Eight Trigrams Furnace, Mysterious Heaven Cauldron

"I'm sorry, it seems this Soul Palace can't be repaired."

Zhou Qing felt a little embarrassed when he realized that he had accidentally shattered the Artificial Soul Palace.

But Tang San shook his head.

After all, the scene of Zhou Qing shattering the Artificial Soul Palace was like the legend of Pangu creating the world in his previous life. With his head reaching the sky and his feet on the ground, he broke through the chaos and created the world.

The world created by Pangu was a round heaven and Round Sky Square Earth; but Zhou Qing's form... if it really reached the level of being able to create the world, it would probably shatter the world into countless stars, spreading in all directions.

However, in Tang San's view, the concept of Round Sky Square Earth is a truth, and Zhou Qing's method of breaking through this Artificial Soul Palace was simply similar to the description of Pangu creating the world.

Pangu, who created heaven and earth, must have supported the sky with his head and stomped the earth with his feet, splitting the world apart, unlike Zhou Qing who simply blasted chaos apart and then left it be...

"Qing Ge, let's not talk about that. Has your Martial Soul Evolution?" Tang San was more concerned about this.

"No."

Zhou Qing shook his head, "Martial Soul Evolution is not that easy. Especially for top-tier Martial Soul, they probably have to grow to their original strongest stage first, reach their peak, before they can find a way to break through again."

Bu Yi tentatively said, "Like my sister's and my Elemental Fox Martial Soul, Level 30 is the limit of its growth. If we want to evolve further, we have to break through the limit?"

That's it.

Zhou Qing agreed, "If we don't consider some special opportunities, then the key to Martial Soul Evolution is to accumulate Soul Power... It's a pity that before the basic Soul Power cultivation theory is fully supplemented, most Soul Master cannot accumulate enough Soul Power to Martial Soul Evolution."

"However, I have now discovered another path to rapidly evolve Martial Soul— "

"Human Body Cauldron!"

Zhou Qing then described in detail his discovery, conjecture, and the process of building the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Furnace, but omitted the "Eight Trigrams" explanation.

After all, Tang San had never described Eight Trigrams- related content to him.

"The main Meridians through which the human body circulates Soul Power are called the Eight Extraordinary Meridians. After the Soul Palace, which nurtures the Martial Soul, was shattered, it relied on these meridians to construct a brand new place to store the Martial Soul —the Cauldron!"

"After the Martial Soul Awakening, the Soul Palace shatters, but it does not dissipate. Instead, it transforms into another form, building a [Cauldron] based on the body's meridian circulation. This is the main reason why we are able to sense and use the Martial Soul."

"Cultivating Martial Soul is essentially about using Soul Power as fuel to 'forge' a furnace that is constructed with the human body's meridian circulation system as its framework and the material transformed from the broken Soul Palace as its outer shell, so as to allow the Martial Soul to grow."

At this point, in order to leave a deeper impression on everyone, or rather, on Tang San, Zhou Qing made another analogy.

"It's Tang San you're being forged, except this process doesn't involve hammering with a forging hammer, but rather using an extremely high-temperature flame to remove impurities from the metal."

"However, Martial Soul is born with its own spirituality and has its own unique Soul Power circulation system that can complement Soul Master. As for a weapon forged later, if it is to be used skillfully by Soul Master, like the Common Red Sword you forged for me, the metal needs to be forged to possess spirituality. Then, corresponding Soul Guiding Inscription and Soul Tool Core Formation are engraved on it to give it a path that allows Soul Power to flow and circulate."

Just as expected!

With this comparison, Tang San's theory of the Human Body Cauldron suddenly becomes clear.

Moreover, according to this idea—

"Martial Soul can be artificially created!?"

The moment the thought left his mouth, Tang San was so startled that he covered his mouth, but the more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

The deeper Tang San researched Martial Soul, the more he understood Martial Soul. Especially after Zhou Qing proposed the theory of "Human Body Cauldron," Tang San became increasingly convinced that Martial Soul were very likely something artificially created in the beginning.

The process of cultivating Martial Soul is actually a process of nurturing a Martial Soul.

Weapon forging!

Refining magical artifacts!

For some reason, Tang San remembered the magical artifacts and treasures that had been lost in his previous life, as well as the corresponding methods of refining them.

Legend has it that magical artifacts can be large or small, and have different functions. They can be stored in the body of the creator and released at will... But Tang San originally did not believe it.

After all, apart from special materials like Tao Rong Iron that can be separated into pure and impure qi and combined into perfectly blended iron, how could other metals and stones, even if crafted into extremely powerful weapons, be stored inside the body?

At most, it exists in the human body in a form similar to a gold tooth.

After all, the Mysterious Heaven Skill is Daoist Cultivation Technique, and Tang San is familiar with the Daoism concept of lead and mercury, but it doesn't refer to actual lead and mercury metals.

But now, Tang San has a new idea: the legendary magic weapon might really exist!

The Martial Soul in the Douluo Continent are the natural embryos of magical artifacts and treasures!

Therefore, true magical artifacts and treasures should be based on the circulation of meridians in the human body, nurture a certain energy, and undergo refinement and shaping before they can be completed.

This can also be verified by the fact that the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was able to grant Romantina Second Martial Soul: a soulless ice, in order to become a true Martial Soul, needs to be shaped in appearance by hunting a second Soul Beast.

This is no longer a question of similarity or dissimilarity!

They are exactly the same!

At this moment, Tang San also understood what Zhou Qing meant by the Human Body Cauldron.

That is the "Eight Trigrams Furnace" built based on the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, Three Passes and Nine Apertures and nine orifices of the human body!

Certainly!

Zhou Qing's is the Eight Trigrams Furnace, but if others construct it according to this cauldron theory, it will be a different form of cauldron. After all, the Martial Soul of Soul Master are different, the way they perceive the circulation of Soul Power through meditation is different, and the order and efficiency of the acupoints through which the Soul Power flows are also different.

However, Tang San was certain that he would primarily cultivate the Mysterious Heaven Skill, and secondarily cultivate the Blue Silver Grass Skill and Clear Sky Hammer Skill. The former was Daoist Cultivation Technique, while the latter two, one hard and one soft, could achieve a balance of Yin and Yang. Perhaps in the future, after opening up all the Meridians and acupoints, he could construct a corresponding "Human Body Cauldron".

Moreover, he had even thought of a name.

Since Zhou Qing's Human Body Cauldron is the Eight Trigrams Furnace, then his future furnace should be called the Mysterious Heaven Cauldron, which is a perfect match.

"Artificial Martial Soul?"

Bu Yi was shocked by Tang San's words, "Is this possible?"

"Possibly."

Zhou Qing naturally thought of what Tang San had thought of as well, and replied, "Currently, as long as we find the Original Power of Martial Soul and then find a way to shape that source power, we might be able to obtain a Martial Soul."

And the Soul Palace—

This should be something that spontaneously forms from the Martial Soul after it is formed, by connecting with the Heaven and Earth Qi through the human body's breathing.

"I'm really looking forward to seeing how powerful you Soul Master will become in the future," Bu Yi exclaimed.

"It's hard to say how powerful it will be in the future, but I do know one thing: a tall building starts from the ground up. Only by laying a solid foundation in the basic stage can we reach even greater heights."

Zhou Qing laughed and said, "The higher the realm, the greater the bottleneck in cultivation. The problem is most likely that the Soul Master himself does not know much about himself and his Martial Soul, has a weak foundation in cultivation theory, and is easily stumbled when he is feeling his way across the river."

"On the contrary, once the basic theory is supplemented and the understanding of Martial Soul is sufficient, then there will only be two bottlenecks to breaking through the realm in the future: Soul Power and Soul Ring."