The Most Legendary
For example, you could switch to a second-fastest attack-oriented Soul Master.
Jiang Nannan is already a top-tier agility attacker. Adding another agility attacker would directly overlap their roles, and having an extra assassin would mean one less backup position, which would actually decrease the team's margin for error.
Two assassins can cut through the back row, but the opposing team only needs one defensive Soul Master to block them. In fact, the overall combat power is not as much as that boosted by a healer.
As for switching to Power Attack System or defensive types, it goes without saying that Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi have already pushed those two positions to their limits, so adding more would just be redundant and pointless.
Therefore, Doudou and turns, the optimal solution is always a life-sustaining support system.
Only this approach truly fills the gaps in the team's system, maximizes the value of the seven spots, and makes all Seven Monsters members irreplaceable.
Now, let's look back at He Caitou. He wasn't a bad person; in fact, you could say he was a good person.
Honest, loyal, hardworking, unassuming, and quietly dedicated.
His problem has never been about his character, but rather about his political direction.
He has Food-type Martial Soul, so his innate conditions are actually not bad. If he focuses on the food-type path and properly develops the abilities of his Cigar Martial Soul, he will be able to achieve great success.
For example, creating Cigar that can restore Soul Power, heal injuries, and increase attributes might just make him the next Oscar, or an irreplaceable core player for sustaining the team.
But he chose the path of Soul Engineer.
He gave up his innate Martial Soul talent to pursue power from external objects, and abandoned the path that would have allowed him to differentiate himself, instead joining a group of people who specialized in learning Soul Tool to compete for output.
The result is that you end up with nothing.
The food-related abilities were not developed, the achievements of the Soul Engineer were limited, their potential was locked by technology, and their output function overlapped with that of the team, ultimately making them the most easily replaceable people.
He worked very hard, but he was working in the wrong direction, so it was all for nothing.
He was loyal, but loyalty cannot buy irreplaceable status.
He is very composed, but composure is not his core competency.
In the face of an absolute system of strength, sentiments, personality, and character can only be bonuses, not core attributes.
The core questions are always: Do you have unique talents? Do you have an irreplaceable function? Do you have fundamental strengths?
If you meet these three requirements, you will be the core of the team; they can't do without you.
If you can't meet my needs, no matter how good you are, you can be replaced at any time.
It's cruel, but that's the law of survival in the Soul Master World.
Why are all seven members of the First-Generation Seven Monsters irreplaceable?
Because everyone's Martial Soul is unique, everyone's function is irreplaceable, and everyone's strength is earned through their own hard work.
The Clear Sky Hammer, Blue Silver Grass, Evil-Eyed White Tiger, Hell Spirit Cat, Seven-Treasure Glazed Pagoda, Sausage Martial Soul, Fire Phoenix —seven Martial Soul, seven tracks, each unique and indispensable.
The New-Generation Seven Monsters could have been irreplaceable and could have become a legend on par with the original generation.
Unfortunately, due to the existence of He Caitou and the limitations of the era, the seventh position became a redundant and dispensable element, a flaw in the otherwise perfect system.
This is He Caitou's regret, and also the regret of the New-Generation Shrek Seven Monsters.
Finally, there are five core reasons why He Caitou is the most easily replaceable among the Seven Monsters.
The output model is too singular and easily targeted; overlapping functions can be replaced; tactical burdens drag down the team; resource input and output are disproportionate; and growth depends on external factors, which locks in the upper limit.
The optimal solution to replace him is a top-tier life-type sustain support Soul Master, who can not only fill the team's sustain gaps and form a dual support loop, but also enhance combat capabilities in all scenarios, and make the seventh position an irreplaceable core position.
Ultimately, in the world of Soul Master, one must rely on oneself.
Relying on Martial Soul, bloodline, Divine Soul, and willpower, taking one step at a time, engraving power into one's very bones, that is true strength that no one can take away or replace.
Power built on Soul Tool, equipment, external objects, and resources is like a castle on the beach—it looks magnificent, but it crumbles with the tide.
External things are easy to obtain, but one's true self is hard to find.
Equipment can be changed, but talents are unparalleled.
True legends are those who forge their own path through bloodshed; they are unique and irreplaceable.
Those who rely on external things to establish themselves will ultimately only rise and fall with the tides of the times, and will be scattered with the slightest breeze.
This is He Caitou's warning to all Soul Master.
However, since everyone says that a replacement is possible, let's not worry about He Caitou anymore, since he doesn't have much screen time anyway. Let's continue talking about Huo Yuhao.
When discussing Huo Yuhao, one cannot avoid mentioning the most legendary and controversial figure.
Huo Yuhao's life is a complete story of a comeback against all odds.
From a lowly illegitimate son in the White Tiger Duke's Estate, worse than a servant, to a supreme warrior who shook the continent, and then to Deity in the Divine Realm who wielded the Authority of Emotions, every step he took was soaked in blood and sweat, and trod through mud and thorns.
He didn't have Dai Mubai's noble birth, nor Tang San's heaven-defying bloodline. Even his initial Martial Soul was just the Spirit Eyes Martial Soul, which was regarded as a "Trash Martial Soul" by the world, and his Innate Soul Power was only a pitiful level one.
But he managed to turn such a terrible hand into a winning one.
The story begins in the White Tiger Duke's Estate in the western part of the Star Luo Empire.
Duke of the White Tiger Dai Hao of the White Tiger is the Sea God of the Star Luo Empire's military. His White Tiger Martial Soul is renowned throughout the border regions, and he commands a million-strong army, making him a cornerstone upon which the entire empire relies.
His first wife came from the Zhu Clan, which had been intermarried with the Dai Clan for generations. Their eldest son, Dai Huabin, was exceptionally talented from a young age. He broke through to level 20 in Soul Power at the age of twelve and was the recognized heir of the Duke's Mansion.
Huo Yuhao's mother Huo Yun'er, was just an ordinary maid in the mansion.
A drunken encounter led to her pregnancy, plunging her and her child's lives into utter darkness.
In the strictly hierarchical Duke's Mansion, a son born to a maid was not even as good as a son from a collateral branch.
From as far back as he could remember, Huo Yuhao lived with his mother in the most dilapidated woodshed in the northwest corner of the mansion.
It was drafty in winter and leaky in summer. They ate leftovers from the kitchen and wore old, faded clothes discarded by the servants, patched all over.
The stepmother, Zhu Shi, regarded them as a thorn in her side and would punish them at the slightest provocation for "not knowing the rules".
The legitimate son, Dai Huabin, even took it as a daily pleasure to bully his half-brother, beating and kicking him whenever things didn't go his way.
The servants in the mansion were opportunistic and dared to scold and mistreat them at will, not even leaving them a hot meal.
Huo Yun'er was gentle and weak, lacking both Soul Power and powerful backing. She could only swallow all her grievances and reserve all her warmth for her son.