Soul Power Cultivation and Future Plans

Soul Power Cultivation and Future Plans

The foundation of Soul Power cultivation was meditation. Soul Masters absorbed the energy of heaven and earth through meditation, converted it into Soul Power, and fed it back into themselves. Their Martial Souls guided the Soul Power through the meridians within their bodies, accumulating it to raise their level.

To become a Soul Master, one had to possess both a Martial Soul and Innate Soul Power. Neither could be absent.

The most interesting thing about Douluo Continent was Martial Souls. Under the influence of Douluo Star's natural laws, Martial Souls were the product of bloodlines fused with souls.

Why did Soul Masters feel somewhat similar to the cultivators of the Daoist Inner Alchemy Sect from Blue Star in his previous life?

Bloodlines represented "essence," Soul Power represented "qi," and souls represented "spirit." Soul Masters were the product of all three combined.

Liu Yanyang felt as though he had glimpsed the essence of it all, though he did not know whether his thoughts were right or wrong.

Following that line of thought, a Martial Soul was equivalent to a cultivation method. After awakening their Martial Souls, Soul Masters each had their own Soul Power circulation route.

After a Martial Soul guided Soul Power through one full circuit of the body's meridians, different Soul Masters gained different amounts of Soul Power—Soul Power stored in their dantians.

If a Soul Master were compared to an infinitely large bucket, and Soul Power to water, then the Martial Soul would be the tool used to draw water.

That made it easy to understand why Martial Souls affected a Soul Master's cultivation speed. The stronger the Martial Soul, the faster Soul Power accumulated.

Innate Soul Power, meanwhile, was formed from the energy of heaven and earth absorbed by the Martial Soul's passive effects before its awakening.

Everyone on Douluo Continent possessed a Martial Soul. It had existed since birth. Otherwise, it would not be called awakening a Martial Soul, but granting one.

"But why do Soul Masters with the same Martial Soul have different amounts of Innate Soul Power?" Liu Yanyang could not figure it out no matter how hard he thought.

After pondering for a while, inspiration suddenly struck him. During the accumulation of Soul Power, the human body's meridians played an important role.

Therefore, the quality of one's meridians—their degree of openness—would affect the formation of Innate Soul Power before Martial Soul awakening, causing identical Martial Souls to have different levels of Innate Soul Power.

Then, after a Martial Soul awakened, the quality of the meridians would likewise affect a Soul Master's cultivation speed.

Soul Masters absorbed the energy of heaven and earth through meditation, converted it into Soul Power, and fed it back into their bodies.

Throughout this process, the openness of the meridians affected the rate at which a Soul Master absorbed and converted the energy of heaven and earth.

It was like a pool equipped with its own faucet, with the water representing Soul Power.

If no water flowed from the faucet, that meant no Soul Power circulated through it—in other words, the Martial Soul had awakened, but there was no Innate Soul Power.

If there was little water in the pool, meaning the meridians could hold little Soul Power, then no matter how powerful the Martial Soul was, it would be useless. The typical example was Gangzi: low Innate Soul Power, but a powerful Martial Soul.

When his Martial Soul awakened, his poor meridian quality resulted in low Innate Soul Power. He could not support the Soul Power required for Martial Soul Evolution and ultimately became a pig!

Of course, the pool could overflow as well. That was why meditating for too long could cause the meridians to swell.

Such an interesting cultivation system, yet it had so many flaws. If it had been relentlessly mocked by netizens in his previous life, that could only be blamed on Huang plus Three Spoons themselves.

Next was the Meditation Method. Liu Yanyang felt that it was somewhat useless.

Meditation Methods had been created to allow Soul Masters to look inward, visualize their Martial Souls, and thereby raise their Soul Power.

The exclusive Meditation Methods of major sects and clans allowed their members to quickly enter a state of inner sight, concentrate their Spiritual Power on their Martial Souls, stimulate their Martial Souls' abilities, and let the Martial Souls guide the entire cultivation process.

As for him, after absorbing his first Soul Ring, he could already look inward. That came from his Spiritual Power, which far surpassed that of ordinary people.

Therefore, he had little interest in creating a Meditation Method of his own.

There was another path: like Tang San, he could step outside the Soul Master cultivation system.

He could create an Internal Energy Skill like Mysterious Heaven Skill, one that developed the human body and used the Eight Extraordinary Meridians as its framework.

In the original work, Tang San began cultivating Mysterious Heaven Skill at the age of three. It took him more than two years to reach the first-layer bottleneck, indirectly showing that Tang San most likely had no Innate Soul Power.

Soul Masters could not cultivate before awakening their Martial Souls. Compared to Tang San's cultivation system, the Soul Master system clearly had its flaws.

Tang San's two Martial Souls, the Clear Sky Hammer and the Blue Silver Emperor, had conflicting attributes. One was strength-based and immensely destructive; the other was life-based and endlessly regenerative.

How could two mutually conflicting attributes possibly exist in one person? And with Tang San's physical condition at six years old, there was no way he could have endured the clash between his Martial Souls.

That was all thanks to the internal energy cultivated by Mysterious Heaven Skill, which was balanced, peaceful, and endlessly regenerative.

It harmonized the conflict between the two Martial Souls and maintained a state of balance, preventing Tang San from exploding to death.

Looking at it this way, the Soul Master cultivation system truly had quite a few flaws. But creating cultivation methods was exceedingly difficult.

They were only successfully created through the painstaking experience and effort of countless generations.

Liu Yanyang did not believe he had the ability to achieve the accomplishments of countless generations all by himself.

To create a cultivation method, the most basic requirement was familiarity with the Twelve Main Meridians and the Eight Extraordinary Meridians. He knew neither.

Other than medical students, who would memorize that stuff for no reason?

Douluo Continent already had theories about meridians, but they were ultimately incomplete. Across the entire continent, Tang San was probably the only one with a complete Human Meridian Diagram.

If he asked Tang San for the Human Meridian Diagram, would Tang San say something like—

"Daring to covet an item of the Tang Sect, you have already earned the path to death!"

Just imagining that scene was thrilling, but he was determined to obtain the Human Meridian Diagram.

Even if he could not create a cultivation method, he could still use it to improve his own Soul Master cultivation system.

His ultimate goal was to become a god, and the existing Soul Master cultivation system would affect his path to godhood.

It seemed he would have to start from somewhere else, such as Red Rage's berserk switch—the hundred-thousand-year Old Rabbit, Xiao Wu.

Thinking of that, Liu Yanyang could not help letting out a sinister chuckle. "Hehehe." Why did he suddenly feel a little like a villain?

Recalling Tang San's past life in the original work, Liu Yanyang felt that Tang San had been a ruthless man.

Tang San had stolen the Tang Sect's highest inner sect art, Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, at the age of twenty-nine. The most impressive part was that he had spent twenty years preparing for it, meaning he had begun planning to steal Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record when he was nine.

Just thinking about it was terrifying. A nine-year-old child—what kind of...

Even after becoming a god on Douluo Continent, he still cultivated Mysterious Heaven Skill, without the slightest thought of changing.

Still, Liu Yanyang somewhat understood. Could you deny a treasure that you had spent twenty years carefully plotting to obtain?

Most importantly, Mysterious Heaven Skill was a superior Daoist Internal Energy Skill. How had it become the ultimate art of a second-rate martial arts sect?

He could not help sighing inwardly. Truly...

The Human Meridian Diagram could only be set aside for now. He would have a chance to obtain it only once the original plot began.

Lastly came Spear Technique. Liu Yanyang had absolutely no foundation in it.

In his previous life, he had been interested in cold weapons such as the long spear, especially the invincible Human Spear Technique in Fog Mountain Five Elements. Unfortunately, it had encountered Fifth Brother, a cultivator.

The spear battle against the Monster, especially that kick to the spear, had been explosively awesome.

It had made his blood boil, and he had even searched for basic spear technique tutorials on Douyin.

As for the result, everyone knew how that went. It looked easy, but the moment he tried, he was hopeless.

Now, Spear Technique was Liu Yanyang's highest priority. It was the foundation that would determine the upper limit of his future.

Why was the Clear Sky Hammer called the number one Weapon Soul under heaven?

Because it was not the Clear Sky Hammer that was strong, but Tang Chen. Without the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes created by Tang Chen, the Clear Sky Hammer would never have earned its current title as the number one under heaven.

That was the terrifying result of developing technique to its utmost limit.

The Great Sumeru Hammer, passed down by the Clear Sky Sect for a thousand years, was known as a pseudo-divine skill. Tang San, before becoming a god, had actually been able to trade blows with Qian Renxue after she became a god by relying on Great Sumeru Hammer.

He was now incomparably obsessed with Spear Technique. "A true man born between heaven and earth cannot remain forever beneath another's shadow."

Since he had been reborn, he had to fight for what was worth fighting for. If heaven granted something and he refused it, he would suffer the consequences.

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