Two and a Half Months: The Rise in Spiritual Power

After condensing his bloodline, Xu Yuan returned to the academy.

At Mu Ye's urging, he decided to continue refining the array.

Meanwhile, Mu Ye returned to Heaven Dou City to find Zhen Hua and ask him to obtain a Soul Spirit from the Spirit Pagoda—one highly compatible with Xu Yuan.

As his uncle, Xu Shengqun naturally had the ability to do this. However, he did not want Xu Yuan's Twin Martial Souls to be exposed so early, so he had no intention of acquiring it himself. He was only responsible for helping Xu Yuan select a high-quality Soul Spirit from the Spirit Pagoda. As for how to obtain it, they could only rely on Zhen Hua for now.

After returning to the academy, Xu Yuan tested his Spiritual Power.

347.

It was practically 350 Spiritual Power.

Yet three months ago, Xu Yuan's Spiritual Power had only been 260.

Over the past three months, Xu Yuan's Heaven Devouring Earth Eating Great Art had broken through. He had already been taking in vast amounts of nourishment with its help while ensuring sufficient training. Not to mention that he had cultivated once at the Sea God Pavilion, where he experienced a minor epiphany and gained a small boost in Spiritual Power.

Then there was this condensation of Bloodline Power, along with his Soul Power breakthrough.

With all these factors compounding, his Spiritual Power had risen by nearly a hundred points in just three months!

But that was not even the most astonishing part. For Xu Yuan, condensing his bloodline was the key to increasing his Spiritual Power. The feedback to his Spiritual Power at the moment of completion had not been especially obvious. The true greatest benefit was that, after condensing his bloodline, he could temper his body with Bloodline Power. At his current stage, Xu Yuan's physique was sufficient to no longer restrict the growth of his Spiritual Power.

"Next, I'll cultivate with the Brain Martial Soul as the core. Let's see what the Brain Martial Soul's limits are!"

Zhen Hua was extremely efficient.

The only Divine Craftsman on the continent carried tremendous influence. On the third day, Mu Ye called Xu Yuan to tell him that as long as his Spiritual Power broke through 500 points and reached the Spirit Sea Realm, he could absorb the first Soul Spirit for his Brain Martial Soul.

Now that he had mastered Bloodline Power, Xu Yuan had more training projects available to him.

Testing arrays with Bloodline Power and adjusting the Contract Array he had refined were merely extensions of his original work on contracts. Xu Yuan also needed to add the cultivation of Bloodline Power, as well as adjust the Heaven Devouring Earth Eating Great Art so that Bloodline Power could replace Soul Power in its use.

After switching to Bloodline Power, Xu Yuan did his best to use the Five Elements Spear Spirit to transform it into Five Elements power when performing the Heaven Devouring Earth Eating Great Art. It also served as an early period of adjustment between his Bloodline Power and the Five Elements Spear Spirit.

Time passed.

In the blink of an eye, two and a half months went by.

In those short two and a half months, Xu Yuan's Spiritual Power rose by another hundred points, reaching 460!

This was the result of changing his meditation focus.

Such results fully demonstrated the Brain Martial Soul's talent in Spiritual Power.

It was precisely because he possessed such monstrous talent in Spiritual Power that Xu Yuan had proposed, when first formulating his plans, that the Brain Martial Soul should not cultivate the body but the spirit, using mental condensation as the breakthrough point for Soul Rings.

If there were other major factors behind the rapid rise of his Spiritual Power, the restrictions he had previously suffered might count as one. Back then, Xu Yuan had already begun improving its quality, which showed just how greatly his Spiritual Power had been restricted by the vessel of his body.

Having refined its quality ahead of time, once his body ceased to be a restriction, a fierce rebound naturally began.

And there was also the Body Sect Secret Technique!

Meditation Space.

Xu Yuan's consciousness gazed at the nearly fully condensed brain phantom before him.

The progress he had made in the past year was not even as great as it had been in these two and a half months. This was another important reason his Spiritual Power had increased so rapidly.

The Body Sect Secret Technique was not originally a method for cultivating Spiritual Power, but for Xu Yuan, it could be.

At this moment, the brain phantom was nearly solid.

Today, Xu Yuan would completely condense it into form, allowing the brain to take shape in the Meditation Space and stand alongside the Heaven Origin Brush Martial Soul.

Once it condensed into form, there would be a significant breakthrough.

Xu Yuan was greatly looking forward to it.

"My Spiritual Power's growth has begun slowing as it approaches 500 points. There are still forty points left. I hope this breakthrough in the secret technique can directly push me past the 500-point bottleneck."

Taking a deep breath, Xu Yuan began circulating the Body Sect Secret Technique.

Bloodline Power merged into his brain.

Meditation, visualization.

Boom!

Within the Meditation Space, the brain completely took shape, floating alongside the Heaven Origin Brush at the center of the space.

As it solidified, Xu Yuan's sensations during meditation became entirely different.

At that moment, his perception of his own brain became far more vivid.

It was even more incredible than the sensation he experienced while meditating on an external Martial Soul like the Heaven Origin Brush.

"According to the Body Sect Secret Technique, after the visualized Body Martial Soul solidifies, it must communicate with Spiritual Power and resonate with the Sea of Spirit."

The Body Sect's records stated that Body Martial Souls were inherently flawed. This could be seen from the fact that, during meditation, one could only sense them through consciousness and could not manifest them in the Meditation Space. The reason was that Body Martial Souls had too little connection to the Sea of Spirit.

After the visualized Body Martial Soul was solidified within the Meditation Space, one would artificially make it resonate with the Sea of Spirit. The Body Martial Soul would then undergo a major transformation. It could be called the Body Martial Soul's first metamorphosis, with a minor improvement in quality.

This was also the key to ensuring that Soul Masters with Body Martial Souls of extremely low initial quality could cultivate to the Soul Ancestor or Soul King realm and attempt the Body Martial Soul Second Awakening.

"I completed the resonance step directly." Xu Yuan sensed his Sea of Spirit and discovered that, the moment his brain solidified, it had naturally connected with the Sea of Spirit.

His mind was clear.

Xu Yuan felt as though his thoughts had suddenly become far more fluid.

His Brain Martial Soul had already greatly enhanced his thinking ability, making his capacity for thought far surpass that of adults. Yet he could still experience such a sudden sense of clarity now. The increase in his mental capacity was clearly even more terrifying.

"My Spiritual Power has definitely broken through 500 points!"

Xu Yuan prepared to test it.

The Shrek Academy dormitories were not equipped with Spiritual Power testing devices, but Xu Yuan's uncle was a Spirit Transfer Envoy. After Xu Yuan had settled into his dormitory upon enrollment, Xu Shengqun had sent him a set of testing equipment through a Storage Soul Guidance Device.

This was also to make Xu Yuan's Spiritual Power cultivation more convenient.

Putting on the helmet, Xu Yuan's Spiritual Power became unprecedentedly active. He released it with all his strength without needing any stimulation, and the fluctuations were detected by the helmet's sensing device.

523!

He had broken through!

Xu Yuan looked at the number and smiled.

Seven years old, Spirit Sea Realm!

"Spiritual Power is what gives me the confidence to compete with those two monsters."

The moment his Spiritual Power broke through, Xu Yuan made a call.

"Hello?"

"Teacher, I can fuse with a Soul Spirit now."

"Hm?" Mu Ye did not immediately process it.

What was going on?

Hadn't it only been two and a half months?

Mu Ye remembered asking Xu Yuan about it when he had informed him that the Soul Spirit had been successfully obtained from the Spirit Pagoda.

Wasn't he only at 350 back then?

"I completed the Body Heaven Mending Secret Technique," Xu Yuan explained.

Mu Ye suddenly understood.

If that was the case, it seemed plausible.

"Since you've broken through, find some time to come to Heaven Dou City."

Come to think of it, this actually was not that monstrous.

Although Gu Yue had only been at 270 points at the age of ten, I feel that Gu Yue's data during that stage cannot be taken at face value.

Just like the additional setting I gave, the rise of Spiritual Power is restricted by physical fitness. She did not display the Silver Dragon King's advantage in physique during the early stages. Even if the Silver Dragon King did not specialize in physical strength, she certainly would not be weak. But perhaps something went wrong when she took human form, or perhaps she deliberately sealed that part of herself so that she would only display her elemental control abilities in the early stages.

The protagonist could improve so dramatically because he condensed Bloodline Power, added Medicinal Baths and the Body Sect Secret Technique, and temporarily raised his physique first. The protagonist's physical fitness has now reached, or even surpassed, Gu Yue's physical fitness at the age of thirteen. With such Spiritual Power values, it cannot be considered exaggerated.

Also, the early part of the original Douluo III took place in Eastsea City. Between the numerical claims and the exaggerations in the novel's descriptions, it might say that having over 200 points of Spiritual Power at the age of ten was already inhuman or something.

Of course, the last point is that this is the Spiritual Power talent I set for the protagonist. As mentioned earlier, the increase brought about by physical development is more than ten times that of an ordinary person.