The meeting did not end because of Furina's previous deafening speech. She paused for a moment, her gaze sweeping across the room like a tranquil lake, ensuring everyone had recovered from their turbulent thoughts before continuing. Her voice returned to a calm narrative tone, yet it still carried an unquestionable authority.
"Now, let us temporarily shift our focus back from those seemingly distant prospects to the very beginning, to the subject your reports deemed the'simplest' and 'most basic'—the upper limit of the age of spirit rings a Spirit Master can absorb, and the theory of pairing Martial Souls with spirit rings."
She gently picked up the report, her fingertip pointing to the corresponding chapter. "Regarding the upper limit of spirit ring age, your conclusion is that it 'relates to physical fitness.' This conclusion is correct, but it is like touching only the scales of a dragon, far from seeing its full form. It is incomplete, one might even say, one-sided."
Furina's voice was clear and steady, every word seeming to carry weight as it fell into everyone's hearts. "According to my understanding and deduction, the limit of spirit ring absorption is a complex integrated System. It is linked to at least three aspects simultaneously: physical fitness, the intensity of mental force, and... the quality of the Martial Soul itself."
She began to cite classics and use irrefutable examples to support her viewpoint. "Ten thousand years ago, why was Sea God Tang San able to easily break through the age limits prescribed by the 'Yu Xiaogang Theory,' which was then revered as the gold standard, during his third and fourth spirit rings? Was it merely because his body was strong? No, the more crucial factor was his cultivation of a technique that could condense and increase mental force—the Purple Demon Eye. Powerful mental force acted like tough armor for the Soul, allowing him to harness spirit ring energy far beyond common sense. Furthermore, his Martial Soul was not the ordinary Blue Silver Grass in the eyes of the world, but the unawakened Blue Silver Emperor possessing imperial Bloodline. The excellence of his Martial Soul's quality was the Foundation that allowed him to bear all of this."
The topic naturally turned toward the figure known as the "Grandmaster." "Speaking of Yu Xiaogang,"
Furina's tone took on a hint of cold analysis rather than simple disparagement. "We must look at his theories objectively. Many of his conclusions were built upon incomplete data and overly idealized inferences. His attempt to establish a unified, standard spirit ring age table for all Spirit Masters was itself the greatest fallacy. The quality of every Spirit Master's Martial Soul varies greatly, physical fitness differs due to Innate and Acquired Cultivation, and mental force is the result of both talent and Cultivation Technique. With so many variables, how could there possibly be a 'best age' that applies to everyone?"
Her words were like a sharp sword, pointing directly at the core contradiction. "Theoretically, as long as a Spirit Master's physical strength, mental resilience, and Martial Soul quality are all strong and excellent enough, then even absorbing a hundred-thousand-year level spirit ring for the first spirit ring is not absolutely impossible! Yu Xiaogang's theories remained mostly as paper-based deductions, lacking support from sufficiently broad and deep practical data, and failed to touch the deeper levels of the Spirit Master power System."
Next, she mentioned that widely circulated "famous quote." "And his most famous saying—'There are no trash Martial Souls, only trash Spirit Masters.'"
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