Douluo: Ant Power Breaks the Sky

Chapter 12: Thousand-pound Ant

Shi Yi looked at it and nodded slightly. If the issue of fighting style was excluded, turning the blue silver grass into a hidden weapon was indeed a good choice. At least now even ten of him could not harm Tang San.

"Junior brother's technique does have the potential to create your own soul skills. Using this method to shoot out your own martial soul has given me a new idea. Junior brother's choice of soul rings is not limited to sharp ones. You can also choose locking, tracking, corrosion, toxins, explosions and other characteristics and soul skills that are beneficial to projectiles, just like soul masters with bow and arrow martial souls." Shi Yi said with a smile.

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San savored Shi Yi's words, their eyes brightening. Yu Xiaogang whispered, "But can Xiao San achieve the same effect as a bow and arrow spirit master with just his skills?"

Shi Yi chuckled and said, "It depends on whether Junior Brother has the confidence to develop his own techniques into his own soul skills."

"Self-created spirit skills? What are self-created spirit skills?" Tang San asked with some confusion.

Yu Xiaogang patted Tang San's shoulder and said softly: "Self-created soul skills, as the name implies, are soul skills created by the soul master himself. They are not just simple techniques, but they require the soul power to be integrated into one's own techniques. It's a little early for you now, but Xiao Yi is right. Your techniques do have the potential to be self-created soul skills and you should develop them well."

"Soul power? The more advanced Tang Sect hidden weapon techniques require the consumption of a large amount of internal energy. Isn't that what teacher said about the self-created soul skills?" Tang San's childish eyes were filled with more and more joy.

Tang San looked at Shi Yi who was not far away from him, and secretly said in his heart: "It seems that Senior Brother has indeed achieved great success in theory, and even feels that he has surpassed Teacher a little. Just by watching me demonstrate a simple hand-flinging arrow, he saw through the potential behind it at a glance, and even provided me with more diverse directions for the development of my martial spirit characteristics."

Thinking of this, Tang San looked at Shi Yi with more respect.

"Using the Blue Silver Grass in this way can make up for it to a certain extent..."

When Shi Yi was about to say the word Clear Sky Hammer, he stopped abruptly when he saw the dean, and quickly changed his words to: "The attack distance of the plant martial spirit."

Yu Xiaogang looked at Shi Yi and nodded. He naturally understood what Shi Yi wanted to say. Tang San's twin martial souls were more suitable for the path of extreme power than his father Tang Hao. This would obviously have a very high upper limit, but the only drawback was the problem of attack distance and attack frequency. When the opponent did not confront you head-on, the blue silver grass became a good supplementary attack method.

In Shi Yi's eyes, the Clear Sky Hammer actually has great limitations. In fact, Tang Hao's extreme strength training plan is far inferior to the balanced one of Tang Xiao, the sect leader.

This is also the significance of the Nine Wonders of Clear Sky. The various different force-generating techniques are actually making up for the shortcomings of the Clear Sky Hammer.

A careful analysis of Tang Hao's most outstanding battles shows that they were the ones with Qian Xunji and Jin E. The two of them made the same mistake, which was relying on their high level of cultivation to try to defeat their opponents head-on. Although Shi Yi had to admit that this was indeed very cool, it was a manifestation of a lack of combat wisdom.

This is why Tang San was able to defeat the Seventh Elder in the gambling fight of the Clear Sky Sect by using various means of pulling and controlling. Obviously, the Clear Sky Hammer can hardly play its advantages when encountering an extremely flexible soul master like Tang San. Of course, Tang San's combat wisdom destined him to be unsuitable to be the user of the Clear Sky Hammer.

The Clear Sky Hammer is a means for Tang San but not his everything. Many ways of winning that Tang San thinks are better will constantly limit his use and understanding of the Clear Sky Hammer. People often grow through failure.

Cultivation is not just for improving one's own cultivation. Shi Yi understands that cultivation is a soul master constantly making up for his own shortcomings, just like Tang Chen created the technique of Haotian Nine Absolutes, and the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect's distraction control, which are actually all to make up for the deficiencies of the martial soul.

Today, Tang San chose to add a spirit ring with sharp characteristics to the Blue Silver Grass to make up for the shortcomings of the hidden weapon to a certain extent.

"Okay, now all we need is your spirit ring. Let's eat first. You can summon the little ants to search later. The little ants are much more sensitive to the scent of their own kind than the three-gun ants. There are a huge number of Qianjun ants, so we should be able to find them soon." Yu Xiaogang whispered to Shi Yi.

Shi Yi nodded slightly.

Everyone sat together and ate some simple dry food. After packing up their things, Shi Yi summoned the little ant and continued searching in the Soul Hunting Forest.

Everyone followed Xiao Yi quietly. What surprised Tang San was that they didn't encounter any soul beasts along the way.

Yu Xiaogang also saw through Tang San's thoughts and smiled: "Although your brother's martial spirit is an ordinary ant, the weaker the spirit beast in the forest, the more sensitive it is to danger. Even Sanpao is far inferior to the little ant. As long as you follow the ants in the forest, you will not encounter danger."

The little ant led everyone to change directions continuously, and they didn't encounter any insects along the way. Just when the dean was getting a little impatient, everyone saw a Qianjun ant not far ahead.

Compared with the small ant, the huge ant seemed quite huge. When the small ant saw the huge ant, it showed human-like fear and joy.

The fear came from blood instinct, and the joy came because the little ant could clearly feel that the thousand-pound ant had what it desired.

Yu Xiaogang looked at the Qianjun Ant not far away with a look of surprise on his face. He silently estimated the size in his mind and immediately found that the age of this Qianjun Ant was about the same as that of the gold-eating leopard.

Yu Xiaogang's eyes fell on the little ant. It was obvious that the little ant not only had the ability to seek benefits and avoid harm, but also had a certain ability to estimate things. The reference object for finding the target was yesterday's gold-eating leopard. Yu Xiaogang would never believe that this Qianjun ant was Shi Yi's luck. It was obvious that the little ant led them to constantly change directions in the forest just to lock on this Qianjun ant.

Tang San looked at Xiao Yi and saw a hint of surprise in his young eyes.

"In such a complex environment as the forest, the perception of ants is so strong that they can actually feel the energy of soul beasts. Senior brother is indeed a rare talent." Tang San said secretly in his heart.

"It's up to you to take action from now on." Shi Yi bowed slightly to the dean.

The dean nodded and slowly moved forward. A long sword appeared in his hand, and the soul ring also diffused around his body.

The Qianjun Ant had already sensed the danger, but it found that no matter how it changed direction, this huge danger would always follow it like a shadow.

At this time, the Qianjun Ant has already assumed a fighting posture, with its two saber-teeth particularly prominent. At the same time, it also has two thick forelimbs, which look a bit like the claws of a scorpion.

The dean showed disdain on his face. If the gold-eating leopard before could still stretch its muscles, then the Thousand Jun Ants were not even an appetizer. A hundred-year-old Thousand Jun Ant was only six inches long. Size was an important criterion for measuring the combat effectiveness of many soul beasts. In addition, with so many students in the academy, killing Thousand Jun Ants was already a common occurrence for him.

In fact, working students only accounted for a very small part of Notting College. Most of those who could go to the Soul Master College were children of nobles. Every year, many parents asked him to help their children hunt for hundred-year soul rings. The soul ring on the dean's body lit up, and the soul power burst out instantly. Although the Qianjun Ant was powerful, its speed was extremely slow. It didn't even have time to react. The dean's long sword had already accurately inserted into the gap of the exoskeleton. The two saber teeth and thick forelimbs could only clamp the long sword tightly.

Don't underestimate the Thousand Jun Ant's two saber teeth and forelimbs. Even as a Soul Sect, if his arm is hugged, he can only remove his arm, but it is unlikely to crush a Soul Sect's martial soul.

"Hiss..."

The Thousand Jun Ant screamed, but there was nothing it could do. This was also the Thousand Jun Ant's biggest weakness. It did not have any soul skills, only strength and slow speed. Once it was restrained like this, it would have no way to deal with it.

Soon, as the injuries on its body became more serious, the two saber teeth and forelimbs of the Qianjun Ant began to loosen. At the moment of loosening, the dean instantly pulled out the long knife that was deeply inserted, and skillfully cut off the two forelimbs. He said to Shi Yi: "Take the short sword and insert it through the gap of his exoskeleton at the back of his head to kill him."

Yu Xiaogang also handed a dagger to Shi Yi at the right time. Shi Yi took it, came behind the dying Qianjun Ant, and stabbed it with the sword.

Just like yesterday, the sharp blade pierced through the head, and faint yellow light began to condense above the body of the Qianjun Ant, and a yellow soul ring appeared in front of everyone.

Shi Yi sat cross-legged without saying anything. At this time, Xiao Yi was also on Shi Yi's thigh. Under the attraction of Shi Yi's light blue soul power, the hundred-year-old ant soul ring slowly flew towards Shi Yi.

To be precise, it flew towards the little ant.

At this moment, as the Hundred-Year-Old Thousand-Jun Ant Soul Ring approached, he felt an unprecedentedly strong pressure, and even the bones in his body made slight noises under this pressure.

Soon, the yellow halo came above the little ant's head. Without giving it any chance to react, the yellow halo suddenly shrank and turned into an extremely solid gold ring the size of a bracelet, which fell directly onto the little ant's body.

A powerful soul power wave suddenly burst out, and a hot energy rushed into Shi Yi's body. In an instant, Shi Yi's internal organs were burning. His body couldn't help but tremble violently.

At this time, Shi Yi also hurriedly activated the twelve meridians to digest the influx of soul power through the rapid circulation of soul power.

"No, the speed of the twelve meridians is too slow. We need to reduce the circulation distance and speed up the number of soul power circulations."

With this in mind, Shi Yi controlled his soul power to circulate rapidly around his dantian. This was the most efficient way of operation he found after his attempts. He called it the advanced version of the Twelve Meridians.

After two years of practice, Shi Yi also discovered that different people would get different results when practicing the same method. The most obvious one was that the meridians in the body were blocked in different degrees. What's more, the thickness and toughness of the meridians were different, and even the locations of the meridians might be different.

These differences will lead to one result, that is, the effectiveness of the same exercise method will be different in different people.

Shi Yi's operation route can be said to be a route that belongs exclusively to him. It was obtained after many attempts and by recording the practice time of each operation. It can be said that this is the fastest operation route for him.

When the speed of the exercise speeds up, Shi Yi can clearly feel that the pressure of energy infusion on the body becomes less.

Gradually, the fiery heat turned into warmth, and a feeling of blood connection appeared in Shi Yi's heart.

Although Shi Yi is still in the process of absorbing the soul ring, Shi Yi can clearly feel that Xiao Yi is undergoing a transformation.

Outside, Yu Xiaogang looked at the little ant on Shi Yi's thigh with a complicated expression. The little ant at this time had undergone a drastic change compared to its previous appearance.

The most obvious change is not only the size, but also the mouthparts have grown into saber-tooth like the Qianjun ant just now, and the two forelimbs are also changing at a speed visible to the naked eye. The only thing that puzzles Yu Xiaogang is that the exoskeleton of the small ant looks much more shiny than that of an ordinary Qianjun ant. Apart from that, there is not much difference between the small ant and a Qianjun ant.

At this time, Tang San was also observing the changes in Shi Yi and Xiao Yi.

“Brother’s breathing stabilized so quickly, could it be that… it’s impossible, even the Xuan Tian Gong doesn’t have such a high efficiency in digesting internal energy. Even I took nearly an hour, but senior brother only took more than half an hour. How did senior brother manage to digest it so quickly with such a huge infusion of internal energy?” Tang San thought secretly in his heart.

It's not that Tang San hasn't seen the Twelve Meridians created by Shi Yi. Although they are good, they can only reach the level used by outer disciples to build their foundation. But the level of Shi Yi's practice today actually surpassed the Xuantian Gong. At least in terms of digesting internal energy, it is stronger than the Xuantian Gong.

This made Tang San unbelievable. You know, Xuantian Gong is the highest internal skill of the inner sect of the Bashu Tang Sect, and it has been continuously improved by many Tang Sect predecessors.

There was no way he could believe that Shi Yi had created a martial art that surpassed the Xuantian Gong.

"Brother must have used some special method, Qianjun Ant..."

Thinking of this, Tang San looked at Yu Xiaogang and asked, "Teacher, is this Qianjun Ant the most suitable soul beast for you, brother?"

Yu Xiaogang nodded slightly and said, "Xiao Yi's martial soul is an ant. In the theory of beast martial souls, if you can find a soul beast with the same bloodline as the martial soul, absorbing it will help promote the evolution of the martial soul. You should have seen the changes in Xiao Yi, but bloodlines are often not backward compatible. This is why the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex, which is known as the world's number one beast martial soul, is prone to mutations, and most of them are malignant mutations. This is a mutation caused by the excessive power of the bloodline being affected by low-level bloodlines."

"Would it be easier to absorb with a suitable soul beast?" Tang San continued to ask.

Yu Xiaogang nodded slightly and said, "Of course, if the soul ring you absorb is not suitable, there will be a rejection reaction. For example, a soul master with ice attribute cannot absorb the soul ring produced by a soul beast with fire attribute."

Hearing this, Tang San's face showed enlightenment. Perhaps it took him a long time just because he did not absorb a plant-type soul beast, while the soul ring absorbed by Shi Yi was very suitable, which led to the time difference.

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(End of this chapter)