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Su Wen tracked down Xiao Huo and requested a drop of fresh blood, replicating her Green Lotus Azure Fire martial soul.
He did not rush to leave, but instead first discussed development ideas regarding Fire Seed-related secret techniques with Xiao Zhan.
"Uncle Zhan, the explosion of a single Fire Seed merely allows you to erupt faster with less consumption. I believe you can try to condense different Fire Seeds, and then use the collision between these different seeds to erupt with even higher power," Su Wen suggested.
Regarding this, Xiao Zhan expressed that he already had this idea, but simply hadn't reached the stage of developing it yet.
"Since the collision of fireballs can erupt with stronger power, I naturally thought of the possibility of fusion and collision between Fire Seeds."
Hearing Xiao Zhan say this, Su Wen had nothing more to add.
In his development of the Fire Seed, Xiao Zhan didn't just have ideas for status-type buffs, but also for a purely one-time explosive development direction.
If translated into the two names in Su Wen's mind, they would be the Skyfire Three Mysterious Changes and the Buddha's Angry Fire Lotus.
Perhaps because of the quality of the Fire Seeds, the power would have a massive gap compared to the two Battle Skills Su Wen knew of, but it couldn't be denied that the development ceiling for both directions was very high.
"Furthermore, the Fire Seed is actually a bridge for fusion with the external world and nature."
Su Wen voiced some of his own insights.
His tasks were indeed numerous enough, so it was more efficient to hand over many ideas to Xiao Zhan to implement at this time, and then wait for the finished product to emerge before learning it directly.
"During the process of condensing the Fire Seed, external energy can be mixed in. With the integration of the Spirit Master's own soul power, the Fire Seed can still strengthen the Spirit Master's own body according to the strengthening logic, but it also gains an additional source of energy."
It was similar to the Blazing Sun within the Raging Fire Sky Sun Domain, which could absorb external energy to integrate into the domain. This Fire Seed could also absorb the Origin Qi of the world to replenish consumed energy, providing a long-lasting enhancement to the Spirit Master.
Of course, this was only the most basic level. Su Wen having Xiao Zhan develop in this direction was essentially using the Fire Seed soul skill to achieve the fusion of Xiao Zhan's soul power with various types of external energy.
Controlling the power of Heaven and Earth was the true essence of reaching the later stages of cultivation.
Individual power might be infinite, but developing it was still not as fast as attempting to master the power of the world.
The Spirit Master cultivation of the Douluo Continent did not do very well in this aspect.
And this was Su Wen's opportunity.
"Currently, the Spirit Masters on the continent only use the power of Heaven and Earth through Domains, without realizing that the reason Domains are powerful is fundamentally due to the utilization of that power."
Su Wen's perspective once again made Xiao Zhan's eyes light up, feeling that he had a new direction for his cultivation.
"..."
After explaining his thoughts to Xiao Zhan, Su Wen finally left Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
Returning to Triple Phantom Mountain.
As he watched the Academy being built bit by bit, Su Wen was also comprehending the Azure Spirit Fire Seed, experiencing the soul power condensation techniques within it and migrating these techniques little by little into his own condensation of book pages.
One month later.
The Academy was still under construction.
"Finally successful!" Su Wen was excited.
He looked at the book page he had condensed in front of him; within the page, there seemed to be a small space.
This was an illusion.
Su Wen's level of control over his fifth soul skill had not yet reached the point where he could casually open up a pocket of space to be carried upon a book page.
However, even so, this illusionary space of his was extremely sophisticated.
"It's not just the existence of the book page; the illusion I left on the page can now also rely on external energy to sustain itself."
Another book page flew out, and Su Wen quickly used this page to complete a connection with the other one.
"Not bad, not bad at all, I really am a genius!" Su Wen stood with his hands on his hips, feeling quite proud.
Now, the basic technology for the virtual world had been developed.
"The next step is to stretch the distance over which two pages can maintain a connection as much as possible."
For the Mountain of Books and Sea of Learning to be put into practical use, the connection certainly couldn't be right in front of one's eyes like it was for Su Wen now, but would need to span hundreds of kilometers.
"Do I need to rely on a new soul ring to achieve this?" Su Wen frowned.
He quickly rejected the idea.
He couldn't put the cart before the horse.
Developing the Academy was for the sake of better cultivation, not to force his cultivation path to cater to the implementation of the Academy's plan.
"With my current conditions, the one most suited to improving this aspect of my ability is actually the third soul ring."
Using formations to complete the connection.
As long as the initial connection was achieved and the opportunity was used to open up the virtual world—creating this illusionary realm that existed between reality and fantasy using the power of the fifth soul skill—there would be no need for formations afterward.
"So, I still have to study formations."
Su Wen fell silent, feeling helpless.
Was this what cultivation was like?
One problem followed by another.
However, in this busy process of 'solving problems,' Su Wen felt very fulfilled, feeling that he was truly cultivating, truly cultivating himself.
"You want to go out for experiential training?"
Ning Fengzhi was puzzled.
There was only one year left until the Continental Spirit Master Tournament. This was the sprinting period; wasn't it a bit late to go out for training?
Besides, hadn't he already done combat training in various major cities before?
And why did Su Wen come to report to him, Ning Fengzhi, before going out to train?
"Uncle Ning, don't I need a tiny bit of intelligence support from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan?" Su Wen chuckled.
"What intelligence do you want?"
"Hehe, intelligence on these three types of soul beasts."
"Hmm? Soul beast intelligence?" Ning Fengzhi frowned, and after hearing Su Wen name the three soul beasts, his expression became even more exaggerated.
"Xiao Wen, if I remember correctly, your first ring came from a Starfruit Tree, right?"
The first soul ring was a Starfruit Tree, the second a Phantom Spirit Fox, and the third a Stone Monster.
The three soul beasts Su Wen proposed were exactly these three.
And Su Wen wanted the whereabouts of individuals of these three species at the ten-thousand-year level...
It was no wonder Ning Fengzhi was overthinking it; he really didn't understand the significance of this request.
"You wouldn't be thinking of hunting these soul beasts to get their corresponding soul bones to absorb, would you?"
Ning Fengzhi had heard Su Wen's reasoning about not wanting to absorb soul bones haphazardly for fear of conflict within the body, and at this moment, he thought Su Wen wanted to solve this by using the relationship between soul rings and soul bones of the same species.
"Uncle Ning, definitely not. Even for ten-thousand-year soul beasts, the chance of a soul bone dropping isn't high, and I don't have the ability to easily hunt these ten-thousand-year beasts anyway."
Ning Fengzhi nodded and said, "That's true."
Seeing that Su Wen had no intention of explaining further, he stopped dwelling on it.
"The number of Phantom Spirit Foxes is quite large, and there are several ten-thousand-year individuals; the Clan has corresponding intelligence. But as for the Starfruit Tree and the Stone Monster, even our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan doesn't know much."
"The Clan knows the location of a nine-thousand-year Starfruit Tree; you can go take a look."
"As for the Phantom Spirit Fox, I remember there is a ten-thousand-year Three-Eyed Phantom Spirit Fox in the Star Dou Great Forest; the Clan has records of that as well."
"As for the Stone Monster, the Clan has no records."
Su Wen also knew it was impossible for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan to be omniscient; being able to get some intelligence was already satisfying.
"Uncle Ning, this is enough."
It's over, my neck is acting up again. I'll move the chapter after midnight to the daytime. I'm going to lie down first.
(End of Chapter)