirit, wasn't it?" Shen Yi looked at him as though she were looking at a monster.

Xu Yuan nodded.

"That's right, but I have a special plan for my cultivation path. I need to fuse with a second Soul Spirit."

"Has your Spiritual Power broken through to the Spirit Sea Realm?" Shen Yi wanted to confirm her guess.

Xu Yuan nodded again.

Shen Yi could no longer describe how she felt.

Good heavens!

What kind of monster was this?

"Does your Martial Soul have a Mental Attribute?" The moment Shen Yi said it, she felt that she had asked a pointless question.

Of course. How could a Martial Soul that controlled elements possibly lack a Mental Attribute?

It was simply that few people had ever considered this aspect of a Weapon Soul like the Heaven Origin Brush.

Now, it seemed that the many Pavilion Elders of Sea God Pavilion had overlooked a rather important point.

Its Mental Attribute was exceptionally strong.

"I understand. Return to the academy as soon as possible. In half a month, you'll have been enrolled for half a year, and there will be an assessment. Don't miss it."

Xu Yuan smiled. Sure enough, teachers everywhere were rather tolerant of good students.

Sea God Pavilion.

After hearing Shen Yi's report, Zhuo Shi immediately cried out that they had been careless.

"Xu Zhi and his wife both possessed extremely poor Martial Soul talents. For Xu Yuan to be such a prodigy, he must have undergone an enormous mutation. We previously thought that his mutation had combined his parents' two Martial Souls, but now it seems that his greatest mutation lies in his Spiritual Power."

Zhuo Shi said to Shen Yi, "If he can return in half a month, add a Spiritual Power assessment to the evaluation."

"Yes, Teacher."

Heaven Dou City.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk."

Zhen Hua and Mu Ye circled Xu Yuan and examined him closely several times, continually clicking their tongues in amazement.

In a year and a half, his Spiritual Power had broken through five hundred points and reached the Spirit Sea Realm.

There was no record of such a thing anywhere on the entire continent.

In other words, Xu Yuan had broken the continent's record.

"When you had just awakened, you already had eighty-one points of Spiritual Power. I should have known then that your innate Spiritual Power talent was absurdly strong." Mu Ye marveled.

He knew that the characteristics of Xu Yuan's brain lay in enhancing his learning and thinking abilities. Its effect on increasing Spiritual Power was relatively ordinary.

Such an astonishing rate of growth could only mean that Xu Yuan himself was also extraordinarily gifted in Spiritual Power.

The Brain Martial Soul alone could not possibly account for such an exaggerated result.

"Teacher, Martial Uncle, my Spiritual Power really has broken through to the Spirit Sea Realm. Hurry up and take out that Soul Spirit for me." Xu Yuan was growing impatient as well.

Zhen Hua smiled and took a Soul Spirit Ball from his Storage Soul Guidance Device.

Xu Yuan accepted the Soul Spirit Ball he handed over and observed the Soul Spirit inside through its transparent sphere.

It was a ghost-like Soul Spirit with an entirely illusory body. It was dark blue all over, with a faint purple glow mixed into the blue. It was called a Dream Demon, a Mental Attribute Soul Beast in a purely Spirit Body form.

This Dream Demon was a Soul Spirit made from a genuine Soul Beast. Even the species of Soul Beast itself was extremely rare, let alone one made from an actual Soul Beast. Its value was self-evident; among the Soul Spirits collected by the Spirit Pagoda, it could be ranked among the finest.

"This Dream Demon is only five hundred years old. You should have an easy time absorbing it. You can attach both Soul Rings directly as well, and any missing years can be made up at the Spirit Ascension Platform later."

Xu Yuan nodded, fully agreeing with his Martial Uncle.

It was indeed the safest approach.

If the Dream Demon were a thousand years old, Xu Yuan was not worried that his Spiritual Power would be unable to bear it. However, his body would have to withstand three thousand-year Soul Rings at once, which would put him under considerable pressure.

If it were any older, with several thousand years of cultivation, Xu Yuan would have to give up on it outright.

Inside the Soul Spirit Ball, the Dream Demon glared with its large eyes. Its gaze seemed to burn with rage. Having been made into a Soul Spirit, it held no goodwill toward human Soul Masters.

Its eye sockets were yellow, its eyeballs red, and its pupils black. With its large eyes glaring like that, it actually looked rather cute.

"This little fellow doesn't seem willing to let you fuse with it." Zhen Hua noticed that as well.

Xu Yuan did not care.

"Martial Uncle, don't worry. The moment a Soul Spirit is created, it means that it has already acknowledged the arrangement." No matter what method was used, at the instant it became a Soul Spirit, the Soul Beast had accepted the contract.

At that point, the Soul Master only needed to fuse with it.

Of course, the Soul Spirit could still resist at this stage and cause the fusion to fail. But without a doubt, as long as the Soul Master was strong enough to suppress the Soul Spirit, the fusion could succeed.

Even so, Xu Yuan did not want his Soul Spirit to be of a different mind from him.

When they fused, he would have a little talk with this Dream Demon as well.

After opening the Soul Spirit Ball, Xu Yuan's Spiritual Power immediately began to fuse with the Dream Demon.

He simply held the empty Soul Spirit Ball, sat cross-legged, and closed his eyes.

Meditation Space.

The Dream Demon vented its fury in every direction. Strange purple flames, like burning Spiritual Power, blazed within Xu Yuan's Meditation Space.

As his Spiritual Power, Soul Power, and Bloodline Power circulated, Xu Yuan remained perfectly calm and suffered no harm.

"I know that the process of being made into a Soul Spirit was painful for you, but are you really willing to remain sealed away forever, imprisoned in a tiny Soul Spirit Ball and never see the light of day again?"

"Hmph~~~" A voice entered Xu Yuan's consciousness through Spiritual Power.

Xu Yuan was startled as well.

This little thing had Wisdom?

He had previously only thought that this Dream Demon possessed considerable spirituality, capable of anger and emotions, but that sound just now seemed to be more than mere spirituality.

"Hmph, hmph, hmph~~~"

The Dream Demon cried out again. Xu Yuan could barely judge from its emotions that it was still dissatisfied, with anger bottled up inside.

Xu Yuan's Spiritual Power began to exert force, pinning the little Dream Demon down and imprisoning it within the Meditation Space.

"Do you feel it? The gap between our strength is far too great. You cannot escape my control." Xu Yuan demonstrated his overwhelming strength.

"Hmph, hmph!"