Douluo Continent: Starting with the Tiger Emperor Template

Upon hearing this, Electrolux simply waved his hand dismissively.

"I don't care about these empty titles."

"What supreme status, what return to the peak? I've lived for far too long, and I've long since become indifferent to these things."

He paused, his gaze falling on Lu Ren's face, his eyes as gentle as if he were looking at his own child.

"I simply want to repay you in any way I can."

"After all, you gave me a chance to live again."

Lu Ren opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but found himself at a loss for words.

The sea of ​​the mind was quiet for a moment.

Only the waves gently lapped against the shore in the void, making a soft, rustling sound.

Lu Ren didn't dwell on this topic for long. He changed the subject and asked the question that concerned him most right now:

"Elder Yi, is there a reliable way to quickly boost mental strength in a short period of time?"

Electrolux remained silent for a moment.

His gaze fell on Lu Ren, as if scrutinizing him, or perhaps carefully choosing his words:

"Mental strength can also be considered willpower."

"Experience more things, endure more trials. Coupled with persistent cultivation, your mental strength will naturally improve."

He paused, his gaze becoming profound:

"Lu Ren, I have something to remind you of."

He rarely called Lu Ren by his given name.

Most of the time, he calls him Xiaoyou or Xiaojia, only calling him by his name when he considers it very important.

"There are no shortcuts on the path of cultivation; nothing comes for free. Even if you have great talent and are very good at using your mental power, never think that you can reach the top in one step."

Electrolux's voice was not loud, but every word was heavy, like an elder giving earnest advice to a younger generation.

"In all my years, I have seen far too many exceptionally talented geniuses, and most of them have been ruined by their eagerness for quick success."

"You are different. You have a temperament and composure far beyond your peers, but remember, don't let that eager desire blind your true self."

Lu Ren listened quietly, then nodded seriously, completely putting aside his eagerness to quickly cultivate his spiritual power.

"I understand, Elder Yi. Thank you for the reminder. I won't take shortcuts."

Electrolux looked into his eyes, and after a moment, nodded slightly, the seriousness on his face easing a little.

"Lu Ren, your brain structure is very different from that of ordinary people."

Lu Ren was slightly taken aback. What did those words mean?

The brain structure of a sorcerer is indeed quite different from that of ordinary people...

"Your brain is very strong, much stronger than that of other Soul Masters of the same level, and even stronger than some Soul Saints who specialize in mental power. This strength is not only reflected in the amount of mental power, but more importantly in the structure itself. Your brain is like a container specifically designed to hold a certain kind of power."

Eleks paused, his gaze fixed on Lu Ren.

"So I've been thinking...maybe your brain is your martial soul."

Lu Ren's body stiffened slightly.

"But why do you never use your martial spirit? You don't even contact it once?"

There was no blame in Electrolux's voice, only pure doubt and concern.

"I've been inside you for several months and have come to understand how this world works."

"Here, any Soul Master will instinctively want to understand their own Martial Soul. It is an innate power, an instinct engraved deep in the soul."

"But you're different. You seem completely indifferent to what your martial soul is, and it's almost as if you're deliberately avoiding it."

Lu Ren paused for a moment before explaining:

"I used my own martial soul information to bind it, and in return, I gained even greater power."

"So even now, I still don't know what my martial soul is."

Electrolux frowned slightly.

"Restraint..."

He had already learned about the mechanism of the restraint from Lu Ren: it required paying a certain price in exchange for an equal amount of power in return.

The greater the cost, the greater the reward.

"How will knowing your martial soul information affect your binding ability?"

Electrolux asked.

Lu Ren thought for a moment and then shook his head.

"It won't have any impact."

"Because the constraint I set was that 'I will not actively learn about my own martial soul, and I will not use any of the abilities of my own martial soul.' As long as I don't explore, actively sense, contact, or look up any information about my martial soul, the constraint will not be broken."

"But if others find out what my martial soul is and tell me on their own initiative, then it's considered that I passively accepted it, and it has nothing to do with the binding agreement I made. That doesn't count as me breaking the contract."

He paused, a sly smile playing on his lips.

"Even if this constraint were to be broken, so what?"

"At worst, I'll just lose the ability I gained from this self-imposed restriction; there won't be any real loss."

"Self-imposed constraints are not like mutual constraints; the cost of breaching a contract is not high—it's simply the loss of what was gained in the exchange."

Upon hearing this, Electrolux gave Lu Ren a deep look.

"This is different from the information you tell other people."

"You told those people outside that if they break the contract, they will pay a heavy price, worse than death, and you scared that level 98 titled Douluo named Xuanzi so much that his face turned white."

Lu Ren smiled calmly:

"That's a binding agreement between the two parties, and the consequences of breaching that agreement are indeed severe. Nobody knows when the punishment will come; it's mainly because of the uncertainty of that punishment."

"As for what I told Meng Hongchen and the others... of course I won't honestly tell them all about myself. Sometimes I'll say something a little scary so they'll back down and not investigate any further."

He shrugged, looking innocent.

"So, the first step to becoming an adult is to learn how to lie."

"The most important thing is to use your own abilities and information to deceive people and create an information gap. Since they are all curious about what my abilities are, I might as well say half true and half false."

Electrolux looked at him and remained silent for a long while.

Then, he suddenly burst into laughter.

"What a blatant lie."

He stopped laughing, looked at Lu Ren, and his eyes were full of admiration.

"Since you'll be alright, then I'll tell you what your martial soul is."

Lu Ren's breath hitched slightly.

He felt that his martial soul must be very strong, otherwise he wouldn't have innate full soul power.

But it was precisely because of this that he used his martial soul to gain extremely strong abilities, allowing him to easily defeat Shrek Academy's third and fourth-ring students from the very beginning, even at the second ring level.

……

Meanwhile, at Shrek Academy.

Poseidon Island.

Xuanzi sat cross-legged on the bed, gnawing on a chicken leg with his mouth full of oil, while holding a wine pot in his other hand, occasionally tilting his head back to take a sip.

The wine dripped down his chin and onto his clothes, but he didn't seem to care.

But his face was full of displeasure.

I'm very unhappy.

Ever since I returned from Mingdu, this feeling of anger has been stuck in my chest, and I just can't seem to get rid of it.

I can't get drunk from drinking, I don't enjoy eating chicken legs, and I can't even sleep soundly.

The moment he closed his eyes, the boy's face appeared in his mind, those eyes as calm as a stagnant pool, that restraint that made even a level 98 Super Douluo feel uneasy, and that sentence, "Weakness is sometimes a weapon," which directly led him to his doom.

"You bastard!"

He took a big bite of chicken and chewed it hard, as if he were chewing the boy's bones.

The more I think about it, the angrier I get.

So annoying!

In all his years of life, when had he ever been outmaneuvered by a mere fifteen-year-old boy?

They were tricked step by step during the direct dialogue.

From beginning to end, the other party had written the script, and he just cooperated like a fool to finish the performance.

What's even more infuriating is that after he returned, he had to admit that the kid was indeed a genius, a true genius.

He was more outstanding than any genius he had ever seen.

At level 47, one can possess the soul power of a Soul Emperor, with physical strength comparable to a Soul Saint. Their mental and soul power are perfectly integrated, and they also possess the binding ability of the rule system.

Why isn't such a prodigy a member of Shrek Academy?

Why go and help those soul masters?

Xuanzi grew increasingly agitated and was about to take another swig of wine...

Suddenly, he stopped moving.

A flash of inspiration appeared in his cloudy eyes.

"etc."

He put down the wine jug and set the chicken leg aside as well.

Didn't they already deduce this at the Sea God Pavilion meeting?

That kid's martial soul is brain-type, belonging to the category of body-based martial souls, which is why he can use his mental power to control some rule-based abilities.

Since he possesses a true martial soul...

What would happen if the Body Sect discovered this?