The Martial Soul Skeleton, in Douluo Continent's Bone-Changing Susanoo

Chapter 4 The Use of the Skeleton Martial Soul

"Those white circles are called spirit rings. Doesn't Master Su Yuntao have one too? And he also has a yellow circle. This means that Master Su Yuntao is a two-ring Grand Spirit Master."

The old village chief smiled and said, "You have innate level five soul power, so you can cultivate. In the future, you'll also have a white circle like this on your body. Then, you can call yourself a Soul Master!"

"Ah Liang, would you like to go to a specialized academy to learn about Soul Master knowledge?"

"I want to," Xia Liang said, a little guilty. "But I don't have the money to go to school."

The old village chief chuckled. "Several villages around here share one work-study student spot. I heard that none of the children in their village possess soul power. Ah Liang, after discussion, we've decided to give this spot to you. If you can cultivate to the same level as Master Su Yuntao, it will bring honor to our villages."

Xia Liang immediately stood up from his chair, bowed slightly to the old village chief, and said in a child's tone, "Grandpa Village Chief, thank you. And thank you to everyone from the other villages as well."

"Alright, alright, hurry up and eat breakfast, then go cultivate." The old village chief patted Xia Liang's head and instructed, "The Notting City Elementary Soul Master Academy won't start for another three months. During this time, you should stay at Grandpa's house and cultivate diligently. Grandpa is hoping you'll become a Soul Master soon."

"I will try my best!" Xia Liang replied, hurriedly finished a bowl of porridge, wiped his mouth, and ran towards the door.

Arriving at a small hill a few hundred meters away from Guowan Village, a new day of cultivation begins.

After practicing last night, Xia Liang gained a general understanding of the meditation method that Su Yuntao had mentioned.

The so-called meditation method is actually about using your martial spirit to absorb the natural energy from the outside world and convert it into your own soul power during meditation.

There is a lot of natural energy in the outside world.

For example, the wood element energy contained in forests, the fire element energy contained in volcanoes, the wind element energy contained in wind, the lightning element energy contained in lightning, and even the light energy contained in sunlight, etc.

According to Su Yuntao, because the types of martial souls are different, some soul master families on the continent have developed their own advanced meditation methods based on meditation techniques.

It is unknown what kind of advanced meditation method it is.

However, based on his knowledge of the original work, Xia Liang was able to roughly guess a thing or two.

Soul masters like those from the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex clan possess top-tier lightning attributes in their martial souls. If they skillfully utilize the lightning attribute energy of nature during meditation, they should be able to develop some kind of lightning meditation method.

There are also Soul Masters with Dark Martial Souls who can enhance their Martial Soul's absorption of external natural energy by leveraging the devouring attribute of darkness, thereby developing more advanced Dark Meditation techniques.

To Xia Liang's regret, his Skeleton Martial Soul lacked the dark attribute. Although he could see the wandering undead around him, he was unable to devour them to aid his cultivation.

For the time being, there is no better cultivation method than the Skeleton Martial Soul, so we can only use the ordinary meditation method to cultivate for now, and then find another way after we are familiar with it.

Two hours passed quickly.

It was already noon, and the sun was blazing.

After finishing his meditation, Xia Liang opened his eyes, stood up, and gazed at the sun in the sky.

He remembered that ghosts were extremely yin, while sunlight was extremely hot and yang, so ghosts were afraid of sunlight.

He had died once and was a living dead like Ghost Douluo, but there were no signs of ghosts being afraid of sunlight on him.

Moreover, if I accidentally cut my finger while cooking in the morning, it will bleed just like a normal person.

Feeling the sunlight shining on him, Xia Liang was starting to wonder if he was a human or a ghost.

Could it be that the existence of a martial spirit makes him exist between the two, being both human and ghost?

Looking back at the original story where Ghost Douluo was killed by Sea God Tang San, Xia Liang seemed to have figured something out: the sun's rays posed no threat to him.

However, if the light is imbued with divine attributes, it might completely restrain itself.

In the original story, the light of the sea god that killed Ghost Douluo happened to have the purifying effect of divine power.

"Let's practice using the Skeleton Martial Soul first."

As he pondered this, Xia Liang walked up to a large tree.

As the Skeleton Martial Soul was released, a dark purple aura condensed around his body, forming a dark purple rib that covered his entire body.

Xia Liang grabbed one of the ribs with both hands and tried to pull it off, but found that with his current strength, he couldn't budge the dark purple rib at all. This showed that each rib was very strong and had a certain degree of hardness.

When the entire ribcage protects the whole body, it should be able to withstand most attacks.

However, there are gaps between each rib, and if an attack passes through these gaps, it cannot be defended against.

Xia Liang used Iron Mountain Lean twice on the big tree in front of him.

His right shoulder was separated from the tree by his dark purple ribs, so when he crashed into the tree, the dark purple ribs and the tree were the first things to collide.

Bang, bang.

After being struck twice by the Iron Mountain Lean, the tree shook violently twice, and a few leaves slowly drifted to the ground, but the tree itself was not damaged at all.

Forces act in pairs.

The dark purple ribs also suffered damage from two impacts when they hit the tree.

During this process, Xia Liang discovered that his ribs were not affected by the backlash, which suggests that the ribs that make up the Skull Martial Soul are not connected to his body.

He couldn't help but wonder how each bone, originating from an animal, could be used as an object.

Is that skeleton martial soul considered a beast martial soul or a weapon martial soul?

Reaching a two-meter-high boulder, Xia Liang used the Iron Mountain Lean technique on it, this time with even greater force than before.

After using Iron Mountain Strike twenty times in a row, the boulder had already endured twenty impacts from its dark purple ribs.

Xia Liang's body did not suffer any backlash, but cracks appeared at the point where the boulder was hit, revealing that the hardness of his dark purple ribs was even greater than that of the boulder.

With that kind of hardness, it's uncertain whether the Skeleton Martial Soul's ribs can protect it from falling from a great height.

Looking around, Xia Liang noticed that the highest rocks in the area were only about two meters tall.

He tried jumping off a two-meter-high rock and then using the ribs of his Skeleton Spirit to shield his entire body. His body was unharmed, and the ribs of his Skeleton Spirit were also undamaged. It seems that the Skeleton Spirit's hardness and defensive power are stronger than he had imagined.

After having lunch at the old village chief's house and waking up from his afternoon nap, Xia Liang went back to the foot of the hill to sit cross-legged and meditate, beginning to cultivate his soul power.

This morning, he had already tested the hardness and defensive capabilities of the Skeleton Martial Soul by dropping it from different heights and experiencing impacts of varying degrees.

The conclusion is that if the Skeleton Martial Soul were to pursue a defensive path, its defensive power upon reaching the Title Douluo level might be comparable to that of the Ancient Banyan Bone Douluo of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

(End of this chapter)