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Facing other Soul Masters, Hu Liena could be said to hold every advantage, possessing extreme suppression.
However, Tang San was different.
Having cultivated the Purple Demon Eye since childhood, his mental power was stronger than that of Soul Masters of the same rank. Of course, if it were merely a matter of enhancing mental power through practicing the Purple Demon Eye, it wouldn't have reached such a level.
After all, Tang San's own Martial Souls—whether the Clear Sky Hammer or the Blue Silver Emperor—were not naturally endowed with strong mental attributes. Under normal cultivation, his mental power would not naturally exceed that of his peers.
While the technique of the Purple Demon Eye was strong, it was far from perfect. To be honest, with Ling Xiao's current insight, the "Tang Sect Secret Techniques" that Tang San took such pride in were somewhat flawed.
Among them, the Mysterious Heaven Skill had almost no common ground with the profession of a Soul Master. Tang San only used the Mysterious Heaven Skill as a substitute for the meditation methods used by Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent.
In essence, there was no difference between the two.
The profession of Soul Master on the Douluo Continent differed from the cultivation systems in many other novels. The power you cultivated had nothing to do with what manual you practiced; rather, it depended entirely on the Martial Soul you possessed.
Simply put, for a Soul Master in this world, the awakened Martial Soul itself could be viewed as a cultivation manual. A high-quality Martial Soul represented a powerful technique, and a high Full Innate Soul Power represented a fast cultivation speed.
Whether one used the current meditation methods of the Soul Master world—refined and perfected over generations—to cultivate and strengthen Soul Power through the Martial Soul, or used the Mysterious Heaven Skill, the essence remained the same.
The characteristics of the Soul Power were not influenced by the manual, but by the Martial Soul.
Tang San believed that because the Mysterious Heaven Skill was a superior Daoist internal martial art, it made his Soul Power endless and persistent. This was merely an erroneous conclusion derived from his habit of viewing everything through the lens of his past martial arts world.
The error lay not in the result, but in the logic used to reach it.
His Soul Power possessed endless and persistent characteristics because his Martial Soul was Blue Silver Grass—or rather, the unawakened Blue Silver Emperor. As a plant-type Martial Soul inherently possessing the life attribute, it naturally behaved that way.
Similar misunderstandings were not isolated cases; there were many.
The reason? Perhaps it was his inner arrogance and blindness, believing the "Tang Sect Secret Techniques" he stole from his past life could make him invincible in this world.
Leading him to look down on the cultivation of Soul Masters and deem it inferior to external tools like the hidden weapons. Or perhaps it was because he followed a certain "Grandmaster," which resulted in him never truly understanding the profession of a Soul Master.
The Mysterious Heaven Skill was of little significant use. Techniques like the Mysterious Jade Hand, Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Step were much the same; they were merely methods of wielding Soul Power.
Not only did they fail to touch upon the Martial Soul's origin, but they didn't even match the characteristics of Soul Power. If his Soul Power were of the Ice or Darkness attribute, they might have been somewhat useful.
Among his many Tang Sect techniques, the one Ling Xiao appraised most highly was actually the Purple Demon Eye. However, while he considered the Purple Demon Eye quite extraordinary, it was by no means a peerless classic or an invincible secret technique.
One could say that while the Purple Demon Eye was strong, it was fundamentally a flawed product with severe defects. Its strengths were indeed great, but its weaknesses were equally significant.
According to what he knew, Tang San traveled to the Douluo Continent with his full memories and began practicing the Purple Demon Eye from a young age. By the age of six, he had already reached the second tier, the Detailed Realm, making his mental power stronger than others of the same age.
This cultivation speed was decent.
But problems soon arose.
To be honest, Ling Xiao hadn't noticed this phenomenon at first; it had only occurred to him while resting in the Soul Hunting Forest recently.
Specifically, Tang San had reached the second tier, the Detailed Realm, at age six. Yet, after more than six or even seven years of further cultivation, his Purple Demon Eye failed to break through to the third tier, the Mustard Seed Realm; it remained stuck at the second.
Ultimately, his breakthrough to the third tier, the Mustard Seed Realm, only happened because he consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew immortal herb, which massively boosted his mental power.
In other words, Tang San didn't break through to the third tier by practicing the technique itself, but because a massive surge in mental power forced the breakthrough.
The same applied to the fourth tier, the Boundless Realm. He didn't reach it through practicing the Purple Demon Eye, but by receiving the power of the Sea God's Nine Trials, which boosted his mental cultivation again.
In other words, for Tang San's Purple Demon Eye, it was the increase in mental power that drove the technique's breakthrough, rather than the technique's breakthrough driving the increase in mental power.
Thinking back to Tang San's previous martial arts world, not a single person in the Tang Sect had ever broken through to the third tier of the Purple Demon Eye. It seemed even an elder who had practiced it for a lifetime remained at the second tier.
It was highly likely that the Purple Demon Eye technique itself possessed a massive defect.
While the third and fourth tiers were real—and achieving them would mean one's mental cultivation had reached a certain level, making the eye techniques' effects quite remarkable—the cultivation method itself was flawed.
Practicing it normally made a breakthrough impossible; the second tier was the natural limit.
Perhaps the creator of the Purple Demon Eye in Tang San's past world didn't actually cultivate powerful mental power through the technique.
Instead, like Tang San, they might have accidentally consumed a heavenly treasure similar to the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, boosting their mental power to the intensity of the fourth tier, and then created the technique.
That person might have possessed decent talent like Tang San, but was not truly a peerless genius. While they created eye technique applications that matched powerful mental power, the core mental cultivation method they devised was quite crude or even incomplete.
They only established the simplest parts; the most important subsequent tiers simply could not be reached through the manual's cultivation.
It could be said that whether it was Tang San's ability to see through Xiao Wu's identity as a Soul Beast or his lack of fear toward Hu Liena's mental control, he relied not on the Purple Demon Eye itself.
Though the techniques of the third tier were impressive, the most vital factor was the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew immortal herb he consumed. The Purple Demon Eye had significant flaws, and its mental cultivation method was rudimentary.
Its second tier could make his mental power slightly stronger than peers, but the level was limited.
It was the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew that significantly enhanced his mental power, allowing Tang San at the rank of a four-ring Soul Ancestor to have mental power no weaker than the original timeline's Hu Liena—who was a five-ring Soul King specializing in the Mental System and the Extreme Stream.
It was also the primordial power of that immortal herb that gave Tang San's eyes a unique quality.
Ling Xiao did not believe that the eye techniques of the third tier alone could allow Tang San—whose mental cultivation was roughly equal to Hu Liena's—to discover Xiao Wu's Soul Beast identity.
After all, if the third tier of the Purple Demon Eye were so powerful that it allowed a Soul Ancestor to achieve what only a Titled Douluo usually could, there would be no reason for the technique's mental cultivation method to be so mediocre.
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