First Soul Spirit Chosen (Please Bookmark!!!)

Xu Shengqun knew his nephew fairly well.

Since he had said it, there had to be a reason.

He also wanted to hear why Xu Yuan felt manifestation abilities did not suit him and why he did not want to absorb a Vine Soul Spirit.

"My Heaven Origin Brush Martial Soul did mutate with some special abilities. I've been exploring them these past few days. In its Heaven Origin Brush form, my Soul Power can merge with the surrounding Heaven and Earth Origin Qi through the brush, condensing it into ink for attacks. If I'm going to develop my Martial Soul, I think this should be the main direction. A combat system based on manifesting Soul Beasts doesn't suit me."

Xu Shengqun froze.

His attention had focused on one particular term Xu Yuan had used.

"Heaven Origin Brush form?" He stepped forward, grabbed Xu Yuan by the shoulders, and shook him. "Your Heaven Origin Brush can switch forms?"

Xu Yuan nodded, summoning his Heaven Origin Brush Martial Soul and transforming it into its Pen Spear form.

When he saw the Heaven Origin Brush in Xu Yuan's hand swiftly turn into a Pen Spear, Xu Shengqun immediately became excited.

A spear!

Now that was something he knew.

After carefully examining the Heaven Origin Brush-Spear, Xu Shengqun quickly noticed that special aura of intent.

"Your spear form comes with Spear Intent?"

Xu Yuan nodded and explained, "That's right. I've gotten a rough sense of this Spear Intent over the past few days. It charges forward without hesitation, crushing all obstacles in its path, drawing upon the Power of Heaven and Earth through a grand and righteous path to suppress everything!"

Xu Shengqun nodded repeatedly.

"So this is the strength of a mutated Martial Soul."

Even though the result of the mutation was only Innate Soul Power Level 7, its foundation had undoubtedly reached the baseline of a top-tier Martial Soul. If he chose his Soul Spirit well and absorbed some Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, raising this Heaven Origin Brush-Spear to a top-tier Martial Soul would not be difficult at all.

It was not only the Brain Martial Soul that had room to grow. Even this Heaven Origin Brush had a foreseeable future of improvement.

"Your Heaven Origin Brush should be a fusion of your parents' two Martial Souls, a mutation that occurred through fusion. That's exceedingly rare across the entire continent. You can regard your Martial Soul as having been born in the state of a Martial Soul Fusion Skill," Xu Shengqun marveled.

Xu Yuan's father, Xu Zhi, was a researcher with outstanding research abilities. Aside from providing Xu Shengqun with cultivation advice and analyses regarding Soul Spirit choices, Xu Zhi had also influenced Xu Shengqun in many ways through their usual exchanges, such as in research.

Xu Shengqun was not a researcher, but he possessed a fairly high level of understanding when it came to Martial Souls and the analysis of certain foundational theories.

"If that really is the case, then your Martial Soul is extraordinary." After giving it some thought, Xu Shengqun came to that assessment. "Of course, whether it truly is as I suspect will depend on how your Martial Soul changes in the future."

Xu Yuan did not pay much attention to that.

He had actually analyzed his own Martial Soul as well.

It was simply difficult to draw any real conclusions before he had explored it thoroughly.

Everything would depend on the Martial Soul's subsequent abilities.

What excited Xu Shengqun most at that moment was still the form of Xu Yuan's Heaven Origin Brush-Spear.

That meant Xu Yuan could inherit his spear techniques.

A Spear Intent that charged forward without hesitation and crushed all obstacles in its path... It did have a certain degree of compatibility with his Heavenly Saint Piercing Void Spear Intent.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him.

"Xiao Yuan, I think I've suddenly thought of a Soul Spirit that should suit you perfectly."

As he spoke, Xu Shengqun smiled, unable to keep himself from sighing.

"Fate. This can only be called fate."

Xu Yuan was somewhat confused and looked questioningly at his uncle.

After sighing for a while, Xu Shengqun came back to his senses. Looking at Xu Yuan, he said with a smile, "Xiao Yuan, I can settle on your first Soul Spirit now. It will definitely be the Soul Spirit most suited to you."

"Uncle, what Soul Spirit is it?" Xu Yuan pressed.

He did not want his uncle to keep him in suspense over this.

After all, some of the factors he had considered were things he truly had no way to explain to Xu Shengqun, so there might have been some discrepancies.

Unable to do anything about Xu Yuan, Xu Shengqun told him about that Soul Spirit.

"Do you know why your father was able to become deputy director?"

Xu Yuan shook his head.

"Because of the research project your father worked on. He researched the Soul Spirit Cultivation Method."

The Soul Spirit Cultivation Method?

Upon hearing the name, Xu Yuan's first reaction was that the core of this project was to allow Soul Spirits to cultivate.

But Xu Shengqun's explanation quickly corrected that assumption.

"Don't interpret it literally. The Soul Spirit Cultivation Method your father researched wasn't a method for Soul Spirits to cultivate—or rather, that wasn't its goal." Xu Shengqun smiled, remembering that he had once misunderstood it as well.

"The Soul Spirit Cultivation Method is essentially about using Soul Spirits to compensate for Martial Souls and assist Soul Masters in cultivation."

Borrowing the false to cultivate the true?

After hearing his uncle's explanation, that was Xu Yuan's first thought.

Was a Martial Soul too poor for cultivation? Then use a Soul Spirit to cultivate instead.

"Unfortunately, this project could never be completed. But back then, your father was—ah, quite eloquent, and with the prospects of the project if it succeeded, the Spirit Pagoda approved it."

"After layer upon layer of research, they ultimately disproved it."

Xu Yuan stared at Xu Shengqun, dumbfounded.

Having just listened to Xu Shengqun introduce the method, he had already begun imagining the benefits if the project was close to completion or showed promise of succeeding. He had not expected Xu Shengqun to immediately say it had been disproved.

This...

"There was no helping it. The core of the project was actually to allow ordinary people who had not reached Level 10, or even had no Soul Power at all, to contract Soul Spirits in advance. Your father had ideas back then, and they were quite reasonable, which was why he earned the recognition of the Spirit Pagoda's upper ranks."

"But the more they researched it, the more they proved from every angle that it could not be achieved. By a fortunate coincidence, though, his research greatly aided the technological breakthrough that raised Soul Spirit age limits—the Spirit Ascension Platform."

"Besides that, they had another result, which was also the newest branch of Soul Spirits."

Xu Yuan was filled with anticipation.

This should be the first Soul Spirit his uncle had said suited him.

"This branch can be called Metal Soul Spirits. It is a type of Artificial Soul Spirit, not a Soul Spirit created by replicating the genes of any Soul Beast, but one formed entirely by using soul guidance technology to transform metal into a Soul Spirit."

When Xu Yuan heard "Metal Soul Spirit," he felt it sounded familiar.

After thinking carefully, he suddenly realized.

Wasn't this Xie Xie's first Soul Spirit in the original work?

"The technology behind Metal Soul Spirits is actually incomplete. The Spirit Pagoda has not even invested much in this area, producing only a dozen or so Metal Soul Spirits, most of which are merely ten-year Soul Spirits."

"Of course, I'm not talking about those Soul Spirits. I mean the one your father personally participated in researching. It is a hundred-year Soul Spirit. What makes it different is that it is not only a Metal Soul Spirit, but a Soul Spirit formed from metal that was shaped into a spear."

"It does not merely resemble a spear in appearance. The power it contains, even the Soul Spirit's Origin, is guided with Spear Will as its core."