Martial Soul Control! Level Ten Jiang Nannan! (Please Vote)

At this moment, he was practicing Martial Soul control in a broad, deserted clearing.

As a Tool Soul Master, Martial Soul control was an extremely important ability. It directly concerned a Tool Soul Master's combat strength and ability to survive. After all, Tool Soul Masters were generally not as physically strong as Beast Soul Masters, and all their combat methods, including but not limited to Soul Skills, were closely tied to their Martial Souls. If they could not even properly control their own Martial Souls, they were simply courting death.

Zhu Ziyang's goal was to reach the ultimate level of Martial Soul control: using his Martial Soul without displaying Soul Rings, while freely channeling and withdrawing Soul Power through it!

This level was known as masterful control, or the unity of man and weapon.

Normally, a Tool Soul Master could only reach this level after becoming a Soul Saint and gaining a Martial Soul Avatar. But Zhu Ziyang considered himself a genius, so naturally, he was unwilling to wait until he became a Soul Saint to master such an ability.

After all, actively mastering something and passively receiving it were two entirely different things.

Once Zhu Ziyang achieved masterful Martial Soul control, it would be time for him to begin attempting Self-Created Soul Skills. That was his true ambition!

While practicing Martial Soul control, Zhu Ziyang was also consciously studying the combat methods of the War Scythe.

As a polearm, the War Scythe had very obvious strengths and weaknesses. Its advantage lay in its broad attack range. Among polearms, the War Scythe's length was in a class of its own, so the more open the space, the greater its advantage. Given sufficient room and open terrain, a War Scythe could easily achieve feats of taking on ten, or even a hundred, enemies alone. However, its weaknesses were equally apparent. The War Scythe was extremely heavy, the king among heavy weapons, and demanded tremendous strength. Ordinary people simply could not wield it. In cramped spaces, it was also difficult to properly use.

Therefore, the War Scythe's combat style needed to be highly flexible. One had to maintain distance to facilitate sweeping strikes with the blade, while also using the shaft or back of the blade for defense. Since the Radiant Scythe's back edge was sharpened as well, it could also be used to attack. Furthermore, the War Scythe's sub-blade could be used offensively, and the Ring Sub-Blade could even be used directly to seize an opponent before engaging in close combat. In short, the War Scythe required its wielder to possess exceptionally sharp reflexes in order to choose techniques according to changes in battle.

Oh, and the War Scythe's fighting poses were very elegant, enough to satisfy someone's desire to look cool.

Just like that, Zhu Ziyang quickly found his rhythm in life. During the day, if there were practical combat classes, he attended them. If there were none, he found an empty place to cultivate on his own. At night, he cultivated together with Jiang Nannan. His days were full, very full.

This life continued until more than twenty days later, when it was interrupted by something.

Jiang Nannan had reached level ten.

"As expected of Nannan, reaching level ten so quickly!" In the dormitory, Zhu Ziyang praised her sincerely. A smile appeared on his face as he said, "Tomorrow, we'll apply to the teacher and leave the academy to hunt for a Soul Ring!"

"Mm-hmm!" Having broken through to level ten, Jiang Nannan was also very excited, her little face flushed red.

"Oh, right, Nannan, have you thought about what Soul Beast you want for your First Soul Ring?" Zhu Ziyang asked. The smile on his face faded somewhat, while a wise gleam shone in his eyes.

"Not yet!" Jiang Nannan wore a troubled expression as she said, "The Soul Beasts I know are only the most common ones. I've also been busy studying these past few days, so I haven't had any time at all to look for Soul Beasts suitable for me."

"Is that so?" Zhu Ziyang's smile immediately bloomed when he heard that. He said, "Then, how about Big Brother helps you choose a Soul Ring?"

"Okay, okay!" Jiang Nannan immediately clapped her hands in delight, her expression sweet and innocent. "Brother Ziyang, you're so knowledgeable. You'll definitely be able to help Nannan pick a suitable Soul Beast for her Soul Ring!"

"Mm." Zhu Ziyang smiled as his mind rapidly began to consider the matter.

Jiang Nannan's Martial Soul was the Soft Bone Rabbit. In every sense, the Soft Bone Rabbit was very ordinary. On the Martial Soul level, it was an ordinary Martial Soul; on the Soul Beast level, it was an ordinary Soul Beast.

However, the Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul had a very strong presence in history. This was because it was said that the Sea God's wife, Soft Bone Douluo, possessed the Soft Bone Rabbit as her Martial Soul. Zhu Ziyang had happened to be reading books about that era recently, and from Spirit Hall's records, he knew even more: Soft Bone Douluo had actually been a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit!

No wonder, no wonder she had become a Titled Douluo with such an ordinary Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul.

She was the only one in ten thousand years!

Because of this, later Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Masters had become obsessed, blindly copying Soft Bone Douluo Xiao Wu's Soul Ring and Soul Skill configurations. Zhu Ziyang found this utterly speechless.

Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Masters could not even determine the proper role of their own Martial Souls. They blindly imitated Xiao Wu's Soul Skills, without realizing that Soft Bone Douluo had been a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Her Soul Skills had been honed over a hundred thousand years and were completely suited to her. She had no need to obtain additional Soul Rings, nor did she need to consider a Martial Soul Evolution path.

But Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Masters were different. As Soul Masters, it would have been one thing if they neglected their Martial Soul Evolution paths when choosing Soul Rings, but they did not even consider their own development direction as Soul Masters. Without the slightest doubt, they chose to learn from Xiao Wu. After generation after generation of Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Masters throwing themselves into experimentation, they had actually managed to discover Soul Ring configurations capable of replicating Soft Bone Douluo's Soul Skills. From the First Soul Skill, Waist Bow, to the Fifth Soul Skill, Soft Bone Lock, they had figured them all out.

Why did it only go from the First Soul Skill to the Fifth Soul Skill? Because the strongest Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Master had only reached the Soul King level. There was no connection whatsoever between the Soul Rings they absorbed. They imitated solely for the sake of imitation, ruining their own Martial Souls in the process. How could they possibly reach a higher realm?

No wonder there had never been another famous Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Master in history besides Soft Bone Douluo Xiao Wu.

They truly deserved it!

In fact, the practice of imitating predecessors, like those Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Masters did, was not uncommon in the current Soul Master World. The renowned Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Masters and Star Luo White Tiger Soul Masters all had fixed Soul Ring and Soul Skill configurations for their first three Soul Rings. Their predecessors had spent hundreds or thousands of years determining the Soul Rings most suitable for their Martial Souls, so later generations could copy them without thinking.

However, Soft Bone Rabbit Soul Masters and Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters could not mindlessly imitate Soft Bone Douluo and Thousand Hands Douluo like this. One word: stupid!

That was right. Zhu Ziyang was taking a jab at the Tang Sect's Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters. They truly were a group of ignorant fools.

The Soul Rings attached to Thousand Hands Douluo Tang San's Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul were absolutely an aberration in the Soul Master World. Whether it was ordinary Blue Silver Grass or Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor, both were plants with tenacious Life Force. By normal logic, they should have received Soul Rings that enhanced Life Force. But Tang San was different. The Tang Sect's records clearly stated that his first four Soul Rings were: the first Soul Ring was a Man-faced Demon Spider, the second Soul Ring was a Ghost Vine, the third Soul Ring was a Man Faced Demon Spider, and the fourth Soul Ring was a Cave Demon Spider... Honestly, Zhu Ziyang had been dumbfounded the first time he saw such Soul Ring attachments. Were these really the Soul Rings of the legendary Thousand Hands Douluo who had looked down upon the world? Anyone with even a little knowledge could see that such Soul Rings were suicidal for a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul. The fact that Tang San had not ruined himself with them only made Zhu Ziyang sigh. The Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul truly deserved to be called a Super Martial Soul; it had not been ruined even by that.

However, Tang San had not cultivated himself into ruin, yet he had brought misery upon the Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters who came after him. The Tang Sect's Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters revered the Soul Rings attached to Tang San's Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul as scripture. One after another, they copied him without the slightest doubt. The result was obvious: the Tang Sect was gone.

Zhu Ziyang did not believe that the Tang Sect's records failed to state that Tang San's Martial Soul was the Blue Silver Emperor rather than ordinary Blue Silver Grass. If it had not been recorded, that book could not have existed in his library. The only explanation was that the Tang Sect's Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters had chosen to ignore that fact.

They really deserved it!

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