Jing Hongchen took a deep breath, suppressing the waves surging in his heart, and said solemnly, "This matter is too important. It is certainly not something I can decide."
"How about this? Show me your Soul Spirit here first. I want to see for myself just what sort of existence this Ferocious Beast Soul Spirit you mentioned is."
"Really?" Lu Ren smiled, then called for Ice Empress to come out and see the world from within his Sea of Consciousness.
Ice Empress, who had been sleeping in his Sea of Consciousness, yawned, her orange-gold eyes still somewhat bleary from sleep. "What is it? You're calling me out again. Anyway, is it really all right to let me appear before other humans? Haven't you always kept the existence of Soul Spirits a secret?"
"It's fine. They'll all learn about your existence eventually anyway, and no one would dare set their sights on you."
Lu Ren said with a smile.
With his current strength and connections, there really was no one in the entire Sun Moon Empire who would dare covet his Soul Spirits.
"Come out. Don't be shy."
"Tch, who's shy?" Ice Empress snorted and floated out of Lu Ren's body.
She appeared in the office in spiritual form, her emerald hair tied into twin tails that fell to her shoulders. Her orange-gold eyes held their distinctive arrogance and coldness as she looked down upon the Hall Master of the Illustrious Virtue Hall before her.
This was how she had always treated humans: with immense arrogance, even disdaining to speak to them at all.
In her eyes, Soul Engineers who only knew how to rely on external tools were simply not worth wasting words on.
Of course, capable humans like Lu Ren were an exception.
"Th-this is your Soul Spirit?"
Jing