Innate Spirit Connection Realm, Purple Radiance Venom Dragon

East Sea Spirit Pagoda, top floor.

"Sorry for the wait, Dean Cang."

Lu Feng pushed the door open and walked in, a hint of apology in his smile.

"No matter, Tower Master Lu."

Cang Xuan remained calm as he asked, "What about the Unyielding Soul Spirit?"

"No problem."

Lu Feng smiled. "Come on, I'll take you to test your spiritual power."

He turned and led the way.

Hearing this, Cang Xuan brought Fang Ming along behind him.

Outside the door was a spacious, brightly lit corridor.

Soul-guided wall lamps stood every few steps along both sides of the corridor, their gentle light illuminating the entire passage with clarity.

After walking some distance, Lu Feng stopped in front of a room.

"Come in."

As Lu Feng spoke, he pushed open the door.

It was a room brimming with a futuristic technological atmosphere.

Numerous sophisticated instruments filled the room, while all kinds of soul-guided screens flickered with faint blue light.

The metallic devices gleamed coldly beneath the lights, resembling an advanced scientific research laboratory.

"This is a spiritual power testing device, specially used to measure spiritual power."

Lu Feng walked up to one of the instruments and lightly tapped it a few times.

"Sit over here."

Fang Ming nodded, sat down in the chair, and put on the helmet used to test spiritual power.

"From low to high, spiritual power is divided into six major levels: the Spirit Origin Realm, Spirit Connection Realm, Spirit Sea Realm, Spirit Abyss Realm, Spirit Domain Realm, and the legendary Divine Origin Realm."

Lu Feng explained, "Don't be nervous. Relax. Feeling dizzy is normal."

"Bzzzz—"

A faint hum sounded as the spiritual power testing device activated.

A gentle white light began to shine around the helmet.

Lu Feng's gaze fell upon the soul-guided screen, where the value representing spiritual power began to jump.

1...50...100

The number rose at an astonishing speed, almost without the slightest pause, as though nothing could hinder it.

101...160...200

After breaking past two hundred, the value continued rising for a while before finally settling steadily at two hundred and twenty-one.

An eerie silence descended over the room.

"Spiritual power... two hundred and twenty-one?!"

Lu Feng stared at the scene before him in disbelief, his voice trembling slightly. "An Innate Spirit Connection Realm!"

Had they forgotten to turn off the cheat code?

A value of two hundred and twenty-one was simply a crushing advantage.

When most soul masters cultivated to level ten, their spiritual power would only be around forty or fifty points. Only some geniuses could reach sixty or seventy.

Such outrageous data went beyond mere genius.

This was a monster!

Lu Feng took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

He turned off the spiritual power tester, and the white light on the helmet gradually faded.

Fang Ming opened his eyes and removed the helmet, fine beads of sweat seeping from his forehead.

The testing process was not painful, but the sensation of having his mind drawn out and measured was indeed exhausting.

He gently rubbed his temples, allowing his slightly dizzy mind to slowly settle.

Seeing this, a trace of surprise flashed through Cang Xuan's eyes before he returned to his unruffled demeanor.

"Tower Master Lu, what do you think?"

Only then did Lu Feng come back to his senses. He gave Fang Ming a complicated look. "Dean Cang, this child of yours... truly has limitless prospects."

"You flatter him."

Cang Xuan smiled calmly.

"Let's go. We'll return to the office and pick out a soul spirit." Lu Feng spoke.

"Alright."

Cang Xuan gave a slight nod.

Soon, the three of them returned to the office.

Lu Feng took a soul-guided light screen from a drawer in his desk and handed it over. "Choose whichever Unyielding Soul Spirit you want."

"Alright."

Fang Ming nodded, accepted the soul-guided light screen, and began examining it carefully.

Cang Xuan did not interfere. He merely sat quietly to one side, lifted the tea on the table, and took a light sip.

Fang Ming set the search conditions on the soul-guided light screen: thousand-year level, Unyielding Soul Spirit, fire attribute and poison attribute.

Unfortunately, most of them were poison attribute.

First page: Mandala Snake

A giant snake three meters long, its entire body covered in fine peach-red scales. A flower-shaped protrusion rose from the center of its triangular head.

Its vertical pupils glinted coldly, its scarlet forked tongue flickering constantly, while sharp venomous fangs lay hidden within its jaws.

Its body was supple yet taut, brimming with explosive force, and a faintly sweet, fishy toxic mist swirled around it.

Fang Ming merely glanced at it before continuing downward.

He was not God King Tang. Why would he choose a Mandala Snake? Was his first soul skill supposed to be Flame Entanglement?

Second page: Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor

Brilliant jade light surged as an enormous snake thirty meters long and immensely thick appeared.

Diamond-shaped jade scales covered its body like embedded emeralds. Its dark-green vertical pupils were cold to the bone, its forked tongue flickered ceaselessly, and viscous green venom dripped from between its teeth.

Dense Jade Phosphorous venom mist churned around it. Wherever it passed, grass and trees swiftly blackened and withered. The Serpent Emperor's pressure spread outward, making all snakes bow their heads.

Fang Ming looked at it for several seconds before swiping past it. Although the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor was good, its poison attribute was too singular and somewhat fell short of the soul spirit he wanted.

Third page: Nine-Jointed Jade

A small jade-green snake five inches long lay quietly coiled there. Its body was nearly translucent, rippling with a lustrous emerald glow, with nine bamboo-joint patterns spaced along its body.

A faint glimmer shone in its fine scarlet eyes, while its slender forked tongue flickered gently.

Its appearance was as exquisite as jade, yet it concealed venom potent enough to rot flesh into water.

Fang Ming considered it, then decided against it.

He swiped past it and continued browsing.

A massive dark-red serpent appeared, its body more than ten meters long and as heavy as a mountain. Its crimson scales resembled red-hot iron armor, and the aura of heat seemed able to rush at him even through the screen.

Its main head was savage and terrifying, crimson vertical pupils revealing fierce light. Nine snake heads grew from its back, blood flowing slowly within them as if they were nine concealed serpent heads.

A pale-red poisonous mist rose from its body, while scorching blazing-sun fire energy filled the surroundings. With a single open mouth, it could spew crimson fire venom that burned through tendons and corroded bones.

Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent.

Fang Ming's eyes immediately lit up when he saw it.

This one was good—dual fire and poison attributes.

He silently noted it down, but did not hurry to decide. He wanted to see whether there was anything more suitable further on.

After flipping through several more pages, an image of a colossal dragon coiled upon the earth entered his sight.

Dark-purple dragon scales flowed with a faint radiant-gold gleam, while its inky-purple vertical pupils were cold and terrifying.

When its wings spread, purple venomous miasma churned across the sky, and dragon might mixed with deadly poison surged directly toward him.

Unyielding Soul Spirit—Purple Radiance Venom Dragon.

Fang Ming immediately took a liking to it.

The Purple Radiance Venom Dragon was a dragon-type soul spirit with dual fire and poison attributes, perfectly matching the characteristics of the Netherworld Poison Flame.

As for the bloodline suppression of the Gold and Silver Dragon Kings... take it up with my Heavenly Flames.

He looked at Lu Feng, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly. "Tower Master Lu, I'll choose this one."

Lu Feng took the soul-guided light screen and looked at it. Good heavens.

He had chosen one of the best right away—and also the most difficult one.

"Fang Ming, are you sure you've made your choice?"

Lu Feng's expression turned solemn as he confirmed, "This is no ordinary soul spirit. It is an Unyielding Soul Spirit."

"The Purple Radiance Venom Dragon is far rarer than ordinary Unyielding Soul Spirits."

"Yes."

Fang Ming nodded, his tone calm yet resolute.

Lu Feng looked deeply at him, then said nothing further.

He instructed through the soul-guided communicator, "Send over the Unyielding Soul Spirit, Purple Radiance Venom Dragon."

"Yes."

The voice of a Spirit Pagoda staff member came through.