Why Hold Back When You Want to Curse?

Papal Hall.

The heavy doors slowly opened.

Bibi Dong sat at the very top.

She held a gemstone-studded scepter in her hand.

Several Spirit Hall higher-ups stood on either side.

Even the weakest person present far surpassed Su Yuntao in cultivation.

Gui Mei walked to the center of the hall and dropped to one knee.

"Your Holiness, Li Zha has been brought here."

Li Zha followed suit and bowed.

"Greetings, Your Holiness."

Bibi Dong did not immediately tell him to rise.

She opened the file in her hands.

"Li Zha, native of Chentang Village."

"Six years old, innately full soul power."

"Father missing, mother deceased. Raised by the village elders."

"Enrolled at Nuoding Soul Master Academy for two days, then voluntarily withdrew."

Li Zha raised his head.

"Yes."

Bibi Dong lightly tapped her fingers against the armrest. "Why did you withdraw?"

Li Zha replied, "Someone wanted me to give up the Flaming-tipped Spear, focus on the lotus root, and follow the food-type support path."

Someone in the hall frowned.

Bibi Dong slightly raised her eyes. "Who made that plan for you?"

Li Zha thought for a moment, then answered truthfully.

"Yu Xiaogang."

The moment those words came out, everyone around them was startled.

"Yu Xiaogang of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?!"

"That so-called master? Isn't he..."

The surrounding red-robed bishops cast sharp looks in that man's direction. His expression changed instantly, and he fell silent.

They had all heard, more or less, about Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang's past.

No one wanted to invite trouble by discussing Yu Xiaogang in front of the Pope.

Bibi Dong's expression did not change at all, though no one knew what she was thinking inside.

She expressionlessly turned another page in the file.

"Why did he tell you to follow the food-type path?"

"He believed my innate full soul power came from the lotus root martial soul."

Standing in the hall, Li Zha continued explaining.

"As for the Flaming-tipped Spear, he believed it was merely an ordinary tool martial soul with little cultivation value."

"He also arranged for me to focus on recovery and healing, coordinating my cultivation with that of his disciple."

A red-robed bishop seated on the left could not help speaking up.

"A tool martial soul that weighs one thousand five hundred and thirty jin without even a soul ring, and he judged it to have little cultivation value?"

"The base weight of a tool martial soul can often directly affect the increase in strength after soul rings are added."

"Deciding someone's cultivation path based solely on appearance, and he calls himself a master?"

"Cough, cough..." Someone beside him cleared his throat in warning.

Only then did the red-robed bishop realize what he had said. His face changed drastically, and he hurriedly rose before dropping to his knees.

"Your Holiness, this subordinate... this subordinate misspoke!"

Bibi Dong did not even glance at him.

Of course, after he knelt, Bibi Dong did not tell him to get up either.

She closed the file and fixed her gaze on Li Zha.

"The records in a file are ultimately just words."

"Show me both of your martial souls."

Li Zha raised his left hand.

The Undying Lotus Root emerged from his palm.

Faint red patterns slowly moved across it, and several healing-type soul masters in the hall quickly reacted.

"The life aura is very strong."

"How can it have such obvious life fluctuations without any soul rings?"

A six-ring healing-type soul master walked down the steps.

He first bowed to Bibi Dong, then stopped in front of Li Zha.

"Your Holiness, this subordinate wishes to inspect it at close range."

"Granted."

The man raised his hand and placed two fingers on Li Zha's wrist.

The instant his soul power entered Li Zha's meridians, his expression changed.

Li Zha's meridians were far stronger than those of an ordinary six-year-old child.

Even stranger, as soon as his soul power probed inside, Li Zha's body naturally produced a repelling force.

That resistance was not violent, but it continuously wore away at the foreign soul power.

"This..."

The healing-type soul master increased his soul power.

The red patterns on the Undying Lotus Root lit up.

The soul power that had entered Li Zha's body was quickly driven out.

The man withdrew his hand and examined him again, but the conclusion remained the same.

"Your Holiness, this martial soul truly possesses the ability to self-repair and repel external forces."

"This subordinate also discovered that his body is continuously being nourished by his martial soul."

"Even if he does not cultivate, his physique will gradually grow stronger."

Low murmurs immediately arose in the hall.

A red-robed bishop raised a question.

"Can its recovery ability be proven?"

Li Zha did not waste words. He shrank the Flaming-tipped Spear in his right hand.

Then he lightly drew it across the back of his hand.

A bloody cut appeared.

The blood had only just welled up.

When a faint red glow from the Undying Lotus Root spread across the back of his hand.

The wound rapidly closed.

After several breaths, only a faint red mark remained.

A moment later, even the red mark disappeared.

The healing-type soul master immediately bent down to inspect it.

He was utterly shocked.

"This... no soul skill was used... and there was no noticeable consumption of soul power!"

"The recovery comes from the martial soul itself!"

Several red-robed bishops exchanged glances.

It had such an effect without soul rings. Once it acquired soul rings, its abilities would only become stronger!

Moreover, within Spirit Hall, only one person possessed a martial soul with such an innate effect.

Chrysanthemum Douluo, Yue Guan!

His Qirong Skyreach Chrysanthemum also came with a recovery effect!

Even though none of his later soul rings had been added for recovery abilities!

Yue Guan's Qirong Skyreach Chrysanthemum had even been evaluated as an immortal-grade medicinal herb martial soul!

The red-robed bishop looked at Li Zha again.

"This Undying Lotus Root might... might be comparable to Chrysanthemum Douluo's immortal-grade medicinal herb martial soul, the Qirong Skyreach Chrysanthemum!"

Comparable to Chrysanthemum Douluo's Qirong Skyreach Chrysanthemum.

The hand Bibi Dong held around her scepter shifted slightly.

She examined Li Zha.

Both of his martial souls were extraordinary...

At that moment, someone could not help letting out a cold snort.

"As a teacher, he actually made a genius with two top-tier martial souls support his other disciple?"

"I'd like to know just how damn gifted that other disciple is, for him to dare make such a choice!"

Someone nodded in agreement. "Notting Academy's teaching methods truly are eye-opening."

Li Zha blinked but said nothing.

Then Gui Mei spoke.

"From what I learned on this trip..."

He glanced at Bibi Dong and slightly lowered his head. "That person's disciple is Tang San. His martial soul is Blue Silver Grass."

Everyone: "?"

For a moment, Papal Hall fell completely silent.

"Blue Silver Grass??"

"Making a twin martial soul genius support Blue Silver Grass, this master must be... uh... well..."

"That really is absurd! Blue Silver Grass is a trash martial soul so useless that even pigs would find it unappetizing!"

"Has this master's brain been... well..."

Some people were furious and wanted to curse, but when the profanities reached their lips, they swallowed them back down.

The last person who had said something wrong was still kneeling on the floor and had yet to rise.

And if there were not so many people here right now.

His head might already have rolled to the ground.

Seeing that no one continued speaking.

Only then did Bibi Dong calmly continue.

"The second martial soul."

Li Zha put away the Undying Lotus Root and clenched his outstretched fingers.

Red light gathered in his palm.

The Flaming-tipped Spear instantly appeared in his hand.

The temperature in the surrounding area rose slightly.

A red-robed bishop strode forward and stared at the spear as he inspected it.

"No soul rings."

"And no soul power was used."

"Yet the martial soul itself can affect the surrounding temperature?"

Bibi Dong looked toward the tall man standing on the right.

"Bishop Luo'er, you have a tool martial soul. Test its weight."

Bishop Luo'er strode forward.

He possessed seventy-third-level soul power, and his martial soul was also a long weapon. He had considerable knowledge of strength and the weight of tool martial souls.

"Child, let go."

Li Zha released his fingers.

Bishop Luo'er caught the spear with one hand.

The moment his palm touched the Flaming-tipped Spear, his shoulder visibly sank.

Having come prepared, he naturally would not make a fool of himself like Yan had.

Yet its base weight of more than one thousand five hundred jin still shocked him.

This heavy?!

And it still hasn't had a soul ring added?!