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Chapter 12: Xu Yuan's Doubts
🕑 Added 2025-02-27 10:40:00 +0000 UTC“I know.” Xu Yuan’s face was calm, with a hint of determination.
“First of all, this path is inseparable from one thing, my own practice.”
The spear soul is a truly artificial soul. It does not have any existing soul beast gene as a template. Even if it can be born with some abilities and thus endow the soul master with soul skills, it is ultimately a new "race" and is too immature. If you don’t want to obtain useless soul skills, you must use your own practice to drive the evolution of the soul and grow synchronously with your own martial soul.
This means that the soul master’s soul rings and soul skills are no longer obtained from outside, but from within.
If you seek within, then the soul skill you get is the ability of your own martial soul, and at most it may be affected by the spear soul and determine the form of the soul skill.
Not only the spear soul, Xu Yuan will continue to strengthen his Tianyuan brush spear in the future, and match it with different metal souls, so as to strengthen the brush spear form of this weapon soul to the extreme.
This is the path Xu Yuan talked about.
The reason why Zhenhua said this was difficult was first because no soul master had ever walked this path before, and there were no cases to refer to, which made it extremely difficult.
“If you insist on taking this path, then you may still need to learn to be a blacksmith as your secondary profession.”
The blank of the spear soul is excellent, but it has not been forged. It can be improved through forging in the future, but if it becomes Xu Yuan’s soul, it is obviously the best choice to let Xu Yuan forge and improve it himself.
“There is also a matching plan for metal souls, which requires a deep understanding of various rare metals and forging.”
Xu Yuan listened to what Zhenhua said and nodded silently.
After a while, he said, “Uncle Master, being a blacksmith consumes too much energy. I have too many training tasks, so I may not be able to devote myself to becoming a blacksmith.”
Zhenhua stared at Xu Yuan for a long time and then sighed.
“Oh, never mind. In your spare time, follow me to learn the theoretical knowledge of forging. I will also teach you some auxiliary forging methods.”
The auxiliary forging method, as the name suggests, is a method of assisting forging.
This is also a common forging method on the mainland, but it is not practiced by pure blacksmiths, but prepared for those battle armor masters who pursue more extremes. It assists the blacksmith in the forging process, seizes the opportunity at the final moment of metal forming, and takes over from the real blacksmith to complete the forging of the last hammer.
In other words, it means finishing off the enemy – ahem, finishing off the enemy with a hammer.
However, to do this, one must first find a real blacksmith with whom one can cooperate well, and at the same time obtain the other party’s consent. One must know that most blacksmiths will not allow others to watch while they are forging, let alone join in the forging work.
“Xiao Yuan, although it is an auxiliary forging method, you still have to participate in the entire forging process. Because when entering the true spirit forging and soul forging, the whole process is integrated. The process of awakening the spirituality of the metal and giving it life needs to be uninterrupted throughout the whole process. The auxiliary forger must also join in the whole process. The two forgers communicate with the metal at the same frequency.”
This is the hardest part.
With the means of Master Craftsman Zhenhua, Xu Yuan can be brought into the rhythm. As for spirit forging and soul forging, as long as Xu Yuan’s foundation is solid enough, it can be achieved to complete the same frequency forging, but heaven forging is too difficult.
“Uncle Master, this is enough.” Xu Yuan said to Zhenhua.
“Um.”
“Don’t talk about those trivial things, let’s eat first.” Mu Ye’s voice came, accompanied by a rich aroma.
Xu Yuan and Zhenhua stopped discussing and went to the kitchen, where they saw a large piece of jelly-like substance on a plate, emitting a rich aroma.
This is?
Mu Ye introduced on the side.
“This is whale glue. If consumed, it can improve the physique of a soul master. In the era before the emergence of soul spirits, it was a must-have treasure for soul masters to absorb beyond their level.
Of course, even now, this whale glue is still of great significance for bearing the spirit rings bestowed by souls of higher levels. After all, although the carrying capacity of the soul depends on mental strength, the spirit rings bestowed by it still need to be carried by the soul master himself, and improving the physical fitness of the soul master is still important.
I cooked this piece of whale glue using my own secret method, removing some of the side effects and incorporating many other natural treasures, making it even more effective.”
After hearing Mu Ye’s introduction, Xu Yuan swallowed his saliva and felt that becoming Mu Ye’s disciple was definitely the right choice.
He really gives good things.
Of course, Xu Yuan also knew that when the time came to practice, Mu Ye would be really ruthless.
“Fortunately, I have small arms and legs now, so I can still enjoy it for a few more years.”
Xu Yuan put aside the possible abuse he might face in the future and walked forward and started eating voraciously.
It’s the fifth day since arriving at the Blacksmith Association headquarters.
Xu Yuan sat cross-legged, having just finished his medicinal meal. He was refining the medicinal power in his body, and his soul power was like waves, washing over and over again through his meridians.
Boom!
Suddenly, Xu Yuan’s soul power grew stronger, surging through his meridians, and a roaring sound broke out.
Level nine!
Before coming to Tiandou City, Xu Yuan had just broken through to level eight.
Going back a little further, it had only been about ten days since he awakened his martial soul, but he had already advanced two levels.
Last time it was because he was already close to a breakthrough, and he broke through naturally after the circulation of his soul power in his body was completed. This time it was because Xu Yuan consumed too many rare treasures, and the soul power accumulated in his body far exceeded the eighth level, and he directly broke through the shackles.
“It seems that breaking through level ten within a month is not a problem at all. If you look at it this way, what is the difference between my starting point and the innate full soul power?”
“You’re improving too fast. After this month, you won’t be able to use rare treasures to improve your soul power for at least the next five years.” Mu Ye touched his chin and said while observing Xu Yuan.
There is nothing wrong with using natural treasures to enhance soul power.
The mistake is to neglect the practice of soul power after it has been upgraded.
In fact, the concept of foundation rarely appears in Douluo Continent. This concept appeared before the unification of the Federation. The soul masters of the Sun-Moon Empire were obsessed with the production of soul guides. They needed soul power to support themselves but had no energy to cultivate soul power. Therefore, they used natural treasures to accumulate their own soul power but did not cultivate it themselves. Over time, this led to the depletion of soul power.
Soul power is a power that needs to be cultivated by oneself in order to make people feel at ease, and at the same time, they can also have a deeper control.
When one reaches the level of Super Douluo or above, even the slightest bit of control can make a world of difference.
Mu Ye did not suppress Xu Yuan’s level, but only restricted Xu Yuan from using rare treasures to improve his soul power within five years.
“Teacher, I suddenly had an idea just now.” Xu Yuan did not object to being restricted in the use of natural treasures. Instead, he explained some of the insights he had when he broke through.
“Speak.” Mu Ye said briefly.
Xu Yuan organized his words and described his doubts.
“Teacher, in the cultivation of soul power, every bit of progress requires hard meditation to be achieved, but if the soul power is consumed and restored, it can be replenished quickly. Why is this?”
