Peerless Douluo: Martial Soul Arms, Eight-Armed God-Demon
Chapter 49

Visualization Method Begins to Take Shape, Members of the Body Team

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Electrolux considered it very seriously.

Everything Mu Yuan said had a traceable basis. As long as one thought it through carefully, one would find that they were all feasible plans.

But they were also all unfeasible plans.

Because they concerned the very foundation of Soul Master cultivation, involving things like condensing Soul Rings at every turn.

Was that something an ordinary Soul Master could do?

One had to know that although the Soul Master World had made tremendous progress compared to ten thousand years ago, and Hundred-thousand Year Soul Rings were no longer a legend, it still followed the basic principle that Soul Rings had to be obtained by hunting Soul Beasts.

Even those peerless experts knew at most of two additional methods: sacrifice, and self-condensing Soul Rings after a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast underwent Human Transformation.

When it came to Soul Rings, they relied on them more than anything else. They had never researched how to DIY them.

It was not that they did not want to do it, but that they could not.

Soul Rings involved the foundations of Martial Souls, a field only Deities could touch upon.

Yet Mu Yuan had Electrolux within him.

That was the key to why he could propose these ideas.

After pondering for a long time, Electrolux finally gave a slightly hesitant reply.

"You want to turn Bloodline Power into a Martial Soul again?"

"Something like that. But it should be difficult, right?"

"Obviously," Electrolux blurted out.

That Full Moon Wearing Autumn Martial Soul from before had not simply been molded out of thin air.

Mu Yuan smiled. "Elder Electrolux, my idea is to follow the path of Soul Beasts."

Mu Yuan had actually always had his own thoughts regarding Martial Souls. For example, with Full Moon Wearing Autumn, he had targeted the special Martial Soul slot that Electrolux would leave behind—the Holy Necromancer—and replaced it with his own spiritual Martial Soul.

It was not that he looked down on the Holy Necromancer. The problem was that for the Holy Necromancer Martial Soul to take shape, Elder Electrolux would have to be sacrificed, and it would not provide him with much direct benefit in Mental Power cultivation.

Full Moon Wearing Autumn had succeeded because it took the route of replacing the Holy Necromancer.

As for Bloodline Power, he would need to find another path.

"Elder Electrolux, you have never seen a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast undergo Human Transformation, have you?"

Electrolux rolled his eyes and did not reply.

Obviously. Had you?

Mu Yuan scratched his head.

The way the two of them interacted was not particularly serious. It was the result of Mu Yuan repeatedly seeking guidance while remaining respectful without becoming overly formal.

"Soon, there will be an example. But I do not know whether she will come to the Body Sect. If she does, perhaps Elder Electrolux can study her body."

Mu Yuan was naturally referring to the Snow Empress.

What he had told the Ice Empress back then had not been empty nonsense.

The Snow Empress's Martial Soul was the Heavenly Snow Woman. After Human Transformation, what was the difference between the Heavenly Snow Woman Martial Soul and her original body?

Mu Yuan could not be certain how Du Busi and the others would react if the Snow Empress joined the Body Sect as the Snow Empress.

But if she entered the Body Sect as a human first and spent a year or so with them, Mu Yuan felt that Du Busi would not hunt or scheme against her for a Soul Ring.

What they lacked was an opportunity to coexist.

Electrolux understood Mu Yuan's idea.

"You want to study the process by which a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast condenses Soul Rings?"

Mu Yuan nodded.

"I want to imitate the cultivation of my Bloodline Power after the manner of Soul Beasts. And since I do not need Human Transformation, perhaps I can directly adopt the method Soul Beasts use to condense Soul Rings themselves."

Electrolux rubbed his brow.

"I will study Soul Rings and Martial Souls further first. I will give you an answer later."

Living inside this fellow really was not easy. Aside from sleeping to recover, he was always working and researching.

The sun rose and set.

In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed.

Mu Yuan sat cross-legged on his bed, his eyes tightly shut.

His arms glowed faintly. Vajra Power filled them, causing his arms to shine with golden light and exude an indescribable majesty.

Heavenly Thunder Power coiled around his arms, adding another layer of might.

Strands of Demonic Qi emerged from those golden arms, lending them a faint demonic aura.

Spirit Sea.

A wisp of Mu Yuan's consciousness had transformed into a Spirit Body and remained here permanently.

For the development of this Visualization Method, he had learned the technique of dividing his attention.

Without delaying his daily cultivation, he kept a wisp of consciousness in this Spirit Sea at all times to maintain this Spirit Body.

Using the Spirit Body as a template, he visualized the Eight-Armed Demonic God.

At this moment, the Spirit Body's arms were already no different from the situation outside.

He had simulated Vajra and Heavenly Thunder, while Demonic Qi had also begun to emerge.

However, compared to the outside world, these three powers did not possess such powerful traits.

That was because this was pure simulation. He had not drawn upon external power; it was entirely visualized by Mu Yuan himself.

Though weak, it was still the fruit of Mu Yuan's half-year of visualization.

Without using any external power and relying solely on his own consciousness, he had visualized the three special states of Heavenly Thunder, Vajra, and Demonic Qi.

That was his true achievement over the past half year.

Electrolux condensed a Spirit Body and watched the scene with admiration in his eyes.

This was the manifestation of Willpower.

It truly affected the outside world by creating something from nothing.

At that moment, another pair of arms slowly condensed behind Mu Yuan's Spirit Body.

His original arms hung slightly at his sides, while the newly formed arms spread open to either side.

Vajra Power gave them form, Heavenly Thunder Power wrapped around them, and Demonic Qi grew from within.

The entire process was exceedingly slow. It took Mu Yuan a full day to complete it.

"Maintaining the four-armed form really does consume more mental effort, but it is worth it."

Mu Yuan could sense that as he maintained this Four-Armed God Demon, the surrounding Mental Power transformed into Full Moon Wearing Autumn and circulated through the Four-Armed God Demon. Each circuit made his Mental Power more condensed.

His cultivation ended.

Leaving a portion of his focus to maintain the Four-Armed God Demon's manifestation in the Spirit Sea, Mu Yuan shifted his attention to the outside world.

"Only three months left. I wonder what this so-called special training will be."

Mu Yuan left his room and headed to the sect's Martial Arts Arena.

The Body Sect had established its Mountain Gate, and many disciples had returned.

For disciples who disliked restraint, the greatest joy within the sect was fighting in this Martial Arts Arena.

At this moment, quite a few people had gathered there.

"Xiao Ye, Ao Tian, Mu Yuan, Wei Na, Zhui Feng, Zhuang Yuan, Tian Ming—you seven will form the main lineup."

Yu Gu named seven people in succession.

Body Martial Souls themselves were Martial Souls that only appeared through mutation and were exceedingly rare. The Body Sect had little reputation among the lower and middle ranks of the continent, and it moved about unpredictably, so the sect was truly short on members.

Even with the Heaven Soul Royal Family helping recruit in recent years, the sect still had fewer than two hundred members.

Among the younger generation, they could not even find seven people who were exactly twenty years old this year.

Even finding seven people between sixteen and twenty was difficult enough.

It was not that there were none, but their cultivation levels varied greatly.

Xiao Ye was a Soul Emperor, but the highest cultivation among the other eligible disciples was only Soul Ancestor level. That would be Zhui Feng and Zhuang Yuan, at Rank 46 and Rank 48 respectively. One possessed dual-leg Martial Souls, while the other possessed a torso Martial Soul.

They were both eighteen this year.

That cultivation speed was not slow, especially since their starting points had not been high. Neither had Innate Full Soul Power; they had not even reached Rank Five.

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