Qian Daoliu smiled. "I know your First Dad and Second Dad have special identities, so if they join the Worship Hall, they'll simply hold seats as worshippers. They won't have to stay in the hall all the time like the other worshippers."
"They simply don't want to come out."
"There are benefits to becoming worshippers, too. Don't your First Dad and Second Dad want soul bones? If Spirit Hall obtains high-quality soul bones suited to them, they'll have priority."
Honestly, Gui Yuan really was tempted. He even wanted to agree on his First Dad and Second Dad's behalf right away.
But he still restrained the impulse and hesitated for a moment. "Then I'll ask First Dad and Second Dad later, and Teacher... Teacher should agree, right?"
Qian Daoliu nodded, his gaze resting gently on him.
"All right, enough about them. Now it's your turn."
"You've made such a great contribution to Spirit Hall. It wouldn't be right if I did nothing."
"Is there anything you want?"
Gui Yuan looked up at him and said earnestly, "I want a hundred thousand year soul bone."
Qian Daoliu said, "...Ahem."
He cleared his throat, looking a little embarrassed for once. "Spirit Hall doesn't have any hundred thousand year soul bones at the moment."
"If I remember correctly, there should be an eighty-thousand-year soul bone, and it even has a spatial attribute. Do you want it?"
Gui Yuan looked disappointed. "Only eighty thousand years? Then forget it. I don't want it."
Qian Daoliu laughed in exasperation. "An eighty-thousand-year spatial soul bone is worth no less than a hundred thousand year soul bone, and you're still turning your nose up at it? A hundred thousand year soul bone-you really dare to dream."
Gui Yuan was thoroughly unconvinced. He stood up and took two steps back.
"Grandpa Qian, it's not that I look down on that spatial soul bone. I already have a spatial external soul bone. Look."
With a thought, golden light flashed at his shoulder blades.
Six translucent, gilded wings unfurled with a swish, as thin as cicada wings, tiny golden patterns of light flowing along their edges.
The wings refracted colorful halos in the sunlight, carrying a faint, elusive spatial fluctuation.
"This external soul bone is called the Six-Winged Golden Cicada Wings. It gives me the ability to teleport through Spatial Shuttle."
"And later, I might even be able to use this soul bone and the characteristics of my second martial soul to develop an offensive spatial soul skill."
His second martial soul was a soul. He had previously said he would follow a path focused primarily on the mental aspect, with other aspects as support, but souls were inherently elusive things.
Might he not be able to combine his second martial soul's netherworld attribute with the Six-Winged Golden Cicada Wings' spatial attribute, then create a soul skill "beyond the fathoming of gods and ghosts"?
Of course, this was only a flash of inspiration for now. With his current strength and control, he was not yet qualified to create his own soul skills.
Rather than spend time on that, he would be better off having Second Dad teach him a few more ways to use his soul martial soul.
If he still had spare time, he could also familiarize himself with using the Darkin Bow.
At present, all he could do with the Darkin Bow was fire simple shots. His development of it could be said to be close to zero.
Divine artifacts all had divine skills, yet he currently had none and could only use basic attacks.
It was a little embarrassing to think about.
Still, he was only a Soul Ancestor now. He would probably need Soul Saint cultivation to begin bringing out a divine artifact's power, and there was nothing he could do about that.
Qian Daoliu looked at those wings, a trace of surprise flashing through his eyes. "A spatial external soul bone? You really do get up to all sorts of things."
Gui Yuan put away his wings and sat back down. "So, Grandpa Qian, that eighty-thousand-year spatial soul bone really would be redundant for me."
Qian Daoliu fell silent for a moment, then asked, "Is a hundred thousand year soul bone all you want? Don't you have any other requests?"
His voice softened a little.
Gui Yuan thought for a moment, then shook his head. "Grandpa Qian, you know I'm not even eight yet, and I have twin martial souls, a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill, a divine artifact, and a deity's inheritance."
"Once a soul bone is fused, it can't be removed, so I don't want to fuse with a soul bone below a hundred thousand years so rashly. Even if you really gave me that eighty-thousand-year spatial soul bone, I wouldn't absorb it."
"Or rather, I'd only settle for second best if I couldn't obtain a hundred thousand year soul bone later."
After hearing this, Qian Daoliu sighed inwardly.
Twin martial souls, a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill, a deity's inheritance, a divine artifact... That truly was a lavish lineup.
Even his granddaughter, Qian Renxue, did not have such a lineup.
Still, Gui Yuan really was qualified to make such a request. Only ambition like that befitted everything he possessed.
At that moment, Qian Daoliu had undoubtedly thought of Qian Renxue, far away in Heaven Dou City, and he could not help giving Gui Yuan another couple of looks.
The boy had good looks, and his talent was among the very best on the continent.
If I could match him with my granddaughter...
The thought flashed through Qian Daoliu's mind, but he immediately shook his head.
He really was growing muddleheaded in his old age. Gui Yuan was not even eight yet. What did he know about love?
His granddaughter was already seventeen.
Actually, the age gap itself was not much of an issue. It was even the smallest problem standing between the two of them getting along.
The key was the issue between Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong. Gui Yuan was also Bibi Dong's disciple. Forcing a match would probably cause serious trouble.
Not only would Qian Renxue be displeased, but Bibi Dong would probably explode, too.
So the idea had only appeared in Qian Daoliu's mind for an instant before he dismissed it.
We'll see when the two have a chance to meet in the future. Let things take their natural course.
In any case, Gui Yuan was deeply bound to Spirit Hall. There was no need to deliberately use Qian Renxue to forge a marriage alliance.
"All right," Qian Daoliu said. "I'll keep the hundred thousand year soul bone in mind. If I find one someday, I'll save it for you."
Gui Yuan grinned. "Thank you, Grandpa Qian."
He paused, then added, "But aside from a hundred thousand year soul bone, I actually have another idea. It's about my first martial soul."
"Let's hear it." Qian Daoliu picked up the teacup on the stone table and took a sip.
Gui Yuan straightened in his seat. "Grandpa Qian, you know my first martial soul, the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, follows the Food System path, and the Food System's weakness is its lack of ability to protect itself."
"Of course, I have my second martial soul and a divine artifact to protect me, so that doesn't count as a weakness for me."
"The food produced by a food-type martial soul can be stored, boosts me when I eat it, and doesn't consume any additional soul power. Those are advantages."
"But I'm actually still a little dissatisfied."
Qian Daoliu raised an eyebrow. "What are you dissatisfied with?"
Gui Yuan said, "I've been thinking. Every kind of food a Food System Soul Master makes has a very special effect, so why can't I have a soul skill that 'lets me become a Battle Soul Master as a Food System Soul Master'?"
Qian Daoliu paused slightly. This idea soared rather far beyond the skies.
"So I read a great many books and finally narrowed it down to a soul beast that might grant me that kind of soul skill."
Qian Daoliu was somewhat curious, too. "What soul beast?"
Gui Yuan looked at him and said, "The Mirror Image Beast in the Frozen Forest of the Far North."