Actually, this counted as a common flaw among Plant type martial souls. They were often good at control-type and area-type soul skills, but rarely possessed powerful single-target attack skills.
Take Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan from later generations, for example. Like Xiao Wu, he was another Titled Douluo who had been placed in the wrong category.
Ju Hua Guan was nominally a Power Attack Type Soul Master, but if one carefully counted through his soul skills, it was enough to make a person laugh in disbelief.
His Third Soul Skill, Aura Barrier, was a restrictive control-type soul skill;
His Sixth Soul Skill, Golden Stamen Overflowing Mist, turned petals into attacks like a meteor shower, sweeping the ground like artillery shells—a perfectly standard group-attack method;
His Seventh Soul Skill, Martial Soul True Body, aside from enhancing his own abilities, left him with nothing but group attacks;
His Eighth Soul Skill, Ten Thousand Zhang of Flowing Light, released energy beams from multiple stamens, pushing the momentum of group attacks even further;
As for his Ninth Soul Skill, Chrysanthemum withers, the ground is covered in wounds; flowers fall and hearts break—his soul power erupted into petal blades, circling and turning into a giant tornado. It was the pinnacle of area attacks, and was still a group attack.
Furthermore, among those skills of his whose soul skill number was unknown, or perhaps were secret techniques, Admiring Oneself in Solitude was a state skill that increased attack and defense; Strange Flower condensed a clone for offense and defense as a clone skill; Beast's Last Stand gathered soul power into petal blades that spun to control the enemy and prevent escape, making it a control skill; Strange Velvet Light released purple-gold light to form a spherical barrier, a defensive skill with quite formidable defensive power.
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