Traits Common to Transmigrators

Half a month later, Chen Ming returned to the Dragon Elephant Sect, bringing back a few little gifts along the way.

Besides the Diamond Mammoth and the unfinished Heavy Armor Earth Dragon, Chen Ming's Soul Tool also quietly held the corpse of a male Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear that was around twelve thousand years old.

That unlucky fellow had perhaps thought powerful Soul Beasts were fighting and wanted to pick up the leftovers. It had run from the Core Area to the Mixed Area, only to have its head smashed apart by two Titled Douluo full of pent-up anger. It became a headless corpse that Chen Ming brought back.

The saying that a Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear rivaled a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was not false, but it needed at least thirty or forty thousand years of cultivation to reach that level. The one Chen Li had brought back to the sect a few years ago truly possessed strength no weaker than a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, but that did not mean every Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear by the roadside had the combat strength of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

What was more, against a Titled Douluo who carried Level 8 Soul Cannon Shells and was also a Level 8 Soul Master, along with a Level 94 top-tier Martial Soul Titled Douluo equipped with a Rank 9 Close-Combat Soul Tool, even most Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts would only be coming to their deaths.

Perhaps because it was inherently unlucky, this twelve-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear not only shamefully failed to produce a Palm Bone like others of its kind, but did not even produce an ordinary Soul Bone. It simply donated its body to replenish Chen Ming's supply of excellent High-Energy Flesh and Blood.

After returning to the sect, Chen Ming was not immediately thrown back into high-intensity training. Instead, Great Elder Chen Ping kept him by his side and began teaching him about Soul Tools.

Chen Ping taught Chen Ming the categories and knowledge of Soul Tools in a cramming fashion. From time to time, he even brought out low-level Soul Tools commonly seen in the Sun Moon Empire for Chen Ming to experience firsthand.

Functional ones were experienced by using them. Offensive ones were experienced with his body.

With Chen Ming's current foundation, his defense after activating his First Soul Skill even surpassed that of most ordinary Defense System Soul Elders. Taking attacks from Level 1 and Level 2 Soul Tools head-on was no problem at all. As long as no Soul Cannon Shells were fired at him, they could not even break his defenses.

The Dragon Elephant Sect was a Soul Master sect with a special view of Soul Engineers. After awakening their Martial Souls, every clan member was forcibly required and arranged to study the knowledge and use of Soul Tools, ensuring that even those without Soul Engineer talent could smoothly use Soul Tools and integrate that power into combat to make up for their own shortcomings.

Those basic Dragon Elephant Sect Soul Tools that Chen Ming jokingly called "daily necessities" had been created around the idea of integrating Soul Tools into everyday life.

Within the sect, seventy percent of Soul Masters also held the position of Soul Engineer, while the remaining thirty percent of clan members possessed Soul Tool knowledge and experience using Soul Tools.

Although around half of those two hundred clan members who worked as part-time Soul Engineers were Level 1 or Level 2 Soul Engineers, barely entering the Soul Tool field, and their usual work was no more than patching up their own "daily necessities," that proportion was actually quite high.

Although the Dragon Elephant Sect had never produced a Rank 9 Soul Engineer in its history, Level 8 Soul Masters had almost never been absent. At its peak, there had been five to six people; at its lowest, there had always been at least one. The sect also maintained good relations with professional Soul Tool factions, either introducing advanced technology and Soul Tools or simply bringing in Soul Tool Technology Talent to manufacture Soul Tools.

Naturally, after absorbing his Soul Ring and confirming that he would take Hall Master of Mingde Hall Jing Hongchen as his master, Chen Ming began following the sect's old rules and attempting to manufacture Soul Tools, in order to determine whether he possessed talent in this field.

Soul Tools were an extremely profound discipline. They required not only Soul Power, but also sufficient knowledge and the ability to control one's Soul Power.

After receiving half a month of professional hands-on training, Chen Ming successfully completed the engraving of the Core Pattern for his first Level 1 Soul Tool, an Elephant Skin Inner Lining, under Chen Ping's watchful eye.

Looking at the new clothes he had rushed to make overnight, Chen Ming's expression carried a hint of relief.

"Xiao Ming, your talent is far too much better than mine!" Chen Ping excitedly picked Chen Ming up and spun him around like a child, tears glimmering in his eyes, which had narrowed into slits.

"For the first two months after awakening your Martial Soul, you only spent some time each day learning about Soul Tools. You have only received half a month of professional training. Yet even counting all that time together, you spent merely two and a half months becoming a qualified Level 1 Soul Engineer!"

"If we really calculated it carefully, you could even say that you became a Level 1 Soul Engineer in around a month. This is the talent of a first-rate genius of the Sun Moon Continent!"

"My grandson Chen Ming has the potential to become a Rank 9 Soul Engineer! Hahahahahaha!!!"

"Great Elder, don't get so excited. My ribs are about to break!" Chen Ming frowned and patted Chen Ping's arm. Only then did Chen Ping, who had become so excited that he had nearly lost his mind, regain a little reason and hurriedly put Chen Ming down.

Chen Ming's thick skin and flesh were extraordinary. If it had been an ordinary one-ring Dragon Elephant Sect Soul Master standing here, it would not merely have been bone pain—it would have gone straight to a Healing Soul Master crying for treatment.

After all, although the Great Elder had become a Titled Douluo through drug abuse, making him somewhat lacking in substance, twenty years had passed, and that lack of substance had more or less been squeezed out. At the very least, there was nothing lacking about his strength and physical qualities anymore. Even without using a trace of Soul Power, a Power System Titled Douluo could easily squeeze a Small Fry like a Soul Master into a lump with just a little force.

After being put down by the Great Elder, Chen Ming looked at his work, which still had several shortcomings, and fell into thought.

The origin of the Vajra Dragon Elephant Martial Soul was the White Armored Earth Dragon and the Diamond Mammoth. Both Martial Souls possessed excellent Gold-Earth Dual Attributes, though their expression leaned more toward strengthening themselves than Elemental Attack. The Vajra Dragon Elephant naturally inherited these traits, possessing top-tier Gold-Earth Dual Attributes and likewise strengthening itself before dealing Physical Attack.

Soul Masters with Spirit Attributes were the most suited to Soul Tools, followed by Soul Masters with Gold Attributes. Although Chen Ming had no real understanding or insight into controlling elements, when he concentrated, he could vaguely sense certain changes in metal.

Was this purely due to the attributes of his Martial Soul?

Chen Ming felt that it was partly related, but not entirely...

Recalling the feeling of entering Extreme Focus while making the Soul Tool just now, as well as the memories left behind each time he had broken through his limits, Chen Ming assumed the Five Hearts Facing Heaven posture.

After sensing for around a quarter hour, Chen Ming finally confirmed his guess.

"That's right, I have a Sea of Consciousness!"