Chapter 553 - Willful Spirit Soul (2/2)
“But not all of the soul beasts in the platform are defective products. For the sake of the system's stability, especially in the intermediate and advanced sections, we have added some complete spirit souls to improve system performance.”
Following this wealth of new information, Tang Wulin now saw the Spirit PaG.o.da in a new light. Awe filled him. Although the Heavenly Phoenix Douluo spoke lightly of such secrets, he understood that the technology required for such a system was far more advanced than anything he had previously heard of. It was technology refined over thousands of years of research, finally culminating as the spirit ascension platform.
Battle armor, artificial spirit souls, and the spirit ascension platform were all technological advancements that marked the advent of a new era. Each of these technologies brought humanity to a new level of existence and had enabled humans to push soul beasts to the brink of extinction. And the Spirit PaG.o.da had played a central role in the creation of all three. To say Tang Wulin had gained more insight into the strength of the Spirit PaG.o.da would not be a lie.
“Your Eminence, then the Tyrant Dragon we encountered is…” Tang Wulin did not dare to voice his complete thoughts.
Leng Yaozhu's narrowed eyes pierced him. “It was authentic. One of our willful spirit souls.”
“Willful spirit souls?” Tang Wulin asked, curious of this new term.
Leng Yaozhu nodded. “In order to answer your question, we have to first go over the permanence of spirit souls. Generally speaking, spirit souls begin dissipating the moment a soul beast dies. The Spirit PaG.o.da uses many unique technologies to preserve those spirit souls so we have enough time to find a suitable soul master for them. Right now we're even researching how to recycle spirit souls. That way when a soul master dies, as long as they're delivered to the Spirit PaG.o.da within three days, we'll be able to extract their spirit souls and preserve them for reuse. If we can get this system working, then we'd save a lot of resources. Of course, such cutting-edge research takes time to verify the viability. And we need soul masters willing to volunteer to help us, which is really rare since it's inevitable to suffer some degree of damage when a spirit soul is extracted.
“Now when talking about willful spirit souls, there are more things to consider. Willful spirit souls are extraordinarily resilient and strong. They last longer. Simply storing them drains a significant amount of the Spirit PaG.o.da's resources. Fortunately, after we created the spirit ascension platform, we discovered a way to put them into the platform. This both improved the system stability of the spirit ascension platform and provided us with a cost-effective way of storing the willful spirit souls.”
“And the Tyrant Dragon is a willful spirit soul?” Tang Wulin asked.
Leng Yaozhu nodded. “Yes, and it's one of the most powerful and haughty. There are few soul beasts that can boast its level of arrogance. Once, a rank 90 soul master was attracted to its domineering att.i.tude and tried to fuse with it for their final spirit soul. But it broke free, the backlash killing the soul master.” She sighed. “We've been holding onto its spirit soul for so long that it was already on the verge of disappearing for good. Not to mention it was the last of its kind. It was the epitome of ill-behaved, always rampaging and devouring herds of other soul beasts. We even considered euthanizing it, but couldn't bear to extinguish such a rare historical spirit soul. Saying that we were at an impa.s.se as to what to do with it would be an understatement. Saying that the Tyrant Dragon's unyielding will has never been tamed before would be an undeniable truth. At least, until you came and absorbed it today. We're really curious how this happened, so we want you to stay for a bit and let us gather some data.”
“Like I said earlier, willful spirit souls are incredibly hard to fuse with and cost us an enormous amount of resources to preserve. We need to get some data on it to present to the Spirit PaG.o.da's council. You don't have to worry about the examination. It'll be just like a routine medical checkup. And we'll share our data with you too. I've already informed Shrek Academy, so some teachers will be coming over to monitor your physical examination.”
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