Guidance on Ma and Ao's Martial Soul Cultivation

"Haha, it couldn't be helped. After a Soul Master attached a Soul Ring, their body absorbed the power it released, and their Soul Power Level would generally rise."

"I attached three Soul Rings at once this time. Wasn't it perfectly normal for my Soul Power Level to rise a little more?" Dai Mubai said with a chuckle.

"Boss Dai, easy for you to say. Sure, you attached three Soul Rings in the last half month, but what kind of Soul Ring can raise your Soul Power by five levels at once?"

Thinking Dai Mubai was deliberately pulling his leg, Ma Hongjun looked thoroughly aggrieved.

"Haha, it couldn't be helped. The Soul Rings I attached this time were a little older than my previous ones."

"Oh? How much older could they be? (←_←)" Ma Hongjun looked utterly unconvinced.

"Not that much older. Just purple, purple, and black."

They were all schoolmates at the same academy, and the little fatty Ma Hongjun was even Dai Mubai's roommate.

Whether because they spent their days together or because he would frequently be developing and training his three Soul Skills from now on, there was no hiding his shockingly outrageous Soul Ring Configuration.

So when the two asked about it, Dai Mubai told them both frankly.

"What? Σ(°Д°) Purple, purple, and black? Boss Dai, you've got to be pulling my leg. Your First and Second Soul Rings reached the purple thousand-year mark, and your Third Soul Ring reached the black ten-thousand-year mark?"

"Teacher said our Shrek Academy only takes in monsters, but Boss Dai, you're defying the heavens! You're a heifer on a plane-your bull's gone sky-high!"

Hearing the age of each of Dai Mubai's three Soul Rings, Ma Hongjun looked both doubtful and horrified.

Oscar, standing beside him, was also full of disbelief. After all, a Soul Ring Configuration like that was simply too shocking to the world.

"All right, Fatty, Little Ao, don't make such a fuss."

"My first two Soul Rings were devoured when my Martial Soul mutated, but my Soul Power cultivation didn't drop. If you were in my shoes, would you settle for two yellow hundred-year Soul Rings when you had level 30 Soul Power and were attaching your first two Soul Rings again?"

"At the level 30 Soul Elder realm, you can already attach a Thousand-Year Soul Ring. So the first Soul Ring slot can be filled according to the standard for the Third Soul Ring, and the others can follow in order."

"Purple, purple, and black is a normal combination for a Soul Master's third, fourth, and fifth Soul Ring slots. I was level 30 with zero Soul Rings, so although I was attaching my first, second, and third Soul Rings again, it could just as easily be considered attaching my third, fourth, and fifth."

"The purple-purple-black configuration really isn't as outrageous as you think." Dai Mubai shook his head and gave a brief explanation.

"Boss Dai, I understand what you're saying, but whatever prerequisites you had, the fact remains that your first three Soul Rings have a purple-purple-black configuration."

"For the first three Soul Rings to have that kind of age distribution is truly shocking to the world."

After a moment's silence, Oscar, whose grades in Martial Soul Theory were better than Ma Hongjun's, still couldn't help exclaiming in amazement.

Ma Hongjun nodded in agreement, looking at Dai Mubai with admiration, amazement, and envy.

In his eyes, his Boss Dai was handsome and wealthy, with outstanding talent for Martial Soul cultivation and formidable strength.

Everything about Dai Mubai was something Ma Hongjun longed to have but couldn't. How could he not be envious?

"Little Ao, Fatty, you really don't need to envy me. Your talents are excellent too. You could even call them monstrous."

"If you two were willing to put more thought into cultivation and find ways to draw out your Martial Souls' innate potential, you could be just as freakish," Dai Mubai said earnestly.

"Boss Dai, I already work really hard at cultivation."

"Sure, I'd love to slack off, but you know how strict Teacher is with me. Even when my Evil Fire acts up and I go out whoring, he drags me back to the academy to cultivate early the next morning."

"Besides, Boss Dai, we share a dorm. You know what my situation's like. If I cultivate too much and circulate too much Soul Power in my body, it makes the Evil Fire grow."

"Even if I wanted to work harder at cultivation, I couldn't."

Ma Hongjun wore a miserable expression as he complained in an aggrieved tone.

"That's right, Boss Dai. You know I usually work pretty hard at cultivation too, but cultivation is already very slow for auxiliary-type, food-type Soul Masters."

"I'd love to be as awesome as you, Boss Dai, but it's just impossible in my situation," Oscar said dejectedly.

Dai Mubai could understand what the two of them were saying.

If it had been the previous "him," his predecessor neither cared about Oscar and Ma Hongjun's situations nor had any way to help.

But as Dai Mubai saw it now, there were actually solutions to both Ma Hongjun's and Oscar's problems. Even if they couldn't be completely solved, they could be greatly improved.

"Fatty, your Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul is a Mutated Martial Soul that came from poultry. Although it went from weak to strong, making it a mutation in a good direction, Evil Fire grows inside your body. Clearly, the mutation wasn't completed."

"To solve the problem of the Evil Fire inside you, I have two general methods. The first is to find a heavenly treasure that can purify evil power and refine flames, and use it to purge and purify the Evil Fire in your body."

"The other is to hunt a Soul Beast with a phoenix bloodline and absorb its Soul Ring. That would further purify the phoenix bloodline in your Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul, thereby pushing its mutation to completion after the fact."

"As for heavenly treasures that can purify evil power, refine flames, cleanse the sinews and marrow, and help Soul Beasts and Martial Souls descended from phoenixes increase the concentration of their phoenix bloodline,

"I once saw an ancient text that mentioned an Immortal Herb called the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, which has those effects."

"Although that herb is extremely rare and hard to find in a short time, we can look for other herbs to take as substitutes, such as Phoenix Blood Grass, Crimson Flame Cockscomb, Phoenix Sunflower, and so on."

"As long as those herbs are old enough, I expect that even if their effects can't match the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and can't completely solve your Evil Fire problem, they can still greatly improve it."

"Then there's hunting a Soul Beast with a phoenix bloodline and absorbing its Soul Ring. Although Soul Beasts with phoenix bloodlines are rare, I believe one can still be found if you're willing to put some effort into searching."

Looking at the miserable-faced Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai told him about the methods he knew.

"Purify evil power, refine flames, increase the concentration of the phoenix bloodline, and let the Evil Fire Phoenix complete the rest of its unfinished mutation?"

Hearing Dai Mubai's words, Ma Hongjun fell into thought, although with his brains, he couldn't come up with anything at all.

For now, he only wanted to remember every word Dai Mubai had said, so that when he went to discuss it with his teacher Flender later, he could pass it all on to him.

Seeing that Ma Hongjun had gone quiet, Dai Mubai turned to look at Oscar beside him.

"Little Ao, although auxiliary-type, food-type Soul Masters cultivate very slowly, that also depends on individual talent. As a Food-Type Soul Master with Innate Full Soul Power, your cultivation speed really isn't all that slow."

"Besides, there are quite a few ways for a Soul Master to cultivate faster and more efficiently. For example, cultivating in a mimicry environment, using medicinal baths that can increase cultivation speed, or even taking the appropriate heavenly treasures directly."

A bitter smile appeared on Oscar's face at Dai Mubai's words.