Xiao Zhan: Rounding Up, That Means My Teaching Was Spot On! (Please Collect!!!)

Second Soul Skill, Control.

Su Wen's Second Soul Skill could help him manipulate the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi in the outside world by consuming a certain amount of Spiritual Power and soul power.

In the month before he came to Heaven Dou City, he had actually been trying to use this to increase his cultivation speed.

The denser the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi in the outside world, the faster the cultivation speed.

That was inevitable. Many places rich in Heaven and Earth Origin Qi were occupied by large factions precisely for this reason, and apart from Mimicry Cultivation environments, this was one of the few directions in the current Soul Master World that could increase cultivation speed.

Unfortunately, Su Wen's technique of gathering Heaven and Earth Origin Qi to increase his cultivation speed had always run into a bottleneck.

Cultivation had never been a short-term project that showed results in a moment.

Only through years and months of accumulation could cultivation truly reveal its effects.

If he used his soul skill continuously, Su Wen's Spiritual Power and soul power could only last for a limited time. Moreover, most of the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi he refined would be used to restore his soul power instead, making it rather inefficient for increasing his soul power's upper limit.

However, though the increase to cultivation speed was not obvious enough, it was extremely effective in helping Su Wen restore soul power.

By consuming a certain amount of soul power, he could sustain soul power recovery for an even longer time. The recovery speed could not surpass the consumption, but the total amount recovered exceeded the soul power consumed. (Ahem, refer to Cheng Yaojin.)

In this way, this method became an endurance technique for Su Wen.

Forget Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan, who were currently being worn down by Su Wen—even Qin Ming, a Soul King, was quite astonished.

Su Wen was only a Soul Grandmaster.

Yet he could actually compete in endurance with two Soul Elders.

"Overall, the total amount of soul power Su Wen gives off to perception isn't high, and each use of his soul skill consumes quite a bit," Qin Ming murmured. "But his recovery ability is far too abnormal."

Xiao Zhan nodded as if this were all very much the case.

Exactly.

This brat learned more than half of the techniques I spent so many years figuring out in just seven days, and this abnormal recovery ability is a major key.

Su Wen was like a perpetual motion machine, spending less soul power in exchange for more soul power recovery. It was practically shameless.

The key was, he could fly!

Even if this cycle of consumption and recovery required enough time to reach a state where he spent less and recovered more, Su Wen could completely stall in the air.

And once Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng wanted to conserve soul power or rest, Su Wen would make his move.

The other five who had been eliminated and were standing off to the side also looked wordlessly at both sides on the field.

"Stop!" Qin Ming shouted.

There was no point in continuing the battle.

Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan let out sighs of relief.

"Let's count this match as a draw," Su Wen took the initiative to say.

Although he had used Wind Element Control to avoid being poisoned as much as possible, how could he completely isolate the spread of poison? The longer it went on, the more the trace amounts of poison he failed to block every moment would accumulate.

So whether he would fail to hold out first, or Yu Tianheng and the others would run out of soul power first, was truly hard to say.

"Senior Dugu Yan's poison is impossible to guard against. I wouldn't have lasted much longer either."

"Good. Then this time, we'll count it as a draw." Qin Ming did not dwell on who won or lost either.

This battle had originally been to observe Su Wen's performance, and also to take a look at the current results of the Team of Seven.

He was very satisfied now.

At the very least, he was very satisfied with Su Wen.

"Tianheng, your burst power still isn't strong enough, and you worry too much about gains and losses during battle.

"And Yanzi, your problem is the most serious. Your poison is very strong, and under normal circumstances, its control effect is excellent. But when you run into someone like Su Wen, your poison can hardly take effect. Today, Su Wen could only fight a war of attrition. But what if his Soul Power Level were a little higher and his strength were sufficient?"

Although he was satisfied, Qin Ming still picked out several shortcomings.

Qin Ming had reminded Dugu Yan about her cultivation long ago, but she had a Titled Douluo grandfather, so Qin Ming could not very well point fingers. Using today's battle as a chance, he brought up his previous suggestions again.

"Yanzi, your poison is a method of control, but you can't rely entirely on its toxicity either."

The direction currently suitable for Dugu Yan's development was nothing more than manipulating poisonous mist, strengthening its impact so that if she encountered a method like Su Wen's, it could contend with his air currents and thereby spread the poison properly.

Of course, if she approached it from a more microscopic angle and focused on digging into the diffusion properties of the poison itself, that would also work.

Even without powerful poisonous mist to clash with Su Wen's air currents, as long as it made contact with the airflow, even against the wind, the poison could quickly spread.

For the current Dugu Yan, the latter was naturally difficult to develop. After all, her current Spiritual Power was still insufficient, and developing such minute control over poison was very hard.

But the manipulation of poisonous mist that Qin Ming spoke of was feasible.

Only...

Su Wen knew Dugu Bo's ultimate move: one man destroying an entire city.

What that relied on was not some kind of control, but the development of the poison's diffusion ability, making his own poison possess terrifying toxicity while also having frightening diffusion.

Su Wen had no interest in blindly analyzing how Qin Ming taught Dugu Yan. It was only because of his habit of theoretical research that his thoughts followed along for a moment.

"Osler, you were still too impulsive and not calm enough. When Su Wen encountered danger, even if you had rushed over at that time, Su Wen would still have been eliminated. Instead, you allowed Tianheng to connect seamlessly, and after dealing with Su Wen, he could directly fight you."

Yu Tianheng's Third Soul Skill was a consumable type. After dealing with Su Wen, he would have needed to find his next target and chase them down, all of which would have drained him.

But Osler had charged straight in at the time.

It was only because Su Wen had a way to escape; otherwise, it could practically be said that he had handed Yu Tianheng a perfect chance to build momentum.

"Yes, Teacher Qin Ming." Osler accepted the criticism humbly.

However, a flaw like that clearly was not something that could be overcome easily. If he was already this impulsive just because something had happened to Su Wen, a newcomer, it showed how much emotion weighed in his judgment.

Still, that was not necessarily a bad thing.

"Yu Feng, your performance today didn't have any major mistakes, but your control over the Wind Element is still inferior to Su Wen's. You need to strengthen it properly."

"Lingling, you also need to strengthen your survival training."

"..."

After every battle, Qin Ming would give commentary, point out their shortcomings, and then offer training suggestions for what came next.

"All right, let's welcome Su Wen, who joined the team today."

"Junior Su, hello."

"Hello, seniors."

After the battle, Qin Ming did not immediately arrange training. Instead, he gave Su Wen and the seven others time to talk and get to know one another.

"Senior Xiao Zhan, your guidance of Su Wen has already been perfect," Qin Ming said with a sigh.

The many methods Su Wen had just displayed had amazed him.

Especially that terrifying recovery ability.

Xiao Zhan looked proud.

Although he had only taught him for seven days, which of the methods Su Wen had just shown had not been developed in advance?

So if you rounded it up, that meant my teaching had been on point!