69novels Chapter 16: Fusing Souls
Chapter 16: Fusing Souls
"My martial soul is my eye; I call it the Golden Eye." Yu Chen answered honestly to the Spirit Master's question, since this was all public information.
"His main spirit is his eyes, no wonder, no wonder, he's definitely a spirit-attribute spirit master! Genius, this is a genius!"
The spirit master muttered to himself, but suddenly, he thought of Yu Chen buying a hundred-year-old soul spirit without batting an eye. In addition, Yu Chen and Na'er's appearances were clearly not those of ordinary people, and Yu Chen's talent at this moment... Tsk, why does this feel so much like a scene of a young master from a large family training outside?
Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. It's only a few dollars a month, why should I work so hard? I'll just ask as usual.
"Child, what is your innate soul power level?"
"Innate soul power? My innate soul power is level 1."
Hearing the spirit medium's words, Yu Chen answered truthfully. All this information was recorded, so he had no reason to lie.
"Level 1?" The Spirit Master's lips twitched. He thought to himself, "Just as I thought. Can't these big family scions come up with a plausible excuse? What family can cultivate so quickly with only level 1 innate soul power? They're treating us low-level soul masters like fools."
Although the spirit medium was constantly complaining in his heart, he still had to do his job, and he would also get a lot of benefits from selling a hundred-year-old spirit.
"Um, Uncle, I don't know either. I just felt something change in my eyes one day, and then my cultivation speed became very fast." Seeing that the Spirit Transmission Master was stunned, Yu Chen thought he didn't believe him and quickly added.
[The martial soul suddenly changed, and then the speed of soul power cultivation increased? Tsk, that's a plausible explanation. Is it a second awakening of the original martial soul?]
"Could it be the legendary second awakening of one's original martial soul?! Yes, only a legendary occurrence could explain this! Child, your luck is truly extraordinary!"
The spirit medium paced back and forth, his expression one of utter excitement, his emotional intensity practically off the charts. But inwardly, he was cursing aloud.
These rich kids really know how to pull off some tricks! Do they really enjoy seeing us make those monkey-like faces?!
Sigh, what can you do? These people risk losing their jobs just by talking. It's all for survival, so let them live like monkeys.
"Alright, young master, now I'll give you a test report. When you go to the intermediate soul master academy, you can hand it in directly, and then I'll take you to choose a soul spirit."
This time, the spirit master spoke with a respectful attitude towards Yu Chen, as if there was an invisible, thick barrier between them.
"??"
Upon hearing the title "Spirit Transmission Master," Yu Chen was quite puzzled, not understanding how his behavior had changed so much in just a few minutes. He seemed to have misunderstood something.
"Spirit Master, what kind of spirit should I choose?"
Even so, Yu Chen did not correct him, and continued to ask. As for what kind of soul spirit to choose, Yu Chen was really undecided, so he simply stopped thinking about it.
"Young master, your martial soul is the eye, so absorbing a spirit-type soul would be perfect. However, spirit-type souls are quite rare, especially those that are a hundred years old. There is only one hundred-year-old spirit-type soul here, named the Ghostly Eye. What do you think?"
Upon hearing Yu Chen's words, the Spirit Master pondered for a moment and then spoke directly.
[So it was all for this spirit-attribute soul? Oh well, it's none of my business. As long as he pays, he's God.]
"Thank you for your suggestion! Then I will choose the Ghost Eye as my spirit."
Having received the Spirit Master's advice, Yu Chen answered without hesitation.
"Just as I thought." The spirit master thought to himself, then led the way, leading him through the corridor to a heavy alloy door.
"This is our branch's high-age soul storage room, which is specially used to store high-level souls that are over a hundred years old."
As the spirit medium spoke, he placed his palm on the recognition area on the side of the door.
"Beep—Authentication successful. Please enter your password."
The spirit medium's fingers danced rapidly across the screen, inputting a string of complex code. With a low, mechanical hum, the heavy, secret door slid open to one side.
The interior wasn't the vast space I'd imagined; instead, it resembled a sophisticated laboratory, measuring only about twenty square meters. The walls around the room were inlaid with rings of dark gold soul-guiding magic arrays.
The room was quite empty, except for a black metal platform that was suspended in mid-air.
The spirit medium walked to the metal platform, fiddled with it for a while, and soon a groove slowly cracked open in the center of the metal platform, revealing a yellow sphere bound by several pale golden beams of light.
The yellow sphere then slid down and landed in the metal tray below.
"This is the soul you wanted."
"Since the Soul Master releases the Soul Spirit by hand, the degree of fusion with the Soul Spirit will be higher, so this process must be carried out by you personally."
The spirit medium handed the metal tray to Yu Chen and gave him instructions.
"I understand, Master Spirit Transmission."
Hearing the words of the spirit medium, Yu Chen nodded and accepted the metal tray.
Yu Chen looked down at his own soul spirit. The surface of the soul spirit ball emitted a faint light and a faint life force. Upon closer inspection, one could also see a phantom vertical pupil.
"For Soul Masters who purchase Soul Spirits at the Spirit Pagoda, if you need to fuse them directly, we will provide a special training room to help you successfully fuse Soul Spirits and advance your level. Young Master, would you like to fuse here or go back to fuse them?"
"Yes, here it is."
Seeing that Yu Chen had decided to begin the fusion now, the spirit master didn't say anything more, but led him to a cultivation room.
After activating some simple soul-guiding soundproofing arrays, the spirit master closed the door and went out.
"Let's begin."
Sitting quietly on the ground, Yu Chen placed the original Soul Orb on the ground, then sat cross-legged, held his breath, took out the Soul Orb from the metal tray in his arms, and opened it.
Then a phantom vertical pupil appeared in the soul sphere. A hundred-year-old soul spirit is indeed incomparable to a ten-year-old soul spirit. The soul spirit in front of Yu Chen felt very vigorous and active, and even seemed to be subtly resentful of being absorbed by Yu Chen.
Upon seeing this, Yu Chen's mind stirred, and his golden eyes appeared. The dazzling light caused the spirit with the ghostly eyes to suddenly tremble. Its vertical pupils seemed to flash with extreme terror, and its energy-based body instantly curled up into a ball.
Then the fusion began.
As expected, the soul was almost instantly refined by Yu Chen.
Then Yu Chen felt a slight warmth in his dantian. His previously stagnant soul power flowed smoothly across the threshold like a stream with its sluice gates opened.
He stood up, stretched his limbs, and felt much lighter. The power of a Soul Master was nothing special after all…