Chapter 19 – Spirit Soul (1/2)

Author's note: Don't cry Wulin. Stand up… cough cough. I request collections, I request recommendation tickets, then I will treat him a bit nicer. (Guide on how to stop Wulin Cruelty here, courtesy of CKTalon and Etvolare)

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Within the white spirit soul ball, a little fellow was quietly crawling.

It really was too tiny, measuring only about ten centimeters in length and was about as thin as a child's finger. Its body was an earthen yellow color, and if you looked at it closely, a tiny rhombus shaped scale could be seen.

“This is a spirit soul?” Tang Ziran raised his head and looked towards the Spirit Master as he asked with a dubious voice.

Nearly everyone would recognize what this tiny thing was. This was because it was the commonly seen Gra.s.s Snake, a type of harmless, small animal. Although it was a type of snake, it was definitely the weakest of its species.

A fully grown Gra.s.s Snake would be about twenty to thirty centimeters in length and about as thick as a finger. It would only be able to feed on some puny insects.

If it was to be described in the simplest of words, only four were needed. Harmless human raised livestock!

Ever since his martial soul awakened and he found that he possessed spirit power, Tang Wulin had countless fantasies as to what his first spirit soul would be. He fantasized that after combining his martial soul with a spirit soul, his martial soul would improve and become powerful. It would bestow upon him a dazzlingly powerful spirit skill, and he would officially become a Soul Master.

Fantasies were fine, but reality was cruel.

Gra.s.s Snake? This wasn't even a question of its strength, but whether or not it was actually a spirit soul.

The Spirit Master was also staring blankly at this Gra.s.s Snake. He let out a gentle sigh and said somewhat bitterly, “When it rains, it pours. Child, your luck really is…”

He knew that artificial spirit souls were still reliant on the genes of the soul beast they were created from. As a result of the gradual extinction of soul beasts, soul beast genes had also unceasingly depleted. The researchers of the Spirit PaG.o.da had tried many times to use non-soul beast genes to create a spirit soul and see if the result was acceptable.

The experiment was a success, but the fact was, the spirit souls made from those genes were pitifully weak. Basically, no one would be willing to buy them.

Without a doubt, this Gra.s.s Snake was one of the defective goods he had spoken of earlier. What's more, it wasn't just any defective goods, it was a spirit soul that lacked the slightest bit of soul beast genes. This spirit soul occupied the hundredth position in the spirit soul extraction machine, and there was a constant number of a hundred spirit soul b.a.l.l.s in the machine at all times…

The Spirit Master sighed then nodded his head. “I'm certain that it's a spirit soul, but it's a weak spirit soul. The spirit soul has already been activated after its extraction, so you must fuse with it within twenty four hours. If not, it will die. You can decide for yourself if you want to fuse with it. If you don't wish to, then you can return in the future to select another spirit soul.”

Tang Ziran looked at his lifeless son and was barely able to suppress the pain in his heart. He held his son's shoulders and said, “Lin Lin, let's go home.”

Tang Wulin remained silent as he began walking away.

“Wait a moment.” The Spirit Master couldn't bear it anymore, and called out to them.

“You should renounce this spirit soul. Although it was a successful product of the experiments, but it's still…” Out of compa.s.sion, he still continued to explain the origin of this Gra.s.s Snake.

Tang Wulin didn't know how he had gotten home, but he had been holding the spirit soul ball close to his heart the whole time. That Gra.s.s Snake spirit soul had a very lovable appearance and wasn't afraid of slithering out of the spirit soul ball at all. In fact, this kind of low level spirit soul didn't have any sort of intelligence. Before fusing with a martial soul, it wouldn't even be able to react to its environment.