In Douluo, there is a way to die.

Chapter 88: Douluo People's Top (Strange) Understanding
"Sister Xue'er?" Yin Lan's voice came, "What are your spirit skill expectations?"

Qian Renxue came back to her senses and shook her head. She felt as if her thoughts were fragmented and there was a momentary blank. After this deep meditation, she always seemed to be inexplicably dazed.

Considering the unprecedented and unreplicable nature of Yin Lan's ability to "develop bloodline", she just thought it was the aftereffect of having just come out of deep meditation and her mind had not yet fully cleared up. Maybe it would be fine after a while.

"Grandpa requested it before, a nearly 12000-year-old Bright Unicorn," Qian Renxue first glanced at Gu Yuena cautiously. Cixue and She Long also nervously moved closer to protect her. Seeing no reaction, she continued, "I don't know now. As for the soul skill expectation, it's the 'Holy Sword'. My grandfather and my father both have this type of soul skill."

"What effect?" Yin Lan raised her eyebrows. To be honest, she was not very optimistic about the understanding of the Douluo natives.

Due to the Douluo cultivation system, soul masters do not need to study hard and can easily acquire soul skills through soul rings. For example, for someone whose martial soul is a sword, it may take years or even decades of effort to use sword energy, but he only needs to acquire a soul ring to easily learn it on the spot.

However, there is also a problem. Once his soul ring with the "Sword Qi" soul skill is sealed, he will not be able to release the "Sword Qi" at all. However, those who have cultivated the "Sword Qi" through their own efforts will not have such worries.

This is also the point that Yin Lan was speechless about. Since this type of soul skill is cultivated through one's own efforts, there is no need to waste a soul ring to obtain such an attack-type soul skill. Under normal circumstances, soul rings cannot be replaced, and precious soul ring positions should be used on skills that are completely impossible to learn.

For example, self-amplifying soul skills, and special application soul skills such as "Invincible Golden Body", "Teleportation" or "Physical Clone".

As the "Number One Attack in the World" of the time, Sword Douluo Chen Xin has always regretted that his spirit rings were not fully equipped with self-amplifying spirit skills to achieve a true "extreme attack". He had already practiced the "sword energy" of the first spirit ring by himself a long time ago, and the second spirit ring was a defensive spirit skill, which was a bit too humorous for the "Number One Attack in the World". His third spirit ring was flying with a sword, but the problem was that he was now a Titled Douluo and was not incapable of flying with a sword, so this third spirit ring was also in vain.

That’s right, the “person whose martial soul is a sword” that Yin Lan had been complaining about before was actually him (whipping his corpse repeatedly).

The perfect self in Chen Xin's mind is Ji Juechen, the "sword maniac" of the Douluo Dalu II era. All his soul skills are self-amplifying, and his swordsmanship depends entirely on his own practice.

The choice of soul skills can easily affect the upper and lower limits of a soul master's strength, but Chen Xin was still hailed as the "world's best attacker" after wasting at least four of his own soul rings (in the novel version, he also practiced his ninth soul skill, which is hilarious). This is enough to show how weird the Douluo people's understanding is.

Soul masters with bird-like spirits are even too lazy to practice the ability to fly on their own. Generally, they have to have a spirit skill called "flying" on the third spirit ring to fly. It's a bit too humorous (the official setting clearly states that it can be practiced by oneself, which only shows that Douluo people are really lazy).

Under normal circumstances (not considering hundred thousand year soul rings and soul bones, self-created soul skills, soul spirits, and external soul bones), a soul master only has nine soul skills, and with fully equipped soul bones, there are only six more. Therefore, the ability of each soul master needs to be kept secret. But Qian Renxue thought about it and felt that there was no need to hide it from Yin Lan.

"According to Grandpa, it uses 'Sacred Fire' to condense a long sword," she replied, "and increases the effect of my own sacred attributes by about 300%. The specific effect depends on what kind of spirit ring I absorb."

Yin Lan's brows inevitably furrowed when she heard the first half of the sentence. Weapon-effect spirit skills were, strictly speaking, a type of "special application" spirit skill. You couldn't say they were completely useless, as most spirit masters with non-weapon spirits couldn't unleash their weapons without relying on spirit skills. However, her brows relaxed when she heard the second half. Not bad, after all, the spirit skill Qian Daoliu had chosen had an amplification effect, and it was a top-tier attribute like the Divine.

But just to be on the safe side, Yin Lan casually asked, "Sister Xue'er, besides this soul skill, you probably don't have any other abilities to generate weapons, right?"

The main reason was that Yin Lan really didn't know what Qian Renxue's soul skills were in the original history, because she had never had a serious battle. After becoming a god, she relied entirely on divine power and her own extreme attribute power to fly and fight, and she had no skills at all.

"Uh... yes," Qian Renxue's second soul ring lit up, and numerous small golden light blades appeared behind her. At first glance, she looked like a golden creature. "My second soul skill, Angel Light Blade, and it can be used like this."

As she spoke, she merged the large number of small golden light blades behind her into one, forming a giant golden sword.

"...Then why is it necessary for your fifth spirit ring to add a weapon-type spirit skill? Don't you already have a spirit skill that can generate weapons?" Yin Lan was a little confused. "Then why don't you just abandon the 'Generate Holy Sword' ring and just focus on pure amplification ability?"

"Because my second soul skill is a light blade condensed from light elements," Qian Renxue explained, "and the 'Holy Sword' is a weapon condensed from holy fire, possessing both holy and fire attributes... Uh, what are those looks from you guys?"

Before she could finish her explanation, she felt the gazes from Yin Lan, Gu Yuena, and Di Tian as if they were looking at her as if she were a fool.

"My sister, light, fire, and holiness are your innate talents, natural attributes, just like my 'destruction' and 'life' attributes." Yin Lan looked at her with some confusion. "You just need to practice hard. It's impossible not to add additional attributes to the light blade generated by your second soul skill."

Just like Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice was a natural talent he acquired after obtaining the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion spirit, using the ice element was as natural to him as eating and drinking water.

"Then my fifth soul skill only needs a soul ring with an amplifying effect?" Qian Renxue's tone was a little uncertain. "Does it really not need any other active effects?"

It has to be said that Yin Lan's thinking is very different from that of most soul masters today. In this era where there are almost no self-created soul skills, the source of most soul masters' abilities basically relies on shortcuts such as soul rings, resulting in few people realizing the importance of the "self-amplification" ability.

This also successfully allowed the "Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect" to exploit a big loophole. Relying on its auxiliary ability that "can only amplify" but has no mechanism, it became the world's number one auxiliary system and the world's second largest sect.

(End of this chapter)