"Young friend, as the Platinum Bishop of Star Luo City, I can send you straight to Spirit City to receive special training from the Pope."
"But I am rather curious about your background and why you chose to join our Spirit Hall."
"I wonder if you would be willing to tell me and satisfy this old man's curiosity?"
At this, Feidinan turned to Su Haitao.
"You may leave now. I will personally arrange today's reward. What comes next is not for your ears."
Hearing this, Su Haitao hurriedly kowtowed in thanks, rose, and withdrew, thoughtfully closing the door behind him.
Jiang Huai rolled his eyes at the Platinum Bishop in exasperation.
Since the man wanted to hear it, he would start spinning his lies.
Jiang Huai lowered his head at just the right moment. When he spoke again, his voice held seven parts anguish and three parts the resolve of someone driven into a corner.
In his account, his mother had waited faithfully for years, yet even on her deathbed, that man had never come.
As for the father he had never met, he naturally became a hypocrite who had abandoned his wife and child, caring nothing for whether they lived or died.
He truly had a death wish!
"My lord bishop, I've had a bitter life."
"I've heard a little about the Star Luo Imperial Family's rules for competing for the throne.
For a bastard like me with no foundation, even if I went back, what chance would I have of winning?"
"Rather than that, I'd be better off joining Spirit Hall and relying on my own talent to fight for a future that reaches the heavens!"
Feidinan nodded repeatedly as he listened.
Indeed, judging from the information he had received alone,
the eldest prince, Dai Weisi, was using the Soul Power advantage he had accumulated by being born years earlier to bully his third brother, Dai Mubai, day and night.
A bastard like Jiang Huai had no one backing him. The greater his talent, the more likely he was to arouse suspicion and fear.
No wonder the boy had rushed back with Su Haitao as soon as his Martial Soul awakened. It was a good choice.
"Very well. I understand your concerns."
"But you must think this through.
Once you join Spirit Hall, you cannot simply leave as you please.
I'm afraid the throne of the Star Luo Empire will have nothing to do with you in the future, either."
"You won't regret it?"
"My lord bishop, I won't regret it!"
Jiang Huai answered without hesitation.
"The rules must not be broken. Set the rules first, and the road will stretch ever farther!"
Feidinan nodded in satisfaction.
The boy was frank enough and knew what he wanted.
"There are plenty of geniuses in Spirit City.
When you get there, everything will be done by the rules. No one will go easy on you because of your background."
"Aren't you afraid you won't be able to compete with them?"
"I am, but I'm more afraid of breaking the rules!"
Feidinan looked at Jiang Huai with growing satisfaction, even addressing him more warmly.
"Good. Talking to you, boy, doesn't give me heartburn."
"Stay in the sanctuary for the next few days. Once I have arranged its affairs, I will personally escort you to Spirit City to hear His Holiness the Pope impart her supreme, wondrous methods."
At this, he glanced again at the White Tiger phantom behind Jiang Huai.
"If the White Tiger and Hell Spirit Cat are compatible, they can perform the Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Hell White Tiger."
"When the time comes, as long as His Holiness the Pope permits it, I will spare no expense to abduct a member of the Zhu Family with the Nether Civet Martial Soul to assist your cultivation!"
Jiang Huai's brow twitched as he listened.
Wait a few more days?
How could that do?
He would not be able to sleep until he reached Spirit City.
As a legendary captain in his previous life, Jiang Huai was quite confident in his luck!
Dongzi would drag me into a secret chamber? Absolutely impossible!
No matter what, he had to hurry to Dongzi's side!
In that case...
It seemed Jiang Huai would have to give the bishop another little push!
At just the right moment, the innocent bewilderment of a child appeared on his face,
"My lord bishop, can everyone only awaken one Martial Soul?"
The moment he said this, Feidinan's gaze became as sharp as a blade,
"What do you mean by that, young friend?"
Jiang Huai slowly raised his left hand,
and the White Tiger phantom behind him dissipated. Its supremely hard and masculine presence receded, and a stream of cold, sinister Soul Power surged from within him.
Then, the phantom of a Hell Spirit Cat appeared behind him.
"T-Twin Martial Souls?"
Feidinan could not believe what he was seeing!
The White Tiger and Hell Spirit Cat?
This boy actually had a second Martial Soul!
What did that mean?
Hadn't the Dai and Zhu families intermarried for generations precisely for that Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Hell White Tiger?
And now, both Martial Souls had appeared in Jiang Huai alone!
Terrifying indeed!
Truly terrifying indeed!
Innate Full Soul Power, Twin Martial Souls.
The last person with such talent was none other than the current Pope!
No!
Jiang Huai's potential might go even further!
Although the Pope's Death Spider Emperor and Soul Devouring Spider Emperor were both top-tier Spider Emperor Martial Souls,
Feidinan had never heard that she could fuse those two Martial Souls.
If Jiang Huai could perform Hell White Tiger on his own, then once he had fully cultivated both Martial Souls, even the Pope might not be able to suppress him at the same cultivation level!
Even if he could not fuse them himself for the time being, they could still find a woman from the Zhu Family with a compatible Martial Soul to perform it with him.
Twin Martial Souls, plus a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
The combat power they could unleash would far exceed one plus one!
At this thought, Feidinan could not help swallowing.
"Young friend, can you fuse your two Martial Souls and perform Hell White Tiger right now?"
Faced with Feidinan's question, Jiang Huai first nodded in confirmation, then shook his head repeatedly.
Did the worth of a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill even need explaining?
Even in the era of the Peerless Tang Sect ten thousand years later, no Soul Master had been seen possessing such a method.
It was not until the era of The Legend of the Dragon King twenty thousand years later that it appeared in Wu Siduo.
No, before I meet Dongzi, I have to keep something up my sleeve!
"My lord bishop, I can sense that there is indeed some connection between my two Martial Souls."
"But to fuse them and perform the Hell White Tiger you mentioned, I'm afraid I'll still need to explore it a little."
After hearing this, the delight on Feidinan's face grew even stronger.
As long as he can sense it!
He had only just awakened them and could already detect the connection between his two Martial Souls. With proper training in the future, how could there be no chance?
With a genius like this, he would worry even if the boy remained in Star Luo City for one more day!
"Young friend, it seems our original arrangements will need to change.
There is no time to lose. Go bathe and change first, and then we will set off for Spirit City immediately!"
"Rest assured, I will have my most capable confidant send an urgent message and report your circumstances to His Holiness the Pope before we arrive."
At this, Feidinan reached out and patted Jiang Huai's shoulder, his tone growing ever more kindly,
"The way I see it, you have the makings of Spirit Hall's Holy Son!"