Development of Soul Skills and Martial Soul

Development of Soul Skills and Martial Soul

Quan Yi discovered that Rhino's Mark combined two effects: detection and attack.

Once this mark was carved onto a target, Quan Yi could sense the target's location through it, and depending on the situation, he could choose whether to detonate it or not.

As the first First Soul Skill in history to come from a Soul Beast of more than five hundred Years, Rhino's Mark's ability would far exceed Quan Yi's imagination.

Judging from the Soul Beast and its Years alone, Quan Yi's First Soul Skill was enough to rival many Spirit Masters' Second Soul Skills.

Both the power of the soul skill and its function were extremely strong.

This was Quan Yi's new discovery about his own soul skill.

Quan Yi picked up another "hand grenade," his expression turning somewhat grave.

He gathered Gang with Soul Power around both hands, increasing their strength and defense.

Then he gripped the stone in his left hand, and covered the gap between his left thumb and forefinger tightly with his right palm.

At that moment, his left hand was like a gun barrel, and the stone was the bullet. One end of the barrel was blocked by Quan Yi's right hand, while the muzzle at the other end was aimed straight ahead of him.

Quan Yi took a deep breath, then focused his mind to the utmost.

"Fire!"

Bang!

Quan Yi decisively detonated the stone in his hand.

The extremely close-range explosion brought a tremendous roar.

Along with the roar, the stone was instantly blown into fragments, and those fragments shot out from Quan Yi's "muzzle." Like a shotgun, the shattered pieces of stone instantly covered an entire area in front of Quan Yi.

The powerful explosion nearly blasted Quan Yi's hands apart, but Quan Yi, who had prepared himself mentally, forcibly maintained their original shape with his powerful hand strength.

Even though he had expected it, the powerful recoil still almost made Quan Yi topple backward.

Fortunately, he had the double protection of Gang and the Blazing Sun Gauntlets. Otherwise, Quan Yi felt that this move would be a suicide attack that hurt the enemy five hundred while costing himself a thousand.

However, from the looks of it now, the effect was still quite good.

Although the flight distance was not very far, its power was decent.

He saw that the stone fragments had completely sunk into the ground in front of him.

It worked!

Quan Yi was overjoyed.

This was another application of Quan Yi's First Soul Skill.

"Rhino's Mark, variant, Shotgun Mode."

Using the explosion to fire out the stone fragments in his hand.

"Its attack range is short, but its area of effect is wide. If I use iron balls to replace stones, the lethality will improve even further."

Quan Yi analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of Shotgun Mode, and even proposed a method of improvement.

Moreover, if he replaced the stones with iron balls, Quan Yi's Shotgun Mode could develop even further.

Steel was harder than stone, and because iron had greater density, at the same volume, the weight and lethality of iron ball fragments would multiply severalfold.

"Looks like I need to prepare more iron balls."

Quan Yi shook out his hands, easing the weakness in them.

This was numbness and slight trembling caused by the shock force of the explosion. Although Quan Yi's hands had double protection, it still could not completely block the transmission of force.

"This move can't be fired in succession either. After using it, I'll also be somewhat stiff. At this stage, I can only use it as a trump card."

With Quan Yi's current strength, it was not enough to support him in using Shotgun Mode without restraint.

Even so, Quan Yi had verified the feasibility of Shotgun Mode, and he was very pleased.

After resting for a while, his arms and hands had more or less recovered, and Quan Yi did not waste the remaining stones either.

He began practicing his throwing technique.

Quan Yi placed a stone carved with Rhino's Mark thirty meters away and used it as a target to practice his accuracy.

Quan Yi discovered that his accuracy was fairly good. Because his hands were flexible and steady, Quan Yi had a great advantage in throwing.

Moreover, after throwing a few times, Quan Yi closed his eyes and threw entirely by relying on his sense of the mark.

Unexpectedly, the results were surprisingly good.

In addition, because the stones he threw also had marks, with every throw, Quan Yi could trace the stone's flight path in his mind.

Then Quan Yi kept adjusting his release point, constantly correcting the stone's trajectory.

Through this method, it did not take long before Quan Yi could hit eight or nine times out of ten.

Quan Yi quickly became completely immersed in the thrill of hitting wherever he aimed.

Quan Yi alternated between both hands, practicing the throwing ability of each. Since he possessed the talent of Distraction Two-Fold, of course he had to make use of it.

The characteristics brought by the Gauntlets Martial Soul seemed to have displayed their advantage in throwing as well.

The Gauntlets Martial Soul's enhancement of the hands was comprehensive. The boost it gave to hand flexibility and stability alone was already a talent many marksmen or pitchers dreamed of having.

As time passed, Quan Yi slowly began to grasp the traits and potential of his Martial Soul.

Quan Yi decided to add throwing and the development of his Soul Skill to his training schedule.

As it happened, he had some free time in the afternoon to train these things.

At this point, Quan Yi realized that nearly his entire day was filled with training.

And there was no free time at all to arrange anything else.

However, not only did Quan Yi not feel tired of it, he was actually enjoying it.

This was the extraordinary world Quan Yi had dreamed of in his previous life. All kinds of flashy Soul Skills and blood-pumping battles deeply attracted him.

And in this world, only by growing stronger could he fully experience everything it had to offer. After finally coming to this world, Quan Yi had no intention of wasting his time or his life.

Quan Yi practiced throwing for an hour, half an hour with each hand, and the training results were very good.

However, he did not overdo it. Instead, he chose to stop.

Quan Yi was very clear-headed.

Throwing and Shotgun Mode were ultimately methods that relied on external objects. Though they enriched Quan Yi's attacking options, they were still branches, not the trunk. There was no need to spend too much time on them.

Next, what Quan Yi truly wanted to do was find a way to strengthen the trunk.

Without relying on external force, he wanted to increase his own ranged attack methods.

Moreover, through that battle with Teacher Bai Yan, Quan Yi had already gained some inspiration.

Quan Yi raised his right hand, palm facing upward.

As he poured soul power into his Martial Soul, the red patterns on the gauntlet gradually brightened. Then, a rising flame emerged from his palm.

Because of his Fire Immunity Attribute, Quan Yi still could not feel the flame's temperature.

Under Quan Yi's control, the flame changed shape at will. Moreover, because of the increase in his Soul Power Level and the support of his Soul Ring, the temperature of Quan Yi's flames was no longer comparable to before.

Quan Yi stared at the ball of fire and nodded in satisfaction.

The flame's temperature had risen, and controlling it still felt perfectly natural.

After confirming his control and the flame's power, Quan Yi abruptly increased the input of soul power.

The palm-sized flame suddenly expanded, turning into a fireball the size of a basketball.

Then Quan Yi's gaze sharpened, and the basketball-sized fireball slowly shrank back to the size of his palm.

However, the fireball's brightness and temperature had clearly increased. In addition, it looked more condensed, more like a solid object than before.

Quan Yi had condensed the basketball-sized fireball into a smaller, denser fireball.

Quan Yi slowly raised his right hand, palm facing the sky, then fired the fireball out.

"Flame Bullet!"

A blazing fireball shot rapidly upward.

Bang!

With the explosion, Blazing Fire bloomed in the sky like Manjusaka.