Hypotheses on the Soul Palace and the Forms of Martial Souls

Are there any cases of Martial Soul failing to materialize in the womb?

Zhou Qing asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

"Have."

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm answered through Romantina's words, "I have looked for people who make a living by begging. They have basically missed the Martial Soul Awakening. Their Soul Palace are withered and wrinkled, and their Martial Soul are very fragile, wilted and limp, as if they have been suffocated."

As she spoke, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm presented the relevant images to Zhou Qing.

Just as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said, those who missed the best awakening stage still have Soul Palace in their body, but it is not as round as a normal Soul Palace, and the Martial Soul inside seems to have been suffocated.

If it is Beast Martial Soul, its fur will have no luster whatsoever.

If it's Tool Martial Soul —iron—it's covered in rust; stone—it looks like it's about to shatter at any moment. In short, its durability is almost at its limit.

This means that as long as Martial Soul is not born, the Soul Palace that nurtures the Martial Soul can continue to exist, but it will wither and age.

However, once Martial Soul is born, its Soul Palace will shatter...

Broken?

Zhou Qing was slightly stunned. Since the Soul Palace was shattered, then where exactly in the human body does the Martial Soul exist?

The Tool Martial Soul appeared in his left and right hands.

Beast Martial Soul appear in the form of possession.

These are all just appearances!

According to Zhou Qing's personal experience, the Blood Circulation System Martial Soul does not exist in the dantian of the human body, or in any other acupoints.

Martial Soul possesses both energy and matter properties, and can even transform between the two. It exists within the human body, but not within its Meridians, acupoints, or dantian; it can only be perceived and connected to other parts of the body through these means.

This definitely requires a medium!

The human body's circulation of Soul Power and the Martial Soul's own system of circulating Soul Power are two systems that complement each other, so there must be something connecting the two.

For Soul Master who awaken their Martial Soul, has the Soul Palace that once nurtured those Martial Soul truly vanished?

Perhaps--

The shattered Soul Palace continues to exist within the human body in another form, becoming the medium through which humans can perceive the existence of their Martial Soul.

After making this assumption, Zhou Qing realized that although Martial Soul can be controlled by humans, they should essentially exist in another space, or rather, another dimension or plane. The entity that connects the two might be the "Soul Palace".

Because it exists in another space, even the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm cannot detect the location of the "Soul Palace" that was shattered due to the "birth" of the Martial Soul; it can only detect the existence of the Martial Soul.

In fact, the reason Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Spiritual Power could detect the existence of the Martial Soul was precisely because the broken Soul Palace provided a medium for the transmission of Spiritual Power.

After learning about Zhou Qing's conjecture, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was dumbfounded. "Your brain is really amazing, you actually dared to make such a conjecture?"

"So, do you think my guess is correct?" Zhou Qing asked with a hint of anticipation.

How would I know?

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm wondered why Zhou Qing was asking her this question.

"Didn't you want to give Romantina Second Martial Soul? Million-Year Soul Beast, theoretically, is Level 100 expert among human Soul Master. Even if you say that the rules of the Douluo Continent do not allow Soul Beast to become gods, you are essentially a God Level Ice Silkworm. You should be able to notice these things, right?" Zhou Qing blinked, as if wondering why Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was wondering about this.

"Although I can indeed grant Romantina a second Martial Soul, that Martial Soul is not yet formed; it is just a ball of ice. Strictly speaking, it cannot even be considered Martial Soul; it is merely a peculiar Elemental Power."

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was speechless. "I can't actually control how Martial Soul is formed. I just have a feeling that doing this will form Martial Soul... The specifics may only be determined when Romantina reaches level 20 and obtains her Second Spirit Ring, which is the First Spirit Ring of her Second Martial Soul, according to my plan."

Zhou Qing understood this point as well, and the observation of these "Soul Palace" was not entirely without any practical gains.

At the very least, these Soul Palace all have peculiar patterns on them.

Although the patterns on the Martial Soul are different because of their different types, when Zhou Qing superimposed these Soul Palace images, he discovered that no matter what kind of Martial Soul was being nurtured within the Soul Palace, the patterns on the main part of the outer Soul Palace were identical.

It presents a rather abstract vortex shape...

"Um?"

Zhou Qing was slightly taken aback. He took out the thin black paper from the Gray Pouch. Ignoring the shape of the female uterus depicted on it, the swirling patterns on it were seven parts similar to the swirling patterns on the Soul Palace that he had summarized.

Undoubtedly, Hu Fangyuan's "predecessors," those Fallen Ones, did indeed research something, but it's unknown how many people died in the process.

"Alas, the Fallen Ones, their thought processes are different from ordinary people. They have indeed pioneered many research directions, but it is also because of their abnormal thinking that they are unable to conduct proper research and will go astray from their research topics later... The root cause is that they crave power, not research itself."

Zhou Qing sighed, put the Black Paper back into the Gray Pouch, took out paper and pen, and drew a more complete structure of the Soul Palace and the overlapping structural patterns.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm later returned its body to Romantina.

"What should we do next?" Romantina looked at the strange spiral pattern drawn on the paper. "Find a metal to engrave it?"

"Metal is most likely not suitable."

Reason?

The group of Fallen Ones before Hu Fangyuan must have experimented with it, otherwise they wouldn't have been so fanciful as to use a woman's uterus as a substitute.

Although the Fallen Ones are madmen with thoughts different from ordinary people, when they first learned of the existence of the "Soul Palace," they would not have immediately experimented on women's uteruses. They broke through the bottom line of morality step by step in order to gain power, and it was not something that happened overnight.

"The development of Martial Soul cannot be separated from the human body. We need to collect another set of data to find out where the key lies."

Zhou Qing realized that simply confirming the existence of the Soul Palace was not enough; he also needed to understand the moment the Martial Soul was born, the moment the Soul Palace shattered, or rather, what form the Soul Palace took after that, and to understand the entire process of that transformation.

However, collecting this data is quite troublesome; it will take until the Spirit Hall launches its campaign to awaken Martial Soul for ordinary children.

Although any Soul Master can help someone awaken their Martial Soul as long as they have the corresponding Awakening Stone and Crystal Ball for testing Soul Power.

However, children from commoner backgrounds will not receive a certificate from the Spirit Hall they awaken their Martial Soul with its help.

Although once you become Soul Master, you can still register at the Spirit Hall and obtain a certificate.

However, without this certificate, the path to education is quite difficult before becoming Soul Master, and it may even be impossible to enter Soul Master Academy.

Without a certificate issued by the Spirit Hall, unless the student is a member of a family or sect, or Innate Soul Power of at least level three, a regular academy has the right not to accept the student.

After all, the Soul Master system on the Douluo Continent is quite complete now. Without this certificate, it means that the commoner child's identity is questionable...