Su Ming's gaze moved away from the various strange spirit soul eggs and landed on the man inside the room who had his back turned to him.
The man turned around.
His face was very imposing, commanding respect without anger, and he looked extremely stern. Although he wasn't using Spirit Power, the heaven and earth origin energy naturally swirled around him.
"Greetings, Tower Master."
"Mm, you are Su Ming?"
Zhang Tianyang looked Su Ming over once and nodded.
Su Ming stood respectfully in place without any overly bold actions.
"You have innate full Spirit Power and can directly fuse with your first spirit soul," Zhang Tianyang said. "Are you certain your Martial Spirit is Elemental Control? Check the characteristics of your Martial Spirit once more now, then choose a suitable spirit soul."
Following Zhang Tianyang's instructions, Su Ming genuinely tried again.
Around him, various elements flickered.
The Spirit Power within his body was drawn out, and then various elements began gathering around him.
Blue, red, yellow, cyan—water, fire, earth, wind. The four elements rotated around him.
Zhang Tianyang's pupils contracted slightly.
"How is the Spirit Power consumption?"
Su Ming thought for a moment and said, "If I just maintain it like this, I can keep it up for three hours."
"Very good!"
He affirmed Su Ming's ability to control elements.
Through his perception, he could confirm that Su Ming was mobilizing external elemental forces. This was crucial and represented an extremely exaggerated category among Elemental Spirit Masters.
Being able to mobilize external elemental forces meant not only low consumption when using Spirit Skills but also great power, not limited by the Spirit Master's own total Spirit Power.
"Are there other elements?" Zhang Tianyang asked casually.
Su Ming said, "There should be."
He closed his eyes, concentrating fully to mobilize the harder-to-control elemental forces.
One black and one white, two elemental light spheres condensed and appeared, rotating around him outside the water, fire, earth, and wind elements, forming a black and white ring.
Zhang Tianyang was secretly surprised.
Six elements now.
He looked at Su Ming, signaling him to continue trying, feeling a secret anticipation within.
Was there a spatial element?
Under his expectant gaze, a silver light slowly manifested before Su Ming.
Spatial element!
He actually mastered all seven major elements? What kind of exaggerated Martial Spirit was this?
This wasn't just having the potential to control seven elements, but also needing to acquire corresponding elemental control Spirit Skills through individual Spirit Rings. This was an innate ability he could use right after Martial Spirit's awakening!
"Excellent, very good!"
Zhang Tianyang praised repeatedly.
He was very satisfied with Su Ming's performance.
"Since there's no mistake in judging the Martial Spirit's ability, you can now choose a spirit soul." He pointed to the various spirit soul eggs behind him and said, "These are the most precious batch of spirit souls in the Tianhai City Spirit Pagoda, including some special ones, all preserved here. You can take a look first."
Su Ming nodded silently.
Actually, when he had fully immersed himself earlier, he had sensed another element-like existence, vague and seemingly non-existent. It was entangled with space but even more concealed. Or rather, it wasn't concealment, but because its entanglement with space was so deep that only a trace remained; in reality, there was no such element.
He guessed what it was.
It was the time attribute.
Time had no corresponding elemental force, but it was a real attribute, deeply entangled with space.
Being able to sense the corresponding attribute without a corresponding element could only mean his body possessed exceptionally excellent talent for the time attribute!
As for why he had the time attribute, Su Ming had an idea.
He didn't mention this to Zhang Tianyang and began carefully studying the spirit souls here. With Tower Master Zhang Tianyang personally explaining, Su Ming listened with surprise, learning about these many rare spirit souls.
Every single spirit soul here was enough to create a genius.
Create, not just match.
"This is the advantage of spirit souls. They can transform many age-suitable Spirit Beasts into spirit souls. These actually represent the accumulated efforts of the Tianhai City Spirit Pagoda over these past ten thousand years."
Zhang Tianyang's words were already considered tactful.
In reality, he meant the path of spirit souls had pushed the exploitation and oppression of Spirit Beasts by Spirit Masters to the extreme.
Especially regarding age limit. In fact, during this ten-thousand-year process of Spirit Beast extinction, the Spirit Pagoda had captured far more spirit souls than the total number of all Spirit Beasts on the continent ten thousand years ago.
For low-age spirit souls, the Spirit Pagoda preserved a large number of juvenile spirit souls.
Encounter a juvenile super Spirit Beast that hasn't gone extinct with a low age limit?
Transform it into a spirit soul, sparing it ten thousand years of arduous cultivation. It only takes over ten years to grow to over three hundred years of cultivation, then it is kept for future Spirit Masters who need it.
New juveniles are born? Then capture them again.
From a hundred years to a thousand years, as long as it's not ten thousand years, the Spirit Pagoda absolutely doesn't lack rare spirit souls. Because the more powerful the Spirit Beast, the faster it cultivates. A hundred years can be worth a thousand, a thousand years can be worth ten thousand.
Do the math carefully. Over ten thousand years, before the great extinction began, the Spirit Pagoda only needed to pretend diplomacy with the Spirit Beasts for three thousand years to harvest ten batches of ordinary Spirit Beast spirit souls around three hundred years old, and harvest one to three batches of ordinary Spirit Beast spirit souls under three thousand years old.
For powerful bloodline Spirit Beasts, it was even more exaggerated.
Of course, as development continued, the Spirit Pagoda's ambitions grew larger. Not satisfied with transforming existing Spirit Beasts into spirit souls, they gradually moved towards the path of creators, researching artificial spirit souls!
Artificial spirit souls required a massive Spirit Beast database, so the Spirit Pagoda began slaughtering Spirit Beasts on a large scale to establish a Spirit Beast genetic database, to replicate these Spirit Beast spirit souls, and even use these genes to independently recombine and complete the creation of entirely new life.
In fact, over the years, the Spirit Pagoda had indeed created many unprecedented spirit souls. Some of these spirit souls had innate defects, unable to even fully exhibit the effects of their template Spirit Beast Others were incredibly defying the heavens, belonging to entirely new species. They followed Spirit Masters through battles, growing from hundred-year spirit souls all the way to ten-thousand-year spirit souls alongside their master, providing powerful assistance.
Su Ming came to a corner of the rare spirit soul room.
The items placed here were all artificial spirit souls, products of the Tianhai City Spirit Pagoda's research institute. Among these spirit souls, some were good, some were bad, and most were unknown.
Zhang Tianyang noticed Su Ming's gaze fixed on one particular spirit soul.
That spirit soul was a brilliant golden light sphere. The scene inside couldn't be seen; it seemed the spirit soul was just a sphere of golden light.
He remembered this artificial spirit soul and spoke to Su Ming: "This spirit soul was a key project of the research institute a few years ago. Back then, there was an anomalous movement of heaven and earth origin energy within the East Sea area. The research institute personnel guessed it was a Spirit Beast naturally conceived by heaven and earth, similar to an Ice Snow Maiden. The research institute interrupted its condensation at that time, sealed and compressed the heaven and earth origin energy of that space, using it as a foundation for modification. Through a fortunate coincidence, this light sphere condensed."
"The detected Spirit Power fluctuation of this spirit soul places it at the three-hundred-year level, suitable for your age limit. But it should still be in an unformed state. It might transform into a form most compatible with the Spirit Master after fusion, or it might not react at all."
Zhang Tianyang reminded Su Ming very seriously.
"If you choose to absorb this spirit soul, you must be prepared to gamble."
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