"Come, I'll will take you to select a spirit."
The serious atmosphere dissipated, and Su Wuyan was cheerful.
"With Arthur's current spiritual power and physical strength, even if the first spirit you absorb is a thousand-year one, there won't be any problem."
"A thousand-year spirit."
In the current era, absorbing spirits didn't require as high physical strength from spirit masters as before; it mainly depended on spiritual power.
Spiritual power levels were divided into Spirit Origin Realm, Spirit Connection Realm, Spirit Sea Realm, Spirit Abyss Realm, Spirit Domain Realm, and the Divine Origin Realm which reached the divine level.
333's spiritual power had far surpassed the Spirit Origin Realm and was at the Spirit Connection Realm. It was sufficient for Arthur to absorb a thousand-year spirit.
The two had just walked out of the awakening room when a spirit transmitter hurried over. He inquired with a hesitant expression: "Dragon Sparrow Douluo, may I ask about the pillar of light just now?"
Dragon Sparrow was Su Wuyan's title.
"Oh, I just had a breakthrough, it's nothing major." Su Wuyan waved his hand, paired with a cheerful smile, seeming quite convincing.
"Phew, apologies for disturbing you." The spirit transmitter breathed a sigh of relief. He had thought something had happened.
So it was commotion caused by the tower master, then it wasn't strange. He didn't associate it with martial soul awakening; after all, in all these years of martial soul awakenings, there had never been such a phenomenon.
"It's fine, go about your business."
After the spirit transmitter left, Su Wuyan turned around with a smile: "Arthur, you don't blame me for stealing your thunder, do you?"
"As long as you're happy." Arthur didn't care.
"Actually, I'm doing this for your own good. A tall tree in the forest attracts the wind, which is never a good thing." He said lightly: "If it reaches the tower master's ears, it would be even worse."
"You mean Qiangu Dongfeng?"
The only one Su Wuyan, as a branch tower master, would call tower master was Qiangu Dongfeng.
"That's right, Qiangu Dongfeng is not a good person." Su Wuyan narrowed his eyes slightly, his tone unfriendly: "Geniuses with minor talent are fine, but if they're too talented, they'll attract his wariness. Either become his dog, or be suppressed by him."
"He also meddles in various departments, competing for power."
Su Wuyan let out a sneer: "Heh, he thinks he's so scheming, treating us like fools."
"Little does he know we just can't be bothered to compete with him. Sigh, the Spirit Pagoda will be ruined in his hands sooner or later."
"Indeed." Arthur agreed.
He had forgotten some details from the original work, but he still had some impression of the character Qiangu Dongfeng, who indeed wasn't a good person.
"Let's go. Today uncle makes the decision, any spirit in this tower is yours to choose!"
There was one more thing Su Wuyan didn't mention: these past two years, because he had been paying extra attention to evil spirit master affairs, he had discovered something amiss. The Spirit Pagoda's crackdown on evil spirit masters had decreased somewhat recently.
Although there were policies within the tower that provided reasonable explanations for this, he always had a bad premonition.
Along the way, Arthur silently contemplated what spirit to choose.
For spirit masters, choosing a spirit was of utmost importance. One wrong step could lay the groundwork for future failure.
However, for Arthur, spirits might not be as important as imagined.
He could feel that his holy sword and holy spear martial souls didn't have a strong need for spirit abilities. They came with their own Noble Phantasm liberation.
Noble Phantasm liberation was his strongest attack method, its power linked to his spirit power cultivation and the degree of liberation of the thirteen restraints.
So he just needed to avoid being stuck at a level. Spirit abilities from spirits could at most determine his lower limit.
Sensing his two martial souls, Arthur wavered between the Sword of Promised Victory and the Spear that Shines to the World's End, unable to decide which to cultivate first.
The holy sword had thirteen restraints.
The holy spear did too. Its restraints were modeled after the holy sword's, also numbering thirteen.
"Let's cultivate the Sword of Promised Victory first."
Although the holy sword and holy spear had the same rank, there was still a difference in power.
No matter what, the holy sword was specifically for destroying enemies. The holy spear's function was more to anchor the world, so it was definitely inferior in attack power.
"Then the choice of spirit becomes very simple."
Arthur made his decision: choose spirits that could provide enhancement abilities as much as possible.
Flashy attack abilities couldn't raise his upper limit, so the first choice was enhancement abilities to strengthen his own attributes.
After strengthening his physical attributes, Arthur just needed to be a proper holy sword wielder, and leave the rest to the holy sword.
They arrived at a special pure white metal room.
Opening the screen, Su Wuyan searched through spirits one after another.
"Arthur, which martial soul do you plan to cultivate first?"
"The holy sword."
"That sword." After brief consideration, Su Wuyan selected a spirit.
It was a wolf-type spirit beast. Its body fur had a blue-purple base color, interspersed with delicate brilliant patterns. The patterns glowed faintly, like twinkling starlight.
"A 1,100-year Starlight Wolf, an extremely powerful light attribute spirit beast. Its powerful hunting talent even made them abandon the wolf species' pack-living habits to live alone."
Hearing his uncle's introduction, Arthur inquired: "Can it give me enhancement-type spirit abilities?"
"Probably not."
"No, no."
They switched to another spirit beast. White scales covered its entire body like battle armor. Its enormous body made the earth tremble with the slightest movement. It was visibly a mountain dragon-type spirit beast.
"White Armored Mountain Dragon, 1,500 years of cultivation."
"Dragon type?" Before the other could finish, Arthur shook his head repeatedly: "No, no."
"Then look at this one, Titan Giant Ape, one of the leaders in the strength direction among spirit beasts, combining offense and defense, very powerful."
This one was quite good, but somehow felt unsuitable for him. "No, no."
Su Wuyan couldn't take it anymore. "You little brat, you don't want this, you don't want that. What exactly are you thinking?"
"There are only so many good thousand-year spirits in my East Sea City Spirit Pagoda."
"Uncle, don't you have any unyielding spirits?" Arthur revealed his true intention.
His requirements for spirits weren't high. Enhancement-type spirit abilities were also hard to come by, so he might as well directly choose an unyielding spirit.
In this era where bloodlines were supreme, choosing an unyielding spirit at least meant not backing down because of the opponent's noble bloodline.
"Unyielding spirit?" Su Wuyan stared at Arthur blankly. Numerous thoughts flashed through his mind, and finally he affirmed: "Yup!"
The image of a spirit beast tearing through the sky appeared on the screen. Its wingspan was over ten meters, its body resembling an eagle but more robust, muscle lines taut like forged iron, full of explosive power.
"Skyshatter Eagle!"
"One of the true sky overlord spirit beasts, and this one is only 1,200 years of cultivation."
"If it were a 100,000-year Skyshatter Eagle, it would truly blot out the sun. Unfortunately, nowadays it can only reach 100,000 years and manifest in spirit form."
"Ten thousand years ago, perhaps one could see its complete form."
"Even with only over a thousand years of cultivation, the Skyshatter Eagle has considerable intelligence. Taming it is extremely difficult."
"This is the one." Arthur fell in love at first sight. Such a handsome spirit deserved to be used by him.