Douluo Continent's Backward Cultivation Methods

When Ning Tian called out, "Seven treasures turn, and glazed light shines! First, strength! Second, dispel! Third, speed!"

Three beams of white light fell on Wu Feng. At that moment, Wu Feng felt her strength and speed increase dramatically, and she could also feel something special protecting her.

Those were Ning Tian's three Soul Skills. Her first and third Soul Skills boosted strength and speed respectively. With Ning Tian's current cultivation as a Soul Elder, they could increase Wu Feng's strength and speed by thirty percent.

Her second Soul Skill was Dispel, a Soul Skill that removed abnormal conditions. If she used it on someone in advance, it could block one abnormal condition for that person.

What surprised Xu Xingyu somewhat, however, was that after using three Soul Skills in succession, the girl named Ning Tian standing before him had not consumed an excessive amount of Soul Power. Instead, she had saved quite a bit.

This should be the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's secret Martial Soul art, the Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart. Simply put, the method was what was known as Heart Separation Control. By dividing one's attention to monitor and control one's Soul Power, one could distribute it evenly and reasonably apply boosts to one's teammates.

The Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart had five realms in total: Three-Aperture Governing Heart, Four-Aperture Constant Heart, Five-Aperture Scattered Heart, Six-Aperture Wishful Heart, and Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart.

Ning Tian should currently be at the peak of the Three-Aperture Governing Heart, close to reaching the Four-Aperture Constant Heart. From this, it was clear that Ning Tian's spiritual power was also quite good.

Just then, the boosted Wu Feng charged at Xu Xingyu and used her second Soul Skill, Dragon's Wrath. A crimson flame gathered in Wu Feng's hand, finally taking the shape of a fire dragon that attacked Xu Xingyu.

This also gave Xu Xingyu his first taste of the power of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, the world's foremost support-type tool Martial Soul. Its boosting power truly lived up to its reputation.

Although the attack before him was, to some extent, unleashed by Wu Feng forcibly consuming a large amount of Soul Power, without Ning Tian's boost, Wu Feng could not have used that little Soul Power to unleash an attack capable of threatening a Soul Elder so easily.

Yet the attack was useless against Xu Xingyu. He held out his hand, and the fire dragon Wu Feng had released instantly escaped her control, finally turning into a small fireball in Xu Xingyu's hand.

Before Wu Feng could say anything about it being impossible, the fireball in Xu Xingyu's hand turned a deeper shade of red. The fire then coiled around his fist, making it look as though his hand were made of flame itself.

Xu Xingyu then swung his flame-wreathed fist at Wu Feng and Ning Tian, sending a massive fist formed of fire at the two of them.

"Fire Fist!"

Wu Feng and Ning Tian watched the flames rushing toward them, clearly sensing the breath of death.

Their instincts told them that if they were struck by this attack, they would inevitably be either killed or injured. Thus, they had only one choice now: dodge.

But the Fire Fist seemed to have eyes of its own. No matter how the two dodged, the enormous fist relentlessly pursued them. Even with the speed boost from Ning Tian's third Soul Skill, they could not shake off the attack.

In the end, the Fire Fist drove them to the edge of the arena, leaving them nowhere to hide. As the scorching fist was about to strike them head-on, Ning Tian hurriedly shouted, "I concede!"

Teacher Mu, below the arena, had long since seen that Ning Tian and Wu Feng's lives were in danger. At the sound of her concession, he hurriedly rushed toward the arena, intending to rescue them before the Fire Fist landed.

Yet just as the two were about to be burned to ashes, the Fire Fist suddenly shot upward and exploded in the sky. The spreading flames were as beautiful as a flower in bloom, like the sight of a fireworks show.

The students present, especially the girls, began to cry out, offering their blessings to the dazzling fireworks show. At the same time, none of the students present except Xu Yanxue could bring themselves to think of challenging Xu Xingyu.

After all, judging from the fight just now, he had not used a single Soul Skill from beginning to end. He had only used his control over the fire element to confront the boosted Wu Feng.

Moreover, Xu Xingyu seemed not to have expended anything throughout the entire fight. Many students felt that even a Soul King might not have been able to control an element so well without the help of a Soul Skill, as he had just done!

After all, this kind of pure elemental control consumed a great deal of Soul Power and spiritual power if handled poorly. It was better to simply release a Soul Skill to fight an enemy. In the eyes of Douluo Continent, what Xu Xingyu had just done could even be considered a Self-Created Soul Skill!

However, this was also a disadvantage of Douluo Continent's natives: they relied too heavily on the foolproof operating system that was the Soul Ring.

The Soul Ring cultivation method was very convenient, but convenience was not always a good thing. Take cultivation, for example: if none of a person's attacks had been learned by them, but were instead released with the help of some external system,

then that person would find it difficult to understand the laws contained in the skills they used, and thereby gain insight into the laws of the world and come to understand everything about themselves more deeply.

On Douluo Continent, however, one could not analyze laws at all to improve one's strength and understanding without reaching the level of a Super Douluo or perhaps a Limit Douluo.

Douluo Continent had another problem: its inhabitants' fighting spirit had become very weak. Their battles basically came down to whoever used the more powerful Soul Skill winning. Apart from a small minority, the same applied to most people when it came to basic combat techniques.

Only those nobles with long-standing inheritances studied this aspect, but once their strength reached a certain height, they would basically abandon technique and fight by relying purely on skills.

By contrast, the cultivation methods of other planes were all different, but when it came to methods of attack, cultivation methods, and so on, they had created countless inherited skills through the accumulation of days and months.

These renowned works were not merely attacks. They were also skills created by their makers using their own understanding of laws, and they were ultimately passed down to later generations.

On Douluo Continent, the only things that seemed to count as inherited skills were the Tang Sect's six great secret arts. Moreover, those techniques had originally been brought over from his own world by Tang San, and in themselves could only be considered treasures that a second-rate faction would collect.

Thinking of this, Xu Xingyu secretly resolved to change Douluo Continent's lax atmosphere in the future. Sooner or later, when he brought about an era of peace between humans and beasts, he would also abolish this foolproof cultivation method.

Just then, Xu Xingyu remembered something. He looked at the dumbstruck Mu Jin and asked, "I won this match, right?"

Mu Jin hurriedly came to his senses and announced the winner. Afterward, he asked the others in the class whether anyone else wanted to compete for the position of class monitor.

Without exception, everyone chose not to compete. What a joke-competing with a freak like that would be asking for trouble, wouldn't it? Thus, Xu Xingyu smoothly became the monitor of Freshman Class Nine without any opposition.

The competition for the vice monitor position afterward was quite fierce. After all, with the monitor's position taken, only by competing for vice monitor could they prove their own strength.

The person who emerged from the fierce contest was Xu Yanxue, publicly known as Xu Xingyu's sworn younger sister. Although Xu Yanxue's current cultivation was only that of a twenty-fifth-level Soul Grandmaster, putting her in the middle of the class, one should not forget that she was the foremost of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North.

Her combat experience far surpassed that of her peers. A few years ago, with Xu Xingyu's help, she had even obtained the Ice God's inheritance, advancing her attribute from Ultimate Snow to Ultimate Ice and Snow. Thus, dealing with a few greenhorn kids was not much of a problem.

While Xu Yanxue was still beating up the other competitors, Xu Xingyu seemed to sense something and looked toward the spectator stands. But after observing them, he found that they were indeed empty. This left Xu Xingyu puzzled. Could something be wrong with my perception?

What Xu Xingyu did not know, however, was that an old man dressed in shabby clothes had been watching his every move from the spectator stands just moments ago.

The old man now muttered to himself, "Ah, looks like this little fellow has good perception. He almost discovered me. His spiritual power is already nearly on par with a Soul Emperor's at such a young age. Talent like that really is rare!"

"But were the flames that little fellow used just now really so hot? Could they be Ultimate Fire? If so, then he must have another Martial Soul! I didn't expect the young master of the Spirit Contract Pagoda to have a Second Martial Soul, much less an ultimate Martial Soul. But that makes sense. If he weren't so outstanding, he wouldn't be qualified to take a god's test."

"And that little girl just now-I remember the information saying she was Xu Xingyu's sworn younger sister. It seems she isn't a simple person either. Looks like there's one more person to watch."

As soon as he finished speaking, the old man suddenly vanished, as though he had never existed. The only traces proving he had been there were the few chicken leg bones left on the ground.