Streamlined

"This Soul Bone is quite interesting."

The Soul Bone was inside Su Yu's Storage Soul Tool, and Electrolux's Divine Sense could observe it at any time.

Although it was only a thousand-year Soul Bone, it was more than enough for research, and Old Yi was interested in Soul Bones as well.

As a mage, loving research and feeling curiosity toward new things was in his nature.

Su Yu himself had no bitter, deep-seated hatred, and had not stirred up Electrolux's painful memories, so Electrolux naturally did not deliberately recall that pain either.

On the contrary, after seeing a novel world, a peculiar cultivation system, Martial Souls, Soul Rings, and Soul Bones, his desire to explore had grown unprecedentedly strong.

"The cultivation technique has finally been pieced together."

The Soul Power inside Su Yu's body finally completed one Circulation Cycle along a specific route.

"Although completing one Circulation Cycle takes more time than before, the overall efficiency has still increased greatly."

In the past, the cultivation technique with only two basic structures took only an hour to complete one Circulation Cycle.

But the current cultivation technique required three hours to complete one Circulation Cycle. Its circulation of Soul Power was also far more complicated.

However, high efficiency was the greatest gain.

In the past, if three Circulation Cycles together increased Soul Power by 3, then now, after one Circulation Cycle with this cultivation technique, the increase in Soul Power was roughly 5.

It did not have double the effect, but it was still very considerable.

"Facts have proven that for cultivating an Ultimate Martial Soul, the best direction for improving a cultivation technique is to give it the effect of condensing Soul Power."

It did not have to focus mainly on condensing Soul Power, but it had to include that aspect.

While increasing Soul Power, it actively condensed Soul Power at the same time, instead of merely stuffing Soul Power into the body and relying entirely on the ultimate attribute and the physical body to subtly compress its quality.

This was the most effective method for resolving the slow cultivation speed caused by an Ultimate Martial Soul.

"The way Soul Power circulates still needs continued exploration."

This round of incorporating Soul Power circulation methods could be considered complete.

In the next round, once Su Yu found enough routes, he would continue adding them into the cultivation technique.

"However, the process of simplification can't stop."

Just like a Soul Tool's Core Array, the path by which Soul Power circulated through the body could not simply be combined in a crude, mindless way.

It had to be organically integrated.

This was a knowledge point that Core Arrays of fourth-level Soul Tools began to involve.

Different patterns connected and combined to form a Core Array.

But when too many patterns were piled up like that, once it reached the level of a fourth-level Soul Tool, carving them became far too difficult.

At this point, the Core Array had to be simplified.

This was also a dividing line for Soul Engineers.

Different patterns linked and combined with one another, forming a complete circuit, thereby forming all kinds of arrays. Under the circulation of Soul Power, they would produce the corresponding effects.

However, when there were too many patterns, piling them up to the third level was already essentially the limit. If one wanted the Soul Tool's power to reach the fourth level...

In theory, the different patterns might have to overlap and intertwine until they nearly covered the entire surface of the Rare Metal.

In other words, after carving this portion of the patterns, the entire surface of the Rare Metal would have been shaved down by a layer.

This was also the most awkward part.

It would be no different from not carving an array at all.

In the end, an array still needed Mental Power to stabilize it.

It was destined to be impossible to stabilize and craft into a Soul Tool.

At this point, one had to learn simplification.

The overlapping portions of the patterns had to be made shared.

For example, the pattern 1234 and the pattern 23456 could be simplified into the pattern 123456. As long as one used a specific technique when carving between 1 and 2, and between 4 and 5, it could simultaneously produce the effects of both patterns.

This was organic stacking.

Of course, this was the simplest kind of organic stacking.

The truly difficult part was simplifying the combination of many different patterns.

For example, stacking 1234 and 2356.

Especially with something like 2356, where a portion was missing in the middle, one needed to select another pattern within the rest of the entire Core Array that possessed a 345 structure and use it for resonance, thereby completing the organic integration.

At this point, Su Yu's Comprehension was fully displayed.

Similar to simplifying a Soul Tool's Core Array, Su Yu's simplification of the cultivation technique also followed this principle.

The difference was that when outlining a Core Array, one could adjust the positions of the patterns oneself, since the patterns had not yet been carved.

But the route of a cultivation technique was different. The human body already had fixed Meridians.

And that required a large amount of knowledge about the distribution of the human body's meridian network.

The more comprehensive, the better.

Fortunately, that wasn't hard to obtain at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

The Sun Moon Empire merely lacked powerful experts and did not place much emphasis on soul master cultivation.

But that did not mean the Sun Moon Empire's materials on soul master cultivation were incomplete.

Wasn't a soul tool instrument that could test a soul master's all-round data enough to prove everything?

It could even measure the strength of your martial soul!

From the existing positions, he had to find the structures he wanted and link them together, streamlining them as much as possible.

The difficulty was even greater.

But the significance was not small.

After all, the more streamlined a cultivation method was, the easier it was to circulate. It took less time, and if the degree of improvement remained unchanged, the efficiency would naturally be higher.

Aside from the cultivation method, there was also the refinement of the runes within the Sea of Consciousness.

While Su Yu added more lines, he was also simplifying them.

As for the Sword Rune, a month had already passed since it had been outlined, and Su Yu had already refined it to the point where it could Temper both Mental Power and Soul Power.

"Condense, Gather, Sword—three runes still aren't enough. I can add new runes now."

There were too many rune effects Su Yu wanted.

The three runes each had their own frameworks after all. No matter how he filled them in and refined them, there were still limits.

So now, Su Yu turned his gaze toward new runes.

"There's no need to improve Blue Silver Grass's vitality for now. I'll try the Life rune later when I have time."

"What I need first right now is a defensive-type rune."

The Soul Fighting Tournament was about to arrive, and Su Yu felt he was still a little lacking in this area.

Protection for his Mental Power was especially important.

Su Yu could not rely on Old Yi for everything and neglect the defenses of his own Sea of Consciousness just because Old Yi was there.

External strength was external strength in the end.

He could depend on it.

But he could not become dependent on it.

After Su Yu helped Meng Hongchen break through, he had only quietly researched and cultivated for three days before someone came looking for him again.

"Su Yu, I'll have to trouble you again this time."

It was still Xiao Hongchen who came to find him.

"Senior Xiao, what is it this time?"

"Meng has already stabilized her Soul Power. Grandfather said she'll still need your help absorbing her soul ring this time."

Su Yu nodded.

"When do we set out?"

"Tomorrow."

"..."

The next day, after Su Yu finished absorbing the Horizon Purple Qi, he went to Jing Hongchen's office.

"Little Yu is here."

"Mm. Hall Master, when are we setting out?"

"Meng has been ready for a while. We can leave right now. Any problems on your end?"

"No."

"Oh, right, Hall Master, do you know when my teacher will be back?" Su Yu had not seen his teacher for a long time, and he missed him quite a bit.