Understanding Self-Created Soul Skills

Douluo Continent was thrown into an uproar because of a Thesis by Gula, yet Gula, who had stirred up All of This, seemed as if nothing had happened. He stayed in the academy in peaceful ease, supervised Xiao Wu's cultivation every day, and subtly guided Tang San and Xiao Wu's worldview.

After Xiao Wu finished cultivating, she cheerfully sidled up to Gula and blinked her adorable pink eyes. "Gula, Gula, I'm done cultivating. It's time for today's story."

Gula pretended to be unwilling. "I've pretty much told you all the stories I've read. Can't you go read a book yourself?"

"Aiya, the books aren't as vivid and interesting as when you tell them. Please, tell it one more time, okay?"

Xiao Wu knew Gula responded to softness, not force, and somehow taught herself to act spoiled with him.

Gula feigned helplessness. "Fine, I'm scared of you. Today, let's tell a story called Soul Break Through the Firmament. It's a novel I saw in a travelogue."

"Yay! Little San, come listen too."

Xiao Wu did not forget her little friend and called Tang San over.

Tang San hesitated for an instant. Remembering what Gula had said about not being too tense all the time, he stopped cultivating and went over.

In truth, he was also very interested in the stories Gula told. They were wonderful tales he could never hear in the Tang Sect, as if such a world truly existed, unfolding before his eyes as he watched a youth make a vow and climb step by step to the summit.

Gula naturally noticed Tang San's hesitation. That was precisely his goal. If he tried to persuade them directly, it would feel too much like preaching and easily stir up resistance in people.

By using story after story to blend the principles he wanted to explain into them like ink dissolving into the sea, guiding the two to change their views and subtly influencing them, there would be no issue of rejection.

"Soul power, third stage."

Ding! Thesis influence being calculated...

Ignoring the prompt by his ear, Gula began telling the novel he had heavily modified. "Xiao Yan was a genius with Innate Full Soul Power, but one day, his soul power suddenly began to regress..."

Xiao Wu sat obediently on the ground with her legs together, her emotions shifting along with the protagonist's experiences in the story.

Gula controlled his Psychic Power, enhancing the "charm" of his words. This was also a method of training Psychic Power.

He had not yet decided on a specialty for his Psychic Power, so he decided to try everything first, then see which direction he had talent in and focus his training there.

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Gula spoke for half an hour. On the way, Yu Xiaogang came to the garden. Hearing Gula telling a story, he stopped and listened for a while, then realized there were many fanciful ideas in Gula's story. After Gula stopped, he asked curiously:

"Where did you read this story? Though many things in it are imagined, some of them do have merit."

"For example, relying on the compression and repulsion of soul power. If studied carefully, perhaps someone really could develop a Self-Created Soul Skill like Fire Blowing Palm."

Yu Xiaogang had sharp eyes. He could tell that the soul skills in Gula's story had principles that were at least thirty percent feasible.

After seeing Yu Xiaogang, Gula no longer felt the rejection he had toward him at first. After all, the other party actually had no conflict with him; they had merely developed differences over how to train Tang San.

But after spending this time together, although Yu Xiaogang had not openly admitted defeat, he no longer mentioned his Ten Core Theories.

So Gula did not mind giving him a hand and helping him become a true master of martial soul theory. At any rate, he was a walking encyclopedia. Without Baidu search, Gula could still make do with him.

"Teacher, do you really think so?"

Tang San had not become his disciple, but he believed that the accomplished were teachers, so in daily life, he no longer called him Grandmaster, but teacher.

"That's right. I once saw in a book a soul skill similar to Fire Blowing Palm. That soul master's martial soul was called Kamaitachi, a wind demon said in legend to be able to transform into wind."

"The ability to transform into wind suits Agility Attack Type soul masters, but that soul master insisted on becoming a power attack type soul master. Among his soul skills was one that could suck enemies to his side, and it could also repel them in reverse. It was extremely practical in close combat."

"Unfortunately, no one knows what soul beast he hunted to obtain it, and soul skills themselves depend on luck. The Kamaitachi martial soul also gradually disappeared, becoming a legend on the continent."

At the end, Yu Xiaogang sounded somewhat regretful.

"People cherish their own brooms as treasures, hiding even a little knowledge for fear that others will learn it. As a result, after the Soul Master World developed for ten thousand years, ancient books were lost, much precious knowledge slipped away, and soul masters made no progress for thousands of years. It truly is a regret of the Soul Master World."

Tang San was inexplicably caught in the crossfire and somehow felt as if he had been indirectly mocked.

Reminded by Yu Xiaogang, Gula raised his brows and said, "The root of the Soul Master World's problem lies in human nature. It can't possibly be overturned by one person."

"As for Fire Blowing Palm, it is indeed possible to open up a path to realizing it, but it would only be of relatively great use before Soul Saint. By the Soul Douluo stage, Ten Thousand Year Soul Skills surpass Fire Blowing Palm's range of interference in both power and scope, so I don't think it's worth researching."

On Douluo Continent, Self-Created Soul Skills were said to grow along with the soul master himself, but in reality, they inherently had an upper limit in their conception.

For example, Mu En's Monarch Over the World, or the Great Sumeru Hammer created by Tang Chen, were both created according to the characteristics of their martial souls and involved Martial Soul Origin. They were first-rate Self-Created Soul Skills.

Because martial souls were the supernatural foundation of Douluo Continent, only by involving Martial Soul Origin could one better enhance one's Combat Power as a soul master.

As for a Self-Created Soul Skill purely involving technique like Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, its upper limit was visible to the naked eye. Unless it involved the Spiritual Domain or the Law Domain, there were no exceptions.

Fire Blowing Palm had broad applicability, but in the end, it required releasing soul power with both hands, and attack distance was its shortcoming. A single technique was also easy to exploit in return.

Therefore, Gula had never thought of relying on Self-Created Soul Skills of his own. Before sensing Martial Soul Origin, rather than spending energy on Self-Created Soul Skills, it was better to learn a few more Pokémon moves.

Soul Saint?

Yu Xiaogang laughed despite himself. "You brat, you really dare to say that. It's fine to say that here, but don't say it outside. Otherwise, if someone teaches you a lesson, you'll be the one in the wrong."

He did not know what Gula was thinking. Otherwise, he would definitely have dug to the bottom of it and asked clearly before saying anything else.

After offering that word of advice, Yu Xiaogang fell silent and watched the three continue cultivating.

"All right, chatting time is over. Little San, come with me. I've researched a Self-Created Soul Skill, and your martial soul should be able to learn it. Come help me test it."

Gula raised his brows at Tang San, and the latter understood. It was a Self-Created Soul Skill newly unsealed from the inheritance.

Tang San felt moved and decided to quickly copy out the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and give it to Gula to improve his strength.

"This soul skill is called Synthesis. From the name, you can tell it's a Self-Created Soul Skill unique to Plant Type soul masters. By converting Light Attribute energy, it transforms it into Life Force to heal oneself."

Gula explained the principle once, making it easier for Tang San to understand.