Chapter 27: Third Soul Ring Direction Confirmed, Tang San: Oh no, it's coming for me!
"However," Qian Daoliu paused, then continued, "for me, casting Holy Light Heal is a Soul Skill granted by my soul ring. Relying on this soul ring, it's very easy and effortless for me to cast.
But for you, it's a self-created Soul Skill from scratch.
What I can teach you is my feelings when using this Soul Skill and the circulation of soul power. Whether you can learn it ultimately depends on your comprehension ability, understand?"
Hu Bai nodded heavily upon hearing this, showing no sign of discouragement.
As long as Qian Daoliu was willing to teach him, that was enough. Whether he could learn it or not was up to him—the student!
"Xiaoxue, although you already have Holy Light Heal as a soul ring, you can also learn alongside him to deepen your proficiency with the Soul Skill," Qian Daoliu said lightly.
Qian Renxue hummed in acknowledgment. She was currently a Soul Elder, and Holy Light Heal was precisely her third soul ring.
For the Seraphim Martial Soul, no matter what kind of light-attribute soul ring was obtained, the Soul Skill gained was fixed. According to her grandfather, this was for the legacy.
Qian Jun and Jiang Mo also smiled from the side, asking with interest, "Kid, why don't you just get a metal-attribute soul ring? Self-created Soul Skills of lightning or light attributes are very difficult to learn, but metal attributes are different.
If you get a good metal-attribute soul ring, you can directly condense it into a staff later. Wouldn't it be great for the two of us to teach you staff techniques?"
As they spoke, Qian Jun and Jiang Mo released their Martial Souls, Coiling Dragon Staff, twirled them twice in front of Hu Bai, then rested the Coiling Dragon Staff on their shoulders, grinning mischievously. "How about it? Isn't it cool?"
Hu Bai: ...
Although these two had the suspicion of deliberately showing off in front of him, it had to be said that Qian Jun and Jiang Mo made a lot of sense. Metal element self-created Soul Skills might be the easiest to learn, but they also had a drawback: they weren't very flexible.
At most, he would obtain one metal element soul ring, and the only enhancement for the metal element would be one Soul Skill. No matter how he learned staff techniques or anything else later, it would be impossible for him to be as powerful as Qian Jun and Jiang Mo.
After all, their nine soul rings all enhanced their staff. He only had one soul ring; how could he compare?
However, he already had an idea for what type of third soul ring to choose.
When fighting Bibi Dong, he felt that he was missing something. That's right—he lacked close-combat ability.
Whether it was lightning or light elements, all the abilities he currently possessed were long-range. Once an enemy got close, his options would be limited.
When Qian Daoliu heard Qian Jun and Jiang Mo say this, a gleam flashed in his eyes: "Little fellow, I remember your eldest brother's Martial Soul is Moon Blade, right? Also, your three siblings can cast the Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Nine-Tailed Charm Demon. If your third soul ring has a metal attribute, what do you say... will it increase your attack power?"
Qian Daoliu's words also enlightened Hu Bai!
That's right—if his third soul ring was a metal element, it could not only strengthen himself but also enhance the Moon Blade after Martial Soul Fusion, making the strength of their trio even greater!
"Of course, space-attributed soul rings are also good. Your third soul ring can be chosen between these two elements. Whichever it is, the improvement for you now will be immense."
The metal element can enhance Hu Bai's close-combat ability, and it's even highly possible that in the late stage, he could control the weapons of Soul Masters. Of course, for top-tier powerhouses, it would at most be interference; complete control is probably not very likely.
Tang San: Oh no, it's coming for me?
And the space element is even better. First, it would allow Hu Bai to have teleportation ability. If used properly, he could also perform space compression, space cutting, space distortion, and so on. These are all very interesting attempts!
However, finding a suitable space-attribute Soul Beast truly depends on luck, and it requires extremely good luck. The Spirit Hall's records of space-attribute Soul Beasts don't even list many types.
"Alright, I'm going to cast Holy Light Heal now. You slowly feel it. If I'm not mistaken, you inherently possess elemental affinity, and one of the passive abilities of the light element is healing. When you let the light element attach to your body, you should be able to feel it.
It's just that because you don't have a soul ring and no systematic Soul Skill, this healing power will be very, very weak. What you need to learn now is to condense, to condense this healing power as much as possible."
Qian Daoliu explained his understanding of the light element and its application.
Although it was his first time witnessing a Martial Soul like the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox, with his seasoned eye, he could still discern quite a lot.
Hu Bai was also secretly astonished; Qian Daoliu had indeed hit the mark.
He could indeed use the light element to heal himself, but this healing power was, as Qian Daoliu said, very, very weak.
He had tried it himself, cutting a small wound on his finger, then applying the light element to it. It took a minute to heal completely, which was far too slow.
How could this kind of healing power allow him to perform lightning body tempering later on?
While Qian Daoliu was teaching Hu Bai, the six High Priests, being idle anyway, gathered to observe.
Golden Crocodile Douluo had said that Hu Bai's comprehension ability for self-created Soul Skills was quite remarkable. During his time in the Star Dou Great Forest, he had already created several Soul Skills using the lightning element. What about the light element?
An hour later, Qian Daoliu was secretly astonished by Hu Bai's progress. It was incredible; Hu Bai's progress speed was astounding. Although he hadn't reached the point of self-creating a Soul Skill yet, he was not far from forming one.
Just now, Hu Bai had once again cut a wound on his finger and used the light element to heal it. In less than ten seconds, it healed completely!
However, Hu Bai was also slightly helpless about this. Learning healing skills required self-abuse, and he didn't have a masochistic tendency.
"Grandfather Qian, I feel like I'm about to learn it, but I always feel like something is missing. Oh, right—the specific soul power circulation route! When you use this Soul Skill, how does the soul power circulate within your body? Furthermore, what changes occur in your mental power?"
Hu Bai believed this point was very important to him. Since it was a skill, there should be a corresponding circulation route. He couldn't possibly be like Hashirama Senju, just clapping his hands and calling for whatever he wanted to appear, right?
He also wished he could reach that level, but unfortunately, he couldn't, which made things a bit difficult for him.
Qian Daoliu fell silent. Let this little fellow check his soul power circulation route? How to check?
That would only be possible if he used his mental power to enter his body to check, but this required a high level of trust between the two.
And although he thought highly of Hu Bai, and even intended to set him up with Xiaoxue, it hadn't reached the point where he could allow the other party to enter his body with mental power.
Subsequently, Qian Daoliu turned his gaze towards Qian Renxue.
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