The Spirit Pagoda Standing at the Peak of the Continent!

After choosing his Soul Spirit, Huo Yuhao followed Hua Yichen's instructions and stood in the center of the hall with it. Looking at the obscure arrays around him, understanding dawned in his heart.

It was an array that assisted with contracts. After ten thousand years of development, it was already different from its original appearance.

However, the Spirit Pagoda had no ability to alter the core of the Soul Spirit Contract. If one wanted to sign the contract, the Soul Spirit's consent was still required.

Hua Yichen smiled at Huo Yuhao, gave him a few reminders, then began murmuring under his breath, chanting the Soul Spirit Contract left behind by the Spirit Ice Douluo.

The Soul Spirits here had all been provided by the Star Dou Great Forest and the Extreme North. They had long since agreed to exist as Soul Spirits and had been waiting for Soul Masters to choose them, so no other steps were needed.

Golden ripples spread rapidly outward from Hua Yichen, eventually enveloping both Huo Yuhao and the Soul Spirit in his hands.

"Brother Sky Dream."

"Got it, brother's here!"

Hearing Huo Yuhao's reminder, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in his Spiritual Sea began to move, seizing the position of the Spirit Eyes' first Soul Spirit before the contract was signed.

What a joke. He was Yuhao's first Soul Spirit. How could he let some junior steal his place?

As for Huo Yuhao, he wrapped the bewildered Ice Silkworm with his own Spiritual Power and temporarily pulled it into his Spiritual Sea.

The core of the contract had not changed, so as the founder of the Soul Spirit Contract, doing a little something inside it and letting Tian Meng occupy the contract slot naturally was not difficult.

Because he could not produce soul rings on his own, Huo Yuhao did need some Soul Spirits to supplement him, but not now.

From Hua Yichen's perspective, the Ice Silkworm Soul Spirit gradually turned illusory before finally merging into Huo Yuhao's body, and a yellow soul ring appeared around him.

Huo Yuhao smoothly sat down cross-legged. A gentle soul power radiance lingered over him as he entered a meditative state.

Seeing this, Hua Yichen did not disturb him and quietly left the room.

Not long after he walked out, a staff member came up to him and handed him a file.

It contained Huo Yuhao's basic information, including his family background, address, and so on.

Hua Yichen's gaze lingered for a moment on the entries about his parents' divorce and his mother's death, and he raised an eyebrow.

An orphan. No wonder he was so mature so young, and was not even nervous facing him.

But that was fine too. With no family, Huo Yuhao would feel more of a sense of belonging to the Spirit Pagoda.

Once Hua Yichen moved his gaze away from the file, the staff member continued reporting:

"Pagoda Master, I've already sent Huo Yuhao's information to headquarters, but we haven't received a reply yet. Do we need to prepare a private aircraft in advance to send Huo Yuhao to headquarters?"

"No need." The staff member's words reminded Hua Yichen of the tangled web of factions in the current Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, and he shook his head. "Eastsea City's sky is a little small, but it's still no problem for providing early-stage cultivation resources."

With Huo Yuhao's talent, going to headquarters to cultivate was only a matter of time, but not now.

The Soul Spirit Contract left behind by the Spirit Ice Douluo had deeply bound Soul Beasts and the Spirit Pagoda together, causing the Spirit Pagoda's higher-ups to not dare cross the line against Soul Beasts for all these years.

This was a good thing, and also a bad thing.

The good part was that with the support of the Soul Beasts' forces, the Spirit Pagoda had been pushed to its peak and possessed extremely powerful combat strength.

Counting the Soul Beast side, the current Spirit Pagoda possessed seven experts comparable to Limit Douluo, four of whom were even Quasi-Gods!

What faction in the world had more experts than them?

Even Shrek Academy, which was at the height of its power, could not compare to them in number of experts!

But the larger a force was and the stronger it became, without one person capable of overwhelming all the others, internal trouble would naturally arise.

The current Spirit Pagoda Headquarters was a huge dye vat, with all sides' powers deeply intertwined and constant open and hidden struggles.

Letting a half-grown child enter that place would bring no benefit at all to his growth.

At the very least, they had to wait until Huo Yuhao had a certain level of strength and a worldview capable of distinguishing right from wrong before sending him to headquarters.

As he thought this, Hua Yichen suddenly revealed a faint smile.

With this kid around, the younger generation of the Qian Gu Clan would probably have an opponent in the future. The Qian Gu Pagoda Master was going to have a headache.

Mingdu, as the capital of the Sun Moon Empire before it unified the continent, had not fallen behind in development even after ten thousand years. It was still the most modern city in the Douluo Federation, the western core of the entire Douluo Continent.

In the central district of Mingdu, an eighty-one-story tower-shaped building stood there, exceedingly magnificent.

It was none other than Spirit Pagoda Headquarters!

Unlike the original work, because Huo Yuhao had not joined Shrek, Spirit Pagoda Headquarters had not been established in Shrek City. Instead, because the Sun Moon Empire had been the final victor, its headquarters had ultimately been placed in Mingdu, where the Federal Government was located.

On the top floor of Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, a tall, slender woman sat behind a desk. She had beautiful, refined features, and a head of long red hair spilled down behind her.

She reached out and tapped at the Soul Guidance Screen on the table. Looking at the information inside, she smiled with considerable interest. "Huo Yuhao, Innate Full Soul Power, Body Spirit, and a genius whose Spiritual Power has reached three hundred? This innate Spiritual Power is even stronger than yours."

At this point, Spirit Pagoda Vice Pagoda Master—Leng Yaozhu looked at the little girl beside her and smiled gently:

"See? There is always a heaven beyond heaven, and people beyond people. I told you there are many geniuses in this world, so you mustn't slack off, Na'er."

The girl called Na'er had short silver hair, and her delicate face was like a porcelain doll carved with exquisite care.

At this moment, she was also looking at Huo Yuhao's information. Her amethyst-like eyes shone brightly, and hearing this, she nodded softly.

"Yes, I understand, teacher."

Spirit Eyes Martial Soul... and this appearance. It's definitely the Huo Yuhao Di Tian mentioned.

After ten thousand years, he was actually still alive?

Gu Yuena was surprised, but she did not show it on her face. She looked up at Leng Yaozhu and smiled faintly. "Teacher, you didn't call me here today just for this, did you?"

"Of course not." Leng Yaozhu fondly stroked her disciple's hair. "Your Martial Soul has already awakened. Do you want to stay in the Spirit Pagoda and cultivate, or do you want to go to an academy?"

Gu Yuena shook her head a little awkwardly and pulled away from Leng Yaozhu's hand. "I'll listen to you, Teacher."

This child still isn't used to being close to me.

Leng Yaozhu withdrew her hand somewhat helplessly.

"Then for the next three years, you'll study with me first. After that, I'll send you to Soul Master Academy before the transition. If there's somewhere you want to go, tell me in advance."

The atmosphere at Spirit Pagoda Headquarters really was not suitable for a child. Leng Yaozhu did not want her own disciple to learn scheming, intrigue, and plotting from a young age.

Especially since three years from now would mark another ten-year cycle. According to the rules set by the First Generation Tower Master, the Spirit Pagoda would once again hold a transition ceremony and reelect one main Tower Master and three deputy Tower Masters. Although judging by the current situation, the result would not change, it would still inevitably bring about a bloody storm...

Leng Yaozhu's expression grew heavy as she looked at Gu Yuena and sighed inwardly.

If not for the fact that Gu Yuena was still young and still at the stage of building her foundation, she truly hoped the girl could stay far away from this troublesome place and have a happy childhood.

"Somewhere I want to go..."

Gu Yuena murmured to herself, unable to help looking at Huo Yuhao's information.

A human prodigy who had appeared like a shooting star, yet had given Soul Beasts the chance to continue on, preventing them from being swallowed by the waves of the era.

Why had he done that? And why could he still be alive now?

Most importantly, would he affect her plans?

These were things Gu Yuena had to confirm—especially the last point.

And so, Gu Yuena gave her answer.

"I want to go..."