Douluo Continent: I am the true master

Chapter 53 The Root of Mutation

After listening to Ye Wen's explanation, Yu Yuanzhen understood the principle behind it, and then combined it with the situation of his son's martial soul.

"Xiao Gang, it was your father's oversight. If I hadn't been so obsessed with cultivation back then, and had paid more attention to your martial soul's condition, I wouldn't have hunted the wrong soul ring, causing your martial soul to continue to mutate malignantly."

Yu Xiaogang seemed to want to say something, but hesitated and stopped.

"Then, Master Ye Wen, is there any hope for my son's condition?" Yu Yuanzhen looked at Ye Wen seriously.

Ye Wen pondered for a moment before speaking slowly.

"I can try, but I can't guarantee it. After all, his body has developed a lot of drug resistance, so the effects of external substances on your young master are very weak now."

"Tell me about it." Yu Yuanzhen was obviously well aware of Yu Xiaogang's situation, so he wasn't angry at Ye Wen's ambiguous agreement.

"First of all, just as my theory of origin says, the closer any resource is to the origin of the martial soul, the greater the boost it will provide to the cultivation of the martial soul. Therefore, when you cultivate, young master, it is best to choose a simulated environment with the light attribute."

The best environment for cultivating in the realm of light-based mimicry on the entire continent undoubtedly belongs to the Spirit Hall. If Your Majesty has enough influence, you could perhaps request one from His Holiness the Pope.

I'm sure His Holiness the Pope, with his generosity, will allow it.

Upon hearing this, Yu Yuanzhen's face darkened. As one of the top powers on the continent, he couldn't bear the shame of asking the Pope for a simulated cultivation environment. However, considering that Ye Wen was of commoner origin and that the suggestion came from a good heart, he didn't react.

However, glancing at her silly son beside her, who seemed genuinely hoping she would ask the Pope for a simulated cultivation environment, she felt a surge of annoyance. How could she have given birth to such a simpleton!?

"In addition, I also have some understanding of martial soul mutation. According to my research, martial soul mutation definitely does not happen for no reason."

I have a disciple whose family's inherited martial spirit is just an ordinary rabbit, but she eventually awakened a top-tier rabbit martial spirit, the Soft Bone Rabbit.

However, her innate soul power was only level six and a half. In my investigation, the awakened soul power of such top-level martial souls should be level seven or above.

This seems very unreasonable, since I have raised that child very well from birth to adulthood, and there has been no external force damaging its origin. So the problem must lie in the martial soul itself.

Furthermore, considering that the rabbit spirit transformed from an ordinary rabbit spirit into a top-tier spirit by three levels, I boldly hypothesize that when a spirit undergoes a significant mutation, if the body cannot provide sufficient nutrition, it will deplete the innate soul power of its master.

So I'd like to ask Your Majesty Thunder, your son's mother must possess a high level of cultivation, right?

"She was a Soul King, but she died in childbirth while giving birth to Xiao Gang," Yu Yuanzhen said in a muffled voice, his face looking rather unwell.

"Please accept my condolences, Your Majesty. However, judging from this situation, your son's innate soul power seems quite abnormal."

After all, neither you nor your wife are weak; your physical strength is certainly not lacking. The fact that you both died in childbirth under these circumstances can only mean that your wife depleted a significant amount of her life force during delivery.

Yu Yuanzhen said with a grim expression, "Are you saying that Xiaogang absorbed a large amount of his mother's life essence at birth, leading to delayed medical treatment and ultimately causing him to die in childbirth?"

"That's right. After all, your son's original martial soul attributes are light and dragon, and dragons with these attributes are generally stronger than the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus. Moreover, your son inherited your bloodline, Your Majesty, and consumed such a large amount of life essence, with your bloodline as the origin for mutation. Therefore, the quality of the mutated martial soul is definitely not bad."

But the final result is such a useless martial soul, which is really strange.

"Your Majesty, may I ask if your son had an unusually large appetite as a child?"

"Xiao Gang did eat more than other children when he was little, but he never gained weight," Yu Yuanzhen replied.

Ye Wen nodded knowingly; this was a classic case of absorption problems.

Excluding the factor of parasites, there can only be one answer: Yu Xiaogang's martial soul itself is craving more nutrients, but as Yu Xiaogang has no awakened martial soul and no cultivation whatsoever.

What can the body consume? At the very beginning, it probably consumes innate soul power. Later, when the body becomes abnormal, it starts to eat a lot, which is converted into body heat and absorbed by the martial soul. But that little bit of energy is probably a drop in the ocean for a powerful martial soul.

If Yu Yuanzhen's wife's death was due to the influence of the martial soul within Yu Xiaogang, then if this martial soul had not fully mutated after birth and instinctively craved more energy, the reason why Yu Xiaogang had a large appetite but could not gain weight would be quite obvious.

That would explain why Yu Xiaogang's innate half-level soul power.

"According to you, Xiao Gang's original martial soul should be an extremely powerful super martial soul, far surpassing the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex. However, he lacked energy during the mutation process, so the mutation failed and he became the ghastly creature he is now."

Am I right?

"That's right, Your Majesty." Ye Wen nodded affirmatively.

Yu Yuanzhen felt a pang of resentment towards his son, whom he had always thought was a born waste, but now, after analysis, he realized that the son was a genius who had failed to awaken his full potential. He could only ask in a low voice.

"That can still be salvaged."

"It should still be salvageable. If your son can break through level 30 and his third soul ring is a light-type soul beast with true dragon bloodline, it might be possible to bring back the failed mutated martial soul."

Furthermore, Your Majesty should go and capture him now, so that we can use the blood of the Light Dragon Clan to make a medicinal bath to improve your son's physical condition.

After all, the core of my theory on soul ring absorption is physical strength. If your son wants to strengthen his origin as much as possible, then he will have to put in a lot of hard work.

If everything goes smoothly, he should be able to train to at least the fourth ring and reverse the malignant mutation of his martial soul, transforming it into a true light-type dragon martial soul.

Then, when he reaches the fourth ring, we will use the same old method. When your son is around 50 years old, he should be able to break through to the sixth ring Soul Emperor level and get rid of the name of a waste.

Furthermore, by then, your son's bloodline should be quite powerful. If he were to marry a woman with similarly high dragon-attribute cultivation, it should truly allow the mutated martial spirit within his bloodline to be passed down.

Looking at the confident Ye Wen, Yu Yuanzhen's eyes flickered for a moment; he was tempted.

"Thank you for your guidance, Master Ye Wen. If Xiao Gang achieves success in his cultivation in the future, he will definitely pay a visit to express his gratitude. The previous promise still stands."

(End of this chapter)