BATTLE OF THE FIVE GODS.

Seeing the vine the tower master was surprised and proclaimed, "this is a miracle in never thought something like this could be possible, how can his body contain this much destructive thunder?" Hao Lian replied, "his body is much stronger for someone his age however even then it is barely holding on and I'm afraid the strongest he grows, his body may not be able to withstand this power anymore, this is why I brought him here this time, I have long heard about the new unyielding souls being developed by the spirit pagoda these souls cannot be taken by anyone but need to be earned, I believe that as long as little Yan learns the recognition of one of those souls there could be a possibility of him strengthening his body enough to actually withstand the effect of the thunderclap vines power,"

His teacher wasn't lying, Ming Yan himself could feel that the power of Thunder flowing within his body was becoming way too much for him to contain, regardless of how slow his soul power was increasing the ferocity of his lightning was increasing almost on a daily level, by his own calculations he didn't have more than a year until his body could no longer sustain his thunder power. After analysis by the branch sect master Zhao Xin it was discovered that the only way for him to survive the catastrophe was by breaking through the seventh ring which based on his cultivation speed couldn't happen within a year, so they needed to find other ways to offset the ferocity of the lightning in his body or find a way to increase his body's endurance.

The only solution his teacher came up with was a fusing powerful spirit soul that it triggers some mutations within his body to increase his defence and endurance for the time being, listening to the teacher's analysis, Bai Zhang nodded in acceptance and stood up to lead the two of them somewhere else, exiting the office they returned to the elevator and went downwards this time Ming Yan could see through the sides of the elevator that they were returning downwards until they reached the ground floor, then he stopped seeing anything and the elevator kept descending. Until they reached the floor designated as B7 the elevator stopped and the three of them came out, in here all lighting came from fluorescent lighting that mimicked natural light, 

As they passed through the floor Ming Yan couldn't see what was inside the offices but he could hear sounds of beast roars and cries, and see shadows through the translucent glass every now and then, they came to the end of the hall and entered the door there, inside they found something akin to a massive forest, how this was possible so far underground he had no idea but it was a natural forest, he could feel that much from the life energy coming off the plants, Bai Zhang led them through the forest walking for about 30 minutes before encountering a clearing and he stopped, he directed Ming Yan, "enter the center of the clearing and unleash your thunderclap vine martial soul to its full extent, with its aura spread throughout the forest it will be detected by the unyielding souls, as for whether you obtain the recognition of any soul would be up to luck."

Ming Yan didn't refuse as well, standing at the center of the clearing he unleashed his thunderclap vine to it's full power, and even added the aid of the Boa Titan spirit soul, when Bai Zhang saw the spirit soul he was shocked, "Titan Boa King, how did you get the legendary king of all serpents to be his spirit, I can attest that in the soul tower we have never had a soul sample of the Titan Boa king as a spirit soul." Thinking of this Hao Lian replied with an innocent expression on his face as if he didn't know anything about it, "Speaking of this, I also have no idea, when I found this kid he was being hunted by the serpent and I helped him subdue it, it happened to be around the time when he had reached the tenth rank bottleneck so he absorbed the soul beast.

It was a peak hundred year soul beast at the time but when he fused it something unexpected happened, not only was the beast's soul fused into his body and became a spirits soul but its body vanished along with it, i have no idea what happened to it, all that was left were a few fragments if its bones, scales, flesh and blood droplets, when I collected them I expected them to go bad but for some reason these pieces remain charged with lightning and they don't seem to be affected by the passage of time. I used two of its blood drops to assist a few of my students who have the thunder element and the results were shocking, 

Someone that had been stuck on the sixty ninth bottle neck absorbed the blood drop and not only was their bottleneck washed away ushering them into the seventieth rank, but his martial soul underwent a mutation after absorbing this blood drop and the mutation was positive, it elevated his talent that had long since dried up and set him on a new path, as I speak he is at the eightieth rank and he is expected to impact the title within a year or two, although the is no hope of him crossing the planar calamity but the peak of the title shouldn't be a problem. 

As for the second blood drop I gave to a child that had a mutated martial soul, originally his parents had the Thunder hawk and Lightning spider martial souls and this led his martial soul to mutate, however since the origin martial souls weren't very pure the mutation wasn't positive and he got a poisonous scorpion martial soul, however because of its mutation he only awakened one unit of soul power and he wasn't even expected to reach rank 20 in his life. Since his origins were in lightning I used the Titan boa blood drop on him and to my surprise he got the biggest mutation inhale ever recorded, his martial soul transformed into a manticore sub species with the body of a human faced spider except its eight legs were somehow scaled like a reptile, its body was covered with reptilian scales and at the end of its body it had a scorpion tail, it also had scaled wings and even more interesting is that it reclaimed its thunder element, as we speak the child has already reached the 30th rank and his martial soul is just getting stronger," 

Although he had proclaimed it all as an accident how could Bai Zhang not realize that he had specifically detailed the power contained in the remains of this beast's body, so he responded, "Unyielding souls are the most expensive treasure of the spirit pagoda regardless of their age, how about instead of paying for the spirit soul the Tang sect master exchange it with the remains of the Titan boa serpent, even with the discount given to the Tang sect this is still a fair deal." Said Bai Zhang,

Hao Lian seemed to be thinking about it critically, but deep inside he was already rejoicing, the truth is he was already going to donate these remains to the spirit pagoda as he didn't actually have the time to make better use of them like the spirit pagoda could and their value was really astronomical, at the same time he also knew just how valuable and expensive the unyielding souls were, this was a treasure brought by the founder of the spirit pagoda from the dragon horse federation, so he was inclined to accept their offer however not so quickly so he came up with a strategy, 

"If Ming Yan can be recognized by a ten thousand year spirit soul then I will handover all the remains in my possession which is five bone fragments the smallest being 9 cm and the biggest 1 meter, seven flesh samples roughly 1kg, fifteen scales and seven blood drops, if he obtains a thousand year spirit soul the items presented will only be two thirds and if it's a hundred year spirit soul only a third will be provided, I don't know what the tower master thinks?" Bai Zhang was shocked by the amount of materials, one must know that original beast materials are quite valuable and the rarity of the beast also makes the materials all the more valuable, although the unyielding spirit was valuable the truth is they weren't all original materials they were processed and only retained the instincts of the original soul beast,

To exchange the spirit for fresh materials of such a high level soul beast would be a benefit to the spirit pagoda he was certain that the Tang sect master should be aware of this as well and although he was at a loss he should have done this because the two organizations had been united in a way by the return of the spirit pagoda founder so this was also a form of donation from the sect to the pagoda just disguised as a business transaction. From these materials should the origin be pure hundreds and maybe thousands of spirits could be cloned and even if the origin wasn't so pure at least hundreds could be cloned, this was a massive benefit to the tower. So to keep the spirit of cover up initiated by the Tang sect master Bai Zhang also had to pretend, after all everything that happens in the tower is recorded. 

"Then let's wait for Ming Yan and hope his luck is somehow good." Responded Bai Zhang, in the field before them Ming Yan had been displaying his martial soul for a while now and the breath released from it had surprised them as well, several spirit souls had already appeared in the periphery of the clearing and they were simply watching him below but none of them took the liberty to come forward, but could be that they doubted him or maybe his aura wasn't so pure but the most likely outcome was that the Titan Boa spirit soul was an intimidation to these spirits and they couldn't come close to it or else the silent could see it as a threat and attack them, from its initial appearance, the serpent had grown to over 25 meters long, its silver scales had also gotten an edge to them making them slightly convex upwards, its eyes had turned silver purple and the center scale on its head was pure amethyst, along it's back was a line of silver purple scales tracing all the way to the end of its tail. These silver purple scales were beautiful and had a reflective look making them appear more regal, they also seemed to be the source of its aura that was about a hundred times stronger than before.

Around its body lightning surged and the space seemed slightly distorted, this stand off remained for close to an hour and Ming Yan's soul power was running out, just when Hao Lian was about to go forward and stop all this considering this a failure, suddenly something entered his range of spiritual exploration, with his spiritual strength already in the true god level divine origin realm he still couldn't lock down this soul beast, as it flew space and time around it were heavily distorted that even his spiritual power was delayed, In a few minutes the spirit soul had arrived at the edge of the clearing, With its arrival, it slowed down greatly and landed at the edge of the clearing, the beast even bowed its head slightly to Ming Yan before turning its gaze to look at his spirit soul,