At Lu Shiyuan's question, Xiao Feiyu rose onto her tiptoes and ruffled his hair.
"Xiao Yuan, the soul power in your body is far denser than an ordinary soul master's. Your foundation is so solid that if someone else needs a hundred units of soul power to advance one level, you need two hundred, or even more."
Lu Shiyuan frowned in confusion. "Why?"
"You've surely already felt how powerful the Void-Time Dragon Eyes martial soul is," Xiao Feiyu continued. "How could you gain power beyond the ordinary without paying any price?"
After saying that, she added silently, Besides, your martial soul came from that being.
Only then did Lu Shiyuan understand. No wonder his cultivation speed actually fell short of Xiao Wu's, despite his twin god-tier martial souls and the two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones he had absorbed.
Xiao Wu might only be level 47 now, but if he discounted his fifth soul ring, the gap between them was only three levels.
Yet Lu Shiyuan had two more Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones than Xiao Wu did. For a Soul Ancestor or Soul King, a single Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone could easily erase a three-level gap.
In other words, Xiao Wu's cultivation speed had already surpassed Lu Shiyuan's.
He had been wondering about that. By rights, he should not have been performing so poorly. After Xiao Feiyu's explanation, he finally understood the reason.
Still, this was not a bad thing. The denser his soul power, the better he could fight opponents above his level.
His soul rings were far older than an ordinary soul master's, which meant that each of his soul skills was not only more powerful than other people's, but also consumed less soul power.
Combined with his dense soul power and the extremely fast recovery