Douluo: Peerless Light...

Chapter 37 Beast Spirit
Du Bu Si twitched his lips and continued, "That senior spent a year to completely eliminate the influence of the soul beast's memory and the dirt on its soul."

"Afterwards, I have to say that this senior was also a ruthless person. In order to warn the younger generations not to resort to such crooked ways, he later wrote down his experiences and feelings during that period in a diary, which was passed down to each generation of the sect leader."

"As for the contents inside, I can only say..."

“Great shock!”

"This senior made great sacrifices for the sect and should be remembered by future generations." Minghui commented expressionlessly.

The ruthless people who can withstand social death are indeed worth remembering!

"Teacher, may I ask your name?" he asked subconsciously.

"Gui Li." Du Bu Si replied.

"?" Is the Ghost Douluo from the Dou Yi period a relative of yours, senior? Minghui thought, but his face showed admiration.

"I have long heard of your great name. I will definitely keep it in mind!"

Du Bu Si was not going to continue this topic. He coughed lightly and said calmly, "Compared to the complete beast soul, the residual soul does not have these problems."

"The remnant soul has no intelligence, no memory, and only retains the primitive instincts from the flesh."

"It can be completely absorbed by humans, especially after being warmed by human aura."

"For this purpose, the senior has specially developed a set of secret methods to transfer the residual soul with the help of soul bones. The soul bones are used to host and nourish the residual soul with the energy of the soul bones, so that it will not dissipate and even grow. As for the human aura, the soul bones are absorbed by humans and naturally carry the human aura."

“But even if it is a ten thousand year old soul bone, the number of residual souls that can be housed is limited, and so is the energy contained within.”

"If we compete in quantity, the output rate of soul bones is low, and hunting soul beasts on a large scale is against the harmony of nature. In this case, there is only one way."

"Hunting a hundred thousand year soul beast?" Minghui asked subconsciously.

"That's right!" Du Bu Si nodded.

"It was for this reason that the sect's strong men went into the Xingdou Great Forest three thousand years ago and successively hunted seven hundred thousand year soul beasts. A hundred thousand year soul beast will drop soul bones after death. They are strong enough and have sufficient energy. They are the best choice for hosting and nurturing the remaining souls."

"As for my Body Sect, because the Body Martial Spirit is too rare, there are not many disciples."

"In this way, the residual souls that disciples usually obtain when hunting ten thousand year soul beasts and obtaining soul rings are enough to meet the needs, or even more. After all, martial souls cannot evolve infinitely, and their upper limit is related to the potential of the martial soul itself."

"Otherwise, there wouldn't be four awakening levels: Iron, Bronze, Silver, and Gold."

"In fact, the Black Iron level is already the awakening limit for most of the sect's disciples. And to awaken to this level, absorbing one beast spirit is usually enough to complete it."

"But the realm these disciples can cultivate to in the future is not limited to Soul King. Therefore, each generation can have an extra portion of residual souls."

Minghui nodded slightly. "Disciples whose martial souls have awakened to a higher level can cultivate to a higher level after completing the awakening. Therefore, they produce more residual souls, which offsets the amount consumed before."

“So, there will still be some left.”

"Teacher, if we follow this logic," he asked, "After three thousand years of accumulation, the number of remaining souls in the sect should be more than a few hundred, right?"

"By the way, teacher, you mentioned beast spirits just now, what are these?"

"The so-called beast spirit is a special energy body formed by the residual soul of a soul beast gathering the energy of its soul bones to condense into a beast body." Du Bu Si said.

Minghui was stunned, his mind racing. Why did this sound so similar to the way the Spirit Ascension Platform worked in the sequel, Douluo Dalu 3?
During the Douluo Dalu II period, Du Bu Si passed the secret of his true body to Huo Yuhao before deciding to self-destruct, and the Soul Ascension Platform was researched by the Soul Transmission Tower created by Huo Yuhao.

So, could it be that this Spirit Ascension Platform was improved upon based on the system of the Body Sect?

While he was thinking, he saw Du Bu Si suddenly straighten his back and said solemnly: "Hui'er, my ancestors of the Body Sect, whoever cultivated to the Titled Douluo realm and absorbed a hundred thousand year soul bone, would force their life's cultivation into the soul bone when they were about to die."

"Only a Titled Douluo can do this."

"And the reason for doing this is not only because even a 100,000-year-old soul bone has abundant energy. As the number of residual souls living inside continues to increase, the energy required for nourishment will also increase, and sooner or later it will be consumed."

“So it must be replenished in a timely manner.”

"And the most important point is that only by nourishing the residual souls of soul beasts with soul power with human breath, they will become beast spirits and get close to humans. After being defeated, they will be willing to be absorbed. The reason is that although these beast spirits are close to humans after being nurtured by human breath, they still retain the pride of soul beasts. Unless they are defeated in a single fight, they will never surrender."

"So that's how it is!" Minghui nodded seriously. Du Bu Si's expression also calmed down at this time, but the pride in his eyes did not disappear. "These are also discovered by Senior Gui Li. According to him, martial spirits should be the product of human souls, soul power and their own vitality."

"And the soul rings produced after the soul beast dies just happen to contain these things, so after absorbing them, it will have the effect of strengthening the martial soul. It was precisely because he realized this that he started to research things like beast spirits."

"And the result, of course, was success."

"However, the beast spirit is a pure energy body after all. It has no life, so it cannot replace the spirit ring, nor can it strengthen the host's body. In addition, it cannot improve any of the host's cultivation. It only acts on the martial soul, injecting soul power into the main body's martial soul while providing energy for the spirit ring to increase its lifespan. The two go hand in hand, forcibly impacting the martial soul's shackles and prompting the martial soul to further evolve."

"This is also the principle of how this secret method can promote the second awakening of the body's martial soul. It can only work on the body's martial soul because the body's martial soul is a part of the human body. Humans and beasts are actually both a kind of animal, and they have something in common. Soul beasts also have organs that humans have, but the forms are different."

"What a genius idea!" Minghui commented.

"Indeed." Du Bu Si nodded, "However, this process still involves certain risks."

"Soul rings are fine. You can stop when you feel saturated. But the residual soul in the beast spirit will still have the mental shock when it is absorbed, even if it is voluntary."

"After all, this thing is a beast soul."

Minghui nodded to show his understanding.

"Therefore, if you want to awaken your martial soul for the second time, your mental strength must not be low." Du Bu Si continued, "As for the strength of the beast spirit, because it is a residual soul, the strength of the condensed beast spirit is not high."

"Probably only one-tenth of his strength in life."

“That is to say, the residual soul of a ten thousand year soul beast only has the strength of a thousand year soul beast after it turns into a beast spirit, and the Soul Venerable cultivation is enough to deal with it. However, the mental impact that one has to face is enough to rival that of absorbing a ten thousand year soul ring, after all, they are all transformed from residual souls.”

"So, generally speaking, the disciples of my Body Sect need to cultivate to the Soul King level before they are qualified to come here to perform the second awakening ceremony of the martial soul."

"In addition, we also need to consider the soul skills that come with the soul ring."

"Because when you absorb the energy of beast spirits, you can choose which spirit ring to increase its age. The energy will flow into the spirit ring you activate."

"And the age of the soul ring often corresponds to the effect of the soul skill. The more energy, the higher the increase."

"For example, Master. Master's fifth soul ring is called Ten Thousand Poisons Golden Body. After using it, it can enhance all aspects of Master's abilities, especially the strength of the physical body. It is the soul skill that has the greatest impact on Master's combat power in the early stage. It is also a soul skill that has lasted for ten thousand years, so it is the most worthy of strengthening."

"This is also one of the soul skills that my master and predecessor must obtain."

"Master knew the effect of this soul skill long ago, so naturally I have to wait until I obtain this soul skill before performing the awakening ceremony."

No wonder the teacher’s first four spirit rings were yellow and purple in color… Minghui nodded repeatedly after hearing this.

"There is also the martial spirit body. Back then, I was very lucky to find the first 8-year-old Qianjun Ant King."

"In terms of strength and defense, it is not inferior to a hundred thousand year soul beast. So I decisively chose to absorb its soul ring, and after three awakenings, I increased the age to a hundred thousand years by absorbing the beast spirit."

"This is also the biggest reason why my master can burst out with several times his own combat power after exerting his ability."

"Don't think that my soul power is only level 98 now, but when it comes to close combat, I can be no less powerful than a level 99 Extreme Douluo." Du Bu Si said confidently.

"The reason why I was able to increase the age of the seventh soul ring to 10 years has to do with the question you just mentioned, Hui'er. Why are there only a few hundred soul beast remnants left in the sect now?" Du Bu Si said with a smile.

"Hui'er, have you ever thought about this? Even with a 100,000-year soul bone, there is an upper limit to the number of residual souls that can be hosted. Moreover, the original martial soul can undergo three gold-level awakenings."

"Let the residual souls devour each other and cultivate stronger ones?" Minghui had a flash of inspiration and almost blurted it out.

"Smart!" Du Bu Si nodded.

"After a silver-level awakener has attached nine spirit rings to his martial soul, there is a great chance that he can awaken for the third time, which also means that he can absorb the beast spirit once more."

"At this time, we can't absorb thousand-year-old beast spirits like we did when we were kids, right? Defeating and absorbing them one by one is a waste of time, isn't it?"

"That's true." Minghui nodded.

　The original novel does not explain the secret method of the Body Sect in detail. The author made an extended setting based on the sequel. You can just laugh it off. The result is the same anyway. The protagonist just needs to get the expected improvement.

　　In addition, the souls created by Alex have life and are special life forms. They cannot be compared with the lifeless beast spirits of the Benti Sect.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)