Team Twenty-Five: Women's Team
"Round 5, Match 1: Team Twenty-Five vs. Team Thirty!"
Zhong Dingxiu drew lots and selected the first two teams to play.
Team Twenty-Five is led by a woman whose Soul Power has reached Level 30, Quasi Soul Master. However, she has not yet acquired her Third Spirit Ring, so she is still a Soul Grandmaster.
The remaining six team members were also women, four of whom were Soul Grandmaster and two were Soul Master. However, the two Soul Master had also reached level 20 in Soul Power, and were only one Soul Ring away from entering the Soul Grandmaster realm.
The seven members of Team Twenty-Five all looked about six or seven points alike, and they all had the same Martial Soul, a Beast Martial Soul called Elemental Fox.
"Elemental Fox... that's a very peculiar Soul Beast..."
The Elemental Fox, as Soul Beast, is a rather unique type. It does not possess the innate Charm of other fox-type Soul Beast. Its entire body is covered in brown fur, with creamy, fluffy down on its neck, and it has a pair of large ears.
Before reaching a cultivation level of a thousand years, the Elemental Fox's attack methods were limited to the body, such as thrusting, biting, and ramming. However, after reaching a cultivation level of a thousand years, the body would undergo a peculiar transformation due to the elemental energy contained in the surrounding environment.
If the Elemental Fox lives in a desert or volcanic area, its fur will turn fiery red, the fur around its neck will turn golden, and its fluffy tail will resemble a burning flame.
If the Elemental Fox lives in an environment like the Extreme North, its fur will be short and dense, and turn blue. The fur on its neck will fall off completely, and its tail will become thin and long.
Although the appearance of most Soul Beast can vary depending on the environment, especially in terms of their fur, humans can still identify them as the same species.
The only exception is the Elemental Fox, a type of Soul Beast. Once its cultivation reaches the thousand-year level, it will undergo a transformation similar to evolution due to the elemental energy in the surrounding environment.
"Is it that strange?" Listening to Zhou Qing's description, Xiao Wu recalled some strangely shaped fox Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest and wondered if they were Elemental Fox.
"Anyway, that's what a book called ' Record of Soul Beast Oddities ' in the Nuoding Academy Library says. The author of that book is Tang Tianren. He never broke through to the Soul Elder realm in his lifetime, but he loved to learn about Soul Beast. He had a very deep understanding of all kinds of Soul Beast with a cultivation of less than a thousand years. It is said that during his lifetime, he provided the Spirit Hall with a lot of research data on low-age Soul Beast, thus leaving his name in the world."
Zhou Qing said, "The discovery of the Elemental Fox was because when Tang Tianren was traveling across the continent, he found that the cubs of foxes with elemental powers, such as Water Fox, Fire Fox, Ice Fox, and Leaf Fox, all looked the same. Then, during an adventure, he witnessed an Elemental Fox lying on an ice crystal and transforming into Ice Fox. That's when he confirmed that the Elemental Fox possessed such abilities."
"Later, he also found Soul Master whose Martial Soul was Elemental Fox and discovered that after they broke through to the Soul Elder, their Martial Soul would undergo an evolution, becoming Water Fox, Fire Fox, etc."
"The specific elemental type of fox they will transform into depends on the attribute of their Third Spirit Ring. As for the elemental type of Soul Beast from which the first two Soul Ring come, they will not have any impact on the transformation of the Martial Soul in the Third Spirit Ring. However, after deciding which element they want to control in the future, these Soul Master will also choose Soul Beast with corresponding elemental attributes for their first two Soul Ring."
Tang San asked in confusion, "If that's the case, Soul Master with Elemental Fox Martial Soul must be from a large family. Why would they participate in this kind of competition?"
"No, at most they are small families, and like Elemental Fox, they are distributed in all kinds of environments across the continent. Soul Beast Soul Master with this kind of Martial Soul are also distributed in various towns and villages across the continent." Zhou Qing shook his head and asked in return, "You can't possibly make them all unite to form a family, can you? If that were the case, the Solitary Wolf and Lone Wolf Martial Soul families would be the strongest forces on the continent. Just their numbers alone could exhaust all the Titled Douluo of the Upper Three Sects."
"That's true." Tang San suddenly realized.
"Furthermore, once Elemental Fox completes its transformation, its cultivation becomes extremely slow... The specific reason is unknown, but both the ' Record of Soul Beast Oddities ' and the ' Soul Beast Encyclopedia ' record that although the Elemental Fox race is vast, none of them are over ten thousand years old. However, according to the latest version of the ' Spirit Hall Encyclopedia,' Elemental Fox over nine thousand years old have already been discovered..."
Zhou Qing also had some doubts about this, "Perhaps, the Elemental Fox Martial Soul also possesses this characteristic, so since the beginning of records, there has never been Soul Master with the Elemental Fox Martial Soul who has broken through to the Soul King realm."
Zhou Qing believes that the main reason for this is that the world has not established a complete basic system for cultivating Soul Power.
His cultivation of Soul Power relies entirely on the cultivation methods brought about by meditating on his Martial Soul. He has only a superficial understanding of the meridians, acupoints, and other internal structures of his body, and most of his skills are obtained through his Soul Ring.
This also explains why the Upper Three Sects so powerful, because they all have their Self-Created Soul Skill, which proves that they all understand the human body in their own way and from their own perspective.
The Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer of the Clear Sky Sect and the Heart Separation Control Technique of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, one focusing on the physical body and the other on the spirit, both surpass other families and sects at the fundamental level.
And the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?
The original work does not explicitly state that they have any Self-Created Soul Skill, but it requires that when choosing Soul Ring, all members of the family must choose Soul Beast with the Dragon Clan blood.
Perhaps, what this family values is the purity of the Dragon Clan bloodline of the Martial Soul itself!
However, it is certain that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's basic cultivation theories in both physical and spiritual aspects are absolutely inferior to those of the Clear Sky Sect and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Returning to the possessors of the Elemental Fox Martial Soul, if this type of Soul Master has a complete cultivation method for the body, spirit, Soul Power, and can make their Soul Power circulate in Great Zhou Circulation like Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill, then theoretically it is impossible for them to be limited to the Soul Ancestor realm.
As for the reason, I do know something about it.
At this moment, the voice of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm rang in the minds of Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina.
Zhou Qing was taken aback. He glanced at Qingzhu Zhu, Mo Hen, and Wang Sheng without making a sound. Seeing that they were watching the game intently, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.
After all, he was really afraid that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm would think that these three were also "one of their own" and expose its own existence.
[Regarding foxes, you humans often describe them as cunning and clever. The ancestor of the Elemental Fox was a thief, but his attempt to steal a chicken backfired, causing him and his race to undergo a flawed evolution. Once they completed their elemental transformation, they could no longer break through to a higher realm...]