Douluo Dragon King: Martial Soul Spring and Autumn Cicada, Lord of Time

Not long after.

Lin Ximeng and Zhao Tao then arrived at the Spirit Transmission Tower branch located in the center of Aolai City.

This is an octagonal building with three floors, which appears square and spacious.

Although it cannot compare to the headquarters of the Spirit Pagoda, which has a full eighty-one floors, this branch of the Spirit Pagoda is still one of the most magnificent buildings in Aolai City.

After explaining his purpose, the spirit medium in charge of receiving him explained the value of spirits to Zhao Tao.

A soul will be randomly selected for 30,000 Federal Coins, but there is a possibility of getting a defective one.

Ten years of white soul, 70,000 Federal Credits;

A century-old yellow spirit, one million federal credits!

"I want to buy a hundred-year-old soul spirit!"

Upon hearing the spirit medium's words, Zhao Tao answered without hesitation.

One million federal dollars is a lot, but for Zhao Tao, it is still a manageable amount.

After all, as a reborn person, Zhao Tao can be described as an all-around master!

Before his rebirth, Zhao Tao had already upgraded all four of his secondary professions—forging, mecha design, mecha manufacturing, and mecha repair—to level nine.

Although Zhao Tao is reborn, due to the limitation of his soul power, he will definitely not be able to perform spirit forging or design battle armor.

But forging high-quality metal or designing mecha blueprints is no challenge for Zhao Tao at all!

With the income from these second jobs, a million federal dollars is not a large sum for Zhao Tao now!

"Okay, before you choose a spirit, let me give you a mental strength test."

I paid the fee to purchase the soul.

The spirit medium led Zhao Tao to a room filled with various instruments and put a metal helmet on him.

With a buzzing sound, numbers flickered on the soul guidance screen next to Zhao Tao before finally stabilizing.

"One hundred and fifty points, early stage of the Spirit Realm, this is simply unbelievable!"

Staring at the mental energy numbers displayed on the screen, the Spirit Master's face was filled with disbelief!

In the era of Dragon King Legend, the spiritual power of Soul Masters was divided into six major levels: Spiritual Origin Realm, Spiritual Connection Realm, Spiritual Sea Realm, Spiritual Abyss Realm, Spiritual Domain Realm, and Divine Origin Realm.

Generally speaking, for a young child like Zhao Tao, reaching 30 points of mental strength, which is the mid-stage of the Spirit Origin Realm, is already considered exceptionally talented.

Even the spirit medium himself only had a spiritual power of a mere 60 or 70 points.

Zhao Tao's mental strength, however, reached a staggering 150 points, which was truly astonishing!

Zhao Tao was not surprised by this result.

As a time traveler, Zhao Tao's mental strength was already stronger than that of ordinary children.

While refining the "Time Meditation Method," Zhao Tao also specifically added a part to tempering mental strength into the meditation method.

After all, Zhao Tao understood that in this era where the soul is revered, the importance of strong spiritual power is no less than that of the soul level!

With these two factors combined, it's no surprise that Zhao Tao's mental strength has reached the Spiritual Connection Realm.

Of course, both the Spirit Master and Lin Ximeng, who witnessed this scene, looked utterly hopeless and even suspected that the instrument was malfunctioning, so they helped Zhao Tao retest his mental strength value.

"It really is the Spirit Realm, unbelievable."

"Unfortunately, your innate soul power is at a significant disadvantage..."

"Otherwise, he will surely grow into a truly powerful and upright person in the future!"

Having confirmed Zhao Tao's spiritual power, the spirit medium quickly retrieved Zhao Tao's file.

When he saw Zhao Tao's innate soul power, he could only sigh and, with a face full of regret, led Zhao Tao to the storeroom where soul spirits were stored.

"These spirits are all the hundred-year spirits available in our Aolai City, and also include all the common basic spirits."

"Of course, if there isn't a soul spirit that you're satisfied with, you can also request some rarer soul spirits from the Spirit Pagoda headquarters."

"But the price is something that can't be solved with just one million."

The spirit medium introduced the numerous century-old spirits on display.

"Yes, I understand, this is it."

Hearing the spirit medium's words, Zhao Tao nodded and pretended to carefully select a spirit, finally choosing one named "Spring Silkworm".

Although the silkworm is not a powerful spirit in the traditional sense, it has an excellent compatibility with the cicada in spring and autumn.

Furthermore, it can absorb the power of time to continuously evolve, eventually breaking free of its cocoon and transforming into a butterfly of time, or even evolving further!

Before his rebirth, one of Zhao Tao's souls was the Butterfly of Time, which proved its power and its compatibility with the Spring and Autumn Cicada.

This is precisely why Zhao Tao chose it as his soul spirit.

"As a bonus for purchasing a Hundred-Year Soul Spirit, you can complete your breakthrough within our Spirit Pagoda. Come with me."

He personally took out the soul sphere containing the silkworm and handed it to Zhao Tao. The spirit master then led Zhao Tao to the cultivation room of the spirit tower branch.

"Before fusing with the soul, let's help the silkworm complete its evolution!"

After closing the door to the training room, Zhao Tao summoned his Spring and Autumn Cicada Martial Soul, and then took out the Spring Silkworm Soul Soul he had just obtained from the Soul Spirit Orb!

Looking at the Spring and Autumn Cicada Martial Soul and the Spring Silkworm Soul before him, Zhao Tao had a thought.

Within the cicada, the power of time, accumulated over a long period, was transmitted strand by strand to the soul of the silkworm under the control of Zhao Tao's spiritual power.

As the power of time flowed in continuously, the silkworm's soul grew and expanded, and marks appeared on its surface, seemingly the traces of time!

After a while, as if reaching a critical point, mysterious bronze-colored rings suddenly appeared on the surface of the silkworm spirit's body, and thousands of silver threads appeared on its body.

At this moment, after absorbing a large amount of time power, Zhao Tao's silkworm spirit has finally evolved into a thousand-year spirit - the silkworm of the year!

This is naturally not the limit. As long as the Soul of the Silkworm continues to absorb the power of time and spiritual energy, it can further evolve into the Butterfly of Time after ten thousand years.

Of course, for Zhao Tao right now, that's still a bit far off.

What he needs to do now is to fuse with the evolved Soul Spirit of the Silkworm and break through to the Soul Master level.

For other level 10 Soul Masters, fusing a thousand-year-old Soul Spirit as their first Soul Spirit is probably a pipe dream.

After all, only those whose spiritual power reaches the Spiritual Realm can fuse with the purple thousand-year-old soul spirit.

If a Soul Master at the Spirit Origin Realm forcibly attempts to fuse with another Soul Master of a higher level, they will suffer severe injuries at best, and at worst, their cultivation will be permanently stagnant.

However, for Zhao Tao, whose spiritual power had already reached the Ling Tong realm, fusing with a thousand-year-old soul was a piece of cake!

At the same time, the thousand-year soul ring resulting from the fusion of thousand-year soul spirits also places high demands on the physical qualities of the soul master.

However, as a reborn person, Zhao Tao had already prepared a special secret method to greatly reduce the pressure on his body when fusing soul rings and to avoid such problems!

After resting for a short while, Zhao Tao had a thought, sat cross-legged, held his breath and concentrated, and began to merge his soul with the spirit.

In the blink of an eye, the Spring and Autumn Cicada Martial Soul and the Silkworm Soul in front of Zhao Tao pressed tightly together and began to merge!

As the soul merged, surges of extremely powerful soul energy erupted from the depths of Zhao Tao's body, frantically assaulting the bottleneck he had just reached as a Soul Master!