Dao Patterns, Tang San's Martial Soul Fusion?
In the days that followed, Xiang Yang spent most of his time in the Martial Soul Space, learning various Soul Skills from Wu Huang, who had transformed into Sun Wheel Flower. The Sun Wheel Flower Soul Beast had many abilities, but few were worth learning. Besides "Sunny Day," there were also the Sunwheel Flower Slash and the Sunwheel Flower Defense, which used petals for attack and defense. That's how simple and direct the naming of Soul Beasts was.
These two are the simplest, both involving energy manipulation. Xiang Yang was greatly inspired by them and incorporated their techniques into his own Self-Created Soul Skills.
The appearance of the Sun Wheel Flower Soul Beast is actually quite similar to Xiang Yang's initial sunflower, but it is more like a marigold, with many large petals, which is why it has this ability. If Xiang Yang wants to use it, he needs to rely entirely on himself to condense it.
Then there's "Sunlight Beam," a similar Soul Skill of the Sun Wheel Flower, called Sunwheel Flower Ray, which can be used in groups or individually. This isn't as helpful for Xiang Yang, but the principle is similar.
Another type of Sunwheel Flower Mark, unlike the mark in Dai Mubai's Soul Skill which increases damage, is used for tracking. When used in conjunction with other attack Soul Skills, it can achieve the effect of automatic tracking of attacks.
What Xiang Yang wants most right now is this. His Self-Created Soul Skill has a very fast attack speed because of its light attribute, but it needs to be charged up to be powerful. If there are no teammates to pull him away, there is a considerable chance that it will be dodged. Others can't dodge the Soul Skill, but they can predict your movements.
However, this ability is not simply energy manipulation; it contains "lines" that form "circuits." Xiang Yang believes that these things are one of the reasons for the formation of those special Soul Skills, and are clearly related to [laws] or [rules].
Finally, there's the Sunwheel Flower Homology a similar origin with Xiang Yang's third Soul Skill. It produces offspring through an underground root network, which can be used for combat or cultivation, and can be used in conjunction with other skills or individually.
It can even be used as a backup energy pool. This ability, common to plant Soul Beasts, is something the Sun Wheel Flower acquires after a thousand years, greatly increasing its survivability.
As mentioned before, Soul Rings and Soul Skills are inherently rather rigid. If it's just a simple application of energy, there's room for variation. However, once it involves special effects, these Soul Skills, while powerful, are also difficult to modify.
It now seems that it's because of its internal laws that Soul Masters are fortunate enough to be able to use it ahead of time, let alone have the ability to make changes.
Xiang Yang really wanted to apply this "Clone Link" ability to the Sun Wheel Transformation. Although he could merge with it, wouldn't it be better to develop it comprehensively?
Unfortunately, this kind of power involving the level of laws is not so easy to obtain, but as Xiang Yang continued to observe with unwavering determination, the lines of laws under the Purple Demon Eye suddenly grew larger.
It turns out that the Mustard Seed Realm's ability to amplify matter didn't disappear; instead, it transformed into amplifying the energy level. Xiang Yang had never considered this aspect before, which is why this ability hadn't been triggered.
After a moment of surprise, Xiang Yang quickly figured out how to use it. When he zoomed in to the limit, he realized that each line was actually a "chain" made up of many more tiny lines, containing countless "characters" or "strokes".
These things have appeared even in places where it was originally thought there were no "lines." It can be said that there is no place in the entire world without "them." From this perspective, it makes sense. Laws are the foundation of the world's existence, so how could they only exist in a few places?
"These are probably similar to runes, right?" Xiang Yang felt delighted, but also felt a strong sense of déjà vu, as if they were runes, spirit runes, or even... Dao Patterns mentioned in many works!
Dao Patterns, the patterns of the Dao. In Xiang Yang's understanding, laws refer to the various natural laws between heaven and earth, which have another name for the Dao, or... conversely.
For example, the Law of Fire - the Way of Fire, the Law of Water - the Way of Water, and so on.
What the Soul Skill before us clearly possesses is not a complete law or a certain path, but only a part of it.
Xiang Yang attempted to imitate it, and unsurprisingly failed the first time. Maintaining Soul Power at such a tiny scale was extremely difficult, even for someone as talented as Xiang Yang in energy manipulation.
Enlarging it had no effect, and after trying dozens of times, Xiang Yang realized he must be on the wrong track. He thought to himself:
"It probably has nothing to do with size. Even if Soul Power perfectly copies the Dao Patterns, it's ultimately just a change in the shape of energy. There are so many Dao Patterns in the world; surely they can't be completely unable to access energy? This precisely shows that the key isn't that, but rather..."
Xiang Yang was speechless for a moment. He thought for a long time but still couldn't think of what it should be, so he had to give up for the time being and end his cultivation for the day.
Whoosh~ splash splash~
Tonight's weather: rainy and windy.
Tang San Shao did not continue refining pills. Ever since the day he passed by Xiang Yang Wu Huang, he also wanted to try what it felt like to have his consciousness enter his own Martial Soul. Although he did not succeed, he could feel that he was "closer" to the Blue Silver Emperor.
This isn't simply a matter of distance, since the Martial Soul usually resides within the Soul Master's body. Rather, it's a matter of the closeness or distance of a "relationship," just as his relationship with Xiao Wu is definitely closer than his relationship with Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong.
After trying it out, Tang San discovered that whether it was cultivation or using Soul Skills, anything related to his Martial Soul had a slight amplification. Others might have ignored it or thought it was an illusion, but with his Spiritual Power strength, he wouldn't make such a simple judgment.
Therefore, Tang San has been setting aside some time recently to focus on this special kind of cultivation. Since it's raining heavily today, he simply cleared out his time for alchemy.
"How are you?" Xiang Yang asked with a hint of curiosity as he saw him open his eyes.
Tang San said calmly, "It's amazing. It makes me feel like I've truly become a blade of grass, nourished by the warm sunshine and rain, taking root in the earth, striving to claim space..."
"Hiss!" Xiang Yang looked at his expression and suddenly felt a little horrified, because Tang San's expression was too... devoid of desire, he didn't even seem like a human being.
He rushed forward and shook Tang San vigorously, shouting, "Hey, hey, hey, wake up!"
"Uh..." Tang San seemed to wake from a dream, touching his head with both hands, feeling a little dizzy. He asked in surprise, "What just happened...?"
Xiang Yang pondered for a moment and said, "It's probably because you've been immersed in this for too long, and you've really started to think of yourself as a plant." It feels like you've been assimilated and eroded.
"This method is wrong?" Tang San leaned against the wall and pondered. After all, with Xiang Yang's successful case, the direction should be correct, so it must be the process that is wrong.
"It might not take too long, but no matter what, you must stay focused," Xiang Yang said, offering his advice.
"Hmm, that makes sense." Tang San nodded, feeling somewhat tired. This was one of the costs of this training; his Spiritual Power was being depleted very quickly.
In fact, Xiang Yang felt that this was somewhat similar to his own [Martial Soul Fusion], especially since its effect was also a permanent amplification.
Xiang Yang's initial Martial Soul was only of ordinary quality. It was only because of this ability that he never fell too far behind in terms of basic stats. Otherwise, no matter how high the amplification was, if his own stats were too low, he wouldn't be able to exert any effect (on himself).