I'm freaking awesome!
"A body martial soul!"
Bai Haoze was dizzy with envy.
In this era of the Dragon King's Legend, although he knew nothing about the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings, as a Titled Douluo with a beast martial soul, Bai Haoze understood the problem of bloodline suppression among beast martial souls.
And in fact,
The entire Dragon King worldview illustrated one principle: bloodline trumped everything!
Every beast martial soul under heaven,
When faced with Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King or Gu Yuena's Silver Dragon King, had its stats slashed in half-or even chopped all the way down to its ankles.
Then,
The Golden Dragon King's absurdly overpowered stats and the Silver Dragon King's world-shaking wisdom would teach you your place.
In other words,
In this era,
Soul Masters who awakened beast martial souls were born a cut below the rest.
Tool martial souls and body martial souls, however, had no such flaw.
Bai Haoze cursed inwardly. Motherfucker.
He wanted little brother Li Zha to awaken a good martial soul, but did it have to be this good?!
"But Your Eminence Heavenly Phoenix, this lotus dharma body doesn't look like any particular part of Li Zha's body. Could it be his entire self?"
Leng Yaozhu nodded. "Yes. It's him."
The Spirit Pagoda also had a level-98 Super Douluo whose martial soul was his own brain, with the title Phantom Brain.
Therefore,
Leng Yaolai was no stranger to body martial souls.
"Ordinary body martial souls are merely a particular body part or organ of the Soul Master."
"Most people in the Body Sect also believe body martial souls are the strongest. After all, a human merging with their own body naturally has a high degree of compatibility."
"And among body martial souls, those that encompass the entire self are undoubtedly the finest of all."
"The lotus dharma body reflects Li Zha in his entirety, and it could protect its master even before awakening. Clearly, it's a top-tier body martial soul."
Leng Yaozhu stopped midway through her explanation and sank into thought.
As she considered this,
A question arose in her mind.
If it was merely his physical self,
Then why didn't it manifest as Li Zha looked now?
Why did it instead resemble some form of Li Zha... after he grew up?
Hiss...
Thinking of it that way,
Leng Yaozhu suddenly felt that her knowledge was rather limited.
Just then,
Li Zha walked over. "Teacher, my lotus dharma body isn't simply my physical self serving as a martial soul. It's my superego."
"Your super-what? What's so super?"
Dabai was startled, then realized that wasn't right.
"Pfft, no, what does 'superego' mean?"
Leng Yaozhu understood immediately.
"The superego is an existence that stands above the id."
Li Zha nodded. "Yes, Teacher. The superego is an existence above the self, a collective embodiment of my divinity."
Leng Yaozhu looked thoughtful.
No wonder.
No wonder the lotus dharma body gave her the impression that it started at the quasi-god level-not in strength, but in its rank of existence.
Bai Zhizen scrunched up her little face.
"Could you explain that more clearly? I don't understand..."
She felt as awkward as a primitive human listening to a lecture from a professor in a suit and polished shoes.
Leng Yaozhu summed it up. "Simply put, you can think of this martial soul as the strongest version of yourself."
"Every one of his attributes is at the Soul Master's theoretical maximum, and he isn't affected by his surroundings."
Leng Yaozhu immediately understood why that Evil Soul Master had been unable to take Li Zha's soul.
The existence of his superego meant that Li Zha's soul started at the quasi-god level in rank.
How could a mortal possibly take a god's soul?
Only another god could do that.
"Isn't that just hiring someone to play for you?"
Bai Zhizen quipped.
What the fuck did it mean, the superego was always your theoretically strongest self?
How the hell was anyone supposed to fight that?
In other words,
No matter what affected Li Zha, the lotus dharma body would always enable him to make the best choice.
So he'd hired himself to play for him, huh?
He wasn't even pretending anymore!
Leng Yaozhu chuckled. Even though she hadn't fully understood this bizarre martial soul, she could already foresee just how unfortunate Li Zha's enemies would be.
"Li Zha, then your flames..."
Leng Yaozhu asked the question that truly concerned her.
Li Zha extended a finger, and a small flame appeared.
The flame was a strange white,
Like a cloud, yet not a cloud; like smoke, yet not smoke.
"This is samadhi true fire."
Leng Yaozhu held out her hand, signaling for Li Zha to place the flame in her palm.
Li Zha complied.
The white flame landed in Leng Yaozhu's hand. She poured soul power into it, and soon, her brow furrowed.
The tiny wisp of samadhi true fire instantly became a black hole upon encountering Leng Yaozhu's soul power, rapidly expanding and burning away every bit she poured into it!
"It burns soul power?!"
Dabai and Xiao Bai's eyes widened.
"This samadhi true fire can actually burn energy constructs?"
Leng Yaozhu immediately understood why she had felt that Li Zha's flames might already have surpassed the ultimate level.
Because if samadhi true fire really could burn energy constructs...
Ultimate fire itself was a form of energy!
In other words,
Li Zha's samadhi true fire,
Could even burn ultimate fire!
Sure enough,
When Leng Yaozhu activated her Heavenly Phoenix martial soul and released a trace of ultimate fire, the samadhi true fire devoured and burned it as well, only a little more slowly.
Leng Yaozhu continued pouring in soul power and discovered that only after she had supplied several times as much did the sheer quantity overwhelm and extinguish the wisp of samadhi true fire.
Leng Yaozhu rubbed her fingertips together in excitement.
"I thought you had ultimate fire. I never imagined... you'd already surpassed the ultimate."
Dabai and Xiao Bai both fell silent.
The lotus dharma body granted Li Zha innate immunity to soul attacks and kept him at his strongest at all times.
Samadhi true fire granted him terrifying flames that could burn everything, even suppressing Soul Masters with the same fire attribute.
What else was there to say, little brother?
The crown was yours!
Dabai and Xiao Bai now truly understood that Leng Yaozhu hadn't been joking. Li Zha's martial soul really could string up that Spirit Ice Douluo from ten thousand years ago and give him a beating!
Samadhi true fire completely outclassed ultimate ice.
As a top-tier body martial soul, the lotus dharma body would naturally crush Spirit Eyes with ease.
Light-years ahead!
"Come on, let your teacher test your spiritual power and innate soul power."
Leng Yaolai took out a crystal ball and had Li Zha place his hand on it.
Soon,
The number inside the crystal ball began climbing rapidly.
Starting at zero, it shot straight to 300 in one breath, then slowed and finally stopped at 450.
"What? 450 points of spiritual power?!"
Bai Haoze frowned. Fuck, if he'd known, he wouldn't have watched.
Innate full soul power went without saying. With two god-tier martial souls, even innate level-20 soul power wouldn't have surprised him.
But what the fuck was this 450 points of spiritual power?!
Spiritual power was divided into the spirit origin realm, spirit connection realm, spirit sea realm, spirit abyss realm, spirit domain realm, and finally the divine origin realm.
The spirit origin realm signified the renewal of all things, the beginning of a new origin.
Its values ranged from zero to 100 points. Soul Masters whose spiritual power fell within this stage could form contracts with two ten-year soul spirits or one hundred-year soul spirit.
The spirit connection realm signified the first steps in controlling spiritual power and harnessing it for oneself, with values ranging between 100 and 500 points.
Soul Masters with spiritual power at this stage could contract two hundred-year soul spirits or one thousand-year soul spirit!
Normally, one had to be at least a Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster, or even a three-ring Soul Elder, to possess spiritual power in the spirit connection realm.
Yet Li Zha, who had only just awakened,
Had gone straight into the spirit connection realm-at its fucking peak, no less.
In other words,
For his very first soul spirit,
Li Zha could choose a thousand-year soul spirit outright!
If he pushed his luck, even a ten-thousand-year soul spirit might be possible!
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