Lin Huan headed toward the Spirit Pagoda branch in Eastsea City with his daughters. Along the way, the children spotted plenty of tasty-looking things and gazed at them longingly.
Seeing this, a mouse appeared in Lin Huan's hand. He circled a bundle of candied hawthorn skewers, copied it, then pasted it, and a bundle appeared in his hand.
"One each. No fighting."
"Thank you, Dad."
"Thank you, Master."
The children took their candied hawthorns one after another. Na'er immediately broke into a sweet smile after taking hers, as though having something to eat was enough to make her happy. Perhaps this was the world of a foodie.
Tang Shan took the candied hawthorns Lin Huan handed her and had a bite. They tasted incredibly sweet. Anything Master gave her was sweet.
Their group of one adult and six children was quite eye-catching. Some people might have wondered which elementary academy's teacher was bringing students to the Spirit Pagoda.
Of course, some also suspected Lin Huan might be a child trafficker or something of the sort, but when they saw several children calling him Dad, their doubts vanished.
The seven entered Eastsea City's tallest building, the Eastsea City branch of the Spirit Pagoda.
"Hello, sir. What service are you here for?"
Seeing Lin Huan's bearing as someone in a position of authority, the receptionist addressed him respectfully.
Reading people was an important skill for a receptionist. One look at Lin Huan's bearing was enough to know he was no ordinary person. Lin Huan wasted no words and pointed to the six little ones beside him.
"I'm here to buy Soul Spirits for my daughters and disciples. Oh, and my title is... Lotte."
"...So it's Your Eminence Lotte. I'll make the arrangements immediately. Please follow me."
The moment Lin Huan announced his title, the receptionist broke into a cold sweat. A distinguished Titled Eminence had actually come to visit. Good heavens!
The group arrived in the reception area. Many members of prominent families were also there with their juniors to choose Soul Spirits, and Lin Huan's group drew everyone's attention.
A question mark appeared over everyone's heads. How strange. Why did this man come with a spotlight over his head?
They looked up and discovered that the surrounding lights had gone out at some point. A beam of light had appeared out of nowhere above Lin Huan, shining down on him and making him extremely conspicuous.
"Dad, why do you come with your own spotlight? And why are there special effects wherever you walk?"
Lin Xiaozi looked down and discovered that red spider lily effects rose with every step Lin Huan took. Hearing her, he pondered briefly, then brought up his effects panel and switched it off.
"I forgot to turn my effects off. It's fine now."
As his words fell, the surrounding lights abruptly came on, as though nothing had happened. Everyone around them was full of question marks. What the hell was this? Even someone who came with walking effects had shown up.
Soon, Lin Huan's group was brought to the VIP area, which was used to receive distinguished guests. The area outside only offered more ordinary Soul Spirits, while VIP areas like this offered high-grade Soul Spirits, and even top-grade ones, to win people over.
"Your Eminence Lotte, this contains the Soul Spirit inventory of our Eastsea City Spirit Pagoda branch. Please take a look."
The receptionist offered him a tablet. Lin Huan did not take it. Instead, the tablet floated into the air, instantly became six copies, and was distributed to the five little girls beside him.
"Pick whatever catches your eye. We're not short on money."
This display gave the receptionist quite a shock. He had retrieved something through the air without revealing his Martial Soul or any Soul Power fluctuations. His strength was clearly considerable. As for creating things out of thin air, that went somewhat beyond her understanding.
The seven sat on a nearby bench. Na'er sat on Lin Huan's lap, sharing his tablet because little Na'er had yet to awaken her Martial Soul.
Elsewhere, many people had also noticed Lin Huan's actions. That display had made it obvious that he was definitely an immensely powerful expert. No one was blind enough to go looking for trouble.
Among them was a brother and sister choosing Soul Spirits. Because their elders were busy, they had come with their family's butler.
Xu Xiaoyu looked at Lin Huan, wondering why a Titled expert had suddenly appeared in Eastsea City, accompanied by six children who seemed to all possess innate full Soul Power.
If they did not have innate full Soul Power, why bring them here to choose Soul Spirits? Beside him, a little girl with blue hair tied in twin tails raised her tablet.
"Brother, I want this snow rabbit. It's so cute!"
The blue-haired girl pointed to the hundred-year Ice Snow Rabbit Soul Spirit on her tablet. It was a Soul Spirit from the Far North. Its quality was average, but its price was still considerable.
"All right, let's buy it."
Xu Xiaoyu checked the price. Three million was acceptable. After all, it was an intermediate Soul Beast, and finding an ice-attribute Soul Spirit in a coastal region was no easy task.
Meanwhile, Lin Huan's group had almost finished choosing their Soul Spirits. Only high-grade Soul Spirits were available to choose from. None met his standards, but they could be upgraded.
After choosing Soul Spirits, the next step was testing mental power. This was also an important part of the process. If someone lacked the mental power to support a Soul Spirit, they might suffer a backlash.
However, this generally would not happen to these geniuses. Soon, everyone's results were out.
First was Lin Xiaozi, with 137 mental power, in the spirit connection realm.
Lin Xiaolü, with 121 mental power, in the spirit connection realm.
Jia Lin, with 101 mental power, in the spirit connection realm.
Tang Shan, with eighty mental power, in the spirit origin realm.
Wang Dong'er, with forty-four mental power, in the spirit origin realm.
"Huh?! Why is mine so low?!"
Wang Dong'er stared wide-eyed at her mere fifty-four-plus mental power. This was not right, was it? They all had innate full Soul Power, so why was the gap so huge?
Tang Shan was also shocked. Despite cultivating the Purple Demon Eye, her mental power was actually far below Xiaozi's.
"Dong'er, Little Shan, your Martial Souls have nothing to do with the mental attribute. Your starting mental power is just a little lower. Don't worry about it."
Holding tiny Na'er in one arm, Lin Huan stroked Wang Dong'er's head with his other hand to comfort her. Wang Dong'er immediately choked on her words, her pride as a genius shattering into pieces in an instant.
"Hehe! Mine's the highest! I'm the boss!"
Looking at her highest mental power score, Lin Xiaozi folded her arms across her chest, her face full of pride. The eldest sister was the eldest sister. Everyone else was a little sister before her!
While they discussed whose mental power was higher or lower, the staff member beside them was utterly stunned. The spirit connection realm at six years old? And three of them! Where had these monsters come from?
After testing their mental power, the next step was fusing with their Soul Spirits. After quietly reporting the information, the receptionist explained the relevant precautions.
"Once you receive your Soul Spirit spheres, you must not take them outside the Spirit Pagoda. This is to prevent Soul Spirit reselling. Also, after opening a Soul Spirit sphere, you must absorb the Soul Spirit within twenty-four hours, or it will dissipate. Please keep that in mind."
After hearing these precautions, the little girls entered the quiet rooms provided by the Spirit Pagoda to absorb their Soul Spirits.
Following Lin Huan's instructions, the little girls entered their quiet rooms and sat cross-legged without touching the Soul Spirit spheres in their hands. They were waiting for his instructions.
Outside, Lin Huan held Na'er as a mouse appeared in his right hand and he began operating it. The mouse crossed several light-years to reach the Star Dou Great Forest in the Soul Beast Realm. Fewer than a hundred Soul Beasts remained there, leaving it exceptionally desolate.
Most of the younger ones had been captured, leaving only ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts, a scattering of thousand-year Soul Beasts, several hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts, and ferocious beasts such as Di Tian.
Now, a mouse descended from the sky. Di Tian abruptly looked up and saw a very strange object flying toward him.
"What is this? A Soul Tool developed by humans?"
Di Tian murmured, raising his hand and grabbing as he spoke. The space around the mouse twisted and shattered, but his attack passed straight through it. The mouse cursor was shaped like a diamond sword.
Old Di watched the diamond-sword mouse land on him, draw a circle around him, and copy him.
He stared blankly as the mouse flew away, his mind still dazed. Meanwhile, Lin Xiaozi held a Burning Fire Beast Soul Spirit in her arms. This was a high-grade Soul Spirit.
Its flames had a burning destruction effect, giving them something in common with destruction. Then the diamond-sword mouse flew over. Lin Xiaozi recognized it as her father's gaming mouse.
The mouse selected the six-hundred-year Burning Fire Beast Soul Spirit. A right-click brought up numerous options, and Lin Huan finally chose replace.
The six-hundred-year Burning Fire Beast Soul Spirit was replaced with a six-hundred-year Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King Soul Spirit.
"All right, absorb it."
Lin Huan's voice sounded in Lin Xiaozi's mind. Only then did the white-haired girl open the Soul Spirit sphere and begin absorbing the six-hundred-year Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King Soul Spirit.
The Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King Soul Spirit wanted to resist, but its power of ultimate darkness was completely suppressed by Lin Xiaozi's power of destruction, and it was ultimately refined in an instant.
Meanwhile, in the Star Dou Great Forest of the Soul Beast Realm, the mouse returned. A question mark appeared above Di Tian's head as he watched it fly toward him again.
Then the mouse dropped something in front of him. Looking closely, he discovered a six-hundred-year Burning Fire Beast. It was alive, not a Soul Spirit. Lin Huan had revived it and tossed it back into the Star Dou Great Forest.
Then the mouse selected Di Tian again. A question mark appeared above Old Di's head. Wait, again?
Meanwhile, Jia Lin held a Scarlet Fire Dragon Soul Spirit in her arms. The instant Lin Huan saw it, his whole body shook. Oh no! The Scarlet Dragon Emperor wants to reincarnate! This dragon cannot be allowed to remain!
He immediately replaced the Soul Spirit sphere in Jia Lin's hands with a six-hundred-year Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King Soul Spirit and deleted the six-hundred-year Scarlet Fire Dragon. The world was finally quiet.
Jia Lin also opened her Soul Spirit sphere and began absorbing it. The Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King Soul Spirit initially wanted to resist, but upon taking a closer look and finding one of its own kind, it immediately submitted, willingly merging with Jia Lin to become her first Soul Spirit.
It had to be said that Old Di-brand Soul Spirits were easy to use. Their quality was ridiculously good. Soon, Lin Xiaozi and Jia Lin emerged from their quiet rooms and released their Martial Souls.
For a moment, an ultimate presence of destruction intertwined with scorching heat. Purplish-black eroding annihilation black fire ignited on Xiaozi's body. This was eroding annihilation power, formed from the fusion of destruction power and corrosive black fire possessing ultimate darkness.
Scarlet-black flames ignited on Jia Lin's body. She controlled two kinds of flame: her innate natal flame, mystic gold scarlet flame, and Di Tian's dark dragon flame. The two could also merge with each other.
Lin Huan waved his hand, suppressing the two utterly extreme powers. Xiaozi's Soul Skill was this eroding annihilation black fire. Once the black fire enveloped her, it directly increased all her attributes by one hundred percent.
The flames could also form weapons and armor, and inflict a pile of negative effects when injuring enemies. Even hundred-year Old Di-brand Soul Spirits were extremely powerful.
Beside her, Jia Lin's first Soul Skill was Dragon God Claw. That was right. Because they were of the same kind, her very first Soul Skill had rolled Dragon God Claw.
Seeing this, Lin Huan could not help snarking inwardly. Old Di, why did you bring out your trump-card skill straight away? Is this right? Six-six-six, a jackpot! She pulled the ultimate basic attack taught to you by the Dragon God.
As everyone knew, Dragon God Claw was actually the Dragon God's basic attack, and the Dragon God's skill list was as follows:
Dragon God Claw, Super Dragon God Claw, Consecutive Dragon God Claws, Serious Dragon God Claw, Super Consecutive Dragon God Claws, Super Serious Dragon God Claw, Consecutive Serious Dragon God Claws, Super Consecutive Serious Dragon God Claws.
No stats, all mechanics. Our Dragon God really was so mechanically demanding! All he needed to do was hold down basic attack and perform a super-difficult combo of basic attacks woven between normal attacks to achieve victory.
While the two little girls explored their Soul Skills, a little girl with light-blue twin tails also emerged from another quiet room. She was now a glorious One-Ring Soul Master as well.
"Brother, I've finished absorbing my Soul Spirit."
"Mm... little sis, we're in no rush to go home. Want to try making some friends?"
Xu Xiaoyu was a shrewd fellow too. Since he had encountered other prodigies in Eastsea City, and prodigies accompanied by a Titled Eminence at that, he naturally had to make their acquaintance.
"Make friends?"
A question mark appeared over Xu Xiaoyan's head at the mention of making friends. Xu Xiaoyu frantically flicked his eyes toward the figures beside them, signaling for his sister to go make friends.
Watching her brother's eyes twitch madly, the blue-haired girl suddenly looked enlightened.
"Brother, did you get sand in your eyes?"
"What?"
Xu Xiaoyan's words left Xu Xiaoyu speechless. He covered his face, feeling that his sister did not seem particularly bright. Just as he was preparing to walk over and speak to them, he noticed she had disappeared.
"Xu Xiaoyan?"
He froze at his vanished sister, then looked around and saw that she had already run over to Lin Huan.
Actually, Xu Xiaoyan was quite clever. She just had a mischievous streak and wanted to see her brother speechless.
"Um, big brother, are those candied hawthorns for sale?"
Xu Xiaoyan came up to Lin Huan and blinked, her eyes fixed on the bamboo pole covered in candied hawthorn skewers beside him. She looked cute and innocent.
"Oh? Little girl, would you like some?"
Seeing the adorable little girl, Lin Huan crouched slightly and stroked her head as he asked. He was quite friendly toward little girls, and Xu Xiaoyan nodded obediently.
"Yes, yes, I would."
"Then you can have one."
Lin Huan plucked off a candied hawthorn skewer and handed it to her. Xu Xiaoyan thanked him with an adorable smile.
"Thank you, big brother. Did you bring your little sisters here to buy Soul Spirits?"
"No, they're my daughters and disciples."
"Daughters? Big brother, you look so young, yet you already have daughters? I thought they were your little sisters. Sorry, I got it wrong."
"It's fine. I just look young."
The four-thousand-character chapter for November fourth.