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After a while, the dinner for five people that Dugu Yan bought went into Xuan Ming's stomach again.
"Are you...enough?" Dugu Yan asked somewhat unconfidently.
"That's enough, thank you." Xuan Ming was a little embarrassed, but he was really too hungry to bear it anymore.
This was the first time he had eaten a full meal since his martial spirit awakened.
"Don't be embarrassed. If it's not enough, I'll buy more." Dugu Yan said.
"That's enough." Xuan Ming said.
"That's good..." Dugu Yan observed Xuan Ming's body with great curiosity.
How could a child of this age eat so much?
"What's wrong?" Xuan Ming asked.
"I was wondering, where did you store all the food you eat?" Dugu Yan pinched his chin, looking thoughtful.
It is no exaggeration to say that the chickens, ducks, fish and meat she bought were almost as heavy as Xuan Ming himself!
Where did all that food go?
"Some soul beasts can eat food that is several times their body weight. After eating one meal, they don't need to eat anything for several months or even a year." Ye Lan said.
"Soul masters who possess the corresponding martial spirits of those soul beasts can also do similar things."
"So magical?" It was the first time Dugu Yan heard of such a thing.
"However, these special attributes can only be possessed after the soul master reaches level 30." Ye Lan said.
The power of a beast martial soul requires sufficient soul power support to be manifested. The more powerful the beast martial soul, the higher the soul power level requirement.
Take the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex spirit for example. Starting from level 30, every time a Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex spirit master obtains a spirit ring, he will have an additional dragon-like feature on his body when using the spirit. When he reaches level 70, he can truly transform into a dragon.
In other words, only when a Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex soul master reaches level 70 can he truly possess a martial soul and achieve the unity of man and soul.
Although other beast spirits did not have such obvious changes as the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus spirit, whether it was a beast spirit master or a weapon spirit master, the true difference in the strength of their spirits could only be seen when they reached level 70.
Before level 70, the strength of the martial soul can influence the outcome of the battle to a certain extent, but the impact will not be too great.
But once it reaches level 70 and the martial soul's true form is unlocked, the true power of those powerful martial souls will be revealed.
Even if they are the same spirit avatar, the spirit avatar of a top-level beast spirit like the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus can crush most other beast spirits, or even kill them instantly!
A seven-ring Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Soul Saint would not be at a disadvantage even when facing most eight-ring Soul Douluos.
"But he's not even a soul master yet." Dugu Yan asked puzzledly.
"The martial soul has mutated." Ye Lan said.
"It's not just the parts you can see that have changed, the parts you can't see have also changed a lot."
"Most martial soul mutations are of inferior nature. This is the first time I've seen a case like his."
The two most representative martial soul mutations in the soul master world today are Yu Xiaogang, the son of Yu Yuanzhen, the leader of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan, and Tang Yuehua, the daughter of the previous leader of the Haotian Clan.
"What are your parents' martial spirits?" Ye Lan asked.
"Dragon-type martial spirit?"
"My mother's martial spirit is the black snake, and my father's martial spirit is the spear." Xuan Ming said.
"Black snake?" Ye Lan frowned slightly.
"Dragons and snakes are from the same family. Although the chance of mutation is very low, it is not impossible. However..."
"What is the quality of your mother's martial spirit?"
"She is not a soul master, so I don't know." Xuan Ming said.
"Not a soul master?" Ye Lan was stunned.
"What's wrong?" Dugu Yan asked in confusion. Ye Lan sighed, "When martial souls mutate, it's always a two-way street."
"The inferior mutation from strong to weak, although the strength becomes weaker, but it will also gain some special abilities as compensation."
"As for the martial soul mutation from weak to strong, the stronger the mutation, the more troublesome the defects will be!"
"Some flaws are even fatal!"
Dugu Yan was stunned, "This... may not be the case?"
Ye Lan shook his head. "Maybe, but I'm old enough to have wandered the world when I was young. I've seen many mutant spirit masters, but they all follow this rule without exception."
"If his mother's black snake martial spirit is strong enough, then his mutated black dragon martial spirit may be a mutated return of the martial spirit bloodline. But if he is not even a soul master..."
"I hope I'm just worrying too much."
Apart from the two dragons on his back that made the child look a little different from an ordinary person, at least she had not discovered whether this martial soul mutation had any other flaws.
"Then maybe the two dragons on his back that he can't retract are the defects of his martial soul mutation?" Dugu Yan said.
"Defects?" Ye Lan paused.
"You two dragons, is there anything you think is wrong?"
"Something's wrong..." Xuan Ming looked thoughtful.
"It seems, no."
"Didn't you say that when they have an attack, even you will be beaten?" Dugu Yan said.
"Is this a defect?"
Ye Lan was stunned, "They are not under your control?"
"It's a little out of control." Xuan Ming said.
"On the night when I first awakened my martial spirit, I was nearly bitten to death by them while I was sleeping."
"But I fought them, I won, and they stayed quiet."
"Bite them to death? Didn't you say they were under your control?" Dugu Yan said.
"After that fight, you've been under my control." Xuan Ming said.
When they first awakened, the two dragons were indeed disobedient, but they did not attack him intentionally. They were simply out of control and went mad, unable to distinguish between friend and foe.
But after the fight, the two dragons calmed down. Although there would still be problems when encountering external stimuli, like when Juegui was chasing Dugu Bo, his martial spirit went berserk when he was affected, and he needed to restrain the two dragons as much as possible to barely stabilize them, but at least they would not attack him like they did at the beginning, and at most they would make a misjudgment like a cat's tail.
"Then this should be it." Ye Lan said.
When she saw Xuan Ming for the first time, she felt that his two black dragons were very ferocious, but they were just suppressed.
Since these two black dragons attacked Xuan Ming, it means that after the martial soul mutated, his black dragon had a tendency to devour its master, and there was a risk of losing control at the very least.
Whether it is the tendency to devour the master or to lose control, once a problem occurs at a critical moment, it can be quite fatal!
"Your martial soul is very dangerous, so you should be more careful when practicing in the future." Ye Lan said.
"Senior Dugu also told me about this. He said that there is a great risk of my martial soul getting out of control and asked me to be careful." Xuan Ming said.
"But I don't think it's that big."
"Not that big?" Ye Lan was a little amused.
Even Dugu Bo said that the risk of losing control is very high, which means that this Black Dragon Martial Spirit is quite dangerous!
This child was able to suppress his ferocity because his willpower was strong enough to make the black dragon martial spirit obey him.
However, this child seems to have little self-awareness.