Chapter 10: Soul Power Cultivation and Future Planning.
The foundation of soul power cultivation is meditation. Through meditation, a soul master absorbs energy from the heavens and earth, transforming it into soul power and feeding it back into himself. Through his spirit, he guides this soul power through his meridians, accumulating soul power to increase his level.
To become a soul master, one must possess both a spirit and innate soul power; neither is indispensable.
The most intriguing aspect of Douluo Continent is the spirit, a product of the union of bloodline and soul under the influence of the laws of the universe on Douluo Star.
Why do soul masters feel a resemblance to the Taoist Inner Alchemy practitioners of Blue Star in their previous lives?
Bloodline represents "essence," soul power represents "qi," and the soul represents "spirit," making the soul master the product of all three.
Liu Yanyang felt as if he had glimpsed the essence of things, but he wasn't sure if his thoughts were right or wrong! According to this line of thought, the spirit is equivalent to a set of exercises. After awakening the spirit, a soul master will develop his own unique soul power circulation path.
After the spirit guides soul power through the body's meridians for a cycle, soul masters with different spirits will receive different amounts of soul power—the amount of soul power stored in their dantian.
If a soul master is compared to an infinitely large bucket, soul power represents the water, and the spirit is the tool used to draw the water.
This intuitively explains why the spirit influences a soul master's cultivation speed: the stronger the spirit, the faster soul power accumulates.
Innate soul power is formed by the energy of heaven and earth absorbed through the spirit's passive effects before the spirit awakens.
Everyone on the Douluo Continent possesses a spirit, present from birth. Otherwise, it wouldn't be called awakening a spirit, but rather a gift.
"But why do soul masters with the same spirit have different innate soul power?" Liu Yanyang pondered for a moment, a flash of inspiration hit him. The body's meridians play a crucial role in the accumulation of soul power.
Therefore, the quality of the meridians—the degree of their patency—affects the formation of innate soul power before the spirit awakens, leading to varying innate soul power among the same spirit.
After the spirit awakens, the quality of the meridians also affects the speed of a spirit master's cultivation.
Through meditation, a spirit master absorbs and transforms the energy of heaven and earth into soul power, which is then fed back to the spirit master.
During this process, the smoothness of the meridians influences the speed at which the spirit master absorbs and transforms this energy.
The smoothness of the meridians is like a pool with a built-in faucet, where the water represents soul power.
If no water flows from the faucet, it means there is no soul power flowing through it, meaning the spirit has awakened but lacks innate soul power.
If the pool is low in water, meaning the meridians lack soul power, then no matter how powerful the spirit is, it will be useless. A typical example is Gangzi, who had low innate soul power but a powerful spirit. When awakening a spirit, poor meridian quality results in low innate soul power, unable to support the soul power required for the spirit's evolution, ultimately reducing him to a pig!
Of course, pools can overflow, which is why prolonged meditation often leads to meridian swelling.
Despite its drawbacks, this intriguing cultivation system, despite its drawbacks, was so widely criticized by netizens in his previous life that it could only be attributed to Huang + San Shao himself.
Next up was meditation, which Liu Yanyang found somewhat useless.
Meditation was created to allow spirit masters to introspect and visualize their spirits, thereby increasing their spirit power.
The exclusive meditation methods of major sects and families were designed to quickly allow members to enter a state of introspection, focusing their mental energy on their spirits, stimulating their abilities and allowing them to guide the entire cultivation process.
For him, after absorbing his first spirit ring, he was already able to introspect, thanks to his vastly superior mental power.
Therefore, he had little interest in creating his own meditation method.
Another option, then, was to break away from the spirit master training system, like Tang San did, and create an internal cultivation method similar to the Xuan Tian Gong, which developed the human body and was based on the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.
In the original novel, Tang San began practicing the Xuan Tian Gong at the age of three and practiced for over two years before reaching the first level, suggesting that Tang San likely lacked innate spirit power.
Spirit Masters cannot cultivate before awakening their spirits, which shows the shortcomings of the spirit master system compared to Tang San's.
Tang San's two spirits, the Clear Sky Hammer, possesses immense power and destructive power, while the Blue Silver Emperor, possesses life and eternal vitality, represents endless life.
How could such conflicting attributes possibly exist in the same person? Even with Tang San's six-year-old physique, he couldn't possibly withstand the conflict.
This is all thanks to the balanced, peaceful, and everlasting internal energy cultivated through the Mysterious Heavenly Art.
Reconciling the conflict between the two spirits and achieving a state of balance was the only way Tang San avoided exploding.
It seems the spirit master's cultivation system still has its flaws, but the creation of a technique is incredibly difficult.
It's the product of countless generations of painstaking effort.
Liu Yanyang didn't think he had the ability to accomplish the work of countless generations on his own.
For example, the most basic requirement for creating a technique is to first familiarize himself with the twelve main meridians and the eight extraordinary meridians, and he didn't even know either of them.
Who, except medical students, would bother memorizing that stuff?
Douluo Continent already has a theory of meridians, but it's ultimately incomplete. Currently, Tang San is probably the only person on the continent with a complete map of the human meridians.
If he were to ask Tang San for the map, would he respond,
"Dare to covet Tang Sect items? You've already met your end!"
Just thinking about that scene was thrilling, but he was determined to obtain the map.
Even if he couldn't create a technique, he could use it to perfect his spirit master's cultivation system.
His ultimate goal is to achieve godhood, and the existing spirit master cultivation system will hinder his path to godhood.
It seems he'll need to address other areas, such as the Red Rage Rampage Switch—the 100,000-year-old rabbit Xiao Wu.
Thinking of this, Liu Yanyang couldn't help but let out a wicked laugh. "Hehehe!" Why did he suddenly feel a bit like a villain?
Recalling Tang San's previous life in the original novel, Liu Yanyang felt he was a ruthless character.
In his previous life, at the age of 29, Tang San stole the Tang Clan's inner sect's supreme martial art, the Mysterious Heavenly Treasure Record. Most impressively, he'd spent twenty years preparing, meaning he'd been planning to steal the record since he was nine. It's terrifying to think about it: a nine-year-old child... how could he achieve godhood in Douluo Continent and still cultivate the Mysterious Heavenly Art without a single thought of changing his mind?
However, Liu Yanyang had some understanding. Would you deny yourself a treasure you'd meticulously planned for twenty years?
Most importantly, how could the Mysterious Heavenly Art, a supreme Taoist inner cultivation technique, become the supreme art of a second-rate martial arts sect? He couldn't help but sigh. Really...
The human meridian map had to be put aside for now, until the original novel's plot unfolded.
Finally, there was spearmanship. For Liu Yanyang, he had absolutely no foundation.
In his previous life, he'd been interested in cold weapons like the spear, especially the unrivaled spearmanship in "Fog Mountain Five Elements." But then he encountered the immortal-cultivating Fifth Brother. The spear fight with the monster, especially the kick, was absolutely electrifying.
Watching it thrilled him, he even searched for basic spearmanship tutorials on a certain platform.
But, well, everyone understood, everyone learned it. They learned it once, but then they were completely useless.
Now, for Liu Yanyang, spearmanship was paramount; it laid the foundation for his future.
Why was the Clear Sky Hammer considered the world's greatest weapon spirit? It wasn't the Clear Sky Hammer that was so powerful, but Tang Chen. Without Tang Chen's "Nine Clear Sky Wonders," the Clear Sky Hammer wouldn't have its current status as the world's finest weapon.
This was the terrifying result of pushing a technique to its limits.
The Great Sumeru Hammer, a thousand-year-old technique passed down through the Clear Sky Sect, is considered a pseudo-divine skill. Tang San, a pre-god, was able to battle the god-like Qian Renxue with it.
Now, he is incredibly dedicated to spearmanship. "A true man, born between heaven and earth, cannot remain sullen and inferior to others for long."
Now that I've been reborn, I must fight for what I deserve. If I refuse to accept what heaven has given me, I will suffer the consequences.
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