First Soul Skill: Blood Activating Body

First Soul Skill—Blood Activating Body

Ning Wuque had studied the soul skill "Ninefold Yama Gates" with unparalleled thoroughness. It concerned his future!

From the very beginning, he had deduced every possible accident and flaw through relentless reasoning!

From the fifteen days of initial research to the supplementary studies on each monthly rest day afterward, he had marked out more than a hundred notes on the original draft!

The latest note had reached [Note 136].

Yet those words had been written two months ago. Since then, he had flipped through it again and again, pondering for half a day at a time, but found no room for further improvement.

Perhaps he would have to wait until he successfully used Ring Blasting to open the "First Gate" before he could deduce new hidden dangers.

"Good thing you're smart enough, Wuque. Take this soul bone. Once we return to the sect, go trade it with the Sect Treasury steward for other treasures that will be useful to you!"

Although Ning Wuque could not absorb soul bones, Zhang Can still took out the soul bone and stuffed it into Ning Wuque's arms together with the closed manuscript.

It did not matter if he could not use a soul bone. He could trade it for something he could use! He could not just leave it there to gather dust, could he?

That would be far too wasteful!

Zhang Can knew about Ning Wuque's current expenses. The nutrition needed just to maintain his daily training cost two Gold Soul Coins.

Even though buying nutritious meals within the sect came with stacked discounts and cost only one sect contribution point per day, that had been before.

Now that Ning Wuque had absorbed his First Soul Ring and his martial soul had evolved, his physical constitution was incomparable to what it had once been. It had improved by at least thirty percent, a considerable change.

That number would only grow larger in the future!

Therefore, there was never enough money!

"Mm, thank you, Grandpa!"

Ning Wuque did not stand on ceremony. He directly stored the soul bone Zhang Can had handed him again, along with his manuscript, inside his Storage Soul Tool.

Ever since Zhang Can had forged a full set of Soul Guidance Training Gear for him, he had made up his mind. When Zhang Can grew old, he would care for him, see him off, and honor his memory. He had already regarded Zhang Can as his own grandfather.

"Good, good. Come, Wuque, quickly show Grandpa your First Soul Skill. A thousand-year First Soul Ring... In all my life, I've never seen anything this extraordinary. Looking through all of history, only the third Sect Master of the Body Clan achieved such a feat!"

As Zhang Can spoke, anticipation glimmered in his eyes. He wondered just what this thousand-year First Soul Ring was capable of.

It should not be bad, considering that this soul ring had come from a Dark Gold Soldier Ant, a soul beast sharing the same origin as Ning Wuque's martial soul.

Ning Wuque did not hesitate. He immediately rose to his feet and used Martial Soul Possession. As his purple soul ring lit up, faint golden lines surfaced across his body. At the same time, he explained to Zhang Can, "This is my First Soul Skill, Blood Activating Body. It resembles the combat and carrying posture of Black-Gold Ants and Dark Gold Soldier Ants. By intensely activating the blood within my body, it grants me greater strength and physical capabilities."

Ning Wuque was undoubtedly, incredibly satisfied with this soul skill!

It satisfied him even more than a soul skill that provided percentage-based boosts! Because this soul skill acted directly upon himself, it meant that as long as he activated it once, he could maintain it until the battle ended by continuously supplying Soul Power!

What kind of concept was that?

Under normal circumstances, the bonuses from soul skills would vanish after Ring Blasting, because the portion of Soul Power maintaining them, along with the soul rings themselves, would have been blown apart.

However, some bonuses were different. For example, direct enhancements to the soul, stimulation of one's physical body, and the like. Such soul skills could still be maintained with Soul Power even after Ring Blasting!

It was like the difference between someone helping you and someone helping you complete something. One relied on external power to become stronger, while the other opened your acupoints and cleared your meridians—so long as it did not stop, it remained effective.

If that was still difficult to understand, then think of it this way:

A skill that consumed mana and then went on cooldown, versus a skill that remained active for as long as it continuously consumed mana.

With this soul skill, Ning Wuque could still benefit from this bonus while using Ring Blasting. This was an independent multiplier far more valuable than a percentage increase!

It was equivalent to receiving another boost after an initial boost—utterly outrageous!

"Grandpa doesn't understand, but just looking at you, I can tell that you're extremely satisfied with this soul skill. All right, get some rest. Grandpa will take you back to the sect later."

"Mm!"

Time flew by.

After obtaining the soul ring he wanted, Ning Wuque returned to the sect with Zhang Can.

However, Ning Wuque did not rush to trade the soul bone to the sect. Instead, he first asked Zhang Can to obtain a list of the current treasures in the treasury for him.

The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Clan's Sect Treasury had five levels in total. Only the first three were open internally. To exchange for treasures from the final two levels, one had to be at least an elder or someone who had made major contributions, and the treasures could only be used by the exchanger personally.

There was nothing Zhang Can could do about that. He would not violate the sect's rules. This was the only pure land in his heart.

As for the items in the Sect Treasury, the list was updated once a year. Only the Grand Elders, namely Titled Douluo, had firsthand information.

Everyone else who wanted to see it could only apply at the treasury steward's office. It was worth mentioning that the old man guarding the Sect Treasury was a Super Douluo.

After looking over the list Zhang Can had brought him, Ning Wuque shook his head.

It was all too ordinary. Although there was Whale Rubber, its effects were greatly reduced after eating it once. Unless it was more than fifty thousand years old, there was no need to consume it again.

But Whale Rubber of that grade was not something a small soul master could touch. It was not that he could not afford it—he simply could not consume it!

After looking through everything, Ning Wuque found that there was practically nothing worth trading for. And if he exchanged the soul bone for sect contribution points, that would be an even greater loss.

He might as well wait a while longer, until about a month before his current resources ran out. If there was truly no alternative, he could only exchange it for a large amount of sect contribution points.

Putting away the list, Ning Wuque did not train again that day.

First, he increased the weight of his training gear by another tier. Then, he began cultivating the "Human-Soul Unification Method."

Since creating it, this was his second attempt at cultivating the technique he had invented.

The reason was that he had made no progress at all during his first attempt. He thought that perhaps his connection with his martial soul had been too shallow, making it impossible for him to communicate with it.

Now that he had absorbed his First Soul Ring, he could use it as a medium to communicate with his martial soul, conveying his thoughts to it completely. Perhaps only through cooperation between the two of them could he succeed and achieve Human-Soul Unification!

That was—Martial Soul Possession of a Beast Soul Spirit completely led by the human!

"Martial soul, martial soul, open your eyes. I am Ning Wuque."

"Kaah~"

Within the chaotic Sea of Consciousness, Ning Wuque's spiritual body entered. Using meditation and the Soul Power control he had developed through years of training, he actively entered a state of semi-deep meditation and plunged into this sea of consciousness in search of his martial soul.

He did not know how much time had passed, until he saw a colossal black ant standing between heaven and earth amid the chaos.

It lay there with its eyes closed and its body curled. Only after Ning Wuque awakened it did it raise its head and let out a long cry.

Human and soul, through the human's efforts, formally met during his youth!