"Different from others?"
Long Yuxue felt she had understood correctly.
The body martial soul and the spear did indeed have a fusion technique.
With that in mind, it made sense.
Only a fusion technique could unleash such overwhelming power, allowing a Soul Emperor to fight against a Soul Douluo-level Ba An.
The combined strength of two Soul Emperors' fusion techniques was roughly equivalent to a Soul Douluo's level.
But for someone to possess twin martial souls and be able to use them in a fusion technique? That was an extraordinary advantage.
Long Yuxue was inwardly amazed.
Xu Yuan didn't know what she was thinking; otherwise, he would have corrected her. He didn't yet have a fusion technique—there was another person who truly possessed twin martial souls and could use them in a fusion technique.
"Xu Yuan, what's your soul power level?" Jiang Qiyue continued to ask.
She was extremely curious about Xu Yuan today.
"Sixty-five," Xu Yuan replied. He had already answered Long Yuxue earlier and repeated his answer now.
Jiang Qiyue's expression froze.
What level?
Beside her, Jiang Wuyue slammed his chopsticks on the table, turning his head in disbelief. "Did you say sixty-five?"
Sixty-five?!
Are you taking drugs to cultivate?
Jiang Wuyue carefully scrutinized Xu Yuan, confirming that he was genuinely young. The vibrant energy emanating from him clearly indicated he was no older than twenty.
"How old are you?" Jiang Wuyue couldn't puzzle this out alone, so he asked directly.
"Seventeen."
Xu Yuan calculated his age carefully. He was seventeen years and nine months old, just three months shy of eighteen.
Seventeen?!
The Jiang siblings were utterly stunned, as was Long Yuxue, whose gaze lost focus for a moment.
Based on typical cultivation speeds, Xu Yuan definitely had a chance to break through to level seventy before turning twenty.
A Soul Sage at twenty—what an incredible feat.
Especially since Long Yuxue knew Xu Yuan was a Saint Craftsman!
What did being a Saint Craftsman mean?
It meant Xu Yuan would never lack materials for crafting battle armor.
Without material constraints, all that remained was finding friends to design and craft the armor. If Xu Yuan became a Soul Sage, he would likely quickly advance to a Three-Word Battle Armor Master.
While a twenty-year-old Soul Sage might not seem overly impressive, what about a twenty-year-old Three-Word Battle Armor Master?
In a way, achieving the rank of a Three-Word Battle Armor Master was equivalent to becoming a Title Douluo. A Three-Word Battle Armor Master inherently possessed the strength of a Title Douluo, but reaching that rank was even more difficult.
The effort required was no less than fully immersing oneself in soul power cultivation to reach level ninety.
Thus, by extension, Xu Yuan would effectively be a Title Douluo at twenty!
Jiang Wuyue gave a thumbs-up, genuinely impressed. "You're incredible."
Reaching level sixty-five at seventeen was undeniably admirable.
Throughout the meal, Xu Yuan only answered a few questions, yet they left the trio's minds reeling.
After finishing the meal, Xu Yuan returned to his dormitory.
He sat cross-legged on his bed and began cultivating.
"The Dreamspace has the ability to transform reality into illusion. Perhaps toggling between reality and illusion could erase the fundamental imprints of the Abyssal Plane. But I can't afford to be overconfident."
During the evaluation, Xu Yuan had the idea of using the Dreamspace to simulate the Sand Demon Worm's devouring mechanism—using the Dreamspace as a bridge to convert the energy left behind by Abyssal creatures after death into illusionary form, then absorbing it into the Dreamspace for further processing.
Whether the toggle between reality and illusion could achieve the effect of removing imprints was uncertain for now.
The bigger issue was that the Dreamspace itself was a soul skill—a significant obstacle.
In the Abyss passage, soul power couldn't be used, and similarly, soul skills based on soul power were difficult to fully utilize.
Unless Xu Yuan could completely reconstruct the Dreamspace using pure spiritual power, without relying on soul power.
But the Dreamspace had been formed for so long, with Xu Yuan having poured vast amounts of soul power into it. It was already deeply imbued with the essence of soul power, making it unusable in the Abyss passage.
"Either I lure Abyssal creatures out and test this on Douluo Planet, or I reconstruct the Dreamspace entirely with pure spiritual power—or rather, use spiritual power to guide primordial starlight to create an entirely new Dreamspace."
As Xu Yuan meditated, his mind remained active, constantly analyzing every possibility and considering countermeasures for each scenario.
Preparation for foreseeable contingencies was always better than scrambling at the last minute.
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Shrek Academy.
Sea God Pavilion.
Yun Ming's gaze shifted back from the west.
"The Abyss..." He recalled what Xu Yuan had mentioned during their recent soul-guided communication, causing ripples in his thoughts.
"I never expected Xiao Yuan to view the Abyss as an opportunity for plane ascension."
"But one can't deny that if the Abyss could be consumed, the sheer accumulation of pure energy could forcibly elevate the Douluo Plane to godhood."
This was a feasible concept.
However, the first step was incredibly challenging: how to devour the energy of Abyssal creatures.
Forget about devouring the entire Abyss—even the energy left behind by native Abyssal creatures killed on Douluo Planet flowed back to the Abyss. Countless methods had been tried by the Blood God Legion throughout its history, yet none succeeded in consuming this energy to bolster the Douluo Plane.
Not only could they not consume this Abyssal energy, but they also couldn't temporarily seal it to prevent it from returning to the Abyss.
It wasn't that sealing was impossible—it was that doing so would create an anchor point for the Abyssal Sage King to exploit. Even across the barrier between planes and through a sealed passage, he could manipulate the sealed Abyssal energy here, breaking free and launching devastating attacks.
Typically, the Abyssal Sage King could only act after an Abyssal tide, as each invasion brought countless Abyssal creatures. When these creatures were killed by the Blood God Legion, their energy didn't immediately return to the Abyssal Plane but lingered on the battlefield, allowing the Abyssal Sage King to remotely control it and gain the ability to act.
If the Blood God Legion were to seal large amounts of this leftover energy over time?
There wouldn't even be a need to wait for the next Abyssal tide—the Abyssal Sage King could strike periodically.
Such was the reality. The Federation had no solution for dealing with the Abyssal Plane. Moreover, each Abyssal invasion drained vast amounts of ambient energy from Douluo Planet, which was absorbed by the Abyssal Plane.
Not only that, but the Federation had to sacrifice countless soul masters' lives to resist these invasions.
"Can Xiao Yuan's Great Devouring Heaven and Earth Technique be used to consume Abyssal energy?" Yun Ming frowned in thought. He roughly understood how Xu Yuan planned to solve this first step.
But even if Xu Yuan succeeded, he alone could devour Abyssal energy. What significance would that have?
The energy of an entire plane was immense—far beyond what a single soul master could consume.
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