Tang Wulin: Freak!

As the Tianhai Alliance's second-largest city, Donghai City's Soul Guidance transportation was highly developed. It took only a little over half an hour to travel from there to Aolai City.

By the time Lin Ye and Tang Li rushed back to Aolai City, the sun had only just set. The orange-red afterglow had yet to fade, hanging high in the sky and setting the horizon ablaze.

Good things put people in good moods. Having broken through in soul power and seen his Soul Spirit's age surge dramatically, Tang Li felt his heart swell at the sight.

By then, Lin Ye had found the Soul Guidance Car he had parked nearby and came to pick Tang Li up.

Beep beep—

The sleek, entirely black Soul Guidance Car stopped behind Tang Li. Its piercing horn snapped him back to reality.

"Little Tang Li, get in. I'll take you home."

"Coming." Tang Li quickly got into Lin Ye's car and fastened his seat belt. He could hardly wait to get home and surprise his family.

In a small place like Aolai City, there were not many people who could afford a Soul Guidance Car to begin with. High-end cars like Lin Ye's were even rarer. He sped all the way there and barely encountered any traffic.

In less than ten minutes, he had brought Tang Li home. Tang Li had intended to invite Lin Ye to stay for dinner before leaving, but Lin Ye said he needed to return to the Spirit Pagoda to register the information again and could not stay. With that, he drove off.

Tang Li could only regret it. Arriving at the door, he tapped the door camera and tried to unlock it with facial recognition, but the display showed a system recognition error.

It was obviously his old man Tang Ziran at work. Tang Li sighed inwardly and decided he would find another chance to register himself later. For now, he could only knock honestly.

Knock knock knock—

"Coming, coming! Little Li is back!" The moment Tang Li finished knocking, the door opened. When Tang Wulin saw it was Tang Li, she immediately pounced on him and hugged him.

"Little Li, you're finally back! I missed you so much!"

"I was only gone for one day, wasn't I? Is that really necessary?"

Entangled by Tang Wulin, Tang Li could only bring her inside with him. In the living room, Tang Ziran and Lang Yue had already gone to the kitchen to bring out the dishes when they heard Wulin say Tang Li was back. Na'er, just like Wulin, came bounding over with a grin and clung to Tang Li.

"Big Brother Little Li, Na'er missed you too! Even one day without seeing you felt like forever!"

"All right, come eat. Little Li must be hungry, right? Mom stewed your favorite ribs."

Lang Yue's gentle voice drifted over. Only then did Tang Wulin and Na'er let go of Tang Li. Each grabbed one of his hands and dragged him toward the dining room.

"Little Li, what did you and Uncle Lin go to Donghai City for?" Tang Wulin asked curiously as she sat beside Tang Li.

At that moment, Tang Ziran walked over carrying his modified giant rice cooker. "Eat first. No talking while eating, no talking while sleeping. Whatever you have to say can wait until after dinner."

It had to be said that Tang Ziran was a qualified Mecha Designer. His Soul Tool proficiency was at least Level 5. The giant rice cooker he designed even incorporated a little spatial technology. Otherwise, with Tang Wulin and Na'er's appetites, their family would have to cook several pots of rice every meal.

As usual, every dish Lang Yue made came in enormous portions. Otherwise, there simply would not be enough for those two rice buckets to eat, and the other three members of the family would not even get a few bites of the dishes.

Having gone some time without eating, Tang Li leaned back in his chair contentedly after wolfing down his meal and let out a satisfied burp.

"Burp—"

Seeing that Tang Li was full, Tang Wulin and Na'er began eating even faster. Their chopsticks blurred with afterimages, while their tiny mouths seemed like bottomless pits.

After filling her stomach at light speed, Tang Wulin immediately pulled Tang Li to the living room. Clearly, she had a great many things she wanted to tell him.

Seeing this, Na'er sped up as well.

In the living room, Tang Li plopped down onto the sofa. Tang Wulin sat beside him and asked curiously,

"Little Li, what did you and Uncle go do? You were gone so long."

"Uncle Lin broke through to Level 60, so he went to Donghai City to fuse with a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit. Since it was on the way, he took me to the Spirit Ascension Platform to increase my Soul Ring age."

"A Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit! Little Li, did you see Uncle Lin's Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit? I heard that among the Federation's millions of Soul Masters, only one in ten thousand can possess a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit!"

"And what is this Spirit Ascension Platform? It can increase Soul Ring age too? That must cost a lot of money, right?"

"What age is your Big Eyed at now, Little Li?"

"Little Li, say something!"

Tang Wulin had too many questions, and Tang Li was getting a little sleepy from them. Seeing this, Tang Wulin immediately grabbed his shoulders and shook him hard.

"Stop, stop, stop! You're going to shake my brain into mush. Can't you let me catch my breath? It's not like I won't tell you. You're so rough—who would dare marry you in the future?"

At that, Tang Wulin immediately let go. She instinctively ignored the latter half of what Tang Li had said and blinked her big eyes as she waited for his answer.

Just then, Na'er ran over as well. She had not grown at all over the past year and was still the same as before, so she simply sat on Tang Li's lap and put on the same cute expression as Tang Wulin.

Tang Li: o_O

Fine, I'll tell you, all right? Tang Li took a deep breath and began explaining.

"Let's start with Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits. With the Spirit Pagoda's current technology, it still cannot artificially create Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits. Therefore, all Soul Spirits over ten thousand years old are modified from Soul Beasts. Having refined their transverse bones, they already possess a certain degree of intelligence.

"Although they cannot take human form like hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts, they can formulate tactics and set traps like humans. Uncle Lin's Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast is an insect called the Dark Star Demonic Insect. It is a mutated Soul Beast with the exceptionally rare star attribute. As for its Soul Skills, I won't say. That is Uncle Lin's secret, so you can ask him yourselves."

After explaining Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits, Tang Li told Wulin and Na'er about the Spirit Ascension Platform. When they heard that Soul Beasts killed inside it would provide one-tenth of their own age in spiritual energy to increase a Soul Spirit's age, Wulin and Na'er were both stunned.

"Then couldn't you turn all your Soul Rings into hundred-thousand-year ones? That's incredible! The Spirit Pagoda really is amazing."

"It isn't that simple. You cannot go to the Spirit Ascension Platform whenever you want. It costs a lot of money. Besides, how difficult would it be to kill Soul Beasts totaling several million years in age? Even if you had that ability, the Spirit Pagoda might not be willing to provide you with the opportunity."

Tang Li shook his head, refuting Tang Wulin's claim.

"What about your Big Eyed? How much did it increase? Five hundred years, or one thousand?"

Facing Tang Wulin's question, Tang Li's lips curled slightly. Pretending to be modest, he said, "Not much, not much. Big Eyed only increased by a little over four thousand years. It's exactly five thousand years old now."

"Oh, right. My cultivation has broken through too. I'm already a Two-Ring Great Soul Master now."

With that, Tang Li summoned her two purple Soul Rings. As she watched the purple rings symbolizing a thousand years rise from beneath Tang Li, Tang Wulin froze. Only after a long while did she finally say, "Little Li, you really are a freak!"