Fortune Soul Forging Art, Enhanced Meditation

Yao Xuan and Lin Ximeng left the academy at around eight in the morning. Since Yao Xuan had only spent about half an hour fusing with his Soul Spirit, it was not yet ten when Lin Ximeng led him out of the Spirit Pagoda.

After more than ten minutes of walking, Lin Ximeng and Yao Xuan returned home. Lin Ximeng began preparing lunch for the two big eaters, Yao Xuan and Na'er, while Yao Xuan entered his bedroom, shut the door, sat cross-legged on the floor, and, with a thought, sank into the system space.

You have obtained a cultivation technique: Fortune Soul Forging Art (first three layers). Would you like to begin receiving the technique's inheritance?

With a thought, he selected the system option, and a system notification sounded beside his ear.

"Yes."

Hearing the system prompt, Yao Xuan silently nodded in confirmation.

Ding! Preparing to transmit the first three layers of the Fortune Soul Forging Art. Please remain conscious. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

The system's voice rang out. Immediately afterward, Yao Xuan felt segments of profoundly mysterious cultivation methods and their corresponding insights turn into streams of information, continuously pouring into his Sea of Consciousness, where they were rapidly understood and absorbed.

Ding! Transmission complete!

Ten minutes later, just as Yao Xuan began to feel slightly dizzy, the stream of information carrying the technique abruptly came to a stop, accompanied by a crisp ding and the system's prompt.

"God, this Fortune Soul Forging Art is incredibly powerful! It truly deserves the word 'Fortune' in its name!"

Recalling the description of the Fortune Soul Forging Art from the inheritance he had received, Yao Xuan's eyes burned with excitement.

As a system reward, the Fortune Soul Forging Art was naturally no ordinary technique. According to the information Yao Xuan had received, it truly lived up to the word "Fortune." It was utterly heaven-defying!

First of all, the Fortune Soul Forging Art was a technique that could be cultivated to the god level. It had eighteen layers in total, with the first twelve corresponding respectively to the cultivation of Soul Masters, Soul Grand Masters, Soul Elders, Soul Ancestors, Soul Kings, Soul Emperors, Soul Saints, Soul Douluos, Titled Douluos, and Limit Douluos—Quasi-Demigods, Demigods, and Quasi-Gods—for mortal use.

The final six layers of the Fortune Soul Forging Art belonged to deities, corresponding respectively to the realms of Third-Rank Gods, Second-Rank Gods, First-Rank Gods, Third-Rank God Kings, Second-Rank God Kings, and First-Rank God Kings.

Not only that, the Fortune Soul Forging Art also recorded methods for condensing a godhead, raising a Divine Realm, and becoming a deity. Moreover, they were the most perfect methods, allowing one to attain the greatest potential for advancement after becoming a deity.

Second, in terms of actual cultivation, beginning from the first layer of the Fortune Soul Forging Art, the Soul Power absorbed by a Soul Master would begin to be compressed and transformed into liquid Soul Power.

Generally speaking, even in a place like Shrek Academy, where the elites of the Douluo Continent gathered, students had to wait until they advanced to Soul Elder before they were qualified to attempt Soul Power compression. Yet the Fortune Soul Forging Art allowed Soul Power compression to begin at the Soul Master realm. Its power was undeniable.

Furthermore, the Fortune Soul Forging Art absorbed Soul Power at an extremely fast rate, with an efficiency more than ten times that of the Five Hearts Towards Heaven Art. Even the Tang Sect's Mysterious Heaven Skill could not compare to the Fortune Soul Forging Art in Soul Power absorption efficiency!

In addition, during cultivation, the Fortune Soul Forging Art significantly enhanced a Soul Master's Spiritual Power. It also subtly raised the potential of one's soul, meaning it could improve a Soul Master's cultivation potential—or rather, their Innate Soul Power. It truly offered multiple benefits at once.

Its effects on Soul Core condensation were even more heaven-defying. For ordinary Soul Masters, they could generally only condense their first Soul Core upon advancing to Soul Saint, while even Limit Douluos possessed no more than two Soul Cores.

Even Children of Destiny like Tang Wulin, Huo Yuhao, and Di Tian, peerless geniuses who had suppressed an entire era, could only condense three Soul Cores. However, the Fortune Soul Forging Art allowed one to condense a total of nine Soul Cores!

At the Soul Ancestor realm, the Fortune Soul Forging Art could condense the first Soul Core. After that, at the realms of Soul King, Soul Emperor, Soul Saint, Soul Douluo, Titled Douluo, Limit Douluo—Quasi-Demigod—Demigod, and Quasi-God, it could continue condensing one Soul Core each, for a total of nine. That was 4.5 times as many as ordinary Soul Masters and three times as many as Sons of Destiny!

Of course, while its effects were heaven-defying, the Fortune Soul Forging Art also imposed exceptionally harsh requirements on its practitioner. Without a Martial Soul at or above the god level, it was simply impossible to cultivate the Fortune Soul Forging Art. Fortunately, Yao Xuan possessed the Fortune-grade Ancestral Dragon Martial Soul, so this was not a problem for him.

Additionally, the Fortune Soul Forging Art was a technique that placed great emphasis on foundations. It began the process of compressing Soul Power during the Soul Master stage. Therefore, although the Fortune Soul Forging Art possessed extremely high Soul Power absorption efficiency, in order to forge a solid foundation, its advancement speed could not possibly be ten times that of ordinary techniques. Instead, it balanced cultivation speed with the stability of one's foundation, achieving a dynamic equilibrium.

"Excellent! Now, it's time to unlock a new system ability!"

Having received the first three layers of the Fortune Soul Forging Art, Yao Xuan selected another option in the system with a thought.

Ding! You currently have an unlocked system ability—Enhanced Meditation. Would you like to activate it?

Enhanced Meditation effect: Modifies your Spiritual Power, enhancing its ability to attract Soul Power. It also modifies the meridians within your body, allowing them to withstand stronger Soul Power impacts, increasing your meditation efficiency by 100% overall.

As Yao Xuan willed it, a system prompt box appeared before his eyes.

"Activate!"

Hearing the system prompt, Yao Xuan naturally nodded silently. Immediately afterward, he felt two special streams of energy surge from within his body.

One of them felt incomparably cool to Yao Xuan. It flowed toward his Sea of Consciousness and transformed his Spiritual Power, granting it greater affinity with Soul Power.

The other stream of energy felt scorching hot. It surged through Yao Xuan's body, forcing open his previously narrow meridians while clearing hidden branch meridians that had originally been blocked.

Moreover, this energy did not violently batter Yao Xuan's meridians. On the contrary, whenever it passed through a meridian, it left a portion behind, fusing with it and making it tougher, capable of withstanding stronger Soul Power impacts.

Ding! System ability Enhanced Meditation has been activated!

About ten minutes later, the two streams of hot and cold energy within Yao Xuan's body had been almost completely absorbed, and the strange sensation of ice and fire tormenting him simultaneously vanished as well.

"Excellent! As expected of a system ability—it's truly powerful!"

Feeling the world's Soul Power around him become far more intimate, and sensing the incomparably unobstructed meridians within his body, Yao Xuan could not help but curl his lips into a slight smile, his heart filled with satisfaction.

After obtaining the Fortune Soul Forging Art, Yao Xuan's Soul Power absorption efficiency was ten times that of ordinary techniques. With the boost from Enhanced Meditation, even though the Ancestral Dragon Martial Soul required several times more Soul Power than ordinary Martial Souls for every advancement, and the Fortune Soul Forging Art itself also needed to compress Soul Power, his advancement speed would still be at least several times that of an ordinary Soul Master.

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