Reform That Kept Pace with the Times

Half a dozen years later.

Sacrificial Strike!

Inside the private training room, Su Ming circulated his Soul Power and launched an attack.

Boom!!

With a thunderous roar, the apparatus placed before him to test strength instantly broke down.

All that suffering hadn't been for nothing! Seeing the results in actual combat, Su Ming was very satisfied.

The attack he had just unleashed had used his Self-Created Soul Skill, Sacrificial Strike.

His Self-Created Soul Skill—Sacrificial Strike—increased his strength and attack power to two hundred percent while providing no defense whatsoever.

Its inspiration had come from Ocean Impact, which Sea Dragon Douluo had used in the anime's original storyline.

For anyone else, launching an amplified attack without any defense would basically mean they had exhausted all options and were fighting to the death.

But for Su Ming, who possessed the External Soul Bone Heart of the Sea God, it was an entirely different matter.

Abandoning so-called defense at a critical moment in exchange for a trump card that could achieve a greater result with less investment was an absolute bargain.

After all, as long as his Soul Power remained, combined with the water element produced by his Kyogre Martial Soul, he was immortal and could recover endlessly.

Besides Sacrificial Strike, Su Ming had also drawn on his past experience with Kyogre, Groudon, and Rayquaza to create a list of Self-Created Soul Skills.

Some techniques could be created independently, so there was no need to waste fixed Spirit Ring slots on them.

As for developing the list of Self-Created Soul Skills, he proceeded gradually, from the easiest to the most difficult, one step at a time.

If anything unexpected happened along the way, he would immediately switch to another target unless it was absolutely necessary to continue.

He would never let himself become stuck on a single Self-Created Soul Skill.

Of course, everything on the list had some practical use.

Otherwise, Su Ming wouldn't have wasted his time on it for no reason.

"Just as expected of Young Master Su Ming. Your strength is growing stronger and stronger."

Jiang Nannan, who was recording the test results nearby, looked at Su Ming with admiration.

For the past two years, she had been fulfilling the promise she had made back then.

She had been nothing short of diligent and conscientious.

Su Ming had also gradually grown accustomed to Jiang Nannan being like this now.

"Later, tell the person in charge of purchasing that some of the equipment and facilities that have already been upgraded can be purchased from the Sun Moon Empire."

"Our sect has to keep pace with the times. Only then can we give the Soul Masters within the sect greater improvements and better training."

After surveying the equipment in his training room and recalling what he had seen upon entering, Su Ming instructed Jiang Nannan beside him.

"Yes, Young Master." Jiang Nannan immediately wrote it down in the small notebook she carried with her.

Compared with the many rigid old fossils in the original Douluo Three Empires, Su Ming, as a transmigrator, would naturally choose to keep pace with the times.

Only then could they make greater progress.

Moreover, his talk of reviving the Heavenly Dragon Sect wasn't something he had said casually. He had been working toward it all along.

With Yu Xingtuo's support, the Heavenly Dragon Sect had undergone tremendous changes over the past two years.

In secret, they had imported a great deal of training equipment, scientific experience in cultivating low- and mid-level Soul Masters, and precious pills from the Sun Moon Empire.

Compared with the original Douluo Three Empires, the Sun Moon Empire truly did a better job in these areas.

It had genuinely applied the development of technology to the field of Soul Masters.

The only flaw was that its foundations were insufficient, making it unable to cultivate top-tier Soul Masters of its own.

But Su Ming didn't care. What the Sun Moon Empire possessed was already more than enough for the Heavenly Dragon Sect in its current state.

Matters concerning Limit Douluo were still far too distant for the Heavenly Dragon Sect at present.

Moreover, the reforms Su Ming had launched in the Heavenly Dragon Sect involved taking the essence and discarding the dross. He wasn't simply copying the Sun Moon Empire's model.

Naturally, such sweeping reforms also required a correspondingly astronomical amount of spending.

At first, many people in the Heavenly Dragon Sect had objected, believing the expenses were far too outrageous.

But in just a few months, everyone had changed their tune.

They weren't fools. They could clearly see the advantages of the things imported from the Sun Moon Empire.

Some even felt that the scale of the purchases could be increased further so that the Soul Masters within the sect could benefit even more.

"By the way, Young Master."

Just then, Jiang Nannan reported an important matter. "The several Soul Engineers hired at high salaries from the Sun Moon Empire to teach classes should arrive at our Heavenly Dragon Sect in about three days."

"The original plan was for you to personally meet those Soul Engineers, but that conflicts with your schedule tomorrow."

"What do you think, Young Master?" Jiang Nannan asked casually.

"Since the schedules conflict, then I won't meet those Soul Engineers." Su Ming answered without hesitation.

Bringing Soul Engineers into the sect to teach and cultivate the sect's own Soul Engineers had only been finalized recently.

A meal had to be eaten one bite at a time. Cultivating high-level Soul Engineers was extremely resource-intensive and time-consuming.

Regarding this matter, Su Ming planned to first establish the foundation of the Soul Guidance Department within the Heavenly Dragon Sect.

It was unrealistic to think they could cultivate them all at once.

Of course, the most important point was to make the sect's feudal and stubborn Soul Masters recognize the power of Soul Tools anew.

As one of the ancient powers of the original Douluo Three Empires, the Heavenly Dragon Sect had mostly possessed dragon-type Martial Souls, and thus relied even more heavily on their own Martial Souls.

As a result, Soul Masters using Soul Tools in battle were practically nowhere to be seen. Some even looked down on Soul Tools altogether.

That notion was unacceptable. Su Ming was prepared to make the corresponding changes in this regard.

Precisely for that reason, one of the many Soul Engineers hired to teach was a high-level Soul Engineer.

Only then could he silence those who refused to accept it.

Su Ming believed that quite a few people would become interested after learning about the power of high-level Soul Tools.

They would study the relevant knowledge and arm themselves through Soul Tools, thereby increasing their own strength.

After all, for the vast majority of Soul Masters, the boost provided by Soul Tools was undoubtedly immense.

But correspondingly, whether an individual or the sect purchased Soul Tools—especially powerful ones—the expense would be even more astronomical.

Still, if it could improve the strength of the sect's members and the sect itself, it would be well worth it.

"Yes, Young Master." Jiang Nannan began writing and sketching in her notebook again.

It's time to return and obtain my third Soul Skill.

After giving Jiang Nannan a few more instructions, Su Ming left his training room.

The schedule that conflicted with receiving those Soul Engineers who were coming to teach was—

the major matter of setting out for the ocean tomorrow to hunt for his third Spirit Ring.