Douluo Continent: The True Body and Blood Soul, Starting from Blacksmithing

Lin Yu could sense that he currently possessed two soul skills, corresponding to blood and spirit respectively.

Skills related to blood are divided into active and passive skills.

Passive skills enhance the various nutrients that the blood can absorb, and strengthen the blood's daily digestive and transport functions. The most obvious of these is the integration of soul power.

Normally, it is difficult for soul power to dissolve into blood, but now it is not only much easier, but the amount of soul power that can be fused into blood has also increased significantly!

When actively released, various nutrients in the blood are efficiently utilized, enhancing all bodily attributes. Furthermore, it possesses the ability to convert excess blood and energy into soul power.

During practice, Lin Yu discovered that after releasing his soul skill, the amount of soul power released from his blood was less than 10% less than the total soul power dissolved in his blood. After this conversion, the utilization rate of soul power could still reach 90%, which was acceptable. Of course, it was also possible that his body was not injured during the test.

If prepared properly, Lin Yu felt he could engage in strenuous exercise with others for several hours while using his first soul skill.

As for the spirit-related soul skills, there hasn't been much change; they are still about fire manipulation.

However, in his Soul Skill state, he is even more adept at manipulating flames. But this Soul Skill has an extremely abnormal aspect: he can draw the golden flames on his scale armor into his body.

Perhaps due to their shared origin, the golden flames, once inside his body, not only did not harm Lin Yu, but also warmed certain areas of his body.

After experimenting and discovering that soul skills and soul bone abilities could be combined, Lin Yu then tried the scale armor that had been previously bound to the blood soul skill.

After some experimentation, Lin Yu discovered that when soul skills and soul bone skills are combined, the number of golden scales can be artificially controlled.

When Reverse Scale is activated, it can only generate one layer of scales enough to cover a forearm. After using the first Soul Skill, the number of scales can double.

Perhaps because Lin Yu was used to having his consciousness divided in two, he could generate scales in both areas at the same time.

I originally thought that the soul skill would be useless after the soul bone was activated, but I didn't expect that the combination of the soul skill and the soul bone skill would be stronger than the previous "mutated soul skill".

Combining the new soul skill with the effects of the soul skill after the scales were removed, Lin Yu was fairly certain what the "devouring" effect of the external soul bone was.

The external soul bone absorbs the dragon-related characteristics from the soul rings!

As early as when he was planning his soul rings, he planned to absorb all the dragon-type soul rings himself, not only because there were many opportunities related to dragons on the continent, but also because dragon-type soul beasts themselves have extremely strong blood and qi.

Now that the "dragon-like" characteristics in the spirit rings have been absorbed by the external spirit bones, the spirit skills provided by the spirit rings to the martial soul have become purer!

In terms of effectiveness, the current soul skill effects are more compatible with one's own martial soul.

Although the bold attempt activated the external soul bone, Lin Yu did not give up his research on "soul rings" and "beast transformation".

It's possible that the dragon power in the spirit rings was absorbed by the reverse scale, or it's possible that Lin Yu's martial spirit doesn't match that of a beast-type martial spirit. No matter how Lin Yu tries, he can't find the right feeling.

Realizing that she might be hitting a plateau, Lin Yu decided to let her teacher play a role.

After Liu Erlong took him as his disciple, he never gave him any proper guidance. Not only that, but Blue Tyrant Academy also used his reputation as a genius to recruit a lot of new students.

She can't just provide herself with a training environment and then act as her teacher, can she?

However, before Lin Yu could find Liu Erlong, someone else approached him first.

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"You defeated Yu Tianheng of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan?"

Ghost Douluo looked at Lin Yu with some suspicion and uncertainty. Heaven knows how shocked he was after hearing this news from the Pope.

It's important to know that when Lin Yu absorbed his first spirit ring, it was he who assessed Lin Yu's talent, saying his performance was mediocre. He wouldn't be highly regarded if he went to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

So this kid has only been absorbing a spirit ring for less than a month, and he's already caused such a commotion in Heaven Dou City?!

Ghost Douluo's words made Lin Yu a little embarrassed: "Well... actually I didn't win, it's just that Yu Tianheng was too arrogant. He said he would kill me in one move, but he failed and then admitted defeat."

As she spoke, Lin Yu clutched her right arm, still feeling a lingering fear.

"Senior, you have no idea how powerful Yu Tianheng was back then. He shattered many of my golden scales with a single blow."

It would have been better if Lin Yu hadn't mentioned the golden scales, because after he did, Ghost Douluo let out a soft exclamation.

"How did you manage to make that external soul bone become part of your body?"

Lin Yu didn't expect that Ghost Douluo would pay attention to this, but now that he was Liu Erlong's apprentice, it wouldn't be difficult for him to find an excuse.

"When Liu Erlong, the dean of Blue Tyrant Academy, accepted me as his disciple, he passed on to me a secret technique for the transformation of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. I practiced according to the method in the manual, and as a result, I activated this scale."

Since the topic of beast transformation techniques had come up, Lin Yu directly shared his experimental results and the changes before and after.

As the person who knows his own background best, Ghost Douluo naturally has nothing to hide from Lin Yu at this stage.

"Making the spirit ring and the spirit come into contact is indeed the idea behind the beast transformation secret technique of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan. However, what Liu Erlong obtained was probably not the original secret technique; what she passed on to you was not complete."

Ghost Douluo didn't actually care about Lin Yu's situation. If His Holiness the Pope hadn't been in a bad mood this time, he wouldn't have asked so many questions.

Ghost Douluo asked Lin Yu about some other things, including but not limited to his cultivation, interpersonal relationships, and resources these days.

After putting away the "antidote pill" that the kid had obtained, Ghost Douluo agreed to the small matter of "medicinal cuisine" and explained to Lin Yu the main reason for his trip.

"We have received information that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School will be carrying out an assassination attempt on the First Prince of the Heavenly Dou Clan in the coming days."

"After the assassination, a new Crown Prince of Tiandou should appear. If he comes to you, just play along. He may also ask you some questions. Just answer him if you know the answers."

Upon hearing Ghost Douluo's mission, Lin Yu thought to himself, "Awesome!"

It was clearly the Spirit Hall that wanted to pull a switcheroo, but in the end, it turned out that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School wanted to seize power.

It seems the Spirit Hall takes this infiltration plan very seriously, even keeping it a secret from their own undercover agent who has a Title Douluo in contact with them.

However, Lin Yu still fulfilled his duty as an undercover agent, and asked with a frown.

"Does this newly emerged prince know I'm a spy for the Spirit Hall? Will it damage the reputation of our Spirit Hall?"

Upon hearing Lin Yu's main concern, Ghost Douluo couldn't help but glance at him: What loyalty! Even as his undercover identity was about to be discovered, he was still thinking about the reputation of the Spirit Hall.

"Don't worry, we have already cleaned up your identity. If someone seriously investigates your identity, they will find that your true identity is actually the offspring of a disciple of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect and a maid of the Zhu family of the Star Luo Empire."

"Because you got involved in the power transition of the previous royal family, you became an orphan and were later brainwashed into becoming a loyal undercover agent for the Star Luo Empire."

Is this right? I've only been undercover for a short time, and they've already given me such a dramatic backstory?