Wanting to Beat Tang San Up...

Besides the presentation, Jiang He also found the reason for the greater Soul Power consumption.

There were countless meridians of varying sizes within his body, but only a portion of them existed inside the Soul Ring!

And that portion was entirely made up of the meridians required for the first Soul Skill!

When Soul Power circulated through the Soul Ring, Jiang He did not need to painstakingly control or guide it. He only needed to maintain the output of Soul Power, and it would travel along the meridians within the Soul Ring before feeding the result back to him and enhancing his body.

Since there were no excess meridians, there was naturally no unnecessary consumption during circulation.

After figuring this out, Jiang He studied the meridians inside his second Soul Ring.

However, the internal simulation of the second Soul Ring was even worse than that of the first.

Because when using the second Soul Ring, Jiang He also needed to blend a portion of his mental power into it to perfectly use the second Soul Skill.

Simulating the circulation of the second Soul Skill already required Soul Power to travel through many branch meridians. To keep it from going astray, Jiang He had to focus completely and observe it with his mental power.

Now he also had to stuff some mental power into those meridians, making the consumption even greater!

And the final result was... the Soul Skill's power was drastically weakened. Jiang He even doubted whether the Soul Skill circulated within his body could stun Yu Tianheng and the others, who were also Soul Grandmasters.

However, after all of Jiang He's tinkering, the system obtained more information regarding Soul Skills and Soul Rings, even deriving further theories from it.

According to the system's theory, the difference between Soul Ring skills of different ages should lie in these internal [meridians].

For example, Jiang He's current ten-thousand-year Soul Skill contained meridians several times thicker than his own branch meridians, and there were quite a few of them.

The meridians inside his twenty-thousand-year second Soul Ring were more numerous and slightly thicker than those in his first Soul Ring, which was why its Soul Skill was stronger.

By that logic, those with lifespans greater than twenty thousand years would certainly be more complete and thicker.

Conversely, the meridians inside Thousand-Year Soul Rings were weaker and fewer in number.

For hundred-year ones, there might only be a tiny number of main meridians comparable to the human body's branch meridians.

As for ten-year ones... in the original work, ten-year Soul Skills were practically nonexistent, existing purely to make up the numbers for cultivation. The meridian content inside them was probably exceedingly low and incredibly fragile, making their Soul Skills virtually powerless.

From this, it could be inferred that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring could contain two Soul Skills because it possessed two different sets of meridians capable of circulating two Soul Skills.

Soul Bones should be similar. The higher their age, the more complete they were, the richer the meridians they contained, and the greater the power of their Soul Skills.

At the hundred-thousand-year level, their meridians were likely identical to those in the corresponding part of the human body, except thicker and stronger, capable of supporting more powerful Soul Skills.

Moreover, the system observed that the meridians inside Jiang He's first Soul Ring and second Soul Ring did not belong to the same sections. There was no connection between them.

Thus, the system deduced that the reason the seventh Soul Skill, Martial Soul Avatar, manifested so uniformly in all Soul Masters—enhancing the user while allowing the previous six Soul Skills to be freely released without restriction until Soul Power was exhausted—

Was that after a Soul Master reached the Soul Saint level and absorbed the seventh Soul Ring, the meridians inside the seventh Soul Ring would integrate the meridians of the previous six Soul Rings. With the seventh Soul Ring's meridians supplementing them, they formed a relatively complete set of meridians nearly equivalent to those of a human body.

This set of meridians should act directly upon the Martial Soul, then work together with the Soul Master's internal meridians to form two sets of meridians.

The two sets alternated with each other, allowing the Soul Master to consume less Soul Power while making their Soul Skills more powerful!

That was Martial Soul Avatar: it gave the Martial Soul its own meridians, allowing it to circulate internal meridians like a Soul Master and unleash its own power at maximum strength.

It simply lacked consciousness and a soul. Otherwise, the form of Martial Soul Avatar would have been summoning a Martial Soul companion...

But the standard peak configuration for an ordinary Soul Master was only two yellow, two purple, and two black.

Even at the Soul Saint level, it was merely two yellow, two purple, and three black. The meridians of all the Soul Rings combined were still insufficient to make up a complete set, so they could only rely on the integrating power of the meridians in the seventh Soul Skill to forcibly construct a complete set of [human meridians].

That was why everyone would be weakened for a period after using Martial Soul Avatar, and why the seventh Soul Skill would be sealed for a time.

It was because this forced patchwork damaged the meridians within all seven Soul Rings. As the integrating Soul Ring, the seventh Soul Ring suffered the greatest depletion and could not be used again for the next three days.

Only when a Soul Master reached the Title Douluo realm and the meridians within all nine Soul Rings became fully complete could Martial Soul Avatar directly construct a set of meridians acting upon the Martial Soul. Then they could freely use Soul Skills until their Soul Power was exhausted, without any weakening side effects!

Looking at the system's analysis, Jiang He found it astonishing.

In the memories of his previous life, he had merely been someone who read novels and rarely truly analyzed the things within them.

But once the system deduced it like this, it instantly began to seem reasonable.

Moreover, the system rigorously noted that the uses of Soul Skills should not be limited to this.

After all, there were Soul Skills involving laws and domains.

There had to be more within them than mere meridians.

It was simply that Jiang He did not currently possess or have contact with them, so it could not analyze or determine their underlying principles.

However, there was one thing the system confirmed for Jiang He.

That was, according to this principle, Jiang He really could create Self-Created Soul Skills!

Although their power might not rival Soul Skills obtained directly from absorbing Soul Rings, as long as he practiced diligently, the eventual results would certainly be satisfying!

After all, in the memories of his previous life, Tang San's so-called Tang Sect Martial Arts were still being used in the later stages.

Those martial arts techniques were simply Soul Skills expressed after being separated from Soul Rings!

With that confirmation, Jiang He even wanted to find an excuse to go to Nuoding City and test his skills against Tang San.

As long as he beat him up for a while, Tang San would eventually be unable to resist using those Tang Sect Martial Arts.

Then, with the system, Jiang He could sense the changes in the circulation of Soul Power inside Tang San's body. By feeling things out again and again, he could definitely steal every last bit of it.

But that thought only flashed through Jiang He's mind before disappearing.

After all, Tang San was not alone right now.

His father was silently watching over him from the shadows.

Who knew whether that drunkard would suddenly lose his head, see Jiang He bullying his son, and use his strength to bully the weak.

It was not as though he was incapable of doing such a thing.

Thinking this, Jiang He cast those unrealistic thoughts aside and turned to studying Self-Created Soul Skills.

With the system's help, the difficulty of creating his own Soul Skills was far lower for him than for other Soul Masters.

But that did not mean there was no difficulty at all.

At the very least, he needed a direction and a rough prototype for cultivation before he could rely on the system to gradually experiment through trial and error.

It would be best if it was related to speed, since speed was the weakness of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

In an instant, a thought surfaced in Jiang He's mind...