First Entering the Spirit Ascension Platform

Since he had not been assigned to the same dormitory floor as Tang Wulin and the others, he naturally would not run into Tang Wulin's feverish episode. Lin Yu was in no hurry to enter the dormitory and simply made up his bed.

To him, the dormitory was merely a place to sleep. It made no difference which bed he slept in. What he cared about more right now was getting to the Spirit Ascension Platform as soon as possible and raising his Poison Angel soul spirit to the thousand-year level.

Only after reaching the thousand-year level could he obtain his third soul ring. He had been stuck at the two-ringed Grand Soul Master rank for a long time.

His soul power had long since reached level thirty. All he lacked was a thousand-year soul spirit to provide him with his third soul ring.

Just as Tang Wulin had undergone tests before, the Lin Family had conducted specialized tests on Lin Yu before he made this decision. Lin Yu's current spiritual power and physical strength were fully capable of withstanding three thousand-year soul rings.

After arriving at the Eastsea Spirit Pagoda, Lin Yu found that the receptionists here were dressed more beautifully than those in Aolai City, though they were just as lazy. After giving Lin Yu a cursory glance, they directed him to the appropriate department to pay, after which he prepared to enter the beginner-level Spirit Ascension Platform.

As Lin Yu swiped his card and paid to enter the Spirit Ascension Platform, he considered whether he should try to steal Tang Wulin's Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear soul bone resource.

Tang Wulin did not really need the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear's external soul bone anyway. As Tang San's eldest legitimate son and the crown prince, he carried the Golden Dragon King's bloodline.

After unlocking the Golden Dragon bloodline later on, the Golden Dragon Claw he obtained would be far more useful than the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw.

With his mind made up, Lin Yu began figuring out how to deal with the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear as he lay down in the transport pod.

When he opened his eyes again, Lin Yu found himself lying in a dense forest. He got to his feet and briefly stretched his limbs, fully aware that he had successfully entered the Spirit Ascension Platform.

This was Lin Yu's first time entering the Spirit Ascension Platform since arriving in this world. After moving his arms and legs, he immediately sat down cross-legged and adjusted his soul power.

Since he had decided to steal Tang Wulin's resources after entering the Spirit Ascension Platform, he had to conserve his soul power carefully.

After all, the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear was no joke. It could be considered the strongest opponent in the beginner-level Spirit Ascension Platform and was also the gatekeeping BOSS between the beginner and intermediate Spirit Ascension Platforms.

After meditating cross-legged for half an hour, Lin Yu opened his eyes and began walking deeper into the forest.

He kept one hand on the trees, deliberately controlling himself as he walked as straight as possible. After he had taken nearly a hundred steps, a black shadow enveloped him.

Lin Yu looked to the side and saw a huge Black Albatross flying through the air. Its sharp claws were aimed at him, clearly preparing to swoop down and seize him.

Lin Yu rolled away almost immediately, dodging the shadow. Then he thrust out a finger at the enormous Black Albatross.

With that gesture, several green grass seeds flew from Lin Yu's hand and landed on the Black Albatross.

As Lin Yu clenched his fist, his second soul ring flashed, and vine after vine of Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flower poison vines grew across the Black Albatross's body.

This was Lin Yu's second soul skill, the Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flower version of Parasitism. It was a truly pure damage-type soul skill, far more terrifying than the Corrosive Poison Power of his first soul skill.

The Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flower was, after all, an absolutely peak poison-attribute plant. What effect could growing such a thing on one's body possibly have? The answer was self-evident.

What made Lin Yu's Parasitism even more domineering was that he could precisely control what every vine did after growing out, and he could use it in conjunction with his first soul skill.

Lin Yu raised his hand and traced something through the air.

The poison vines on the Black Albatross immediately coiled around it, tightly strangling both its wings and neck.

Then came Corrosive Poison Power. This corrosive poison was not merely effective against metal; it corroded everything it came into contact with equally.

Green mist rose from the vines growing at a distance. Terror appeared in the albatross's eyes as it turned and struggled against the vines' restraints, flying away in an attempt to distance itself from Lin Yu.

The instinct passed down through its genes told it that, whether the poison user was a Soul Master, a soul beast, or a pure plant, the quickest way to lessen the poison's effects was to move away from the poison source releasing the toxic mist.

Although the soul beasts created by the Spirit Pagoda's Life Platform were not soul beasts in the true sense, their instinctive behaviors could still be perfectly replicated.

Unfortunately, it had encountered Lin Yu. The poison released by the Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flower vines after Parasitism could not be avoided simply by moving away from Lin Yu.

Fundamentally, Lin Yu was not the poison source at all. The poison source was the poison flower vines wrapped around the albatross's body.

After Lin Yu's first soul skill strengthened the poison on those vines, the subsequent poison had little to do with Lin Yu.

However, Lin Yu had no intention of tormenting living creatures. When the black albatross fell to the ground and struggled helplessly, he walked over and snapped its neck, granting it a swift death.

A faint spot of light entered Lin Yu's body.

Lin Yu could sense that it was roughly ten years' worth of cultivation, divided evenly between his two soul rings, adding five years to each.

According to the Spirit Pagoda's rules, that meant this large black albatross was a hundred-year soul beast, one that had only recently entered the hundred-year level.

"This level of strength is still quite manageable for me. It was an easy win, aside from the ambush being a little exciting." Lin Yu muttered to himself, rolling his wrists as he continued forward.

Just as Lin Yu moved, he suddenly felt a gust of wind carrying a slightly fishy-sweet scent sweep past behind him.

Meanwhile, the Spirit Pagoda staff had begun watching Lin Yu on the screen nervously.

Although the modifications to Lin Yu's situation were not particularly conspicuous, Lin Yu happened to be the only customer entering the Life Platform today. The two staff members responsible for monitoring the Life Platform naturally watched him with utmost focus.

Clearly, they had not immediately identified what kind of soul beast it was. After adjusting the camera angle, one of the staff members said in surprise, "This kid's luck is way too bad, isn't it? He'll probably give us a bad review after he comes out!"

The other staff member nodded, his expression equally grim as he watched the soul beast following Lin Yu's movements.

Lin Yu naturally sensed a soul beast rapidly circling around him from behind. He stopped walking, paused briefly, then suddenly spun around and met the gaze of a gigantic spider.

It was one of the Tang Family's favorite soul beasts in the original story—the Human-Faced Demon Spider.