From Old Jin's more than ten martial arts worlds to some even more exaggerated fantasy worlds, Xiao Yan quickly browsed through them.
It seemed that attacking an opponent didn't involve first tying them up before fighting.
In martial arts, a person's combat power, aside from inner strength, also heavily depends on their moves.
Combining the two perfectly—one's inner strength and martial techniques—naturally makes an ultimate strong warrior.
In the martial arts world, Xu Zhu's path was to first have inner strength, then martial arts moves; his strength was earth-shattering throughout history.
This whole "control and bind" thing was just lame.
After six years of martial arts training, Xiao Yan simply couldn't understand it.
The pinnacle of martial arts was offense and defense. If you could just control and tie someone up directly, wouldn't that be like hitting a wooden stake?
Besides, if the martial soul developed in the direction of binding people up, then all those techniques he learned would be useless.
Moreover, half of what he learned was still the foundation of Tang Sect.
The Tang Sect mainly specialized in hidden weapons and lightness skills.
With his current hidden weapon skills, shooting a mosquito and hitting its left wing without accidentally hitting the right wing was guaranteed.
Control?
At this level of power, still playing with Tang Sect kid-style target practice? That's just climbing a tree to catch fish.
But if he were to increase soul rings in the future, he should indeed think about what type of soul skill to acquire.
Xiao Yan looked down at the ground, his gaze deep.
He was already able to unleash extremely powerful combat strength, and many of his martial arts had yet to reach their peak.
Martial soul cultivation was only part of his overall strength.
After some thought, Xiao Yan felt he didn't have many ideas about martial souls.
Most people might think of things like Blue Silver Grass's Flower-Picking Flying Leaves, but wouldn't making hidden weapons out of ore be simpler, less effort, and more powerful?
Hidden weapons could be crafted in large quantities, with their power based on the rarity of the materials, but soul rings were limited.
However, if every soul skill could manifest as a person, that would be perfect.
This was similar to the principle of ambidexterity—each hand using a different martial art, or the Six Meridian Divine Sword where each finger uses a different sword technique.
If a powerful helper could appear, one's combat strength would multiply.
Just like his current first soul skill, which was almost equivalent to 70–80% of his own power.
Aside from the huge energy consumption, it was basically an independent clone skill.
The only problem was, how to get a soul ring that could produce such an effect?
The soul ring on his body had been activated accidentally by chance.
Yu Xiaogang drank a sip of water and said, "Your Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul looks weak, but it has quite a few advantages. After years of research, I've finally fully uncovered its strengths."
Xiao Yan lifted his head. From everyone's reactions, Blue Silver Grass was widely recognized as a worthless martial soul.
Why would this expert study it? Moreover, after so much time researching, why not show the results?
Could it be that today was just a ploy to show off to him?
He thought about how those people's innate soul power was too low and didn't meet his expectations for possession.
Thinking of this, he almost ignored the three advantages that the expert later mentioned.
Only the third point—"Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul does not reject any attribute of soul rings"—piqued his interest.
Xiao Yan asked curiously, "Martial souls can reject soul rings?"
Yu Xiaogang nodded, "Of course. If the attributes of the martial soul and the soul ring clash, attaching that soul ring to the martial soul will cause rejection. For example, beast martial souls have a hard time accepting poisonous soul rings.
Although martial souls are energy bodies, in a sense, they are life forms—another expression of the host's life. If you forcibly attach a poison-type soul ring, you'd probably be poisoned first. Few beast martial souls can absorb toxins themselves without passing them to the host.
But Blue Silver Grass is different. It's a plant and very weak, so absorbing toxins is no problem at all."
Listening to this expert talk, ideas kept rushing into Xiao Yan's mind.
The first was relief that he hadn't awakened some toxic beast martial soul.
If he had awakened a powerful poisonous beast martial soul, he might not have lived long.
The second was curiosity—if a beast martial soul awakener with poison was given a detoxifying soul ring, could it neutralize the poison inside, saving them from death by toxin?
Staring at the thoughtful Xiao Yan, Yu Xiaogang's stiff face couldn't help but show a half-smile: "The Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul on you has a fourth advantage."
"Another advantage?" Xiao Yan raised his hand to touch his brow. This expert really knew how to brag.
Yu Xiaogang smiled and said, "This fourth advantage is your innate full soul power! The reason there has never been a powerful Blue Silver Grass soul master in Douluo Continent is that the soul power the Blue Silver Grass martial soul can provide after awakening is too small.
Innate soul power is proportional to postnatal cultivation speed. If your innate soul power is too weak, it's hard to reach higher levels, and in late cultivation stages, hunting soul beasts becomes difficult.
But you are completely different. You have innate full soul power. Whether that soul power comes from the Blue Silver Grass martial soul or the other martial soul you're unwilling to mention, it doesn't affect your cultivation with Blue Silver Grass. So in the future, you will definitely be a powerful Blue Silver Grass soul master."
Xiao Yan thought: This expert's logic is a total zero.
He remembered when they first met, the expert said "Innate soul power is proportional to the quality of the martial soul," yet Blue Silver Grass was known as a completely worthless martial soul on this continent, and now he says there has never been a powerful Blue Silver Grass soul master.
How can a worthless martial soul produce a powerful soul master? The fact that no powerful Blue Silver Grass soul masters have appeared is normal.
If he hadn't said the last part, believing "There are no worthless martial souls, only worthless soul masters," would make a bit of sense.
But in the end, he said "With innate full soul power as an advantage, you will definitely become a powerful Blue Silver Grass soul master."
So here's the question: if a soul master with innate full soul power awakens a worthless martial soul, is he still a worthless soul master?
The answer is definitely no.
What this expert said completely contradicts what he believes!
People who fabricate lies usually aim to deceive others.
Xiao Yan increasingly felt this expert might be bullying him because he looked young and immature, trying to hoodwink him for some even more secretive purpose.
For example, the soul possession often found in cultivation novels!
The intern students come from commoners, so if he possesses a commoner child, the impact would be minimal.
Maybe this was why he kept saying, "There are no worthless martial souls, only worthless soul masters."
Because later, if he accepted a student regarded as a worthless disciple by others, it could explain the past nicely.
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