"How... can we replace Soul Master?"
Upon hearing Mo Yuan's words, Gu Yuena was stunned.
In all her years of life, this was the first time she had ever heard a Soul Master solemnly declare in front of her that they wanted to replace Soul Master.
"What, are you surprised?"
Gu Yuena nodded silently. She was starting to doubt whether the person standing in front of her was even human. Why did it seem even more radical than she was?
"That's true. After all, many things about Soul Master are old traditions passed down from ancient times. But as the saying goes, just because it's always been this way doesn't mean it's right." Mo Yuan talked to Gu Yuena while his hands didn't stop, and his eyes never left the control panel in front of him. This was the first time he was conducting a large-scale genetic analysis of Artificial Soul Spirit, and he still needed to do some basic debugging.
"In my opinion, the Soul Master cultivation system is still too outdated. It relies on external objects, yet it is not so dependent on them. It is stuck in the middle between these two paths, and in the end, it is completely stuck in a rut."
"What does it mean to be dependent on external things, yet not overly dependent on them?"
Gu Yuena felt her mind was going to go blank. She roughly knew what "external objects" meant—it referred to Soul Ring —but the meaning of that sentence...
"Don't you understand? I think I've been clear enough." Mo Yuan narrowed his eyes, somewhat disappointed.
"Then let me explain it to you properly." Mo Yuan thought to himself that since he was busy anyway, he might as well treat it as a teaching trip to Africa. " The Soul Master system, from ancient times to the present, has never been able to do without one thing, which is the Soul Ring. Even now that Artificial Soul Spirit have been created, it still cannot escape the shackles of the Soul Ring."
"And what do Soul Ring bring to Soul Master? Is it just a simple Soul Skill?"
Before Gu Yuena think, Mo Yuan immediately answered his own question, saying, "It can't be that, otherwise why can't Self-Created Soul Skill become Soul Ring? So, according to my initial guess, it comes from the genes of a certain individual, that is, Soul Beast. This gene records a special ability of that Soul Beast, which makes up for a certain deficiency of the Soul Master, allowing him to break through the level, and the Soul Ring is just the external manifestation of this process."
Mo Yuan spoke eloquently, but of course, all of this was just his conjecture, and he had not proven it through rigorous experiments.
But that's how research works; everything must be based on a self-consistent hypothesis.
"While what you said makes some sense, what does it have to do with what you said earlier?" Gu Yuena asked.
She still had that clear yet naive look in her eyes, which made Mo Yuan realize that trying to explain these principles to her would probably be more difficult than going to Africa to teach.
But he still didn't give up.
"Don't you think there's some factor I haven't considered in my theory? Besides obtaining them from Soul Beast, are there other ways to acquire them?"
Mo Yuan continued to patiently guide him.
He really went all out to make the science popularization a success.
"The way to obtain Soul Ring..." Gu Yuena pondered for a few seconds, then suddenly a flash of inspiration struck her, her intelligence instantly taking over, "After Soul Beast is reborn as a human, it doesn't need to hunt Soul Beast to obtain Soul Ring before reaching the seventh ring, right?"
"That's right, it is indeed an exception, but not entirely." Mo Yuan nodded. Fortunately, the child wasn't completely stupid; there was still hope.
"Anything else?" Gu Yuena felt a tickle on her head, as if... her brain was starting to grow?
"Another possibility is, of course, God-Given Soul Ring," Mo Yuan explained casually. "Of course, in my opinion, this is essentially the same situation as what you mentioned. That is, the source of the Soul Ring condensed in this way is the power derived from one's own genes. This goes without saying for Soul Beast rebuilding their cultivation, but the principle of God-Given Soul Ring should be that Divine Power stimulates changes in the human body, thereby revealing the power that already exists in the human's genes. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why the Soul Skill of God-Given Soul Ring are most suitable for the person themselves."
"So... are the ways in which these two types of Soul Ring are obtained related to your evaluation of the Soul Master system?" Gu Yuena asked.
"Smart, it seems you're not that stupid after all." Mo Yuan praised without reservation. "In fact, in my opinion, the backwardness of the Soul Master system lies in this. It accepts external power, but it generally only accepts the power of nine Soul Ring. How much of the genes belonging to Soul Beast can it carry? Not to mention there are several kinds of Soul Beast. Conflicts are bound to occur between them."
"Therefore, if we want to make a fundamental breakthrough in the existing Soul Master system, there are only two directions. One is to completely abandon Soul Ring and instead explore the power of the Soul Master himself. Since the power comes from within, there is no need to rely on external objects. The other is to embrace Soul Beast and completely fuse with the power of a specific Soul Beast. In this way, we can fully integrate the power of both, instead of being limited to the power of just a few Soul Ring."
This was Mo Yuan's conclusion, and also his plan.
In his view, neither of these two paths was superior or inferior. The former was more similar to the Gene Lock cultivation system he had seen in novels in his previous life, which relied on unlocking the power of one's own genes to achieve a leap in power; while the latter was undoubtedly the path of a Fusion Warrior.
For most owners of Beast Martial Soul, it's best to simply fuse with the genes of Soul Beast that shares the same Martial Soul as their own. This way, they'll be compatible with their own spirit and there's less worry about conflicts.
As for the owner of Weapon Martial Soul, they are more likely to choose the first path, since there are no genes to extract from a sword.
Of course, there's one crucial point that hasn't been explained: why do Martial Soul arise?
However, Mo Yuan doesn't need to fully understand this issue right now.
Gu Yuena couldn't understand it, but she was deeply shocked.
Because she had never heard of such an advanced theory before, nor had she ever even thought about the question.
In her view, this is how Soul Master are: when they reach a bottleneck, they need to hunt Soul Beast. When Soul Beast dies, it will produce Soul Ring, and the Soul Master can advance by absorbing the Soul Ring.
As for other things, she wouldn't think about them, and most likely she wouldn't be able to figure them out anyway.
Now that someone has actually presented this answer to her, she can't help but feel shocked.
"What, don't you understand?"
"I can only understand a little bit." Gu Yuena shook her head honestly.
"A little understanding is enough. After all, you don't need to understand why." Mo Yuan didn't have high expectations for this person. Just knowing the facts was enough, so that he wouldn't be held back at any time. As for anything else, he didn't expect anything more.
Just then, he also finished debugging the Full-Spectrum Analyzer.
To be honest, this instrument was Reconstruction by him after combining several instruments with different functions based on the data that came with the core.
He didn't know why his core contained so much data, but he didn't need to think about it anymore.
As long as it works, who cares about anything else?
If you really think about all that, wouldn't you be able to come up with conspiracy theories just by using a system?
Please, aren't you tired?
We've already time-traveled, why bother with all that?
After confirming everything was correct and all the Soul Spirit were in place, Mo Yuan immediately pressed the start button.