First Soul Spirit, Poison Element Spirit

Lin Yu nodded when he heard Lin Qingye say that. Then, seeing the somewhat troubled look on Lin Qingye's face, he could not help feeling curious.

After all, he was not an ordinary six-year-old child. With the experience of having lived two lives, he could naturally tell that Lin Qingye's expression meant he had gone to beg someone for help.

And judging by the look of it, he must have begged for a long time before succeeding. It was probably the kind of favor people online said could only be used once.

The car drove all the way toward Tianhai City. The driver had clearly received instructions in advance. Seeing this, Lin Yu did not continue asking Lin Qingye any questions. He rested his head against the window and watched the rapidly retreating scenery for a while.

Before long, he fell asleep, leaving the quiet space inside the car for Lin Qingye to think.

After the black stretch sedan entered Tianhai City, it gradually slowed down. The soul-guided sedan eventually stopped in a parking lot beside an utterly ordinary-looking courtyard.

After stopping the car, the driver did not get out. He simply sat quietly in his seat and waited.

Lin Qingye pulled Lin Yu out of the car, then took a metal case from the back seat and said to him, "Keep up."

Lin Yu nodded. Seeing how unusually serious Lin Qingye was, he did not ask any questions and silently followed.

After registering, Lin Qingye brought Lin Yu through the gates of the compound. He settled Lin Yu in a small room and told him to wait there before leaving on his own.

No one knew what Lin Qingye did during that time or whom he met. But when he returned, the metal case in his hand was gone, and his knees were faintly pale. He had clearly knelt before someone.

Lin Yu did not expose him. Lin Qingye then led him out of the small room and brought him to the Spirit Pagoda branch in Tianhai City's central district.

Unlike Aolai City, which had only one Spirit Pagoda in the entire city, Tianhai City, as the central city of the Tianhai Alliance, had six Spirit Pagoda branches distributed across six different districts.

The larger the city, the greater the Spirit Pagoda's charitable efforts. For example, in Aolai City, one million could only be used to enter a lottery for a soul spirit, while in Tianhai City, one could freely choose the desired soul spirit range.

However, Lin Qingye had clearly not used that box of mysterious items to bring Lin Ye here to draw one of those ordinary soul spirits sold openly.

After entering the Spirit Pagoda, he handed a slip of paper to the smiling receptionist. After reading it, the woman's smile stiffened for an instant, then she gestured even more brightly for them to proceed deeper into the Spirit Pagoda.

When they reached the end of the corridor, the receptionist pressed her hand against the wall.

The metal wall immediately rippled. Then, like a curtain, the two sections of wall parted to either side, slowly revealing a new passageway.

"Please enter, honored guests." The receptionist made an inviting gesture toward them, then took the lead.

As the two stepped into the passageway, the metal door seemed to sense them and automatically closed behind them.

At the same time, soul-guided lamps lit up within the passageway, illuminating it as brightly as day.

Lin Yu and Lin Qingye followed the receptionist onward. After passing through the corridor, they arrived in a special room.

A middle-aged man sat in a swivel chair there, holding a report and examining it closely.

When Lin Qingye and Lin Yu entered, the middle-aged man glanced at them, then stood and said, "You're the ones Teacher recommended, right? Everything is ready. Follow me."

The middle-aged man was nowhere near as polite as the receptionist. After speaking, he turned and walked away on his own. Lin Qingye was not offended and instead stepped forward to follow him.

Although Lin Yu was growing increasingly restless from all these twists and turns, he still restrained himself and followed step by step.

"If you don't want to join the Spirit Pagoda but still want to take one of the Spirit Pagoda's experimental soul spirits, then we'll have to see whether you're worthy." The middle-aged man sized Lin Yu up and spoke in an unfriendly tone.

Lin Yu could no longer hold back his temper. He retorted almost instantly, "It can only gather dust sitting there. If it were really something you could absorb so easily, it would have become a treasure for your own people long ago. The fact that it's still sitting there means you people are just a bunch of trash who can't absorb it either."

Lin Qingye hurriedly patted Lin Yu's shoulder. The middle-aged man, however, grinned and said to Lin Yu, "You're not wrong. The others from the Spirit Pagoda who wanted to absorb this soul spirit before were all useless failures. In that regard, you suit my taste quite well."

Then the middle-aged man pointed at a metal bed nearby and said, "Though I don't really want to go through this procedure, since even if you die, it has nothing to do with me. Still, we have to go through the process. We'll test your spiritual power and see what you're really made of."

Lin Yu shrugged, then plopped down onto the metal bed. He took the helmet the middle-aged man handed him and fastened it over his head.

Lin Tingye watched nervously, his hands unconsciously clenching tighter.

The middle-aged man calmly operated the console and said to Lin Yu, "Relax. Feeling dizzy is normal."

After a while, Lin Yu removed the helmet and asked the middle-aged man, "Why am I not dizzy at all?"

The middle-aged man stared at the report in his hand. After a long moment, he swallowed and said, "Your spiritual power is one hundred and eighteen. You skipped the Spirit Origin Realm entirely and reached the early Spiritual Connection Realm. Very impressive."

After saying that, the middle-aged man stopped wasting time. He reached into a cabinet and took out a special cocoon-shaped soul spirit egg.

"This is an artificial soul spirit created by the Spirit Pagoda. It is a supreme treasure for poison-type soul masters. It contains the toxic power of every poison-type plant and animal currently known, including the Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flower."

"What it produces is an elemental spirit formed from pure poison element, without any soul beast bloodline. If I had to compare it, it is somewhat similar to the Ice Sky Snow Maiden, the Snow Empress, from ten thousand years ago. Of course, in terms of cultivation, it is no match for the Ice Sky Snow Maiden. This is only a four-hundred-year soul spirit."

As he spoke, the middle-aged man took out two sets of protective clothing. He tossed one to Lin Xingye and put the other on himself, then handed the capsule to Lin Yu. "Inject your soul power and activate it."

Lin Yu nodded, placing both hands on either end of the capsule. Then he circulated his soul power and pulled upward.

The metal capsule instantly split in two. A ball of green light flew out, circled Lin Yu several times, and gradually transformed into a faceless humanoid figure...