Chapter 121: The Legend of Gods

Heaven Dou Imperial Academy – Library.

Xiao Lin, Tang San, and Xiao Wu arrived at the place with the most books in the entire Heaven Dou Empire.

At this moment, both Tang San and Xiao Wu were stunned by the massive library.

"Brother Lin, this place is huge!"

Tang San frowned slightly. Looking for information about soul tools here would be way too slow.

Hearing Tang San's words, Xiao Wu nodded repeatedly in agreement.

If she had known it was this big, she wouldn't have come.She'd rather be training, eating something tasty, or chatting with Ye Lingling.

"It's alright. Just average in size."

Xiao Lin, however, found it unimpressive. In his past life, he had seen libraries far larger than this one at Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.

In fact, he felt it was a pity that the library wasn't bigger.Estimating by eye, it was only about 20,000 square meters—how many books could a library that size possibly hold?

Walking in with Tang San and Xiao Wu, Xiao Lin headed straight to the section on soul beasts—he had a clear goal.

They were all approaching level 40 now, so they had to find the most suitable soul beasts before leveling up.

Even though their soul beast choices were unlikely to change, the reasoning was simple: powerful soul beasts were rare.

Unless they were obscure and extremely rare, the soul beast information in the Fasno Province library should already cover the types Xiao Lin and the others were looking for.

Besides a book titled "Soul Beast Thousand Selections," Xiao Lin also picked two more:

"Top Ten Ferocious Beasts" – a ranking of legendary soul beasts

"Legend of the Sea God" – a record of the Sea God becoming a deity on Seagod Island

The reason Xiao Lin chose these two was simple: he was genuinely interested in them.

The Sea God's story needed no explanation, and the Top Ten Ferocious Beasts immediately caught his attention.

This was the first time Xiao Lin had seen any written record about the "Top Ten Ferocious Beasts."

He had thought that this concept wouldn't even appear until ten thousand years later.

Then again, it made sense—humans of this era weren't as advanced as those ten thousand years in the future, but surely they'd encountered ferocious beasts, right?

Perhaps some soul masters had already considered soul beasts with cultivation over 100,000 years as "ferocious beasts."

Could a 100,000-year soul beast possibly go unnoticed by Xiao Lin?

Clearly not.

After Xiao Lin checked out his two books, Tang San and Xiao Wu also borrowed a few.

They were all related to soul tools. Xiao Wu mainly helped Tang San check out extra books.

"Brother Lin, the soul tool books at Heaven Dou Imperial Academy are really limited," Tang San complained as they left the library.

He and Xiao Lin weren't quite the same—Tang San had assumed he could borrow any soul tool book he found. But after searching for a long time, he realized most of them didn't even match the depth of his own research.

Some weren't even as accurate as Xiao Lin's teachings.

As a result, Tang San only found four worthwhile books.

It wasn't that the academy had that few books on soul tools, but with the limited time, Tang San couldn't find more.

"It's normal," Xiao Lin said. "Both great empires, even the Spirit Hall, and all the major powers on the continent—they all revere martial soul power. Plus, soul tool technology has practically gone extinct…"

Xiao Lin understood the situation. While speaking, he handed Tang San his Legend of the Sea God book.

"Look—Sea God's Legend. In this world, becoming a god is possible."

"Besides the Angel God that Spirit Hall worships, there's also the Sea God of Seagod Island. I've also read that Star Luo Empire has legends of a War God."

"Then there's the Slaughter City mentioned in another book. That might involve the God of Slaughter. There's also mention of an Ice God."

"It's said that the Titan Snow Demon King in the extreme north is a descendant of the Ice God—though who knows if that's true."

As Xiao Lin spoke, a gleam of ambition flashed in his eyes.

Ever since he reached his current level—and especially with his future opportunities like immortal herbs and blessings from Seagod Island—Xiao Lin had become increasingly curious about the so-called gods.

Whether he inherited a divine position or forged one on his own, his final goal was already set: to become a god.And he wasn't satisfied with just any god—he wanted to surpass Tang San's Asura God.

To become the strongest god!

Sounds boastful? Maybe.But Xiao Lin was absolutely serious.

He just didn't plan to inherit two god positions like Tang San did.After all, he didn't have a Scabbard of the Asura God like Xiao Wu (lol).

"Gods…? Do they really exist?"Tang San, reincarnated from another life, muttered in a daze.

If gods really did exist, was it a god who saved him and sent him to this world?

Still, Tang San soon set the matter of gods aside.

With his strong sense of action, he decided to focus on completing his soul tool and hidden weapon projects first.

"Gods!?"

Xiao Wu, unlike Tang San, found herself inspired by the idea.

As a soul beast who had lived a long time, she knew that gods were real.

There was even a saying in the soul beast world:

"Soul beasts are not worthy of becoming gods."

Because of this belief, some weaker soul beasts who couldn't pass the 100,000-year tribulation would gamble on turning human—and becoming a god.

But no transformed soul beast had ever succeeded.

Still, Xiao Wu was no longer a "slacker."

Especially after realizing her soul power was at the level of a top human genius, she began to develop hopes of her own.

With the soul ring plan Xiao Lin laid out for her, she thought maybe she could become the God of Space—or at least, the God of Speed.

She just didn't know if those divine positions actually existed.

Xiao Wu allowed herself to dream.But before she became a god—she had revenge to take care of.

Now that their trio had reached genius-level strength, and with auspicious beast Tangni (Tang Ni) about to join, a few more years…

She was confident she could get her revenge.

After avenging her mother, she'd ascend to godhood—and bring her mother back to life.

Thinking of this, Xiao Wu happily swayed her head, her scorpion-tail braid swinging back and forth.

"Oh no!"

Suddenly, Xiao Lin cried out, as if remembering something important.

"What's wrong, Brother Lin?"

Tang San and Xiao Wu looked at him in confusion. Their usually composed Lin-ge (well, sometimes unserious) rarely looked this flustered.

"I just remembered—I had a duel scheduled with Tang Ni yesterday to decide who would be captain of the Emperor Battle Team—and to settle what we'll call each other going forward."

Xiao Lin finally explained the agreement he'd made with Tang Ni.

"She must've been waiting for a long time…"

He felt a twinge of guilt.

It wasn't that Xiao Lin feared being beaten by an angry Tang Ni.He just genuinely felt bad about forgetting.

The duel had been Xiao Lin's idea after learning Tang Ni was a genius like them (same spirit power level and age).

And it would help determine how they should address each other.

Tang Ni was older than Tang San, making her his honorary big sister. But Xiao Lin was also older than Tang San!

And since Tang Ni never told them what month she was born in, Xiao Lin suspected she was hiding her real age.

So he figured—let's settle it with a duel.

Meanwhile…

Emperor Battle Team's Training Grounds.

Tang Ni stood stiffly on the battle platform, arms crossed, teeth clenched as she glared toward the entrance.

You could almost hear her teeth grinding.

"Xiao Lin, you bastard!!"