"It's not just about lowering the threshold; it's essentially a degradation," Kong Mingan concluded after a moment of thought.
The casual "respecs," the arbitrary imprinting of desired Spirit Abilities, and even a single spirit ring possessing multiple Spirit Abilities… it seemed to be no different from orthodox Spell Cultivators, but in reality, this method had obvious drawbacks.
The Soul Skill Modules generated by "imprinting" had a spirit power load far exceeding naturally generated Spirit Abilities, approximately three to four times greater.
For example, if a spirit ring's capacity was 100, and a self-condensed FireballSoul Skill Module had a load of 10, then an imprinted FireballSoul Skill Module might have a load of 30 or even 40.
By this calculation, a self-condensed Soul Skill Module would allow a spirit ring to carry ten FireballSoul Skill Modules.
And because one can achieve self-condensed Soul Skill Modules, it proves that the condenser understands the FireballSoul Skill Module well enough, and the condenser also has the possibility of subsequently optimizing the Soul Skill Module to reduce its load.
However, if it's imprinting, a spirit ring can generally only carry two to three imprinted Soul Skill Modules, and because it's imprinted rather than self-condensed, the spirit ring owner's understanding of the Spirit Ability itself is insufficient, so they can basically only use the imprinted Soul Skill Module.
This is similar to how Spirit Masters use spirit rings in the traditional Spirit MasterSystem, but it's even more troublesome than the traditional way, akin to the difference between fully automatic operation, System-assisted operation, and fully autonomous operation.
Furthermore, imprinting has limitations: the more Advanced and complex the Spirit Ability, the greater the load the spirit ring needs to bear after imprinting.
Some Advanced Spirit Abilities, such as Snow Empress's "Empress's Palm" and "Empress's Sword," Kong Mingan currently cannot imprint.
This is because the load after imprinting exceeds the upper limit of his spirit ring's capacity, so the spirit ring cannot bear it after imprinting, leading to imprinting failure.
This can also explain why the Silver Eagle Beast couldn't imprint the Spirit Abilities of 100,000-year Spirit Beasts: it was because its own capacity couldn't bear the load of a 100,000-year Spirit Beast's Spirit Ability after imprinting, which led to the imprinting failure.
"Compared to Spell Cultivators, who are sufficiently familiar with the subsequent construction of Soul Skill Modules and can forge their own path, 'imprinting' is more like a transitional comfort zone."
"It might be relatively difficult for Spirit Masters to transition directly from their traditional Spirit MasterSystem to Spell Cultivators, but imprinting first and then attempting self-condensation could be a solution."
However, it's likely that many people might simply stay in this transitional comfort zone.
It is foreseeable that, "in the potentially emerging Spell CultivatorSystem of the future, those who can independently condense and optimize Soul Skill Modules might gradually form a 'Self-Condensation' faction, serving as the true foundation of Spell Cultivators."
"And those who become Spell Cultivators through the relatively opportunistic method of imprinting might form an 'Imprint' faction."
Essentially, it's roughly the difference between "Archmage" and "Mage"?
Kong Mingan's thoughts became a little more active, and he extended them to think of more things.
For example, "imprinting" has unparalleled advantages for armies that require high uniformity.
Imagine: all soldiers' Spirit Abilities can be standardized, and they can "respec" at any time to imprint other Spirit Abilities according to tactical needs.
Within a squad, the Spirit Ability setups for assault, defense, command, support, healing, and many other units can achieve perfect tactical coordination and switching!
"The feasibility is very high, and there aren't many technical difficulties. The main difficulty is replicating the Spirit Ability effects onto spirit tools, but I can see the Energy structure, so that's not a big problem…"
Kong Mingan thought for a moment, then placed this matter on his to-do list.
He glanced at the numerous items on his mental to-do list, such as "Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well Energy Model," "Deep Modification of spirit rings," "Possibility of Multiple Soul Cores Coexisting," "Development of Tool Spirits"… these tasks remained in Kong Mingan's mind, awaiting him to spend time building frameworks, filling in content, until they were completely finished.
Kong Mingan sighed lightly; he felt he still didn't have enough time.
He had many items on his to-do list, and these tasks were not difficult for him; they were within his capabilities, but they were very time-consuming.
"I need a way to assist me in increasing my thinking speed and computational power… a Spirit Master version of a computer? No, a mere computer is useless; I would still have to operate it myself, and the efficiency increase wouldn't be significant."
"What I need is something that can perform secondary thinking for me, something that can push projects forward… Artificial intelligence? Or rather, a sub-brain?"
Kong Mingan's interest was piqued.
The main body of the sub-brain could be made from the fragments of Soul naturally shed by his own Soul during its continuous Transformation.
Then, with a huge computing matrix that could accelerate calculation speed as its body, he could achieve the "sub-brain" he needed.
This was feasible… Kong Mingan suddenly stopped his thoughts, his expression becoming strange.
"I was trying to solve the problem of having too many to-do items that are difficult to resolve quickly, so why… why did another to-do item appear?"
Kong Mingan's expression was a little troubled, and a sense of helplessness arose in his heart… Just as Kong Mingan felt helpless due to the increasing number of to-do items, on the other side, in the Extreme North Land.
This was a World of eternal ice, where fierce, cold winds mixed with sharp ice and snow howled across the sky, stirring up gusts of snow spray.
The World was vast and desolate, with only dazzling white and deep ice blue as its cold dominant colors.
Cold, silent, and lifeless, it lived up to its name as a "human forbidden zone."
However, at a certain moment, a cold, noble, and absolutely dominant aura suddenly descended upon this silent land!
It was Snow Empress.
She floated in mid-air, her snow-white hair casually draped behind her, yet without any sense of disarray. Her ice-blue eyes were as indifferent as ever, yet they contained an awe-inspiring majesty that looked down upon the World.
Merely her appearance caused the blizzard in the core area of the Extreme North Land to completely stop, as if in submission, due to the extreme coldness emanating from her.
This was the true posture of the Dominator of the Extreme North Land, completely different from her restrained and calm state when she was beside Kong Mingan.
"Roar—!"
Throughout the Extreme North Land, countless powerful Spirit Beasts felt this aura, raising their heads from their lairs and letting out roars and snarls of either awe or submission, bowing their proud heads towards the direction from which the aura came.
Snow Empress's eyes were cold and indifferent. She stood quietly in mid-air, letting her aura spread further, seemingly waiting for something.
At a certain moment, Snow Empress raised her eyes and looked towards the horizon. There, a jade-green streak of light suddenly appeared, rapidly approaching her from deep within the ice plains at an astonishing speed!
A hint of indifference faded from Snow Empress's eyes, but at the same time, an inexplicable sense of unease, without any apparent reason, rose in her heart.
(End of Chapter)
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