Thesis

Ever since he began disciplining himself, Xiao Lin's physical strength and Mental Power had been steadily improving.

Even his Soul Power cultivation had not fallen behind; in fact, it had become slightly faster than before.

Xiao Lin could not explain why. Perhaps it was because he now felt a sense of urgency.

He wanted to train his physical strength properly before reaching level twenty.

Although the Imprisoning Dragon Staff could help him bear part of the impact from absorbing a Soul Ring, Xiao Lin never fought an unprepared battle.

Especially after he had nearly gotten into trouble while absorbing his First Soul Ring, Xiao Lin had become even more cautious.

He no longer wanted to say things like, if he could not absorb it, he could just give up.

Amid his day-to-day life at the academy, Xiao Lin finished reading the new books. When it came time to exchange them this time, he also planned to write his second thesis.

Hiding out in the dormitory while the other students were in class, Xiao Lin wrote down the title of his thesis.

"Shocking! A Method for Super Limit Soul Ring Absorption!"

It was the same familiar Shocking Style. Xiao Lin had no intention of giving up such an attention-grabbing title.

Moreover, this time, he intended to write it seriously.

A six-thousand-word thesis.

Xiao Lin began to write.

As everyone knows, ever since Yu Xiaogang published the optimal Soul Ring absorption age limits, nearly everyone has accepted his theory. But today, I, Lin Dong, have a different view. The optimal Soul Ring absorption age limits that have stood for decades should be changed.

Below is my, Lin Dong's, research on the optimal age-limit Soul Rings for Soul Masters.

Author: Lin Dong.

Advisor: Sky Mink Douluo.

After recalling some details, Xiao Lin followed the same approach as in his previous thesis and began with the data.

Among the 1,503 Soul Masters investigated by Lin Dong, he found that those who absorbed a First Soul Ring of around four hundred years generally fell into the following groups.

The first were geniuses from powerful Beast Soul families. The second were geniuses from powerful Weapon Soul families. The third were Beast Soul Masters among commoner geniuses.

In Lin Dong's survey data, these three types of Soul Masters accounted for roughly 13% of the total. Yet among them, more than 98% had absorbed four-hundred-year Soul Rings.

Furthermore, Beast Soul Masters among commoner geniuses accounted for only 8% of the people in the three groups above.

I cannot help but ask: must Soul Masters who wish to absorb a Soul Ring of around four hundred years join those families? Must they be geniuses?

Impossible!

Lin Dong discovered that the so-called genius Soul Masters from Great Families could not represent their innate talent.

As everyone knows, Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang was trash among trash, yet both of his Soul Rings were hundred-year Soul Rings, close to the limit of absorption.

Through his investigation, Lin Dong discovered that this Grandmaster's First Soul Ring was around four hundred years old.

Clearly, the Great Families possessed methods to increase the age limit of Soul Ring absorption—or rather, methods that guaranteed the absorption of a four-hundred-year First Soul Ring.

Considering that Yu Xiaogang came from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and that they possessed a special Medicinal Bath method, Lin Dong suspected that this was their method.

But speculation was merely speculation. Lin Dong also investigated the geniuses of several other families.

The Elephant Armor Sect, the Strength Clan, the Dai Family of the Star Luo Empire, the Zhu Family of the Star Luo Empire, and so on.

As expected, the members of these families almost all had four-hundred-year Soul Rings as their First Soul Rings.

In the end, he reached a conclusion: among Beast Soul families, absorbing a First Soul Ring of around four hundred years was entirely normal.

Next came the powerful Weapon Soul families.

Lin Dong also took the initiative to learn about the Clear Sky Sect. As the strongest Weapon Soul Sect, its members loved forging. Tempered a hundred times into steel, they even possessed a powerful Self-Created Soul Skill—the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer—which greatly trained the body.

These examples alone proved that people from these Great Families had no problem absorbing four-hundred-year Soul Rings.

So here came the question: why were there so many fewer commoner geniuses who, despite also being Beast Soul Masters, absorbed a four-hundred-year Soul Ring as their first?

As for commoner Weapon Soul Masters, none of them even made the list. Was it simply because they did not have the opportunity to find four-hundred-year Soul Beasts?

No. It was all because the physical constitutions of Soul Masters from Great Families differed from those of commoner Soul Masters.

Then, could it be related to the quality of their martial souls?

That was impossible.

As geniuses, many commoner geniuses possessed Innate Soul Power that even surpassed the children of Great Families. Naturally, their martial souls could not be much worse than those of Great Family descendants.

Some geniuses even possessed martial souls superior to those of Great Family descendants.

Therefore, Beast Soul Masters could absorb four-hundred-year First Soul Rings because their physical constitutions were more outstanding.

Beast Soul Masters were affected by both their martial soul's Soul Power and the martial soul itself, so their physical constitutions were naturally stronger than those of ordinary Weapon Soul Masters.

Forging families like the Clear Sky Sect were exceptions.

Here, Lin Dong could state that the data was absolutely genuine and reliable. Much of it came from materials gathered by Spirit Hall and people Lin Dong knew.

At this point, Xiao Lin paused his pen.

There was nothing wrong with that. Although he had never met Bibi Dong, he knew Bibi Dong. He also knew some of Spirit Hall's Titled Douluo. Could their Soul Rings possibly not be at the absorption limit?

Did this kind of data even need to be checked?

It was not just Bibi Dong—Chihiro Ji, who was already dead, was one of his data points as well.

There was nothing wrong with it. More than a thousand data points, every single one of them was genuine.

Moreover, Xiao Lin had worked backward from the results and revealed many truths.

The medicinal baths of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan were real, and the Clear Sky Sect's blacksmithing was real too.

The Clear Sky Hammer grew heavier and heavier, while Soul Masters' physical qualities grew stronger and stronger. That was perfectly normal.

After roughly finishing the first example, Xiao Lin began writing the second.

Besides that, Lin Dong had discovered a new secret.

That secret was that people in the past had far lower optimal Soul Ring age limits than people did now.

The data was as follows:

With these two examples, it was basically possible to prove that the optimal age limit for Soul Masters to absorb Soul Rings was changing—and steadily increasing.

Soul Ring age limits were related to physical quality; by now, almost no one could deny that.

Xiao Lin stopped writing, but in the end, he decided to add one more piece of data.

Finally, Xiao Lin also wrote an example concerning his good disciple—Tang San from another spacetime, referred to below by Xiao Yan's name.

On the draft paper: Xiao Yan was the son of a certain Titled Douluo from a Great Family, but due to various reasons, he had lived alone since childhood. He was lonely and helpless, and so thin and small that it was shocking.

However, his talent was extraordinary. He possessed a plant-type martial soul with Innate Full Soul Power, and afterward, he became my disciple.

When I took him to absorb his First Soul Ring, a four-hundred-year Mandala Snake, I discovered that he was having an exceptionally difficult time absorbing it. He nearly met with disaster under the Soul Ring's soul power impact, making me break out in a cold sweat.

Still, he succeeded in the end.

I believe that if Xiao Yan had not possessed the supreme talent of Innate Full Soul Power, if he had not possessed the powerful will forged by living alone, and if he had not spent so long absorbing it, I would have suspected that he would fail.

This further convinced me, Lin Dong, that physical quality was the key to absorbing powerful Soul Rings.

Now, under my care, Xiao Yan was no longer malnourished and had become very healthy.

When absorbing his Second Soul Ring, he encountered no obstacles whatsoever. He almost perfectly absorbed a Soul Ring at the limit of its age, and even exceeded it somewhat.

In conclusion, the various examples above proved my hypothesis: the age limit of Soul Rings that Soul Masters could absorb was inevitably affected by physical quality.

The higher one's physical quality, the higher the Soul Ring age limit one could absorb, and the easier it became.

Furthermore, the greatest advantage of Twin Martial Souls was that after perfectly absorbing Soul Rings for the first martial soul, one could directly absorb ten-thousand-year Soul Rings for the Second Spirit.

This also conformed to the principle that the higher one's physical quality, the higher the age limit of Soul Rings one could absorb. Nowadays, Soul Masters' physical qualities were becoming stronger and stronger, and the optimal Soul Ring age limit they could absorb had long been able to be pushed back.

If I am not mistaken, someone will inevitably be able to absorb a five-hundred-year First Soul Ring and a thousand-year Second Soul Ring in the Future.

After writing a six-thousand-word thesis in one long sweep, Xiao Lin wrote with remarkable fluency and remarked that one saying really was right.

Writing a thesis was like taking a dump—the more water there was, the faster it came out.

This kind of garbage thesis definitely would not have passed in Xiao Lin's previous life, but so what? This was Douluo Continent. What he said really was the truth.

Believe it or not, Xiao Lin was going to absorb a thousand-year Second Soul Ring anyway.

If they truly did not believe it, they could try asking about the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's medicinal baths, or ask Xiao Yan or the other Tang San.

After organizing the thesis and checking it over once without finding any flaws, Xiao Lin placed it into his Storage Soul Tool.

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