Bu Yi's Soul Ring Absorption Process (Part 2)

When Bu Yi absorbed the Third Spirit Ring, it only took her three minutes. Moreover, in her perception, none of the excess energy in the Soul Ring was transferred into her body. Instead, it all entered a certain core inside her Martial Soul.

"Core? The core of Martial Soul?"

Zhou Qing was puzzled. His connection with his own Martial Soul Blood Circulation System was extremely close, but he couldn't sense any core within it at all.

Even the second Martial Soul that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm provided to Romantina — Unshaped Ice —was merely a peculiar source of ice-attribute energy, without any so-called core.

In other words, the existence of Martial Soul is its core itself, rather than having some kind of core inside the Martial Soul.

Through the Nuoding Academy Library and the Nuoding Spirit Hall Branch's Library Pavilion, Zhou Qing had already determined that even if Martial Soul is shattered, as long as the Soul Master is still alive and their Soul Power can still circulate within their body, the shattered Martial Soul can repair itself over time!

It is possible that the Martial Soul will be shattered so completely that it can never be fully repaired in one's lifetime.

In this situation, the Martial Soul can be considered to have been destroyed.

However, Zhou Qing maintained a rigorous attitude and believed that this was not the case of destroying the Martial Soul at all, but simply that the Soul Master whose Martial Soul was shattered did not have the time to repair it!

But if there is a core inside the Martial Soul, wouldn't that mean that the Martial Soul could be completely abolished?

After all, all that's needed is to completely destroy the core!

But that shouldn't be possible!

At least, Zhou Qing conservatively estimates that beings below the level of God Level power should not be able to completely destroy a Martial Soul. At most, they can only damage the Soul Master's meridians and dantian that stores Soul Power, thus crippling the Soul Master.

Alternatively, some means could be used to slow down the self-recovery speed of a shattered Martial Soul, thus preventing a Soul Master from ever releasing their Martial Soul again in their lifetime.

It directly affects the Martial Soul, rendering Martial Soul useless...

There is absolutely no precedent for this in the Douluo Continent!

[Perhaps Nuoding Academy and Nuoding Spirit Hall Branch are too low-level to have relevant records, but if Martial Soul can be destroyed beyond repair or release, and all major powers possess such Secret Art, there's no reason why there shouldn't be any related information on the continent.]

[Well, it's also possible that directly destroying the Meridians within Soul Master's body is much easier than searching for and destroying the Martial Soul core. So, has the Douluo Continent not yet developed a way to directly abolish Martial Soul? But that doesn't make sense either. Given humanity's inherent weaknesses, even if abolishing Martial Soul is much more troublesome, wouldn't that be a better way to make an example of someone and deter others from wrongdoing?]

In that instant, Zhou Qing began a brainstorming session. He concluded that with current human methods, it was impossible to destroy a Martial Soul by directly affecting Martial Soul. The only way was to indirectly destroy a Soul Master's body, thus preventing him from using his Martial Soul again.

[Just like Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor, can it really be ruined? As long as half of his genetic material comes from Ah Yin, even if his Blue Silver Emperor is shattered, as long as he doesn't die, with his understanding of the meridians and acupoints throughout his body, he can restore his body to its best condition, and then his Martial Soul can have the conditions to be reborn!]

Wait! Developing?

Zhou Qing suddenly realized—

Martial Soul originates from one's parents' genes and the bloodline of one's ancestors!

Therefore, to destroy a Martial Soul, one must start from the genetic level!

The so-called genes, or bloodline genetic factors, may be the true core of the Martial Soul. It originates from the Genetic Material information of the physical body itself, and expresses this information through the Heaven and Earth Energy in this world, or through the Soul Power in the body, thus forming the "Martial Soul".

[This could explain the genetic principles of all Martial Soul, except for a very few special Martial Soul... Let's leave this hypothesis for now!]

Bu Yi was unaware that Zhou Qing had thought of the issue of Martial Soul inheritance at that moment, and continued, "It is indeed something similar to a core, but whether it is the core of the Martial Soul, I don't know. I only know that when absorbing the Third Spirit Ring, the energy in the Soul Ring enters the Martial Soul and then circulates within the Martial Soul, similar to how Soul Power circulates within a Soul Master. Do you understand?"

"Um."

Zhou Qing nodded, just as the human body has meridians and acupoints, the Martial Soul itself also has its own energy circulation system.

When Soul Master uses Soul Skill, they need to use their own meridian and acupoint circulation system to control the energy circulation system within their Martial Soul. Soul Power flows through the human body and Martial Soul before entering the Soul Ring and activating Soul Ring skills.

After completing the Secondary Soul Ring Refinement, using Soul Skill is equivalent to using Martial Soul, saving a step.

"It's good that you understand." Bu Yi continued, "After the energy in the Third Spirit Ring enters the Martial Soul, it circulates within the Martial Soul and gathers into a core in the body in a peculiar way, and then spreads out, causing the entire form and attributes of the Martial Soul to change."

"It feels a bit like Soul Beast finding some special ore, or a medicine containing strange energy, swallowing it, refining it, integrating it into its bloodline, and changing its bloodline..." Xiao Wu muttered, "Does Martial Soul actually have such characteristics?"

Change your bloodline?

Zhou Qing was stunned.

To be honest, he's always been quite confused about bloodlines in fantasy-like worlds, especially regarding the points of "abolition" and "change"...

Feelings and genes are not the same thing.

But the world of the Douluo Continent isn't the kind of high-fantasy world with Round Sky Square Earth, right?

It's Planet! It's surrounded by an atmosphere! And beyond that is Starry Sky similar to the real universe; 99% of the stars in the night sky are fixed stars!

so--

"How exactly is it possible to change one's bloodline?" Zhou Qing asked.

"This? It's about consuming special ores, herbs, or other things, and then using Soul Power to continuously refine these things." Xiao Wu didn't hide anything. "My mom and dad used to... play pranks on other Soul Beast, oh no, I mean they researched it."

Research?

You let it all slip!

Zhou Qing didn't believe Xiao Wu's mother had that kind of scientific research spirit, but she didn't expect. "You have a father too?"

Are you being polite?

Black lines appeared on Xiao Wu's forehead at a visible speed, and her fists cracked as she prepared to beat Zhou Qing up.

"Ahem, sorry!" Zhou Qing was a little embarrassed. He recalled the Douluo Series and realized that in "Legend of the Divine Realm," it was indeed described that Xiao Wu had a father named "Xiao Wu" who insisted on going to the core area of Star Dou Great Forest in order to live the life of a high-level Soul Beast, and then never returned.

Zhou Qing could easily guess what would happen to a Hundred-Thousand-Year- old Soft Bone Rabbit if it went to the core area of Star Dou Great Forest and encountered those carnivorous Ferocious Beast.

Xiao Wu's mother died from human death.

Xiao Wu's father died from Ferocious Beast.