The Three-Legged Golden Toad Soul Spirit

"Three guests, Aolai City has a total of 73 Decade White Soul Spirits and 11 Century Yellow Soul Spirits. Of course, you can also draw a soul spirit at random. Which purchasing method would you like to use?"

Mo Qingfeng glanced at Mo Yuan, clearly intending to let him decide for himself.

Mo Yuan did not stand on ceremony and said directly, "Then take us to see the yellow soul spirits."

"Sure thing. First, let's conduct a Mental Power test."

Saying this, the Spirit Pagoda Master led the three of them into a room. In the very center stood a metal chair. A metal helmet floated above it, connected to a dense web of wires. It looked extremely complicated.

"Come on, just sit down. You don't need to do anything else."

Mo Yuan sat down on the metal chair as instructed.

"You know the significance of a Mental Power test, right?" the Spirit Pagoda Master asked.

Mo Yuan nodded.

"Good. Then I won't explain it further."

The Spirit Pagoda Master pressed a button on a nearby instrument. The metal helmet descended and covered Mo Yuan's head.

A faint buzzing sounded. Soft white light began to glow around the helmet, while the Spirit Pagoda Master looked at a Soul Tool screen beside him. Data began jumping across the screen.

Mo Yuan, meanwhile, began absorbing knowledge related to the Mental Power Tester.

After some time, the data on the screen gradually stabilized. The Spirit Pagoda Master stared at it and rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

Could there be something wrong with the instrument?

The displayed value was an astonishing 213 points—in other words, the mid-stage of the Spirit Connection Realm!

"Hiss—"

The Spirit Pagoda Master sucked in a breath of cold air.

"Master Spirit Pagoda, how were Xiao Yuan's test results?" Lin Zhiwei asked.

The metal helmet above Mo Yuan's head rose at that moment, and he looked toward the Spirit Pagoda Master as well.

The Spirit Pagoda Master took a deep breath and forcibly calmed himself. "Mental Power: 213 points. Mid-stage Spirit Connection Realm. That's truly an abnormal result."

"213?"

Mo Qingfeng's expression suddenly became extraordinarily colorful, because this result was already higher than his own.

This blow struck his already fragile heart as a father once again.

Sometimes, having a monstrously talented son could truly be an exceptionally frustrating experience.

Lin Zhiwei had no such thoughts. Her heart was filled with pride, and she practically wanted to stick her chest into the sky:

Look, this is my son!

"All right, it's time to choose a soul spirit."

The Spirit Pagoda Master led the three of them onward and into a neighboring room, which was much larger than the previous one.

That was because this room contained a gigantic cylindrical instrument three meters high and at least six meters in diameter. One spherical object after another, each a foot in diameter, floated inside it.

Mo Yuan glanced at it, and the principles behind this Soul Spirit Ball Storage Device instantly flowed into his mind. To his surprise, however, the data on the soul spirit balls and the soul spirits within them did not get analyzed as usual.

Could these soul spirits actually be another form of life?

Mo Yuan thought about the origins of soul spirits and felt that it made sense.

After all, when Electrolux created soul spirits, the foundation had been Necromancy, and it involved the souls of standard soul beasts. They were not pure technological creations at all. Even after the Spirit Pagoda created Artificial Soul Spirits, it probably had not achieved a fundamental breakthrough in its technological path. Thus, rather than being products of physical technology, the Artificial Soul Spirits of this era were more like products of biotechnology.

What a pity. He had originally wanted to examine the principles behind Artificial Soul Spirits.

The Spirit Pagoda Master had no idea that Mo Yuan had already begun planning how to conquer the Spirit Pagoda's entire profession. He continued introducing them as usual. "We have a total of 11 yellow soul spirits here. Six are animal soul spirits, four are plant soul spirits, and one is a variant soul spirit."

"I see that your Martial Soul is Sapphire, but unfortunately, we don't have any gemstone-type soul spirits here. Such a rare type is probably only available in the headquarters' inventory. Therefore, I recommend this Gem Starfish Soul Spirit. Although it isn't a pure gemstone soul spirit, it's close enough."

Mo Yuan shook his head and said, "Can you give me the list and let me choose for myself?"

The Spirit Pagoda Master said no more and directly handed Mo Yuan a handbook from beside the instrument.

Mo Yuan flipped straight to the section on Century Soul Spirits. It contained descriptions of the soul spirits available here.

First were the four plant-type soul spirits, which he immediately passed over.

That was because the four were Ghost Vine, Lone Bamboo, Green Vine, and Crystalglow Flower—all extremely ordinary soul beasts.

Next came the six animal-type soul spirits. The Gem Starfish mentioned earlier by the Spirit Pagoda Master was among them.

He still looked through the others. The first was none other than the false godslayer from ten thousand years ago—the great Wind Baboon!

He skipped it immediately.

After that came Lone Wolf, Ghost Tiger, King of the Earth, and Shield Armor Beast.

None of the soul spirits could rouse Mo Yuan's interest.

Mo Yuan shook his head and looked toward the final variant soul spirit.

The so-called variant soul spirits were actually a collective term for every soul spirit outside the two major categories of animals and plants. This included the gemstone-type soul spirits mentioned earlier, which were also a kind of variant soul spirit.

The only variant soul spirit here was an iron sword.

In theory, soul spirits could not be pure objects, because the technological path used in their original research involved extracting the souls of soul beasts.

However, this variant soul spirit was somewhat special because it had mutated from a Sword Grass. It seemed to have been a malignant mutation, though.

Mo Yuan was bitterly disappointed. There was simply no soul spirit here suitable for him.

Nevertheless, he patiently began looking through the Decade Soul Spirits listed earlier. The Decade Soul Spirits were even more wildly varied.

Even Blue Silver Grass had made the list...

The pages slid past his eyes one after another. Then, when he reached a certain page, Mo Yuan's hand abruptly stopped.

Illustrated on it was a golden toad with three legs.

A Three-Legged Golden Toad!

Mo Yuan recognized it at a glance. It was the variant soul beast known as the Three-Legged Golden Toad, whose specialty was controlling nearly all metals.

In the original Douluo II, Xiao Hongchen's Martial Soul was precisely this. It allowed him to form an exceptionally unique system as a Soul Engineer: he carried only the necessary shield-type Soul Tools, while in other situations, he relied solely on metal powder carried with him to shape Soul Tools on the spot and fight.

This was quite similar to the combat style of the Herrscher of Reason.

Mo Yuan barely hesitated before pointing at the page and declaring, "I'll choose this one!"

"The Three-Legged Golden Toad?" The Spirit Pagoda Master was extremely surprised, because this was only a Decade Soul Spirit.

"Little friend, are you sure you want to choose it instead of that Century Gem Starfish?"

He reminded Mo Yuan again. In his view, this family clearly wasn't short of money, so why not choose a better starting point?

"No need. I'll take this one."

Seeing how insistent Mo Yuan was, and how Mo Qingfeng and Lin Zhiwei remained silent, clearly intending to let their son decide for himself, the Spirit Pagoda Master no longer pressed the matter.

"All right. I'll retrieve it right away."

He pressed a white button, then entered a string of numbers into the Soul Tool screen. Before long, a soul spirit ball dropped out of the machine.

Mo Yuan paid readily, then carried the soul spirit ball and left the Spirit Pagoda with his parents.