Soul Land: Vermilion Bird Martial Soul and the Flame Emperor Template
Chapter 11

Electrolux's Undead Magic and His Views on Douluo Cultivation

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Thus, Xiao Changge's life became even more exhausting. Not only did he have to work at the restaurant, but he also had to study magic and alchemy.

Electrolux was also curious about how Xiao Changge knew alchemy, but he did not ask further. After all, Xiao Changge was his disciple.

Electrolux felt it would be better to wait until his disciple was willing to tell him. There was no point in forcing him.

"Level twenty." Xiao Changge's cultivation had finally reached Level 20 during this period. After all, this was not a proper Soul Master Academy, just a restaurant.

Xiao Changge still had to work every day, so he basically only had time to cultivate after the restaurant closed, during his breaks. However, with Innate Soul Power at Level 30, even though Ma Xiaotao had absorbed a great deal of it, Xiao Changge's cultivation talent was still exceptional.

So, after another two or three days, his Soul Power finally reached Level 20.

"Now I can obtain my second Soul Ring." Xiao Changge had already begun imagining himself obtaining another Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's Soul Ring. If both his first and second Soul Rings were truly Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, then once he grew to the level of a Titled Douluo, he alone would be able to wipe out Shrek.

Just think about it—his Soul Rings were Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings from the very beginning, so they would only become stronger later on. Perhaps he might even obtain a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and a Ferocious Beast Soul Ring. By then, even Shrek's strongest experts would not be able to defeat Xiao Changge.

Even if Shrek had strength in numbers then, there would still be the Undead Calamity. With Electrolux, the Holy Necromancer, there would certainly be no shortage of helpers or numbers. Summoning those undead creatures would be enough to fight Shrek to a standstill.

On the Douluo Continent, it might not be impossible to cast magic.

In the original story of Douluo Continent II: The Unrivaled Tang Clan, Electrolux's fragment of divine consciousness became Huo Yuhao's third Martial Soul, the "Holy Necromancer."

His methods of casting magic were entirely independent of the Douluo Continent's traditional Soul Skill system, mainly taking the following forms:

Chanting spells and true words.

This was the most fundamental method of casting.

Huo Yuhao invoked magic by reciting specific lengthy incantations or Electrolux's true words. For example, when using the powerful "Forbidden Necromancy," he had to shout the corresponding verse, such as, "With sun and moon in hand, I pluck the stars; in this world, none are like me." As the chant rose and fell, the magic's power would increase dramatically.

Medium guidance and manifestation.

When casting, Electrolux or Huo Yuhao would condense a golden staff or one as translucent as crystal in his hand. By waving the staff to trace strange runes, he transformed spiritual power into magical energy.

With Martial Soul Possession, the caster's eyes would instantly turn gray, while Electrolux's majestic phantom, dressed in a gray robe, appeared behind him. This projection would grow clearer and clearer as the incantation progressed.

Conversion of spiritual power and life force.

Magic's source of energy was not ordinary Soul Power, but the caster's spiritual power and life essence. The caster needed to sense the elements between heaven and earth and achieve the effect through resonance with life. Therefore, excessive or prolonged use of undead magic would bring immense mental exhaustion and even backlash to the caster.

Examples of typical magic.

Gate of the Undead: through chanting, a gate leading to the Undead Plane was opened, randomly summoning undead creatures such as skeletons and death knights to aid in battle. At higher levels, multiple gates could be opened to form an "Undead Calamity."

Blood Curse: by using hair and other mediums while reciting a curse, once the target was attacked, their wounds would worsen rapidly.

Wither: caused the target's Soul Power to continuously wither away over several minutes, while their skin and life force rapidly dried up.

"Changge, it is time to help you obtain your second Soul Ring. For your second Soul Ring, we need to make another trip to the Star Dou Great Forest and hunt a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

But honestly, your world's cultivation system is far too distorted. Martial Souls are indeed good things, possessing special types and unique abilities that can display all kinds of strange powers. They are no worse than the cultivation methods of our world.

But the problem is that Martial Souls require hunting Soul Beasts to obtain Soul Rings before Soul Skills can be released. That is an extremely distorted system.

If one day all the Soul Beasts are killed, then how will people hunt Soul Beasts to obtain Soul Rings? I want to ask, have the people of the Douluo Continent never considered this issue? If there are no Soul Beasts left, how will Soul Masters grow stronger? Have they never thought of a way to solve the problem?"

Electrolux was not repulsed by the Douluo Continent. He even found it rather interesting.

Different cultures and all kinds of development were quite interesting, but he felt that Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent relying on hunting Soul Beasts for Soul Rings to grow stronger was incredibly foolish. He could not understand why no one had considered changing the cultivation system and using a better one.

Or finding a solution, such as obtaining Soul Rings without relying on hunting Soul Beasts, or condensing Soul Rings themselves.

Soul Tool technology even existed on the Douluo Continent, so why had no one thought of using Soul Tools to solve the issue of Soul Masters needing to hunt Soul Beasts to obtain Soul Rings?

"Teacher, there is nothing we can do about that. What era is the Douluo Continent in now? It is an era ruled by a despicable Sea God. How disgusting was this Sea God? Basically, none of those who helped him ended well. Ten thousand years ago, Sword and Bone Douluo chose to sacrifice themselves so that Tang San could reclaim his body and revive, yet after becoming a god, he never revived those two Titled Douluo who had contributed to him.

Dugu Bo's Dugu Family has been left without heirs to this day. Without the Celestial Herbs Dugu Bo gave them, the Shrek Seven Devils could never have become gods.

Becoming a god is extremely difficult. Even someone with Innate Soul Power at the maximum level would find it hard to become a god. Among the descendants of the Angel Family, it was said that Qian Daoliu possessed Innate High-Grade Soul Power of Level 19.9.

He was only 0.1 levels away from Innate Full Soul Power at Level 20, yet even he was not qualified to become a god and could only become a high priest. That showed just how difficult godhood was. Yet someone like Tang San could become a god so easily, and he led a team centered on the Shrek Seven Devils. Even the Tang Sect he founded chose not to step in and help. And you have seen what happened to me—Shrek is not an academy at all. It is fundamentally an evil cult, a pyramid scheme.

Or perhaps it is an aristocratic faction. How good could you expect this era to be? Ten thousand years ago, when Shrek and the great aristocratic families fought Spirit Hall, it was not the righteous side that won, but the evil side. Without Spirit Hall, perhaps the people of our era would be living even worse lives! Spirit Hall had merits, not faults."

This was also Xiao Changge's true opinion. It was precisely because there was no Spirit Hall that he had been unable to awaken his Martial Soul for so long.

In the end, when a benefactor from the Sun Moon Empire finally helped him awaken his Martial Soul, Shrek killed that person.

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