Soul Power as the Shell, Spirit as the Foundation-Creating an Ultimate Spiritual Soul Core!!

Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

The rear mountain, the mimicry training area.

Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had brought Lin Mo here to cultivate.

Mimicry was essentially the imitation of natural environments.

It created a place suited to a Soul Master's cultivation.

Yu Tianheng's private Mimicry Training Ground.

It was mainly home to low-level dragon-type Soul Beasts with relatively docile temperaments.

These included dragon lizards, dragon turtles, and other false dragons with extremely diluted bloodlines.

They were weak and not particularly old. Most were only a few decades old.

"I heard the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan put a lot of effort into breeding these Soul Beasts. You're really getting a bargain here, junior!"

Dugu Yan spoke as she led the way.

The surrounding Soul Beasts poked their heads out as well, curiously studying the group.

Having been domesticated since they were young, they weren't afraid of humans.

Or rather, they had long since stopped finding humans strange.

After all, who could refuse the food their poop-scoopers delivered every day?

They could still tell the difference between one full meal and a full belly at every meal.

"This is where Yu Tianheng usually cultivates? It's a bit shabby~"

Before they had gone far, Lin Mo spotted a crude wooden cabin and couldn't help complaining.

They had spent so much money breeding Soul Beasts.

Why couldn't they bear to build a decent place to stay?

"It is a bit shabby~ But you'll only be here for half a year, so just make do."

Dugu Yan raised a slender eyebrow and spoke with a secretive smile tugging at her lips.

She had her own private Mimicry Training Ground, too.

Although it was crawling with venomous snakes.

At least she had a lovely little villa to live in.

By comparison, the wooden cabin before them really was rather crude.

"Sigh~ Fine~ Thanks for showing me the way, seniors. You can head back now."

Lin Mo sighed helplessly as he spoke.

Although the lodgings were rather crude.

The rich ambient energy in the surrounding area made up for it.

Simply put, there was plenty of energy.

That would greatly benefit what he was about to attempt.

"All right, then. See you in half a year."

Dugu Yan nodded, then turned and left without further ado.

"Good luck."

Ye Lingling offered a quiet word of encouragement from beside him.

Then she followed her best friend away.

"Phew~ Time to get down to business."

Lin Mo opened the cabin door and walked straight inside.

Click~

After shutting the wooden door, he sat down on the bare wooden bed.

Then he took an emerald-green Immortal Herb from his Wishful Hundred Treasures Pouch.

It bore three snow-white leaves, with a few droplets of water at their tips.

This was the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew!!

"I might as well take that out, too."

With a thought from Lin Mo, a crimson-gold card appeared before him.

The Two-Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring card!!

"With such thorough preparations, I refuse to believe I can't condense a Soul Core!!"

A trace of resolve flashed through Lin Mo's eyes as he made up his mind.

That was right. He had decided to attempt to condense a Soul Core!!

Something no Soul Master on the continent currently possessed!!

However, Di Tian and several other Ferocious Beasts probably had them.

Condensing a Soul Core at level fifty sounds crazy, but I'll never know the result unless I try!!

Looking at the card and Immortal Herb in his hands, Lin Mo silently encouraged himself.

By now, he had essentially met all the necessary conditions.

Condensing a Soul Core was merely a test of whether one's Mental Power, total Soul Power, and physical constitution met the standards of a Titled Douluo.

His Mental Power and physical constitution went without saying.

They were firmly at the Titled Douluo level!!

But his total Soul Power was the weak link among the three conditions.

Still, it shouldn't be much of a problem. With the Two-Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring's help, I can more than make up for it.

Lin Mo silently raised his right hand and released a mass of Soul Power above his palm.

For ordinary Soul Masters below level seventy, Soul Power was gaseous.

His Soul Power, however, was already an extremely dense liquid.

It could even be described as a semisolid, non-Newtonian fluid.

The Soul Power within it was highly compressed, its total quantity already comparable to that of a Soul Douluo.

As long as I keep compressing it, it should turn solid.

Lin Mo thought to himself as he studied the Soul Power above his palm.

The reason Titled Douluos were so scarce on the continent today.

Was largely that people couldn't transform their Soul Power from liquid to solid.

And then condense it into a Soul Core.

"Most people probably don't even know they need to do this, do they?"

Lin Mo shook his head and muttered softly.

Even Titled Douluos who had naturally condensed Soul Cores.

Probably only half understood them.

They knew a Soul Core had appeared in their bodies, but couldn't explain exactly how it had come about.

At its root, this stemmed from a lack of understanding of their own power.

"If I published the theory behind Soul Cores, what would be left for Gangzi?"

The corners of Lin Mo's mouth curled upward slightly.

But then he shook his head again. He would leave that aside for now.

The time wasn't right yet, and he wasn't strong enough.

"Phew~ Let's get started."

Lin Mo closed his eyes, recalling the precise process of condensing a Soul Core.

It consisted of just three steps.

First, completely transform the released liquid Soul Power into a solid.

This tested Mental Power.

Throughout the process, he would need to keep the Soul Power continuously spinning and compressing.

While ensuring that none of it leaked out or dissipated.

Ultimately forming an initial Soul Core.

Second, inject a large amount of Soul Power into the initial Soul Core to reinforce and stabilize it.

This tested one's total Soul Power.

It didn't require particularly delicate control. Simply piling in enough would do the job.

Third, merge the completed Soul Core into the dantian.

This tested physical constitution.

With a strong enough physique, one could merge it into any of the three dantians: upper, middle, or lower.

Even having three Soul Cores simultaneously wouldn't be a problem.

"Not bad. With sufficiently good foundations, it doesn't seem all that difficult."

Lin Mo opened his crimson-gold eyes and nodded.

Simply put, he needed to take a portion of his Soul Power and compress it into an empty Soul Core.

Then inject enough Soul Power into it.

Finally, place it inside his dantian.

Of course, this was the first method of condensing a Soul Core.

He suspected there were other methods.

Namely, the method used by the continent's current Titled Douluos.

Cultivate like mad, making the Soul Power within their bodies increasingly dense.

Eventually, quantitative accumulation would trigger a qualitative transformation, directly condensing a Soul Core inside the body.

But the drawback was obvious, too: it required a very long time spent cultivating.

Those without sufficient talent would never condense a Soul Core in their entire lives.

This was also why most Soul Douluos today could never earn a title, even after a lifetime of effort.

"This method has the advantage of being reliable and safe, but it's too slow. It doesn't suit me at all."

Lin Feng shook his head, rejecting it without a second thought.

So he still intended to use the first approach.

The method of condensing a Soul Core outside the body.

However, he had his own understanding of it and didn't intend to copy the experience in his memories wholesale.

"As long as I succeed, no one will be able to rival me in the spiritual realm!!"

A trace of madness flickered in Lin Mo's crimson-gold eyes!

He wanted to create an ultimate Spiritual Soul Core!!

What if he used all his Soul Power to condense the embryonic Soul Core.

And then filled that embryonic Soul Core entirely with spiritual power?

Would that give birth to an utterly pure, ultimate Spiritual Soul Core?