"Alright, I'll let you communicate first."
Then the ground in front opened up, raising a platform where the mighty and imposing Skyshatter Eagle stood facing Arthur.
Drawing out a thread of spiritual power, Arthur's spirit connected with that of the Skyshatter Eagle.
The moment the connection succeeded, he could feel a violent aura rushing toward him.
"Scram!" The impatient, terrifying cry suddenly halted. Unlike the humans who had come to attempt this before, the Skyshatter Eagle sensed a strange power in this human.
It was a power that both unsettled it and put it at ease, very contradictory.
"Human, what is it?" This time the cry was gentle and clear.
Intelligence capable of normal communication with humans after just over a thousand years? Arthur was extremely surprised. Based on this alone, ten thousand years ago it would have been guaranteed to become a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
"Can you become my soul spirit?" Arthur threw a direct pitch. "Please entrust the rest of your life to me."
"Human, you are very arrogant." The cry was disdainful.
"Why should I choose you?"
There's hope.
Arthur's eyes lit up. In matters of soul spirit contracts, if the other party didn't directly refuse, that meant they were inclined to agree.
Drawing upon the power of the Sword of Promised Victory, he clearly knew what made him different from others. This was also the only power he had to attract the other party.
A sacred, ethereal yet extremely powerful aura slowly emerged.
"What about now?"
"..." No answer. The Skyshatter Eagle fell into silence.
After thinking for a moment, Arthur instead drew upon the power of the Holy Lance.
"Acceptable."
This time, without waiting for Arthur to inquire, the Skyshatter Eagle directly gave its answer. It sensed a power that stood above all things, but that power was very weak, like a newborn spirit, and did not suppress it. It was merely the pure noble rank that attracted it.
The spiritual power of one person and one beast began to resonate.
The Skyshatter Eagle's exterior bloomed with dazzling radiance. Its form was gradually completely obscured by the light, finally melting into a ball of light.
From the void above, several beams of light descended, spinning down and entwining around Arthur.
To the side, Su Wuyan, who had been tense-faced all along, breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this. He could sense this was the formation of a contract, so it seemed Arthur's communication with the soul spirit had gone smoothly.
With the soul spirit contract as a bridge, the qi of both parties drew together, and the Skyshatter Eagle transformed into a ball of light that shrank and drilled into Arthur's body.
At this moment, all the strange phenomena paused, then, like a whirlpool of flowing water, surged into Arthur's body.
Immediately after, a purple soul ring emanating a mysterious aura rose up. Upon close observation, the soul ring's surface was carved with faint greenish-gold patterns, elegant and noble.
At the same time, Arthur's soul power, which had been stuck at level 10, also broke through the bottleneck and began to surge rapidly, increasing dramatically.
It rushed all the way to the peak of level 14 before stopping, not far from level 15.
"How do you feel?" Su Wuyan asked curiously. This was the first time he'd seen someone contract a thousand-year Unyielding soul spirit at the start.
"I feel... I feel..." Arthur frowned with his eyes tightly shut.
"What's wrong?" His heart jolted, and Su Wuyan's face showed worry. Could something have gone wrong?
"I feel great!"
The soul power on his body erupted. The purple soul ring behind him suddenly lit up. He summoned the Sword of Promised Victory and swung his hand, slashing out a sword qi.
The fierce sword qi rushed toward Su Wuyan. He didn't dodge, allowing the sword qi to strike him before carefully savoring it. His eyes lit up. "Is this your first soul skill?"
"Its power can already match that of a Spirit Elder from the assault system."
"You're underestimating me too much, old man." Arthur chuckled. "My first soul skill is called Soul Power Release."
"It can strengthen both my own body and my weapon. That sword qi was just the manifestation of the soul skill applied to the weapon."
"If applied to myself, it can amplify all my attributes by one hundred percent."
"Amplify all attributes by one hundred percent!" Su Wuyan was already numb. In such a short time, this nephew had brought him too many surprises.
"Whew, it just consumes a lot of soul power."
Stretching his body, casually throwing a few punches, silently sensing his body's strength under Soul Power Release, Arthur felt refreshed and invigorated.
After calculating in his mind, with his current soul power he couldn't maintain it for long. He'd have to use it at critical moments during battle.
Raising the holy sword in his hand, Arthur said a word of thanks. His first soul skill should originally have been a simple soul skill similar to the Skyshatter Eagle's attack methods, but under the holy sword's interference, it became the powerful Soul Power Release.
Moreover, Soul Power Release wasn't a fixed soul skill. As Arthur's Spirit Master level increased, Soul Power Release would also become stronger.
A gleam of golden light flashed across the holy sword, as if saying "you're welcome."
Arthur mentally touched the holy sword. "Don't worry, I'll properly serve as a holy sword wielder."
He had to sigh that being a holy sword wielder was truly easy: just sit back and let the holy sword carry him to greatness.
"Good, good, good!"
The numb Su Wuyan finally came back to his senses, saying "good" three times in succession.
"Arthur, attack me with full force!"
"Alright."
Arthur didn't hesitate. He also wanted to know what level his full power was at.
Soul Power Release activated. Arthur held the holy sword, his swift figure charging toward the old man ahead.
At the same time, inexplicably, a great wind rose up in the sealed room. With the wind's assistance, his speed increased by several notches. Speed is power.
This sword contained all his soul power, his everything.
Cold light flashed. The sword edge pressed forward relentlessly.
"Very good. This strike can already defeat the vast majority of Spirit Elders."
Su Wuyan brought his index and middle fingers together, catching the sword with one hand. He asked in surprise, "However, what's with this great wind? Is it also an effect of that Soul Power Release?"
"More or less."
Nodding, Arthur withdrew the holy sword martial soul and instead summoned the Holy Lance. A green soul ring rose up behind him. "At the same time as attaching a soul ring to the holy sword, the Holy Lance independently condensed a soul ring. This soul ring granted me the ability to control the wind element."
"Of course, my use of the wind element is still very crude. The great wind just now was formed by me adding the wind attribute into Soul Power Release."
Independently condensing a soul ring, and the soul skill was even the powerful wind element control.
His gaze fixed on that floating green soul ring, Su Wuyan's throat rolled. The twin martial souls that shone brilliantly ten thousand years ago actually had a flaw in the present: the spiritual power couldn't bear the burden of too many soul spirits.
A martial soul that could independently condense soul rings meant Arthur no longer had any weaknesses.
Wind element control, the offense-and-defense integrated Soul Power Release. Arthur had just become a Spirit Master and already had no obvious shortcomings.
"Wait!" Su Wuyan suddenly reacted. "You can use the soul skills of both martial souls simultaneously?"
"Huh, seems like it. I used them naturally." Scratching his head, Arthur had also just noticed this point.
Twin martial souls, whether or not one could use the soul skills of both martial souls simultaneously, represented concepts as different as heaven and earth.
Looking at the nephew before him, Su Wuyan felt somewhat emotional. This was a true genius. Having just awakened his martial soul not long ago, he had already displayed the potential for invincibility.