Meng Xinghe's Soul Spirits and Soul Skills

The truth of the world was far too cruel. Before the time was ripe, it was better to keep it hidden, lest it crush the Soul Beasts' confidence.

For only by surpassing the Dragon God could the Reincarnation Plan succeed.

To Soul Beasts—even to the Silver Dragon King, who was half of the Dragon God—surpassing the Dragon God was no different from a fantasy.

It was not that there was no hope of success at all, but that they did not believe they could accomplish it.

How could someone who did not even believe in themselves possibly succeed?

Uranus's innate bloodline gave Meng Xinghe that confidence, and thus the Reincarnation Plan was born.

But making other Soul Beasts believe they could do it could not be achieved through words alone. It had to be proven through action.

With Dong Qianqiu, the East Sea Spirit Pagoda Master, as his teacher, Meng Xinghe naturally became a Spirit Pagoda Core Disciple and received the Spirit Pagoda's highest level of training.

"Xinghe, you... no, your Noumenon Martial Soul is a second Martial Soul gained through the transformed cultivation of a Million-Year Soul Beast. Can your Noumenon Martial Soul also produce Soul Rings on its own, like other Transformed Soul Beasts?"

Dong Qianqiu was very curious. She was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had transformed and cultivated anew, while Meng Xinghe had done the same as a Million-Year Soul Beast. What exactly was different between them?

"It can." Meng Xinghe nodded and said,

"The reason Transformed Soul Beasts can produce Soul Rings themselves is essentially because they draw out a portion of their own origin and turn it into a Soul Ring. Once they enter the Maturity Period and fully transform into humans, their Soul Beast origin becomes human origin, and under normal circumstances, they can no longer produce Soul Rings themselves."

He had said under normal circumstances. The abnormal cases were naturally Tang San, who produced his own fifth Soul Ring, and Lan Xuanyu, who produced all of his own Soul Rings.

Still, although Tang San was a human-plant hybrid, he was at least a viviparous mammal.

Lan Xuanyu was different. He had directly gone from being a mammal to an oviparous creature. He looked human, but he was not human at all.

"But as I told you before, the origin of Soul Beasts is precious. It is not worth consuming that origin to produce Soul Rings during the Growth Period."

"In the past, there was no alternative. If Transformed Soul Beasts did not produce their own Soul Rings, they could only hunt other Soul Beasts to break through their bottlenecks. But now, this is the Soul Spirit Era. Transformed Soul Beasts can break through bottlenecks by contracting Soul Spirits, so there is no need to consume their own origin to produce Soul Rings."

"Our origin is best saved as a foundation for when we break through to God Rank."

When breaking through to God Rank, one's origin could serve as a foundation, and Soul Rings could serve as a foundation as well.

But if one consumed origin to produce Soul Rings, it meant extracting part of that foundational origin and turning it into Soul Ring foundation, wasting an opportunity to increase one's foundation for nothing.

Therefore, under his arrangements, every Soul Beast participating in the Reincarnation Plan gave up producing Soul Rings themselves and instead chose to contract Soul Spirits.

As for Gu Yuena, she was a First-Level God who had transformed and cultivated anew. The tiny amount of origin consumed by producing Soul Rings herself was no more than a drop in the ocean.

To put it simply, she was rich and could do whatever she wanted. Buying Soul Rings with money was nothing to her.

She had no interest in the tiny amount of foundation gained from contracting Soul Spirits. At least, she had no interest in any of the Soul Spirits currently available.

As for Meng Xinghe himself, he had no interest in the Spirit Pagoda's existing Soul Spirits either, including Legacy Soul Spirits. Yet he was unwilling to give up this opportunity to increase his foundation.

So he could only do it himself and provide for himself, extracting his own Heavenly God Bloodline to research Artificial Soul Spirits. Such Soul Spirits were also the most suitable for him.

In the field of Soul Spirits, aside from Electrolux, the founder, if Meng Xinghe claimed second place, no one would dare claim first.

As early as ten thousand years ago, when Meng Xinghe proposed the Reincarnation Plan to Di Tian, he had already begun researching Artificial Soul Spirits.

Ten thousand years later, Artificial Soul Spirit technology had reached an unprecedented level of maturity, and Artificial Soul Spirits possessing the Heavenly God Bloodline had long since been successfully developed.

In other words, Meng Xinghe had prepared all of his Soul Spirits for himself before transforming and cultivating anew.

Quality mattered more than quantity, and the same held true for Soul Spirits.

He had not gone so overboard as to prepare eighteen Soul Spirits simply because his two Martial Souls had eighteen Soul Ring slots—one Soul Spirit for every Soul Ring slot.

That was because contracted Soul Spirits increased Soul Ring foundation. No matter how many Soul Spirits one had, there were only eighteen Soul Ring slots.

As for his own number of Soul Spirits, he had prepared six for this body. Two Martial Souls, with three Soul Spirits for each Martial Soul.

At present, Meng Xinghe mainly cultivated his second Martial Soul, the Noumenon Martial Soul.

His first Soul Ring was bestowed by one of his six great Soul Spirits, the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Star Compass. Its Soul Skill was called Fiendish Qi Shaping.

Qi was origin.

It was a mysterious metaphysical energy, the most fundamental energy and physiological function that constituted the human body and sustained life.

Qi could be Soul Power, spiritual power, or Bloodline Power.

Fiendish Qi Shaping transformed qi into Fiendish Qi of the Earthly Fiends, allowing him to freely control and alter its form, while granting it corresponding abilities.

For example:

If Fiendish Qi of the Earthly Fiends was shaped into a sword, it possessed a sword's sharpness. If shaped into a shield, it possessed a shield's hardness. If shaped into a dragon, it possessed a dragon's mystical qualities.

Fiendish Qi of the Earthly Fiends transformed from different forms of qi also possessed different inherent characteristics.

Among a person's essence, qi, and spirit, essence represented Bloodline Power, qi represented Soul Power, and spirit represented spiritual power.

The Fiendish Qi of the Earthly Fiends created from these three different forms of qi targeted these three powers respectively.

Furthermore, Fiendish Qi of the Earthly Fiends created from different forms of qi could merge with one another. Whatever powers were merged would be the powers it could target.

Two-in-one Fiendish Qi of the Earthly Fiends targeted two of the three aspects of essence, qi, and spirit. Three-in-one Fiendish Qi of the Earthly Fiends targeted all three.

Meng Xinghe's physical condition was publicly known to be at rank thirty, so his Soul Ring naturally appeared to be a purple Millennium Soul Ring. In truth, however, its actual age was far greater.

Changing the color of one's Soul Rings was difficult in one sense and required a certain threshold, but easy in another. Once one mastered the proper method, it was easily done.

Though he did not possess a simulation Soul Skill, his control over his own power allowed him to accomplish it with ease.

Tang San had managed to comprehend this technique through the Blue Silver Domain at the age of twenty-four. If he had lived twenty thousand years and still could not do something so simple, would those twenty thousand years not have been wasted?

After all, he was not like the Silver Dragon King, who had been gravely wounded and asleep since her birth, only awakening six years ago. She had wasted all those years and knew nothing, understood nothing.

"Achoo! Achoo!"

Gu Yuena rubbed her nose, confusion appearing on her delicate, porcelain-doll-like face.

She was a noble dragon. Even though she had now transformed into a human, it was impossible for her to catch a cold like an ordinary person.

Suddenly, a glimmer flashed through her starry purple eyes, as if she had thought of something.

"I remember Qiu'er saying that when humans sneeze, one sneeze means someone is thinking of you, two sneezes mean someone is cursing you, and three sneezes mean someone is talking about you."

"I sneezed twice just now, so... someone is cursing me behind my back?"

Gu Yuena had not believed in such a saying, but after sneezing twice for no reason, she was already seventy or eighty percent convinced.

"There are not many people in this world who know of me, and only a handful who would dare curse me behind my back. Who could it be?"